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JoEllen Carter Talks Agile Testing and Story Mapping with Agile Amped May 05, 2016

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Agile tester JoEllen Carter sits down with Agile Amped at Mile High Agile 2016 to chat about using "Testing to Build the Right Thing", the topic and title of the hands-on session she presented with Lisa Crispin. After enjoying their experience diving into story mapping, the duo decided to share it with a wider audience. Though testers aren't always invited to story mapping sessions traditionally, JoEllen points out that testers can help determine where weaknesses in a story are before it gets build into the product. JoEllen Carter has more than ten years of experience defining the role of tester on agile teams. Her experience in software development and testing began in the highly regulated and QA-intensive nuclear power industry, and now includes direct marketing donor management software, staffing software, e-commerce systems, and project management software. SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett 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

Road Warrior Rose Fan Talks Agile Anywhere with Agile Amped May 04, 2016

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Rose Fan has been an Agile road warrior for six years. To make her life (and others') easier, Rose is interested in how to set up highly effective distribute teams, whether it's one or two remote team members or it's a fully remote or 100% distributed team, where everyone is working from a different location, across different time zones. Rose gives advice on what team members in the various configurations can do to work at their most effective. Rose Fan is a lead consultant with ThoughtWorks, a global IT organization that has helped revolutionize the IT industry by being at the forefront of Agile and Continuous Delivery practices. She's eager to share her experiences and conclusions to other Agile technologists. SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett 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

Lisa Crispin is Testing to Build the Right Thing with Agile Amped at Mile High Agile 2016 May 03, 2016

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Agile tester extraordinaire Lisa Crispin is back for another round with Agile Amped. This time she's talking about her presentation at Mile High Agile "Agile Testing to Build the Right Thing" (co-presented with JoEllen Carter). She also touches on some trends that she sees, some positive (e.g., people in the Agile field are recognizing testers as really valuable), others not so much (companies expecting that hiring an SDET will solve all their code quality problems). Lisa Crispin is the co-author of More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team (2014, with Janet Gregory), Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (2009, also with Janet Gregory), co-author of Testing Extreme Programming (2002, with Tip House). Lisa enjoys working as a tester and sharing her experiences in the agile and testing communities. See our last podcast with Lisa here: http://www.solutionsiq.com/resources/... SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett 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

Jurgen Appelo is "Managing for Happiness" with Agile Amped at Mile High Agile May 02, 2016

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Jurgen Appelo, author of Management 3.0 and keynote speaker for Mile High Agile 2016, is back with his new book "Managing for Happiness" (due for release in June). Agile Amped was excited to sit down with him and discuss, among other things, the virtuous cycle between happiness and success, how frameworks can't simply be "installed" on people and how "recipes" or "workouts" for successful management resonate more with him. The goal in all this is to foster happiness throughout our organizations and empower managers to contribute to the proliferation of happiness. Because the research is clear: happy workers are more productive workers. SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett 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

Richard Lawrence Finds the First Slice for Agile Amped at Mile High Agile 2016 Apr 29, 2016

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There's always room for pie, right? Well, this isn't that kind of slice. Richard Lawrence introduces Agile Amped to a concept he calls feature mining, which he uses to "find the first slice" of work to do on a project. Feature mining asks four important questions of the group of the "right" people (i.e., people who can actually contribute to the solution of the problem at hand): 1. What makes it valuable? 2. Why is it big (and why don't we just go build it this afternoon)? 3. Where is the risk? 4. Where is the uncertainty? For each question, participants generate a list of answers. Then the group brainstorms different ways to slice the lists. (Surprisingly, answers tend to jump out at participants at this point.) Then comes the hard part: actually doing the work involved in the agreed-upon first slice. Richard Lawrence trains and coaches teams and organizations to become happier and more productive. Richard is one of a handful of Scrum Alliance Certified Enterprise Coaches and is a certified trainer of the accelerated learning method, Training from the Back of the Room. SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett 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

Michele Sliger Collects Lightbulb Moments with Agile Amped at Mile High Agile 2016 Apr 28, 2016

