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Dalio's Principles: A Philosophical Examination
Principle 3.3 - Appreciate the art of thoughtful disagreement
Read this Principle online (https://www.principles.com/principles/7e32fcba-3c52-4f0d-8718-3cc342d88763/) Topics discussed How we've tried to live out this Principle Philisophical considerations of this Principle Join us on our subreddit dailosprinciples (https://www.reddit.com/r/daliosprinciples/) Follow us on Twitter @MicahBaize (https://twitter.com/micahbaize) @JohnSextro (https://twitter.com/johnsextro)
2020-05-25
00 min
Dalio's Principles: A Philosophical Examination
Principle 3.2 - Practice Radical Open-mindedness
An examination of Principle 3.2 Philosopher Agnes Callard (https://twitter.com/AgnesCallard) The Meno (http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/meno.html) Topics discussed How we've tried to live out this Principle Philisophical considerations of this Principle Join us on our subreddit dailosprinciples (https://www.reddit.com/r/daliosprinciples/) Follow us on Twitter @MicahBaize (https://twitter.com/micahbaize) @JohnSextro (https://twitter.com/johnsextro)
2020-05-11
00 min
Dalio's Principles: A Philosophical Examination
Principle 3.1 - Recognize Your Two Barriers
Principle 3.1 - Recognize Your Two Barriers Topics discussed How we've tried to live out this Principle Philisophical considerations of this Principle Books mentioned Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter, by Cass Sunstein (https://www.amazon.com/Wiser-Getting-Beyond-Groupthink-Smarter/dp/1422122999/) Articles mentioned "The Will to Believe", by William James (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/26659/26659-h/26659-h.htm#P1) Join us on our subreddit dailosprinciples (https://www.reddit.com/r/daliosprinciples/) Follow us on Twitter @MicahBaize (https://twitter.com/micahbaize) @JohnSextro (https://twitter.com/johnsextro)
2020-04-20
00 min
Dalio's Principles: A Philosophical Examination
Principle 2.7 - Understand your own and others' mental maps and humility
Principle 2.7 - Understand your own and others' mental maps and humility Topics discussed How we've tried to live out this Principle Philisophical considerations of this Principle Join us on our subreddit dailosprinciples (https://www.reddit.com/r/daliosprinciples/) Follow us on Twitter @MicahBaize (https://twitter.com/micahbaize) @JohnSextro (https://twitter.com/johnsextro)
2020-04-06
00 min
Dalio's Principles: A Philosophical Examination
Principle 2.6 - Remember weaknesses don't matter if you find solutions
Principle 2.6 - Remember weaknesses don't matter if you find solutions Topics discussed How we've tried to live out this Principle Philisophical considerations of this Principle Join us on our subreddit dailosprinciples (https://www.reddit.com/r/daliosprinciples/) Follow us on Twitter @MicahBaize (https://twitter.com/micahbaize) @JohnSextro (https://twitter.com/johnsextro)
2020-03-09
00 min
Dalio's Principles: A Philosophical Examination
Principle 2.5 - Push through to completion
Principle 2.5 Push through to completion Topics discussed How we've tried to live out this Principle Philisophical considerations of this Principle Join us on our subreddit dailosprinciples (https://www.reddit.com/r/daliosprinciples/) Follow us on Twitter @MicahBaize (https://twitter.com/micahbaize) @JohnSextro (https://twitter.com/johnsextro)
2020-02-24
00 min
Dalio's Principles: A Philosophical Examination
Principle 2.4 - Design a plan
Principle 2.4 - Design a plan a. Go back before you go forward. b. Think about your problem as a set of outcomes produced by a machine. c. Remember that there are typically many paths to achieving your goals. d. Think of you plans as being like a movie script in that you visualize who will do what through time. e. Write down your plan for everyone to see and to measure your progress against. f. Recognize that it doesn't take a lot of time to design a good plan. Topics discussed How we've tried to live out this Principle Philisophical...
2020-02-03
00 min
Dalio's Principles: A Philosophical Examination
Principle 2.3 - Diagnose problems to get at their root causes
Principle 2.3 - Diagnose problems to get at their root causes a. Focus on the "what is" before deciding "what to do about it." b. Distinguish proximate causes from root causes. c. Recognize that knowing what someone (including you) is like will tell you what you can expect from them. "Proximate causes are often verbs and root causes are often adjectives." Topics discussed How we've tried to live out this Principle Philisophical considerations of this Principle Join us on our subreddit dailosprinciples (https://www.reddit.com/r/daliosprinciples/) Follow us on Twitter @MicahBaize (https://twitter.com/micahbaize) @JohnSextro (https://twitter.com...
