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! Hong Kong and has a chat with John Sullivan, the CEO at Elabor8, and they talk about his Agile journey in Australia from ThoughtWorks to Sensis to Qantas to MYOB and the challenges and learnings along the way

• The Agile Revolution episode 159 “What Colour Agile Would You Like Today with Nigel Dalton”
• “Extreme Programming Explained” by Kent Beck
• Sensis was a very early corporate in Australia that adopted Agile from beginning to end, moved teams out of the building so they could work uninhibited in an Agile way
• The technology teams almost always aren’t the problem with product delivery – it is the product team taking an idea from the top to the bottom of the organisation and getting it in a form that is fit for customers
• Not happy Jan! – Sensis had their focus on print and was not…

Tony and Craig are at YOW! Conference in Brisbane and catch up with Rebecca Parsons, the Chief Technology Officer at ThoughtWorks and the co-author of “Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change” and chat about the following:

• Rebecca’s keynote talk at YOW! “The Past and Future of Evolutionary Architecture“
• Evolutionary Architecture is the next stage on applying Agile practices to software development at the systems level and be able to respond to changes in the environment that affect the architecture
• Need to determine for your system what constitutes good, fitness functions are the documentation and tests to ensure your system meets those characteristics
• Need to move the needle on architecture, need to develop tools and techniques to decompose the role
• Agile Alliance is looking at what it means to truly be an international organisation (there are now affiliates in Brazil and New Zealand), expanding conferences from…

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…

Tony and Craig are at YOW! Conference and in the hallway ambush Scott Shaw, the Director of Technology (Australia) at ThoughtWorks and talk about the state of microservices and Agile:

• Scott’s YOW! talk “Avoiding Speedbumps on the Road to Microservices“
• Microservices are just a different way to build applications that get away from monoliths
• Beth Skurrie, Evan Bottcher, Jon Eaves case study at YOW! – “The Odyssey – From Monoliths to Microservices at realestate.com.au“
• Essentials for microservices include Domain Driven Design, security and identity and change management
• Simon Brown talk at YOW! – “Agility and the Essence of Software Architecture“
• Cloud and infrastructure as code has changed the way we look at applications and have allowed microservices
• The essence of Agile is the team taking ownership of the business success of whatever it is they are building and keeping that ownership over the longer…