Software Process and Measurement Cast

The Software Process and Measurement Cast 625 features our interview with Drew Angell. Drew and I talk about web development, software development excellence, and how to find great developers. Being good is more than just excellence in coding -- listening and problem-solving are also needed which has led Drew to experiment with using GitCommit bounties to get great developers to self-identify. Drew’s Bio Drew is a digital pioneer who loves rolling his sleeves up and identifying software & programming solutions. As owner and lead developer within AngellEYE & GitCommits, Drew's responsibilities include everything from day-to-day business management to the development of web and mobile applications. Drew is heavily involved with PayPal. He is a certified PayPal developer (one of only 13 in the world that reached the ACE Developer status), an official PayPal Partner, and a PayPal Ambassador.  He was also given the PayPal Star Developer Award at the developer conferences in 2008, 2009, and 2011. When he's not solving digital problems or consulting, Drew is a board member for the Campaign for Aging Research, the Kansas City Table Tennis Club, and volunteers with a local non-profit, The HALO Foundation – (Helping Art Liberate Orphans). Check out: Re-Read Saturday News  Today we tackle the whole of Part 7 which is Chapter 21 and the Epilogue.  Next week we will complete our re-read of Tame you Work Flow with concluding remarks. Chapter 21, Patterns to Get Started, is an implementation primer and another one of those very useful features of the book. This week’s installment  Week 21: -   New to this re-read? Start  at the beginning Week 1: – The Software Process and Measurement Cast is the proud media sponsor of the live@manning conference: Math for Data Science to be held on 01 December 2020 12:00 - 5:00 pm EST  .  Register for FREE for a unique chance to learn from statisticians and math masters: #manningontwitch   Next SPaMCAST The Software Process and Measurement Cast 625 will feature our interview with Jacob Glenn.  Jacob and I talked about custom software development in a world that seems to be prone to accepting pre-packaged approaches for solving business problems. Custom software is a useful tool for organizations to help stand out rather than accepting me-too products and services.

Software Process and Measurement Cast 624 is structured a little differently. We begin with the conclusion of a three-column arc on grateful leadership from Susan Parente’s Not A Scrumdamentalist Column. In this installment, Susan and I discuss how servant leadership, commonly practiced by agilists, can combine with grateful leadership to be even more powerful.  Catch up on earlier installments of this arc  After Susan’s column, we visit the first essay in the four-part series on why teams don’t get stories done when they say they will.  The essay names the three usual suspects that cause stories to “escape” sprints.   Re-Read Saturday News  Chapter 20 of Tame your Work Flow is titled Operational Governance in PEST Environments. Daniel Doiron describes this chapter as an ode to management by exception.  There are two threads in this chapter that I highlight. The first is Steve and Daniel’s discussion on the need for different perspectives to identify the constraint in complicated environments. The second major component in the chapter is a discussion of an approach for governance. As I am quoted at the end of the chapter giving this book my highest praise, “this book is very useful.” This weeks installment  Week 20: -   New? Start your re-read at the beginning Week 1: –   The Software Process and Measurement Cast is the proud media sponsor of the live@manning conference: Math for Data Science to be held on 01 December 2020 12:00 - 5:00 pm EST  .  Register for FREE for a unique chance to learn from statisticians and math masters: #manningontwitch     Next SPaMCAST The Software Process and Measurement Cast 625 will feature our interview with Drew Angell. Drew and I talk about web development and software development excellence. Being good is more than just excellence in coding, listening and problem-solving are also needed.