2020-01-27
00 min
Dalio's Principles: A Philosophical Examination
Principles 2.2 - Identify and Don't Tolerate Problems
Principles 2.2 - Identify and Don't Tolerate Problems Topics discussed How we've tried to live out this Principle Philisophical considerations of this Principle Join us on our subreddit dailosprinciples (https://www.reddit.com/r/daliosprinciples/) Follow us on Twitter @MicahBaize (https://twitter.com/micahbaize) @JohnSextro (https://twitter.com/johnsextro)
2020-01-13
00 min
Dalio's Principles: A Philosophical Examination
Principle 2.1 - Have Clear Goals
Have Clear Goals Topics discussed How we've tried to live out this Principle Philisophical considerations of this Principle Join us on our subreddit dailosprinciples (https://www.reddit.com/r/daliosprinciples/) Follow us on Twitter @MicahBaize (https://twitter.com/micahbaize) @JohnSextro (https://twitter.com/johnsextro)
2019-12-02
00 min
Dalio's Principles: A Philosophical Examination
Principle 2 - Use the 5-Step Process
Principles 2 - Use the 5-Step Process to Get What You Want Out of Life Topics discussed How we've tried to live out this Principle Philisophical considerations of this Principle Mentioned Links Ray's 5-Step Process Video (https://www.principles.com/principles-for-success/#the-five-step-process) Join us on our subreddit dailosprinciples (https://www.reddit.com/r/daliosprinciples/) Follow us on Twitter @MicahBaize (https://twitter.com/micahbaize) @JohnSextro (https://twitter.com/johnsextro)
2019-11-18
00 min
Dalio's Principles: A Philosophical Examination
Principle 1.10 - Look at the Machine from a Higher Level
Look at the Machine from a Higher Level Topics discussed How we've tried to live out this Principle Philisophical considerations of this Principle Mentioned Links Babushka Doll (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matryoshka_doll) Holocracy, Brian J. Robertson (https://www.amazon.com/Holacracy-Management-System-Rapidly-Changing-ebook/dp/B00PF6QM6K/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3A2GJEOMQL2YZ&keywords=holocracy&qid=1572194966&sprefix=holocr%2Caps%2C173&sr=8-1) Join us on our subreddit dailosprinciples (https://www.reddit.com/r/daliosprinciples/) Follow us on Twitter @MicahBaize (https://twitter.com/micahbaize) @JohnSextro (https://twitter.com/johnsextro)
2019-10-28
00 min
Dalio's Principles: A Philosophical Examination
New Principle: Be Creative and Flexible
LinkedIn Article New Principle: To Have Both the money you need and the job you want, you have to be creative and flexible, https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/have-both-money-you-need-job-want-creative-flexible-ray-dalio/ Topics discussed How we've tried to live out this Principle Philisophical considerations of this Principle Related Links Adam Grant, The Perils of Following Your Passion, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-perils-of-following-your-career-passion/id1346314086?i=1000433418434 Cal Newport, How Passions are Developed, https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2009/11/24/are-passions-serendipitously-discovered-or-painstakingly-constructed/ LinkedIn, Should You Follow Your Passion, https://www.linkedin.com/feed/news/should-you-follow-your-passion-3990529/ Beyond the Professoriate, https://beyondprof.com/ Join us on our subreddit dailosprinciples...
2019-10-21
00 min
Dalio's Principles: A Philosophical Examination
Principles 1.9 - Own Your Outcomes
Own Your Outcomes Topics discussed How we've tried to live out this Principle Philisophical considerations of this Principle Mentions During the Show Physcology Today - Locus of Control, https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/moments-matter/201708/locus-control CNN - Pope John Paul comforting a man, https://www.cnn.com/2013/11/26/world/europe/pope-francis-disfigured-man/index.html Join us on our subreddit dailosprinciples (https://www.reddit.com/r/daliosprinciples/) Follow us on Twitter @MicahBaize (https://twitter.com/micahbaize) @JohnSextro (https://twitter.com/johnsextro) <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="...
2019-10-07
00 min
Dalio's Principles: A Philosophical Examination
Principle 1.8 - Weigh Second- and Third-Order Consequences
Weigh Second- and Third-Order Consequences Topics discussed How we've tried to live out this Principle Philisophical considerations of this Principle Join us on our subreddit dailosprinciples (https://www.reddit.com/r/daliosprinciples/) Follow us on Twitter @MicahBaize (https://twitter.com/micahbaize) @JohnSextro (https://twitter.com/johnsextro)
2019-09-30
00 min
This Agile Life
Minimum Viable Airlines
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? Destination - Project Vision Altitude - Depth of backlog Location - Progress (working software) Airspeed - Speed of delivery and speed constraints Fuel - Stories Captain or pilot - A leader Black box - Project data or metrics Landing gear - A clear and well worn path to prod Good flight procedures - Working agreements FAA flight time restrictions for pilots...
