I have had the pleasure of working with Tom for over a year now.  This podcast was recorded some time ago. 

Tom represents the best of what I hope to achieve when working with organizations.  Reaching someone and changing their outlook on how they do their work and how they see themselves as a valuable asset within an organization.  He grabbed on to the bits that we gave and created his own vision of what he wanted to learn and teach his co-workers.

I think of him when I need to keep going in the never ending grind of a large agile roll out.  I gave him a spark and he has given me a Life Line. 

Enjoy

-bob payne 

I have worked with Jim on and off over the past year and he is one one of those people you do not forget working with.  Enough said about that.

Early on he had a lot of questions related to ROI Calculations and Business Alignment.  Over time he brought me closer to his view of Business Alignment and I convinced him that ROI Calculations were at best lies codified by rigorous technique.  It is always a pleasure when you learn from someone you are coaching.

I think he is Agile for life...Time will tell.

-bob payne

We talk about the importance of continuous integration as a practice for teams.  Continuous integration is a tool and it is a way of doing things within a team.  It is the lever to shoehorn many other practices into a team. 

-bob

This is a must attend event for folks using or contemplating using Agile Methods. The conference will be in beautiful Chicago August 24-28. If you have not yet signed up there is still time. Visit the site for more information. http://www.agile2009.org/ Remember to join me in the LiveAid stage this year. -bob payne

Kevin and I talk about the challenges of managing product development in large organizations.  We talk about the challenges of aligning teams and organizations in an agile services organization.

Kevin also discusses the value of UE integration in the Agile Process.

Kevin will be presenting at Agile2009 so make sure you look him up.

-bob payne

I worked with Mike for nearly a year at Nationwide and he is one of those folks that is hard to forget.  Passionate about the work and hungry to learn.  He was one of the driving forces behind the most experimental team I have had the pleasure to coach.

Enjoy.

-bob

George and I talk about the important practice of retrospectives.

Enjoy the podcast

-bob

I worked with Jill recently at Nationwide Insurance. She is an excelent scrum master and did a great job of ballencing the many competing forces in an agile team. I hope you enjoy this podcast. -bob payne

I speak with Tom and Charlie about the transition to agility for the Corporate Internet Services group at Nationwide. George Dinwiddie, Sanjiv Augustine and I worked with them for most of 2008 to structure and implement an Agile Transition in the CIS Department. That transition was featured in a PM Network article and was part of a larger groundswell of agile activity at Nationwide. I very much enjoyed working wit them and I hope you will enjoy the podcast. -bob payne

George and I talk with Sanjiv Augustine about the larger organizational issues facing Agile Transitions. We chat about strategies for adoption and the Agile PMO. Enjoy -bob payne

Nancy speaks to Jack about the Deep Agile conference and his work in the embedded world. Jack will be speaking at Deep Agile. If you are interested in Agile in the world of embedded systems this conference is an opportunity to explore or improve your use of agile methods in that space. Enjoy this podcast. -bob payne

George and I talk about the importance of team rooms. This can make all the difference in the world even if you do nothing else to improve a projects delivery. -bob payne

George and I take our first Listener Email. Tim wanted some clarification on Self Organizing teams. Enjoy -Bob and George

If I could put time in a bottle... Well not exactly. George and I talk about the importance of time boxing as an agile concept in this episode. Enjoy -bob payne

Nancy and James talk about the upcoming Deep Agile Conference. This sounds like a great conference and I hope some of you will get a chance to be there. Embedded systems present their own development/delivery challenges. If you are a beginner or an expert at Agile Embedded development you will find something at this conference. http://deepagile2009.eventbrite.com/ -bob payne

Self Organize ....... NOW.

No really, we think it is important to create an environment that allows your teams to flourish. This seems like a "Black Art" but with enough space and encouragement it can not be stopped.

Enjoy

-bob

Scott gives another entertaining presentation.  He talks about some very interesting survey information.  Take a look at it for yourself.

http://www.ambysoft.com/surveys

This one is a long one but worth it.

-bob

We start out the new Tips and Advice segment of the Agile Toolkit Podcast with the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. Hosts Bob Payne and George Dinwiddie converse about the Mnaifesto, it's principals and our experience living the dream that is Agile. Hope you enjoy the new format. More to come in shorter bursts. -bob payne

I met Adrian at Agile 2008 for the first time and had a nice conversation with him about batch processing, Scrum, Technical Practices, Fitnesse and his Podcasts. I hope I see him at Agile 2009. Enjoy

Doug is one of the members of 8th Light. I talk with him about his talk and the Apprenticeship model that they have at 8th Light. -bob

I talk with Jochen about his new Portfolio Management book among other things.  He has been working on a large agile transformation and give some insights into his rollout of agile.

