This Agile Life

Building Teams

TDD

Origins of Approval Tests Architecture of Approval Tests

Database Migrations

Dealing with Blocks

Discussion with JB Rainsberger

Mob Programming

Dave Gave Me Goosebumps

TDD, Pairing and Mobbing

Sustainable Pace

10 Commandments of Egoless Programming

Technical Debt

State of Agile 2013

Splitting Stories

Introspectives, defined

“Getting Value Out of Agile Retrospectives“, by Ben Linders and Luis Gonçalves “With plenty of exercises for your retrospective toolbox, this book will help you to become more proficient in doing retrospectives, and to get more value out of them

The 3 Faces of Environment You were saying that Agile resonated with you because it reminded you of kindergarten?

Pros and Cons of Physical and Digital Work Boards Digital Pros Easily shared and viewed by many Automatic metric capture Cycle Time Cumulative Flow Velocity Trend Analysis Etc.

2014 Predictions regarding the Human Side of Agile

<h3>Happy Holidays from This Agile Life.</h3> <h3><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The next episode will be released on Sunday, January 5, 2014.</span></h3> <div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/thisagilelife/podcast?a=Vi2a-3DoGqY:kj73vOGdTLA:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/thisagilelife/podcast?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/thisagilelife/podcast?a=Vi2a-3DoGqY:kj73vOGdTLA:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/thisagilelife/podcast?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/thisagilelife/podcast?a=Vi2a-3DoGqY:kj73vOGdTLA:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/thisagilelife/podcast?i=Vi2a-3DoGqY:kj73vOGdTLA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/thisagilelife/podcast?a=Vi2a-3DoGqY:kj73vOGdTLA:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/thisagilelife/podcast?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thisagilelife/podcast/~4/Vi2a-3DoGqY" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>

<p>Recorded Wednesday, December 18, 2013</p> <p>Hosts: <a title="John Sextro" href="http://www.thisagilelife.com/?page_id=13">John Sextro</a>, <a title="Amos King" href="http://www.thisagilelife.com/?page_id=9">Amos King</a>, and Craig Buchek<a title="Amos King" href="http://www.thisagilelife.com/?page_id=9"><br /> </a></p> <h2 dir="ltr">Pair Switching</h2> <ul> <li>Pairing, in general</li> <li>How to pair switch <ul> <li>Using a “Pair-a-mid” to track pairings</li> <li>How to rotate pairs</li> </ul> </li> <li>Length of pair sessions <ul> <li>1 week, 2 day, 1 day, half-day, 2 hours, 1 hour, 15 mins</li> <li>Benefits of short pairing sessions</li> <li>Pitfalls of long pairing sessions</li> </ul> </li> <li>When to switch <ul> <li>What should trigger a pair switch</li> <li>Time, using a timer</li> <li>Story completion</li> </ul> </li> <li>Concerns about context switches</li> <li>Insights on the <a href="http://c2.com/cgi/wiki/wiki?search=pair">C2Wiki</a></li> </ul> <h2>Picks of the Show</h2> <p>Craig (<a href="https://twitter.com/craigbuchek">@CraigBuchek</a>)</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.quinapalus.com/wi-index.html">WireWorld</a></li> <li><a href="http://monoprice.com">Monoprice.com</a></li> </ul> <p>Amos (<a href="https://twitter.com/adkron" target="_blank">@adkron</a>)</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://arduino.cc">Arduino</a> projects</li> <li><a href="http://geedesk.com">Geek Desk</a>, Amos is anticipating the arrival of his new desk</li> </ul> <p>John (<a href="https://twitter.com/jcsextro" target="_blank">@jcsextro</a>)</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin">Bitcoin</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.devx.com/enterprise/seven-secrets-of-successful-pair-programming.html">7 Habits of Highly Effective Pair Programmers</a>, published article, by Me</li> <li><a href="http://csedweek.org/">The Hour of Code 2013</a></li> </ul> <div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/thisagilelife/podcast?a=ve6Pi4ZCAoo:iKCtEHbg5tI:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/thisagilelife/podcast?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/thisagilelife/podcast?a=ve6Pi4ZCAoo:iKCtEHbg5tI:63t7Ie-LG7Y"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/thisagilelife/podcast?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/thisagilelife/podcast?a=ve6Pi4ZCAoo:iKCtEHbg5tI:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/thisagilelife/podcast?i=ve6Pi4ZCAoo:iKCtEHbg5tI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/thisagilelife/podcast?a=ve6Pi4ZCAoo:iKCtEHbg5tI:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/thisagilelife/podcast?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thisagilelife/podcast/~4/ve6Pi4ZCAoo" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>

What is Too Big for a Team

Product Owners

Walking Skeleton, Minimal Marketable Feature and Thin Vertical Slice Minimal Marketable Feature, definitive article Walking Skeleton

Planning, How much is too much

NoEstimates and Metrics