2019-09-26
00 min
Dalio's Principles: A Philosophical Examination
Principle 1.7 - Pain + Reflection = Progress
Pain + Reflection = Progress Topics discussed Go to the pain rather than avoid it Embrace Tough Love Books mentioned: The Millionaire Next Door (https://amzn.to/2oa16iw), by Thomas J Stanley Join us on our subreddit dailosprinciples (https://www.reddit.com/r/daliosprinciples/) Follow us on Twitter @MicahBaize (https://twitter.com/micahbaize) @JohnSextro (https://twitter.com/johnsextro)
2019-09-23
00 min
This Agile Life
The Developer Experience Manifesto
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 ...
2019-09-19
00 min
Dalio's Principles: A Philosophical Examination
Principle 1.6 - Understand Nature's Practical Lessons
Understand Nature's Practical Lessons Topics discussed Maximize your evolution Remember "no pain, no gain" It is a fundamental law of nature that in order to gain strength one has to push one's limits, which is painful. Join us on our subreddit dailosprinciples (https://www.reddit.com/r/daliosprinciples/) Follow us on Twitter @MicahBaize (https://twitter.com/micahbaize) @JohnSextro (https://twitter.com/johnsextro)
2019-09-16
00 min
Dalio's Principles: A Philosophical Examination
Principle 1.5 - Evolving is Life's Greatest Accomplishment and its Greatest Reward
Evolving is Life's Greatest Accomplishment and its Greatest Reward Topics discussed The individual's incentives must be aligned with the group's goals. Reality is optimizing for the whole - not for you. Adaptations through rapid trial and error is invaluable. Realize that you are simultaneously everything and nothing - and decide what you want to be. What you will be will depend on the perspective you have. Join us on our subreddit dailosprinciples (https://www.reddit.com/r/daliosprinciples/) Follow us on Twitter @MicahBaize (https://twitter.com/micahbaize) @JohnSextro (https://twitter.com/johnsextro)
2019-09-09
00 min
This Agile Life
Chaotic and Confusing
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
2019-09-05
00 min
Dalio's Principles: A Philosophical Examination
Principle 1.4 - Look to Nature to Learn How Reality Works
Look to Nature to Learn How Reality Works Topics discussed Understanding nature to understand what we want out of life. How to adapt this principle to your life. General considerations about the questions, "What is the purpose of life?" Leo Tolstoy's views compared to Dalio's views. Objection by Jean-Paul Sarte: Our life doesn’t come “pre-packaged” with a purpose. Join us on our subreddit dailosprinciples (https://www.reddit.com/r/daliosprinciples/) Follow us on Twitter @MicahBaize (https://twitter.com/micahbaize) @JohnSextro (https://twitter.com/johnsextro)
2019-09-02
00 min
Dalio's Principles: A Philosophical Examination
Principle 1.3 - Be Radically Open Minded and Radically Transparent
Be Radically Open-Minded and Radically Transparent Topics discussed Benefits of radical truth and transparency Difficulties in being radically truthful and transparent Ways to help you and other being more truthful and transparent Examples of them in our own lives How you can use Twitter to be more open-minded Books mentioned: Principles, Ray Dalio (https://amzn.to/2Z4dnXl) Join us on our subreddit dailosprinciples (https://www.reddit.com/r/daliosprinciples/) Follow us on Twitter @MicahBaize (https://twitter.com/micahbaize) @JohnSextro (https://twitter.com/johnsextro)
2019-08-26
00 min
Dalio's Principles: A Philosophical Examination
Principle 1 - Embrace Reality and Deal with It
Embrace Reality and Deal with It Topics discussed: How solving a problem in life produces a "gem" What it means to have your emotions reconciled with logic What it means to be a "hyperrealist" Debate about Ray's claim that what success is for each person depends on their "deepseated needs" Whether you can disagree with Ray's views about what our goals in life should be and still use most of his principles How radical open-mindedness and radical transparency improve your chance of success Whether the ideals of radical truth and radical transparency are universally true, or context-dependent Books mentioned: Principles...
2019-08-19
00 min
Dalio's Principles: A Philosophical Examination
Chapter 8 - "Looking Back from a Higher Level"
Looking Back from a Higher Level Topics discussed: Why Socrates liked talking to people of old age Ways in which Ray's view of life is similar to and/or different from Stoicism, Hedonism, Pessimism Stoicism: the good life is one in accordance with the rational order of things Hedonism: the good life is the maximization of happiness. Happiness is pleasure and the absence of pain. Pessimism: life isn't good. Life is the continual strive to satisfy desires but then when we do we're left unhappy. Pessimism as exemplified in Miley Cyrus's song "The Climb" Ray's claims that being rich and...
