Items necessary for "Minimum Viable Airlines" and your "Minimum Viable Project". These are the items that we agreed we would need before embarking on a project together. Do you have all of these before you begin a project?

1. Destination - Project Vision
2. Altitude - Depth of backlog
3. Location - Progress (working software)
4. Airspeed - Speed of delivery and speed constraints
5. Fuel - Stories
6. Captain or pilot - A leader
7. Black box - Project data or metrics
8. Landing gear - A clear and well worn path to prod
9. Good flight procedures - Working agreements
10. FAA flight time restrictions for pilots - Sustainable pace
11. Logbook - Source control
12. Emergency slide - Good enough or a safe way to end a project on short notice

Picks

Jason

• Podcasting Innovation - it’s amazing how much has changed in the last 7+ years, thanks to all the people & companies that have created
• Goats to Go - www.goatsonthego.com - you can poop out the back of the airplane
• The Red Rubber Ball at Work - by Kevin Carroll - a fun book on practical strategies and why you should inject more fun into the workplace - http://kevincarrollkatalyst.com/books
• TV shows you can watch that Jason likes:
• Why Planes Crash
• Airline Repo

John

• Uncle Bob, professionalism in software development and the future of programming, https://youtu.be/LmRl0D-RkPU

Craig

• Waverunners
• Vacation from your vacation
• China Airlines Flight 006, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Airlines_Flight_006
• Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accidents_and_incidents

Join the guys as they, on the fly, create the Developer Experience Manifesto

Picks

Jason

• Book - “Exactly What to Say: The Magic Words of Influence & Impact” by Phil Jones - great insights and straights on how many of the simple things we say (including on this podcast) impact how people perceive and respond to what we say as agilists - https://www.philmjones.com/exactly/
• Product (for virtual teams) Sococo - Provides a virtual office with different spaces for team collaboration, pairing, or solo work - creates the experience where people working virtually can drop in - www.sococo.com
• Live Event - Agile Midwest 2019 - Come hang out in the “Agile Lounge” to discuss advanced agile topics or attend any of the other 40+ sessions on the program - www.agilemidwest.org

John

• Three Amigos, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092086/
• WWT Software Development podcast episode on the Virtual Office, https://wwtapps.podbean.com/e/virtual-office-1563125261/
• John's relatively new podcast, Dalio's Principles: A Philosophical Examination, https://daliosprinciples.fireside.fm/

Scaled Agile and the similarities between hair styling and agilist.

The Picks

Craig

• New version of git, introducing git switch and git restore:
  • https://github.blog/2019-08-16-highlights-from-git-2-23/

Lee

• Pros and Cons of Scaled Agile
  • https://www.qasymphony.com/blog/pros-cons-scaled-agile-framework-safe/

Amos

• Rocketbook Beacons
  • https://getrocketbook.com/pages/beacons-how-it-works

John

• https://daliosprinciples.fireside.fm/ My new podcast Dalio’s Principles: A Philosophical Examination

In this thrilling episode of This Agile Life, Jason asks for advice from Craig, Amos and Lee on what kind of metrics development teams can provide so there is some level of predictability as to new when features will be available to users or potential customers.

Craig

• I Estimate this Talk will be 20 Minutes Long, Give or Take 10 Minutes by Noel Rappin, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBMwT53oGsM
• Concolic testing, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concolic_testing
• * Concolic = concrete + symbolic

Lee

• #NoEstimates Project Planning Using Monte Carlo Simulation, https://www.infoq.com/articles/noestimates-monte-carlo/
• ActionableAgile, https://actionableagile.com/

Amos

• Agile and Beyond - Tom Churchwell, http://agileandbeyond.com
• Code Craftsman Saturdays - Bob Allen, http://codecraftsmansaturdays.blogspot.com
• Ford Agile Coaches - They are hiring agile craftsman who want to pair and do TDD email Fadi at [email protected]
• Give and Take - Adam Grant, https://www.adamgrant.net/give-and-take

