SPaMCAST 602 - Reactive Application Development, An Interview with Duncan DeVore
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Release Date: 06/07/2020
SPaMCAST 610 - Organizing Around The Product Flow, Agile or Traditional, Pick One, Conversations and Essays
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The Software Process and Measurement Cast 610 features our essay, An Agile Team In a Waterfall Company – Organizing Around The Product Flow. Focusing on getting features and support for a product to market changes how teams and groups organize to solve business problems. This is a standalone essay that can be read as part of a larger theme covering the trials faced by an agile team in a waterfall company.
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SPaMCAST 609 - Agile and Collaborative Contracts, An Interview with Dr David Rico
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The Software Process and Measurement Cast 609 features our conversation with Dr. David Rico. Dave is returning to the Software Process and Measurement Cast to discuss the concept of agile and collaborative contracts. Contracts and agile don’t often work well together. That does not have to be the case!
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SPaMCAST 608 - An Agile Team in a Waterfall Company, Expert Bias - Essays And Conversations
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The Software Process and Measurement Cast 608 features our essay, An Agile Team in a Waterfall Company. Teams like this exist, and sometimes even flourish. Our essay explores how that is possible and how teams in this circumstance can help evolve whole organizations.
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SPaMCAST 607 - Hybrid Project Management, An Interview with Mark Tolbert and Susan Parente
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The Software Process and Measurement Cast 607 features our interview with Mark Tolbert and Susan Parente to discuss their new book Hybrid Project Management: Using Agile with Traditional PM Methodologies to Succeed on Modern Projects. Agile hybrids are often pilloried, Mark and Susan make a strong case that hybrids have a place in delivering value. Without hybrids, there are places that can't go!
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SPaMCAST 606 - Seriously Good Software, A Discussion With Marco Faella
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The Software Process and Measurement Cast 606 features our interview with Marco Faella, author of Seriously Good Software: Code that Works, Survives, and Wins. Marco and I discussed quality, craftsmanship, and how being a passionate coder and academic mix.
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SPaMCAST 605 - Product Owners and Retrospectives, A Conversation With Jodie Kane
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The Software Process and Measurement Cast 605 features our interview with Jodie Kane. Jodie and I discussed involving product owners in retrospectives. Jodie suggests the answer should not be cut and dry but rather context-driven.
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SPaMCAST 604 - Continuous improvement, Definition of Quality, Essays and Discussions
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The Software Process and Measurement Cast 604 features a presentation that I did on the need for organizations to lean into processes improvement as the current disaster abates (at least for the time being). Continuous improvement can’t be just a slogan during an economic downturn.
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SPaMCAST 603 - Mobbing And Joy, An Interview With Austin Chadwick
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The Software Process and Measurement Cast 603 features 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. The latter was one of those serendipitous discoveries that makes the interviews for the podcast so much fun. I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did.
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SPaMCAST 602 - Reactive Application Development, An Interview with Duncan DeVore
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The 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.
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Delay!
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A quick update for readers and listeners: both the blog entries for Saturday and Sunday and the podcast episode scheduled for Sunday, May 31, 2020, are delayed due to issues with my month old laptop. It has decided to no longer boot (second time in one month that this issue has occurred). Since I was traveling this weekend I was not able to pull out the back-up machine until now. Rest assured, I will have things back on track beginning Tuesday.
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.