Agile Caravanserai
30 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago -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
January 10, 2024 14:00 - 25 minutes - 35.1 MBThis 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 ex...
Jim Highsmith - Lean + Agile DC
January 05, 2024 16:39 - 19 minutes - 19.9 MBToday’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 ...
Mary Lynn Manns
November 01, 2022 10:00 - 14 minutes - 11.7 MBMary 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 an...
Diana Larsen
May 03, 2022 10:00 - 10 minutes - 8.39 MBDiana 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 Tea...
Jurgen Appelo
April 05, 2022 10:00 - 10 minutes - 8.83 MBJurgen 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 S...
Jim Benson
March 15, 2022 11:00 - 10 minutes - 8.75 MBJim 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, agi...
Laurie Williams
March 01, 2022 11:00 - 10 minutes - 8.49 MBLaurie 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...
Max Keeler
February 15, 2022 11:00 - 18 minutes - 15 MBMax 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...
Johanna Rothman
February 01, 2022 11:00 - 12 minutes - 9.82 MBJohanna 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 ...
Esther Derby
December 21, 2021 11:00 - 11 minutes - 9.36 MBEsther 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 programm...
David Anderson
December 08, 2021 11:00 - 24 minutes - 43.5 MBDavid 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...
Naresh Jain
October 19, 2021 10:00 - 13 minutes - 10.8 MBNaresh 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. Over the last 15 years, Naresh has helped many Unicorns and fortune 500 companies like Jio, Google, Amazon, JP Morgan, Hike, Directi, HP, Siemens Medical, GE Energy, Schlumberger, EMC, CATechnologies, etc. to streamline their product development. His hands-on approach of coaching...
Evan Leybourn
September 21, 2021 10:00 - 13 minutes - 24.3 MBEvan 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). AGILE BUSINESS MANAGEMENT IS ABOUT CHANGE; CHANGING HOW YOU THINK, CHANGING HOW YOU WORK, AND CHANGING THE WAY YOU INTERACT. BY ACCEPTING, EMBRACING, AND SHAPING CHANGE ACROSS YOUR ORGANISATION, YOU CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF NEW OPPORTUNITIES TO OU...
Dean Leffingwell
August 17, 2021 10:00 - 12 minutes - 10.3 MBDean 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®. He has long history of entrepreneurship, having founded several successful startups, including Requisite, Inc. (acquired by Rational). Dean is also the author of several foundational books, including Agile Software Requirements, Scaling Software Agility, and SAFe® Distilled. Today, Dean continues to help...
Howard Sublett
June 29, 2021 14:40 - 11 minutes - 8.82 MBHoward Sublett is the Chief Product Owner and CEO of the Scrum Alliance. Howard has been a force to reckon with in the Scrum and Agile communities for a while. 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. He is passionate about making workplaces joyful, sustainable, and prosperous with agile principles, practices, and val...
Rashina Hoda
June 15, 2021 13:13 - 17 minutes - 14.7 MBProfessor 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 ...
Deepti Jain
April 20, 2021 10:00 - 12 minutes - 10.1 MBDeepti 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. Personally, Deepti loves to connect and interact with people and prefers to call herself a social scientist. A tireless entrepreneur, she is the driving force behind several conferences including AgilityToday, Agile-A-Thon, FUnconf, Change Agents Summit, and Women-in-Agile-and-Tech. In 2021, the agi...
Ellen Grove
April 06, 2021 04:00 - 10 minutes - 8.8 MBEllen Grove is the Interim Managing Director of the Agile Alliance, and an agile coach, trainer and organizational change agent with Agile Partnership. In 2013, Ellen partnered with LitheSpeed on an agile transformation. As an Agile coach, Ellen has worked with organizations of all sizes – from software startups to public sector agencies and global data networking enterprises. She helps them transition to Agile work at the team and leadership levels using Scrum, Lean, Kanban, SAFe and ot...
Michael Carrel
March 22, 2021 19:56 - 16 minutes - 13.3 MBAfter a series of Agile Caravanserai conversations with the authors of the Agile Manifesto, let's pivot to conversations with senior leaders in industry and also in the agile community. Michael Carrel is the Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Marketing & Enterprise Growth Solutions at Nationwide Insurance. I’ve been privileged to know Michael for 14 years. We first met in 2007 when we partnered with Michael and his amazing team of agile leaders. Today, as Nationwide move...
