Tony and Craig are at YOW! Conference in Brisbane and chat to Jessica Kerr, software developer, consultant and symmathecist (look it up or listen to the podcast) and apart from our first live podcast sneeze they talk about:

• YOW! 2018 keynote “The Origins of Opera and the Future of Programming“
• YOW! 2018 talk “Shaving the Golden Yak“
• Great teams make great people – if you want to become great as a developer, focus on the team
• You can’t document what is obvious to you – whenever you say the word obviously, replace it with “I cant explain it, but…”
• Yak shaving – all the tasks that you do that get in the way of your work
• If you are an agile person but you wish agile had more code in it – go to the Domain Driven Design community
• We need to embrace complexity…

Craig and Tony wander the lunchtime floor on day 2 of Agile Australia conference in Sydney, looking for more interesting people in the Australian Agile community. They chatted to the ones who couldn’t quite run fast enough away from the microphone including:

• NZ Ben Gracewood (Vend) and Anders Ivarsson (Spotify) – overview of Ben’s talk “What if there were no rules?“, Tony learning a new word (connaissance) and the motto of not being a “duck” is his talk and Anders about his talk “Autonomy and Leadership at Spotify” and that we shouldn’t call Spotify a model!
• Chris Chan and Dylan Verheijden – the (Agile) Australian tradition of the Tim Tam Slam, Linda Rising’s keynote and her myth on smart people not being rational, James Shore’s keynote and inspirations around the Agile Fluency Model
• Bernd Schiffer and Poppy Schiffer (#agilebaby) – Bernd’s talk “Concrete experimentation in Agile environments