Diana Larsen, co-author of “Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great” visited St. Louis and held an opening gathering at a local agile meetup group.  Some of our regular hosts from ThisAgileLife attended this event and took note of the following questions to discuss on a podcast episode to pass along some of the insights Diana shared and also to perhaps add a few of their own.

Episode 105: Elevator Retrospective

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Items necessary for "Minimum Viable Airlines" and your "Minimum Viable Project". These are the items that we agreed we would need before embarking on a project together. Do you have all of these before you begin a project?


Destination - Project Vision
Altitude - Depth of backlog
Location - Progress (working software)
Airspeed - Speed of delivery and speed constraints
Fuel - Stories
Captain or pilot - A leader
Black box - Project data or metrics
Landing gear - A clear and well worn path to prod
Good flight procedures - Working agreements
FAA flight time restrictions for pilots - Sustainable pace
Logbook - Source control
Emergency slide - Good enough or a safe way to end a project on short notice


Picks

Jason


Podcasting Innovation - it’s amazing how much has changed in the last 7+ years, thanks to all the people & companies that have created 
Goats to Go - www.goatsonthego.com - you can poop out the back of the airplane
The Red Rubber Ball at Work - by Kevin Carroll - a fun book on practical strategies and why you should inject more fun into the workplace - http://kevincarrollkatalyst.com/books
TV shows you can watch that Jason likes:
Why Planes Crash
Airline Repo


John


Uncle Bob, professionalism in software development and the future of programming, https://youtu.be/LmRl0D-RkPU


Craig


Waverunners
Vacation from your vacation
China Airlines Flight 006, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Airlines_Flight_006
Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accidents_and_incidents


Episode 147: Minimum Viable Airlines

Join the guys as they, on the fly, create the Developer Experience Manifesto

Picks

Jason


Book - “Exactly What to Say: The Magic Words of Influence & Impact” by Phil Jones - great insights and straights on how many of the simple things we say (including on this podcast) impact how people perceive and respond to what we say as agilists - https://www.philmjones.com/exactly/
Product (for virtual teams) Sococo - Provides a virtual office with different spaces for team collaboration, pairing, or solo work - creates the experience where people working virtually can drop in - www.sococo.com
Live Event - Agile Midwest 2019 - Come hang out in the “Agile Lounge” to discuss advanced agile topics or attend any of the other 40+ sessions on the program - www.agilemidwest.org 


John


Three Amigos, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092086/
WWT Software Development podcast episode on the Virtual Office, https://wwtapps.podbean.com/e/virtual-office-1563125261/
John's relatively new podcast, Dalio's Principles: A Philosophical Examination, https://daliosprinciples.fireside.fm/


Episode 146: The Developer Experience Manifesto

Scaled Agile and the similarities between hair styling and agilist.

The Picks

Craig


New version of git, introducing git switch and git restore:


https://github.blog/2019-08-16-highlights-from-git-2-23/



Lee


Pros and Cons of Scaled Agile


https://www.qasymphony.com/blog/pros-cons-scaled-agile-framework-safe/



Amos


Rocketbook Beacons


https://getrocketbook.com/pages/beacons-how-it-works



John


https://daliosprinciples.fireside.fm/ My new podcast Dalio’s Principles: A Philosophical Examination


Episode 145: Chaotic and Confusing

In this thrilling episode of This Agile Life, Jason asks for advice from Craig, Amos and Lee on what kind of metrics development teams can provide so there is some level of predictability as to new when features will be available to users or potential customers.

Craig


I Estimate this Talk will be 20 Minutes Long, Give or Take 10 Minutes by Noel Rappin, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBMwT53oGsM
Concolic testing, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concolic_testing
* Concolic = concrete + symbolic


Lee


#NoEstimates Project Planning Using Monte Carlo Simulation, https://www.infoq.com/articles/noestimates-monte-carlo/
ActionableAgile, https://actionableagile.com/


Amos


Agile and Beyond - Tom Churchwell, http://agileandbeyond.com
Code Craftsman Saturdays - Bob Allen, http://codecraftsmansaturdays.blogspot.com
Ford Agile Coaches - They are hiring agile craftsman who want to pair and do TDD email Fadi at fkhoury@ford.com
Give and Take - Adam Grant, https://www.adamgrant.net/give-and-take


Jason


Book - Lynn Cazaly - Visual Mojo – Learn how drawing can be easy and fun & Agile 2019 keynote speaker - https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Mojo-Express-Lynne-Cazaly/dp/0987462911
Video - Brene Brown – Netflix Special: Call to Courage – Learn how shame and vulnerability impact you and your team and what you can do about it – https://www.netflix.com/title/81010166
Event - Agile Midwest Call For Papers Round Two (Sept 25/26 in St. Louis, MO) – Congrats to our first round selections but it’s not too late to submit your idea to share OR improve your submission if you weren’t selected – www.agilemidwest.org 


Episode 144: Inconsistent at Best

Topics


Marriage Workshop
Skinny Agile


Commandments:


Working software, delivered in short intervals (weekly or more often)
Every story has to be deployed when it’s finished
Every story has to be valuable (to the stakeholders) and observable




Picks

Craig


Jessica Kerr’s talk about Opera at Agile: Deliver, https://www.agilealliance.org/resources/sessions/the-origins-of-opera-and-the-future-of-programming-jessica-kerr/


John


This is 40, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1758830/


Episode 105: Elevator Retrospective

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