Software Process and Measurement Cast

Thomas M. Cagley Jr
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Aug 12, 2018 • 39min

SPaMCAST 507 - Consensus Decision Making, Agile Myths, Bad Decisions, Essays and Discussions

SPaMCAST 507 opens with our essay on consensus decision making. Consensus decision-making techniques are used by almost every team. The process of getting to a decision or solution that the whole team can at least live will make sure that everyone on the team has a seat at the table and that team builds both majority and minority views into the deliberation process. Want to read about consensus decision making? 6 Step Framework for Consensus Decision Making - https://bit.ly/2OZj5kF Consensus Decision-Making Revisited - https://bit.ly/2B2uJrT Life Cycle of Consensus Decision Making - https://bit.ly/2B3bgri Consensus Decision Making Forever – Sometimes - https://bit.ly/2OY21vk In our second column, Susan Parente brings her I Am Not a Scrumdamentalist column to the podcast. In this installment, Susan talks about the myths of agile and how falling into the traps that the myths create affect the delivery of value. Jeremy Berriault (QA Corner) anchors the cast this week with a discussion of what happens when you make bad decisions. Re-Read Saturday News It is week 3 of our re-read of The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande (use the link and buy a copy so you can read along). Chapter 2 continues building the case for checklists to deal with complex and complicated environments. This chapter firmly pins down the idea that checklists save time, money and lives. Current Installment: Week 3 – The Checklist - https://bit.ly/2KMhVFR Previous Installments: Week 2 – The Problem With Extreme Complexity - https://bit.ly/2AGZQZX Week 1 - Approach and Introduction - https://bit.ly/2LYi9Lv Next SPaMCAST SPaMCAST 508 features the return of Vasco Duarte! Vasco and I discussed vision and product owners. The product owner role is crucial and to be effective the product owner must be able to articulate a vision for the product they champion.
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Aug 5, 2018 • 36min

SPaMCAST 506 - Distributed Agile Teams, an Interview With Mark Kilby

SPaMCAST 506 features our interview with Mark Kilby. Mark and I explored distributed agile teams. Agile in distributed environments is doable, but it isn't easy. Mark provides guidance and advice. Mark recently co-authored From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams with Johanna Rothman (LeanPub). Mark's bio and contact information: MARK KILBY has cultivated more distributed, dispersed, and virtual teams than colocated teams for more than two decades. Currently, Mark serves as an agile coach with Sonatype, a "remote first" software development company focusing on automation of software supply chains. Previously, Mark led agile transformations, from startups to Fortune 500 companies. Mark also cultivates dispersed communities, such as Agile Orlando, Agile Florida, VirtualTeamTalk.com, and the Agile Alliance Community Group Support initiative. Mark's book, From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams, is co-authored with Johanna Rothman and is available now via http://markkilby.com and https://leanpub.com/geographicallydistributedagileteams Twitter: @mkilby Linked In: linkedin.com/in/mkilby Re-Read Saturday News Week 2 of our re-read of The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande (use the link and buy a copy so you can read along). Chapter 1 builds the case that the world we live in and the work that we do is very complex. Complexity creates the possibility for errors. Checklists are a tool to help avoid errors in complicated and complex environments. Current Installment: Current Installment: Week 2 – The Problem With Extreme Complexity - https://bit.ly/2AGZQZX Previous Installments: Week 1 - Approach and Introduction - https://bit.ly/2LYi9Lv Next SPaMCAST SPaMCAST 507 features our essay exploring consensus decision making. One of the primary decision-making techniques used in teams is consensus decision making. The power of consensus decision making is that it yields decisions that are the output of a process in which a team or group finds a solution that everyone can either actively support or live with. The process of getting to a decision or solution that the whole team can at least live will make sure that everyone on the team has a seat at the table and that team builds both majority and minority views into the deliberation process. Sounds simple, right? We will also have columns from Susan Parente (I Am Not a Scrumdamentalist) and Jeremy Berriault (QA Corner).
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Jul 29, 2018 • 33min

