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Mike Peter Shares His Agile Success at the Department of Veteran Affairs with Agile Amped at KAA2016 Jun 07, 2016

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Technical Director for Veteran programs at CSRA Michael Peter sits down with Agile Amped to share the successes and challenges of implementing Agile approaches including Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) at the Department of Veteran Affairs. Within the first year, the project was able to establish Agile teams that continuously and consistently delivered on commitments and deployed working code. Over time and with a deeper understanding of the the VA enterprise, they discovered that what they were being asked to build wouldn't likely return the best value to the Veteran and the VA. This helped them improve processes to identify value, so that their users–who are frequently veterans returning from a tour of duty, perhaps with life-altering injuries–could get the most value out of the VA's products. However, there is still much work to be done. SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett hosts at Keep Austin Agile 2016 (http://conference.agileaustin.org/). About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series engages with industry thought leaders at Agile events across the country to bring valuable content to subscribers anytime, anywhere. To receive real-time updates, subscribe at YouTube, iTunes or SolutionsIQ.com. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SIQYouTube, http://bit.ly/SIQiTunes, http://www.solutionsiq.com/agile-amped/ Follow: http://bit.ly/SIQTwitter Like: http://bit.ly/SIQFacebook

Sandy Schwan Offers 3 Key Lessons for Leading from the Edge of Change at ACMP2016 May 31, 2016

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Sandy Schwan has decades of academic and hands-on experience in change management. Traditional approaches to change management have changed over the years and Sandy is excited to see how Agile will change it further. In particular, she thinks mobile technology engages individuals to study and learn (and change) at a more personal, smaller scale, which conflicts with traditional change management approaches but fits with Agile change management. Sandy is particularly passionate about how leaders drive change. To leaders enacting an organizational change, She offers three key lessons in her workshop, "Leading from the Edge of Change": 1. People are watching you and are paying attention. What leaders do (especially body language) makes a huge difference in the success of a change initiative. 2. Choose your words carefully and repeat these key messages 6-12 times. 3. Give people time to un-learn before they learn. Announcing that the change must happen doesn't make it happen; people make it happen. SolutionsIQ's Dan Fuller hosts at Change Management 2016 (http://www.acmpconference.com/Join-Us). About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series engages with industry thought leaders at Agile events across the country to bring valuable content to subscribers anytime, anywhere. To receive real-time updates, subscribe at YouTube, iTunes or SolutionsIQ.com. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SIQYouTube, http://bit.ly/SIQiTunes, http://www.solutionsiq.com/agile-amped/ Follow: http://bit.ly/SIQTwitter Like: http://bit.ly/SIQFacebook

Jason Tice Promotes "Fun Over Study" to Counter "Knowledge Paralysis" at AATC2016 May 30, 2016

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You know what happens at conferences: surrounded by so many thought leaders and industry colleagues and inundated with information from sessions, workshops, games, lightning talks, etc., your brain gets overloaded. "Knowledge paralysis" sets in, where you learned so much that you can't remember any of it. That's what prompted Jason to bring his "Fun Over Study" learning lounge idea to Agile Alliance Technical Conference 2016. The learning lounge is an experiment (and experience) aimed at helping conference-goers apply and reinforce learnings obtained during the conference. There's nothing new to learn at the lounge: conference-goers bring the knowledge from sessions attended and the lounge facilitators figure out how to create an experience that locks in the learning, reinforces and makes it applicable beyond just the conference. SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts. About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series engages with industry thought leaders at Agile events across the country to bring valuable content to subscribers anytime, anywhere. To receive real-time updates, subscribe at YouTube, iTunes or SolutionsIQ.com. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SIQYouTube, http://bit.ly/SIQiTunes, http://www.solutionsiq.com/agile-amped/ Follow: http://bit.ly/SIQTwitter Like: http://bit.ly/SIQFacebook

Kate Falanga, BDD for Non-Coders, Shifting Left and the 3 Amigos at AATC2016 May 27, 2016

