Episode 151: Software Craftsmanship with “Uncle Bob” Martin

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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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Episode 149: Continuous Delivery with Dave Farley

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

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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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Episode 147: YOW! Speaker Vox Pop with Woody Zuill, Paul Rayner, Laura Bell, John Lamping and Andrea Burbank

27/11/201827/11/2018 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig and Tony are at YOW! Conference in Brisbane and wander around the hallways talking to different speakers and some attendees and volunteers:

Woody Zuill and Paul Rayner – Beer Driven Development (the other BDD), Woody’s talk “Mob Programming, A Whole Team Approach” talk and Paul’s “EventStorming – Collaborative Learning for Complex Domains” talk, the reaction from the Australian audience and how Woody gets the audience to tell him why mob programming might be a good idea to change people’s thinking
Tony enjoyed “Uncle” Bob Martins “The Scribe’s Oath” keynote and “Effective Estimation (or: How not to Lie)” talk as well as Woody’s talk
Laura Bell – her “Simplicity, Complexity and Security” talk, and Agile Application Security at SafeStack
John Lamping – his “The One Weird Trick for Analyzing Big Data … Eyeball it Early and Often!” talk…

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Episode 146: Agile, Architecture and Technology with Rebecca Parsons

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Tony and Craig are at YOW! Conference in Brisbane and catch up with Rebecca Parsons, the Chief Technology Officer at ThoughtWorks and the co-author of “Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change” and chat about the following:

Rebecca’s keynote talk at YOW! “The Past and Future of Evolutionary Architecture“
Evolutionary Architecture is the next stage on applying Agile practices to software development at the systems level and be able to respond to changes in the environment that affect the architecture
Need to determine for your system what constitutes good, fitness functions are the documentation and tests to ensure your system meets those characteristics
Need to move the needle on architecture, need to develop tools and techniques to decompose the role
Agile Alliance is looking at what it means to truly be an international organisation (there are now affiliates in Brazil and New Zealand), expanding conferences from…

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Episode 145: Working Effectively with (Legacy) Code with Michael Feathers

27/10/201827/10/2018 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig is in Atlanta at Agile 2016 and catches up with Michael Feathers, author of “Working Effectively with Legacy Code” and they talk about the following:

Working Effectively with Legacy Code originally started as a book about Test First Programming but morphed into a book about the techniques for refactoring code in legacy systems
The Pinned Progress Curve – for many people there is no incentive to change so the mean gets larger between the status quo and good practices
Agile Alliance Deliver:Agile conference
Organisations that have technical founders have a very different character to their work internally, need to make knowledge of the quality of software more pervasive – the business need to understand more about the technical side, and the developers need to understand more about the business
Code that has excessive error handling typically has other design problems – benefit in thinking about whether…

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Episode 144: Mob Programming & #noestimates with Woody Zuill

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Craig is at Agile 2016 in Atlanta and catches up with his old friend Woody Zuill to talk about Mob Programming and #noestimates

Craig’s InfoQ interview with Woody Zuill
We need to work well together to get our work done
Mob Programming originated at Hunter Industries, identified we can get a lot done if we don’t have to wait for answers to questions from other people and if we are all in the same context all the time
Mob Programming – all the people on the team working at the same time, working in the same space on the same thing and using a single computer and working interactively the entire day
Work well together and turn up the good, need to pay attention on how to work well together
“Extreme Programming Explained” by Kent Beck – “a great book”
The person with the idea expresses it…

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Episode 143: One Last Jam with The “Dude” David Hussman

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The Agile community recently lost its friend and one of its most inspirational members in David Hussman. Craig and Tony were privileged to speak to him in one of his last interviews at YOW! Conference in Brisbane.

David Hussman’s YOW! 2017 talk “Learning in Product: How Wrong are You Ready to Be?”
“Extreme Programming Explained” is Agile’s White Album, just don’t read it backwards!
We make stuff up in software too much, rather than learning from the past and patterns
You can’t look at code and tell it is going to be a good experience and we don’t know our ideas are going to be great until we interact with them
The tenth principle – simplicity is essential
A good developer needs confidence and war wounds, same for Product Managers – they have shipped something crappy and don’t want to do that again
Cardboard User Story Mapping app

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Episode 142: Agile and SSLM at cPrime with Zubin Irani

01/09/201801/09/2018 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig sits down with Zubin Irani, the CEO of cPrime, at the Agile 2016 conference in Atlanta and chats about:

CPrime is the largest Atlassian implementer and platinum partner
Need to make sure that ALM products work with your process and support and enable it
One of the big gaps in the Coaching world is coaches are staying away from technology – we have to leverage technology
SSLM (Software Service Lifeycle Management) – Agile, DevOps and ALM initiatives are fragmented, they need to interact and have dependencies on each other
5 big trends – Agile beyond development, DevOps is taking centre stage, every company is a software company, digital transformation and the talent crunch
Agile Hardware – how do you build hardware in a more iterative way, how do we think about hardware and software being built together, how do we think about different about hardware design to…

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