The Software Process and Measurement Cast 623 features my interview with Christian “Dr. Lambda” Clausen, author of  Five Lines of Code from Manning Publications. Dr. Lambda delivers advice on why refactoring is a necessity and how to refactor effectively.  Clean code is not an option, refactoring is a requirement for being good at coding.  Buy a copy of the book at Manning using the code podspam20 The link is Dr. Lambda’s Bio Christian “Dr. Lamda” Clausen works as a Technical Agile Coach teaching teams how to properly refactor their code. Previously he worked as a software engineer on the Coccinelle semantic patching project, an automated refactoring tool. He has an MSc in computer science and five years’ experience teaching software quality at a university level. https://medium.com/@thedrlambda Twitter: @thedrlambda Re-Read Saturday News  Cue the eerie sound effects from low budget science fiction movies that signal time travel. After publishing our re-read of Chapter 19 last week, Steve Tendon sent me a message, “where is chapter 18?” I nearly responded right after chapter 17 but a little voice told me to check. Low and behold, I had not addressed Full-Kitting as Ongoing Executive Activity, otherwise known as chapter 18. Today, we go back in time and review the first chapter in Part 6 of by Daniel Doiron and Steve Tendon.  Week 1: – Week 2: (The Story of Herbie) – Week 3: –   Week 4: –   Week 5: –    Week 6: –   Week 7: –   Week 8: –   Week 9: -   Week 10: -   Week 11: -   Week 12: -   Week 13: -   Week 14: - Week 15: -   Week 16: -   Week 17: -   Next SPaMCAST The Software Process and Measurement Cast 621 will feature our essay on why agile coaches need a code of ethics. It's time for coaching to grow up and be a profession. We will also complete the three conversation arc on grateful leadership from Susan Parente.

The Software Process and Measurement Cast 622 features my interview with Brian Gill, CEO at Gillware. Brian is a serial entrepreneur in the software and cyber world. We discussed the importance of cybersecurity, real backups, having disaster recovery plans, and the fact that just having data in the cloud is not a security strategy. Brian’s bio Brian is a computer scientist, entrepreneur, and angel investor. Brian currently serves as Chairman of Gillware, which provides cyber risk assessments, data recovery, incident response, and digital forensics services. He is a co-founder of Phoenix Nuclear Labs and served on PNL’s board from inception to when it decided to spin-off SHINE Medical Technologies. Those two companies have raised over 100 million dollars of venture capital and employ hundreds of people in Wisconsin.   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-gill-68997a38/ Gillware: https://www.gillware.com/   Re-Read Saturday News  This week we tackle Chapter 19 of Steve Tendon and Daniel Doiron’s Flow.  Chapter 19 combines many of the moving parts from the previous chapters into a set of tools for monitoring the execution of work.  The authors pick up at the portfolio level developed in Chapter 18. Portfolio items, once committed and placed into flow, can contain many groups of work that Steve and Daniel term Minimal Outcome-Value Effort or MOVEs (). Once in flow (being worked on), a flow manager picks up managing the MOVEs.    Week 1: – Week 2: (The Story of Herbie) – Week 3: –   Week 4: –   Week 5: –    Week 6: –   Week 7: –   Week 8: –   Week 9: -   Week 10: -   Week 11: -   Week 12: -   Week 13: -   Week 14: - Week 15: -   Week 16: -   Week 17: -   The Software Process and Measurement Cast is a proud sponsor of the following event! Agile Online Summit 2020 The Agile Online Summit was created for people who couldn’t attend major conferences. This will be its third year, and the main goal is to bring major level agile speakers to people all over the world as well as spotlight some up and coming agile coaches and trainers.  October 26th to 30th, 2020, Live and recorded too.     Next SPaMCAST The Software Process and Measurement Cast 623 will feature my interview with Christian Clausen, author of  Five Lines of Code from Manning Publications. We discussed why refactoring is needed, and the rules Christian has developed to get the most value out of refactoring. It's not like you are not spending time refactoring already . . . right?

