After chasing him across the east coast of Australia, Craig sits down with Jeff Patton at YOW! Conference in Sydney. Along the way they fail to remember the subtitle of Jeff’s “User Story Mapping” book and talk about:

• Art school dropout to software developer to early Extreme Programming
• “Extreme Programming Explained” by Kent Beck (and we agree the first edition was the better version!)
• One of the secrets to success is having a great relationship with customers
• Early Agile colleagues included Eric Evans (“Domain-Driven Design“), Joshua Kerievsky (“Refactoring to Patterns” and Industrial Logic), Rob Mee (Pivotal Labs)
• The product decisions on what to build matter most
• YOW! Talk “User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story“
• Story Mapping addressed the problem of losing sight of the big picture when building very small things
• Larry Constantine and Lucy Lockwood “Software…