SPaMCAST 505 - Coaching, Tameflow and A Servant Management, Essays and Discussions

SPaMCAST 505 features our recent essay titled, Coaching: Six Modes of Operation. On the surface, coaching is a fairly simple role. A coach has six basic modes of operation. But…if you peel back the layers just a little bit you will find that coaching is part art and part science. In the second spot of this week's magazine have the penultimate session of our read of Steve Tendon and Wolfram Müller's Hyper-Productive Knowledge Work Performance, The TameFlow Approach. I have moved things around a bit and complete this edition of the SPaMCAST with an essay on servant leadership from the Software Sensei, Kim Pries. Regardless of how you define servant leadership, I think we would all agree that good leadership is critical. Re-Read Saturday News This week we begin the read of The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande (use the link and buy a copy so you can read along). The version of the book we are reading is published by Metropolitan Books, 2009 and is the 22nd printing. The book has nine chapters and with acknowledgments has 209 pages. My reading plan is one chapter per week, therefore, the re-read will span 11 weeks. Current Installment: Week 1 - Approach and Introduction - https://bit.ly/2LYi9Lv Next SPaMCAST SPaMCAST 506 will feature our interview with Mark Kilby. Mark and I discussed agile in distributed environments. Agile in distributed environments is doable but it isn't easy, Mark provides guidance and advice.
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Jul 22, 2018 • 26min

SPaMCAST 504 - Continuous Testing, an Interview with Gerie Owen

SPaMCAST 504 features our interview with Gerie Owen. Gerie and I discussed continuous testing, DevOps, and testing in an agile culture! We worked through big ideas that can have a big impact on how you work and deliver value immediately. Gerie Owen is the VP of Knowledge and Innovation at QualiTest. Gerie Owen represents the QualiTest team at the client site and manages the offshore team's test activities including the development of an automated regression test suite. Gerie manages large, complex projects involving multiple applications, coordinates test teams across multiple time zones and delivers high-quality projects on time and within budget. Gerie is also a Certified Scrum Master, Conference Presenter and Author on Testing and Test management topics. She enjoys mentoring new QA Leads and brings a cohesive team approach to testing. Gerie is the author of many articles on testing and is currently writing a series on the Brave New Worlds of testing. She chooses her presentation topics based on her testing and test management experiences, what she has learned from them and what she would like to learn to improve them. Web: https://www.qualitestgroup.com Blog: https://testinggirl.wordpress.com/about-gerie-owen/ Re-Read Saturday News Today we complete our re-read of Turn the Ship Around! with a few final thoughts. Next week we will begin The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande (use the link and buy a copy so you can read along). Current Installment: Week 19: Final Thoughts! - https://bit.ly/2O4Pc21 Previous Installments: Week 18: A New Method of Resupplying and Ripples - https://bit.ly/2mgVFtI Week 17: Combat Effectiveness and Homecoming - https://bit.ly/2u3j8TI Week 16: A Dangerous Passage and Looking Ahead -https://bit.ly/2lIbslb Week 15: A Remembrance of War and Leadership at Every Level - https://bit.ly/2Imi5lS Week 14: Part IV and Under Way for Deployment - https://bit.ly/2tcXprb Week 13: Final Preparations - https://bit.ly/2t1OgSn Week 12: Underway for San Diego and All Present and Accounted For - https:/ /bit.ly/2J7AkRx Week 11: Mistakes Just Happen and We Learn - https://bit.ly/2IMZYL2 Week 10: A New Ship and We Have A Problem - https://bit.ly/2IUJ6RL Week 9: Up Scope! and "A New Ship" - https://bit.ly/2KfDZbS Week 8: Under Way on Nuclear Power and "I Intend To . . ." – https://bit.ly/2rnvkgxWeek 7: Change, In a Word and Welcome Aboard Sante Fe – https://bit.ly/2r5l1hk Week 6: I Relieve You - https://bit.ly/2F7C5ag Week 5: Call to Action and Whatever they tell me to do! - https://bit.ly/2IXZugS Week 4: Change of Course and Frustration - https://bit.ly/2qbPzgK Week 3: Pain and Business as Usual - https://bit.ly/2qfd74g Week 2: Forward and Introduction - https://bit.ly/2H8K4Jg Week 1: Game Plan - https://bit.ly/2HgCdqW Next SPaMCAST SPaMCAST 505 will feature our essay on coaching. How about a bit of nudge to improve your coaching? We will also have the penultimate session of our read of Steve Tendon and Wolfram Müller's Hyper-Productive Knowledge Work Performance, The TameFlow Approach. We will wrap up with a visit from Susan Parente, who will bring her "Not a Scrumdamentalist" column to the cast!
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Jul 15, 2018 • 29min

