This Agile Life

By John Sextro

A podcast devoted to agile and lean software development.... more

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The podcast currently has 165 episodes available.

This Agile Life episodes:

September 26, 2019Episode 147: Minimum Viable Airlines
Items necessary for "Minimum Viable Airlines" and your "Minimum Viable Project". These are the items that we agreed we would need before embarking on a project together. Do you have all of these before you begin a project?
Destination - Project Vision
Altitude - Depth of backlog
Location - Progress (working software)
Airspeed - Speed of delivery and speed constraints
Fuel - Stories
Captain or pilot - A leader
Black box - Project data or metrics
Landing gear - A clear and well worn path to prod
Good flight procedures - Working agreements
FAA flight time restrictions for pilots - Sustainable pace
Logbook - Source control
Emergency slide - Good enough or a safe way to end a project on short notice
Picks
Jason
Podcasting Innovation - it’s amazing how much has changed in the last 7+ years, thanks to all the people & companies that have created
Goats to Go - www.goatsonthego.com - you can poop out the back of the airplane
The Red Rubber Ball at Work - by Kevin Carroll - a fun book on practical strategies and why you should inject more fun into the workplace - http://kevincarrollkatalyst.com/books
TV shows you can watch that Jason likes:
Why Planes Crash
Airline Repo
John
Uncle Bob, professionalism in software development and the future of programming, https://youtu.be/LmRl0D-RkPU
Craig
Waverunners
Vacation from your vacation
China Airlines Flight 006, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Airlines_Flight_006
Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accidents_and_incidents
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59min
September 19, 2019Episode 146: The Developer Experience Manifesto
Join the guys as they, on the fly, create the Developer Experience Manifesto
Picks
Jason
Book - “Exactly What to Say: The Magic Words of Influence & Impact” by Phil Jones - great insights and straights on how many of the simple things we say (including on this podcast) impact how people perceive and respond to what we say as agilists - https://www.philmjones.com/exactly/
Product (for virtual teams) Sococo - Provides a virtual office with different spaces for team collaboration, pairing, or solo work - creates the experience where people working virtually can drop in - www.sococo.com
Live Event - Agile Midwest 2019 - Come hang out in the “Agile Lounge” to discuss advanced agile topics or attend any of the other 40+ sessions on the program - www.agilemidwest.org
John
Three Amigos, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092086/
WWT Software Development podcast episode on the Virtual Office, https://wwtapps.podbean.com/e/virtual-office-1563125261/
John's relatively new podcast, Dalio's Principles: A Philosophical Examination, https://daliosprinciples.fireside.fm/
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1h 3min
September 05, 2019Episode 145: Chaotic and Confusing
Scaled Agile and the similarities between hair styling and agilist.
The Picks
Craig
New version of git, introducing git switch and git restore:
https://github.blog/2019-08-16-highlights-from-git-2-23/
Lee
Pros and Cons of Scaled Agile
https://www.qasymphony.com/blog/pros-cons-scaled-agile-framework-safe/
Amos
Rocketbook Beacons
https://getrocketbook.com/pages/beacons-how-it-works
John
https://daliosprinciples.fireside.fm/ My new podcast Dalio’s Principles: A Philosophical Examination
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51min
July 18, 2019Episode 144: Inconsistent at Best
In this thrilling episode of This Agile Life, Jason asks for advice from Craig, Amos and Lee on what kind of metrics development teams can provide so there is some level of predictability as to new when features will be available to users or potential customers.
Craig
I Estimate this Talk will be 20 Minutes Long, Give or Take 10 Minutes by Noel Rappin, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBMwT53oGsM
Concolic testing, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concolic_testing
* Concolic = concrete + symbolic
Lee
#NoEstimates Project Planning Using Monte Carlo Simulation, https://www.infoq.com/articles/noestimates-monte-carlo/
ActionableAgile, https://actionableagile.com/
Amos
Agile and Beyond - Tom Churchwell, http://agileandbeyond.com
Code Craftsman Saturdays - Bob Allen, http://codecraftsmansaturdays.blogspot.com
Ford Agile Coaches - They are hiring agile craftsman who want to pair and do TDD email Fadi at [email protected]
Give and Take - Adam Grant, https://www.adamgrant.net/give-and-take
Jason
Book - Lynn Cazaly - Visual Mojo – Learn how drawing can be easy and fun & Agile 2019 keynote speaker - https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Mojo-Express-Lynne-Cazaly/dp/0987462911