2019-08-12
00 min
Dalio's Principles: A Philosophical Examination
Chapter 7 - "My Last Year and My Greatest Challenge"
My Last Year and My Greatest Challenge Books mentioned: Principles, Ray Dalio (https://amzn.to/2Z4dnXl) Good to Great, Jim Collins (https://amzn.to/31RQByV) Thinking Fast & Slow, Daniel Kahneman (https://amzn.to/31QSnQN) Join us on our subreddit dailosprinciples (https://www.reddit.com/r/daliosprinciples/) Follow us on Twitter @MicahBaize (https://twitter.com/micahbaize) @JohnSextro (https://twitter.com/johnsextro)
2019-08-05
00 min
Dalio's Principles: A Philosophical Examination
Chapter 6 - "Returning the Boon"
Returning the Boon Books mentioned: Principles, Ray Dalio (https://amzn.to/2Z4dnXl) Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson (https://amzn.to/2KHoJrj) The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell (https://amzn.to/2KIIOgZ) Article link: Famine, Affluence, and Morality, Peter Singer (https://www.utilitarian.net/singer/by/1972----.htm) Join us on our subreddit dailosprinciples (https://www.reddit.com/r/daliosprinciples/) Follow us on Twitter @MicahBaize (https://twitter.com/micahbaize) @JohnSextro (https://twitter.com/johnsextro)
2019-07-29
00 min
Dalio's Principles: A Philosophical Examination
Chapter 5 - "The Ultimate Boon"
The Ultimate Boon Books mentioned: Principles, Ray Dalio (https://amzn.to/2Z4dnXl) Please Understand Me II, Prometheus Nemesis Book Co (https://amzn.to/31QEkuE) Join us on our subreddit dailosprinciples (https://www.reddit.com/r/daliosprinciples/) Follow us on Twitter @MicahBaize (https://twitter.com/micahbaize) @JohnSextro (https://twitter.com/johnsextro)
2019-07-22
00 min
This Agile Life
Inconsistent at Best
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/ ...
2019-07-18
00 min
Dalio's Principles: A Philosophical Examination
Chapter 4 - "My Road of Trials"
My Road of Trials Books mentioned: Principles, Ray Dalio (https://amzn.to/2Z4dnXl) The Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Immanuel Kant (https://amzn.to/2Z4DxJm) Join us on our subreddit dailosprinciples (https://www.reddit.com/r/daliosprinciples/) Follow us on Twitter @MicahBaize (https://twitter.com/micahbaize) @JohnSextro (https://twitter.com/johnsextro)
2019-07-15
00 min
Dalio's Principles: A Philosophical Examination
Chapter 3 - "My Abyss"
My Abyss Books mentioned: Principles, Ray Dalio (https://amzn.to/2Z4dnXl) Join us on our subreddit dailosprinciples (https://www.reddit.com/r/daliosprinciples/) Follow us on Twitter @MicahBaize (https://twitter.com/micahbaize) @JohnSextro (https://twitter.com/johnsextro)
2019-07-08
00 min
Dalio's Principles: A Philosophical Examination
Chapter 2 - "Crossing the Threshold"
Crossing the Threshold Books mentioned: Principles, Ray Dalio (https://amzn.to/2Z4dnXl) A Theory of Justice, John Rawls (https://amzn.to/2zbyIyS) Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle (https://amzn.to/2KKsblj) Join us on our subreddit dailosprinciples (https://www.reddit.com/r/daliosprinciples/) Follow us on Twitter @MicahBaize (https://twitter.com/micahbaize) @JohnSextro (https://twitter.com/johnsextro)
2019-07-01
00 min
Dalio's Principles: A Philosophical Examination
Chapter 1 - "My Call To Adventure"
Topics discussed: Ray's childhood What motivates Ray in life and business His first investment - bad, but successful! His risk-taking nature Ray's seemingly false claim that "For me, great is better than terrible, and terrible is better than mediocre, because terrible at least gives life flavor." *Note to Parents * We discuss the existence of Santa Claus and the myth that you have to be good in school to be successful. Books mentioned: Principles, Ray Dalio (https://amzn.to/2Z4dnXl) Join us on our subreddit dailosprinciples (https://www.reddit.com/r/daliosprinciples/) Follow us on Twitter @MicahBaize (https://twitter.com...
2019-06-25
00 min
Dalio's Principles: A Philosophical Examination
The Introduction
An introduction to the podcast and our comments on the Introduction chapter to the book. Topics discussed: Who is Ray Dalio? What are his credentials for writing a book on how to improve your chance at success? Ray's ideas of "Radical Truth" and "Radical Transparency" Whether's Ray's principles are one-size-fits-all, or whether they will be different for different people? Ray's role in making McDonald's Chicken McNuggets possible Ray's suggestion to think for yourself: What do you want? What is true? What are you going to do about it? Books mentioned: Principles, Ray Dalio (https://amzn.to/2Z4dnXl) Join us...
2019-06-18
00 min
This Agile Life
Skinny Agile
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/
2019-05-30
00 min
This Agile Life
Alone in the Ring
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...
2019-05-09
00 min
This Agile Life
Letting People Be Vulnerable
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 (https://www.teamfirstdevelopment.com/) Vulnerability stories * Five Dysfunctions of a Team * The Advantage * Lead or Go First Tice’s advice on building trust * Share appreciation - more impo...
