This week we caught up with a friend and a mover and shaker in the Australian agile community. I love what she says about motivation and energy working at a large company, in particular: She tries to "enable a environment where people can come to work with a sense of purpose and leave with a sense of accomplishment”. One of her ventures is this beautiful Agile oriented stationary and products: https://beautifulagile.com/ Penelope regularity speaks at conferences and will be on our panel at LAST ...
Jun 21, 2019•42 min•Season 2Ep. 20
Michele describes herself as a Catalyst, glube, connection maker and faux Pa. on her twitter profile but officially goes by the title of Exec director of YOW conferences. She has a background in technology and education and her job is even more diverse now in her director role for YOW. You might notice me giggling for a lot of this podcast interview, I really enjoy Michele’s sense of humour and I’m always trying to seek her out at conferences to have a chat. She selfs describes as someone with t...
Jun 14, 2019•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 19
Today a mini hack and it’s all about resisting the urge to perfect things, and why you can’t let perfect get in the way of good. Find out more about the seven deadly wastes of Lean including Over processing here: http://leanmanufacturingtools.org/77/the-seven-wastes-7-mudas/ Today’s episode is brought to you by LAST conference, LAST stands for Lean Agile Systems Thinking and the theme this year is Find your Edge, It will be jammed packed full of fantastic talks and workshops from the...
Jun 07, 2019•10 min•Season 2Ep. 18
Well, here’s something that’s coming from the Agile community here in Melbourne, Hannah Browne has left Cevo. Hannah Browne was interviewed by me in November of 2017 when she was the GM of Cevo. She is very active in the Australian tech community and her mission is about building and growing companies. In 2017 Cevo was two years old and 30 people strong, bigger and stronger now Hannah has decided to move on, but I wanted to re-play this interview and hear again what makes Hannah tick. I love cat...
May 31, 2019•56 min•Season 2Ep. 17
This week, I’m very pleased to bring you an interview with Neil Killick, Neil is a well known consultant and coach in Melbourne AND beyond. Neil’s blog and website can be found here: https://www.neilkillick.com/ and comes highly recommended by me and plenty of others as a reference and resource when you’re implementing change in your organisation. His Twitter handle is: @neil_killick Now a few notes on the recording of this podcast, we were in a lovely little cafe called The Little E...
May 24, 2019•1 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 16
He created his own FEEL - Finding Engaged and Empathetic Leaders podcast in 2014 https://feelpodcast.org/ I really enjoyed our chat, I always look forward to running into Andy at conferences and events, he often presents on interesting topics, and we’ve done a double act of MCing 1st conference for the last couple of years which is always fun. He’s a pioneer of new ways of working including leading his own team’s Self Selection exercise inspired by Sandy Mamoli’s work https://nomad8....
May 17, 2019•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 15
So yes that’s right today we are talking about a hot topic which is estimating! For links go to: https://www.rebootco.com.au/podcast/noestimates
May 10, 2019•13 min•Season 2Ep. 14
If you’ve worked in an Agile team, you’ll know the satisfaction you get from pulling work into the Done column. There really is nothing like that feeling of getting something - even something small - accomplished and that you’ve delivered some value. But there’s a lot of variety between what people consider to be ‘Done’ in all different types of teams for all different types of work, and how do we ensure that we don’t accidentally build too much into our what we build? This topic isn’t about mak...
May 03, 2019•7 min•Season 2Ep. 13
See show notes here: https://www.rebootco.com.au/podcast/mastering-post-it-notes Register for The Modern Developer here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-modern-developer-graduate-tickets-59150771550
Apr 26, 2019•15 min•Season 2Ep. 12
This week another mini hack! An Agile Mindset beats a Framework every time. If you’ve been immersed in agility for a long time you’ll probably have said ‘Mindset is more important’ at some point. That might not be obvious if you’re new to all this Agile stuff so tune in and find out why. That John Cutler Tweet: https://twitter.com/johncutlefish/status/1107476458727854081 Agile Australia 25th and 26th of June info is here: http://agileaustralia.com.au/ Find out about The Modern Developer https://...