Jason

• Book - Lynn Cazaly - Visual Mojo – Learn how drawing can be easy and fun & Agile 2019 keynote speaker - https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Mojo-Express-Lynne-Cazaly/dp/0987462911
• Video - Brene Brown – Netflix Special: Call to Courage – Learn how shame and vulnerability impact you and your team and what you can do about it – https://www.netflix.com/title/81010166
• Event - Agile Midwest Call For Papers Round Two (Sept 25/26 in St. Louis, MO) – Congrats to our first round selections but it’s not too late to submit your idea to share OR improve your submission if you weren’t selected – www.agilemidwest.org

Topics

• Marriage Workshop
• Skinny Agile
  • Commandments:
    • Working software, delivered in short intervals (weekly or more often)
    • Every story has to be deployed when it’s finished
    • Every story has to be valuable (to the stakeholders) and observable

Picks

Craig

• Jessica Kerr’s talk about Opera at Agile: Deliver, https://www.agilealliance.org/resources/sessions/the-origins-of-opera-and-the-future-of-programming-jessica-kerr/

John

• This is 40, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1758830/

Jason and Amos in a steel cage match of death.

Picks

Tice

• Live Event - Play For Agile NA - September 26 - 29, 2019 - Corwall, ON - Multi-Day Open Space conference focused on collaboration for high performing teams - theme this year is: Growing Empathy through Play - https://play4agilenorthamerica.com/
• Elevation of Privilege - Card Game for Threat Modeling - Open Source thanks to Microsoft - Model Your Threats - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=20303

Amos

• GigCity Elixir - October 17-19, Chattanooga, TN, https://www.gigcityelixir.com/
• Property-Based Testing with PropEr, Erlang, and Elixir: Find Bugs Before Your Users Do by Fred Hebert, https://pragprog.com/book/fhproper/property-based-testing-with-proper-erlang-and-elixir
• Behind Human Error by a bunch of people, https://www.amazon.com/Behind-Human-Error-David-Woods/dp/0754678342

What to do when team members don’t want to follow the established team rules? How to deal with your emotions getting the better of you?

How Craig prefers to work

• Introverted, but likes to work with people
• Thinking out loud
• OK with taking criticism in public
• Passive with ideas

The only thing you can control is how you act/react (Amos has been seeing this, but Tice brought it up)
Team-first development

Vulnerability stories

• Five Dysfunctions of a Team
• The Advantage
• Lead or Go First

Tice’s advice on building trust

• Share appreciation - more important than sharing constructive feedback (just appreciation & thank you)
• Listen
• Assume positive intent - assume that others are not out to get you
• Share / Transparency

Picks

Tice

• Agile Midwest 2019 - www.agilemidwest.org - Call for Awesome Sessions - now open - come share your ideas, help others learn, receive feedback and be part of the agile community.
• Team exercise to learn how to work together better - Jason Lankow - https://medium.com/@jasonlankow/how-to-do-the-best-work-with-these-4-creative-types-5bf366a08f9c

Amos

• Ballast Point - Grapefruit Sculpin IPA
• http://www.thelittletyper.com/

Craig

• Single-Site Browsers (SSBs)
  • Coherence Pro
  • Unite 2
  • Fluid

How to tell how well your team is doing

• Happiness
• Productivity
• Informed (communication)
• Needed a break?
• Learned/improved?
• How many times did you feel pain?
• Trust
• Feeling important/useful
• Self-organizing
• Have you tried “all” the Agile practices?
• Amos: team complains about chairs

https://labs.spotify.com/2014/09/16/squad-health-check-model/

Picks

John

• Empathy Map exercise, https://www.solutionsiq.com/resource/blog-post/what-is-an-empathy-map/

Lee

• Plickers - App for doing live anonymous polls, https://get.plickers.com/

Craig

• TCR (test && commit || revert) - article by Kent Beck, https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/test-commit-revert-870bbd756864

Picks

John

• test && commit || revert with Kent Beck on https://hanselminutes.com/663/test-commit-revert-with-kent-beck
• GTD, for $1.99 https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Things-Done-Stress-Free-Productivity-ebook/dp/B00KWG9M2E

Amos

• GullyTown Double Barrel Aged by Restless Spirits in Kansas City
• A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout
• Elixir Outlaws - https://elixiroutlaws.com

Picks

Craig

• A critique of “the 5 whys” (not the one I saw recently, but similar)
• Office Space scenes with the real Michael Bolton
• Alchian-Allen effect

Amos

• People
• Paper
• Getting Things Done - David Allen