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 an…

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.…

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://getrocketboo…

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 Rap…

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/session…

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 M…

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…

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 Joh…

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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 Ou…

Picks Craig A critique of “the 5 whys” (not the one I saw recently, but similar) Office Space scenes with the real Michael Bolton Alchian-Allen effect Amos People Paper Getting Things Done - David AllenBy John Sextro

Links Agile Connection Subway Map to Agile Practices Picks Craig Doug DeMuro car videos Auto Trader column called Oversteer Music without lyrics, but that I like 2Cellos Harp Twins Lee Agile Connection Bonus pick not mentioned in the show John 2017 Top 66 Developer Resources Agile CoalitionBy John Sextro

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 (Book) by Diana Larsen & Ainsley Nies – provides specific methods for “agile chartering” to help teams define their vision, and then write m…

Topics Leadership by example Picks Craig Clean Architecture by Robert “Uncle Bob” Martin Building Evolutionary Architectures by Neal Ford and Rebecca Parsons John The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart 1968 The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Jason Liberating Structures - helpful and well designed frameworks for specific types of strat…

Discussion The standardization of agile process across an organization. Picks Lee 22 Scrum Master Anti-Patterns from Job Ads, blog post by Stefan Wolpers Nate Mellowcreme pumpkins The Greatest Generation Amos (channeling Tice) ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct How a Raccoon Became an Aardvark Deep Teases ;-) John WASD Keyboards…

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 Lee Welcome Inn Manor - B&B in Chicago Jason Jason’s Recommended Bed & Breakfast in Boulder, CO - The Alps Canyon Inn - (Lee thinks they have great bathtubs) - http://www.alpsin…

Picks Amos Moon Monkey - Ginger Beer from Saint Louis’ Urban Chestnut Quixir - Property-based testing in Elixir Lee Artillery - performance testing tool Testing Pyramid - from Martin Fowler Craig Ansible Server builds/configs My server configs Linux or macOS software install/configuration My macOS configs Puppet is also acceptable Chef is also acce…

Links Maslow’s Hierarchy Needs Picks Jason The DevOps Lego Chocolate Game - a great way to learn about DevOps practices and how to apply them on your team Team First Development - 3-minute Improv games to improve team dynamics, collaboration and communication - all the essentials to have a great team Live Event - Agile Midwest 2017 - Join @theagile…

Recorded at the 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### Josh Voltron…

Working from Home / Pairing Suggests on how to pair Mob Programming Picks Amos Maltopia, Hermitage Brewing Strange Loop ElixirConf Elixir Rocks Craig Ruby ConfBy John Sextro

Job Interviews Hiring without Whiteboards The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews from the New York Times John Krewson - Casting Casting Casting Craig's standard interview questions Picks Craig 99 Bottles of OOP by Sandi Metz and Katrina Owen I’ll be giving a workshop at Agile Alliance Technical Conference Smaller! - refactoring, story splitting, s…

Picks Craig Supporting Open Source projects Ruby Together 5 Web Trends for 2017 Progressive Web Apps - mobile first, responsive, offline, cross-platform, Amos Elixir Daze - because I’m speaking The Commodore - Ballast Point brewer Stout All the Indiana Jones movies are on Amazon Prime, but we can ignore the one about aliens Unikernels - Defer Panic…

Below are the most impactful words that Craig and Jason selected from each of the 12 principles Principle #1: Delivery & Customer Principle #2: Welcome & Change Principle #3: Frequently & Shorter Principle #4: Business-People & Together Principle #5: Trust & Trust Principle #6: Face-To-Face & Conversation Principle #7: Measure & Progress Principle …

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Amos King interviews Fadik Houry, Francie Van Wirkus and Ryan Ripley following their presentations at Agile Dev EastBy John Sextro