Agile Caravanserai
As the agile movement crosses the 20-year mark, many of us have found belonging in the agile community; and purpose and storytelling and in our agile journeys. Now, more than ever, it seems like our community is coming together in support of each other as we journey through the pandemic wasteland. This is the intent and inspiration behind the Agile Caravanserai series. Just as ancient travelers rested and recovered at caravanserais, we hope that each of our episodes will provide rest, recovery and hope; in addition to binding us closer together in this ongoing journey.
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Bob Martin - Lean + Agile DC
01/10/2024
Bob Martin - Lean + Agile DC
This episode of Agile Caravanserai is a presentation from Bob Martin given at our recent Lean + Agile DC Conference. Bob Martin self proclaims himself as the Agile Curmudgeon yelling at the neighborhood kids to get off his lawn. In this talk, he will describe was agile was, is, and should be. No muss, no fuss, no adjectives like Lean, Scaled, SAFE, LESS, or anything else. Just agile, the whole agile, and nothing but the agile. If you are looking to hear from other practiced Agile experts and industry leaders, check out our upcoming Global Agility + Innovation Summit: https://www.agilityinnovationsummit.com/
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Jim Highsmith - Lean + Agile DC
01/05/2024
Jim Highsmith - Lean + Agile DC
Today’s press is full of AI prognostications, many predicting a dire future. They are all wrong. History tells us that predicting technology’s path is futile. However, preparing for it is not. What does history tell us about past technology advances that we can use to prepare for the future—for both we as individuals and our businesses? Join Jim Highsmith whose recent book, Wild West to Agile, delves into the history of software development and establishes an historical framework that helps prepare us for the future. If you are looking to hear from other practiced Agile experts and industry leaders, check out our upcoming Global Agility + Innovation Summit:
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Mary Lynn Manns
11/01/2022
Mary Lynn Manns
Mary Lynn Manns is an author, educator and leading change consultant based in Asheville, North Carolina. I’ve had the privilege of knowing Mary Lynn for close to two decades. Along with Linda Rising, she is the co-author of the “Fearless Change” Books. “Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas” was released in 2005, and “More Fearless Change: Strategies for Making Your Ideas Happen” came out 10 years later in 2015. Mary Lynn has presented and led workshops for conferences and organizations such as Microsoft, Amazon, Proctor & Gamble, and Avon. Mary Lynn has had a 38-year career as a professor at UNC Asheville where she is now a Professor Emerita.
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Diana Larsen
05/03/2022
Diana Larsen
Diana Larsen is Chief Connector & Co-Founder of the Agile Fluency® Project. Along with James Shore, her co-founder, Diana focuses The Agile Fluency Model on achieving fluent proficiency on an agile development team. Diana also founded FutureWorks where she led Agile software development, team leadership, and Agile transitions. She has co-authored several books including: “Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great,” “Liftoff: Start and Sustain Successful Agile Teams,” and “Five Rules for Accelerated Learning.” Diana has been very influential in the development of the agile movement, including as a former board member of the Agile Alliance Board of Directors.
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Jurgen Appelo
04/05/2022
Jurgen Appelo
Jurgen Appelo is an entrepreneur, speaker, and author on agility, leadership, and innovation. Jurgen is CEO of the business network Happy Melly and co-founder of the Agile Lean Europe network. Since 2008, Jurgen has worked on his blog at NOOP.NL which offers ideas on the creative economy, agile leadership, organizational change, and personal development. Inc.com has called Jurgen a Top 50 Leadership Expert and a Top 100 Great Leadership Speaker. Jurgen’s latest book is “Startup Scaleup Screwup.” His other books include “Management 3.0,” “How to Change the World,” and “Managing for Happiness.” When he’s not speaking, writing, running or working, Jurgen likes to paint and illustrate.
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Jim Benson
03/15/2022
Jim Benson
Jim Benson is a pioneer of knowledge work and creator of Personal Kanban. He is also a public speaker, consultant, and author who is an expert in effectiveness for individuals, teams, and organizations. After three decades as a business owner, team leader, and employee in both commercial & government agencies, Jim has shifted his focus to helping people and teams work out sticky problems. Jim founded Modus Cooperandi in 2007, a management consultancy which uses Lean, systems thinking, agile management, and brain science to help their clients communicate and manage their work by building collaborative management systems. Jim is also the founding partner of the Modus Institute and co-author of "Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life" which won the Shingo Research Award in 2013.
