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Check on my musings on Agile2017 on TechBeacon - Women in Agile, "The Spotify Model" and more! Highlights from Agile2017: Gender, diversity—and lessons from the agilists Read more...

It is that time of year again, when the various big agile conferences send out the acceptance and rejections notifications to those who submitted proposals. In Australia, this is generally followed by some twitter chatter from those who didn’t make the cut.  This time last year I was one of Read more...

Friday The closing keynote for Agile 2013 was "Why Everyone Needs DevOps Now: A Fourteen Year Study Of High Performing IT Organizations " by +Gene Kim, author of The Phoenix Project. (If you haven't read The Phoenix Project you can download a free 170 page excerpt here.)  This is the second time I have heard Read more...

Thursday De-Mystifying Kanban: Understanding Its Many Faces +Al Shalloway Al provided a very thorough and complete explanation of the various flavours of Kanban. He covered: Kanban as a signal Kanban as a Team Development Process Kanban’s Roots in Lean Scrum as a Manifestation of Lean Lean Kanban University (LKU) Kanban aka Read more...

Wednesday When NOT to Have All the Answers: Stop Giving Advice and Start Asking Questions +Judith Mills  and +Christopher Avery Judith started by telling us about her addiction to giving advice and her realisation: "If I was going to be successful I couldn't be the expert I had to change the culture. Read more...

Tuesday Agile Metrics: Velocity is NOT the goal  by Michael "Doc" Norton  Doc opened by explaining that Velocity is a lagging indicator for a complex system and lagging indicators are good for monitoring trends but are poor predictors of the future. He advocated the use of standard deviation in forecasting Read more...

Monday I missed Monday morning's keynote to attend the Executive Forum. In hindsight, the Executive Forum was not the best use of my time and hence I decided to spend the remainder of my day checking out sessions from the main conference. The Keynote, "Coding for America: How Agile and Read more...

Having been back home for a week, I have spent a week being asked "How was Agile 2013? What were your key takeaways?" and answering "I haven't digested it all yet. I need to order my thoughts." In an attempt to avoid further embarrassment, I decided to put pen to Read more...

When first invited to Scrum Australia I was dubious, but as I always say, "nothing ventured nothing gained", so I thanked Martin Kearns for the invite and booked my trip to Sydney! For me, Kenny Rubin stole the show. Given I am SAFe Program Consultant, Kenny's views on Economically Sensible Read more...