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Today’s episode is a mini-hack all about checking in on-line, If you’re team has moved to home working you’re probably learning and adapting very quickly to making things work for you without being in physical proximity to each other, and I’m sure like me you’re seeing many articles, videos and guides for how to get remote working working well for you. If you listened to a previous mini hack #21 from the 8th November,  it was about breaking the ice, using icebreakers at the start of a meeting, well this is effectively moving that activity or purpose to an on-line meeting.  Here’s a previous episode about Icebreakers: The Weekly ReBoot - MiniHack Icebreakers If you want to drop us a line you can anytime with feedback on the podcast or more questions email rebootme@rebootco.com.au You can follow us on social media @therebootco on twitter, or me @stokesxandra or subscribe to our newsletter, which will be coming on Monday, visit https://www.rebootco.com.au/newsletter to get your name on that list and we’ll have it in your email inbox on Monday to kick off the week.  AND of course subscribe to this podcast in your regular podcast ap, and we’ll back in your ears in a couple of weeks after victorian school holidays with help, tips, interviews and more. 

Hello and welcome to the reboot your regular Friday de-brief of things we’ve heard and seen coming from the agile community here in Melbourne and beyond. And the things that we’ve heard and seen mostly coming from the agile community here in Melbourne and beyond is agile combined with remote working, Here are the other podcasts I mentioned: https://www.rebootco.com.au/podcast/2019/3/8/the-weekly-reboot-lisette-sutherland https://www.rebootco.com.au/podcast/2018/12/7/the-weekly-reboot-bonus-episode-jay-hyett Here are the links to their sites and blogs: https://www.collaborationsuperpowers.com/covid19/ https://jayhyett.wordpress.com/2020/03/15/10-helpful-tips-for-working-remotely/ https://jayhyett.wordpress.com/2020/03/19/time-to-take-a-break/ Today’s mini hack is about getting out of your team and your comfort zone and have a chat. Talking makes solutions move sooooooo much quicker. Stop preventing conversations with too many tech cards, too many documents and emails and go and chat with people instead, hopefully it will make your work flow much quicker. If you want to drop us a line you can anytime with feedback on the podcast or more questions email rebootme@rebootco.com.au You can follow us on social media @therebootco on twitter, or me @stokesxandra or subscribe to our newsletter, which will be coming soon I promise, visit https://www.rebootco.com.au/newsletter OR subscribe in your regular podcast ap, and we’ll back in your ears at 4pm next week!

This week’s mini hack is all about finding your flow by working your Kanban boards Right to Left and implementing a Pull system.  Easy to start working on at your stand-up.  Please read Daniel Ploeg’s excellent blogs on the topic here! His simple blogs were the inspo for this mini hack: https://evogility.com.au/right-to-left/ If you’ve ever considered getting help with facilitation, or all other aspects of working better in teams or groups? If you want to find out more about how we can help, or anything else you’ve heard on the podcast then you can get in touch with us by emailing rebootme@rebootco.com.au  OR you can follow us and find out more:   Follow @TheRebootco on Twitter , or subscribe to our newsletter where there are heaps of more ideas, blogs and insights,  go to www.rebootco.com.au/newsletter OR subscribe in your regular podcast ap, and we’ll back in your ears at 4pm next week 

This week we were very lucky to interview the top keynote speaker and writer Jurgen Appelo, thanks to the good graces of Ed Wong at Tabar who had Jurgen as keynote speaker for last weeks 1st conference. It was delightful to talk to Jurgen, about the topic of his talk, which was How to Fix Your Failed Agile Transformation and some elements of his latest book STARTUP, SCALEUP, SCREWUP.  Follow @TheRebootco on Twitter , or subscribe to our newsletter where there are heaps of more ideas, blogs and insights,  go to www.rebootco.com.au/newsletter OR subscribe in your regular podcast ap, and we’ll back in your ears at 4pm next week 

