Episode 187: Domain Driven Yak Symmathesy with Jessica Kerr

28/12/202028/12/2020 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Tony and Craig are at YOW! Conference in Brisbane and chat to Jessica Kerr, software developer, consultant and symmathecist (look it up or listen to the podcast) and apart from our first live podcast sneeze they talk about:

YOW! 2018 keynote “The Origins of Opera and the Future of Programming“
YOW! 2018 talk “Shaving the Golden Yak“
Great teams make great people – if you want to become great as a developer, focus on the team
You can’t document what is obvious to you – whenever you say the word obviously, replace it with “I cant explain it, but…”
Yak shaving – all the tasks that you do that get in the way of your work
If you are an agile person but you wish agile had more code in it – go to the Domain Driven Design community
We need to embrace complexity…

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Episode 186: Managing the Unmanageable with Ron Lichty

13/07/202013/07/2020 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig fires some questions at Ron Lichty, co-author of “Managing the Unmanageable” and the “Study of Product Team Performance“:

Author of machine Language programming books “Programming the Apple IIGS in Assembly Language” and “Programming the 65816“
Managing the Finder team at Apple – hired for stellar C++ coding ability and customer empathy
Software development is a team sport – including QA, a dedicated product manager / product owner and designers
After Dark and Flying Toasters at Berkeley Systems
“Managing the Unmnageable” is 9 chapters and around 300 rules of thumb and nuggets of wisdom (the creamy centre), the tools used to manage software development teams plus the authors own insights
There were very few books (7 at the time) on managing software developers (unlike project management and agile)
Fred Brooks – “The Mythical Man-Month“
Situational Leadership – opens your…

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Episode 180: Extreme Programming & 3X Explained with Kent Beck

20/02/202020/02/2020 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig and Tony are at YOW! Conference in Brisbane and have a rockstar moment and catchup with Kent Beck, the creator of Extreme Programming, the pioneer of xUnit and author of numerous books including “Extreme Programming Explained” and “Test Driven Development“:

Extreme Programming (XP) was born at Chrysler by letting go of conventional wisdom and pushing practices to eleven
Software development is a social process, not a sum of individuals process
Nobody cares about certificates, we care about competence
It’s time for a renaissance and reboot of XP – this time it needs to be inclusive and no barriers to entry
We know how to make a difference – it starts with execution and continues to empathy
Big tent agility can become an excuse not to tackle hard problems
“Not thinking about all the legs on the stool leaves you sitting on the ground”…

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Episode 171 – Beyond Legacy Code with David Bernstein

07/10/201907/10/2019 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig is at Agile 2017 in Orlando, Florida and speaks with David Bernstein, author of “Beyond Legacy Code“, and they chat about agile technical practices:

Agile does have something to with software development
Agile 2017 talk “Create Software Quality
The real value of Agile is in the technical practices so we can build iteratively, but still very few people practice them
The future is already here, but it is not very well evenly distributed – the same applies to Agile
Companies are being consumed by their technical debt and they don’t even recognise it
What is always cheaper in the virtual domain is building quality
Continuous Integration makes the most painful thing in software development (integration) our greatest asset – this in turn gives us feedback
We don’t necessarily know there is a better way to do things – but there is a better way to…

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Episode 161: State of Agile in Singapore with Stanly Lau

07/05/201907/05/2019 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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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

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Episode 151: Software Craftsmanship with “Uncle Bob” Martin

27/12/201827/12/2018 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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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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The Themes Behind AATC2017

07/01/201707/01/2017 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Learn about the Agile Alliance Technical Conference 2017 themes we used to organize our speaker search for the event in Boston, April 19-21, 2017: Core Technical Practices, Team Technical Practices, and Technical Practices at the Organizational Level.

Source: The Themes Behind AATC2017

Andrew Prentice and Jo Cranford on Testing and Development at Atlassian

26/09/201323/08/2026 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Andrew Prentice and Jo Cranford talk about testing and development approaches at Atlassian, in particular the role of Quality Assistance and approaches to effectively testing JavaScript.

Declan Whelan on Agile Coaching, Lean Startups and the Agile Alliance

03/01/201329/08/2026 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Declan Whelan discusses Agile Coaching and the lessons learnt returning to coding as part of a new lean startup as well Agile Coach Camp, pair coaching and his role on the Agile Alliance board.

Source: Declan Whelan on Agile Coaching, Lean Startups and the Agile Alliance

Lessons From A DevOps Journey

27/06/201230/08/2026 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

Matt Callanan has been pushing the boundaries of Agile software development and most recently he extended that journey to DevOps. InfoQ caught up with Matt to find out more about his experiences.

Source: Lessons From A DevOps Journey