Episode 23: Revealing Frequency Foundation

January 22, 2012 by The Agile Revolution

Craig and Tony listen to Renee’s revelations about the Frequency Foundation, and they talk about some Agile stuff too.

The Scrum Master Manifesto and Craig’s InfoQ article on it
Agile practice and work life balance
The 10 most annoying management terms of 2011
A quick introduction to Stoos (more on the next show)
Frequency Foundation’s Blog and the

Photo Analysis PDF (for

more details refer to Renee’s blog at http://agileforest.com).

Please note the 2007 reference to the start of the organisation is incorrect. The actual date was in April 2002.

Quotes:

My message to c-level group tomorrow: real agility's best measured by products produced, purchased and providing real value to real users.

— David Hussman (@davidhussman) January 9, 2012

If the Rapture doesn't happen today don't leap to the rational conclusion that its all made up illogical bullshit.
Just pick another date.

— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) December 31, 2011

To have affective alignment with agile, it is essential you find a way to bridge the technical practices of agile with business acumen

— martin kearns (@kearnsey) January 16, 2012

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Episode 22: New Years Revolutions

January 12, 2012 by The Agile Revolution

Craig, Tony and Renee get together before the Christmas and New Years break to catch up on all things Agile:

Punctuated Equilibriums, Containers, and all things complexity and where Kanban fits in by Yuval Yeret
Warm Gun: Design for Continuous Deployment by Luke Wroblewski
Where is the proof that Agile works? by Scott Ambler
Is the Agile community still ‘uncovering better ways of developing software’ or just debating on whether to implement Scrum or Kanban by Jordan Bortz
Thinker’s 50 list and Forbes post The Industrial Age has finally run out of gas: An interview with Don Tapscott

Quotes:

In TDD, the tests that you automate are not executable specs. They are executable questions based on assumptions. #agile #testing

— Paul Carvalho (@can_agile) December 11, 2011