2019-05-02
00 min
This Agile Life
Squad, Squad, Squad, Squad
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
2019-03-21
00 min
This Agile Life
Dirty Diapers
2019-02-21
00 min
This Agile Life
Geological Separation
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
2019-01-31
00 min
This Agile Life
Natural Flow
Picks Craig * A critique of “the 5 whys” (https://www.kitchensoap.com/2014/11/14/the-infinite-hows-or-the-dangers-of-the-five-whys/) (not the one I saw recently, but similar) * Office Space scenes with the real Michael Bolton (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03lrL9CFWxM) * Alchian-Allen effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchian%E2%80%93Allen_effect) Amos * People * Paper * Getting Things Done (https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Things-Done-Stress-Free-Productivity/dp/0142000280) - David Allen
2019-01-24
00 min
This Agile Life
Shower Standup
Links Agile Connection (https://www.agileconnection.com/question) Subway Map to Agile Practices (https://www.agilealliance.org/agile101/subway-map-to-agile-practices/) Picks Craig Doug DeMuro car videos (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsqjHFMB_JYTaEnf_vmTNqg) Auto Trader column called Oversteer Music without lyrics, but that I like 2Cellos (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyjuFsbclXyntSRMBAILzbw) Harp Twins (https://www.youtube.com/user/CamilleandKennerly) Lee Agile Connection (https://www.agileconnection.com) Bonus pick not mentioned in the show (http://dilbert.com/strip/2018-01-22) John 2017 Top 66 Developer Resources (https://hackernoon.com/the-top-66-developer-resources-from-2017-e82531365e6d) Agile Coalition (https://coalition.agileuprising.com/)
2018-01-28
00 min
This Agile Life
Ideas to Increase Agility in 2018
Special Guests Don Peters Marc Chouinard Topics Real-Time Team Improvements Setting Clear Objectives, Goals, and Working Agreements Try Pair Testing in 2018 Find Your Personal Impact / Motivation Picks Liftoff (https://www.amazon.com/Liftoff-Start-Sustain-Successful-Agile/dp/1680501631/) (Book) by Diana Larsen & Ainsley Nies – provides specific methods for “agile chartering” to help teams define their vision, and then write mission and mission tests to guide activities supportive of the vision Mile High Agile 2018 (https://www.milehighagile.org/) (Live Event) – Inspired by being in Denver, consider checking out the annual Mile High Agile conference being held in Denver, CO on May 21 & 22, 2018 – great conference with open space to l...
2018-01-16
00 min
This Agile Life
Agile Tribal Council
Topics Leadership by example Picks Craig Clean Architecture (https://www.amazon.com/Clean-Architecture-Craftsmans-Software-Structure/dp/0134494164) by Robert “Uncle Bob” Martin Building Evolutionary Architectures (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1491986360/) by Neal Ford and Rebecca Parsons John The Mother of All Demos (https://youtu.be/r6iADUTlqwQ), presented by Douglas Engelbart 1968 The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (https://smile.amazon.com/Five-Dysfunctions-Team-Leadership-Fable/dp/0787960756/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1508296754&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=five+dystfunctions) Jason Liberating Structures (http://www.liberatingstructures.com) - helpful and well designed frameworks for specific types of strategic conversations - references available on the web at plus a Mo...
2017-10-23
00 min
This Agile Life
Stockholm Syndrome
Discussion The standardization of agile process across an organization. Picks Lee 22 Scrum Master Anti-Patterns (http://www.101ways.com/22-scrum-master-anti-patterns-job-ads/) from Job Ads, blog post by Stefan Wolpers Nate Mellowcreme pumpkins (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_pumpkin) The Greatest Generation (http://www.maximumfun.org/shows/greatest-generation) Amos (channeling Tice) ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct (https://ethics.acm.org/) How a Raccoon Became an Aardvark (https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/how-a-raccoon-became-an-aardvark) Deep Teases ;-) John WASD Keyboards (http://www.wasdkeyboards.com)
2017-10-08
00 min
This Agile Life
Great Bathtubs
The Discussion We discuss ways that you can create a virtual "Save Point" in your project, both technically and with your relationships. Picks Nate Audible Content Exchange (http://acx.com) Lee Welcome Inn Manor (http://welcomeinnmanor.com/) - B&B in Chicago Jason Jason’s Recommended Bed & Breakfast in Boulder, CO - The Alps Canyon Inn (http://www.alpsinn.com/) - (Lee thinks they have great bathtubs) - http://www.alpsinn.com/ Let’s Be Awesome (https://www.slideshare.net/JasonTice/lets-be-awesome-big-apple-scrum-day-2017-game-objective-guide) - a collaboration framework to guide recurring team/customer conversations to prioritize needs, practices to support them, and...
