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Episode 77: If you’re implementing pagination, you’re not doing agile.


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Is agile software development bullshit? This is what we discuss, along with a short tale of the best uber driver ever.

Show Notes
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 France
  • Osprey “one bag” style backpack.
  • The Best Uber Driver Ever
    • Hands on a Hard Body guy, Ronald McCowan.
    • The Sweat Hotel
    • Coté’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/culture
      • How 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 interruptions
      • The Product Manager's Lament.
      • If you’re implementing pagination, you’re not doing agile
      • The 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 Barcelona
          • 35% 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,
          • ...more
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