The Agile Revolution

By The Agile Revolution

Join Craig, Tony and Renee on a journey through the world of Agile as they look at recent blogs related to Agile, investigate practices and techniques, look at tools and answer your questions. The rev... more

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October 27, 2018Episode 145: Working Effectively with (Legacy) Code with Michael Feathers
Craig is in Atlanta at Agile 2016 and catches up with Michael Feathers, author of “Working Effectively with Legacy Code” and they talk about the following:
Working Effectively with Legacy Code originally started as a book about Test First Programming but morphed into a book about the techniques for refactoring code in legacy systems
The Pinned Progress Curve – for many people there is no incentive to change so the mean gets larger between the status quo and good practices
Agile Alliance Deliver:Agile conference
Organisations that have technical founders have a very different character to their work internally, need to make knowledge of the quality of software more pervasive – the business need to understand more about the technical side, and the developers need to understand more about the business
Code that has excessive error handling typically has other design problems – benefit in thinking about whether certain things should be treated as errors or not
Entropy happens in all systems, including code, so technical debt is not a surprise, need to make the case for hygiene, putting a dollar amount on technical debt does not add much value
Use low impact probing to determine whether code is dead
Potsel’s Law – an implementation should be conservative in its sending behaviour, and liberal in its receiving behaviour
State of quality is improving and there is more recognition to build quality in
Property based testing is becoming more prevalent as we move from object oriented to functional languages
Holacracy was designed by a software person, Sociocracy talks about applying democratic principles to governance, these are all interesting experiments
It can be hard to recognise if something is intrinsically difficult or not something you are familiar with
We weren’t really battling waterfall, it was the lack of any process at all…
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September 22, 2018Episode 144: Mob Programming & #noestimates with Woody Zuill
Craig is at Agile 2016 in Atlanta and catches up with his old friend Woody Zuill to talk about Mob Programming and #noestimates
Craig’s InfoQ interview with Woody Zuill
We need to work well together to get our work done
Mob Programming originated at Hunter Industries, identified we can get a lot done if we don’t have to wait for answers to questions from other people and if we are all in the same context all the time
Mob Programming – all the people on the team working at the same time, working in the same space on the same thing and using a single computer and working interactively the entire day
Work well together and turn up the good, need to pay attention on how to work well together
“Extreme Programming Explained” by Kent Beck – “a great book”
The person with the idea expresses it out loud, somebody else enters it via the keyboard
Original Mob Programming at Hunter Industries video and the Updated Mob Programming at Hunter Industries video showing 6 teams working in 6 minutes
When you are getting results quicker with good quality, nobody can really question your way of working
How can people be productive when we separate the people who should be working together?
Mob Programming website
“Mob Programming: A Whole Team Approach” book with Kevin Meadows
#noestimates – we do estimates with little validation that they are useful to us, we should question the practices we do automatically, by default or not questioning, what is the purpose for the estimates and how well are they serving us
Need to look for work that is broken down enough to something of value that we can deliver to a customer
We need to experiment more rather than trudging through mud that is getting deeper, improve small things to get a big gain
Vasco Duarte article “Story Points Considered Harmful – Or why the future of estimation is really in our past…“
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September 22, 2018 Episode 144: Mob Programming & #noestimates with Woody Zuill
Craig is at Agile 2016 in Atlanta and catches up with his old friend Woody Zuill to talk about Mob Programming and #noestimates Craig’s InfoQ interview with Woody Zuill We need to work well together to get our work done Mob Programming originated at Hunter Industries, identified we can get a lot done if we … Continue reading →
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September 16, 2018Episode 143: One Last Jam with The “Dude” David Hussman
The Agile community recently lost its friend and one of its most inspirational members in David Hussman. Craig and Tony were privileged to speak to him in one of his last interviews at YOW! Conference in Brisbane.
David Hussman’s YOW! 2017 talk “Learning in Product: How Wrong are You Ready to Be?”
“Extreme Programming Explained” is Agile’s White Album, just don’t read it backwards!
We make stuff up in software too much, rather than learning from the past and patterns
You can’t look at code and tell it is going to be a good experience and we don’t know our ideas are going to be great until we interact with them
The tenth principle – simplicity is essential
A good developer needs confidence and war wounds, same for Product Managers – they have shipped something crappy and don’t want to do that again
Cardboard User Story Mapping app
The Shallot (The Onion’s little brother)
Craig’s InfoQ interview with David Hussman
Dude’s Law – Value = Why / How, when how equals zero you get infinite value
Nonban – the least amount of process with the most real and measurable value
First follow the product, then follow the process
Product Discovery – you need a discovery cadence and a delivery cadence, we need product engineers as much as software engineers