2017-10-01
00 min
This Agile Life
Intelligent Monkeys
Picks Amos Moon Monkey - Ginger Beer from Saint Louis’ Urban Chestnut Quixir (https://hex.pm/packages/quixir) - Property-based testing in Elixir Lee Artillery (https://artillery.io/) - performance testing tool Testing Pyramid (https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TestPyramid.html) - from Martin Fowler Craig Ansible (https://www.ansible.com/) Server builds/configs My server configs (https://github.com/boochtek/server_config) Linux or macOS software install/configuration My macOS configs (https://github.com/boochtek/mac_config/tree/ansible) Puppet (https://puppet.com/) is also acceptable Chef (https://www.chef.io/chef/) is also acceptable Approval testing (http://approvaltests.com/) Pr...
2017-09-24
00 min
This Agile Life
What Happened
Links Maslow’s Hierarchy Needs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs) Picks Jason The DevOps Lego Chocolate Game (https://www.agilealliance.org/resources/sessions/introduction-to-devops-with-chocolate-lego-and-scrum-game/) - a great way to learn about DevOps practices and how to apply them on your team Team First Development (http://www.teamfirstdevelopment.com/) - 3-minute Improv games to improve team dynamics, collaboration and communication - all the essentials to have a great team Live Event - Agile Midwest 2017 - Join @theagilefactor at the Midwest’s Largest non-profit agile conference - check out our program of 40 agile talks and a keynote by T...
2017-09-17
00 min
This Agile Life
Pickle Buckets
Recorded at the Rolla Brewpub (http://www.publichousebrewery.com/rolla-brewpub/) Amos and Craig head out to a Brewery...Yes, a Brewery, and talk Josh Stacy, one of the co-owners of Public House Brewing Company. They talk about learning from our mistakes, continuous improvement, scaling, producing quality, and, of course, making beer. Picks Craig Being Employed ### Amos Farmhouse Ale (http://www.publichousebrewery.com/the-beer/) ### Josh Voltron (https://www.netflix.com/title/80075595)
2017-08-20
00 min
This Agile Life
Someone Stank
Working from Home / Pairing Suggests on how to pair Mob Programming Picks Amos Maltopia, Hermitage Brewing (https://hermitagebrewing.com/beer/year-round/maltopia-scotch-ale/) Strange Loop (https://www.thestrangeloop.com/) ElixirConf (https://elixirconf.com/) Elixir Rocks Craig Ruby Conf (http://rubyconf.org/)
2017-08-13
00 min
This Agile Life
Cat Killed the WiFi
Job Interviews Hiring without Whiteboards (https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards) The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/08/opinion/sunday/the-utter-uselessness-of-job-interviews.html) from the New York Times John Krewson (https://twitter.com/johnkrewson) - Casting Casting Casting Craig's standard interview questions (https://github.com/boochtek/checklists/blob/master/Interview-Questions.md) Picks Craig 99 Bottles of OOP (https://www.sandimetz.com/99bottles/) by Sandi Metz and Katrina Owen I’ll be giving a workshop at Agile Alliance Technical Conference (https://www.agilealliance.org/agile-alliance-technical-conference-2017/) Smaller! - refactoring, story splitting, shorter iterations Amos Live Like a Hippy (https://www.youtube.com/wa...
2017-04-24
00 min
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DevOps Extravaganza of Tangents
Picks Craig Supporting Open Source projects Ruby Together 5 Web Trends for 2017 Progressive Web Apps - mobile first, responsive, offline, cross-platform, Amos Elixir Daze - because I’m speaking The Commodore - Ballast Point brewer Stout All the Indiana Jones movies are on Amazon Prime, but we can ignore the one about aliens Unikernels - Defer Panic
2017-01-29
00 min
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The 12 Days of Agile
Below are the most impactful words that Craig and Jason selected from each of the 12 principles * Principle #1: Delivery & Customer * Principle #2: Welcome & Change * Principle #3: Frequently & Shorter * Principle #4: Business-People & Together * Principle #5: Trust & Trust * Principle #6: Face-To-Face & Conversation * Principle #7: Measure & Progress * Principle #8: Sustainable & Pace * Principle #9: Continuous & Design * Principle #10: Essential & Work * Principle #11: Emerge & Emerge * Principle #12: Behavior & Adjust Picks Craig Blog – “Talks that changed the way I think about programming” - http://www.opowell.com/post/talks-that-changed-the-way-i-think-about-programming/ Jason Invest to have a great team - In the New Year, spend some time focusing to become a great team – perhaps review the agile manifesto like Craig and I did on...
2017-01-08
00 min
This Agile Life
Return of the Amos King
Amos interview David Bernstein
2016-12-11
00 min
This Agile Life
The Amos Files, Part 2
Amos King interviews Fadik Houry, Francie Van Wirkus and Ryan Ripley following their presentations at Agile Dev East
2016-12-04
00 min
This Agile Life
The Amos Files, Part 1
Amos King interviews John Krewson and David Hussman following their presentations at Agile Dev East
2016-11-27
00 min
This Agile Life
2 Person Retro
Craig shows how to open yourself up for feedback as he and Amos discuss his recent presentation at Ruby Conf. Craig and Amos demonstrate how to do a retrospective with 2 people, and how to give and receive feedback.