Apr 05, 2019•7 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Road Trip! This week on the weekly ReBoot we take a Design Thinking mindset to the road and get observational in order to hone our empathy for humans and how they interact with products and services. We also have some places left on our Modern Developer training courses. Register at: The Modern Developer: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-modern-developer-tickets-59150165738 The Modern Developer Graduate: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-modern-developer-graduate-tickets-59150771550 If you ...
Mar 29, 2019•12 min•Season 2Ep. 10
This week on The Weekly ReBoot another mini hack! We know that there’s a lot of people out there that are in organisations that insist on doing Big Up Front Design for large pieces of work, in the name of reducing risk, we believe that is flawed and inherently more risky. Learn how you can ask ‘What’s our Cadence?’ in a way that helps move those big lumbering projects with their Big Up Front Design into something more Agile. We have a special offer for 12 lucky people that want to sharpen their ...
Mar 22, 2019•10 min•Season 2Ep. 9
This week on The Weekly ReBoot another mini hack! Rock along to today’s episode of The Weekly ReBoot Podcast as we are learning about why it may be useful to take a big firey blowtorch to your backlog. Burn it!
Mar 15, 2019•8 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Lisette Sutherland is the creator of Collaboration Superpowers and the author of Work together anywhere. She was the keynote speaker at 1st Conf on the 28th of Feb and that kicked off a Tabar sponsored tour of Australia helping people to collaborate better from anywhere via her engaging workshops: https://www.tabar.biz/lisette Lisette was an absolute delight to talk to, I learned a lot about how to rock remote working when I heard her talk at 1st Conf and during the interview, there’s just so ma...
Mar 08, 2019•33 min•Season 2Ep. 7
This week on The Weekly ReBoot another mini hack! This time we talk about the five reasons why breaking things into small things make us perform better as a team, and why bringing that mindset (which is truly one of the key parts of an agile mindset) to everything you do, makes you a super useful asset for any team. Discover why the best things come in Tiny packages! Thanks to Dave Grohl for his contribution: Dave Grohl plays Tiny Dancer...
Mar 01, 2019•7 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Tom Varsavsky is the Chief Engineer of REA Group, the global force behind digital real estate giant realestate.com.au . He oversees a community of over 600 technologists and represents tech at the exec level. It was great to talk to Tom about his adjustment to the role, what it takes to grow and sustain a high performing engineering culture and capability as REA has grown.
Feb 22, 2019•34 min•Season 2Ep. 5
This weeks episode is a Mini Hack, the second in our Mini Hack episodes and it’s all about Visual working, just “Put it on a wall” please. For full show notes go to: www.rebootco.com.au/podcast
Feb 15, 2019•10 min•Season 2Ep. 4
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Feb 08, 2019•6 min•Season 2Ep. 3
This is our first in a series of podcast episodes about The Poster. We created The Poster in response to the many frustrations we hear from our community and clients about how difficult it is to embed agility, adaptiveness and all the crucial elements that are needed to empower teams to deliver amazing outcomes for their businesses. It contains what we think is everything important in terms of principles, values, practices, culture, and mindset for a great delivery transformation and better outc...
Feb 01, 2019•46 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Rowan Bunning joined us via Hangout in Sydney, we kindly gave up some time to talk to us about what he sees happening in the Agile community in Australia and Globally. Some of the anti-patterns we see in the trenches as well as what’s interesting in terms of new ideas, concepts, and books.
Jan 25, 2019•58 min•Season 2Ep. 1
It was delightful to have Adrian on The Weekly ReBoot as our final special guest bonus episode for 2018. Adrian is well known in the Agile community in Melbourne (and beyond) and brings his authenticity and passion to everything he does. Working with Adrian is a joy, and his genuine enthusiasm and capabilities are certainly unique among senior accomplished leaders of digital teams and companies. He’s a no B.S. guy and he just wants us all to be better. Edrolo is where Adrian is COO they are revo...
Dec 21, 2018•35 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Welcome to the last Weekly ReBoot episode of the year where Tony and Alex reflect on a "listical of lists", it’s a Yule Logsticle! An array of great lists, dare we say useful ideas, and frivolous fun to end the year with a little taste of Christmas. List 1 - The LeaderShip of Fools Podcast - 2018 Leadership Insights Holiday Special: https://leadershipoffools.podbean.com/e/leadership-insights-2018-holiday-special/ List 2 - Bud Cadel of Nobl Group - https://nobl.io/ : 3 Rules: Local Rules; Simple ...
