I chat with Ward about the 10th anniversary of the Agile Manifesto and his newest wiki project.  The best conversation happened directly after the podcast as we discussed what an audio wiki might look like.  Sorry the bits were not rolling on the digital recorder.

Hope you enjoy this.

-bob payne 

Ken and I talk about his ATDD book.  This is a topic that has been gaining a lot of traction in agile teams.  Acceptance Test Driven Development is a technique that some teams are using to improve quality and collaboration between business, testing and development. 

Enjoy,

-bob payne

Come join us at AgileDC on October 26th 2011.  This not for profit regional conference aims to have a wide varieity of talks, networking, open space and is one of the few conferences to have a Government track alongside an Agile Engineering track.

We are excited and hope to see you there.

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-bob payne

Ken and I chat about the Product Owner roll and the complexity that can emerge when we ask too much of the product owner.  This has always been a key role and we have sometimes dode the project a disservice by focusing the PO on the needs of development.  This can sometimes create a situation where the PO is focused too much on User Stories and not enough on the product context and value.  

It has been quite a wihle since I have chatted with Ken and I look forward to chatting with him again.

In addition to the other large conferences that Ken will be speaking at he will also be a keynote at the AgileDC conference.

Enjoy

Bob Payne

Kelly Allen is one of the foremost experts on Edward Deming.  I thoroughly enjoyed my conversation with him.  We wander from measurement, punishment by rewards, human factors in organizations and organizational development to education.  Kelly is an engaging speaker and conversationalist.

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

-bob payne

George and I discuss the finer points of appropriatly sizing User Stories to ensure that they can be delivered.  This is a fairly tricky process and is best figgured out by experimentation and ensuring that you have good examples.

Enjoy

Bob Payne

This has been sitting in the vault for a while.  The recording was not that great so please excuse the audio quality.  The content is great as I am speaking to Elisabeth Hendrickson.  

Elizabeth has been a force in the agile community for 10 years now and she was recognized for that last year at Agile 2010 with the Gordon Pask award.  

I finally caught up with her at ADP East 2010.  We talk about testing/test automation and acceptance test driven development.

Hope you enjoy it.

-bob payne

George and I talk about the importance of driving concrete examples to ensure high quality stories through the Three Amigos Process.  This process goes hand in hand with Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD)  

Teams using ATDD are showing improvements in defect rates and reducing missed "requirements" in the user stories.  

• Conversation is powerful
• Examples are Powerful
• Automated Tests are Powerful

Feel the Power.

-bob payne

I speak with Michael about the M word.  Yes Metrics and Agile teams have seemed to be at odds for a long time.  If you look at a large enough population of teams using many differing methods you can however glean information that is useful.  It turns out that on average Agile teams deliver on our goal of delivering higher quality software, predictably and without increasing costs.  There is a lot the data does not say about individual teams but this information is gold when approached by one of the remaining skeptics.

I hope you enjoy this podcast.

-bob payne

Johanna and I chat about the enterprise.  Again.  We talk about getting products out the door across teams to deliver value for your program. I am looking forward to chatting again with her this year.  

This area of project and portfolio management is an area that has been the source of many questions in enterprise adoption.  It is an area that begs for "situationally specific" implementations.

Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

-bob payne