This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.
In this podcast, Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, talks to Phil Brock, Rebecca Parsons, Paul Hammond and Victor Hugo about the state of the Agile Alliance, new initiatives being worked on around the world and the future of agility in the workplace.
Why listen to this podcast:
- The Agile 2016 conference was the largest ever with nearly 2500 people attending
- The Agile Alliance is spreading around the world with events and through affiliates
- The Agile Alliance has responded to the criticism about the main conference having less technical content and ran a Technical Conference in 2016 with another scheduled for 2017, as well as having technically focused initiatives which are exploring new technical practices in response to the changing technical landscape
- Member driven initiatives are receiving more focus and more funding to engage the agile community
The Agile Alliance website has a large repository of content which is freely available to the global agile community, and more is constantly being produced
Notes and links can be found on InfoQ: http://bit.ly/2dDB01f
- 4m 55s The Agile Alliance is spreading into parts of the world beyond North America with affiliates and with events in different countries.
- 5m 05s Victor talks about the Agile Europe and Agile Brazil conferences.
- 6m 09s The value of having an Affiliate in Brazil is about providing a structure and support for the large Agile Brazil conference as well as providing a vehicle to support the growth of a healthy agile community in Brazil
- 7m 25s There are a variety of Initiatives which the Alliance supports. These are ways for the community to get involved and to propose ideas for areas they want to see the Alliance working in. There are three types of initiatives the Alliance supports
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