Discussions include Agile, Alan’s new job, developer testing, and we go to the mail bag (maaaiilll baaaaaag) for a quick discussion of Tension Metrics.

A trip report from STAR Canada; some discussion of whether or not test is dead (or if being dead is dead), and a trip into the mailbag to talk about monolithic test systems. And Alan fixed the bug that was hiding the media bar on the blog site.

It’s Alan’s 20-year anniversary at Microsoft…and he has a new job. We also talk preview Alan’s talk on A/B (with the slash) testing at Better Software, and attempt to get through some mailbag items without getting too distracted (we failed).

In this episode: Iterative is not Agile, Brent’s version of the penny game, and a short discussion of AB Testing vanity metrics. …and probably other stuff too.

Rants and soapboxes are back. This episode also includes a discussion of central organizations, why they fail, and how they can work. And other fun stuff too.

It’s our twentieth podcast, AND – it’s our one year anniversary show. We talk about logical fallacies, generalists, and a whole lot of other random topics.

In this episode, Alan and Brent talk about dashboards, scorecards, buzzwords, soapboxes, and Alan’s appearance on another podcast. Also included is yet another installment of silly things people do at work to incur the wrath of Alan.

Brent has a new job! We talk about what Brent does, discuss interviews, and what test specialists actually (may?) do. And other stuff. Here’s the link for the Data Science in the Cloud e-book mentioned in the podcast.

Eventually….Brent and Alan discuss their thoughts on the future of the Program Manager role at Microsoft. The journey there, as always, is interesting and perhaps even entertaining.

We’re back for our first episode of 2015…where we talk about almost nothing, but do manage to discuss management styles, holocracy, and what we did with our holiday break.