2016-11-20
00 min
This Agile Life
Trust, Transparency and Truth
This presentation was recorded at Agile Gravy 2016 Trust Transparency Truth
2016-10-02
00 min
This Agile Life
At the Wheelhouse (Agile Lunch)
Co-location Remote teams Measurement and measuring
2016-09-18
00 min
This Agile Life
Quick Announcement from Amos
Look out UK. Here comes Amos!
2016-08-26
00 min
This Agile Life
Rubber Duck Effect (Scrum to Kanban)
Scrum vs. Kanban
2016-08-21
00 min
This Agile Life
It’s Called a Comic Book – Pt. 2 (State of Agile)
The Version One 10th Annual State of Agile
2016-08-07
00 min
This Agile Life
It’s Called a Comic Book – Pt. 1 (State of Agile)
The Version One 10th Annual State of Agile
2016-07-31
00 min
This Agile Life
You Can’t Handle the Truth (Trust, Truth and Transparency)
Dealing with constructive criticism
2016-07-24
00 min
This Agile Life
Wiggly and Stabler (Return of Waterfall)
The Return of Waterfall, video from Kent Beck, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4IncnNVzMA Vision Strategy Product Design Engineering
2016-07-17
00 min
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Agile Dev East
Special Guest: Lee Copeland, Conference Chair at Agile Dev East Discussion Agile Dev East Program Tracks Quality Software DevOps Agile Software Training Leadership Summit Social Networking The Expo
2016-07-10
00 min
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Scrum (You Can’t Reason with a Methodologist)
Special Guest: Dave West, Product Owner at Scrum.org Discusses
2016-07-03
00 min
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Silver Search (Trouble with POs)
Problems in communication and the behavior of a PO
2016-06-26
00 min
This Agile Life
Slack Dander (Fallacies of Software Developers)
Todd Kaufman, Test Double Discussion Fallacies of Software Developers (Todd Kaufman’s presentation at Agile and Beyond 2016)
2016-05-22
00 min
This Agile Life
The Empathy Toy (Agile Technical Conf)
Agile Technical Conference April 2016 – Raleigh, NC From Agile Alliance
2016-04-13
00 min
This Agile Life
Ypsilanti Safe Space (Amplify Learning)
Lean Principle – Amplify Learning: what is it? How do I do it?
2016-03-20
00 min
This Agile Life
A Drove of Asses (Team Cohesion)
Team Cohesion Forming, storming, norming, performing Leading from the back of the room Shared vision Pairing on story writing
2016-03-13
00 min
This Agile Life
Elevator Retrospective
Diana Larsen, co-author of “Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great” visited St. Louis and held an opening gathering at a local agile meetup group. Some of our regular hosts from ThisAgileLife attended this event and took note of the following questions to discuss on a podcast episode to pass along some of the insights Diana shared and also to perhaps add a few of their own.
2016-01-31
00 min
This Agile Life
Chasing another Dragon (Too Reactive)
Released Sunday, January 17, 2016 Hosts: Amos King, Craig Buchek and John Sextro Discussion Too reactive to requests 7 Righteous fights Picks Amos Glenmorangie – The Quinta Ruban – 12 year single malt scotch finished in a port barrel New programming jargon from Coding Horror John 4 Hands – Absence of Light beer Bill Gates Reading List Craig Not drinking alcohol or soda The Scrum Guide Coding Horror Recommended Reading List for Developers Neil deGrasse Tyson Reading List
2016-01-17
00 min
This Agile Life
Chasing the Dragon (Giving Thanks for Agile)
Things we’re thankful for about agile
2015-11-29
00 min
This Agile Life
We’re more similar than we know (Feedback Game)
Playing the feedback game
2015-10-11
00 min
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Don’t Make Mud (Tech Debt)
Technical Debt Quote “Software is never finished” Phases of a project Race to market MVP MMF Growth
2015-09-27
00 min
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First Agile Experience
Yay! We made it to 100!!!! The hosts sit down to share their first experiences with agile.
2015-09-22
00 min
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(Dealing with Negativity) Puns Everywhere
How to deal with negativity on a team Good naked and bad naked, Seinfeld reference
2015-09-13
00 min
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(Aug. 2015 Agile LINC) Automate, Automate
Craig Buchek and Jason Tice both attended the August 2015 St. Louis Agile LINC user group meeting
2015-09-06
00 min
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(Agile 2015 Wrap-up) Podcasting at a non-sustainable pace
Jason Tice and Natalie Simonsen Discussion Now that the Agile2015 conference has concluded, join Natalie Simonsen and Jason Tice for a round-robin discussion of their key take-aways and themes from the week
2015-08-17
00 min
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(Agile 2015 – Friday) I like Big Boards
Stephen Vance shares highlights from the multi-team agile framework he has put in place at his organization with Natalie and Renee.
