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 G...
Sep 26, 2019•59 min•Ep. 147
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 s...
Sep 19, 2019•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 146
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
Sep 05, 2019•51 min•Ep. 145
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...
Jul 18, 2019•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 144
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/
May 30, 2019•1 hr•Ep. 143
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 - ...
May 09, 2019•49 min•Ep. 142
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 (https://www.teamfirstdevelopment.com/) Vulnerability stories * Five Dysfunctions of a T...
May 02, 2019•46 min•Ep. 141
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 ...
Mar 21, 2019•43 min•Ep. 140
Feb 21, 2019•41 min•Ep. 138
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
Jan 31, 2019•48 min•Ep. 137
Picks Craig * A critique of “the 5 whys” (https://www.kitchensoap.com/2014/11/14/the-infinite-hows-or-the-dangers-of-the-five-whys/) (not the one I saw recently, but similar) * Office Space scenes with the real Michael Bolton (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03lrL9CFWxM) * Alchian-Allen effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchian%E2%80%93Allen_effect) Amos * People * Paper * Getting Things Done (https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Things-Done-Stress-Free-Productivity/dp/0142000280) - David Allen
Jan 24, 2019•47 min•Ep. 136
Links Agile Connection (https://www.agileconnection.com/question) Subway Map to Agile Practices (https://www.agilealliance.org/agile101/subway-map-to-agile-practices/) Picks Craig Doug DeMuro car videos (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsqjHFMB_JYTaEnf_vmTNqg) Auto Trader column called Oversteer Music without lyrics, but that I like 2Cellos (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyjuFsbclXyntSRMBAILzbw) Harp Twins (https://www.youtube.com/user/CamilleandKennerly) Lee Agile Connection (https://www.ag...
Jan 28, 2018•49 min•Ep. 135
Special Guests Don Peters Marc Chouinard Topics Real-Time Team Improvements Setting Clear Objectives, Goals, and Working Agreements Try Pair Testing in 2018 Find Your Personal Impact / Motivation Picks Liftoff (https://www.amazon.com/Liftoff-Start-Sustain-Successful-Agile/dp/1680501631/) (Book) by Diana Larsen & Ainsley Nies – provides specific methods for “agile chartering” to help teams define their vision, and then write mission and mission tests to guide activities supportive of the visi...
Jan 15, 2018•51 min•Ep. 134
Topics Leadership by example Picks Craig Clean Architecture (https://www.amazon.com/Clean-Architecture-Craftsmans-Software-Structure/dp/0134494164) by Robert “Uncle Bob” Martin Building Evolutionary Architectures (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1491986360/) by Neal Ford and Rebecca Parsons John The Mother of All Demos (https://youtu.be/r6iADUTlqwQ), presented by Douglas Engelbart 1968 The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (https://smile.amazon.com/Five-Dysfunctions-Team-Leadership-Fable/dp/07879607...
Oct 22, 2017•53 min•Ep. 133
Discussion The standardization of agile process across an organization. Picks Lee 22 Scrum Master Anti-Patterns (http://www.101ways.com/22-scrum-master-anti-patterns-job-ads/) from Job Ads, blog post by Stefan Wolpers Nate Mellowcreme pumpkins (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_pumpkin) The Greatest Generation (http://www.maximumfun.org/shows/greatest-generation) Amos (channeling Tice) ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct (https://ethics.acm.org/) How a Raccoon Became an Aardvark (https...
Oct 08, 2017•51 min•Ep. 132
The Discussion We discuss ways that you can create a virtual "Save Point" in your project, both technically and with your relationships. Picks Nate Audible Content Exchange (http://acx.com) Lee Welcome Inn Manor (http://welcomeinnmanor.com/) - B&B in Chicago Jason Jason’s Recommended Bed & Breakfast in Boulder, CO - The Alps Canyon Inn (http://www.alpsinn.com/) - (Lee thinks they have great bathtubs) - http://www.alpsinn.com/ Let’s Be Awesome (https://www.slideshare.net/JasonTice/lets-be...
