An insightful keynote on adaptive leadership by Jim Highsmith: co-author of the Agile Manifesto, founding member of the Agile Alliance, prolific author, and industry thought leader.

We were extrordinarily happy to have Jim Highsmith this year as our Keynote speaker.

The three goals of Adaptive Leadershi:

• Why Agile - Envision a Responsive Organization
• Do Agile - Learn how to deliver a continuous stream of value
• Be Agile - What behaviours do we need to exibit to be an Agile leader

Enjoy

Jeff Morgan and I talk about his work with Cucumber and his creation of many gems.  He is a great guy to chat with and I need to make it to Cleavland to work on the boat with him.  He and I run into each other at conferences and occasionaly on client sites.

Hope you enjoy.

Bob Payne

I speak with Tom and Dustin regarding the work they have done to roll out agile within Nationwide. I worked with them both in the past and it is extrordinarily gratifying to see the seeds of your labor grown into such a giant tree.  They have created the right ballance of structure that allows them to bring up teams and agility to allow those teams to innovate.

I hope you enjoy.

-bob payne

I speak with Diana Larsen and James Shore at the Agile 2012 conference about their recently released Agile Fluency model.  This model looks at team and organizational Agile adoption and provides a framework for looking at where you are and where you want to be.

The article is here:

http://martinfowler.com/articles/agileFluency.html

Comments and input can be given at:

http://jamesshore.com/Blog/Your-Path-Through-Agile-Fluency.html

http://www.futureworksconsulting.com/blog/2012/08/08/your-path-through-agile-fluency-a-brief-guide-to-success-with-agile/

As usual I loved talking with both of them again and hope you will enjoy listening to their conversation with me.

Bob Payne

I always enjoy talking with Arlo about his open data work and the strange coincidence that he and Ward Cunningham are both working on this problem.  He chats about his work with big data, his penchant for starting with XP as the initial set of agile practices for teams to allow tight feedback and real agility.

This interview has been on disk for a while but I hope you enjoy.  As you can tell he is an angry, angry, bitter man.

Bob Payne

I speak with Sanjiv Augustine, my friend and principal at LitheSpeed about our new tool, Sensei.  It is in beta now so go take a look http://senseitool.com 

Enjoy

Bob Payne

Adam and I chat about the JavaScript, the federated wiki and a wide variety of topics as usual. Adam is one of the best coaches I have worked with and I always enjoy working with him.  He is now more in the trenches working with Industrial Logic.

Enjoy

Bob Payne

Bob and I talk about his book and video casts of his work getting the code in clean and right.  Expanding his discussion of craftsmanship and the habits of coders that code clean.  He also discusses the 10 years of the manifesto and the growth of Agile.

He has become the steadfast protecter of purity of essence for a coding nation (please refer to Dr Strangelove if the preceding sentence confuses you).

Enjoy

Bob Payne