Episode 122 is a summary of our Prestigious Pints series where we catch up with some of our agile inspirations, and this time Geoff and Paul grab a drink with agile testing legend Lisa Crispin.

We chatted about agile testing as a mindset and the challenges it faces in the coming years. We also get to know a little more about Lisa herself and who she feels about being known as "the agile testing lady".

Other topics and questions included:

• Do you need to be technical to be a tester?
• How do you increase the appetite for agile testing in an organisation?
• What makes agile testing hard?
• What is the biggest misunderstanding about agile testing?

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In episode 9 of our Prestigious Pints series we catch up with some of our agile inspirations, Geoff and Paul grab a drink with agile testing legend Lisa Crispin.  

We chatted about agile testing as a mindset and the challenges it faces in the coming years. We also get to know a little more about Lisa herself and who she feels about being known as "the agile testing lady". 

Other topics and questions include:  

• Do you need to be technical to be a tester? 
• How do you increase the appetite for agile testing in an organisation? 
• What makes agile testing hard? 
• What is the biggest misunderstanding about agile testing?  

We hope you enjoy this special episode exclusively for our full pint patrons, and stay tuned for more prestigious pints coming soon!!

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We are back!! As we reach the fag-end of the British summer we managed to grab a face to face drink outside a cidery (hence the periodic burst of wind across the microphones) on the outskirts of Cheltenham where we talked about the prospect of getting back to face to face and the mixture of excitement and nerves which led on to Geoff's various degrees of anxiety when training, speaking and coaching live and online.

Somehow this meandered into a discussion about how conferences are - by design - out of date, then finding our purpose and identifying and then internalising and celebrating the value that we add.

We have also uploaded the image below from social media that Geoff mentions towards the end of this episode...

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We are back!! As we reach the fag-end of the British summer we managed to grab a face to face drink outside a cidery (hence the periodic burst of wind across the microphones) on the outskirts of Cheltenham where we talked about the prospect of getting back to face to face and the mixture of excitement and nerves which led on to Geoff's various degrees of anxiety when training, speaking and coaching live and online.

Somehow this meandered into a discussion about how conferences are - by design - out of date, then finding our purpose and identifying and then internalising and celebrating the value that we add.

We have also uploaded the image below from social media that Geoff mentions towards the end of this episode...

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Geoff and Paul catch up with author of Scrum and XP From The Trenches and "accidental co-creator" of the Spotify Method Henrik Kniberg.

We chat about how he got started in agile back in the 1990s, how he came to work with some of the bets companies in the world and how he sees agile has changed over the last 20 years as well as what his philosophy on life is.

Plus he gives a little sneak preview from behind the scenes at Minecraft HQ.

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