Episode 135: DevOps & Electric Cloud with Anders Wallgren

01/09/201701/09/2017 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Craig speaks to Anders Wallgren from Electric Cloud about Continuous Delivery and DevOps at the Agile 2016 conference in Atlanta. The topic of conversation included:

“Release It!” by Michael Nygard
We can’t declare victory on Agile, but it is the winning methodology
We are now plumbing the last mile of deployment and we also need to move it left
Joshua Kerievsky Agile 2016 keynote on “Modern Agile“
Software process is like human DNA, we are different but essentially the same
Gene Gotimer Agile 2016 talk “Experiences Bringing Continuous Delivery to a DoD Project“
You will fail if you don’t pay attention to the cultural aspects of Agile and DevOps
State of DevOps Report
Critical to automate everything to eliminate manual process errors and loss of valuable data
DevOps is starting to push into complex and regulated environments like finance, health and aerospace with an…

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Jenkins Gets a Facelift with Release of Blue Ocean 1.0

25/04/201717/08/2026 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Jenkins, the popular open source automation server that is used by development teams worldwide for continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines, has recently announced the general availability of Blue Ocean 1.0.

Source: Jenkins Gets a Facelift with Release of Blue Ocean 1.0

Episode 118: YOW! 2015 Brisbane Vox Pop

20/11/201620/11/2016 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig and Tony are once again roaming the lunch hall at YOW! 2015 in Brisbane, where they catch up with a number of people including:

Dave Thomas – founder of YOW! Conference discusses the success of YOW! Conference in Australia and how he didn’t go to Snowbird for the signing of the Agile Manifesto
Peter Sellars – quality and DevOps dude shares what he learnt at DockerCon and his highlights at YOW! including “Building Microservice Architectures in Go” and “Designing for Failure: Scaling Uber’s Backend by Breaking Everything“
Nardene Smith – from Interpro recruitment, talks about the Mars lander keynote “Engineering and Exploring the Red Planet” and she gives Tony some “stuck”
Matt Callanan, Ben Spillane and Alex Spillane – Matt and Alex’s talk at YOW! “DevOps @ Wotif: Making Easy = Right” as well as discussing “Agile is Dead”
Nigel Rausch

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Atlassian Bamboo 5.11 Delivers Continuous Integration At Scale

26/04/201617/08/2026 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Atlassian, makers of development tools such as JIRA and Confluence, have just released version 5.11 of their continuous delivery tool Bamboo with a host of new features to help teams scale and collaborate. The key feature in this new release is the ability to scale from 100 to 250 elastic build agents.

Source: Atlassian Bamboo 5.11 Delivers Continuous Integration At Scale

Episode 104: Agile Australia 2015 Vox Pop #2

19/04/201619/04/2016 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig and Tony wander the lunchtime floor on day 2 of Agile Australia conference in Sydney, looking for more interesting people in the Australian Agile community. They chatted to the ones who couldn’t quite run fast enough away from the microphone including:

NZ Ben Gracewood (Vend) and Anders Ivarsson (Spotify) – overview of Ben’s talk “What if there were no rules?“, Tony learning a new word (connaissance) and the motto of not being a “duck” is his talk and Anders about his talk “Autonomy and Leadership at Spotify” and that we shouldn’t call Spotify a model!
Chris Chan and Dylan Verheijden – the (Agile) Australian tradition of the Tim Tam Slam, Linda Rising’s keynote and her myth on smart people not being rational, James Shore’s keynote and inspirations around the Agile Fluency Model
Bernd Schiffer and Poppy Schiffer (#agilebaby) – Bernd’s talk “Concrete experimentation in Agile environments

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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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Mik Kersten on Current and Future ALM Trends

07/11/201520/08/2026 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Mik Kersten talks about current and future trends in ALM and the support for approaches like large scale Agile, DevOps, Docker, Big Data, functional languages and the Internet of Things.

Source: Mik Kersten on Current and Future ALM Trends

Episode 81: Resetting Agile & Devops with Justin Hennessy

06/11/201405/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Sitting in a sometimes noisy coffee shop on a unusually cold Brisbane day, Craig sits down for a chat with Justin Hennessy, a Scrum Master, Devops and System Administrator all rolled into one!

“An Agile Team Reset” article on the Scrum Alliance
The High Performance Tree by Lyssa Adkins
resetting awesome
early Agile experience shaped by “User Stories Applied” by Mike Cohn
“Coaching Agile Teams” by Lyssa Adkins reshapes the way of thinking about about teams
Agile in Adelaide versus Agile in Brisbane
Coaching Circles with Lyssa Adkins
Devops is more of a culture than a title
being a Scrum Master on a single team is hard and the full-time role debate
infrastructure has become a form of coding in itself
infrastructure resource as part of a core Agile team
better management and testing of configuration artefacts, unit testing and CI frameworks
infrastructure deployment tools are often just another…

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Episode 73: What Made You An Agile Coach?

26/05/201405/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Tony asks a philisophical question , whilst Renee harnesses her nineties pop star – Ice Ice Baby and Craig marvels at Tony’s cool intro – probably the coolest intro he’s done since the eighties.

Craig entices us to save the environment by using Octopads instead of sticky notes – with Luke Stephenson
Renee get us game playing with the Lean Startup game”Snowflake” from TastyCupcakes.com
Carrying on the game theme ,Devops-against humanity
Tony asks ….What Made You An Agile Coach?
I didn’t sign up for all this people Sh**t from @flowchainsensei
TDD is dead .Long live Testing from @dhh
Ship It Day! with Renee
The “Safe Segment” – discussing Safe Training blog from Steve Barrett