SPaMCAST 503 - The Knife's Edge of Change, Muda and People, Communication

SPaMCAST 503 features our essay "Culture: The Knife's Edge of Change." I have often heard the line, culture eats change for breakfast. Culture, culture, culture – the success of every change that is considered or implemented balances on the knife-edge of culture. Aligning cultures so that change is possible requires seeing the differences and then minimizing enough of those differences to allow change to happen. We also have an installment of the Alpha and Omega of Product Development with Jon M Quigley. In this installment of Jon's wonderful column, we discuss the muda of underutilizing people. We conclude with a visit with Gene Hughson. We discuss an entry from his Form Follows Function Blog tilted, "When asked for the time, don't explain how your watch works". Communication between the user and technical domains is fraught with difficulties. A problem? Gene always says, "exactly!" Re-Read Saturday News We will complete our re-read of Turn The Ship Around next week with a few final thoughts. The next book in the series will be The Checklist Manifesto (use the link and buy a copy so you can read along) by Atul Gawande. Today we complete re-reading the chapters in L. David Marquet's Turn the Ship Around! Chapters 28, 29 and Afterthoughts complete Marquet's reflection on the leader-leader model and his journey of discovery. Current Installment: Week 18: A New Method of Resupplying and Ripples - https://bit.ly/2mgVFtI Previous Installments: Week 17: Combat Effectiveness and Homecoming - https://bit.ly/2u3j8TI Week 16: A Dangerous Passage and Looking Ahead -https://bit.ly/2lIbslb Week 15: A Remembrance of War and Leadership at Every Level - https://bit.ly/2Imi5lS Week 14: Part IV and Under Way for Deployment - https://bit.ly/2tcXprb Week 13: Final Preparations - https://bit.ly/2t1OgSn Week 12: Underway for San Diego and All Present and Accounted For - https:/ /bit.ly/2J7AkRx Week 11: Mistakes Just Happen and We Learn - https://bit.ly/2IMZYL2 Week 10: A New Ship and We Have A Problem - https://bit.ly/2IUJ6RL Week 9: Up Scope! and "A New Ship" - https://bit.ly/2KfDZbS Week 8: Under Way on Nuclear Power and "I Intend To . . ." – https://bit.ly/2rnvkgxWeek 7: Change, In a Word and Welcome Aboard Sante Fe – https://bit.ly/2r5l1hk Week 6: I Relieve You - https://bit.ly/2F7C5ag Week 5: Call to Action and Whatever they tell me to do! - https://bit.ly/2IXZugS Week 4: Change of Course and Frustration - https://bit.ly/2qbPzgK Week 3: Pain and Business as Usual - https://bit.ly/2qfd74g Week 2: Forward and Introduction - https://bit.ly/2H8K4Jg Week 1: Game Plan - https://bit.ly/2HgCdqW Next SPaMCASTSPaMCAST 504 features our interview with Gerie Owen. Gerie and I discussed continuous testing, DevOps and testing, and agile culture! We worked through big ideas that can have a big impact on how you work and deliver value immediately.
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Jul 8, 2018 • 49min

SPaMCAST 502 - Marcus Hammarberg, Salvation: The Bungsu Story - Agile In The Real World

