Episode 154: Agile Rocket Science with Dr. Anita Sengupta

07/01/201907/01/2019 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Craig is at YOW! West in Perth and sits down with Dr. Anita Sengupta, a rocket scientist and aerospace engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (and since this interview was recorded now a Senior Vice President at Hyperloop One). They geek out talking about space exploration as well as the important topic of diversity:

YOW! West keynote “The Future of Mars Exploration” and AATC 2017 keynote “Engineering the Red Planet“
7 Minutes of Terror: The Challenges of Getting to Mars
When you are doing something for the first time, you have to come up with out of the box solutions – first you need to make it work, and then you need to make it last
The biggest issue is to get enough people into the pipeline from under-represented groups, one thing we can do is more public outreach at the school level
You come…

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Episode 153: The Great Lean Debate – Live from LAST Brisbane 2018

01/01/201901/01/2019 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Stephanie BySouth is the MC of the Great Lean Debate, a fun session recorded live at LAST Brisbane 2018. Ryan McKergow, Shane Hastie, Renae Craven are the “Legendary Agile Sh*t-talkers” team and Craig Smith, Mel Khim and Karyl Crick are the “Getting Agile Sh*t Done” team.

The topics are:

Scaling frameworks
Estimates vs No-Estimates
You can be a Product Owner and a Scrum Master

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Episode 152: Communities of Practice, Onions, Bus Stops and Shopfronts with Emily Webber

30/12/201830/12/2018 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig is at YOW! Conference and spends some time with Emily Webber, Agile Coach and author of “Building Successful Communities of Practice” and “The Agile Team Onion” and they chat about:

The UK Government Digital Service and gov.uk (and the United States Digital Service and Australian Digital Transformation Agency)
Government needs to be fast and stable (but dealing with change every four years)
YOW! 2016 talk “Communities of Practice: The Missing Piece of your Agile Organisation“
Communities of practice are about building knowledge, giving people support networks they need to give them the confidence to do their jobs well and making that practice better and as good as it can be
Most communities of practice are organic but they tend to be closed and often lack direction
Community of Practice Maturity Model
Having an idea of who the community is for and…

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Episode 151: Software Craftsmanship with “Uncle Bob” Martin

27/12/201827/12/2018 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig and Tony are at YOW! Conference and are honoured to sit down with Robert C. Martin (aka Uncle Bob), signatory to the Manifesto for Agile Software Development and author of numerous books including “Clean Code“, “The Clean Coder” and “Clean Architecture” and they discuss:

YOW! 2016 keynote “The Scribe’s Oath” as well as “Effective Estimation (or: How not to Lie)“
Software craftsmanship has always been the work of individuals – not sure we have really achieved collaboration in programming
Pair programming – some surgeons like to wash their hands and some surgeons don’t!
Woody Zuill’s talk “Mob Programming, A Whole Team Approach“
CODE – Uncle Bob’s “terrible” software development process before he stumbled across Extreme Programming and the wiki
Kent Beck’s “Extreme Programming” article for the C++ Report
The story behind the forming of “The…

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Episode 150: FailAgility – Live from LAST Brisbane 2018

21/12/201821/12/2018 / Craig Smith / 1 Comment

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Craig and Tony were privileged to be asked to be the keynote speakers at LAST Brisbane 2018. This is the audio from the keynote with introductions from long time listener Dave Pryce. You can follow along with the slides below:

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The 2018 InfoQ Editors’ Recommended Reading List: Part Two

20/12/2018 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

As part of our core values of sharing knowledge, the InfoQ editors were keen to capture and share our book and article recommendations for 2018, so that others can benefit from this too. In this second part we are sharing the final batch of recommendations

Source: The 2018 InfoQ Editors’ Recommended Reading List: Part Two

Episode 149: Continuous Delivery with Dave Farley

16/12/201816/12/2018 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig, Tony and honorary Revolutionist Pete Sellars are at YOW! Conference and sit down with Dave Farley, co-author of “Continuous Delivery” and they chat about the following

There are anti-patterns with doing XP at scale, continuous delivery was born from the learnings from that
Continuous delivery is just extending continuous integration to more of the software development practice (and continuous integration requires test driven development)
Continuous delivery works because it is the application of the scientific method to software development
If you work in an iterative, imperative, experimental way and you take continuous learning seriously and take cycle time as a serious measurement you will naturally drive out agile, lean, systems theory and DevOps
YOW! 2016 presentation “The Rationale for Continuous Delivery“
Most common two ways to introduce continuous delivery to your organisation – need to get cover from senior management to make change or…

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Agile Alliance Announces deliver:Agile 2019 Program

15/12/201815/12/2018 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Today Agile Alliance is pleased to announce the program for its annual technical conference, deliver:Agile 2019. Formerly known as the Agile Alliance Technical Conference, the event is tailored to software developers who want to learn more about emerging Agile technical practices. It will be held April 29 – May 1 at the Sheraton Music City Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee.

Source: Agile Alliance Announces deliver:Agile 2019 Program

Episode 148: The Science of Human Personality with Dr. Brian Little

12/12/201812/12/2018 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig is at YOW! Conference in Sydney and talks science and psychology with Dr. Brian Little, author of “Me, Myself and Us” and professor at Cambridge University and Carleton University and they analyse:

Keynote talk at YOW! 2016 “Personalities at Work“
There are 5 dimensions of personality – OCEAN – openness, conscientiousness. extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism
Biogenic features of personality – neurophysiology, sociogenic and idiogenic
We can often act out of character, we are not bound by our biochemistry
What are the core projects in your life that drive your behaviour
Skeptical of personality tests at work such as Myers-Briggs because the results are not fixed, they are good for starting a conversation but deadly if they conclude a conversation
Don’t just ask “How are you doing?” but ask “Really, how are you doing?” to show that you are taking an interest and care in…

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