Tony and Craig catch up with Tony Christensen and Steve Berez, co-author of “Doing Agile Right: Transformation Without Chaos” as well as from Bain & Company and they chat about:

• Saw a lot of companies doing agile wrong and a lot of pain suffering and probably worse off than when they started – book is to try to share learning and get agile on the right track
• The conditions for agile to flourish need to change, particularly beyond team level
• RBS – one of the key impediments was funding, changed to funding persistent teams
• Most organisations have a dissatisfaction with their financial process – need to have an honest conversation around the pain points of trust and process and seeing the promise of early return
• Bosch – were not innovating as quickly as they needed to, now using Agile for product design, manufacturing process and supply change…

Tony and Craig are at YOW! Conference in Brisbane and chat to Jessica Kerr, software developer, consultant and symmathecist (look it up or listen to the podcast) and apart from our first live podcast sneeze they talk about:

• YOW! 2018 keynote “The Origins of Opera and the Future of Programming“
• YOW! 2018 talk “Shaving the Golden Yak“
• Great teams make great people – if you want to become great as a developer, focus on the team
• You can’t document what is obvious to you – whenever you say the word obviously, replace it with “I cant explain it, but…”
• Yak shaving – all the tasks that you do that get in the way of your work
• If you are an agile person but you wish agile had more code in it – go to the Domain Driven Design community
• We need to embrace complexity…

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 and Tony are at YOW! Conference in Brisbane and chat with Sandy Mamoli, Agile Advisor and Coach at Nomad8 and co-author of “Creating Great Teams” and they chat about:

• Nomad8 is a managerless agile coaching collective in New Zealand, based on the Crisp model
• The lost podcast
• Kanbanfor1 (and Jim Benson – Personal Kanban)
• “Creating Great Teams” book with David Mole – based on the journey at Trade Me, if people can organise themselves for a Ship It day it should work for everyday work
• You do not need to change reporting structures to make self selection work nor does the size of the organisation matter
• Original paper on Self Selection
• Larger companies should probably split to tribes of no larger than 150-200 people
• Heidi Helfand – “Dynamic Reteaming” book and podcast
• Should do self selections again every 6-9 months
• Team structures…

Craig and Tony are at YOW! Conference in Brisbane and talk to Heidi Helfand, Director of Engineering Excellence at Procore Technologies and author of Dynamic Reteaming and they talk about:

• YOW! 2017 talk “Dynamic Reteaming: The Art & Wisdom of Changing Teams“
• The general belief is the best teams are the ones that are stable and don’t change, but the opposite is often reality
• Dynamic Reteaming is inevitable, you might as well get good at it
• Tuckman added adjourning later, as an acknowledgment that things don’t stay the same
• Teams by percentage gives dynamic reteaming a bad name – this is an antipattern
• Good agile practices tend to help the ability to dynamically reteam
• Ties nicely into Modern Agile, particularly experiment and learn rapidly as well as make people awesome
• Dr. Spok – the “single point of knowledge”, may he live long and prosper!
• Shared experiences…