SPaMCAST 502 features our interview Marcus Hammarberg. Marcus returns to talk about his new book Salvation: The Bungsu Story (https://amzn.to/2u1ndYs). The story provides a real-life example of how agile can save the world — or at least part of it. This is one of the most important and inspirational interviews I have done. Marcus's bio: For 15 years Marcus Hammarberg has been doing agile and lean software development and helping others do it. He has worked in many different settings, from big banks and insurance companies to start-ups and within retail. At one big insurance company, the first agile team, started by Marcus, eventually spread to a lean initiative across the business. As a consultant, Marcus helps individuals, teams, and whole organizations improve their value delivery flow. Marcus is still a keen programmer and continues to practice and teach the concepts that helped him become a good programmer: TDD, Specification by example, functional programming and Node. Marcus is a keynote speaker and co-author of Kanban In Action, which has been translated into 5 languages across the globe. He has blogged since 2006 at www.marcusoft.net and spends his spare time playing euphonium in the Salvation Army band at Vasakåren, Stockholm. 2014-2015 Marcus moved to Indonesia with his family to work for the Salvation Army. Unexpectedly his previous experience with lean, agile and kanban was soon put to great use there too. This story is retold as it happened in his second book; Salvation: The Bungsu story FYI Marcus first appeared on SPaMCAST 414 https://bit.ly/2KZoxBN Twitter: @marcusoftnet Blog: www.marcusoft.net Re-Read Saturday News This week we are full ahead in our re-read of L. David Marquet's Turn the Ship Around! Today we tackle two more chapters, 26 and 27, which are titled: Combat Effectiveness and Homecoming. The next book in the series will be The Checklist Manifesto (use the link and buy a copy so you can read along) by Atul Gawande. Current Installment: Week 17: Combat Effectiveness and Homecoming - https://bit.ly/2u3j8TI Previous Installments: Week 16: A Dangerous Passage and Looking Ahead -https://bit.ly/2lIbslb Week 15: A Remembrance of War and Leadership at Every Level - https://bit.ly/2Imi5lS Week 14: Part IV and Under Way for Deployment - https://bit.ly/2tcXprb Week 13: Final Preparations - https://bit.ly/2t1OgSn Week 12: Underway for San Diego and All Present and Accounted For - https:/ /bit.ly/2J7AkRx Week 11: Mistakes Just Happen and We Learn - https://bit.ly/2IMZYL2 Week 10: A New Ship and We Have A Problem - https://bit.ly/2IUJ6RL Week 9: Up Scope! and "A New Ship" - https://bit.ly/2KfDZbS Week 8: Under Way on Nuclear Power and "I Intend To . . ." – https://bit.ly/2rnvkgxWeek 7: Change, In a Word and Welcome Aboard Sante Fe – https://bit.ly/2r5l1hk Week 6: I Relieve You - https://bit.ly/2F7C5ag Week 5: Call to Action and Whatever they tell me to do! - https://bit.ly/2IXZugS Week 4: Change of Course and Frustration - https://bit.ly/2qbPzgK Week 3: Pain and Business as Usual - https://bit.ly/2qfd74g Week 2: Forward and Introduction - https://bit.ly/2H8K4Jg Week 1: Game Plan - https://bit.ly/2HgCdqW Next SPaMCAST SPaMCAST 503 will feature our essay "Culture: The Knife's Edge of Change." I have often heard the line, culture eats change for breakfast. Culture, culture, culture – the success of every change that is considered or implemented balances on the knife-edge of culture. Aligning cultures so that change is possible requires seeing the differences and then minimizing enough of those differences. We will also have columns from Gene Hughson and Jon M. Quigley.
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Jul 1, 2018 • 36min

SPaMCAST 501- Agile Metrics, Cycle Time, Third Parties in Testing, Certifications