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"Tools should be secondary to what you're trying to achieve with BDD and the value that it brings," says Kate Falanga, Director of QA at Huge, of some people's fascination with BDD tools. Kate's session at Agile Alliance Technical Conference 2016 was a workshop called "Behavior-Driven Development for Non-Coders" and aimed to promote "shift left" testing: starting testing earlier in the development cycle (toward the left, if you're looking at the dev workflow). Part of Kate's workshop centered around acting out a story kickoff session with "a really terrible user story that I wrote." The goal was to focus on communication and for participants to feel how it changed the user story. The story kickoff session or huddle serves to clearly identify the requirements in a user story before any development takes place and as a result the best huddle with have the developer, the tester and the Product Owner. This ensures that any low-hanging fruit (both problems and opportunities) are addressed at the development stage, rather than later when changes are much more expensive. If you're gonna invite someone else into the huddle (or "Three Amigos" as some cheekily call it), Kate says consider a visual UX or design expert. Kate Falanga (Director, Quality Assurance at Huge) has over 14 years of digital experience. At Huge she works with a full time team of quality assurance professionals as well as actively supports projects and project teams with testing mentorship. As part of her role she works alongside other leadership within the company on overall technical strategy. SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts. About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series engages with industry thought leaders at Agile events across the country to bring valuable content to subscribers anytime, anywhere. To receive real-time updates, subscribe at YouTube, iTunes or SolutionsIQ.com. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SIQYouTube, http://bit.ly/SIQiTunes, http://www.solutionsiq.com/agile-amped/ Follow: http://bit.ly/SIQTwitter Like: http://bit.ly/SIQFacebook

Woody Zuill and Mob Programming to "Get the Best Out of Everybody into Everything We Do" May 26, 2016

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Woody Zuill is an Agile coach working on the "original Mob programming team". As is befitting since Woody coined the term "mob programming"--which is, as he puts it "pair programming, except for everybody here is going to be involved." For him, mob programming is a natural evolution of pair programming. Like in pair programming where each pair helps problem-solve and vet the resulting code, in mob programming, "When you work with a whole group, you get the best of everybody... We're not looking into getting the most out of everybody... We're looking to get the best out of everybody into everything we do." That's why what began as informal or scheduled work sessions became the de facto programming style of Woody and his team. Woody Zuill has been a software developer for 30+ years and is an Agile enthusiast. He has been instrumental in promoting a "No Estimates" approach to Agile product delivery. SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts. About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series engages with industry thought leaders at Agile events across the country to bring valuable content to subscribers anytime, anywhere. To receive real-time updates, subscribe at YouTube, iTunes or SolutionsIQ.com. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SIQYouTube, http://bit.ly/SIQiTunes, http://www.solutionsiq.com/agile-amped/ Follow: http://bit.ly/SIQTwitter Like: http://bit.ly/SIQFacebook

James Grenning Shares the 3 Critical Skills of Refactoring with Agile Amped at AATC2016 May 25, 2016

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Agile Manifesto signatory James Grenning is your Agile wingman: when you need Agile technical coaching help, he can do it all. For Agile Alliance Technical Conference 2016, he's focusing on the three critical skills of refactoring: 1. Detecting smells in code. 2. Bright idea about how to build the code differently 3. How to transform the code into the new state James also talks about how Agile has changes since years ago when he signed the Agile Manifesto. One of the biggest changes: the majority of the signatories were developers and tech-minded individuals, but largely Agile has become more focused on process management. James Grenning trains, coaches and consults worldwide bringing modern technical and management practices to embedded systems development. He is the author of Test-Driven Development for Embedded C (http://wingman-sw.com/tddec). He invented Planning Poker, and participated in the creation of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. SolutionsIQ's Neville Poole hosts. About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series engages with industry thought leaders at Agile events across the country to bring valuable content to subscribers anytime, anywhere. To receive real-time updates, subscribe at YouTube, iTunes or SolutionsIQ.com. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SIQYouTube, http://bit.ly/SIQiTunes, http://www.solutionsiq.com/agile-amped/ Follow: http://bit.ly/SIQTwitter Like: http://bit.ly/SIQFacebook

Kent Graziano and Reinventing Data Warehousing for the Big Data Age at AATC2016 May 24, 2016

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Kent Graziano is excited to achieve one of his goals for presenting at Agile Alliance Technical Conference 2016: educating people about Data Vault in his session "Agile Data Engineering: Introduction to Data Vault Data Modeling". As a technical evangelist, Kent is passionate about introducing people to concepts that are necessary in today's Big Data-driven economy. (For interested parties, according to Kent's presentation: "The Data Vault is a detail oriented, historical tracking and uniquely linked set of normalized tables that support one or more functional areas of business.") Kent Graziano is a Senior Technical Evangelist for Snowflake Computing and an award winning author, speaker, and trainer, in the areas of data modeling, data architecture, and data warehousing. SolutionsIQ's Neville Poole hosts. About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series engages with industry thought leaders at Agile events across the country to bring valuable content to subscribers anytime, anywhere. To receive real-time updates, subscribe at YouTube, iTunes or SolutionsIQ.com. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SIQYouTube, http://bit.ly/SIQiTunes, http://www.solutionsiq.com/agile-amped/ Follow: http://bit.ly/SIQTwitter Like: http://bit.ly/SIQFacebook