The Software Process and Measurement Cast 621 features our essay on why agile coaches need a code of ethics. Agile is practiced in nearly every culture. Each culture has its own definition of duty and of right and wrong. Coaches help to establish and address the client’s needs by leveraging approaches that align with the values and principles of the Agile Manifesto. It's time for coaching to grow up and be a profession. We also have part 2 of Susan Parente’s discussion of grateful leadership. Susan discussed how to keep grateful leadership fresh as part of her Not A Scrumdamentalist column. I will play part 3 in SPaCAST 623. Part 1: SPaMCAST 617 -   Re-Read Saturday News  We are back with Chapter 17 in our re-read of  Steve Tendon and Daniel Doiron’s Flow. Full Kitting is an important concept! Use the link to buy a copy of the book and support the authors and blog!     Week 1: – Week 2: (The Story of Herbie) – Week 3: –   Week 4: –   Week 5: –    Week 6: –   Week 7: –   Week 8: –   Week 9: -   Week 10: -   Week 11: -   Week 12: -   Week 13: -   Week 14: - Week 15: -   Week 16: -     The Software Process and Measurement Cast is a proud sponsor of the following event! Agile Online Summit 2020 The Agile Online Summit was created for people who couldn’t attend major conferences. This will be its third year, and the main goal is to bring major level agile speakers to people all over the world as well as spotlight some up and coming agile coaches and trainers.  October 26th to 30th, 2020, Live and recorded too.   Next SPaMCAST The Software Process and Measurement Cast 622 will feature my interview with Brian Gill, CEO at Gillware.  In the age of hacking and ransomware, we discussed the importance of cybersecurity and data recovery (pssst...its important).

The Software Process and Measurement Cast 620 is something out of the ordinary. Ola Omiyale joined me as a co-host and we interviewed Nalin Parbhu, the Founder and CTO of Infuse, and useMango™. We talked about testing and test automation which is a passion for all three of us. We also explored the future of the role of the manual tester.   Nalin Parbhu, Founder & CTO: Infuse & useMango™  Nalin’s passion, mission, and vision is to enable customers to get the most of out their software. He has worked on hundreds of projects across the globe and has over 22+ years of experience in software engineering delivery in a variety of roles.  Nalin has a BSc in Statistics, Computers, Operational Research and Mathematics from Queen Mary University of London, and did his postgraduate studies in Advanced Information Technology at London Southbank University. Despite his London education, Nalin proudly states he is a citizen of the city of Leicester. When not evangelizing from the pulpit about modernizing software delivery. Nalin is happily married with 2 children living in Central London. He is also a Rugby coach for Blackheath Rugby Club U11’s. LinkedIn:  Infuse website: Ola Omiyale is from a social science background and has started her journey within the software industry. Being a beginner and developing a career in selling test automation solutions, she is eager to learn new information and innovations around software testing.  LinkedIn: Re-Read Saturday News  I have taken the last two weeks off from Re-Read Saturday.  A combination of household duties and work had to be managed. I will be back next week.  In the interim, catch up on the re-read.  Have you bought your copy of  Steve Tendon and Daniel Doiron’s Flow?  Use the link to support the authors and blog!   Week 1: – Week 2: (The Story of Herbie) – Week 3: –   Week 4: –   Week 5: –    Week 6: –   Week 7: –   Week 8: –   Week 9: -   Week 10: -   Week 11: -   Week 12: -   Week 13: -   Week 14: - Week 15: -   The Software Process and Measurement Cast is a proud sponsor of the following events! Women in Tech Conference Learn, be inspired, and connect with others working to advance inclusion in the technology industry with a live@Manning event. The “Women in Tech” online conference will be held on Oct 13, starring women that are rocking the tech boat! Agile Online Summit 2020 The Agile Online Summit was created for people who couldn’t attend major conferences. This will be its third year, and the main goal is to bring major level agile speakers to people all over the world as well as spotlight some up and coming agile coaches and trainers.  October 26th to 30th, 2020, Live and recorded too.   Next SPaMCAST The Software Process and Measurement Cast 621 will feature our essay on why agile coaches need a code of ethics. Its time for coaching to grow up and be a profession. We will also have a visit from Jon M Quigley who will bring his Alpha and Omega of Product Development to the podcast.

