Craig and Tony at the Agile Australia conference sit down with James Shore, best known as for his work as author of “The Art of Agile Development” and co-creator of the Agile Fluency Model and talk about a wide range of Agile topics including:
- “Java Modeling in Color with UML” book mentioned Feature Driven Development (an Australian Agile method!), learnt a valuable lesson to pay attention to the financials and, no matter how much you talk to your customer, seeing is not enough (they need to use it)
- “Extreme Programming Explained“, both editions are the same problem but coming from different experiences with the benefit of seven years of experience
- the bulk of the “Art of Agile Development” book, particularly section 2, is mostly online, the major thing that probably needs to be updated is the section on customer testing
- Agile Australia keynote “The Reward”
- language hunting – there are multiple levels of language proficiency and you can be fluent at any one of them – proficiency is good, but to be really good you need fluency
- Agile Fluency whitepaper
- the agile fluency model is not a maturity model, it is about finding the right bus stop
- Marick’s Missing Manifesto (the things missing from the manifesto) – skill, discipline, ease and joy
- fluency comes more from the organisational investment than the team, so if you are not seeing fluency look at the organisation first
- one star is doing Scrum well – with dedicated effort in 2-6 weeks, two stars with mentorship in 3-9 months, three stars takes a lot longer
- the model is aspirational, so the barriers are high
- Gamasutra Games Outcomes Project
- next steps for the model is to share the diagnostics with organisations to help teams compare, contrast and grow
- “Bloody Stupid Johnson Teaches Agile” with Arlo Belshee
- the model will work regardless of the method used, its a way of looking at where you are at and not how you do it
- we should take anybody who fits into the values of the Agile Manifesto
- “Let’s Code JavaScript” started as a Kickstarter, now 300+ episodes
- Quixote project allows you to test drive CSS and refactor it
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