I sat down to talk to Adrian about how and where we learn about all this Agile, Lean and Systems Thinking stuff! A list of places, resources and ideas below, in the order we talked about them!  Agile Australia: https://agileaustralia.com.au/2020/ Agile and Scrum user group meetup: https://www.meetup.com/scrum-12/ Other meetups: https://www.meetup.com/Melbourne-Lean-Coffee/events/ljgnlnybcfbfb/ https://www.meetup.com/Cynefin-Melbourne-Meetup-Group/events/267920499/ Henrick Kniberg - Scrum and XP from the trenches: https://www.crisp.se/bocker-och-produkter/scrum-and-xp-from-the-trenches InfoQ : https://www.infoq.com/ Last conf : https://www.lastconference.com/ 1st Conf : https://www.1stconf.com/ Yow: https://yowconference.com/melbourne Burtzog : https://www.buurtzorg.com/ Jos de Blok  Age of Agile : https://www.amazon.com/Age-Agile-Smart-Companies-Transforming/dp/1543640869 Jurgen Appello Management 3.0 : https://management30.com/ Agile estimating and planning Mike Cohn : https://www.amazon.com.au/Agile-Estimating-Planning-Mike-Cohn/dp/0131479415 How to measure anything : https://www.howtomeasureanything.com/ Stumbling on happiness : https://www.amazon.com.au/Stumbling-Happiness-Daniel-Todd-Gilbert/dp/1400077427 Peopleware : https://www.amazon.com.au/Peopleware-Tom-DeMarco/dp/0932633439 Slack : https://www.amazon.com.au/Slack-Getting-Burnout-Busywork-Efficiency-ebook/dp/B004SOVC2Y White book - XP Explained Kent Beck : https://www.amazon.com.au/Extreme-Programming-Explained-Embrace-Change/dp/0321278658 Reclaiming conversation : https://www.amazon.com.au/Reclaiming-Conversation-Power-Talk-Digital-ebook/dp/B00SI0B6PC YOW CTO Summit : https://yowconference.com/melbournectosummit Future Life Conference : https://futurelifeconference.com/2020/ Scrum Australia Regional Scrum gathering: http://scrum.com.au/ How to run a brown bag : https://medium.com/@LevelStudios/dont-wait-do-it-yourself-how-we-started-our-own-staff-led-brown-bag-sessions-12b382ba8f97 Agile Coach camp : https://agilecoachcampau.org/ Unconference - Agendaless conference : http://unconference.net/facilitating-unconference-agenda-creation-step-by-step/ Tours! Get in touch if you want to tour someone else’s Agile workplace Lunch with a smart person!  Our blog!: https://www.rebootco.com.au/blog

Welcome to the weekly reboot your regular Friday debrief of things we’ve heard and seen coming from the Agile community here in Melbourne and beyond. A few things we’ve heard and seen to fill you in on. Our episode today, and it’s about a topic I’m interested in which is Future Life and you can register for the Future Life Conference here: https://futurelifeconference.com/2020/ we spoke to Dr. Viktoria Komornik and Gabor Devenyi the creators of Future Life Conference. Other local ‘agile’ news: 1stconf.com registrations are available for Adelaide and Melbourne next week. Agile Australia expressions of interest are now open, you can get to the link here www.agileaustralia.com.au to submit your 'kernel's' of ideas. If you’ve ever considered getting help with facilitation, or all other aspects of working better in teams or groups? If you want to find out more about how we can help, or anything else you’ve heard on the podcast then you can get in touch with us by emailing rebootme@rebootco.com.au OR you can follow us and find out more: Follow @TheRebootco on Twitter , or subscribe to our newsletter where there are heaps of more ideas, blogs and insights, go to www.rebootco.com.au/newsletter OR subscribe in your regular podcast ap, and we’ll back in your ears at 4pm next week