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Everyone in the Agile industry has had it: that one moment when you realize the effect Agile could have on you, your team, or your organization. Michele Sliger has become a connoisseur of such moments and collects them like butterflies, which are on display at http://www.sligerconsulting.com/light.... But can an organization also have a lightbulb moment? Michele Sliger has worked in software development for over 25 years and is the owner of Sliger Consulting Inc. She is the co-author of The Software Project Manager's Bridge to Agility. SolutionsIQ's Evan Campbell 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

Dan Sharp Uses Domain-Driven Design to Unsnarl Gnarly Legacy Code Apr 27, 2016

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Dan Sharp stops by Agile Amped to discuss his Mile High Agile 2016 talk "Refactoring to Deeper Insight: Lessons Learned Applying Domain-Driven Design (DDD)" (co-presented with Paul Rayner). DDD is a new approach to refactoring legacy code, which is often a confusing mess of code in many languages like a huge pot of spaghetti with way too many cooks throwing ingredients in. This approach sheds light on refactoring legacy code by rethinking the system in design terms: how are objects being modeled, what are the naming conventions, how to ensure that each part of the system only does what it's supposed to do and nothing more, etc. Dan provides an example that hits close to home: his own experience redesigning a product for his employer Nexia. Dan Sharp is a life-long geek, having been fascinated with computers since early childhood. Dan is Senior Software Architect for the Nexia™ team at Ingersoll Rand, affording him the luxury of a startup environment backed by a multi-billion dollar company. SolutionsIQ's Evan Campbell 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

Cat Swetel Talks Value-Based Roadmaps Populated by Options with Agile Amped at Mile High Agile 2016 Apr 26, 2016

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Today's businesses and organizations are faced with problems and opportunities that have never been faced before, and knowledge workers are important in the charge to resolve these problems. And yet these same businesses and organizations still operate under assumptions that don't apply to knowledge work and don't take into consideration the degree of difficulty and novelty inherent in the problem space. In her presentation at Mile High Agile this year (co-presented with Matt Barcomb), Cat Swetel proposes that businesses start implementing a more value-based roadmapping approach populated with options not commitments. "It's insane to dictate when a thing will be done when it hasn't been done before or it hasn't been done before in this context." Cat Swetel is a nerdy technologist with a finance degree. When she's not helping teams and technology organizations improve processes and quality of work life, she's probably reading feminist literature or making jokes about Bitcoin. Currently she's very interested in smart contracts and the so-called trust web SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett 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

Mike Clement is Playing to Learn With Agile Amped at Mile High Agile 2016 Apr 25, 2016

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Playing cards, index cards and dice are some of the tools that Mike Clement uses to make learning fun because, as he puts it, "Learning shouldn't be an arduous activity." Mike's session at Mile High Agile this year is on "Playing to Learn". Many of the games that Mike uses, including the suggestively titled "Die Card Die!", teach Agile and Lean principles and engages players in a way that is both informative and enjoyable. "I can't force you to learn anything," Mike emphasizes to Agile Amped. "You're gonna learn what you're gonna learn and you're going to take the lessons that you're gonna take." To reinforce learning, Mike leverages debriefs where one person's a-ha moment may cause other lights to go on. Mike Clement is a husband, father of four, and currently a Software Craftsman and Co-founder of Greater Sum. Passionate about agile technical excellence, Mike founded and organizes Software Craftsmanship Atlanta, founded Utah Software Craftsmanship and previously organized the Agile Roots conference. SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett 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

Rylee Keys Talks About Women Who Code with Agile Amped at Mile High Agile 2016 Apr 22, 2016

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Women Who Code is an international, non-profit organization supporting women in technical careers. They even support casual coders, who may not be working professionally as coders but are still contributing to the tech space. Rylee Keys sits down with Agile Amped to discuss how this organization strives to inspire women to excel in technology and technical careers, in particular as it pertains to Denver and Boulder, CO. Rylee Keys is a software developer with a background in Agile, mobile, healthcare, eCommerce and social media SaaS platforms. SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett 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

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