SPaMCAST 602 - Reactive Application Development, An Interview with Duncan DeVore
Software Process and Measurement Cast
Release Date: 06/07/2020
SPaMCAST 646 - Reduce Cost and Risk With Off-Premise Infrastructure, A Conversation with Albert Ahdoot
Software Process and Measurement Cast
In the Software Process and Measurement Cast 646, Albert Ahdoot and I focus on discussing the impact of strong off-premise infrastructure on the delivery of value, the impact on the bottom line, and the mitigation of risk.
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SPaMCAST 645 - Getting A Handle on Data Security, A Conversation with Paul Katzoff
Software Process and Measurement Cast
The headlines of 3 and 4 April 2021 are stark - the data of 533 million Facebook users available on the web (change your password now). You have 533 MILLION reasons to take Paul Katzoff’s message on data security to heart.
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SPaMCAST 644 - Teams Are Important,Static and Dynamic Testing, Essays and Discussions
Software Process and Measurement Cast
At the core of agile is the belief that the team is the fundamental building block of work. Because they are so important, organizations put tons of effort into helping and guiding teams. The problem is not that teams aren’t important or that we aren’t working hard to make them better, teams are still chronically messed up.
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SPaMCAST 643 - Software Craftsmanship, An Interview With Caleb Wood, CEO RoleModel Software
Software Process and Measurement Cast
This week, Caleb Woods, CEO and Senior Software Craftsman at RoleModel Software joins the podcast. Caleb and I talk about the role of craftsmanship in developing and maintaining software (or really anything else).
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SPaMCAST 642 - Scrum Master, Your Next CEO - A Conversation With Vasco Duarte
Software Process and Measurement Cast
Vasco Duarte returns to the podcast to discuss the Scrum Master. Scrum Masters are the face of agile in many organizations. Helping team facilitators get the role right benefits not only the agile community but every business they are involved with!
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SPaMCAST 641 - The Agile Coaching Code of Ethics, A Conversation With Shane Hastie and Craig Smith
Software Process and Measurement Cast
In the podcast this week, we discuss the Agile Coaching Code of Ethics and the process of building an ethical foundation. Shane Hastie and Craig Smith have been leading the effort to craft a useful Agile Coaching Code of Ethics for the past year. These two thought leaders have helped to pull together a diverse group of coaches, and then guide that herd of cats in order to create a new force to guide agile coaches of all stripes.
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SPaMCAST 640 - Communities of Practice Goals, User Stories, Essays and Conversations
Software Process and Measurement Cast
The idea of Communities of Practice is thrown around a lot in organizations, often without thinking about the goals of a CoP. Why? Organizations are increasingly becoming more diverse and distributed, while at the same time pursuing mechanisms to increase collaboration between groups and consistency of knowledge and practice.
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SPaMCAST 639 - Chaos Engineering, A Conversation With Mikolaj Pawlikowski
Software Process and Measurement Cast
Chaos Engineering comes to the Software Process and Measurement Cast this week delivered (chaotically) by Mikolaj Pawlikoski. Miko and I talked about the definition of chaos engineering, why chaos is not scary, and most importantly his new book Chaos Engineering, Site reliability through controlled disruption. One of the most important side effects of chaos engineering is uninterrupted sleep caused by things not going bump in the night!
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SPaMCAST 638 - Cybersecurity and IoT, A Conversation With Paul Clayson
Software Process and Measurement Cast
This week we connect with Paul Clayson to talk about cybersecurity in the IoT space. When you are dealing with extreme constraints being secure is complicated and doing nothing is a really bad option. Paul also weighs in on the CMMC (new security model) and serial entrepreneurism.
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SPaMCAST 637 - Process Improvement Disconnected, Cost of Poor Quality, Essays and Conversation
Software Process and Measurement Cast
This week the Cast features our essay titled, “Collaboration - Disconnected.” The improvement imperative is driven by the need to stay competitive at a holistic level. One would expect that continuous process improvement would be discussed earnestly at every staff meeting at every level of an organization.
info_outlineThe Software Process and Measurement Cast 602 features my interview with Duncan DeVore, the co-author of Reactive Application Development. Duncan and I talked about reactive design patterns, adopting a reactive architecture, and how writing a book changes your outlook on life. It was a really cool discussion that covered technical and non-technical topics.
Note -- I am sorry for missing a week. I did not expect a new laptop (less than a month old) would have its motherboard and SSD fail. I am thankful for backups!
Duncan’s Bio:
I specialize in the design and implementation of distributed systems using the tenets of the Reactive Manifesto with Scala, Akka, and the Typesafe stack. I believe in responsible design through functional programming with an abundance of test coverage. I love to code, present, and help others work through the challenges of distributed computing.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/duncandevore/
Twitter: @IronFish
Re-Read Saturday News
Week 2 of the journey through Tame Your Work Flow by Steve Tendon and Daniel Doiron finds us discussing the Prologue. The prologue introduces concepts and provides a bridge for readers to this book from the Goal by Eli Goldratt and Steve Tendon, and Wolfram Müller’s book Hyper-Productive Knowledge Work Performance, The TameFlow Approach and Its Application to Scrum and Kanban.
Next week we start Chapter 1, so buy a copy of Tame your Work Flow to support the authors and blog!
Week 1: Logistics and Front Matter - https://bit.ly/2LWJ3EY
Week 2: Prologue (The Story of Herbie) - https://bit.ly/3h4zmTi
Next SPaMCAST
The Software Process and Measurement Cast 603 will feature my interview with Austin Chadwick. Austin and I talked mobbing, but perhaps more importantly to me, Austin talked about the impact of finding joy in everything you do.