Alex Schladebeck Slays Testing and Product Ownership with Agile Amped at AATC2016 May 23, 2016

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Alex Schladebeck is both a tester and a Product Owner. Who'da thunk that a tester (i.e., the person constantly trying to think how the user might experience a product) and a Product Owner (i.e., the person responsible for ensuring that the user gets the value they want) could perhaps have similar ideas about product design and development. Alex is at AATC2016 to turn "potentials" into "slayers" (and, yes, that is a Buffy reference). The goal of her session is to promote the concept of taking the testing responsibilities, which are often quite difficult and unreasonable ("You never have enough testers to do all of the testing"), and spreading them out across the team to make it more manageable. Alex Schladebeck is the head of Test Consulting at BREDEX GmbH and is also Product Owner for Jubula, the open source test tool. Within both roles, shes responsible for making sure that customers needs are satisfied, be it in terms of quality assurance services for their projects or features for implementation. SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts. About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series engages with industry thought leaders at Agile events across the country to bring valuable content to subscribers anytime, anywhere. To receive real-time updates, subscribe at YouTube, iTunes or SolutionsIQ.com. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SIQYouTube, http://bit.ly/SIQiTunes, http://www.solutionsiq.com/agile-amped/ Follow: http://bit.ly/SIQTwitter Like: http://bit.ly/SIQFacebook

Fred George: Programmer Anarchy and How "Experimentation Drives Innovation" at AATC2016 May 20, 2016

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Fred George brings the concept of "managerless processes" to the Agile Alliance Technical Conference 2016 with his session on "Programmer Anarchy". At the heart of it the idea that if you replace traditional roles like QA and BA with more programmers, you create an environment when the dev team can work with the customer at a higher (than user story) level, create much more code, experiment in live environments, fail fast and learn how to better the product. He shares that, at a recent client, "we were deploying something new into production every three and a half minutes." The key was fast failures: if the release failed to reach certain targets, it was pulled down and iterated upon before it was redeployed to gather more real-time data. Fred George is an industry consultant, and has been writing code for over 46 years in (by his count) over 70 languages. He started ThoughtWorks University in Bangalore, India, based on a commercial programming training program he developed in the 90s. SolutionsIQ's Neville Poole hosts. About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series engages with industry thought leaders at Agile events across the country to bring valuable content to subscribers anytime, anywhere. To receive real-time updates, subscribe at YouTube, iTunes or SolutionsIQ.com. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SIQYouTube, http://bit.ly/SIQiTunes, http://www.solutionsiq.com/agile-amped/ Follow: http://bit.ly/SIQTwitter Like: http://bit.ly/SIQFacebook

Tuba Kuklen Quantifies the Human Aspect of Change with Agile Amped at ACMP2016 May 19, 2016

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Tuba Kuklen knows that people are uncomfortable with the human aspects of change. But Tuba is working to turn that touchy-feely stuff into data that stakeholders up and down the organization can embrace. Technology is particularly difficult, she says, because people tend to race through decisions about technology without considering how it will likely affect people and their processes. Another important aspect of lasting change: engaged leadership and sponsors. Equipped with data about how much the people affected by a change underway understand it, change leaders can help demonstrate how important it is for leaders to be involved in individual transformations as well as the overall organizational transformation. Tuba Kuklen is Executive Director/ Performance Improvement Director at Central Transaction Operations (CTO) for JPMorgan Chase & Co. since 2012. Tuba is responsible for developing new programs to expand Operational Excellence capabilities in CTO and leading Organizational Change Management team to manage people side of change. SolutionsIQ's Dan Fuller hosts at Change Management 2016 (http://www.acmpconference.com/Join-Us). About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series engages with industry thought leaders at Agile events across the country to bring valuable content to subscribers anytime, anywhere. To receive real-time updates, subscribe at YouTube, iTunes or SolutionsIQ.com. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SIQYouTube, http://bit.ly/SIQiTunes, http://www.solutionsiq.com/agile-amped/ Follow: http://bit.ly/SIQTwitter Like: http://bit.ly/SIQFacebook

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