Craig and Tony are at Agile Australia in Sydney and after many years of chasing him around finally get to speak to Jez Humble, co-author of many fine books including “Continuous Delivery“, “Lean Enterprise“, “The DevOps Handbook” and “Accelerate” and they discuss:

• Accelerate is based on a research program where practices are validated on the impact they had on various organisations
• Agile Australia keynote “The Key to High Performing Tech Organizations“
• There is enormous scope to extend the Accelerate-type research to the rest of the value stream
• “Thinking Fast and Slow” – Daniel Kahneman shows that you can measure psychological and behavioural science
• Project Aristotle by Google – were able to replicate results around culture
• State of DevOps Report
• Jeff Smith at Suncorp
• We all want to ensure that people and data are safe – need to…

Craig and Tony are at Agile Australia in Sydney and after many years of chasing him around finally get to speak to Jez Humble, co-author of many fine books including “Continuous Delivery“, “Lean Enterprise“, “The DevOps Handbook” and “Accelerate” and they discuss:

• Accelerate is based on a research program where practices are validated on the impact they had on various organisations
• Agile Australia keynote “The Key to High Performing Tech Organizations“
• There is enormous scope to extend the Accelerate-type research to the rest of the value stream
• “Thinking Fast and Slow” – Daniel Kahneman shows that you can measure psychological and behavioural science
• Project Aristotle by Google – were able to replicate results around culture
• State of DevOps Report
• Jeff Smith at Suncorp
• We all want to ensure that people and data are safe – need to…

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 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…

Craig is in Atlanta at Agile 2016 and catches up with Michael Feathers, author of “Working Effectively with Legacy Code” and they talk about the following:

• Working Effectively with Legacy Code originally started as a book about Test First Programming but morphed into a book about the techniques for refactoring code in legacy systems
• The Pinned Progress Curve – for many people there is no incentive to change so the mean gets larger between the status quo and good practices
• Agile Alliance Deliver:Agile conference
• Organisations that have technical founders have a very different character to their work internally, need to make knowledge of the quality of software more pervasive – the business need to understand more about the technical side, and the developers need to understand more about the business
• Code that has excessive error handling typically has other design problems – benefit in thinking about whether…