Oct 01, 2017•49 min•Ep. 131
Picks Amos Moon Monkey - Ginger Beer from Saint Louis’ Urban Chestnut Quixir (https://hex.pm/packages/quixir) - Property-based testing in Elixir Lee Artillery (https://artillery.io/) - performance testing tool Testing Pyramid (https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TestPyramid.html) - from Martin Fowler Craig Ansible (https://www.ansible.com/) Server builds/configs My server configs (https://github.com/boochtek/server_config) Linux or macOS software install/configuration My macOS configs (https://github...
Sep 24, 2017•51 min•Ep. 130
Links Maslow’s Hierarchy Needs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs) Picks Jason The DevOps Lego Chocolate Game (https://www.agilealliance.org/resources/sessions/introduction-to-devops-with-chocolate-lego-and-scrum-game/) - a great way to learn about DevOps practices and how to apply them on your team Team First Development (http://www.teamfirstdevelopment.com/) - 3-minute Improv games to improve team dynamics, collaboration and communication - all the essentials to have ...
Sep 17, 2017•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 129
Recorded at the Rolla Brewpub (http://www.publichousebrewery.com/rolla-brewpub/) Amos and Craig head out to a Brewery...Yes, a Brewery, and talk Josh Stacy, one of the co-owners of Public House Brewing Company. They talk about learning from our mistakes, continuous improvement, scaling, producing quality, and, of course, making beer. Picks Craig Being Employed ### Amos Farmhouse Ale (http://www.publichousebrewery.com/the-beer/) ### Josh Voltron (https://www.netflix.com/title/80075595)
Aug 20, 2017•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 128
Working from Home / Pairing Suggests on how to pair Mob Programming Picks Amos Maltopia, Hermitage Brewing (https://hermitagebrewing.com/beer/year-round/maltopia-scotch-ale/) Strange Loop (https://www.thestrangeloop.com/) ElixirConf (https://elixirconf.com/) Elixir Rocks Craig Ruby Conf (http://rubyconf.org/)
Aug 13, 2017•45 min•Ep. 127
Job Interviews Hiring without Whiteboards (https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards) The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/08/opinion/sunday/the-utter-uselessness-of-job-interviews.html) from the New York Times John Krewson (https://twitter.com/johnkrewson) - Casting Casting Casting Craig's standard interview questions (https://github.com/boochtek/checklists/blob/master/Interview-Questions.md) Picks Craig 99 Bottles of OOP (https://www.sandimetz.com...
Apr 24, 2017•38 min•Ep. 126
Picks Craig Supporting Open Source projects Ruby Together 5 Web Trends for 2017 Progressive Web Apps - mobile first, responsive, offline, cross-platform, Amos Elixir Daze - because I’m speaking The Commodore - Ballast Point brewer Stout All the Indiana Jones movies are on Amazon Prime, but we can ignore the one about aliens Unikernels - Defer Panic
Jan 29, 2017•50 min•Ep. 125
Below are the most impactful words that Craig and Jason selected from each of the 12 principles * Principle #1: Delivery & Customer * Principle #2: Welcome & Change * Principle #3: Frequently & Shorter * Principle #4: Business-People & Together * Principle #5: Trust & Trust * Principle #6: Face-To-Face & Conversation * Principle #7: Measure & Progress * Principle #8: Sustainable & Pace * Principle #9: Continuous & Design * Principle #10: Essential & Work *...
Jan 08, 2017•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 124
Amos interview David Bernstein
Dec 11, 2016•58 min•Ep. 123
Amos King interviews Fadik Houry, Francie Van Wirkus and Ryan Ripley following their presentations at Agile Dev East
Dec 04, 2016•53 min•Ep. 122
Amos King interviews John Krewson and David Hussman following their presentations at Agile Dev East
Nov 27, 2016•37 min•Ep. 121
Craig shows how to open yourself up for feedback as he and Amos discuss his recent presentation at Ruby Conf. Craig and Amos demonstrate how to do a retrospective with 2 people, and how to give and receive feedback.
Nov 20, 2016•34 min•Ep. 120
This presentation was recorded at Agile Gravy 2016 Trust Transparency Truth
Oct 02, 2016•55 min•Ep. 119
Co-location Remote teams Measurement and measuring
Sep 18, 2016•49 min•Ep. 118
Look out UK. Here comes Amos!
Aug 26, 2016•36 sec
