Agile Toolkit Podcast

We start out the new Tips and Advice segment of the Agile Toolkit Podcast with the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. Hosts Bob Payne and George Dinwiddie converse about the Mnaifesto, it's principals and our experience living the dream that is Agile. Hope you enjoy the new format. More to come in shorter bursts. -bob payne

I met Adrian at Agile 2008 for the first time and had a nice conversation with him about batch processing, Scrum, Technical Practices, Fitnesse and his Podcasts. I hope I see him at Agile 2009. Enjoy

Doug is one of the members of 8th Light. I talk with him about his talk and the Apprenticeship model that they have at 8th Light. -bob

I talk with Jochen about his new Portfolio Management book among other things.  He has been working on a large agile transformation and give some insights into his rollout of agile.A great listen if you are looking at scaling agile.-bob

I spoke with Emily and Geoff at the end of the conference and we were all a bit tired.  Emily performed in the Coding With The Stars stage at Agile 2008 and gave a great run for the gold.  One especially interesting segment was the customer story testing segment.  For this segment Geoff played the customer and wrote a story test in TextTest and then Emily and  Michael Feathers made it pass.  This appearance of the customer was well received by the audience and judges. Finally I get Geoff on a podcast.  I recorded him last year but he will jump the queue with this one.  Geoff works on a heuristic scheduling problem that is somewhat tricky to write acceptance and regression tests around.  To solve this problem he did wrote his own test framework, TextTest.I hope you enjoy this power duo and I suspect we will see more of them in the agile space.-bob

What can I say about this secular messianic figure that is constantly challenging and stretching agile methods to suit his will. Must be the portland air. We talked about Naked Planning for quite a while. He has essentially taken many of the techniques from Lean Software Development and warped them to suit his particular organization. He has a penchant for experimenting with his team and with his mind and he shares the results of those experiments in this interview. Enjoy -bob payne

I met Jon at my most recent client. He is a dynamic person and is highly committed to Agile Delivery. Jon has taken the enjoyable workplace and run with it. We talk about that topic and others in this interview. Expect to hear more from Jon in the Agile Community in the future. Enjoy. -bob payne

I speak again with Johanna Rothman at Agile 2008.   Johanna and I talk about her new work on Agile Portfolio Management.   She will be the chair of the Agile 2009 conference in Chicago.  I am looking forward to her book and participating in the next Agile conference.I hope you enjoy this podcast  as much as I did recording it.-bob

I talk with Sanjiv Augustine about his work with Agile Project/Portfolio Management and the Middle Managers that execute projects within organizations. Sanjiv and I have worked together for years on client engagements, training and publishing. More recently we have been working to kick off Agile Philanthropy. LitheSpeed was the sponsor for the LiveAid Stage this year and you will be seeing more of Sanjiv and LitheSpeed in the years to come here on the Agile Toolkit Podcast. Enjoy. -bob payne

I spoke at the Agile IT X conference in Reston VA. This conference is put on by the No Fluff Just Stuff folks and ended up being quite fun. The Panel Discussion took some tangents as they always do but I think you will find it interesting none the less. It looks like they will be running several regional shows next year so drop by if you can and maybe I will see you there. Listen and enjoy. Bob Payne

We chat about their new book on Retrospectives and the Conference within a Conference (CWAC) at Agile 2007. I always enjoy chatting with Esther and Diana and hope to talk with them this year. The CWAC was a great at Agile 2007 and I will be running the Live Aid Stage right next to the Open Jam space this year so I expect to see you there. -bob payne

I spoke with Nancy V. about her survey of bugs in agile teams and a lot of other topics. She has been a regular on the podcast and is always entertaining to talk to. Hope you enjoy. -bob payne

Deb Hartmann ... Deb Hartmann. She is not a Soap Opera from the 70's, she is the editor of the Agile Series at InfoQ. I've known Deb for a long time and got a chance to speak with her after here busy time at the conference. Enjoy -Bob Payne

Ole and I chat about the world of Agile Certifications, the conference and a bunch of other things. I first met Ole through his work with the APLN. Enjoy. -Bob Payne

I speak with Rick Mugridge about ZeBreve, Fit, and the conference. Enjoy. -bob payne

David Celimsky is one of the development powerhouses behind RSpec, one of the first frameworks for Ruby to implement the Behavior Driven Development process. BDD is an interesting process and I like the increased move toward using language that the "user" can understand when describing or systems in executable form. I can now put another face (not Dave Astels as I usually do) to RSpec David. David is great to talk to and I recommend accosting him at conferences to start up a conversation. Enjoy Bob Payne

I spoke with "Joe" Krebs at the Agile Conference regarding the somewhat contentious topic of certification.Enjoy-Bob Payne

I spoke with James Shore about his new book.  I have not yet read it but enjoyed the sample chapter that was provided int the packet.My guess is that it will make it onto my permanent bookshelf.Enjoy-bob payne

Johanna is one of those people that I have just never run into until Agile 2007.  I really enjoyed my conversation with her and I believe that you will find it rewarding as well.-bob