Agile 2013

Episode 64: Interstate 40 East with Nick Muldoon

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Nick-CraigOn a road trip to Agile 2013 from Dallas to Nashville, Craig chats to Nick Muldoon while cruising in a Chevy Equinox eastbound on Interstate 40 between Memphis and Nashville. Nick is an Agile Coach at Twitter and formerly the Product manager for GreenHopper at Atlassian and whilst doing 65 miles an hour they chat about:

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Episode 75: Agile Expedition with Alan Bustamante

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alanbustamanteAt Agile 2013 in Nashville on a park bench, in a garden, near a waterfall that is ever present, Craig catches up with Alan Bustamante to talk about his Agile expedition. Along the way they chat about:

  • the enormity of the Gaylord Opryland in Nashville and the average weather outside
  • the use case approach in the Rational Unified Process (RUP) and how it set the scene for Scrum and Agile
  • bringing architects along for the Agile journey
  • an initial lure for Agile – “the pressure of letting the team down is greater than staying resistant”
  • Agile Cincinnati and the take up in Cincinatti and Colombus
  • the need to “get back to making work fun and building relationships”
  • Alan’s work at Seapine Software and “The Agile Expedition” book
  • Alan’s conference tip: make it a goal to meet at least one person and get to know them
  • Advice: “there are bigger…

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Olav Maassen, Liz Keogh & Chris Matts on Commitment and Real Options

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Olav Maassen, Liz Keogh and Chris Matts talk about real options and the story behind “Commitment: A Novel About Managing Product Risk”, as well as discussing growing experts and leader archetypes.

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Todd Charron on Lean Startup Machine & Improv in Agile

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Todd Charron talks about some of the outcomes from Lean Startup Machine in Toronto, applying Lean Startup in the Enterprise and how can us improvisation techniques in Agile to reduce our fears.

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Chris Clarke on the State of Agile ALM

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Chris Clarke from Collabnet talks about the evolution of ALM, how Agile has affected its uptake across all levels of the organisation and some of the important metrics Agile teams should be measuring.

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Craig Smith on Agile Outside of IT and the 7 Deadly Sins of Agile Test Automation

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I stepped aside from a number of interviews I was conducting at Agile 2013 and let Todd Charon interview me about my talk at the conference.

Craig Smith lets us in on the 7 deadly sins of Agile Test Automation and how we can take Agile out of the IT department.

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Esther Derby on Language, Communication and Change

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Esther Derby shares her thoughts on language, communication and change and their importance in organisations, the definition of metaphor and designing your environment for Agile success.

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Chris McMahon on Open Software Testing at Wikipedia

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Chris McMahon discusses radically open source testing at Wikipedia and has put out a call for the testing community to participate, as well as discussing approaches to browser test automation.

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Woody Zuill on Mob Programming and No Estimates

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Woody Zuill discusses Mob Programming, a practice where the whole team works on the same thing, at the same time in the same space on the same computer, as well as his thoughts on No Estimates.

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Bryan Beecham on XP Not Dead

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Bryan Beecham (aka Billy Garnet) reminds us that “XP not dead!” and shares his approach to teaching TDD and refactoring with Lego and applying XP and craftsmanship in teams as well as the human body.

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