I have had the pleasure of working with Tom for over a year now.  This podcast was recorded some time ago. 

Tom represents the best of what I hope to achieve when working with organizations.  Reaching someone and changing their outlook on how they do their work and how they see themselves as a valuable asset within an organization.  He grabbed on to the bits that we gave and created his own vision of what he wanted to learn and teach his co-workers.

I think of him when I need to keep going in the never ending grind of a large agile roll out.  I gave him a spark and he has given me a Life Line. 

Enjoy

-bob payne 

I have worked with Jim on and off over the past year and he is one one of those people you do not forget working with.  Enough said about that.

Early on he had a lot of questions related to ROI Calculations and Business Alignment.  Over time he brought me closer to his view of Business Alignment and I convinced him that ROI Calculations were at best lies codified by rigorous technique.  It is always a pleasure when you learn from someone you are coaching.

I think he is Agile for life...Time will tell.

-bob payne

Kevin and I talk about the challenges of managing product development in large organizations.  We talk about the challenges of aligning teams and organizations in an agile services organization.

Kevin also discusses the value of UE integration in the Agile Process.

Kevin will be presenting at Agile2009 so make sure you look him up.

-bob payne

I worked with Mike for nearly a year at Nationwide and he is one of those folks that is hard to forget.  Passionate about the work and hungry to learn.  He was one of the driving forces behind the most experimental team I have had the pleasure to coach.

Enjoy.

-bob

I worked with Jill recently at Nationwide Insurance. She is an excelent scrum master and did a great job of ballencing the many competing forces in an agile team. I hope you enjoy this podcast. -bob payne

I speak with Tom and Charlie about the transition to agility for the Corporate Internet Services group at Nationwide. George Dinwiddie, Sanjiv Augustine and I worked with them for most of 2008 to structure and implement an Agile Transition in the CIS Department. That transition was featured in a PM Network article and was part of a larger groundswell of agile activity at Nationwide. I very much enjoyed working wit them and I hope you will enjoy the podcast. -bob payne

We start out the new Tips and Advice segment of the Agile Toolkit Podcast with the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. Hosts Bob Payne and George Dinwiddie converse about the Mnaifesto, it's principals and our experience living the dream that is Agile. Hope you enjoy the new format. More to come in shorter bursts. -bob payne

I recently attended the Gartner Mid-Size conference with Cyber Korp.  Cyber Korp provides Agile Development, Delivery and Transformations to organizations.  I helped them deliver a software project over two days of the conference using requirements that had been gathered from one of the IT executives at the conference. 

In this episode I speak with several folks from Cyber Korp and Paul Smith of ATA Airlines about his experience participating in a Micro Agile Project.  Like so many of the Executives at the conference, Paul had not been exposed to Agile Development before the conference.  He was a great customer and dove right into the 3x5 cards over breakfast on the first day and was gracious enough to show up for two mini UAT sessions where he got to give feedback and create new stories for the backlog.

Cyber had set up a Live Feed to their Agile Development Center in Chicago so that we could monitor progress and communicate with the development team there. 

Please enjoy the podcast.  I had a great time chatting with Paul and the folks from Cyber Korp

-bob

Jaraed is one of several authors that I met at the NFJS conference here in the DC area.  He has a book out called Just Ship It and I believe that you should take a look at it.  It offers advice that can allow nearly any shop to make there process more Agile.

Enjoy.

-bob payne

Are you ready for Aspect Oriented Programming, if not give this a listen and hopefully you will learn a bit more about the topic from Ramnivas.  I met him at the NFJS here in the DC area and he was kind enough to teach me a thing or two about AOP.

It's not just for security and logging anymore.

-bob payne