In this previously lost and unreleased podcast from 2012 (we found it on a SD card that was thought to be lost forever), Craig catches up with Sandy Mamoli at Agile 2012 in Dallas, Texas and chat about Personal Kanban and how everything is bigger in Texas. It’s amazing how much hasn’t changed in this time!

• Agile 2012 talk “The Evils of Multi-tasking and how Personal Kanban Can Help You“
• Personal Kanban helps solves personal multi-tasking through giving you permission to single task
• The Kanbanfor1 board limits work in progress by limiting the amount of space you can place a sticky note in the work in progress column
• Jim Benson “Personal Kanban” book
• It’s easy to get started and requires no permission to do and is a sandbox for Kanban
• Coaches Clinic topics – testing in Agile, product ownership
• Jeff Patton talk “The Product Owner…

Craig is at YOW! Lambda Jam in Sydney and speaks with Naresh Jain, co-founder of the Agile Software Community of India (organising body of Agile India), conference organiser of many other software conferences in India and creator of ConfEngine and they chat about:

• The original Test Infected article
• Cruise Control started as an idea to write a cron job to check out code, compile and run tests
• Without good processes and tools the individuals and interactions become much harder
• Agile India conference – running since 2005, one of the earliest Agile conferences
• Agile is a given way to do things, but we are still not seeing the benefits – need to build capability in user first / product thinking, need autonomy to deliver end-to-end customer value (startups within a startup), need to build a learning culture and expert people / craftsmanship and need to focus on continuous delivery

After many failed attempts to get him on the podcast, Craig finally catches up with Dan North at YOW! Conference on his way out the door to the airport and in a quick chat they cover:

• BDD – developing an application by looking at its behaviour from the perspective of its stakeholders (people who’s live you touch)
• Given When Then – “given” is setting up the world in a well known way, “when” is me interacting with the application as a stakeholder and “then” is what I expect to happen
• BDD is not the same as writing automated tests, they are orthogonal – “Test-Driven Development Is Not About Testing“
• Software, Faster – collection of patterns for people who have been around Agile and are asking “now what” – “Software, Faster” book in progress
• YOW! 2015 talk “Delivery Mapping: Turning the Lights On“

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Craig is at YOW! Conference and catches up with Anne-Marie Charrett who is well known in the testing community as a trainer, coach and consultant but also for her support of the community:

• Don Reinertsen talk “Thriving in a Stochastic World“
• Context-Driven Testing
• Testing is a verb – it’s a doing thing and not an output, but the challenge is you cannot see doing
• Anne-Marie’s class in Exploratory Testing
• Where there is risk and failure, there is a job for testing
• Exploratory testing – the key is feedback and using the learning to feedback into the next test
• Agile testing – don’t try and test everything and don’t try and automate everything either, rather adopt a risk based approach
• Unit testing – the usefulness depends on the programmer and the context and figuring out what you are trying to achieve
• Sydney Testers Meetup
• Speak Easy – Speak Easy…