Craig and Tony are at YOW! Conference in Brisbane and (despite a bin rolling by) sit down with Barry O’Reilly, co-author of “Lean Enterprise” and author of “Unlearn” and they talk about:

• Reminiscing about Barry’s resume that includes CitySearch (and its competitor Zip2 owned by Elon Musk), Snake, Wireless Pets on Nokia and Lilo & Stitch using J2ME and eventually onto ThoughtWorks
• Lean Enterprise was written after “The Lean Startup” was released but to explain how it works if you are not a startup and increase experimentation in organisations
• When people can design good disciplined experiments, you have system to break down problems and grow your system and people
• Fortune 15 executives and successful startup leaders don’t sit around and ask “if we are doing the framework correctly”- they have their own system, in the same way as Toyota created their…

Craig is at YOW! Conference and has a conversation with James Lewis, best known for his work around microservices at ThoughtWorks. They discuss:

• “Microservices: a definition of this new architectural term” article with Martin Fowler
• Huge cycle of hype around the term “microservices”
• You have to run so fast to keep up with the great people at ThoughtWorks you end up accidentally doing interesting things
• Cruise Control became Cruise that became GoCD which was open source then went commercial and then went back open source
• Extreme Programming (XP) is complementarianism – the sum is greater than the parts
• YOW! 2015 talk “Microservices – Building Software that is #neverdone“
• Microservices – systems that are composed of parts that you can independently throw away – the analogy of “My Family’s Axe” (Terry Pratchett)
• Business and architecture isomorphism – if you look at your architecture you should be able…