Welcome to The Weekly ReBoot your regular Friday debrief of things we’ve heard and seen coming from the Agile community here in Melbourne and beyond.  Last week we heard from Agile change maker and all around good guy Jurgen Appello, this week we are going to hear from the other Keynote speaker of 1st Conference Sole Pinter, who was delightful to talk to and get her take on Heart of Agile and why it’s powerful.  Sole has capacity to run a half or full day private session at your workplace so get in touch with 1st conference organiser Ed Wong if you would like to do that, you can reach him via the 1st conference website. Speaking of Ed, we talked to him, and you’ll hear from him next about the conference itself before we get to meet and hear from Sole.  Get your tickets, before they run out, Ed tells me there’s usually a surge in the week before so, you will find information in how to do that at www.1stconf.com that’s 1stconf.com links will also be in the shownotes.  I will be there in Melbourne with my audio recorder, interviewing Jurgen and Sole face to face and hopefully I’ll get to chat to some of you too.   If you’ve ever considered getting help with facilitation, or all other aspects of working better in teams or groups? If you want to find out more about how we can help, or anything else you’ve heard on the podcast then you can get in touch with us by emailing rebootme@rebootco.com.au  OR you can follow us and find out more:   Follow @TheRebootco on Twitter , or subscribe to our newsletter where there are heaps of more ideas, blogs and insights,  go to www.rebootco.com.au/newsletter OR subscribe in your regular podcast ap, and we’ll back in your ears at 4pm next week 1st Conference Adelaide: https://events.humanitix.com.au/1st-conference-adl-2020 Jurgen Appelo Adelaide workshop: https://events.humanitix.com.au/jurgen-appelo-shiftup-business-agility-and-innovation-leader-workshop-adelaide 1st Conference Melbourne: https://events.humanitix.com.au/1st-conference-mel-2020 Jurgen Appelo Melbourne Workshop: https://events.humanitix.com.au/jurgen-appelo-shiftup-business-agility-and-innovation-leader-workshop-melbourne

Welcome to The Weekly ReBoot your regular Friday debrief of things we’ve heard and seen coming from the Agile community here in Melbourne and beyond. It’s good to be back after a nice long summer break.  This week a very special brief episode where Jurgen Appelo https://jurgenappelo.com/ tells me a little bit about his coming appearance at 1st Conference, and the workshops that he will be running in Australia.  You can register for 1st Conference in Melbourne, it will be on one the 28th of Feb, and in Adelaide it will be on the 24th of Feb And Jurgen will be running his workshops in Adelaide on the 25th and 26th and in Melbourne and on the 2nd and 3rd of March.  If you register for a workshop you receive a 15% discount on 1st Conference tickets! https://www.1stconf.com/ 1st Conference Adelaide: https://events.humanitix.com.au/1st-conference-adl-2020 Jurgen Appelo Adelaide workshop: https://events.humanitix.com.au/jurgen-appelo-shiftup-business-agility-and-innovation-leader-workshop-adelaide 1st Conference Melbourne: https://events.humanitix.com.au/1st-conference-mel-2020 Jurgen Appelo Melbourne Workshop: https://events.humanitix.com.au/jurgen-appelo-shiftup-business-agility-and-innovation-leader-workshop-melbourne

Welcome to the Weekly ReBoot your regular Friday debrief coming from the agile community here in Melbourne and beyond! Today, as you might be able to tell, something a little different, this is my Christmas present to you all, our loyal listeners, I’ve put together many bite size gifts of excerpts from our wonderful guests from the podcast for 2019. It’s the parts that I loved, or the messages I enjoyed, all wrapped up in a Christmas package for you, with a little sprinkling of…. Some Christmas Hip Hop….what else! I hope you enjoy it…. Featured episodes in this episode: Rowan Bunning https://www.rebootco.com.au/podcast/2019/1/25/the-weekly-reboot-bonus-episode-rowan-bunning Tom Varsavsky https://www.rebootco.com.au/podcast/2019/2/22/the-weekly-reboot-bonus-episode-tom-varsavky-chief-engineering-officer-of-rea-group Lisette Sutherland https://www.rebootco.com.au/podcast/2019/3/8/the-weekly-reboot-lisette-sutherland Andy Kelk https://www.rebootco.com.au/podcast/2019/5/17/the-weekly-reboot-feat-andy-kelk-cto-of-marketplacer Neil Killick https://www.rebootco.com.au/podcast/2019/5/24/the-weekly-reboot-feat-neil-killick Hannah Browne https://www.rebootco.com.au/podcast/2019/5/31/the-weekly-reboot-feat-hannah-browne Michele Playfair https://www.rebootco.com.au/podcast/2019/6/14/the-weekly-reboot-feat-michelle-playfair Penelope Barr https://www.rebootco.com.au/podcast/2019/6/21/the-weekly-reboot-feat-penelope-barr Craig Brown https://www.rebootco.com.au/podcast/2019/7/19/the-weekly-reboot-feat-craig-brown Rajesh Mather https://www.rebootco.com.au/podcast/2019/8/23/the-weekly-reboot-feat-rajesh-mathur Michelle Risdale https://www.rebootco.com.au/podcast/2019/9/6/the-weekly-reboot-feat-michelle-ridsdale-chief-people-officer-at-envato Pete Cohen and Adrian Fittolani at Spark the Change https://www.rebootco.com.au/podcast/2019/9/20/the-weekly-reboot-spark-the-change Nigel Dalton https://www.rebootco.com.au/podcast/2019/12/6/the-weekly-reboot-the-agile-godfather-nigel-dalton

