This Agile Life

John Sextro•www.thisagilelife.com

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A podcast devoted to agile and lean software development.

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Episodes

Episode 117: Rubber Duck Effect (Scrum to Kanban)

Scrum vs. Kanban

Aug 21, 2016•55 min•Ep. 117

Episode 116: It’s Called a Comic Book – Pt. 2 (State of Agile)

The Version One 10th Annual State of Agile

Aug 07, 2016•37 min•Ep. 116

Episode 115: It’s Called a Comic Book – Pt. 1 (State of Agile)

The Version One 10th Annual State of Agile

Jul 31, 2016•39 min•Ep. 115

Episode 114: You Can’t Handle the Truth (Trust, Truth and Transparency)

Dealing with constructive criticism

Jul 24, 2016•55 min•Ep. 114

Episode 113: Wiggly and Stabler (Return of Waterfall)

The Return of Waterfall, video from Kent Beck, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4IncnNVzMA Vision Strategy Product Design Engineering

Jul 17, 2016•44 min•Ep. 113

Episode 112: Agile Dev East

Special Guest: Lee Copeland, Conference Chair at Agile Dev East Discussion Agile Dev East Program Tracks Quality Software DevOps Agile Software Training Leadership Summit Social Networking The Expo

Jul 10, 2016•20 min•Ep. 112

Episode 111: Scrum (You Can’t Reason with a Methodologist)

Special Guest: Dave West, Product Owner at Scrum.org Discusses

Jul 03, 2016•51 min•Ep. 111

Episode 110: Silver Search (Trouble with POs)

Problems in communication and the behavior of a PO

Jun 26, 2016•46 min•Ep. 110

Episode 109: Slack Dander (Fallacies of Software Developers)

Todd Kaufman, Test Double Discussion Fallacies of Software Developers (Todd Kaufman’s presentation at Agile and Beyond 2016)

May 22, 2016•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 109

Episode 108: The Empathy Toy (Agile Technical Conf)

Agile Technical Conference April 2016 – Raleigh, NC From Agile Alliance

Apr 12, 2016•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 108

Episode 107: Ypsilanti Safe Space (Amplify Learning)

Lean Principle – Amplify Learning: what is it? How do I do it?

Mar 20, 2016•56 min•Ep. 107

Episode 106: A Drove of Asses (Team Cohesion)

Team Cohesion Forming, storming, norming, performing Leading from the back of the room Shared vision Pairing on story writing

Mar 13, 2016•45 min•Ep. 106

Episode 105: Elevator Retrospective

Diana Larsen, co-author of “Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great” visited St. Louis and held an opening gathering at a local agile meetup group. Some of our regular hosts from ThisAgileLife attended this event and took note of the following questions to discuss on a podcast episode to pass along some of the insights Diana shared and also to perhaps add a few of their own.

Jan 31, 2016•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 105

Episode 104: Chasing another Dragon (Too Reactive)

Released Sunday, January 17, 2016 Hosts: Amos King, Craig Buchek and John Sextro Discussion Too reactive to requests 7 Righteous fights Picks Amos Glenmorangie – The Quinta Ruban – 12 year single malt scotch finished in a port barrel New programming jargon from Coding Horror John 4 Hands – Absence of Light beer Bill Gates Reading List Craig Not drinking alcohol or soda The Scrum Guide Coding Horror Recommended Reading List for Developers Neil deGrasse Tyson Reading List...

Jan 17, 2016•47 min•Ep. 104

Episode 103: Chasing the Dragon (Giving Thanks for Agile)

Things we’re thankful for about agile

Nov 29, 2015•57 min•Ep. 103

Episode 102: We’re more similar than we know (Feedback Game)

Playing the feedback game

Oct 11, 2015•58 min•Ep. 102

Episode 101: Don’t Make Mud (Tech Debt)

Technical Debt Quote “Software is never finished” Phases of a project Race to market MVP MMF Growth

Sep 27, 2015•54 min•Ep. 101

Episode 100: First Agile Experience

Yay! We made it to 100!!!! The hosts sit down to share their first experiences with agile.

Sep 22, 2015•1 hr 53 min•Ep. 100

Episode 99: (Dealing with Negativity) Puns Everywhere

How to deal with negativity on a team Good naked and bad naked, Seinfeld reference

Sep 13, 2015•47 min•Ep. 99

Episode 98: (Aug. 2015 Agile LINC) Automate, Automate

Craig Buchek and Jason Tice both attended the August 2015 St. Louis Agile LINC user group meeting

Sep 06, 2015•42 min•Ep. 98

Episode 97: (Agile 2015 Wrap-up) Podcasting at a non-sustainable pace

Jason Tice and Natalie Simonsen Discussion Now that the Agile2015 conference has concluded, join Natalie Simonsen and Jason Tice for a round-robin discussion of their key take-aways and themes from the week

Aug 16, 2015•40 min•Ep. 97

Episode 96: (Agile 2015 – Friday) I like Big Boards

Stephen Vance shares highlights from the multi-team agile framework he has put in place at his organization with Natalie and Renee.

Aug 11, 2015•40 min•Ep. 96

Episode 95: (Agile 2015 – Wednesday) That’s a Wiener

ThisAgileLife celebrated a “winning” episode recorded immediately after guest Dan Parker and Jason Tice won prizes at the Agile2015 “Night at the Museums” vendor raffle event. Jason and Dan were joined by Melanie Hopwood and Charles Elsner (also attending the conference) to discuss sessions they attended on Wednesday, August 5, 2015.

Aug 07, 2015•39 min•Ep. 95

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