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Laurie Williams
03/01/2022
Laurie Williams
Laurie Williams is a Distinguished Professor in the Computer Science Department of the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University (NCSU). Laurie's research focuses on software security; agile software development practices and processes, particularly continuous deployment; and software reliability, software testing and analysis. Over the last 21+ years, Laurie has served NCSU at all levels of professorship as well as associate & interim department head. Laurie also leads the Software Engineering Realsearch research group at NCSU. Alongside her students, Laurie has been working collaboratively with high tech organizations like Cisco, IBM Corporation, Microsoft, Red Hat, and more! Laurie was one of the founders of the first agile conferences, XP Universe, in 2001 which has since grown into the Agile 200x annual conference. She is also the lead author of the book “Pair Programming Illuminated” and co-editor of “Extreme Programming Perspectives.”
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Max Keeler
02/15/2022
Max Keeler
Max Keeler is the Chief Projects Officer and Project Lead for Investor Island at The Motley Fool. His specialty is Agile Project Management. Over the last 25 years, Max has worked at the Motley Fool in a variety of different positions including VP of Business Processes, VP of Project Management, and Head of Global Operations. I’ve known Max since 2007, when we helped his team get started with agile methods. Max and his crew quickly evolved into agile experts themselves. They have pioneered many advances in agile, including with agile portfolio management and agile performance management. When he’s not on Investor Island, Max is a guitarist, cross-fitter, and video gamer.
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Johanna Rothman
02/01/2022
Johanna Rothman
Johanna Rothman, also known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” is a coach, consultant, speaker, and advisor. Johanna offers frank advice for tough problems with managing projects, programs, and project portfolios. Essentially, Johanna helps leaders and teams do reasonable things that work. Johanna started her career in software engineering. She started managing cross-functional projects in 1979, then managing programs in 1988. She founded the Rothman Consulting Group, Inc. in 1994. She has had a virtual team long before 2020! Additionally, Johanna is the author of 18 books (non-fiction & fiction) and hundreds of articles. She works on a monthly newsletter, and blogs regularly at jrothman.com and createadaptablelife.com. Johanna has served as a program chair for the Agile Alliance for 6 years, as well as a technical editor for TechWell, and a contributing writer to TestRail by Gurock. Johanna was recently a guest speaker at the DC Lean + Agile Meetup where she covered Modern Management. Follow Johanna on Twitter @johannarothman
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Esther Derby
12/21/2021
Esther Derby
Esther Derby is a consultant, advisor, author, and speaker. Esther has spent the last 25 years helping companies design their organization for success. She has a Master’s degree in Organizational Leadership and a certificate in Human Systems Dynamics. In 1997, she founded her own consulting business, Esther Derby Associates. She works with both start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. Esther is the author of more than 100 articles and several books. Esther started her career as a programmer, and has also worked as a business owner, internal consultant, and manager. Esther is also the host of the Change by Attraction podcast that’s designed for people who want to bring change to their team, department, or organization. Follow Esther on Twitter @estherderby.
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David Anderson
12/08/2021
David Anderson
David Anderson is an internationally recognized thought leader and pioneer of the Kanban Methodology. He’s the founder of the David J Anderson School of Management as well as the CEO of Mauvius Group Inc. David is the author of seven books on Kanban. David co-created the Kanban Maturity Model, the Fit for Purpose Framework, and Enterprise Services Planning. His degree in electronics and computer science started him out in the gaming industry, where he then pivoted to the software industry as an acclaimed author, coach, speaker, and consultant. Over the last 25 years, David has worked at IBM, Sprint, Motorola, and Microsoft. In the early 2000s, a group of agilists including LitheSpeed founder Sanjiv Augustine and David Anderson co-authored the Declaration of Interdependence and also co-founded the Agile Project Leadership Network. One of the key things on which David and Sanjiv connected is the passionate belief that organizations should always be networked, with a “thin center.” That is, a very small central unit in a completely distributed network. That federated mindset imbues all of David’s work.
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Naresh Jain
10/19/2021
Naresh Jain
Naresh Jain is an award-winning, internationally recognized Technology & Product Development Expert. Naresh is the Founder of the tech startup Xnsio, as well as a veteran conference producer and agile/lean expert.
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Evan Leybourn
09/21/2021
Evan Leybourn
Evan Leybourn is the Co-Founder and CEO of the Business Agility Institute. As well as leading the Business Agility Institute, Evan is also the author of Directing the Agile Organisation (2012) and #noprojects; a culture of continuous value (2018).
