Software Process and Measurement Cast

The Software Process and Measurement Cast 418 features our interview with Larry Cooper. Larry and I talked about his project, The Agility Series. The series is providing the community an understanding of how Agile is applied and how practitioners are interpreting practices and principles. Reminder: Schedule Change for Vacation, Travel and Holiday Last week I was in Sweden for the Øredev conference with a day of sightseeing thrown in. New listeners joining from the conference: WELCOME. The trip was great, and the conference was awesome and mind-expanding. I will publish a review soon. Brazil and "Métricas 2016" is next followed immediately by the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States. This is the long way of saying that I will be publishing on an every other week basis through November 27th. We will be back to weekly posting in December. Larry Cooper's BioLarry Cooper is a Project Executive in the public and private sectors in Canada and the USA and holds over 20 industry certifications in Agile, Project Management, and ITIL. His books include "Agile Value Delivery: Beyond the Numbers" (which was endorsed by a co-author of the Agile Manifesto) as well as the "The Agility Series" to be published over the next year or two. He was also the Mentor for "PRINCE2 Agile" published by AXELOS. Larry has been an invited speaker at numerous conferences and symposia for the PMI, BAWorld, and the itSMF. He has presented global webinars with BrightTalk and ProjectManagement.com and authored more than 30 courses including an Agile-oriented curriculum that is sold directly to training companies in Canada and the USA. The first two book in the Agility Series on Organizational Agility and Leadership Agility are available for free download at www.mplaza.ca as is The Adaptive Strategy Framework Guide. You can join the adventure with the rest of the Wisdom Council for the Agility through their LinkedIn group https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8539263 Re-Read Saturday News The read/re-read of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni (published by Jossey-Bass) continues on the Blog. Lencioni's model of team dysfunctions (we get through most of it this week) is illustrated through a set of crises used to illustrate the common problems that make teams into dysfunctional collections of individuals. The current entry features the sections titled Film Noir and Application. Visit the Software Process and Measurement Cast blog to participate in this and previous re-reads. Next SPaMCAST The Software Process and Measurement Cast 419 will feature four essays. Essays from Kim Pries, Jon M Quigley, Gene Hughson and one from The SPaMCAST will be featured. Shameless Ad for my book! Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: "This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, for you or your team." Support SPaMCAST by buying the book here. Available in English and Chinese.

The Software Process and Measurement Cast 417 discusses the six elements of business stories. These six elements are required for effective business stories. We also tackle whether each of those elements are equally important in telling the different types of stories spun in a business environment. Steve Tendon joins the SPaMCAST this week to discuss Chapter 12 in Tame The Flow: Hyper-Productive Knowledge-Work Performance, The TameFlow Approach and Its Application to Scrum and Kanban, published by J Ross (buy a copy here). We discussed the Herbie and Kanban. The story of Herbie provides a great metaphor for the flow of work through an organization and how it can be improved. Visit Steve at www.tendon.net. We cap this edition of the Software Process and Measurement Cast with a visit to the QA Corner with Jeremy Berriault. Jeremy and I discussed the Samsung Note 7 and testing. While we may not have to test lithium-ion batteries professionally, we can extract lessons from this scenario on risk and testing! Connect with Jeremy on Linkedin. Re-Read Saturday News We continue the read/re-read of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni (published by Jossey-Bass). As we move through the first part of the book we are being exposed to Lencioni's model of team dysfunctions (we get through most of it this week) and a set of crises to illustrate the common problems that make teams into dysfunctional collections of individuals. Today we re-read the three sections titled Deep Tissue, Attack and Exhibition. Visit the Software Process and Measurement Cast blog to participate in this and previous re-reads. Next SPaMCAST The Software Process and Measurement Cast 418 will feature our interview with Larry Cooper. Larry and I talked about his project The Agility Series. The series is providing the community an understanding of how Agile is applied and how practitioners are interpreting practices and principles. Shameless Ad for my book! Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: "This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, for you or your team." Support SPaMCAST by buying the book here. Available in English and Chinese.