A great listen if you are looking at scaling agile.

-bob

I spoke with Emily and Geoff at the end of the conference and we were all a bit tired.  Emily performed in the Coding With The Stars stage at Agile 2008 and gave a great run for the gold.  One especially interesting segment was the customer story testing segment.  For this segment Geoff played the customer and wrote a story test in TextTest and then Emily and  Michael Feathers made it pass.  This appearance of the customer was well received by the audience and judges.

Finally I get Geoff on a podcast.  I recorded him last year but he will jump the queue with this one.  Geoff works on a heuristic scheduling problem that is somewhat tricky to write acceptance and regression tests around.  To solve this problem he did wrote his own test framework, TextTest.

I hope you enjoy this power duo and I suspect we will see more of them in the agile space.

-bob

What can I say about this secular messianic figure that is constantly challenging and stretching agile methods to suit his will. Must be the portland air. We talked about Naked Planning for quite a while. He has essentially taken many of the techniques from Lean Software Development and warped them to suit his particular organization. He has a penchant for experimenting with his team and with his mind and he shares the results of those experiments in this interview. Enjoy -bob payne

I met Jon at my most recent client. He is a dynamic person and is highly committed to Agile Delivery. Jon has taken the enjoyable workplace and run with it. We talk about that topic and others in this interview. Expect to hear more from Jon in the Agile Community in the future. Enjoy. -bob payne

Esther and I talk about the conference OpenJam and making retrospectives stick. Enjoy -bob

I speak again with Johanna Rothman at Agile 2008.   Johanna and I talk about her new work on Agile Portfolio Management.   She will be the chair of the Agile 2009 conference in Chicago.  I am looking forward to her book and participating in the next Agile conference.

I hope you enjoy this podcast  as much as I did recording it.

-bob

I talk with Sanjiv Augustine about his work with Agile Project/Portfolio Management and the Middle Managers that execute projects within organizations. Sanjiv and I have worked together for years on client engagements, training and publishing. More recently we have been working to kick off Agile Philanthropy. LitheSpeed was the sponsor for the LiveAid Stage this year and you will be seeing more of Sanjiv and LitheSpeed in the years to come here on the Agile Toolkit Podcast. Enjoy. -bob payne

I spoke at the Agile IT X conference in Reston VA. This conference is put on by the No Fluff Just Stuff folks and ended up being quite fun. The Panel Discussion took some tangents as they always do but I think you will find it interesting none the less. It looks like they will be running several regional shows next year so drop by if you can and maybe I will see you there. Listen and enjoy. Bob Payne

We chat about their new book on Retrospectives and the Conference within a Conference (CWAC) at Agile 2007. I always enjoy chatting with Esther and Diana and hope to talk with them this year. The CWAC was a great at

Agile 2007 and I will be running the Live Aid Stage right next to the Open Jam space this year so I expect to see you there.


 -bob payne

I spoke with Nancy V. about her survey of bugs in agile teams and a lot of other topics. She has been a regular on the podcast and is always entertaining to talk to. Hope you enjoy. -bob payne

Deb Hartmann ... Deb Hartmann. She is not a Soap Opera from the 70's, she is the editor of the Agile Series at InfoQ. I've known Deb for a long time and got a chance to speak with her after here busy time at the conference. Enjoy -Bob Payne

Ole and I chat about the world of Agile Certifications, the conference and a bunch of other things. I first met Ole through his work with the APLN. Enjoy. -Bob Payne

I speak with Rick Mugridge about ZeBreve, Fit, and the conference. Enjoy. -bob payne

David Celimsky is one of the development powerhouses behind RSpec, one of the first frameworks for Ruby to implement the Behavior Driven Development process. BDD is an interesting process and I like the increased move toward using language that the "user" can understand when describing or systems in executable form. I can now put another face (not Dave Astels as I usually do) to RSpec David. David is great to talk to and I recommend accosting him at conferences to start up a conversation. Enjoy Bob Payne

I spoke with "Joe" Krebs at the Agile Conference regarding the somewhat contentious topic of certification.

Enjoy

-Bob Payne

I spoke with James Shore about his new book.  I have not yet read it but enjoyed the sample chapter that was provided int the packet.

My guess is that it will make it onto my permanent bookshelf.