2015-08-11
00 min
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(Agile 2015 – Wednesday) That’s a Wiener
ThisAgileLife celebrated a “winning” episode recorded immediately after guest Dan Parker and Jason Tice won prizes at the Agile2015 “Night at the Museums” vendor raffle event. Jason and Dan were joined by Melanie Hopwood and Charles Elsner (also attending the conference) to discuss sessions they attended on Wednesday, August 5, 2015.
2015-08-08
00 min
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(Agile 2015) Booth Bitch vs. the Cucumber Guy
Natalie and Jason were joined by Agile2015 conference attendees including Renee Troughton, Rich Rose Hemlock and Joe Naumann to reflect on the second day of the conference and share a few learnings from the sessions they attended.
2015-08-06
00 min
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(Agile 2015) Agile Bangers & Mash
Natalie and Jason were joined by Agile2015 conference attendees Rose Hemlock and Joe Naumann to reflect on the first day of the conference and share a few learnings from the sessions they attended
2015-08-05
00 min
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(Agile 2015 Kickoff) Don’t Leave Your Children Unattended on the Balcony
Agile 2015 Kickoff
2015-08-04
00 min
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(Lean Coffee) Version 1 Spy
“Lean Coffee” discussion with several regular ThisAgileLife hosts
2015-07-26
00 min
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(9th Annual State of Agile Survey) “MMWAP” – Making money with agile processes
Our annual tradition of providing insights and commentary based upon the 9th annual state of agile survey
2015-07-19
00 min
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(Wishful Planning) Don’t be an agile hoarder
Join Natalie, Nate and Jason for a discussion about “Wishful planning”
2015-07-12
00 min
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(Commitment to Value) Diabetes Waiting to Happen
Wes Higbee (Full City Tech) author of Commitment To Value: How to make technical projects worthwhile.
2015-06-28
00 min
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(Change Leadership) A Sense of Urgency
Lee, Craig and Jason for a discussion on John Kotter’s ideas about “Change Leadership”
2015-06-14
00 min
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(Centralized Agile Coaching) Questatement
Central teams consisting of coaches as a barrier to organizational learning
2015-05-31
00 min
Mastering Business Analysis
MBA021: Is the Business Analyst Role Just Overhead? Interview with John Sextro
“Let’s get rid of Business Analysts and ScrumMasters.” In this episode, we’re joined by John Sextro. John recently gave a provocative lightening talk at a conference about removing Business Analysts and ScrumMasters from agile teams. We’ll discuss what this would mean for the BA role. John Sextro has been in the software industry for 21 years and […] The post MBA021: Is the Business Analyst Role Just Overhead? Interview with John Sextro appeared first on Mastering Business Analysis.
2015-05-26
30 min
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(Agile Games 2015) The Theater of the Oppressed
Agile Games 2015 Recap and Review
2015-05-24
00 min
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(Product Ownership) That One Looks Delicious
Product Owners and their product vision, or lack there of
2015-05-17
00 min
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(Pros/Cons of Testing & TDD) The Price is Right
When should we do TDD?
2015-05-03
00 min
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Happy July 4th
Released Sunday, July 6th, 2014 Hosts: John Sextro Happy July 4th The show will return to its regular schedule on Sunday, July 13, 2014
2014-07-06
00 min
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Tice is Immune to Sarcasm (Good to Great)
Agile…Good to Great John’s Recommendation
2014-06-22
00 min
This Agile Life
Yesterday Me was an Idiot (Pair Switching)
Recorded Wednesday, December 18, 2013 Hosts: John Sextro, Amos King, and Craig Buchek Pair Switching Pairing, in general How to pair switch Using a “Pair-a-mid” to track pairings How to rotate pairs Length of pair sessions 1 week, 2 day, 1 day, half-day, 2 hours, 1 hour, 15 mins Benefits of short pairing sessions Pitfalls of long pairing sessions When to switch What should trigger a pair switch Time, using a timer Story completion Concerns about context switches Insights on the C2Wiki Picks of the Show Craig (@CraigBuchek) WireWorld Monoprice.com Amos (@adkron) Arduino pr...
2013-12-22
00 min
How to Program with Java Podcast
From self-taught programmer to self-made success story - Interview with John Sextro
Keeping on our theme of becoming a success story with programming as a self-taught programmer, I interview a successful self-taught programmer by the name of John Sextro. As a seasoned programmer and agile coach with no degrees or diplomas, John made it to 'the big show' by impressing one of the gatekeepers of that coveted 'entry level programmer' position. Find out how he managed to kick start his career in today's interview.
2013-05-08
45 min