This Agile Life

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 data or metrics Landing gear - A clear and well worn path to prod Good flight procedures - Working agreements FAA flight time restrictions for pilots - Sustainable pace Logbook - Source control Emergency slide - Good enough or a safe way to end a project on short notice Picks Jason Podcasting Innovation - it’s amazing how much has changed in the last 7+ years, thanks to all the people & companies that have created Goats to Go - www.goatsonthego.com - you can poop out the back of the airplane The Red Rubber Ball at Work - by Kevin Carroll - a fun book on practical strategies and why you should inject more fun into the workplace - http://kevincarrollkatalyst.com/books TV shows you can watch that Jason likes: Why Planes Crash Airline Repo John Uncle Bob, professionalism in software development and the future of programming, https://youtu.be/LmRl0D-RkPU Craig Waverunners Vacation from your vacation China Airlines Flight 006, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChinaAirlinesFlight_006 Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclearandradiationaccidentsand_incidents

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 office with different spaces for team collaboration, pairing, or solo work - creates the experience where people working virtually can drop in - www.sococo.com Live Event - Agile Midwest 2019 - Come hang out in the “Agile Lounge” to discuss advanced agile topics or attend any of the other 40+ sessions on the program - www.agilemidwest.org John Three Amigos, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092086/ WWT Software Development podcast episode on the Virtual Office, https://wwtapps.podbean.com/e/virtual-office-1563125261/ John's relatively new podcast, Dalio's Principles: A Philosophical Examination, https://daliosprinciples.fireside.fm/

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 podcast Dalio’s Principles: A Philosophical Examination

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.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concolic_testing * Concolic = concrete + symbolic Lee #NoEstimates Project Planning Using Monte Carlo Simulation, https://www.infoq.com/articles/noestimates-monte-carlo/ ActionableAgile, https://actionableagile.com/ Amos Agile and Beyond - Tom Churchwell, http://agileandbeyond.com Code Craftsman Saturdays - Bob Allen, http://codecraftsmansaturdays.blogspot.com Ford Agile Coaches - They are hiring agile craftsman who want to pair and do TDD email Fadi at [email protected] Give and Take - Adam Grant, https://www.adamgrant.net/give-and-take Jason Book - Lynn Cazaly - Visual Mojo – Learn how drawing can be easy and fun & Agile 2019 keynote speaker - https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Mojo-Express-Lynne-Cazaly/dp/0987462911 Video - Brene Brown – Netflix Special: Call to Courage – Learn how shame and vulnerability impact you and your team and what you can do about it – https://www.netflix.com/title/81010166 Event - Agile Midwest Call For Papers Round Two (Sept 25/26 in St. Louis, MO) – Congrats to our first round selections but it’s not too late to submit your idea to share OR improve your submission if you weren’t selected – www.agilemidwest.org

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, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1758830/

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.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=20303 Amos GigCity Elixir - October 17-19, Chattanooga, TN, https://www.gigcityelixir.com/ Property-Based Testing with PropEr, Erlang, and Elixir: Find Bugs Before Your Users Do by Fred Hebert, https://pragprog.com/book/fhproper/property-based-testing-with-proper-erlang-and-elixir Behind Human Error by a bunch of people, https://www.amazon.com/Behind-Human-Error-David-Woods/dp/0754678342

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.teamfirstdevelopment.com/) Vulnerability stories * Five Dysfunctions of a Team * The Advantage * Lead or Go First Tice’s advice on building trust * Share appreciation - more important than sharing constructive feedback (just appreciation & thank you) * Listen * Assume positive intent - assume that others are not out to get you * Share / Transparency Picks Tice * Agile Midwest 2019 - www.agilemidwest.org - Call for Awesome Sessions - now open - come share your ideas, help others learn, receive feedback and be part of the agile community. * Team exercise to learn how to work together better - Jason Lankow - https://medium.com/@jasonlankow/how-to-do-the-best-work-with-these-4-creative-types-5bf366a08f9c Amos * Ballast Point - Grapefruit Sculpin IPA * http://www.thelittletyper.com/ Craig * Single-Site Browsers (SSBs) * Coherence Pro (https://www.bzgapps.com/coherencepro) * Unite 2 (https://www.bzgapps.com/unite) * Fluid (https://fluidapp.com/)

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/blog-post/what-is-an-empathy-map/ Lee * Plickers - App for doing live anonymous polls, https://get.plickers.com/ Craig * TCR (test && commit || revert) - article by Kent Beck, https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/test-commit-revert-870bbd756864

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