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

Craig is at YOW! West in Perth and has a conversation with James Stewart, formerly Deputy CTO for the UK Government and co-founder of the Government Digital Service. In varying locations they talk about:

• YOW! West keynote “Lessons Learned as a Government CTO“
• UK government had some large IT failures  in the last like the NHS National Program for IT (12 billion pound failure), but now lots of successes like Spine 2
• Agile techniques have been successful in the UK government not just because other approaches have failed so badly but the cost of an IT project is only a fraction of the overall cost of a system
• The Government Design Principles – start with user needs – successful projects start with clearly articulated principles, did not realise how much they would resonate
• Worked around a number of government process early on, support from the…