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 catches up with Sally Elatta, president of Agile Transformation and the founder of Agility Health Radar and they chat about:

• Companies struggle to get the metrics to know if their agile transformations are making a difference, hence the creation of Agility Health Radar
• Business Agility pillars – customer seat at the table, lean portfolio management, organisation structure and design, agile framework, leadership and culture, make it stick, technology agility and agility metrics
• DevOps pillars – faster value delivery, higher quality, culture of improvement and building the right product

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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…