Welcome to the weekly reboot your regular Friday debrief of things we’ve heard and seen coming from the Agile community here in Melbourne and beyond. You’re about to hear an interview that I did yesterday with Igor Goulko the founder of DevOps talks conferences which will be running in Melbourne, Aukland Sydney and Singapore in 2020. That was the weekly reboot for this week, You can find out how to register and / or how to submit talks to Igor's conferences, and I encourage you to do that, it was very nice to meet and talk to him and hear about how he runs this conference, and I encourage people to get along to them, AND bring your managers and execs to come and learn more about devops and technology.

The weekly ReBoot your regular Friday de-brief of things we’ve heard and seen coming from the Agile Community here in Melbourne and beyond. Today a very very special episode of the podcast, I caught up with Nigel Dalton in literally the smallest cafe in Melbourne to talk about what it means to be Superproductive, Nigel’s new venture and (soon to be finished and published) book. Check out his site here: https://www.superproductive.com/ Nigel is one of the faces of our Lean and Agile community and this is the book that Melbourne needs! Here’s the cute little cafe called Switchboard: https://www.broadsheet.com.au/melbourne/cafes/switchboard Nigel volunteers and helps with this amazing organisation: https://orangesky.org.au/ providing services and dignity to Australia’s homeless community. Nigel also co-hosts a wonderful podcast called AI Australia: https://eliiza.com.au/podcast/ PS if you know Nigel please text him who you are because he has lost your contact details :D

The weekly reboot your regular Friday debrief of things we’ve heard and seen coming from the agile community here in Melbourne and beyond. Sign up for the newsletter at https://www.rebootco.com.au/newsletter This will get you straight into our feed, and you’ll receive Insights to help you transform ways of working so people love their jobs. This weeks mini hack is all about Different ways to have hack events! Here’s a great how-to article by Kimi George of REA Group: https://www.rea-group.com/blog/start-inventorship-day/ Random Hacks of Kindness - hacks for social change - are worth a look here: https://www.rhokaustralia.org/ @simonbristow Simon Bristow the author of a talk on ’The intersprint break’ @paulangov Paula Burton, the Inspo behind the regular weekday evening hack we used to create ReBoot Co. Thanks!

The weekly reboot your regular Friday debrief of things we’ve heard and seen coming from the agile community here in Melbourne and beyond. Sign up for the newsletter at https://www.rebootco.com.au/newsletter This will get you straight into our feed, and you’ll receive Insights to help you transform ways of working so people love their jobs. This weeks mini hack is all about : https://leancoffee.org/ Nigel is leaving REA Group and his new ventures is https://www.superproductive.com/ Music for the episode comes from Envato Elements.

Welcome to the weekly reboot your regular Friday debrief of things we’ve heard and seen coming from the agile community here in Melbourne and beyond. Sign up for the newsletter at https://www.rebootco.com.au/newsletter This will get you straight into our feed, and you’ll receive Insights to help you transform ways of working so people love their jobs. This week a mini hack about putting on your waste goggles to help you identify and eradicate waste! The seven deadly wastes as identified by Taiichi Ohno for The Toyota Production system: TIMWOOD: Transport, Inventory, Movement, Waiting, Overprocessing, Overproduction and Defects! Music for the episode comes from Envato Elements and is titled Dark Magic by Allen Grey music.

