Craig and Tony are at YOW! conference in Brisbane and chat with Jutta Eckstein, author of “Agile Software Development in the Large“, “Agile Software Development with Distributed Teams“, “Retrospectives for Organisational Change” “Diving for Hidden Treasures: Uncovering the Cost of Delay in Your Project Portfolio” with Johanna Rothman and “Company-wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy: Survive & Thrive on Disruption” with John Buck

• Smalltalk and pattern languages was where a lot of the early work and a lot of the early players converged
• Scrum had great marketing and certification over Extreme Programming
• Agile Software Development in the Large came out in 2004 and was probably way before its time
• Craig Larman and Bas Vodde book “Scaling Lean & Agile Development“
• IBM book “A Practical Guide to Distributed Scrum“
• A framework is not…

Craig and Tony are at YOW! Conference in Brisbane and have a rockstar moment and catchup with Kent Beck, the creator of Extreme Programming, the pioneer of xUnit and author of numerous books including “Extreme Programming Explained” and “Test Driven Development“:

• Extreme Programming (XP) was born at Chrysler by letting go of conventional wisdom and pushing practices to eleven
• Software development is a social process, not a sum of individuals process
• Nobody cares about certificates, we care about competence
• It’s time for a renaissance and reboot of XP – this time it needs to be inclusive and no barriers to entry
• We know how to make a difference – it starts with execution and continues to empathy
• Big tent agility can become an excuse not to tackle hard problems
• “Not thinking about all the legs on the stool leaves you sitting on the ground”…

Craig and Tony are at YOW! Conference in Brisbane and catch up with Joshua Kerievsky, CEO of Industrial Logic and founder of Modern Agile and they talk about:

• Episode 20: Lean Start-ups with Joshua Kerievsky
• Industrial Logic and the Extreme Programming Playing Cards
• If you are a consulting company and don’t have your hands dirty building a product, you are missing out – try it out on yourselves before you try it out on your customers
• Episode 116: The Heart of Modern Agile
• Modern Agile recognises that there are other people who are not building software who also want to be agile and want to leverage the agile and lean concepts
• Modern Agile principles – Make People Awesome, Make Safety a Prerequisite, Experiment and Learn Rapidly and Deliver Value Continuously
• Lightweight methods movement came out of minimalism, but now we are in the Agile Industrial Complex – Agile has…

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…

The Agile community recently lost its friend and one of its most inspirational members in David Hussman. Craig and Tony were privileged to speak to him in one of his last interviews at YOW! Conference in Brisbane.

• David Hussman’s YOW! 2017 talk “Learning in Product: How Wrong are You Ready to Be?”
• “Extreme Programming Explained” is Agile’s White Album, just don’t read it backwards!
• We make stuff up in software too much, rather than learning from the past and patterns
• You can’t look at code and tell it is going to be a good experience and we don’t know our ideas are going to be great until we interact with them
• The tenth principle – simplicity is essential
• A good developer needs confidence and war wounds, same for Product Managers – they have shipped something crappy and don’t want to do that again
• Cardboard User Story Mapping app