Tony and Craig are at YOW! Conference in Brisbane and chat to Jessica Kerr, software developer, consultant and symmathecist (look it up or listen to the podcast) and apart from our first live podcast sneeze they talk about:

• YOW! 2018 keynote “The Origins of Opera and the Future of Programming“
• YOW! 2018 talk “Shaving the Golden Yak“
• Great teams make great people – if you want to become great as a developer, focus on the team
• You can’t document what is obvious to you – whenever you say the word obviously, replace it with “I cant explain it, but…”
• Yak shaving – all the tasks that you do that get in the way of your work
• If you are an agile person but you wish agile had more code in it – go to the Domain Driven Design community
• We need to embrace complexity…

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 and Tony are at YOW! conference in Brisbane and chat with Jutta Eckstein, author of “Agile Software Development in the Large“, “Agile Software Development with Distributed Teams“, “Retrospectives for Organisational Change” “Diving for Hidden Treasures: Uncovering the Cost of Delay in Your Project Portfolio” with Johanna Rothman and “Company-wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy: Survive & Thrive on Disruption” with John Buck

• Smalltalk and pattern languages was where a lot of the early work and a lot of the early players converged
• Scrum had great marketing and certification over Extreme Programming
• Agile Software Development in the Large came out in 2004 and was probably way before its time
• Craig Larman and Bas Vodde book “Scaling Lean & Agile Development“
• IBM book “A Practical Guide to Distributed Scrum“
• A framework is not…

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 in Brisbane and wander around the hallways talking to different speakers, hosts and attendees:

• Highlights included Kent Beck keynote “3x Explore, Expand, Extract“, Anita Sengupta keynote “The Future of High Speed Transportation“, Brendan Gregg keynote “Cloud Performance Root Cause Analysis at Netflix” and Jessica Kerr (keynote “The Origins of Opera and the Future of Programming” and talk “Shaving the Golden Yak“)
• Mark Hibberd and Andrew Newman – Mark’s YOW! talk “Failure and Change – Principles of Reliable Systems” and enjoyed Kents keynote and the 3X framework which is easy to understand and important for hiring whilst Andrew has noticed how many fewer ORM and Java talks we have at YOW! now and enjoyed and was convinced by Anita’s keynote
• Randy Shoup – his YOW! talks(“Attitude Determines Altitude – Engineering Yourself