Agile Toolkit

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

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

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

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 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

Jaraed is one of several authors that I met at the NFJS conference here in the DC area.  He has a book out called Just Ship It and I believe that you should take a look at it.  It offers advice that can allow nearly any shop to make there process more Agile.

Enjoy.

-bob payne

Are you ready for Aspect Oriented Programming, if not give this a listen and hopefully you will learn a bit more about the topic from Ramnivas.  I met him at the NFJS here in the DC area and he was kind enough to teach me a thing or two about AOP.

It's not just for security and logging anymore.

-bob payne

Another in the NFJS series.  A conversation with Brian Sletten aobut NetKernal and the Semantic Web.  Brian is a DC area consultant that I have run into on projects and I am glad I ran into him at this conference. 

Enjoy the podcast

-bob payne

Venkat Subramaniam and I talk about his new book "Practices of an Agile Developer" during the NFJS Tour 2006 in Reston VA.  I enjoyed both the book and his course at NFJS.  This book is going on the recommended reading list for my clients. The practices are laid out in a way that eases adoption for people new to Agile and improves the practices for those who have been doing Agile.

Enjoy

-bob

I talked with Jay at the end of the No Fluff Just Stuff conference in Reston VA.  Jay talks about the Java roots of NFJS and discusses the inclusion of Ruby and Agile Methods into the conference tracks.  If you have not been to a NFJS conference you should sign up for the one nearest to you. 

Say hi to Jay for me.

-bob payne

Mark and I discuss Feature Driven Development (FDD), Agile Architecture and the NFJS conference.  Mark is an energetic spokesman for Agile Architects everywhere.

Enjoy.

-bob payne

I got a chance to speak with Dave at the No Fluff Just Stuff that was held in Reston VA.  Every year or so I find nuggets of information that change the way I work and think about my work.  We speek briefly about one such nugget that I got from a course I took with Dave... The Dreyfus Model of Learning. 

Listen and enjoy. 

More podcasts from the NFJS are on the way.

-bob payne

Cliff talks about his new book "High Assurance Design", Agile Development and repairing the image of Architects. Cliff and I go back a number of years and I am glad he is now fully converted to Agile Methodologies.

Todd was kind enough to give me a few spare minutes during the Agile 2005 Conference. He was exceptionally busiy as one of the organizers of the conference and as a founding member of the APLN. If you would like more info about the APLN visit. www.agileprojectmgt.org Next years conference should be even bigger.

Here is an interview that I had with Ward Cunningham and Rick Mugridge at the Agile 2005 conference in Denver. Fit is an acceptance testing tool that took the conference by storm. Many languages are supported and tests are defined in a Wiki. If you are looking to fill the Acceptance Test Gap on your project and have not yet looked at this tool...you should. Listen and enjoy. -bob payne

Nancy V and I talk about her work in the agile embedded software space. She talks about her work, the challenges of instrumenting embedded software for automated testing and the future of a Fit Fixture for the embedded software world. If you are in the Boston area look up the Agile Bazaar and attend a meeting if you can. I believe that she will also be podcasting the Agile Bazaar meetings at some time. -bob payne

Mary and I talk about her work in the area of Lean Software Development, new product development and the Agile 2005 Conference in Denver.

Scott and I talk about his work integrating the modeling and data communities into agile projects. He also hints at something that will make the RUP community happy upcoming in October. Give it a listen and let me know what you think. -bob payne

Welcome to the Arlo Belshee experience. Promiscuous Pairing, Least Qualified Implementer and a whole lot of energy. I spoke to Arlo at the Agile 2005 Conference in Denver.

Dave and I talk about his new book and his new Behavior Driven Development project in Ruby. Look for BDD in a project near you.

This Round table addresses the integration of User Centered Design into an agile project. This was a great conversation and I'd like to thank Rebecca Wirfs-Brock for helping set it up.

A conversation with Mike Hill at the Agile 2005. Mike discusses his new book and the Coders Without Borders project that he is starting up. We recorded this at the hotel bar so there is quite a bit of background noise. Enjoy.

I talk with Esther Derby, Diana Larsen and Pollyanna Pixton at the Agile 2005. This round table talks about Collaborative Leadership. They discuss a variety of topics related to leadership and teamwork. I hope you will enjoy listening to this podcast as much as I enjoyed recording it.

For this first Agile Toolkit podcast I talk with Bob Martin at the Agile 2005. In this short conversation Bob talks about the convergence of Agile Methodologies and he gives his minimal list of practices that a team could employ to become agile.