SPaMCAST 501 features our essay on Agile Metrics. Progress is easy to visualize when we use the yardstick of calendar time. My wife and I spent 17 days in Europe. There are 177 shopping days until Christmas (as of July 1, 2018) — I expect presents this year. How long it takes to deliver a piece of work, in days, is something nearly every human can understand. Over the past few months, I have been cataloging questions I have heard. Well over 70% of work-related questions center on how long a piece of work will take and whether the answer to that question has value. Cycle time metrics are ways to generate answers to 'how long' questions in a manner that is valuable and predictable. Our second column features Jeremy Berriault. In the QA Corner, Jeremy and I discussed the idea of self-reliance rather than using third-party testing organizations. Or when you have to use third parties for testing, Jeremy provides advice on getting the most out of your third party. Anchoring the cast is Susan Parente. Susan discusses certification. There are tons of certifications and more appear every day. Susan provides advice on which ones are important and which are not! Re-Read Saturday News This week we are full ahead in our re-read of L. David Marquet's Turn the Ship Around! We dive into chapters 24 and 25, which are titled: A Dangerous Passage and Looking Ahead. Pick the next book in the re-read series. I will cut the poll off on 2 July. Current Installment: Week 16: A Dangerous Passage and Looking Ahead -https://bit.ly/2lIbslb Previous Installments: Week 15: A Remembrance of War and Leadership at Every Level - https://bit.ly/2Imi5lS Week 14: Part IV and Under Way for Deployment - https://bit.ly/2tcXprb Week 13: Final Preparations - https://bit.ly/2t1OgSn Week 12: Underway for San Diego and All Present and Accounted For - https:/ /bit.ly/2J7AkRx Week 11: Mistakes Just Happen and We Learn - https://bit.ly/2IMZYL2 Week 10: A New Ship and We Have A Problem - https://bit.ly/2IUJ6RL Week 9: Up Scope! and "A New Ship" - https://bit.ly/2KfDZbS Week 8: Under Way on Nuclear Power and "I Intend To . . ." – https://bit.ly/2rnvkgxWeek 7: Change, In a Word and Welcome Aboard Sante Fe – https://bit.ly/2r5l1hk Week 6: I Relieve You - https://bit.ly/2F7C5ag Week 5: Call to Action and Whatever they tell me to do! - https://bit.ly/2IXZugS Week 4: Change of Course and Frustration - https://bit.ly/2qbPzgK Week 3: Pain and Business as Usual - https://bit.ly/2qfd74g Week 2: Forward and Introduction - https://bit.ly/2H8K4Jg Week 1: Game Plan - https://bit.ly/2HgCdqW Next SPaMCAST SPaMCAST 502 features our interview with Marcus Hammarberg. Marcus returns to talk about his new book Salvation: The Bunshu Story. The story provides a real-life example of how agile can save the world -- or at least part of it.
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Jun 24, 2018 • 35min

