Craig and Tony are once again roaming the halls at Agile Australia in Sydney and once again chat to some old friends from the Australian Agile community:

• Keynotes from Ali Walker and Marty Cagan
• Elabor8 (nice plug Tony)
• Sharon Robson from enterprising agility – enjoying the recognition that Agile adoption starts from the top down, agile at scale is about the thinking and thought processes being applied throughout the entire organisation, looking forward to Sandra Davey on “Upon retrospective: the board went Agile“
• Steve Lawrence – a member of the “11 club”, agile should be a mechanism to create greater value not reduce headcount, every small step you take is a step forward

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Craig and Tony are at Agile Australia in Sydney and run into some old friends:

• Cathy Tang – “stroke the ego and crack the whip”, making the leap from logistics to Scrum Master
• Rachel Slattery – Agile Australia Director and Director of Slatts Group, surprised by the large number of new attendees
• Keynotes by Emma Murray and Jez Humble
• Hayley Pepper from Sunsuper – enjoyed talk by Roger Almeida “Lessons from leading a “you build it, you run it” team” about platform teams
• Charlotte Hinton from Service Innovation Lab and organiser of AgileWelly – each year we hear similar problems and are we making traction, enjoyed talk by Sarah Taraporewalla “Complex is easy, it’s simple that’s hard“

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Craig and Tony are at Agile Australia in Sydney and after many years of chasing him around finally get to speak to Jez Humble, co-author of many fine books including “Continuous Delivery“, “Lean Enterprise“, “The DevOps Handbook” and “Accelerate” and they discuss:

• Accelerate is based on a research program where practices are validated on the impact they had on various organisations
• Agile Australia keynote “The Key to High Performing Tech Organizations“
• There is enormous scope to extend the Accelerate-type research to the rest of the value stream
• “Thinking Fast and Slow” – Daniel Kahneman shows that you can measure psychological and behavioural science
• Project Aristotle by Google – were able to replicate results around culture
• State of DevOps Report
• Jeff Smith at Suncorp
• We all want to ensure that people and data are safe – need to…

Craig and Tony are at Agile Australia in Sydney and after many years of chasing him around finally get to speak to Jez Humble, co-author of many fine books including “Continuous Delivery“, “Lean Enterprise“, “The DevOps Handbook” and “Accelerate” and they discuss:

• Accelerate is based on a research program where practices are validated on the impact they had on various organisations
• Agile Australia keynote “The Key to High Performing Tech Organizations“
• There is enormous scope to extend the Accelerate-type research to the rest of the value stream
• “Thinking Fast and Slow” – Daniel Kahneman shows that you can measure psychological and behavioural science
• Project Aristotle by Google – were able to replicate results around culture
• State of DevOps Report
• Jeff Smith at Suncorp
• We all want to ensure that people and data are safe – need to…

Renee, Craig and Tony are together to chat with Serge Beaumont, Principal Agile Coach at Xebia, live from his man cave and despite showing their lack of mathematical skills in relation to dice they chat about:

• In relation to culture, if the human connections are there you can handle just about anything
• A foundational cultural aspect at Xebia is that they implemented Xebia Knowledge Exchange (XKE) – every second Tuesday the team has dinner and then has a mini-conference of about 20 streams
• Xebia were at the foundation of the ING Agile transformation
• Gloomhaven
• Rode PodMic
• You need leadership that truly believes in culture as a powerful thing
• Renee does story maps like trees and Serge prefers to ensure that he finds his epic on the horizontal slice rather than using the activities on the vertical backbone, building towards an MVP
• All backlogs should be tree structures
• An…