Alan Cooper “You listen to what people say, but you don’t necessarily do it”
There is not enough written about how products are delivered well across multiple teams
We need more clever visualisations in our tools
We don’t need more UX designers, we need more people with UX skills
Interactions cut across stories – interaction driven design
Chaos engineering – moving beyond resilience to intuition, feels like the early days of Agile, no judgement just people trying cool things
ProductAgility.org website
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September 16, 2018 Episode 143: One Last Jam with The “Dude” David Hussman
The Agile community recently lost its friend and one of its most inspirational members in David Hussman. Craig and Tony were privileged to speak to him in one of his last interviews at YOW! Conference in Brisbane. David Hussman’s YOW! 2017 talk “Learning in Product: How Wrong are You Ready to Be?” “Extreme Programming Explained” is … Continue reading →
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49min
September 01, 2018Episode 142: Agile and SSLM at cPrime with Zubin Irani
Craig sits down with Zubin Irani, the CEO of cPrime, at the Agile 2016 conference in Atlanta and chats about:
CPrime is the largest Atlassian implementer and platinum partner
Need to make sure that ALM products work with your process and support and enable it
One of the big gaps in the Coaching world is coaches are staying away from technology – we have to leverage technology
SSLM (Software Service Lifeycle Management) – Agile, DevOps and ALM initiatives are fragmented, they need to interact and have dependencies on each other
5 big trends – Agile beyond development, DevOps is taking centre stage, every company is a software company, digital transformation and the talent crunch
Agile Hardware – how do you build hardware in a more iterative way, how do we think about hardware and software being built together, how do we think about different about hardware design to support the software process (white paper)
The emergence of mobile is driving Agile adoption
Tools and process working together will solve problems
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June 23, 2018Episode 141: Agile Coaching with a Latin Touch with Martin Alaimo
Craig is sitting by the pool at the Agile 2016 conference and chats to Martin Alaimo who is an Agile Coach from Kleer in Buenos Aires and they discuss:
South America has a number of language, cultural, economic and business differences between Brazil and the Spanish speaking countries, Agile is starting to go mainstream across many of the countries, collaboration is difficult in countries that have a generation of social and dictatorial government
Craig’s talk “Coaching Nightmares: Lessons We Can Learn From Gordon Ramsay“
Coaching Canvas template – based off the Business Model Canvas to aid coaching conversations using sticky notes to help refocus and keep conversations on track
Martin’s workshop with Olaf Lewitz “Powerful Questions Workshop for Agile Coaches” (and how Craig is garbage at using them on the podcast)
His third book “Agile Team Facilitator” which is about the skill of facilitation for Scrum Masters and other leadership roles
Martin’s other two books “Agile Projects with Scrum” (Spanish only) and “#HighPerformance Teams” which is about a formula R = R (quality of result is proportional with the quality of relationships)
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June 23, 2018 Episode 141: Agile Coaching with a Latin Touch with Martin Alaimo
Craig is sitting by the pool at the Agile 2016 conference and chats to Martin Alaimo who is an Agile Coach from Kleer in Buenos Aires and they discuss: South America has a number of language, cultural, economic and business differences between Brazil and the Spanish speaking countries, Agile is starting to go mainstream across many … Continue reading →
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December 27, 2017Episode 140: Spinning the AgilityHealth Radar with Sally Elatta
Craig sits down with Sally Elatta, Founder and President of Agile Transformation and AgilityHealth at the Agile 2016 Conference in Atlanta and they talk about:
First things first, the AgilityHealth discs are not a frisbee!
The AgilityHealth vision is to help Agile teams have a consistent way to measure their health and performance and see the results in a visual way and secondly for leadership to understand the cause and effect – the radar opens up a conversation
AgilityHealth radars
The team radar has five dimensions – leadership, performance, clarify, foundation and culture – a healthy team should have these
It is not a survey tool, it is a facilitated retrospective to promote healthy conversation and create an action plan
We should be doing tactical retrospectives every sprint, but the missing component is strategic retrospectives once every quarter
Business agility relies on having healthy teams
Many other radars including Lean Product Health, Technical Health, Scaled Agile Release Train Health and Portfolio Health and Business Agility as well as individual radars for Agile Coach Health, Scrum Master Health and Product Owner Health
Larry Maccherone and the SDPI
“If you ever use data to punish a team, you will never see the truth again”
Craig’s Quality video on the AgilityHealth growth portal
AgilityHealth certifications
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December 27, 2017 Episode 140: Spinning the AgilityHealth Radar with Sally Elatta
Craig sits down with Sally Elatta, Founder and President of Agile Transformation and AgilityHealth at the Agile 2016 Conference in Atlanta and they talk about: First things first, the AgilityHealth discs are not a frisbee! The AgilityHealth vision is to help Agile teams have a consistent way to measure their health and performance and see … Continue reading →
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20min

FAQs about The Agile Revolution:

How many episodes does The Agile Revolution have?

The podcast currently has 259 episodes available.