Episode 102: The Essence of Microservices (and Agile) with Scott Shaw

25/01/201625/01/2016 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Tony and Craig are at YOW! Conference and in the hallway ambush Scott Shaw, the Director of Technology (Australia) at ThoughtWorks and talk about the state of microservices and Agile:

Scott’s YOW! talk “Avoiding Speedbumps on the Road to Microservices“
Microservices are just a different way to build applications that get away from monoliths
Beth Skurrie, Evan Bottcher, Jon Eaves case study at YOW! – “The Odyssey – From Monoliths to Microservices at realestate.com.au“
Essentials for microservices include Domain Driven Design, security and identity and change management
Simon Brown talk at YOW! – “Agility and the Essence of Software Architecture“
Cloud and infrastructure as code has changed the way we look at applications and have allowed microservices
The essence of Agile is the team taking ownership of the business success of whatever it is they are building and keeping that ownership over the longer…

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Episode 101: The Lean Mindset with Mary and Tom Poppendieck

15/01/201615/01/2016 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig catches up with two luminaries in the Agile and Lean space, Mary and Tom Poppendieck at YOW! Conference to talk about agile, lean, rapid feedback, culture and leadership. The discussion points include:

Making the link between lean and software development and discovering that waterfall makes no sense
The origins of the first book: Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit
Agile is not lean in software development, Agile is lean in a delivery organisation
How long does it take you to put a single line of code into Production?
The manifestation of lean really kicked off in 2010 with both the rise of DevOps and the Lean Startup
Delivery organisations versus engineering organisations and the journey of Agile
Agile has not well addressed delivering the right stuff, solving the right problem and the architecture of rapid deployment
Only two goals at ING: Deliver every two weeks and don’t crash production, resulted…

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Episode 100: 100th Episode Spectacular

07/01/201607/01/2016 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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100dpp Craig, Renee and Tony come together to celebrate 100 episodes of The Agile Revolution, and review the journey of both the podcast and Agile in general over the last 4 and a half years and surprise themselves on how many things have changed but how many things have remained the same.

Thank you to all of our guests and to our loyal listener(s) for helping us reach 100 episodes!

TheAgileRevolution-100 (82 minutes)

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Episode 99: 99, Not Out!

23/12/201523/12/2015 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Despite not feeling well, a sick Renee, a very sick Tony and a trying not to get sick Craig, get the band back together to discuss all the latest in the Agile world, including:

New Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and his drive to be Agile, our thoughts on the National Broadband Network (NBN), Australia’s Data Retention laws and the importance of Emotional Intelligence
The Project
Five years, building a culture, and handing it off – the thoughts of outgoing Etsy CTO Kellan Elliott-McCrea
The Nexus Guide (and no, it’s not a new Google phone or a car but yet another scaling framework) and its associated Scaled Professional Scrum Assessment
The Oath of Non-Allegiance
Sanjiv Augustine new book Scaling Agile: A Lean Jumpstart
The Story Behind How Pocket Hit 20 Million Users with 20 People
New CIOs: How to succeed in the first 120 days (and Renee’s quiz…

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Episode 98: The Heckle Revolution YOW! 2015 Edition

09/12/201509/12/2015 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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YOW_2015_Conference_-stacked-PNG Craig joins Darren Rogan, Ben Morgan and Leigh Appel in another special cross over episode with the Hack && Heckle Podcast to talk software development, Agile and preview the upcoming YOW! conference that will be covered by both podcasts.

This episode has been released simulatenously as H&&H 131 – Hack and Heckle / Agile Revolution Discuss the YOW! Conference.