Dec 21, 2018•13 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Today we talk to Ed Wong AKA @Littlehelper who runs Tabar who are well known for a bunch of Australian conferences and events. He is a quiet achiever in the Agile community and a real contributor to sharing of knowledge and collaborating across many platforms companies, independents and experts in the industry. It was great and fun, as always, to chat to Ed. All the links to all the Ed related things below: Tabar: https://www.tabar.biz/ Ed himself https://www.projectslittlehelper.com First confe...
Dec 14, 2018•33 min•Season 1Ep. 15
This week we talk about reflections, articles and blogs without ads (the scourge of our eyeballs) some good books and people to follow and the merits of email. It’s near the end of the year and things are getting loose! Many rabbits went down holes. (And Tony can’t resist mentioning John Cutler AGAIN! Unbelievable) Improved Remote Vidoe meetings: https://shift.infinite.red/how-infinite-red-improved-remote-video-meetings-with-a-few-hand-gestures-bbebc0555335 The Template for any media website pic...
Dec 14, 2018•18 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Link to Envato: https://envato.com/ Jay mentioned the Talk we had with Erin that you can find here: https://www.rebootco.com.au/podcast/2018/11/23/the-weekly-reboot-bonus-episode-erin-at-spotify-in-new-york The Lean Coffee Meetup that you can attend remotely is here: https://www.meetup.com/Melbourne-Lean-Coffee/events/256531845/?_xtd=gqFyqTE0MzQ5MTA0MqFwpmlwaG9uZQ&from=ref The open roles at Envato are here: https://envato.com/careers/...
Dec 07, 2018•32 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Tony’s Favourite Tweet for the week: “Catnefin” - Google for the GIF that matches that one, for cynefin fans. 12 Days of Agile Principles: Subscribe at [email protected] Principle number 2 blog is here: https://www.rebootco.com.au/blog/2017/11/26/the-12-days-of-agile-principles-principle-2-ppckl Thomas Schissler @TSchissler had a nice close the customer tweet Agile Jitsu 8 agile wastes of Hannukah: http://agile-jitsu.blogspot.com/2017/ Steve Denning Book where Tony found the piece on dive...
Dec 07, 2018•18 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Renee is an Enterprise Agile coach and and also famous as one of the podcasters on arguably the most famous Agile podcast (and one of my favourites) the Agile Revolution . She also writes at Agile Forrest works at as a Project Lead at BCG and is currently heading up their Agile capability in Australia. We hear about her agile beginnings in Australia ‘back in the day’ and about what she does now, it’s interesting to hear from someone who is tackling such big challenges in such big organisations; ...
Nov 30, 2018•35 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Show Notes: We mentioned many conferences, all links below: TConf was last week and information about that conferences: https://tconf.io/ Teresa Neat https://theresaneate.com/ Her talk on the QA in the Devops world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=sGT03Yjy1n4 YOW which is actually already in progress in various states across Australia, details for all YOW conferences can be found: https://yowconference.com.au/ Lisette Sutherland will be talking at 1st conf: @lightling She is a maste...
Nov 30, 2018•11 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Having the scale that Spotify has requires the need for smooth execution to increase the likely-hood of success and coaching is one way to help with that. Erin comments that the Technical Engineering practices of Envato - a place where we both have worked in the past - were of a high standard, so we have high expectations of software development teams, and there’s a mix at Spotify. Erin talks about the Hyper scaling at Spotify and how it means coaches are as relevant as ever. There is sometimes ...
Nov 23, 2018•17 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Show notes: Erin McManus is on the bonus Episode of the Weekly ReBoot! Here’s the Culture blog from us: https://www.rebootco.com.au/blog/2018/11/19/culture-at-all-levels REA Hack events are branded under Inventorship: http://blog.rea-group.com/2018/start-inventorship-day/ http://blog.rea-group.com/2018/inventing-serious-business-rea/ Tony said Hi to Naz. Naz is: Nazeer Shoukat Ali Agile QA at Australia Post on the winning team for their Simplify Hackday. Internal Conferences: If you want to lear...
Nov 23, 2018•13 min•Season 1Ep. 8
