This Agile Life
A podcast devoted to agile and lean software development.
Episodes
September 26, 2019 • 58 mins
Items necessary for "Minimum Viable Airlines" and your "Minimum Viable Project". These are the items that we agreed we would need before embarking on a project together. Do you have all of these before you begin a project?
Destination - Project Vision
Altitude - Depth of backlog
Location - Progress (working software)
Airspeed - Speed of delivery and speed constraints
Fuel - Stories
Captain or pilot - A leader
Black box - Project da...
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September 19, 2019 • 62 mins
Join the guys as they, on the fly, create the Developer Experience Manifesto
Picks
Jason
Book - “Exactly What to Say: The Magic Words of Influence & Impact” by Phil Jones - great insights and straights on how many of the simple things we say (including on this podcast) impact how people perceive and respond to what we say as agilists - https://www.philmjones.com/exactly/
Product (for virtual teams) Sococo - Provides a virtual offic...
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September 5, 2019 • 50 mins
Scaled Agile and the similarities between hair styling and agilist.
The Picks
Craig
New version of git, introducing git switch and git restore:
https://github.blog/2019-08-16-highlights-from-git-2-23/
Lee
Pros and Cons of Scaled Agile
https://www.qasymphony.com/blog/pros-cons-scaled-agile-framework-safe/
Amos
Rocketbook Beacons
https://getrocketbook.com/pages/beacons-how-it-works
John
https://daliosprinciples.fireside.fm/ My new po...
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July 18, 2019 • 60 mins
In this thrilling episode of This Agile Life, Jason asks for advice from Craig, Amos and Lee on what kind of metrics development teams can provide so there is some level of predictability as to new when features will be available to users or potential customers.
Craig
I Estimate this Talk will be 20 Minutes Long, Give or Take 10 Minutes by Noel Rappin, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBMwT53oGsM
Concolic testing, https://en.wikiped...
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May 30, 2019 • 60 mins
Topics
Marriage Workshop
Skinny Agile
Commandments:
Working software, delivered in short intervals (weekly or more often)
Every story has to be deployed when it’s finished
Every story has to be valuable (to the stakeholders) and observable
Picks
Craig
Jessica Kerr’s talk about Opera at Agile: Deliver, https://www.agilealliance.org/resources/sessions/the-origins-of-opera-and-the-future-of-programming-jessica-kerr/
John
This is 40, h...
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May 9, 2019 • 49 mins
Jason and Amos in a steel cage match of death.
Picks
Tice
Live Event - Play For Agile NA - September 26 - 29, 2019 - Corwall, ON - Multi-Day Open Space conference focused on collaboration for high performing teams - theme this year is: Growing Empathy through Play - https://play4agilenorthamerica.com/
Elevation of Privilege - Card Game for Threat Modeling - Open Source thanks to Microsoft - Model Your Threats - https://www.microso...
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May 2, 2019 • 45 mins
What to do when team members don’t want to follow the established team rules? How to deal with your emotions getting the better of you?
How Craig prefers to work
* Introverted, but likes to work with people
* Thinking out loud
* OK with taking criticism in public
* Passive with ideas
The only thing you can control is how you act/react (Amos has been seeing this, but Tice brought it up)
Team-first development (https://www.teamfirstd...
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March 21, 2019 • 42 mins
How to tell how well your team is doing
* Happiness
* Productivity
* Informed (communication)
* Needed a break?
* Learned/improved?
* How many times did you feel pain?
* Trust
* Feeling important/useful
* Self-organizing
* Have you tried “all” the Agile practices?
* Amos: team complains about chairs
https://labs.spotify.com/2014/09/16/squad-health-check-model/
Picks
John
* Empathy Map exercise, https://www.solutionsiq.com/resource/...
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January 31, 2019 • 48 mins
Picks
John
* test && commit || revert with Kent Beck on https://hanselminutes.com/663/test-commit-revert-with-kent-beck
* GTD, for $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Things-Done-Stress-Free-Productivity-ebook/dp/B00KWG9M2E
Amos
* GullyTown Double Barrel Aged by Restless Spirits in Kansas City
* A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout
* Elixir Outlaws - https://elixiroutlaws.com
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January 24, 2019 • 47 mins
Picks
Craig
* A critique of “the 5 whys” (https://www.kitchensoap.com/2014/11/14/the-infinite-hows-or-the-dangers-of-the-five-whys/) (not the one I saw recently, but similar)
* Office Space scenes with the real Michael Bolton (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03lrL9CFWxM)
* Alchian-Allen effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchian%E2%80%93Allen_effect)
Amos
* People
* Paper
* Getting Things Done (https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Thi...