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Dean Leffingwell
08/17/2021
Dean Leffingwell
Dean Leffingwell is the Cofounder and Chief Methodologist at Scaled Agile. Dean is an entrepreneur who is best known for creating the Scaled Agile Framework for the enterprise, or SAFe®.
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Howard Sublett
06/29/2021
Howard Sublett
Howard Sublett is the Chief Product Owner and CEO of the Scrum Alliance. He has a talent for bringing people together in his inimitable style. Howard is focused on people – who they are and what they need, and lives according to the mantra that strangers are only friends he hasn’t met.
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Rashina Hoda
06/15/2021
Rashina Hoda
Professor Rashina Hoda is the Associate Dean in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University, Melbourne. Rashina is an award-winning researcher and an international expert in human-centered software engineering specializing in agile software development. Her research covers agile transformations, self-organizing agile teams, agile project management, large-scale agile, and serious game design for 21st century skills. Today, Rashina continues to play a hugely valuable role in academia by providing the theoretical bases for agile methods and for the success that the rest of us take for granted.
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Deepti Jain
04/20/2021
Deepti Jain
Deepti Jain is the founder of the India-based agile consulting firm Agile Virgin, and an agile coach, trainer and mentor. She is also the Agile Alliance's India Community Development Chief.
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Ellen Grove
04/06/2021
Ellen Grove
Ellen Grove is the Interim Managing Director of the Agile Alliance, and an agile coach, trainer and organizational change agent with Agile Partnership.
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Michael Carrel
03/22/2021
Michael Carrel
Michael Carrel is the Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Marketing & Enterprise Growth Solutions at Nationwide Insurance.
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Andy Hunt
03/09/2021
Andy Hunt
Andy Hunt is one of the 17 Agile Manifesto authors, and a well-known author, publisher and musician.
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Arie van Bennekum
02/23/2021
Arie van Bennekum
Arie van Bennekum is one of the 17 Agile Manifesto authors, and the one with the unique distinction of not being from North America.
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Ron Jeffries
02/09/2021
Ron Jeffries
Ron Jeffries is an Agile Manifesto author and the co-creator of the popular eXtreme Programming or XP methodology. For decades, Ron has been a vocal proponent of disciplined practices for quality code. Today, Ron remains the uber-mentor of XP, and continues to influence another generation of agile adopters.
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Kent Beck
01/26/2021
Kent Beck
Kent Beck is an Agile Manifesto author and the co-creator of the wildly popular eXtreme Programming (XP) methodology. Kent is also the leading proponent of Test-Driven Development (TDD).
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James Grenning
01/11/2021
James Grenning
James Grenning is an Agile Manifesto author and a true software development guru. James’ contributions to agile methods are wide ranging, especially in the all-important space of embedded systems. James has designed complex embedded applications ranging from weather radar displays and aircraft control tower displays to distributed automatic testing systems and high-speed cut-sheet printing and communications systems.
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Jeff Sutherland
12/21/2020
Jeff Sutherland
As the co-creator of Scrum and an Agile Manifesto author, Jeff Sutherland needs little introduction in the agile community.
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December 2020 Reflection
12/15/2020
December 2020 Reflection
So, we’ve kicked off the Agile Caravanserai series! So far, we’ve heard from Jim Highsmith, Alistair Cockburn and Bob Martin. I hope you’ve enjoyed hearing from these authors of the Agile Manifesto. Each one of them has a unique perspective, based on their own particular experiences and backgrounds.
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Bob Martin
12/01/2020
Bob Martin
Bob Martin is one of the 17 Agile Manifesto signatories, and the creator of the Clean Code and Clean Agile movements.
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Alistair Cockburn
11/18/2020
Alistair Cockburn
Alistair Cockburn is one of the 17 signatories of the Agile Manifesto, the author of the Crystal methodology and the founder of the Heart of Agile movement.
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Jim Highsmith
11/10/2020
Jim Highsmith
Jim Highsmith is one of the 17 signatories who met in Snowbird, Utah and gave us the gift of the Agile Manifesto.
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Agile Caravanserai Series Introduction
11/09/2020
Agile Caravanserai Series Introduction
As the agile movement crosses the 20-year mark, many of us have found belonging in the agile community. We have found purpose and storytelling in our own agile journeys.
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