Episode 147: Minimum Viable Airlines
This Agile Life
by John Sextro
4y ago
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 pa ..read more
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Episode 146: The Developer Experience Manifesto
This Agile Life
by John Sextro
4y ago
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 L ..read more
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Episode 145: Chaotic and Confusing
This Agile Life
by John Sextro
4y ago
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 ..read more
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Episode 144: Inconsistent at Best
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by John Sextro
4y ago
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/no ..read more
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Episode 143: Skinny Agile
This Agile Life
by John Sextro
4y ago
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 ..read more
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Episode 142: Alone in the Ring
This Agile Life
by John Sextro
4y ago
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 P ..read more
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Episode 141: Letting People Be Vulnerable
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by John Sextro
4y ago
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 a ..read more
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Episode 140: Squad, Squad, Squad, Squad
This Agile Life
by John Sextro
4y ago
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, h ..read more
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Episode 138: Dirty Diapers
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by John Sextro
4y ago
Some news with a side of agile. No diaper change required ..read more
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Episode 137: Geological Separation
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by John Sextro
4y ago
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 ..read more
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