Andy Hunt
March 09, 2021 14:54 - 18 minutes - 15.2 MBAndy Hunt is one of the 17 Agile Manifesto authors, and a well-known author, publisher and musician. Andy has long impressed me with his commitment to the discipline of software development. Unlike those who get lost in arcane techniques and tools, Andy has long championed a straightforward pragmatic approach. Along with fellow manifesto author Dave Hunt, Andy authored the seminal book, The Pragmatic Programmer as far back as October 1999. Andy and Dave also founded the Pragmatic Booksh...
Arie van Bennekum
February 23, 2021 19:52 - 18 minutes - 15 MBArie van Bennekum is one of the 17 Agile Manifesto authors, and the one with the unique distinction of not being from North America. When the manifesto was written, Arie was there representing the UK-based DSDM Consortium. DSDM or the Dynamic Systems Development Method is one of the agile methodologies, and was developed in the early 1990s by a consortium of expert and industry representatives from companies like British Airways, American Express, Oracle and Logica. Arie himself had been...
Ron Jeffries
February 09, 2021 16:28 - 24 minutes - 19.9 MBRon 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. Ron evolved XP on the now-famous Chrysler C3 project in the mid-1990s, along with Kent Beck and Ward Cunningham. They proved out extreme software development discipline with engineering techniques like TDD, refactoring, automated build and test, and pair programming. In the early 2000s, R...
Kent Beck
January 26, 2021 16:02 - 24 minutes - 19.7 MBKent 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). In the mid-1990s, along with Ron Jeffries and Ward Cunningham, Kent evolved XP on the now-famous Chrysler C3 project. They proved out extreme discipline with engineering techniques like TDD, refactoring, automated build and test, and pair programming. In parallel, they also deployed a minimalistic set ...
James Grenning
January 11, 2021 21:01 - 12 minutes - 10.2 MBJames 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. He also works behind the scenes on many top-secret projects. I first me...
Jeff Sutherland
December 21, 2020 16:01 - 14 minutes - 11.3 MBAs the co-creator of Scrum and an Agile Manifesto author, Jeff Sutherland needs little introduction in the agile community. Jeff originally designed and developed Scrum based on principles from Takeuchi and Nonaka in their landmark Harvard Business Review article, A New, New Product Development Game. He also incorporated techniques from his background as a fighter pilot, including Colonel Boyd’s Observe, Orient, Decide, Act or OODA loop. Along with Ken Schwaber, Jeff has pioneered Scru...
December 2020 Reflection
December 15, 2020 16:20 - 6 minutes - 5.48 MBSo, 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. However, as I reflected on the interviews myself, I found that 4 common messages emerged: be grateful, give back, navigate through uncertainty; and speculate and evolve to the future iterati...
Bob Martin
December 01, 2020 11:00 - 13 minutes - 10.6 MBBob Martin is one of the 17 Agile Manifesto signatories, and the creator of the Clean Code and Clean Agile movements. “Uncle Bob” as he is affectionately known, is the author of 6 books on agile, and a doyen of the software craftsmanship approach. I first met Bob at one of the first XP Universe conferences in the early 2000s. My visionary boss at that time, Flavio Diomede, had introduced me to eXtreme Programming (or XP) and agile methods. We were managing software teams using the...
Alistair Cockburn
November 18, 2020 15:25 - 16 minutes - 13.1 MBAlistair 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. Back in 2002, Alistair wrote the seminal book, Agile Software Development: A Cooperative Game and brought his unique methodologist’s eye to agile methods. I met Alistair in those early days, and was taken in by his energy, passion and erudition. Alistair and I had several conversations that have stuck with me to this day several ...
Jim Highsmith
November 10, 2020 19:03 - 15 minutes - 12.3 MBJim Highsmith is one of the 17 signatories who met in Snowbird, Utah and gave us the gift of the Agile Manifesto. For two decades, Jim has inspired me with his example of pragmatic agility. His model of leadership-collaboration has stood the test of time as an alternative to the traditional command and control management model. Jim is a prolific writer and the author of five books on Agile, all of which have had a tremendous impact on the agile movement. Today, Jim is an executive con...
Agile Caravanserai Series Introduction
November 09, 2020 17:10 - 2 minutes - 1.73 MBHow are agilists faring in the pandemic? How are we finding meaning and purpose in these troubled times? How can we connect, inspire and support each other? 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. Now, more than ever, our community is aligning in support of each other as we journey through the pandemic wasteland. So, this is the intent and inspiration behind...