Discussion points included:

A discussion about our upcoming 100th episode
a discussion about behind the scenes of organising and schedulinf the YOW! 2015 conference
YOW! 2015 speakers and topics including: Adrian Cockroft, Troy Hunt, Aaron Bedra, microservices, Pragmatic Dave Thomas, Anita Sengupta, Dan North, Dean Wapler and Docker
Manifesto for Half-Arsed Agile Software Development
YOW! 2014 videos
YOW! Bubs – childcare at a technical conference
The YOW! tour and Brisbane
Windows 10 upgrades
The pros and cons of Scala and FORTRAN versus Java

TheAgileRevolution-98 (50 minutes)

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Episode 97: 3 Things, 3 Letters (Git, CTO, MBA) with Peter Bell

06/11/201506/11/2015 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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At YOW! Conference, Craig has a chat with Peter Bell, a contract member of the GitHub training team, co-founder of CTO School and the founder of the Startup CTO Summit series and they talk about approaches to learning Git, building better CTO’s and digital literacy for MBA’s.

YOW! 2014 talk “How To Undo Almost Anything with Git“
Balance the appropriate batch size for communicating with your team the work you have completed versus the appropriate batch size for if you mess up you can easily go back – this is typically 2-10 lines of code to the local repository
Most teams just need a master branch that is always releasable and all work done on feature branches that are merged into master
training.github.com – training options and a number of great resources
Learning Git – not easy to learn on the job, balance of basic how to use…

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Episode 96: YOW! 2014 Brisbane Vox Pop

30/09/201530/09/2015 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Clearing out the backlog, Craig and Tony roam the corridors at YOW! 2014 in Brisbane and talk to attendees and old friends and colleagues. Despite Tony’s fetish with pineapples and the fact it took 96 episodes to get a mention of ISO-9126 they talk to:

Craig Aspinall on hosting the highly rated talk by Troy Hunt on “Hack Yourself First” and Peter Bell on “How to Undo Almost Anything with Git” and that listening to security talks is like watching horror movies, completely terrifying and entertaining at the same time!
Jason Royals and Carlo Simbag on cheesecake and great talks by Troy Hunt, Jez Humble, Gojko Adzic and Gabrielle Benefield
Andrew Newman on using Scala in the enterprise, keynotes from Martin Thompson and Todd Montgomery as well as Ed Kmett
Sharon Robson on using Agile at Tatts Group, her favourite standard ISO-9126, Boehm’s Quality Tree, getting…

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Episode 95: User Story Mapping (Something Something) with Jeff Patton

15/09/201521/09/2015 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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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…

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Episode 94: Agile 2015 Wrap Up

09/09/201521/09/2015 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig and Renee catch up after the last session at Agile 2015 in Washington, DC and talk about the highlights of the conference. Sitting in the atrium near a waterfall, they discuss:

Renee’s talk “Agile Passionfruits: Growing Agile Champion capability through a Learning Culture” received rave reviews
Stalwart sessions at Agile 2015
Day 3 keynote by Jessie Shternshus “Individuals, Interactions and Improvization”
Esther Derby and Mike Lowery talk “Coaching Flow: Moving Past Resistance”
Craig Larman and Bas Vodde talk “Introduction to Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS)”
Dan Greening and Jeff Sutherland talk “Agile Leadership Patterns: The Agile Way of Doing”
Joint podcast with “This Agile Life” – our second favourite Agile podcast!
Skip Angel and Richard Watt talk “Outcome Driven Organizations (ODO): A new operating system for organizational change”
Day 5 keynote by James Tamm “Want Better Collaboration? Don’t be so Defensive!” and some shocking numbers around effectiveness
The conference hotel…

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Episode 93: I Like Big Boards

29/08/201521/09/2015 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig and Renee are at Agile 2015 in Washington, DC and in the open jam area team up with Jason Tice and Natalie Simonsen from the “This Agile Life” podcast for a crossover episode. Joining in the roundtable conversation are Stephen Vance, Troy Tuttle, Jenny Tarwater, Abby Bangser and Serge Beaumont.

Stephen Vance shares highlights from the multi-team agile framework he has put in place at his organization with Natalie and Renee.
Abby Bangser and Jason Tice continue a discussion from Lean Coffee at Agile 2015 regarding the benefits of having a full lifecycle Kanban board (product envisioning thru development thru formal testing and acceptance by the customer).
While discussing the benefits of “Big Boards” the excellent session that Lisa Crispin and Emma Armstrong presented on User Interface testing came up
Next Jenny Tarwater gave props to John Krewson who did an awesome Improv workshop

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