Enjoy

-bob payne

Johanna is one of those people that I have just never run into until Agile 2007.  I really enjoyed my conversation with her and I believe that you will find it rewarding as well.

-bob

I recently attended the Gartner Mid-Size conference with Cyber Korp.  Cyber Korp provides Agile Development, Delivery and Transformations to organizations.  I helped them deliver a software project over two days of the conference using requirements that had been gathered from one of the IT executives at the conference. 

In this episode I speak with several folks from Cyber Korp and Paul Smith of ATA Airlines about his experience participating in a Micro Agile Project.  Like so many of the Executives at the conference, Paul had not been exposed to Agile Development before the conference.  He was a great customer and dove right into the 3x5 cards over breakfast on the first day and was gracious enough to show up for two mini UAT sessions where he got to give feedback and create new stories for the backlog.

Cyber had set up a Live Feed to their Agile Development Center in Chicago so that we could monitor progress and communicate with the development team there. 

Please enjoy the podcast.  I had a great time chatting with Paul and the folks from Cyber Korp

-bob

I finally got a chance to record a podcast with Josh.  He is great fun to chat with and has also produced a classic in the field.  If you do not have a copy of Refactoring to Patterns grab one for yourself or someone who develops code for a living.  We chatted about his companies new e-learning offering, certification and scaling teaching.

Hope you enjoy this as much as I did recording it.

Many more Agile 2007 recordings to come...

Enjoy the new (slightly) intro and lead out.

-bob payne

If you have not heard Pollyanna Pixton you are in for a treat.  Not only does she have the best Cold War Super Hero name of all the agilists she is a great speaker.  Enjoy this presentation that she gave to the Washington DC APLN chapter last year.

This has been sitting on my hard drive for a long time and it needed to get out.  Please do not be confused about the her reference to the Agile Conference it is a reference to last years conference.  The Leadership Summit did sell out and you can hear some of the sessions that I recorded and released last year.

I hope to get 2006 fully published by the time the Agile2007 conference comes around. 

-bob payne

I talked with Bruce Williams about the Ruby community near the Boulder, living in snow, the RailsEdge, Rails Plugins and UI Frameworks.  We talked about the tools that are available to Ruby and Rails developers and how these combined with attitude within the community may have created the sweet spot that Rails now occupies.  He also mentions that conferences should blur the line between speaker and attendee.

Bruce is a great guy and I think you will enjoy this interview.

- bob payne

In the first Agile Skypecast, Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin answers the
question of "What is Agile?" He goes back to the start, to the
Snowbird meeting, the formation of the Agile Alliance and the
drafting of the Agile Manifesto. He also looks at the core
principles and key practices of Agile software development.

This Skypecast was hosted and arranged by Tim Haughton and
had participants from around the globe.

Enjoy.

-bob payne

I spoke with Jim after his Rake Talk at the RailsEdge.  If this is not your favorite build tool now it will be.  Jim is the creator of Rake and RubyGems package management for Ruby.  These two tools have made my life a lot easier and if you have not used them, then you are probably not using ruby.  Jim talks about using Rake and db migrations with a recent java project. 

I also spoke with Jim about ruby test driven development.  It was great to see someone do tiny step TDD in a presentation that was not an eXtreme Programming demonstration.

Jim is the first of my guests to say "Your the AgileToolkit Guy ... I listen to the podcast!" or something to that effect.  Thanks for the interview and for listening to my podcast Jim.

Enjoy

-bob payne

I spoke with Ryan about Rally software and the Eclipse plugin that they are releasing.  We talk about the movement of teams from my favorite "Cards on a Wall" to the use of Rally for their planning and reporting. 

Ryan talks about his experience with the APLN Agile Leadership summit at the Agile 2006 conference. 

-bob payne

Joe and I talk about his work with XP Day around the globe.  We also enjoyed some excellent buffalo jerky from the farmers market in Minneapolis.  Joe has is the publisher of JUnit Recipes.  This book is a must on the bookshelf of any agile Java programmer.

I'm sure I will have more interviews with JB in the future so...Stay Tuned.

-bob

Steve talks to me about his research and finds some very interesting agile analogies in war fighting, traditional project success and cultures of success.  Steve is a great speaker and I personally like this podcast quit a bit and I'm sure you will enjoy it as well.

-bob

Barg and David are friends from DC and I wish I had gone to their workshop since I have an interest in movie making.  They have both presented papers on Agile in the Government space and this is a nice departure from that important but somewhat dry topic.

Hopefully I will soon get all of the Agile 2006 podcasts out of the way so that I can focus on Agile 2007.

-bob