Craig and Tony are at YOW! Conference in Brisbane and wander around the hallways talking to different speakers, hosts and attendees:

• Highlights included Kent Beck keynote “3x Explore, Expand, Extract“, Anita Sengupta keynote “The Future of High Speed Transportation“, Brendan Gregg keynote “Cloud Performance Root Cause Analysis at Netflix” and Jessica Kerr (keynote “The Origins of Opera and the Future of Programming” and talk “Shaving the Golden Yak“)
• Mark Hibberd and Andrew Newman – Mark’s YOW! talk “Failure and Change – Principles of Reliable Systems” and enjoyed Kents keynote and the 3X framework which is easy to understand and important for hiring whilst Andrew has noticed how many fewer ORM and Java talks we have at YOW! now and enjoyed and was convinced by Anita’s keynote
• Randy Shoup – his YOW! talks(“Attitude Determines Altitude – Engineering Yourself

Craig and Tony are at YOW! Conference and get the opportunity to sit down with Dave Thomas, signatory to the Manifesto for Agile Software Development and have a great discussion about:

• Dave’s talk “Agile is Dead (Long Live Agility)“
• Agile as a word has become meaningless, don’t follow the off-the-shelf processes, apply small corrections to move forward
• Story of Stone Soup is like Agile consultancies, the hard work is done by the companies
• Scrum is a good starting point due to its simplicity
• Raccoon is a noun, so not a good replacement name for Agile, because you can buy a pound of it
• 1,000 working on one thing can never be Agile, you have to make enterprises agile before you can run an agile project
• The values in the Agile Manifesto hold up well, would have been nice to have had more diversity, had no expectation they were…

Craig and Tony are once again roaming the lunch hall at YOW! 2015 in Brisbane, where they catch up with a number of people including:

• Dave Thomas – founder of YOW! Conference discusses the success of YOW! Conference in Australia and how he didn’t go to Snowbird for the signing of the Agile Manifesto
• Peter Sellars –  quality and DevOps dude shares what he learnt at DockerCon and his highlights at YOW! including “Building Microservice Architectures in Go” and “Designing for Failure: Scaling Uber’s Backend by Breaking Everything“
• Nardene Smith – from Interpro recruitment, talks about the Mars lander keynote “Engineering and Exploring the Red Planet” and she gives Tony some “stuck”
• Matt Callanan, Ben Spillane and Alex Spillane – Matt and Alex’s talk at YOW! “DevOps @ Wotif: Making Easy = Right” as well as discussing “Agile is Dead”
• Nigel Rausch