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January 28, 2018 • 48 mins
Links
Agile Connection (https://www.agileconnection.com/question)
Subway Map to Agile Practices (https://www.agilealliance.org/agile101/subway-map-to-agile-practices/)
Picks
Craig
Doug DeMuro car videos (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsqjHFMB_JYTaEnf_vmTNqg)
Auto Trader column called Oversteer
Music without lyrics, but that I like
2Cellos (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyjuFsbclXyntSRMBAILzbw)
Harp Twins (https://www.youtube...
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January 15, 2018 • 51 mins
Special Guests
Don Peters
Marc Chouinard
Topics
Real-Time Team Improvements
Setting Clear Objectives, Goals, and Working Agreements
Try Pair Testing in 2018
Find Your Personal Impact / Motivation
Picks
Liftoff (https://www.amazon.com/Liftoff-Start-Sustain-Successful-Agile/dp/1680501631/) (Book) by Diana Larsen & Ainsley Nies – provides specific methods for “agile chartering” to help teams define their vision, and then write mission...
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October 22, 2017 • 53 mins
Topics
Leadership by example
Picks
Craig
Clean Architecture (https://www.amazon.com/Clean-Architecture-Craftsmans-Software-Structure/dp/0134494164) by Robert “Uncle Bob” Martin
Building Evolutionary Architectures (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1491986360/) by Neal Ford and Rebecca Parsons
John
The Mother of All Demos (https://youtu.be/r6iADUTlqwQ), presented by Douglas Engelbart 1968
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (https://smi...
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October 8, 2017 • 51 mins
Discussion
The standardization of agile process across an organization.
Picks
Lee
22 Scrum Master Anti-Patterns (http://www.101ways.com/22-scrum-master-anti-patterns-job-ads/) from Job Ads, blog post by Stefan Wolpers
Nate
Mellowcreme pumpkins (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_pumpkin)
The Greatest Generation (http://www.maximumfun.org/shows/greatest-generation)
Amos (channeling Tice)
ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct ...
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October 1, 2017 • 48 mins
The Discussion
We discuss ways that you can create a virtual "Save Point" in your project, both technically and with your relationships.
Picks
Nate
Audible Content Exchange (http://acx.com)
Lee
Welcome Inn Manor (http://welcomeinnmanor.com/) - B&B in Chicago
Jason
Jason’s Recommended Bed & Breakfast in Boulder, CO - The Alps Canyon Inn (http://www.alpsinn.com/) - (Lee thinks they have great bathtubs) - http://www.alpsinn.com/
Let’...
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September 24, 2017 • 51 mins
Picks
Amos
Moon Monkey - Ginger Beer from Saint Louis’ Urban Chestnut
Quixir (https://hex.pm/packages/quixir) - Property-based testing in Elixir
Lee
Artillery (https://artillery.io/) - performance testing tool
Testing Pyramid (https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TestPyramid.html) - from Martin Fowler
Craig
Ansible (https://www.ansible.com/)
Server builds/configs
My server configs (https://github.com/boochtek/server_config)
Linux or macO...
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September 17, 2017 • 64 mins
Links
Maslow’s Hierarchy Needs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs)
Picks
Jason
The DevOps Lego Chocolate Game (https://www.agilealliance.org/resources/sessions/introduction-to-devops-with-chocolate-lego-and-scrum-game/) - a great way to learn about DevOps practices and how to apply them on your team
Team First Development (http://www.teamfirstdevelopment.com/) - 3-minute Improv games to improve team dynami...
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August 20, 2017 • 68 mins
Recorded at the Rolla Brewpub (http://www.publichousebrewery.com/rolla-brewpub/)
Amos and Craig head out to a Brewery...Yes, a Brewery, and talk Josh Stacy, one of the co-owners of Public House Brewing Company. They talk about learning from our mistakes, continuous improvement, scaling, producing quality, and, of course, making beer.
Picks
Craig
Being Employed
### Amos
Farmhouse Ale (http://www.publichousebrewery.com/the-beer/)
###...
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August 13, 2017 • 44 mins
Working from Home / Pairing
Suggests on how to pair
Mob Programming
Picks
Amos
Maltopia, Hermitage Brewing (https://hermitagebrewing.com/beer/year-round/maltopia-scotch-ale/)
Strange Loop (https://www.thestrangeloop.com/)
ElixirConf (https://elixirconf.com/)
Elixir Rocks
Craig
Ruby Conf (http://rubyconf.org/)
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