Links for Production Support talk at Agile 2018
Agile Links
Helpful links about agile
Wedding Cakes And MVP
I found out a week before my wedding that we weren’t going to have a wedding cake. The baker which we’d paid to design and bake a multi-tiered, multi-flavored wedding cake for 300 people had gone out of business.
While not fun at the time, it turned out to be a great lesson in project management and what MVP really means.
Blameless Postmortem
When things go wrong in production it is critical to get things fixed immediately. Good teams can do that. But great teams fix the problem in production and get to the root cause so this type of problem never impacts a user again.
What a Scrum Master Does
When I was a software developer and I met someone for the first time and they asked me what work I did, I would reply, “I type for a living.”
Overcoming Resistance
Links and bibliography for my “Overcoming Resistance” talk
Simple
Links and ideas for creating simpler or smaller stories
Red Hat Agile Day Videos
The recordings from Red Hat Agile Day are live.
The recorded talks are:
- Jim Whitehurst – CEO Red Hat
- Larry Maccherone – What? So What? Now What? – how to use metrics in an agile world
- David Frink – Overcoming Resistance – How to engage developers in agile adoption
- Todd Olson – The Data-Driven Product Owner
- Alexis Monville: How agile and open-source work together in nearly perfect Harmony
- Adam La Voy – Talent Acquisition Manager Red Hat – closing comments
My notes on talks 1, 2 and 4 are here.
My session was very interactive so there will be parts of the video where you won’t be able to hear the audience, but I did make every effort to repeat the questions or summarize the comments for the sake of the video.
I’m on Deliver It Cast
Recently had the opportunity speak with Cory Bryan as a guest on Deliver It Cast.
We had a fun conversation on how Product Owners and Developers can better work together.
We touched on some of my favorite topics:
Lots of fun to be on the cast and Cory is a great host. Hope you enjoy.
Red Hat Agile Day 2016
Recently had the opportunity to attend Red Hat Agile Day. Great conference. Thanks to all who worked to put it on. My notes from the talks I attended are below.
