Is agile software development bullshit? This is what we discuss, along with a short tale of the best uber driver ever.
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Follow-up
Moved to fireside.fm. So, now you can just go to http://SoftwareDefinedTalk.com. No more multi back-end management crap.Check out the last episode, the show page is- God-damned nifty!Review in iTunes FranceOsprey “one bag” style backpack.The Best Uber Driver Ever
Hands on a Hard Body guy, Ronald McCowan.The Sweat HotelCoté’s Agile shit
Excerpt from a PDF in process.IBM design people.We don’t know what we’re doing; celebrity diet books; agile people are squarely.It’s only cargo culting when the planes stop coming.UK GDS rant.Three types of projects; then the agile tools and tactics; then approach/cultureHow do I get developers to care about boring shit? ...or contain the blast radius of their boredom.Magic tactic: features are locked for two weeks, no interruptionsThe Product Manager's Lament.If you’re implementing pagination, you’re not doing agileThe big PDF on all this stuff that Coté is working on - leave some comments!The End-roll Mid-roll
Coté: Check out cote.io/promos for more - free books, free cloud time, etc.Coté: Nov 15th, everywhere - I'll be speaking early in the All Day DevOps virtual conference.Coté: Nov 16th, Cloud Native Roadshow in Omaha - couldn’t make it to Kansas City? Come on over to Omaha for the same! We just did the one in Kansas City this week and it was an excellent turn-out and session list.Coté: Various dates - Pivotal’s Cloud Native Roadshows.Matt: DevOps Days Australia 20% discount code - SDT2016.Matt’s at Melbourne Infracoders “Compliance as Code”. BONUS LINKS! Not covered in episode.
OpenStack Anyone?
There’s a Summit going on in Barcelona35% annual growth sounds good
With friends like these…: “Ubuntu founder and product lead at Canonical Mark Shuttleworth says he feels validated by his earlier claims that the expansion of OpenStack projects – known as the ‘big tent’ approach - would collapse and that the community needs to focus on its core services.”Bullshit as a Service: “My rule of thumb is if you're not [creating] virtual networks, compute or disks, and you can't survive on AWS, you are never going to survive on OpenStack. That's the bullshit as a service story.”OTH,