Craig and Tony are at Agile Australia in Sydney and after many years of chasing him around finally get to speak to Jez Humble, co-author of many fine books including “Continuous Delivery“, “Lean Enterprise“, “The DevOps Handbook” and “Accelerate” and they discuss:

• Accelerate is based on a research program where practices are validated on the impact they had on various organisations
• Agile Australia keynote “The Key to High Performing Tech Organizations“
• There is enormous scope to extend the Accelerate-type research to the rest of the value stream
• “Thinking Fast and Slow” – Daniel Kahneman shows that you can measure psychological and behavioural science
• Project Aristotle by Google – were able to replicate results around culture
• State of DevOps Report
• Jeff Smith at Suncorp
• We all want to ensure that people and data are safe – need to…

Craig and Tony are at Agile Australia in Sydney and after many years of chasing him around finally get to speak to Jez Humble, co-author of many fine books including “Continuous Delivery“, “Lean Enterprise“, “The DevOps Handbook” and “Accelerate” and they discuss:

• Accelerate is based on a research program where practices are validated on the impact they had on various organisations
• Agile Australia keynote “The Key to High Performing Tech Organizations“
• There is enormous scope to extend the Accelerate-type research to the rest of the value stream
• “Thinking Fast and Slow” – Daniel Kahneman shows that you can measure psychological and behavioural science
• Project Aristotle by Google – were able to replicate results around culture
• State of DevOps Report
• Jeff Smith at Suncorp
• We all want to ensure that people and data are safe – need to…

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 fires some questions at Ron Lichty, co-author of “Managing the Unmanageable” and the “Study of Product Team Performance“:

• Author of machine Language programming books “Programming the Apple IIGS in Assembly Language” and “Programming the 65816“
• Managing the Finder team at Apple – hired for stellar C++ coding ability and customer empathy
• Software development is a team sport – including QA, a dedicated product manager / product owner and designers
• After Dark and Flying Toasters at Berkeley Systems
• “Managing the Unmnageable” is 9 chapters and around 300 rules of thumb and nuggets of wisdom (the creamy centre), the tools used to manage software development teams plus the authors own insights
• There were very few books (7 at the time) on managing software developers (unlike project management and agile)
• Fred Brooks – “The Mythical Man-Month“
• Situational Leadership – opens your…

Craig and Tony are at YOW! Conference and are honoured to sit down with Robert C. Martin (aka Uncle Bob), signatory to the Manifesto for Agile Software Development and author of numerous books including “Clean Code“, “The Clean Coder” and “Clean Architecture” and they discuss:

• YOW! 2016 keynote “The Scribe’s Oath” as well as “Effective Estimation (or: How not to Lie)“
• Software craftsmanship has always been the work of individuals – not sure we have really achieved collaboration in programming
• Pair programming – some surgeons like to wash their hands and some surgeons don’t!
• Woody Zuill’s talk “Mob Programming, A Whole Team Approach“
• CODE – Uncle Bob’s “terrible” software development process before he stumbled across Extreme Programming and the wiki
• Kent Beck’s “Extreme Programming” article for the C++ Report
• The story behind the forming of “The…

Craig speaks to Anders Wallgren from Electric Cloud about Continuous Delivery and DevOps at the Agile 2016 conference in Atlanta. The topic of conversation included:

• “Release It!” by Michael Nygard
• We can’t declare victory on Agile, but it is the winning methodology
• We are now plumbing the last mile of deployment and we also need to move it left
• Joshua Kerievsky Agile 2016 keynote on “Modern Agile“
• Software process is like human DNA, we are different but essentially the same
• Gene Gotimer Agile 2016 talk “Experiences Bringing Continuous Delivery to a DoD Project“
• You will fail if you don’t pay attention to the cultural aspects of Agile and DevOps
• State of DevOps Report
• Critical to automate everything to eliminate manual process errors and loss of valuable data
• DevOps is starting to push into complex and regulated environments like finance, health and aerospace with an…