Episode 25: Cultural transformations with Agile

26/02/201205/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Craig, Tony and Renee debate the role of an Agile Coach and how cultural transformations fit in.

Meaningful work whilst investing for the future on the RallyDev blog
Coaching Agile Teams on the Scrum Alliance site
Failure IS an option
Passionate software testing by TestJutsu and Craig’s Atlassian article

Quotes:

“Management does not know what a system is” – Deming

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one” – Mark Twain

Try micro-handoffs, pairing, not logging bugs to help dev-tester workflow, prevent mini waterfall @bobgalen #STPSummit
— lisacrispin @lisacrispin@mastodon.social (@lisacrispin) February 21, 2012

Just remember, it is pressure that makes diamonds.
— Nilofer Merchant (@nilofer) February 23, 2012

There's a part of me thinks half the problem would go away if most devs could *actually code*. #appsec #owasp
— James McGovern (@mcgoverntheory) December…

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Episode 24: Ghost In The Room

09/02/201205/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig and Renee stand idly by while Tony has a rare rant on Agile versus KANBAN versus the world and they cover Stoos in depth.

Quotes:

When confronted with a Best Practices, ask yourself who is it a best practice for? #entarch #bpms #cio RT @tetradian: RT @mcgoverntheory
— Gil Friend (@gfriend) December 4, 2012

"Transparency is like a disinfectant for business: it will purify things & help start the healing, but first it’s going to sting like hell"
— L▲uren H▲rrison (@Lozingers) January 28, 2012

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Episode 23: Revealing Frequency Foundation

22/01/201205/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig and Tony listen to Renee’s revelations about the Frequency Foundation, and they talk about some Agile stuff too.

The Scrum Master Manifesto and Craig’s InfoQ article on it
Agile practice and work life balance
The 10 most annoying management terms of 2011
A quick introduction to Stoos (more on the next show)
Frequency Foundation’s Blog and the
Photo Analysis PDF (for
more details refer to Renee’s blog at http://agileforest.com).

Please note the 2007 reference to the start of the organisation is incorrect. The actual date was in April 2002.

Quotes:

My message to c-level group tomorrow: real agility's best measured by products produced, purchased and providing real value to real users.
— David Hussman (@davidhussman) January 9, 2012

If the Rapture doesn't happen today don't leap to the rational conclusion that its all made up illogical bullshit.
Just pick another date.
— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) December…

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Episode 22: New Years Revolutions

12/01/201205/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig, Tony and Renee get together before the Christmas and New Years break to catch up on all things Agile:

Punctuated Equilibriums, Containers, and all things complexity and where Kanban fits in by Yuval Yeret
Warm Gun: Design for Continuous Deployment by Luke Wroblewski
Where is the proof that Agile works? by Scott Ambler
Is the Agile community still ‘uncovering better ways of developing software’ or just debating on whether to implement Scrum or Kanban by Jordan Bortz
Thinker’s 50 list and Forbes post The Industrial Age has finally run out of gas: An interview with Don Tapscott

Quotes:

In TDD, the tests that you automate are not executable specs. They are executable questions based on assumptions. #agile #testing
— Paul Carvalho (@can_agile) December 11, 2011

I bought a set of Zen flashcards. They were all blank.
— Kent Beck (@KentBeck) December 2, 2011

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Episode 21: YOW Developer Conference Wrap Up

07/01/201205/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig and Renee wrap up the YOW! Developer Conference and discuss the geek aspects of it and then how some of the conference related to Agile.

Simon Peyton Jones and his keynote on Haskell
Damian Conway had a talk on Perl (sorry no link to the presso)
Mary Poppendieck and her talk on Continuous Design
Mike Lee and his talk on Product Engineering and a link to his Appsterdam
Linda Rising and her talk on Problem Solving and Decision Making
and we also cover a bit more on Nigel Dalton and Joshua Kerievsky’s presentations

As a side note we plugged two other podcasts, Coding By Numbers, who were also at YOW and did a little bit more of a developer focus on the conference, and a plug for Agile NYC.