The Software Process and Measurement Cast features our interview with Kirk Botula on capability. Kirk makes the argument that capability is crucial for organizational health and agility. Kirk Botula is the CEO of the CMMI® Institute, the home of the globally-adopted capability improvement framework that guides organizations in high-performance operations. Botula is a global growth company executive whose career has been focused on advancing the common good through the commercialization of technology. Prior to CMMI Institute, Botula served as President of Confluence, a global financial technology firm with operations in North America, EMEA and Asia. During his tenure, Confluence became the leading provider in its space achieving market share exceeding 70% in North America and 20% globally, while delivering the industry leading NPS of 40. Botula also served at BNY Mellon, Compunetix, and as a strategist to a variety of nonprofit and for-profit organizations. He has a BFA and MSIA from Carnegie Mellon University and lives in Pittsburgh with his wife and three daughters. Reach out to Kirk at info@cmmiinstitute.com Re-Read Saturday News We continue the read/re-read of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni (published by Jossey-Bass). As we move through the first part of the book we are being exposed to Lencioni's model of team dysfunctions and a set of crises to illustrate the common problems that make teams into dysfunctional collections of individuals. Today we re-read the three sections titled Awareness, Ego and Goals. Visit the Software Process and Measurement Cast blog to participate in this and previous re-reads. Next SPaMCAST The Software Process and Measurement Cast 417 will feature three columns from Steve Tendon, Jeremy Berriault and of course a new essay from the Software Process and Measurement Cast. Shameless Ad for my book! Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: "This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, for you or your team." Support SPaMCAST by buying the book here. Available in English and Chinese.

The Software Process and Measurement Cast features four columns. We begin with our essay on recognizing risk and risk tolerance. Any discussion of risk begins with acknowledging that risk exists and then recognizing specific risks. Once we know risks exist we need to determine which risks we care about. Risk tolerance affects how everyone in an organization behaves. Kim Pries the Software Sensei discusses change models, focusing on the Kotter model of change. Kim discusses how change models can be used for hardware, software, processes and procedures. Gene Hughson brings his wonderful Form Follows Function Blog the podcast. In this installment, Gene and I discuss All Aboard the Innovation Band Wagon. We talked a lot about how to define innovation AND why innovation and change is powerful. Jon M Quigley anchors the cast with the third installment in a three-part arc on requirements in his "The Alpha-Omega of Product Development" column. This week Jon discusses managing requirements. Re-Read Saturday News We continue the read/re-read of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni (published by Jossey-Bass). We seem to be moving from cliffhanger to cliffhanger over the past few weeks, and we shall do so again today. Lencioni uses crises to illustrate common problems that make teams into dysfunctional collections of individuals. This week we tackle the sections from Entering the Danger to Rebound. Visit the Software Process and Measurement Cast blog to participate in this and previous re-reads. Next SPaMCAST The Software Process and Measurement Cast 416 will feature our interview with Kirk Botula. Kirk is the CEO of the CMMI Institute. Kirk and I talked about organizational capability and why capability is crucial for organizational health and agility! Shameless Ad for my book! Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: "This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, for you or your team." Support SPaMCAST by buying the book here. Available in English and Chinese.

The Software Process and Measurement Cast features our interview with Marcus Hammarberg. We often think of Agile as a tool to build or maintain software. In some cases, people have recognized the applicability of Agile and lean techniques in other parts of the business. In even rarer circumstances people, like Marcus, have found a way to use Agile techniques to have a huge impact in the real world. Marcus tells use how he was able to use Agile and lean techniques and philosophy to save a clinic and more importantly to change lives of real people. It is an amazing and uplifting story. Marcus's Bio Get agile to work in practice - is Marcus's motto. This has led him to take interest in all kind of things: Lean, TDD, Kanban, Specification by example, Node, Continuous Delivery, Nancy, and Koa. Marcus spent 2 years working for the Salvation Army in Indonesia to help the health services there to become more effective. Marcus has also, written Kanban in Action (http://bit.ly/theKanbanBook) and is writing another book, about the lean/agile-inspired work he used to save a hospital in Indonesia (http://bit.ly/bungsustory. Contact Information: Skype: marcushammarberg Email: marcusoft.net@gmail.com Twitter: @marcusoftnet Blog: www.marcusoft.net LinkedIn: http://se.linkedin.com/in/marcushammarberg Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/marcusoftnet/ My Book - Kanban In Action: http://www.amazon.com/Kanban-Action-Marcus-Hammarberg/dp/1617291056/ Re-Read Saturday News We continue the read/re-read of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni (published by Jossey-Bass). The Five Dysfunctions of a Team is a business novel that uses a story to get important ideas across to the reader in a less threatening manner. This week we discuss the first crisis with Martin and we end this week's re-read by exposing the second crisis. The sections we are reading begin with Drawing the Line and finish with Pushing Back. Visit the Software Process and Measurement Cast blog to participate in this and previous re-reads. Next SPaMCAST The Software Process and Measurement Cast 415 will include essays and columns from Gene Hughson, Jon M Quigley, Kim Pries, and myself! Shameless Ad for my book! Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: "This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, for you or your team." Support SPaMCAST by buying the book here. Available in English and Chinese.

