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 fires some questions at Ron Lichty, co-author of “Managing the Unmanageable” and the “Study of Product Team Performance“:

• Author of machine Language programming books “Programming the Apple IIGS in Assembly Language” and “Programming the 65816“
• Managing the Finder team at Apple – hired for stellar C++ coding ability and customer empathy
• Software development is a team sport – including QA, a dedicated product manager / product owner and designers
• After Dark and Flying Toasters at Berkeley Systems
• “Managing the Unmnageable” is 9 chapters and around 300 rules of thumb and nuggets of wisdom (the creamy centre), the tools used to manage software development teams plus the authors own insights
• There were very few books (7 at the time) on managing software developers (unlike project management and agile)
• Fred Brooks – “The Mythical Man-Month“
• Situational Leadership – opens your…

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! Singapore and catches up with Stanly Lau, organiser of the Agile Singapore conference and the Agile Singapore meetup:

• Bas Vodde was one of the early advocates for Agile in Singapore
• The state of Agile in Singapore has progressed from “doing a standup” in 2010 to now many companies thinking about how they develop software better
• A lack of knowledge in design principles by new software developers seems to affect how they tackle problems
• The art of being able to sit down and pair in a team is an art that is being lost in the Agile community
• You can learn a lot about a team by looking at their codebase
• Good agile development practices require know-how and habit – does not come by nature

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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…