Kevin Donohue (Sr. Developer) and Gabriel Ortiz (Sr. Developer) from Alaska Airlines sit down with Agile Amped to talk about the joys of mob programming. Gabriel's team paved the way for the adoption of mob programming (also called "swarming") at Alaska Airlines after attending the On Agile virtual conference last year. One year into its implementation and the Alaska teams are still using mob programming. Benefits of mob programming include better product quality and quicker cross-pollination and knowledge sharing. In addition, "mobbing" enabled people not always invited in development, such QA, to participate in the process, learn, and also provide input. SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts. About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series engages with industry thought leaders at Agile events across the country to bring valuable content to subscribers anytime, anywhere. To receive real-time updates, subscribe at YouTube, iTunes or SolutionsIQ.com. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SIQYouTube, http://bit.ly/SIQiTunes, http://www.solutionsiq.com/agile-amped/ Follow: http://bit.ly/SIQTwitter Like: http://bit.ly/SIQFacebook

Refactoring is a big deal to Bryan Beecham. So much so that after looking at the role refactoring code plays in his life, he had an epiphany: "We are the code... If you're software what would you do [to improve yourself]... Are there parts of you that maybe you don't like... People think physically right away, but a lot of those aren't physical." Human refactoring (humanrefactor.wordpress.com) is about applying some technical practices to daily life. Befittingly Bryan is going "Inside Refactoring" in his AATC2016 presentation. Bryan Beecham is an international speaker, coach, trainer, and agile consultant. His passion is to help improve companies, teams and individuals through continuous improvement and increasing awareness. SolutionsIQ's Neville Poole hosts. About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series engages with industry thought leaders at Agile events across the country to bring valuable content to subscribers anytime, anywhere. To receive real-time updates, subscribe at YouTube, iTunes or SolutionsIQ.com. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SIQYouTube, http://bit.ly/SIQiTunes, http://www.solutionsiq.com/agile-amped/ Follow: http://bit.ly/SIQTwitter Like: http://bit.ly/SIQFacebook

Maaret Pyhäjärvi traveled from her native Finland to speak at the Agile Alliance Technical Conference 2016 about "Exploratory Testing in API". According to Maaret, much of what's keeping non-technical people from understanding development and testing is not having a GUI to interact with and explore. "I wanted to create an experience ... where we actually take some API, which looks like code and doesn't have a user interface" and create a GUI for individuals to do exploratory testing on. In this session she applies her 20 years of experience in testing and, more recently, mob testing to enable non-developers to participate in exploratory testing in a mob development environment.  Maaret Pyhäjärvi is a software specialist with emphasis on testing. She works with a 10-person software development team at Granlund Oy as the testing specialist. On the side, she delivers hands-on testing trainings and consults on testing through Altom Consulting Oy. SolutionsIQ's Neville Poole hosts. About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series engages with industry thought leaders at Agile events across the country to bring valuable content to subscribers anytime, anywhere. To receive real-time updates, subscribe at YouTube, iTunes or SolutionsIQ.com. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SIQYouTube, http://bit.ly/SIQiTunes, http://www.solutionsiq.com/agile-amped/ Follow: http://bit.ly/SIQTwitter Like: http://bit.ly/SIQFacebook

"Cheezy" Jeff Morgan and Ardita Karaj chat with Agile Amped about their AATC2016 session "Test Driven: Deliberate Collaboration", where the two will perform live automation test-drive development (ATDD) for all to see. One goal of their presentation is make visible the fact that much of what people consider collaboration is really hand-offs: the developer plugs away at the code in her corner then chucks it over to the tester, who's often afraid to even touch the code. In their session, Cheezy and Ardita want to demonstrate what real team collaboration looks like. Chief technology officer and a cofounder of LeanDog, Jeff “Cheezy” Morgan has been teaching classes and coaching teams on agile and lean techniques since early 2004.  Ardita Karaj is a passionate Agile coach, trainer, change agent and consultant in the Toronto area. Working at EPAM Systems, she brings more than 15 years of software development experience from different commercial and public organizations.  SolutionsIQ's Neville Poole hosts. About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series engages with industry thought leaders at Agile events across the country to bring valuable content to subscribers anytime, anywhere. To receive real-time updates, subscribe at YouTube, iTunes or SolutionsIQ.com. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SIQYouTube, http://bit.ly/SIQiTunes, http://www.solutionsiq.com/agile-amped/ Follow: http://bit.ly/SIQTwitter Like: http://bit.ly/SIQFacebook

Melissa Perri is passionate about creating products that users will really love and also creating great teams with sustainable processes and a clear understanding of the end user. Melissa wants to go "Beyond 'Pretty'" in her AATC2016 conference talk, where she aims to change how people think about UX design. People tend to think that design is "very nebulous and fluffy, it's just making things pretty, but it's actually a very systematic and scientific approach to getting people to use your products." Sometimes that means taking a step back and using a holistic approach to addressing user needs and concerns that can't easily be fixed piecemeal. Melissa Perri is a product manager, UX designer and speaker based in New York City. As CEO of ProdUX Labs, Melissa works on strategy and training for product management and UX teams around the world.  SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts. About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series engages with industry thought leaders at Agile events across the country to bring valuable content to subscribers anytime, anywhere. To receive real-time updates, subscribe at YouTube, iTunes or SolutionsIQ.com. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SIQYouTube, http://bit.ly/SIQiTunes, http://www.solutionsiq.com/agile-amped/ Follow: http://bit.ly/SIQTwitter Like: http://bit.ly/SIQFacebook

