Renee and Craig are at Agile 2019 in Washington, DC and talk to Gil Broza, Agile Mindset and Leadership Coach / Trainer at 3P Vantage and author of “The Agile Mind-Set“, “The Human Side of Agile” and “Agile for Non-Software Teams” and they talk about:

• Agile 2019 talk – “How to Help your Non-Software Colleagues Adopt Agile“
• Outside of software, they notice Agile and want what they have – a different team experience and doing things better
• Focus on a principle based transformation rather than practices – have conversations early and often on how we want to be and how we want to operate
• The Agile Manifesto principles are partial and software heavy, the values and beliefs are the root and leadership should keep these alive
• 26 principles in “The Agile Mind-Set” book and includes transparency (which is harder in areas…

Craig is in Charlotte, North Carolina and catches up with Betsy Kauffman from Agile Pi and Oscar Rodriquez and they chat about:

• 40 Agile Methods in 40 Minutes at Charlotte Agile Network meetup
• The role and the state of Agile coaching
• Agile Practice Guide
• ICAgile, the ICAgile Certified Expert In Agile Coaching (ICE-AC) and non-framework Agility
• Agile and crossing the chasm
• The state of Agile in Charlotte and the compliance conundrum
• The PMI-ACP is starting to more and more be a job requirement and one benefit is it’s ensuring a wider knowledge of Agile practices exist
• The state of Scrum Masters
• Meet the organisation (and people) where they are at
• OnAgile 2017Roman Pichler talk “Building a Product Users Want” then straight after Colleen Johnson talk “Death of the Product Roadmap“
• It’s a messy complicated world!

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Stephanie BySouth is the MC of the Great Lean Debate, a fun session recorded live at LAST Brisbane 2018. Ryan McKergow, Shane Hastie, Renae Craven are the “Legendary Agile Sh*t-talkers” team and Craig Smith, Mel Khim and Karyl Crick are the “Getting Agile Sh*t Done” team.

The topics are:

• Scaling frameworks
• Estimates vs No-Estimates
• You can be a Product Owner and a Scrum Master

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Craig and Renee are both in Sydney and catch up around the kitchen table to discuss a bunch of things happening in the Agile universe:

• Renee is watching “The Leftovers” while Craig has been binge watching “Mad Men” and they talk about TV show podcasts such as “The West Wing Weekly“
• ANZ (one of Australia’s big four banks) is diving into Agile (everywhere but bank branches)
• Silicon Valley Agile (Scrum) reference (NSFW!)
• UK is wasting 37 million pounds per year on failed Agile projects (but the devil is in the detail not the headline)
• IBM calling remote workers back to the office – is it about trust, staff reductions or something else?
• The Thomas Allen Curve
• 17 Essential Hacks Every Scrum Master Should Know

Craig and Renee, sitting in a shoe-box sized hotel room in Sydney eating peanut M&Ms, decided to rustle through the mailbag and answer a bunch of outstanding questions.

Note: this episode is not sponsored or endorsed by M&Ms but we certainly enjoy their product!

Crossing The Chasm

• more and more organisations seem to be crossing the chasm to Agile, but too many are still just doing and not being Agile
• inimal viable product (MVP) is still the trend word, the next stage is Minimal Viable Experience and then Minimal Viable Robustness to Minimal Marketable Product and finally Continuously Evolving Product
• Enterprise Transformation Meta Model
• Agile is a true north concept, not sure that you will ever get there

Suggested reading list on where to start with Agile:

• General Books: Scrum Guide, Extreme Programming Explained
• Developers: The Pragmatic Programmer
• Scrum Master: The Human Side of Agile
• Kanban: Personal Kanban, Kanban…