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Episode 20: Lean Start-ups with Joshua Kerievsky

23/12/201105/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Joshua Kerievsky, founder of Industrial Logic spends time with Craig and Renee going through some of his elements of his Lean Start-up presentation at the YOW! Developer Conference in Brisbane.

Within this podcast we learn what exactly a Lean Start-up is and how it isn’t just for new entrepreneurs.

In addition to the Lean Start-up presentation Josh also did a fantastic presentation on the Limited Red Society which focuses on using metrics and visualisation of these to behaviourally change a developer so that their tests pass sooner and more often with less compilation errors.

Other than being an early pioneer in eXtreme Programming, he is also the author of the best-selling Refactoring to Patterns book and provides Agile training from an amazing technical depth of experience.

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Episode 19: Luna Tractor with Nigel Dalton

13/12/201105/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Nigel Dalton from Luna Tractor in Melbourne gives us the low down of his presentation from the YOW! Developer Conference in Brisbane.

A brief summary of the discussions include

how Agile was at play in the aerospace and military world since World War II
business strategies and how Agile can help us rapidly adapt to commercial changes
Lonely Planet‘s agile journey including it not just being for software development
fail quickly, be safe to fail
for agile to grow further we need to focus less on commercialising or packaging it tightly into a box
culture and behavioural habits
consulting in Agile
developers working in harmony and a focus on strong collaboration with the business; and team sizes

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Episode 16: Motivated To Make Walls Fun

30/11/201105/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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With Tony on assignment on an island, Craig and Renee talk about motivation, Renee makes a ballsy prediction about fun and we talk about dead walls, tools for walls and everything in between:

Quotes:

Definition of Done should define minimum for checked-in code (beyond compilation): no dead code, commented-out code or TO DOs (done, right?)
— Kevlin Henney (@KevlinHenney) October 30, 2011

@kaleidic @KentBeck taught us: "A comment is the code's way of asking to be made more clear."
— Ron Jeffries (@RonJeffries) May 22, 2012

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Episode 18: Scrum vs Kanban War

28/11/201105/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Breaking out from our normal format Craig, Tony and Renee talk about the recent flurry of tweets from the Scrum and Kanban communities.

It all started with Jeff Sutherland and his tweet and blog cross reference: Deep analysis of #kanban by Jim Coplien

The twitter feed that was captured by us (and hence is not a comprehensive feed on the subject and contains some leetspeak cleanup) includes:

David Anderson (@agilemanager):

Interesting FUD Jeff, I thought you were more professional than this?

Jim’s post on Jeff’s blog contains lies which fly in the face of the well documented evidence with teams around the world

Jeff and Jim, I challenge you to produce the evidence to backup claims like…

“Kanban (the methodology) discourages teamwork and increases the risk of not completing agreed work”

I often wonder how people without integrity go through life and live…

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Episode 17: Bad Smell Bingo

15/11/201105/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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With Tony MIA, Craig and Renee talk about bad smells, geek stuff and daily retrospectives:

Bad Smell Bingo for stand-ups:

Starts late
Not everyone turns up
Not enough of a quorum
Not standing up
Running over 10 minutes (too long)
No focus on roadblocks
Not touching cards
No understanding/association to a story
Talks too long (particular individual)
Not focussing on the three questions (What I did yesterday, What I plan on doing today and roadblocks)
No consistency in the way it is run
Too big
Directed to PM
Directed to IM/Scrum Master
Conversations are not off-lined
Conversations are off-lined too quickly
Risks to delivery not understood
No one volunteers to help
Too short/not meaniful enough
Too boring/monotonous
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Craig Smith

Australian Agile Coach & IT Professional

Renee Troughton

Episode 25: Cultural transformations with Agile

Episode 24: Ghost In The Room

Episode 23: Revealing Frequency Foundation

Episode 22: New Years Revolutions

Episode 21: YOW Developer Conference Wrap Up

Episode 20: Lean Start-ups with Joshua Kerievsky

Episode 19: Luna Tractor with Nigel Dalton

Episode 16: Motivated To Make Walls Fun

Episode 18: Scrum vs Kanban War

Episode 17: Bad Smell Bingo

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