Agile is fast becoming the trend?
If this year’s Agile Australia Conference is anything to go by, Agile is fast becoming the way to speedily deliver
projects with minimal risk and high busin
ess value.
The conference was held in Sydney on 15-16 June and had more than 45 speakers, five panels and a series of workshops providing insights into how organisations are adopting Agile to stay ahead of their competition.
Agile Case studies sparked conversations, with the #agileaus hashtag trending on Twitter both days of the conference. There was a lot to talk about and the Agile Academy and Suncorp was strongly represented by a number of Suncorp speakers.
Here are just a few tweets and takeaways to give you the flavour of this year’s conference.
projects with minimal risk and high busin
ess value. The conference was held in Sydney on 15-16 June and had more than 45 speakers, five panels and a series of workshops providing insights into how organisations are adopting Agile to stay ahead of their competition.
Agile Case studies sparked conversations, with the #agileaus hashtag trending on Twitter both days of the conference. There was a lot to talk about and the Agile Academy and Suncorp was strongly represented by a number of Suncorp speakers.
Here are just a few tweets and takeaways to give you the flavour of this year’s conference. Jeff Smith - CEO, Suncorp Business Services
“Leaders need to learn how to listen more, rather than tell their employees what to do!”
“As managers, we add no value; we’re overhead. Leaders’ roles are to be coaches and to create a great environment ... [with] great talent, great methods, great coaching.”
“You need to create an environment where every voice has equal power and Yammer is really effective for this.”
Craig Smith - Agile Coach, Suncorp
“Software is a crime – Testers are detectives.”
“Everyone likes to be seen as valuing quality, just like they love kittens, but it’s the first thing to be dumped.”
“A tester is like Robocop – part human; part machine but all tester!”
Adrian Smith - Agile Coach, Suncorp and Managing Director, Ennova
“If you’re not embarrassed by your product, you’re launching too late!”
Dr Alistair Cockburn - Co-author of the Agile Manifesto
“Building software is like balancing a broom on your finger (it’s not too hard to stop the broom falling but it is hard to predict finger movement).”
“In decision making look for bottlenecks - the person with the full inbox is limiting WIP of whole organisation.”
Jean Tabaka - Agile Fellow, Rally Software
“We need to get away from the ‘My methodology is better than your methodology’. Change can happen without it being a battle.”
Nigel Dalton - Deputy Director, Digital, Lonely Planet
On Lonely Planet Strategy: “If the thing you are working on does not directly align to the company strategy - stop working on it!”
On product development at Lonely Planet: “Lean is learning from your mistakes!”
“Every time someone draws a Gantt Chart, a fairy dies.”
Simon Bristow – Senior Project Manager, SEEK
“There are a lot of foundations to Agile but trust is number one.”
“Technical skills are only half the puzzle. Being able to deal with grey areas is vital. Being smart and passionate are key”.