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 wander around the hallways talking to different speakers, hosts and attendees:

• Highlights included Kent Beck keynote “3x Explore, Expand, Extract“, Anita Sengupta keynote “The Future of High Speed Transportation“, Brendan Gregg keynote “Cloud Performance Root Cause Analysis at Netflix” and Jessica Kerr (keynote “The Origins of Opera and the Future of Programming” and talk “Shaving the Golden Yak“)
• Mark Hibberd and Andrew Newman – Mark’s YOW! talk “Failure and Change – Principles of Reliable Systems” and enjoyed Kents keynote and the 3X framework which is easy to understand and important for hiring whilst Andrew has noticed how many fewer ORM and Java talks we have at YOW! now and enjoyed and was convinced by Anita’s keynote
• Randy Shoup – his YOW! talks(“Attitude Determines Altitude – Engineering Yourself