Infrastructure | The Agile Revolution Podcast

Sitting in a sometimes noisy coffee shop on a unusually cold Brisbane day, Craig sits down for a chat with Justin Hennessy, a Scrum Master, Devops and System Administrator all rolled into one!

“An Agile Team Reset” article on the Scrum Alliance
The High Performance Tree by Lyssa Adkins
resetting awesome
early Agile experience shaped by “User Stories Applied” by Mike Cohn
“Coaching Agile Teams” by Lyssa Adkins reshapes the way of thinking about about teams
Agile in Adelaide versus Agile in Brisbane
Coaching Circles with Lyssa Adkins
Devops is more of a culture than a title
being a Scrum Master on a single team is hard and the full-time role debate
infrastructure has become a form of coding in itself
infrastructure resource as part of a core Agile team
better management and testing of configuration artefacts, unit testing and CI frameworks
infrastructure deployment tools are often just another thing to maintain
our job as Agile people is to help organisations evolve and change
resetting the expectations of good enough

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From YOW! 2013, Craig and Renee talk to Joel Pobar, currently working at Facebook as an Engineering Lead and talk about:

Joel’s journey to Facebook
Common Language Runtime (CLR)
Building and shipping fast
The value of a developers time and their critical paths
A day in the life of a Facebook manager
Who is the Product Owner in an infrastructural team?
A/B (experimentation) testing in New Zealand
Stabalisation and release process
Recruiting the right people
Pulling out the sharpies when pivoting on PHP
Striving for infrastructural efficiency and how to empower the team to this goal
Owning the stack from the bottom to the top and its impact on agility
Checkout HHVM, the Facebook Engineering Blog & Open Compute