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…

Craig and Tony are at YOW! Conference in Brisbane and catch up with Joshua Kerievsky, CEO of Industrial Logic and founder of Modern Agile and they talk about:

• Episode 20: Lean Start-ups with Joshua Kerievsky
• Industrial Logic and the Extreme Programming Playing Cards
• If you are a consulting company and don’t have your hands dirty building a product, you are missing out – try it out on yourselves before you try it out on your customers
• Episode 116: The Heart of Modern Agile
• Modern Agile recognises that there are other people who are not building software who also want to be agile and want to leverage the agile and lean concepts
• Modern Agile principles – Make People Awesome, Make Safety a Prerequisite, Experiment and Learn Rapidly and Deliver Value Continuously
• Lightweight methods movement came out of minimalism, but now we are in the Agile Industrial Complex – Agile has…

The Agile community recently lost its friend and one of its most inspirational members in David Hussman. Craig and Tony were privileged to speak to him in one of his last interviews at YOW! Conference in Brisbane.

• David Hussman’s YOW! 2017 talk “Learning in Product: How Wrong are You Ready to Be?”
• “Extreme Programming Explained” is Agile’s White Album, just don’t read it backwards!
• We make stuff up in software too much, rather than learning from the past and patterns
• You can’t look at code and tell it is going to be a good experience and we don’t know our ideas are going to be great until we interact with them
• The tenth principle – simplicity is essential
• A good developer needs confidence and war wounds, same for Product Managers – they have shipped something crappy and don’t want to do that again
• Cardboard User Story Mapping app