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…

Craig catches up with two luminaries in the Agile and Lean space, Mary and Tom Poppendieck at YOW! Conference to talk about agile, lean, rapid feedback, culture and leadership. The discussion points include:

• Making the link between lean and software development and discovering that waterfall makes no sense
• The origins of the first book: Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit
• Agile is not lean in software development, Agile is lean in a delivery organisation
• How long does it take you to put a single line of code into Production?
• The manifestation of lean really kicked off in 2010 with both the rise of DevOps and the Lean Startup
• Delivery organisations versus engineering organisations and the journey of Agile
• Agile has not well addressed delivering the right stuff, solving the right problem and the architecture of rapid deployment
• Only two goals at ING: Deliver every two weeks and don’t crash production, resulted…

At YOW! Conference, Craig has a chat with Peter Bell, a contract member of the GitHub training team, co-founder of CTO School and the founder of the Startup CTO Summit series and they talk about approaches to learning Git, building better CTO’s and digital literacy for MBA’s.

• YOW! 2014 talk “How To Undo Almost Anything with Git“
• Balance the appropriate batch size for communicating with your team the work you have completed versus the appropriate batch size for if you mess up you can easily go back – this is typically 2-10 lines of code to the local repository
• Most teams just need a master branch that is always releasable and all work done on feature branches that are merged into master
• training.github.com – training options and a number of great resources
• Learning Git – not easy to learn on the job, balance of basic how to use…

Clearing out the backlog, Craig and Tony roam the corridors at YOW! 2014 in Brisbane and talk to attendees and old friends and colleagues. Despite Tony’s fetish with pineapples and the fact it took 96 episodes to get a mention of ISO-9126 they talk to:

• Craig Aspinall on hosting the highly rated talk by Troy Hunt on “Hack Yourself First” and Peter Bell on “How to Undo Almost Anything with Git” and that listening to security talks is like watching horror movies, completely terrifying and entertaining at the same time!
• Jason Royals and Carlo Simbag on cheesecake and great talks by Troy Hunt, Jez Humble, Gojko Adzic and Gabrielle Benefield
• Andrew Newman on using Scala in the enterprise, keynotes from Martin Thompson and Todd Montgomery as well as Ed Kmett
• Sharon Robson on using Agile at Tatts Group, her favourite standard ISO-9126, Boehm’s Quality Tree, getting…