This Agile Life
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A podcast about what it is like to be agile in the real world.
This Agile Life
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
This Agile Life
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
This Agile Life
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
This Agile Life
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
This Agile Life
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
This Agile Life
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
This Agile Life
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
This Agile Life
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
This Agile Life
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