SPaMCAST 500 - Marcus Blankenship, Teams Are At The Core of Delivery

Show 500! SPaMCAST 001 went live on Sunday January 28, 2007 at 9:28 PM - it has been a great journey from then to now! The first interview was a two-parter with Will McKnight. Give it a listen at https://bit.ly/2lryNaC. Show 500, SPaMCAST 500, Episode 500, #500 (I will probably say that 500 more times this week) features our interview with Marcus Blankenship. Marcus and I talked teams and what makes a team good. We also discussed who owns the behaviors and values of a team. Team are core to most software development, enhancements, and maintenance. Understanding how teams work and how to make them work better makes ABSOLUTE sense. Marcus provides great thoughts and advice on agile teams. I am thrilled that Marcus joined the SPaMCAST family on show 500! Marcus helps CTO's fire-up their dev teams by creating an environment where everyone can fully participate in problem solving. He helps great engineers become the great leader that their team deserves. Links: Join Marcus's list for articles on leading developers: https://marcusblankenship.com/ Tech Leader Fortune Cookies: https://marcusblankenship.com/tech-leader-fortune-cookies Twitter: https://twitter.com/justzeros Medium: https://medium.com/@justzeros Book: Habits That Ruin Your Technical Team. Listeners of the podcast will receive 30% off with discount code SPAMCAST. Show: UNSTUCK: The Tech Leader Q&A Show - Live call-in show for technical managers every Friday at 10am Pacific. Re-Read Saturday News This week we are full ahead in our re-read of L. David Marquet's Turn the Ship Around! We continue the story of the USSN Santa Fe with Chapters 22 and 23. These two chapters focus on how an organization's legacy can be used to shape deliberate actions and why principles have to be tied to behavior and decisions to be useful. Pick the next book in the re-read series. I will cut the poll off on 2 July. [polldaddy poll=10037032] Current Installment: Week 15: A Remembrance of War and Leadership at Every Level - https://bit.ly/2Imi5lS Previous Installments: Week 14: Part IV and Under Way for Deployment - https://bit.ly/2tcXprb Week 13: Final Preparations - https://bit.ly/2t1OgSn Week 12: Underway for San Diego and All Present and Accounted For - https:/ /bit.ly/2J7AkRx Week 11: Mistakes Just Happen and We Learn - https://bit.ly/2IMZYL2 Week 10: A New Ship and We Have A Problem - https://bit.ly/2IUJ6RL Week 9: Up Scope! and "A New Ship" - https://bit.ly/2KfDZbS Week 8: Under Way on Nuclear Power and "I Intend To . . ." – https://bit.ly/2rnvkgx Week 7: Change, In a Word and Welcome Aboard Sante Fe – https://bit.ly/2r5l1hk Week 6: I Relieve You - https://bit.ly/2F7C5ag Week 5: Call to Action and Whatever they tell me to do! - https://bit.ly/2IXZugS Week 4: Change of Course and Frustration - https://bit.ly/2qbPzgK Week 3: Pain and Business as Usual - https://bit.ly/2qfd74g Week 2: Forward and Introduction - https://bit.ly/2H8K4Jg Week 1: Game Plan - https://bit.ly/2HgCdqW Next SPaMCAST SPaMCAST 501 will feature our essay on Hard Questions and Agile Metrics. We will also have columns from Jeremy Berriault and Susan Parente!
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Jun 17, 2018 • 30min

SPaMCAST 499 - Trust and Coaching, TameFlow, Software Safety

SPaMCAST 499 will feature our essay on trust and coaching. Coaches are among most effective tools used to help teams improve. In SPaMCAST 496 – Sam Laing I highlighted the need for trust between a coach and the team or person they are coaching. Without trust, a coach will not be very effective. Two powerful and related tools! In the rocker, as they call it stock car racing is Wolfram Müller. Wolfram co-authored Hyper-Productive Knowledge Work Performance, The TameFlow Approach with Steve Tendon. We talk about Chapter 23 titled Reliable Scrum and Reliable Kanban. Wolfram can be found on LinkedIn at https://bit.ly/2qXvgnw Anchoring the cast is the Software Sensei, Kim Pries. Kim discusses software safety. Tools and software languages can have a major impact on software safety and all of our lives depend on software these days! Re-Read Saturday News In week 14 of our re-read of L. David Marquet's Turn the Ship Around! we begin Part IV of Turn The Ship Around and tackle chapter 21. The first three parts of the book bring the story to the beginning of the deployment of the Santa Fe. Part IV picks up from that point! Part I - Starting Over - This section profile why Marquet is frustrated with leader-follower model of leadership. Part II - Control - This section profiles the change and command and begins to layout Marquet's vision of a leader - leader model of leadership. This section delivers mechanisms for control in a leader - leader model. Part III - Competence - This section builds on the story of how the Santa Fe prepares for deployment and Marquet lays out mechanisms for building technical competence, the second leg of his leader-leader model. Part IV - Clarity - This section completes the leader - leader model, focusing on the third leg of the leader - leader model, clarity. What will be the next book? Options are Release It and The Checklist Manifesto. Both are great . . . thoughts? Current Installment: Week 14: Part IV and Under Way for Deployment - https://bit.ly/2tcXprb Previous Installments: Week 13: Final Preparations - https://bit.ly/2t1OgSn Week 12: Underway for San Diego and All Present and Accounted For - https://bit.ly/2J7AkRx Week 11: Mistakes Just Happen and We Learn - https://bit.ly/2IMZYL2 Week 10: A New Ship and We Have A Problem - https://bit.ly/2IUJ6RL Week 9: Up Scope! and "A New Ship" - https://bit.ly/2KfDZbS Week 8: Under Way on Nuclear Power and "I Intend To . . ." – https://bit.ly/2rnvkgxWeek 7: Change, In a Word and Welcome Aboard Sante Fe – https://bit.ly/2r5l1hk Week 6: I Relieve You - https://bit.ly/2F7C5ag Week 5: Call to Action and Whatever they tell me to do! - https://bit.ly/2IXZugS Week 4: Change of Course and Frustration - https://bit.ly/2qbPzgK Week 3: Pain and Business as Usual - https://bit.ly/2qfd74g Week 2: Forward and Introduction - https://bit.ly/2H8K4Jg Week 1: Game Plan - https://bit.ly/2HgCdqW Next SPaMCAST SPaMCAST 500 will feature our interview with Marcus Blankenship we talked teams and what makes a team good. We also discussed who owns the behaviors and values of a team.
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Jun 10, 2018 • 34min

