Craig and Renee are in Washington, DC at Agile 2019 and ahead of day one have some fun and decide to open up the swag bag after collecting the badges and see what is inside:

• Air Force One Experience next to the conference hotel in National Harbor
• Women In Agile 2019 conference tshirt
• Octo Consulting and Lockheed Martin webcam covers and/or popsocket
• ICAgile pen
• Express Scripts blue tape
• Freddie Mac gum (because great teams stick together)
• Excella bottle opener
• Scrum Inc mobile phone credit card holder
• Scrum @ Scale metal straw (which Renee thought looked like a recorder case)
• Scaled Agile wooden phone holder
• PMI metal straw (which Renee thought was a pen)
• Paperwork from Planview (giving away a Yeti Hopper), Lockheed Martin, Insight, Nisum, LitheSpeed (and the theagilevmo.com), Cprime, Esther Derby and her new book “7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change“, Adventures…

Craig catches up with Dave West, product owner and CEO at Scrum.org, at the Agile 2016 conference in Atlanta. They talk all things Agile and Scrum including:

• Water-Scrum-Fall came about because Scrum is often delivered in the context of a organisational waterfall lifecycle
• Scrum implies a magical Product Owner that is empowered and understands the market to effectively create a backlog and manage it and the Scrum Guide provides very litte guidance around this
• Nexus is a way of getting multiple teams working from the same backlog and provides an exoskeleton to Scrum
• “Scrum 21 Years and The Future” talk at Agile 2016
• People don’t get Scrum, it is always surprising how few people have read the Scrum Guide
• The Scrum Guide is in audiobook form (but not yet in Klingon)
• The Sprint Review is not a phase gate, it is the opportunity to inspect and…