David Hussman | The Agile Revolution Podcast

The Agile community recently lost its friend and one of its most inspirational members in David Hussman. Craig and Tony were privileged to speak to him in one of his last interviews at YOW! Conference in Brisbane.

David Hussman’s YOW! 2017 talk “Learning in Product: How Wrong are You Ready to Be?”
“Extreme Programming Explained” is Agile’s White Album, just don’t read it backwards!
We make stuff up in software too much, rather than learning from the past and patterns
You can’t look at code and tell it is going to be a good experience and we don’t know our ideas are going to be great until we interact with them
The tenth principle – simplicity is essential
A good developer needs confidence and war wounds, same for Product Managers – they have shipped something crappy and don’t want to do that again
Cardboard User Story Mapping app
The Shallot (The Onion’s little brother)
Craig’s InfoQ interview with David Hussman
Dude’s Law – Value = Why / How, when how equals zero you get infinite value
Nonban – the least amount of process with the most real and measurable value
First follow the product, then follow the process
Product Discovery – you need a discovery cadence and a delivery cadence, we need product engineers as much as software engineers
Alan Cooper “You listen to what people say, but you don’t necessarily do it”
There is not enough written about how products are delivered well across multiple teams
We need more clever visualisations in our tools
We don’t need more UX designers, we need more people with UX skills
Interactions cut across stories – interaction driven design
Chaos engineering – moving beyond resilience to intuition, feels like the early days of Agile, no judgement just people trying cool things
ProductAgility.org website