Craig is in Atlanta at Agile 2016 and catches up with Michael Feathers, author of “Working Effectively with Legacy Code” and they talk about the following:

• Working Effectively with Legacy Code originally started as a book about Test First Programming but morphed into a book about the techniques for refactoring code in legacy systems
• The Pinned Progress Curve – for many people there is no incentive to change so the mean gets larger between the status quo and good practices
• Agile Alliance Deliver:Agile conference
• Organisations that have technical founders have a very different character to their work internally, need to make knowledge of the quality of software more pervasive – the business need to understand more about the technical side, and the developers need to understand more about the business
• Code that has excessive error handling typically has other design problems – benefit in thinking about whether…

Craig sits down with Zubin Irani, the CEO of cPrime, at the Agile 2016 conference in Atlanta and chats about:

• CPrime is the largest Atlassian implementer and platinum partner
• Need to make sure that ALM products work with your process and support and enable it
• One of the big gaps in the Coaching world is coaches are staying away from technology – we have to leverage technology
• SSLM (Software Service Lifeycle Management) – Agile, DevOps and ALM initiatives are fragmented, they need to interact and have dependencies on each other
• 5 big trends – Agile beyond development, DevOps is taking centre stage, every company is a software company, digital transformation and the talent crunch
• Agile Hardware – how do you build hardware in a more iterative way, how do we think about hardware and software being built together, how do we think about different about hardware design to…

Craig sits down with Sally Elatta, Founder and President of Agile Transformation and AgilityHealth at the Agile 2016 Conference in Atlanta and they talk about:

• First things first, the AgilityHealth discs are not a frisbee!
• The AgilityHealth vision is to help Agile teams have a consistent way to measure their health and performance and see the results in a visual way and secondly for leadership to understand the cause and effect – the radar opens up a conversation
• AgilityHealth radars
• The team radar has five dimensions – leadership, performance, clarify, foundation and culture – a healthy team should have these
• It is not a survey tool, it is a facilitated retrospective to promote healthy conversation and create an action plan
• We should be doing tactical retrospectives every sprint, but the missing component is strategic retrospectives once every quarter
• Business agility relies on having healthy teams
• Many other radars including…

Craig sits down with Jake Brereton from Atlassian who is the Senior Product Marketing Manager of JIRA while roaming the product halls at Agile 2016 in Atlanta.

• JIRA is no longer just JIRA, now people outside of software are using it – now JIRA Software (that includes JIRA Agile), JIRA Core (lightweight version of JIRA) and JIRA Service Desk
• Over 70% of users were using JIRA Agile
• JIRA has over 1,000 addons in the Atlassian Marketplace, some exciting work being done around analytics and data
• Many organisations are starting to question whether they need to adhere to all of the practices and overheads – find the way that is most efficient and productive that works for you
• The double-edged sword of how configurable and customisable JIRA is – improved onoboarding experience, test instance with demo data and an active online presence
• Acquisition of Status Page
• Launched JIRA Software Mobile and…