SPaMCAST 498 - John Kordyback, Agile - The Technical Side

SPaMCAST 498 features our interview John Kordyback. Agile is more than just Scrum or a bunch of values. Agile has a technical side that can't be ignored. This week, John and I have a wide-ranging conversation covering the technical side of agile, the impact of tools on principles, and the difference in agile approaches for systems of engagement and systems of record. Bio: John Kordyback is a Principal Consultant with ThoughtWorks leading technology transformations and applying lean principles within complex enterprises. He is a strong advocate for applying the lean delivery and operational practices found in the Devops and Evolutionary Architecture movements to gain more value from existing technology investments. John has worked in insurance, telecommunications, commodity and securities trading, high tech, energy, and the airline industries. Before his technology career, John worked as a researcher and practitioner for people with disabilities. Email: jkordyba@thoughtworks.com Twitter: @jkordyback Re-Read Saturday News This week we tackle chapter 20 of L. David Marquet's Turn the Ship Around! (have you bought your copy?). Chapter 20 completes part 3 which has focused on competence and the run-up to the deployment of the Santa Fe. The title of this chapter is Final Preparations. We have six or seven weeks left – Steven Adams is pushing for the next book to be Release It, the other option is The Checklist Manifesto. Both are great . . . thoughts? Current Installment: Week 13: Final Preparations - https://bit.ly/2t1OgSn Previous Installments: Week 12: Underway for San Diego and All Present and Accounted For - https://bit.ly/2J7AkRx Week 11: Mistakes Just Happen and We Learn - https://bit.ly/2IMZYL2 Week 10: A New Ship and We Have A Problem - https://bit.ly/2IUJ6RL Week 9: Up Scope! and "A New Ship" - https://bit.ly/2KfDZbS Week 8: Under Way on Nuclear Power and "I Intend To . . ." – https://bit.ly/2rnvkgxWeek 7: Change, In a Word and Welcome Aboard Sante Fe – https://bit.ly/2r5l1hk Week 6: I Relieve You - https://bit.ly/2F7C5ag Week 5: Call to Action and Whatever they tell me to do! - https://bit.ly/2IXZugS Week 4: Change of Course and Frustration - https://bit.ly/2qbPzgK Week 3: Pain and Business as Usual - https://bit.ly/2qfd74g Week 2: Forward and Introduction - https://bit.ly/2H8K4Jg Week 1: Game Plan - https://bit.ly/2HgCdqW Next SPaMCAST SPaMCAST 499 will feature our essay on trust and coaching. Two powerful and related tools! We will also include the voices of Wolfram Müller and the Software Sensei, himself, Kim Pries!

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