Arlo Belshee spends all of his time working in "legacy" organizations: "legacy code, legacy culture, legacy team practices".   In software, "legacy" generally means "full of bugs". But Arlo has an interesting concept: what if creating buggy code, we didn't. Arlo's topic at the Agile Alliance Technical Conference concerns eliminating bugs by not creating them in the first place, because, after all, bugs are optional and there are ways to develop without creating this. Arlo has lots of passion around this and has even created a new initiative with a nifty hashtag: #BugZero. Similar to the concept of "inbox zero" (zeroing out your email inbox to improve your efficacy), bug zero means "get the bugs out of your code and keep it that way." SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts. About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series engages with industry thought leaders at Agile events across the country to bring valuable content to subscribers anytime, anywhere. To receive real-time updates, subscribe at YouTube, iTunes or SolutionsIQ.com. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SIQYouTube, http://bit.ly/SIQiTunes, http://www.solutionsiq.com/agile-amped/ Follow: http://bit.ly/SIQTwitter Like: http://bit.ly/SIQFacebook

After talking with Agile tester extraordinaire Lisa Crispin about test automation code, George Dinwiddie noticed that "the example test codes online are really tiny... They teach people enough to understand the test framework, but... over time they have a hard time putting the tests into practice." The problem is that as the code becomes larger and more complex, it's harder to maintain it long term. In his AATC2016 session, "The Evolutionary Anatomy of Test Automation Code", George will share some patterns he's noticed for making tests maintainable long term as the system gets larger and more complex as well as ideas about how to organize test codes. The trick, according to George, is to start thinking about the organization early, before the code is large and complex, so that when that does happen, you're better prepared. George Dinwiddie helps organizations develop software more effectively. He brings thirty-five years of development experience from electronic hardware and embedded firmware to business information technology.  SolutionsIQ's Neville Poole hosts. About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series engages with industry thought leaders at Agile events across the country to bring valuable content to subscribers anytime, anywhere. To receive real-time updates, subscribe at YouTube, iTunes or SolutionsIQ.com. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SIQYouTube, http://bit.ly/SIQiTunes, http://www.solutionsiq.com/agile-amped/ Follow: http://bit.ly/SIQTwitter Like: http://bit.ly/SIQFacebook

James Lewis visits with Agile Amped at the first ever Agile Alliance Technical Conference to discuss microservices and Conway's Law. James is a self-described "coding architect" with Thoughtworks out of London, where he often leads teams and helps them build better software. Conway's Law, according to James, essentially says that how your teams look is how your software will end up looking. Says James, "If you have loosely coupled teams, then you have loosely coupled software. If you have tightly coupled teams, then you'll have tightly coupled software." A modular approach to building software, however would enable you to change software more easily and quickly without having to throw the whole thing out when you need to fix it. Together, these are the topics of James' session at AATC2016: "Microservices and Conway's Law". SolutionsIQ's Neville Poole hosts. About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series engages with industry thought leaders at Agile events across the country to bring valuable content to subscribers anytime, anywhere. To receive real-time updates, subscribe at YouTube, iTunes or SolutionsIQ.com. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SIQYouTube, http://bit.ly/SIQiTunes, http://www.solutionsiq.com/agile-amped/ Follow: http://bit.ly/SIQTwitter Like: http://bit.ly/SIQFacebook

James Lewis visits with Agile Amped at the first ever Agile Alliance Technical Conference to discuss microservices and Conway's Law. James is a self-described "coding architect" with Thoughtworks out of London, where he often leads teams and helps them build better software. Conway's Law, according to James, essentially says that how your teams look is how your software will end up looking. Says James, "If you have loosely coupled teams, then you have loosely coupled software. If you have tightly coupled teams, then you'll have tightly coupled software." A modular approach to building software, however would enable you to change software more easily and quickly without having to throw the whole thing out when you need to fix it. Together, these are the topics of James' session at AATC2016: "Microservices and Conway's Law".

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Agile tester JoEllen Carter sits down with Agile Amped at Mile High Agile 2016 to chat about using "Testing to Build the Right Thing", the topic and title of the hands-on session she presented with Lisa Crispin. After enjoying their experience diving into story mapping, the duo decided to share it with a wider audience. Though testers aren't always invited to story mapping sessions traditionally, JoEllen points out that testers can help determine where weaknesses in a story are before it gets build into the product. JoEllen Carter has more than ten years of experience defining the role of tester on agile teams. Her experience in software development and testing began in the highly regulated and QA-intensive nuclear power industry, and now includes direct marketing donor management software, staffing software, e-commerce systems, and project management software. SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett hosts. About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series engages with industry thought leaders at Agile events across the country to bring valuable content to subscribers anytime, anywhere. To receive real-time updates, subscribe at YouTube, iTunes or SolutionsIQ.com. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SIQYouTube, http://bit.ly/SIQiTunes, http://www.solutionsiq.com/agile-amped/ Follow: http://bit.ly/SIQTwitter Like: http://bit.ly/SIQFacebook