The Software Process and Measurement Cast 619 features the return of Joe Schofield.  Joe and I talked about his new book, Aligning People and Culture for Agile Transformation: A Leadership & Change Story ().  During our discussion, we talked about how writing the book changes an author and his hope for how people will use the book to understand and create change.    Company:   LinkedIn:    Email: joescho@cox.net Joe’s Bio: As an enabler and educator: Joe is an Authorized Training Partner with VMEdu, a Scrum Certified Trainer with SCRUMstudy™, and a contributor to the Great IT Professional Webinar Series sponsored by Computer Aid, Inc. Joe has over 80 published books, papers, conference presentations and keynotes—including contributions to the books: The IFPUG Guide to IT and Software Measurement (2012), IT Measurement, Certified Function Point Specialist Exam Guide, and The Economics of Software Quality. He has taught over 100 college courses, 75 of those at the graduate level. Joe has facilitated ~200 teams in the areas of software specification, team building, and organizational planning using lean six sigma, business process reengineering, and JAD. He was a certified instructor for the Introduction to the CMMI for most of the past decade. Re-Read Saturday News  I am pretty sure that Steve and Daniel might disagree with me, but I find the concept of full-kitting one of the most important ideas in Tame your Work Flow. Chapter 17 provides more explanation for the concept. My involvement in software development, enhancements, maintenance, package and hardware installation, and configuration has made it very clear to me that flow needs to be a paramount concern. Have you bought your copy of  Steve Tendon and Daniel Doiron’s Flow?  Use the link to support the authors and blog!   Week 1: – Week 2: (The Story of Herbie) – Week 3: –   Week 4: –   Week 5: –    Week 6: –   Week 7: –   Week 8: –   Week 9: -   Week 10: -   Week 11: -   Week 12: -   Week 13: -   Week 14: - Week 15: -   The Software Process and Measurement Cast is a proud sponsor of the following events! Women in Tech Conference Learn, be inspired, and connect with others working to advance inclusion in the technology industry with a live@Manning event. The “Women in Tech” online conference will be held on Oct 13, starring women that are rocking the tech boat! Agile Online Summit 2020 The Agile Online Summit was created for people who couldn’t attend major conferences. This will be its third year, and the main goal is to bring major level agile speakers to people all over the world as well as spotlight some up and coming agile coaches and trainers.  October 26th to 30th, 2020, Live and recorded too.   Next SPaMCAST The Software Process and Measurement Cast 620 is something out of the ordinary. Ola Omiyale and I interviewed Nalin Parbhu, the Founder and CTO of Infuse, and useMango™. We talked about testing and test automation which is a passion for all three of us. It was also a blast for me to have someone co-anchoring the interview.

The Software Process and Measurement Cast 618 is a conversation about “process” that I had with two great people, Mike King and Beth Leonard, in March of 2020. Just doing the process to check the box for a rating or certification, whether the CMMI, CMMC, Scrum, or any other framework, destroys legitimacy and trust.   Michael King is a technology executive with over seventeen years of experience serving in technology roles supporting the Federal Government.  He currently serves as Halfaker and Associates’ Chief Information Officer and Chief Information Security Officer (CIO/CISO), where he leads enterprise IT Strategy with a focus on user experience, the information security program, and the Quality Management System with a focus on improving engineering maturity and customer experience. Prior to this role, he served Halfaker’s CTO and COO, as well as completing a five-year tenure at Lockheed Martin in cybersecurity and critical infrastructure security domains. Michael holds degrees in Computer Engineering (Bachelor’s from UVA) and Information Systems (Master’s from JHU) and several professional certifications including PMP, PMI-ACP, SAFe SA, and ITIL. Company:   Twitter:    Email: michael.king@halfaker.com Ms. Beth Leonard is an award-winning speaker in her field; frequently invited to both local and international-level industry events to speak about such topics as customer satisfaction, organizational statistical analysis and metrics development, CMMI, ISO, management reviews and techniques, as well as quality assurance. She is also a recognized patient advocate and blogger for NET Cancer; supporting several organizations both nationally as well as internationally. Ms. Leonard is a well-respected executive with over 24 years of IT software development and service management lifecycle expertise as well as InfoSec/Cyber management, facility security management, risk and compliance, quality assurance, and process improvement experience across the government contracting industry.  Company: https://www.r3-it.com/ Blog: Linkedin: Links: Email:   Re-Read Saturday News  In Chapter 16 charts a path to support the execution of the work. Execution requires an appropriate mechanism that can signal trouble coming that is information-based rather than gut-based.  Have you bought your copy of  Steve Tendon and Daniel Doiron’s Flow?  Use the link to support the authors and blog!   Week 1: – Week 2: (The Story of Herbie) – Week 3: –   Week 4: –   Week 5: –    Week 6: –   Week 7: –   Week 8: –   Week 9: -   Week 10: -   Week 11: -   Week 12: -   Week 13: -   Week 14: - Week 15: - The Software Process and Measurement Cast is a proud sponsor of the following events! Women in Tech Conference Learn, be inspired, and connect with others working to advance inclusion in the technology industry with a live@Manning event. The “Women in Tech” online conference will be held on Oct 13, starring women that are rocking the tech boat! Agile Online Summit 2020 The Agile Online Summit was created for people who couldn’t attend major conferences. This will be its third year, and the main goal is to bring major level agile speakers to people all over the world as well as spotlight some up and coming agile coaches and trainers.  October 26th to 30th, 2020, Live and recorded too.   Next SPaMCAST The Software Process and Measurement Cast 619 features the return of Joe Schofield.  Joe and I talked about his new book, Aligning People and Culture for Agile Transformation: A Leadership & Change Story ().  Joe’s book is not a recitation of techniques, but rather a business novel that exposes the human side of change.

