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 is at YOW! Hong Kong and is sitting with Nigel Dalton, Chief Inventor at REA Group and the Australian “Godfather of Agile” and they reminisce about:

• Anita Sengupta’s YOW! Hong Kong keynote “The Future of Mars Exploration“
• Akin’s Rules of Spacecraft Design – “don’t mess it up, there are people involved”
• Nigel Dalton’s YOW! Hong Kong talk “Agile is the Last Thing You Need“
• The two early experiments of Agile in Australia – Lonely Planet and Suncorp
• The success of the REA technology teams today was the move into multidisciplinary teams where the influence comes from product – it was a difficult decision and chaos at the time
• John Sullivan’s YOW! Hong Kong talk “A Presentation to Myself on Organisational Agile Transformations“
• ANZ is disrupting the power base of senior management – Shayne Elliott video about their way of working and Bluenotes…