Episode 161: State of Agile in Singapore with Stanly Lau

Craig is at YOW! Singapore and catches up with Stanly Lau, organiser of the Agile Singapore conference and the Agile Singapore meetup:

Bas Vodde was one of the early advocates for Agile in Singapore
The state of Agile in Singapore has progressed from “doing a standup” in 2010 to now many companies thinking about how they develop software better
A lack of knowledge in design principles by new software developers seems to affect how they tackle problems
The art of being able to sit down and pair in a team is an art that is being lost in the Agile community
You can learn a lot about a team by looking at their codebase
Good agile development practices require know-how and habit – does not come by nature

Episode 151: Software Craftsmanship with “Uncle Bob” Martin

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…

Craig is at the YOW! Connected conference and talks to Mark Pedersen, the CTO at KJR, and they talk all things quality and testing:

the changing role of a tester in an Agile environment, it clarifies the role rather than making it blurrier
in an Agile environment it does not make sense to have a Test Manager role anymore
the number of dedicated testing roles are decreasing, but becoming more important and valuable
most organisations say that they use both waterfall and agile frequently
build your skills in either a quasi analysis / product owner / acceptance criteria role or get up to speed with sensible technical automation tools for your tech stack
TDD – good idea but not many organsations practicing it in a dedicated way, unit testing in most industries is a luxury
BDD – does not make TDD obsolete, defining acceptance criteria upfront helps understand…