The Agile Online Summit was created for people who couldn’t attend major conferences. This will be its third year, and the main goal is to bring major level agile speakers to people all over the world as well as spotlight some up and coming agile coaches and trainers.  October 26th to 30th, 2020, Live and recorded too.

The Software Process and Measurement Cast 617 features our essay on rediscovering productivity.  One of the tools I have embraced is Pomodoro. It is a great approach to staying focused and helps unwonkify time in my home office! Also this week, Susan Parente brings her “Not A Scrumdamentalist” column to the Software Process and Measurement Cast! Susan begins a three-part series on grateful leadership.  Grateful leadership is so much more than just saying thank you. In between the essay and Susan’s column, we have a promo for the Agile Online Summit 2020. Re-Read Saturday News  Chapter 15 of Flow, introduces the concept of a MOVE, which stands for Minimal Outcome-Value Effort. Steve and Daniel use the construct to help define an atomic level of value delivery that is both minimalistic and sufficient. MOVE, while not replacing the myriad Mxx acronyms (e.g. minimal viable product or minimal marketable product), it provides a mental model for defining items in your portfolio backlog that is focused on throughput accounting. Have you bought your copy of  Steve Tendon and Daniel Doiron’s Flow?  Use the link to support the authors and blog!   Week 1: – Week 2: (The Story of Herbie) – Week 3: –   Week 4: –   Week 5: –    Week 6: –   Week 7: –   Week 8: –   Week 9: -   Week 10: -   Week 11: -   Week 12: -   Week 13: -   The Software Process and Measurement Cast is a proud sponsor of the following events! Rust Conference Let’s talk about #Rust! Sep 15, at the live@Manning conference; in one Rust-full day go from ways to learn it, to where and how to use it; from game-dev to aerospace and beyond, right from the pincers of expert Rustaceans. Women in Tech Conference Learn, be inspired, and connect with others working to advance inclusion in the technology industry with another live@Manning event. The “Women in Tech” online conference will be held on Oct 13, starring women that are rocking the tech boat! Agile Online Summit 2020 The Agile Online Summit was created for people who couldn’t attend major conferences. This will be its third year, and the main goal is to bring major level agile speakers to people all over the world as well as spotlight some up and coming agile coaches and trainers.  October 26th to 30th, 2020, Live and recorded too.   Next SPaMCAST The Software Process and Measurement Cast 618 will feature a discussion I had with Mike King and Beth Leonard earlier this year.  We discussed the changing work environment, process, and quality.  A hard-hitting discussion with two great minds!