“BDD In Action” is a book that aims to cover the full spectrum of BDD practices from requirements through to the development of production code backed by executable specifications and automated tests.
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Episode 88: Scrum Australia Anticast
Adam Weisbart turns the tables hosting an anti-podcast where he interviews Craig, Renee & Tony at Scrum Australia 2014 in Sydney on their highlights from the conference. The conversation included:
* Adam Weisbart’s “Agile Antipatterns” talk and his awesome Agile Antipatterns cards
* Craig Smith’s “40 Agile Methods in 40 Minutes” talk (and the methods on the cutting room floor)
* Agile movements are just as important as methods
* Tony mentions the original Winston W. Royce “Managing the Development of Large Software Systems” waterfall paper – why??
* Henrik Kniberg’s “Scaling Agile @ Spotify” keynote
* Matthew Hodgson’s “Backlogs, Story Mapping and Star Wars” talk
* Knowing one of the organisers like Star Wars helps!
* Renee Troughton’s “Darth Vaderless Daily Scrums” talk
* Important to know the expectations that everyone else should be having on each other to…
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Episode 87: Coffee From The Trenches with Henrik Kniberg
Renee and Craig catch up with Henrik Kniberg at Scrum Australia 2014 where he tries coffee for the first time in ten years at the Paramount Coffee Project (the best coffee in Sydney according to Renee). Apart from getting his verdict on the brew, they also talk about:
- First time back in Australia in a long time to keynote at Scrum Australia 2014
- Craig’s interview “Henrik Kniberg on Lean From The Trenches, Translating the Agile Manifesto and Living Agile” from Agile 2012 in Dallas on InfoQ
- “Scrum and XP From The Trenches” and how the book was written in 3 days
- Ivory Tower Syndrome – you can get good at describing crap in a believable way if you don’t have connections to reality
- “Kanban and Scrum: Making The Most of Both“
- Spotify – 25 coaches with 25 pet approaches, the culture and the fundamentals in…
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Episode 86 : Sticky Notes and Agile Stuff
Renee sets the tone for the Podcast, talking sticky notes and a great new app Post it plus by 3m and tests them live on the podcast .
This week the team talk about :
- Are performance reviews a waste of time ? Review from the Business insider
- @agilescout Remove your constraints article piques Tony’s interest and then ends up with a debate around star treks relevance
- Renee interrupts to provide the results of her tests with the sticky notes app
- We discuss the new update to the LeSS (large scale scrum) framework by @less_works
- Craig asks questions of Renee and Tony from an Agile Coaching course
- Tony proves it’s live as he runs off to sooth his daughter, Craig and Renee take the opportunity to have some fun in his absence
- Books The Revolutionists are Reading: Impact Mapping (Gojko Adzic), Lean Startup (Eric Ries), Bridging the Communication Gap (Gojko Adzic)
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The Value of Values
Talk of values came up recently, and Atlassian as always was held up as an inspiration. The video covers it all, but I have always admired their values:
- Open Company, No Bullshit
- Build with Heart and Balance
- Don’t #@!% the Customer
- Play, as a Team
Episode 85: Scrum Australia 2014 Vox Pop
Tony and and sometimes over modulated Craig (with Renee popping up from time to time) roam the floor at lunchtime at Scrum Australia in Sydney and talk to some interesting Scrum folks along the way about their thoughts on the conference and the Scrum community in general:
- Shane Sendall (Suncorp) – end to end delivery and design patterns for teams, minimum loveable products, looking at flow efficiency
- Justin Urbanski (Rally) – Scrum Alliance Coaching Clinic, minimum viable bureacracy, scaling
- Ben Hogan (Tabar) and Martyn Frank (CBA) – teams overcommitting, Scrum in 60 seconds, visual facilitation inspired by Lynne Cazaly, kanban in curriculum development in universities
- Neil Killick (MYOB) – spoke with Craig Brown running the #noestimates Puzzle Game, 40 Agile Methods in 40 Minutes, Tony suggests #lotsofestimates, Neil’s posts on #noestimates
- Jason Yip (ThoughtWorks) and Sunish Chabba –…
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Episode 84: Retrospectives in Middle Earth with Rachael Tempest Wood
Rachael Tempest Wood from Nomad8 in Wellington joins Tony and Craig in the Brisbane Queen Street Mall over lunch with a bonus busker on saxophone and they discuss:
- PMI and Agile are completely different mindsets, PMI Project Managers are “the CIOs of their projects”
- AgileWelly – strength through the struggle of doing Agile in government
- Wellington Agile community led by TradeMe, Snapper, BNZ
- Gojko Adzic – Specification by Example and Impact Mapping
- Agile NZ conference
- Retrospective design – creativity in facilitation is a gap
- Esther Derby’s model for restrospectives
- Paper Airplane game – using an abstract process to apply learnings to the real process
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Episode 83: Making Impacts with Gojko Adzic
Gojko Adzic “does computers” which means he helps people deliver software and he caught up with Craig on a recent YOW! DepthFirst tour of Australia. Gojko is the author of numerous books including “Bridging The Communication Gap“, “Specification by Example“, “Impact Mapping” and “50 Quick Ideas to Improve Your User Stories“.
- XP – started with “Extreme Programming Explained” which was really about developers ruling the world – XP is not dead, it won!
- TDD has crossed the chasm to mainstream
- Sturgeons Law – 90% of anything is going to be crap
- Continuous integration and automation has opened up a world of possibilities
- “Bridging the Communication Gap” – about finding ways to break dysfunctional processes in organisations
- “Agile Testing” by Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory
- The most valuable companies in the world are software companies
- It’s more about the right people…
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Episode 82: The Heckle Revolution
Craig joins Darren Rogan, Ben Morgan and Leigh Appel in a special cross over episode with the Hack && Heckle Podcast to talk Agile and preview the upcoming YOW! conference that will be covered by both podcasts.
This episode has been released simulatenously as 088 The Heckle Revolution by Hack && Heckle.
Discussion points included:
- Hack && Heckle interview with Scott Hanselman from YOW! 2013
- Hack && Heckle intervoew with Ed Kmett from YOW! Lambda Jam 2014
- Hack && Heckle Tech Project Tools Overview including Sprintly, Trello, JIRA and Pivotal Tracker
- Half Arsed Agile Manifesto
- 40 Agile Methods in 40 Minutes – The Lean Startup, Scaling Agile, Holacracy, Spotify Tribes and Agile Marketing
- Not marketers, growth hackers!
- 50 in 50 keynote from YOW! 2010
- YOW! 2014 preview, discount code is HECKLEREVOLUTION
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Interview and Book Review: Scrum Shortcuts Without Cutting Corners
“Scrum Shortcuts Without Cutting Corners” by Ilan Goldstein is a must read book that delivers real world examples on how to effectively implement and embed Agile in your team or organisation.
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