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#Interview with Faye Thompson, JD for the #video edition of Who is #agile (#WIa061)
Faye was invited by Esther Derby

We talked about:
– Growing into business roles and then into #coaching
– Writing #documentation and move on before developers started
– Having to argument to be allowed to be able to talk to actual users.
– Having a career as an #attorney
– Thinking about post work life
– The only thing left is for me to die….
– I want that the things I’m doing matter
– What do I want to leave behind
– Loving the job as a #coach
– #Immigration system is broken in the USA
– Wanting to explore something more
– There is no one size fits all in agile
– Cleaning up the mess
– #ChangeFatigue
– We tried it, and it doesn’t work
– We stick around when things go bad and then we leave when things go better
– Bringing her whole self to work
– That is not how humans work
– Optimising the results instead of the use of her time
– A development team is always going to look for the most efficient way to do something.
– Giving guidance for managers…
– Reaching out years later to people that had impact on us.
– Dealing with #Cancer
– Whoever show up are the right people
-I can’t chose what happens, yet I can chose how to react to things…
– Being #angry for 15 minutes
– When one person is remote, be all remote
– Have separate facilitators for remote an in-room
– thought limiting cliché’s

Books we talked about :
– You are not so smart ( David McRaney)
– You are now less dumb (David McRaney)
– How minds change (David McRaney)

Faye invited
– Mark Kilby
– April Jefferson “Soul Craftswoman”
– Diana Larsen – Leadership Agility Advisor
– Esther Derby
– Johanna Rothmann
– PSL

Faye invited Tammy Gretz

#Interview with Chris Lucian & Austin Chadwick for the #video edition of Who is #agile (#WIa060)
Chris & Austin were invited by Patrick Debois

We talked about:
– #Mob Mentality
– A tight coupling by having fun and #effectiveness
– Merging aspects from different parts of life and integrating them
– Austin being influence by his partner.
– Tight feedback loops with #children
– Talking about how #ComputerScience was almost an accident
– Starting IT for #money and liking it
– Valuing a #worklife balance
– The worklive balance in the #gaming industry
– Mob programming influence a low bug count and build in knowledge sharing
– Worklife aspect is much better in a team that mobs
– No one can stay on the same product for more then 2 years
– #chaosengineering at team level
– Communicating outside a group so that management is aware and wel understand the financial – impact on mobbing
– Mob programming for a decade
– 3 to 5 people mobs
– Providing space for experiments
– #PromiscuousPairing (from Arlo Belshee)
– Daily swapping the mob
– Unconscious dependance when people stayed for 5 years instead of documentation or automation
– Being prepared for turn over, also at budget level
– Mobbing helps skyrocketing developers
– Every 5 years all people have a life changing event.
– Average level of happiness
– Marketing competition spreadsheet
– Total nr of people on your team divided by 5
– Is your turn over under or over that number?
– Discussions in a mob with different world view.
– Automating
– Learning by having models around you
– Nono Donsa experience of body language was different at school and at home
– Nina Derwael Olympic medals
– Satir model of change
– Tuckman team model
– #psychologicalsafety
-The world is my #Kanban
– Learning loop
– #Kaizen Habits instead of trying to be the best …
– Draw separately and then compare
– People learn when they are wrong
– #uml diagram of whet you just discussed
-What is the learn effect
– Difference between #introverts and #extraverts and their differences between in person-remote
– Measure the impact of the life of your employees
– Dora metrics

Books we talked about :
– Dynamic retiming (Heidi Helfand)
– Grit book (Angela Duckworth)
– How emotions are made (Lisa Feldman Barrett : learn about how you are wrong about reading body language)
– Mob programming (Woody Zuill )
– Thinking fast and slow ( Daniel Kahneman)
– Reality is broken (Jane McGonigal)
– Accelerate (Nicole Forsgren)
– Atomic habits (James Clear)

They invited
– Woody Zuil
– Joe Justice (Wikispeed)
– Colleen K.
– Mike Clement

#Interview with Emily Bache for the #video edition of Who is #agile (#WIa059)

Emily was invited by Clare Sudbery (she/her)

We talked about:
– Working with #legacy code
– How her husband influenced her #career.
– Going to #conferences as a couple
– Finding coding fun
– She does not want to stop coding as that is the fun part.
– Doing co-presentation
– Having children that are not interested in programming
– #Singing in choirs
– Working as a musicians
– Comparing #codingdojo and musical
– How do you show progress when you start with something ?
– #Teaching
– You can’t learn a skill from reading
– you can learn the theory, yet not the skill
– Trying the examples in the books
– Being the most passionate
– Being an inspiring choir leader
– There are so many fun tings to do
– Emily has got options
– Building her carreer in a way that she always has avenues to move to, if the current one does not turn out to go somewhere.
– Understanding quickly the problem a team has
– it’s rewarding when you work hard get good grades and teachers appreciate you.
– She does enough to get the results she wants,
– She wants to make a difference
– Making the software better to change the world

We talked about
Kent Beck
Samman Technical Coaching
Dion Stewart & Joel Tosi
Vladimir Khorikov

Books:

Extreme programming (Kent Beck)
– Emily’s books:
Coding Dojo handbook
Mocks Fakes & stubs
technical coaching with the Samman method

Creating your Dojo
Coaching for learning
Unit testing principles

Emily invites:
Dave Farley

#Interview with Alexis Monville for the #video edition of Who is #agile (#WIa058)

We talked about:
– what he learned from the #codereviews of his first boss
– Cofinding a web company before the webs had really taken off
– Why he prefer to focus on the #impact over the feature he delivers
– Working while being in school.
– Something I don’t know how to do it, and then I work with other people and together we found a way
– What skills do I need to learn to be able to do the job what I want to in 10 years….
– Let’s leave the world in a betting ter place than when I was born
– Having impact is impossible by myself.
– How what he learned from #writing his first book, influenced how he wrote his second book
– Involve people at the level they feel conformable.
– What kind of impact we want to have
– Alexis prefer to focus on impact then on features
– If you work remote, hold a few remote off-sites every year and plan that ahead of time.
– You can use impact mapping in a lot of different context, including for yourself.
– Learn about the business of your company.
(And the accountancy etc)
– Are you hiring for the jobs of today or the jobs of in 5 years?

We mentioned
Alistair Cockburn

Books:
– The Leprechauns of Software Engineering (Laurent Bossavit)
– The Founder’s Dilemma (Noam Wasserman)
– The e-myth (Michael E. Gerber – Beyond The E-Myth)
– Impact mapping (Gojko Adzic)
– Changing Your Team From The Inside (Alexis Monville)
– I am a Software Engineer and I am in Charge (Alexis Monville)

Alexis invites:
– Gojko Adzic

Category: Who is ?

aye Thompson likes to optimising the results instead of the use of her time

The positive impact of mob programming from Chris Lucian & Austin Chadwick for #WhoIsagile #WIa60

Emily Bache never stopped programming, as that is the fun part… #WhoIsagile #WIa59

Alexis Monville prefers impact over features #WhoIsagile #WIa058

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