Craig is at YOW! Lambda Jam in Sydney and speaks with Naresh Jain, co-founder of the Agile Software Community of India (organising body of Agile India), conference organiser of many other software conferences in India and creator of ConfEngine and they chat about:

• The original Test Infected article
• Cruise Control started as an idea to write a cron job to check out code, compile and run tests
• Without good processes and tools the individuals and interactions become much harder
• Agile India conference – running since 2005, one of the earliest Agile conferences
• Agile is a given way to do things, but we are still not seeing the benefits – need to build capability in user first / product thinking, need autonomy to deliver end-to-end customer value (startups within a startup), need to build a learning culture and expert people / craftsmanship and need to focus on continuous delivery
• Modern Agile (and Naresh’s input into the original article)
• Indian Agile community – a lot of interesting work happening in the FinTech space and startup in spaces such as health and messaging, a move towards innovation centres from cost centres
• YOW! West talk “Setting up Continuous Delivery Pipeline for a Large-Scale Mobile App“
• Code is a liability, need to focus on the problem we are trying to solve rather than perfect code or an over-complicated safety net, allows you to throw away code more easily, frequently and willingly
• Testing through dogfooding – want to be able to fix things faster rather than safeguard and guess what might break
• As thought leaders it is our responsibility to challenge our own beliefs, otherwise we stagnate
• Agility is how you think about the situation around you and be opportunistic about it
• What is the least I can do to make some progress today – Indian word Jugaad (get away with it)

TheAgileRevolution-158 (53 minutes)