Video - Brene Brown – Netflix Special: Call to Courage – Learn how shame and vulnerability impact you and your team and what you can do about it – https://www.netflix.com/title/81010166
Event - Agile Midwest Call For Papers Round Two (Sept 25/26 in St. Louis, MO) – Congrats to our first round selections but it’s not too late to submit your idea to share OR improve your submission if you weren’t selected – www.agilemidwest.org
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1h 1min
May 30, 2019Episode 143: Skinny Agile
Topics
Marriage Workshop
Skinny Agile
Commandments:
Working software, delivered in short intervals (weekly or more often)
Every story has to be deployed when it’s finished
Every story has to be valuable (to the stakeholders) and observable
Picks
Craig
Jessica Kerr’s talk about Opera at Agile: Deliver, https://www.agilealliance.org/resources/sessions/the-origins-of-opera-and-the-future-of-programming-jessica-kerr/
John
This is 40, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1758830/
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1h 1min
May 09, 2019Episode 142: Alone in the Ring
Jason and Amos in a steel cage match of death.
Picks
Tice
Live Event - Play For Agile NA - September 26 - 29, 2019 - Corwall, ON - Multi-Day Open Space conference focused on collaboration for high performing teams - theme this year is: Growing Empathy through Play - https://play4agilenorthamerica.com/
Elevation of Privilege - Card Game for Threat Modeling - Open Source thanks to Microsoft - Model Your Threats - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=20303
Amos
GigCity Elixir - October 17-19, Chattanooga, TN, https://www.gigcityelixir.com/
Property-Based Testing with PropEr, Erlang, and Elixir: Find Bugs Before Your Users Do by Fred Hebert, https://pragprog.com/book/fhproper/property-based-testing-with-proper-erlang-and-elixir
Behind Human Error by a bunch of people, https://www.amazon.com/Behind-Human-Error-David-Woods/dp/0754678342
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50min
May 02, 2019Episode 141: Letting People Be Vulnerable
What to do when team members don’t want to follow the established team rules? How to deal with your emotions getting the better of you?
How Craig prefers to work
Introverted, but likes to work with people
Thinking out loud
OK with taking criticism in public
Passive with ideas
The only thing you can control is how you act/react (Amos has been seeing this, but Tice brought it up)
Team-first development
Vulnerability stories
Five Dysfunctions of a Team
The Advantage
Lead or Go First
Tice’s advice on building trust
Share appreciation - more important than sharing constructive feedback (just appreciation & thank you)
Listen
Assume positive intent - assume that others are not out to get you
Share / Transparency
Picks
Tice
Agile Midwest 2019 - www.agilemidwest.org - Call for Awesome Sessions - now open - come share your ideas, help others learn, receive feedback and be part of the agile community.
Team exercise to learn how to work together better - Jason Lankow - https://medium.com/@jasonlankow/how-to-do-the-best-work-with-these-4-creative-types-5bf366a08f9c
Amos
Ballast Point - Grapefruit Sculpin IPA
http://www.thelittletyper.com/
Craig
Single-Site Browsers (SSBs)
Coherence Pro
Unite 2
Fluid
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46min
March 21, 2019Episode 140: Squad, Squad, Squad, Squad
How to tell how well your team is doing
Happiness
Productivity
Informed (communication)
Needed a break?
Learned/improved?
How many times did you feel pain?
Trust
Feeling important/useful
Self-organizing
Have you tried “all” the Agile practices?
Amos: team complains about chairs
https://labs.spotify.com/2014/09/16/squad-health-check-model/
Picks
John
Empathy Map exercise, https://www.solutionsiq.com/resource/blog-post/what-is-an-empathy-map/
Lee
Plickers - App for doing live anonymous polls, https://get.plickers.com/
Craig
TCR (test && commit || revert) - article by Kent Beck, https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/test-commit-revert-870bbd756864
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43min
February 21, 2019 Episode 138: Dirty Diapers
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41min
January 31, 2019Episode 137: Geological Separation
Picks
John
test && commit || revert with Kent Beck on https://hanselminutes.com/663/test-commit-revert-with-kent-beck
GTD, for $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Things-Done-Stress-Free-Productivity-ebook/dp/B00KWG9M2E
Amos
GullyTown Double Barrel Aged by Restless Spirits in Kansas City
A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout
Elixir Outlaws - https://elixiroutlaws.com
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49min

FAQs about This Agile Life:

How many episodes does This Agile Life have?

The podcast currently has 165 episodes available.