SPaMCAST 514 features our interview with John Clapham. John and I talked DevOps, people, agile, and how all those pieces fit together coherently or not. John even quoted Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. This is a big, fun, informative interview! John Clapham is an experienced coach, trainer, and consultant, specializing in DevOps and Agile.  He helps teams to build great products, creating environments and systems which are effective, productive and enjoyable to work in. Often this means introducing Scrum, or developing a deeper understanding of the method and it's principles.  John draws on broad experience as an engineer and lead, he has built web and enterprise applications in government, publishing, telecommunications, commerce, defense, and public sector arenas. Twitter:   Web:   Re-Read Saturday News This week we tackle Chapter 9 of .  The Save is the final chapter in the book.  Next week we will discuss our final thoughts and decide on the next book.  In chapter 9 Atul Gawande talks about his experiences with the surgical checklist he helped to create.  The last chapter is a combination of emotion and evidence. Remember to buy a copy of and READ along! Current Installment: Week 10 - - Previous Installments: Week 9 - - - - - - - - -   Conferences and More! Agile Online Summit 2018 Virtual October 8 – 12 Speaking on Agile Metrics! ISMA 16 Sao Paulo, Brazil October 16 Register Now;  Presentation: Product Owners In Agile – The Really Hard Role ITMPI Webinar Virtual October 31 Register Now:  Webinar:  Agile, Where Agile Fears to Tread   Next SPaMCAST SPaMCAST 515 will feature an essay on transformation and agile metrics. Whether you like the word transformation or not, many in the process improvement and agile communities help to facilitate change. Involvement in any non-trivial change effort requires resources, people, support and the expenditure of political capital. We will also hear from Kim Pries and Gene Hughson.