The Software Process and Measurement Cast 413 features our essay on Scaling Agile and Management Styles. This essay builds on our recent discussion of servant leadership. It is not as simple as adding teams or building a hierarchy. Steve Tendon joins the SPaMCAST this week to discuss Chapter 11 in Tame The Flow: Hyper-Productive Knowledge-Work Performance, The TameFlow Approach and Its Application to Scrum and Kanban, published J Ross (buy a copy here). We discussed the concept of throughput accounting. A powerful concept that that focuses on the delivery of value through the overall process. Visit Steve at www.tendon.net. We cap this edition of the Software Process and Measurement Cast with a visit to the QA Corner with Jeremy Berriault. Jeremy discussed the impact of testing tools. There are significant plusses for using tools if you don't let the tools use you! Connect with Jeremy on Linkedin. Re-Read Saturday News We continue the read/re-read of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni (published by Jossey-Bass). The Five Dysfunctions of a Team is a business novel that uses a story to get important ideas across to the reader in a less threatening manner. This week we discuss the sections covering the background for the first major team crisis. Lots of behaviors you might, unfortunately, recognize in teams around you! Visit the Software Process and Measurement Cast blog to participate in this and previous re-reads. Next SPaMCAST The Software Process and Measurement Cast 414 will feature our interview with Marcus Hammarberg. We often think of Agile as a tool to build or maintain software. Marcus used Agile techniques to save a clinic and to change lives. It is an amazing and uplifting story. Shameless Ad for my book! Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: "This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, for you or your team." Support SPaMCAST by buying the book here. Available in English and Chinese.

The Software Process and Measurement Cast 412 features our discussion of XP Explained, Second Edition with Steven Adams. It was a great talk that helped me understand why the book has (and continues to have) such a large impact on how I view Agile and software development. Steve lives in the San Francisco Bay Area (a.k.a, Silicon Valley) where he has a successful career in software development. Steve has worked for Hewlett Packard, Access Systems Inc,, Trilliant Inc., and Sony Mobile Communications; plus has consulted at Cisco Systems. Steve has a computer science degree from California State University at Chico, learned software project management at Hewlett-Packard and, in 2009, started his Agile journey with Sony Ericsson. Steve enjoys listening to technical podcasts, and SpamCast was one of the first and is a favorite! Steve is also an avid bicyclist (road) and is on track to log over 3,500 miles in 2016. Blog: https://sadams510.wordpress.com/Twitter: @stevena510 Re-Read Saturday News We begin the read/re-read of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni (published by Jossey-Bass). The Five Dysfunctions of a Team is a business novel that uses a story to get important ideas across to the reader in a less threatening manner. This week we address the introduction and some of the backstory. All of this provides the background for us to recognize the impact of poor teamwork! Visit the Software Process and Measurement Cast blog to participate in this and previous re-reads. Next SPaMCAST The Software Process and Measurement Cast 413 will feature our essay on Scaling Agile and Management Styles. This essay builds on our recent discussion of servant leadership. We will also have columns from Steve Tendon talking about another chapter in his great book Hyper Productive Knowledge Work Performance, The Tame Flow Approach and a visit to the QA Corner with Jeremy Berriault. Shameless Ad for my book! Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: "This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, for you or your team." Support SPaMCAST by buying the book here. Available in English and Chinese.

The Software Process and Measurement Cast 411 includes four columns! The first is our thoughts on servant leadership. A servant leader facilitates collaboration not only by creating a learning environment but also by helping the team to establish a vision and goals. Servant leadership is a powerful tool to unlock the ability of teams or groups to deliver value. Many of the links between servant leadership and Agile are because servant leadership enables several of the principles in the Agile Manifesto, but servant leadership doesn't work in every scenario. This essay will explore the origins of servant leadership, its ties with Agile and when to apply a servant leadership approach. Jon M Quigley anchors the cast with the second installment in a three-part arc on requirements in his "The Alpha-Omega of Product Development" column. This week Jon discusses managing requirements. Gene Hughson brings his Form Follows Function blog to the Software Process and Measurement Cast. In this visit, Gene discusses his recent blog entry titled, "Organizations as Systems – "Uneasy Lies the Head that Wears the Crown". Gene points out that software development organizations live in a complex world where single factor explanations are dangerous. Kim Pries, the Software Sensi, brings a great discussion of the concept of craftsmanship in software development to the Cast. Craftsmanship and quality are related, but craftsmanship is a more intimate and personal attribute. Re-Read Saturday News This week we complete our re-read of Kent Beck's XP Explained, Second Edition with final thoughts on a book that has shaped a generation's thinking on Agile, while at the same time being eminently practical. Next week we begin our read of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni (published by Jossey-Bass). This will be a new book for me, therefore an initial read, not a re-read! Click the link (The Five Dysfunctions of a Team), buy a copy, and next week we will begin to read the book together. Next SPaMCAST The Software Process and Measurement Cast 412, if you thought we were done with XP Explained, Second Edition, you would be wrong. One of the SPaMCAST's long term listeners, Steven Adams and I recently sat down to discuss our thoughts on the book. It was a great conversation that we look forward to sharing with you! Shameless Ad for my book! Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: "This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, for you or your team." Support SPaMCAST by buying the book here. Available in English and Chinese.