News Just In! Sign up to our Newsletter to get Insights to help you transform ways of working in your inbox! Visit: https://www.rebootco.com.au/newsletter Today’s mini-hack episode contains valuable Icebreakers, help you warm up any room before a meeting, workshop or offsite. Have you ever considered getting help with facilitation and all other aspects of working better in teams or groups? If you want to find out more about how we can help, or anything else you’ve heard on the podcast then you can get in touch with us by emailing rebootme@rebootco.com.au OR you can follow us and find out more: I’m @stokesxandra on Twitter or follow @TheRebootco on Twitter , or subscribe to our soon to be published newsletter where there will be heaps of more ideas, blogs and insights, go to https://www.rebootco.com.au/newsletter OR subscribe in your regular podcast ap, and we’ll back in your ears at 4pm next week!

Another mini hack today which is from the Design Thinking body of knowledge and the masters of Design Thinking - IDEO, and that is The Rules of Brainstorming. Brain- storming is one of those things that gets thrown about a lot as a technique. But it can often descend into just a flurry of ideas or conversation without any resolution or purpose. OR even worse self/censoring or censoring other people’s ideas can yield an atmosphere where the best and most creative contributions never make it to the table. The Brainstorming Rules: Defer Judgement Encourage wild ideas Build on other’s ideas Stay on Topic One conversation at a time Be visual Go for quantity Watch the brainstorming rules video from IDEO: https://vimeo.com/138588491 Here are the rules on Ideo’s design kit, a great resource! https://www.designkit.org/methods/28 We’d love you feedback, get in contact if you have some, or if you want to learn more about increasing team performance Email us rebootme@rebootco.com.au Follow Alex on twitter @stokesxandra follow ReBoot Co. on twitter @Therebootco

Today we have another mini hack episode for you and it’s about the Art of the Reflective Pause. I was part of running a big workshop last week that involved a whole lot of information and learning, and I witnessed on several occasions the power of reflective pauses, something that if you run a lot of workshops you might be accustomed to doing, and I thought to myself, yes! this is a powerful tool and worthy of a mention as a mini hack for you! Follow me on twitter at @stokesxandra or rebootco @TheRebootco on twitter, or come to our website www.rebootco.com.au for more ideas, blogs and insights or subscribe in your regular podcast ap, and we’ll back in your ears at 4pm next week!

This week another mini hack, and this week it’s a simple thing you could do to increase your team’s performance. Full of step by step instructions and lots of tips and goodies to try for your team. We’d love you feedback, get in contact if you have some or if you want to learn more about increasing team performance. Email rebootme@rebootco.com.au Follow Alex on twitter @stokesxandra follow ReBoot Co. on twitter @Therebootco

This week another mini hack and it was inspired by a twitter thread that I saw last week. The thread in question suggested that Agile was going to “jump the shark” because of such Malarky as a HR Agility Manifesto that someone had created, and you kind find that manifesto at "https://www.agilehrmanifesto.org/“ We’ve got a special episode coming up a couple of weeks, you’ll be able to come along to a live recording of the podcast, the date for that will be the 22nd of October and we’ll bring your more details about that soon or you can follow us on social media to find out more about that. Follow me on twitter at @stokesxandra or rebootco @TheRebootco on twitter, or come to our website www.rebootco.com.au for more ideas, blogs and insights or subscribe in your regular podcast ap, and we’ll back in your ears at 4pm next week!

This week we’re bringing you an experience report fresh from Spark the Change conference, an engaging conference centred on Purpose and meaning at work, which I was fortunate to attend on Friday the 13th, I caught up with Tony, in his car while we were driving around between meetings. The speakers and the schedule can be found at this link: https://sparkthechange.com.au/2019/speakers/ Our lunch break Vox pops featured: Lisa Jacob from Tabar, Pete Cohen from Diius, Adrian Fittolani from Edrolo and Jeremy Yuille from Meld studios. Well be back with The Weekly ReBoot on the 11th of October, until then feedback is gratefully received at rebootme@rebootco.com.au