Who is ? Archives - Yves Hanoulle

#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

#Interview with Scarlett Sahota for the #video edition of Who is #agile (#WIa057)

We talked about:

– Ignoring the people when going for an outcome
– Not noticing the changes when they are happening.
– When you point out things to #teenagers, they might not accept it right now, yet they do hear you.
– Little things would stick.
– It was #normal, but it was not everyone’s normal.
– Being the oldest and feeling responsible for some parts of the family. (Called #parentification)
– It’s about find people that care about you.
– Trying 7 different jobs
– She love helping people in a job
– Taking that step back is important
– I wasn’t happy for a long time
– Every ounce of healing will help all her other problems.
– Having a high bar for herself
– I just want to wake up in the morning and be happy
– #Happy people are #fun to be around
– Being a master of #deflecting
– Acknowledging is the first step
– Its hard to brag, and still she talk about her achievements all the time

Personal agility tip:
Your team does not feel safe.
If you assume they feel safe you will likely fail.

Remote tip:
Budgeting time/money to make sure everyone can interact in person.
Everything will feel inorganic to do virtually, so accept the discomfort and just do it.

Question:
When was the last time you reflected on a conversation that did not go the way you wanted and what was your contribution to that outcome?
Allowing someone to mentor
Not understanding e-mail

Books we talked about :
A Court of Thorns and Roses

We talk about
Michael K Sahota
Audree Tara
Jerry Weinberg

Scarlett invites:

– Vanessa Yuen
– Ron Laudadio

#Interview with Doc Norton for the #video edition of Who is #agile (#WIa056)

We talked about

– Working with a large #toolbox
– Not being allowed to quit
– Freshman is age 15
– Having a coach that laughs at him
– #Crosscountry as a team sport
– Comparing the team sport of crosscountry with agile development
– #Scaling up the rest of a team
– Seeing a team not as #competitors but as a team
– Training as a pack
– Taking #responsibility for a family
– Swapping tapes at the early ages of computing
– Automating his own job
– The influence of #hobbies on his career path
– Investing 1/3 of his annual salary to buy a computer to invest in his career
– Including investing his time.
– Missed the opportunity by having #silos
– Creating a more #diverse team without taking away their opportunity.
– Why moving slow at large organisations is fine, and why that is bad at a small organisation.
– Having #practitioners side vs coaching side.
– I understand how much I don’t understand about coaching.
– It’s hard to #brag.
– His biggest achievement is a chain of many small things
– Keeping up with the industry
– He has pushed code in production in +30 languages
– He is stil #pairing with people.
– Learning Duolingo
– Five thing that are necessary
– automation over documentation
– One #remote, all remote
– Communication is like water
– Personal laptop and a work laptop
– No one survives the family order
– mob programming / teaming

Books we talked about :
– positive intelligence (Shirzad Chamine)
– extreme programming explained (Kent Beck
– Crystal Clear (Alistair Cockburn) (and doing crystal)
– US (Terrence Real )
– Families and how to survive them (John Cleese)
– Peoplemaking (Virginia Satir)
– Sooner safer happier (BVSSH) from Jonathan Smart
– Escape Velocity (Doc Norton)

We talk about
– Thoughtworks
– Daniel Terhorst-North
– Jez Humble
– Paul Hammant
– LeanDog
– Industrial Logic, Inc.
– Joshua Kerievsky 🇺🇦

Doc invites:

– Diane Zajac
– Nayan Hajratwala
– Woody Zuill
– Ellen Grove
– Jon Kern
– Daniel Terhort-North
– Amitai Schleier
– Ray Arell
– Ryan Kennel
– Paul Hammant
– Liz Keogh

Category: Who is ?

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

Alexis Monville prefers impact over features #WhoIsagile #WIa058

Scarlett was doing agile before she knew about agile….

Doc Norton on swapping between being a practitioner vs being a coach #WhoIsagile #wIa056

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