In Software Process and Measurement Cast 410, we feature our interview with Jessica Long. Jessica and I discussed storytelling. I find that storytelling is a useful tool to help individuals, teams, and organizations. Projects can use stories to generate user stories and as a tool in retrospectives. Stories are also a tool in generating a vision of the future in organizational transformations. Those are just a few of the multitude of uses for storytelling in changing how value is delivered! Jessica and I will both be presenting on using stories at the Agile Philly, Agile Tour 2016 on October 10th. If you are in the Philadelphia area please register and attend! Jessica's bio:Jess Long is an Agile Coach, a writer, a speaker and a mother with a passion for driving meaningful stories across multiple iterations in all facets of life. Transforming Corporate America and living to tell about it is no small feat. She keeps some level of sanity by finding humor in otherwise absurd situations. Twitter: https://twitter.com/scrumandgingerBlog: https://scrumandginger.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-long-pmi-acp-csp-cspo-87626614 Re-Read Saturday News This week we reach the penultimate week in our re-read of Kent Beck's XP Explained, Second Edition with a discussion of Chapters 24 and 25. Chapter 24 discusses the value and power in communities. Chapter 25 is Beck's conclusion and reflection on the book: XP is about people! Next week we'll wrap this re-read up and get ready to to read The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni (published by Jossey-Bass). This will be a new book for me, therefore an initial read, not a re-read! Steven Adams suggested the book and it has been on my list for a few years. Click the link (The Five Dysfunctions of a Team), buy a copy, and in a few weeks we will begin to read the book together. Next SPaMCAST The Software Process and Measurement Cast 411 will be a big show featuring our thoughts on servant leadership. In SPaMCAST 411 we will have a visit from the Kim Pries, the Software Sensei. We will have more from Steve Tendon on the Tame The Flow: Hyper-Productive Knowledge-Work Performance, The TameFlow Approach and Its Application to Scrum and Kanban published J Ross (buy a copy here). And anchoring the cast will be Gene Hughson with an entry from his Form Follows Function Blog. Shameless Ad for my book! Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: "This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, for you or your team." Support SPaMCAST by buying the book here. Available in English and Chinese.

Special Note - SPAMCAST 409 was due to be posted last week, but bad things happened to my main computer and my backup decided to air-gap itself from the Internet. That said, #409 is going up a week later so the Re-read Saturday news is a week out of date. This week we talk about Chapters 22 and 23. I have declared that last weekend was a very stressful vacation from posting. Now the show goes on! In Software Process and Measurement Cast 409, we feature our essay on advice I recently provided to a listener to the podcast on whether a team is really one or two teams. While the essay is a result of answering a friend's question, the ideas in the essay can be applied when you are building any sort of team. Our second column this week features a visit to Jeremy Berriault's QA Corner. Jeremy and I discussed how QA should communicate with other leaders in the organization. In the third and final column, Jon M. Quigley begins a three-part arc on requirements in "The Alpha-Omega of Product Development." This week on discusses the elicitation of requirements. Re-Read Saturday News This week we continue our re-read of Kent Beck's XP Explained, Second Edition with a discussion of Chapters 20 and 21. Chapter 20 is a discussion of applying XP. The short version is that there is no one perfect way to apply XP, which dovetails nicely with Chapter 21 which addresses the concept of purity and certification. IF there is no one perfect way to apply XP, how can there be an absolute litmus test for XP purity? Use the link to XP Explained in the show notes when you buy your copy to read along to support both the blog and podcast. Visit the Software Process and Measurement Blog (www.tcagley.wordpress.com) to catch up on past installments of Re-Read Saturday. Next we are going to read The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. This will be a new book for me, therefore an initial read, not a re-read! Steven Adams suggested the book and it has been on my list for a few years. Click the link (The Five Dysfunctions of a Team), buy a copy, and in a few weeks we will begin to read the book together. Next SPaMCAST In the next Software Process and Measurement Cast, we will feature our interview of Jessica Long. Jessica and I discussed storytelling. Storytelling is useful in all types of organizations for both projects and as a tool in organizational transformations. Jessica and I will both be presenting on using stories at the Agile Philly, Agile Tour 2016 on October 10th. If you are in the Philadelphia area please register and attend! Shameless Ad for my book! Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: "This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, for you or your team." Support SPaMCAST by buying the book here. Available in English and Chinese.