Agile dot point voting raised jargon in our OST meet up…oops

It has been great to see regular and new faces with each session that we have. Our pub crawl through Canberra has been successful in drawing out these new people to see what we have been discussing! And as always, we’ve been discussing some interesting things and learning off each other.

  • Is all the jargon necessary?
    • Makes things different
    • Make communication easier
    • Know your audience
    • Target training at the high school level
    • Book: The Agile Samurai
  • Is Pokemon Go being developed with Agile?
    • Alex says it has to be
    • It’s a minimal product
    • They have pushed back deployments in countries
    • Fixes have quick turnarounds
  • Native App vs Responsive Web
    • Can you do it on the web?
    • Depends on the value you’re trying to deliver
    • Depends on customers
    • Offline vs Online
    • Apps leverage functionality of the phone
  • What are some leadership coaching methods?
    • Find a coach and a mentor
    • Asking the right questions
    • Empathy
    • Experience
    • Be aware of your weaknesses
    • Reflection after something has happened
    • Leadership vs management
    • Trust falls
    • Peter principal
    • Training+++
  • How do you justify a rewrite to management?
    • How much money you’re going to make
    • Never seen code that couldn’t be worked with
    • Limiting our future
    • xkcd: Is It Worth the Time?
    • You may screw yourself
    • Not always worth it
    • Tell them how much you save
  • What steps do you take to get a semi-agile company to go 100% agile?
  • What’s the best thing to do to build team and morale?
  • Communicating with stakeholders that they aren’t getting what they want?

Discussion and drinks at King O’Malleys, thanks to eWay!

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Everyone had a great time at King O’Malleys with some great discussion facilitated by the bar tab sponsored very generously by eWay. We’d like that thank them for contributing to Lean Coffee and the Agile community here in Canberra. At this gathering we did a quick vote to see if we would like to continue the slow (fortnightly) pub crawl and all in attendance agreed – we will continue the discussions over drinks!

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  • What are some methods for prioritising work?
    • MoSCoW method
    • Kano model
    • ITIL for ops-centric
    • Innovation games
    • Dot voting
  • Side gigs?
    • Have the hunger for it
    • Allocating time
  • Improvement tolerances for software
    • Boeing – A budget of up to $300 per a part to save a pound of weight
    • What are your measurable qualities?
    • Code coverage
    • Cyclomatic complexity
    • Hackathon with rewards – relevant rewards
    • Leader boards
  • What does agile code look like? (And how do you write it?)
    • No comments, comments are lies
    • Use established design patterns
    • Maintainability
    • Small functions
  • Aussie politics – Innovation/Agile party
    • Voteflux.org
    • Switzerland – frequent referendums
  • How do you work with external partners that run waterfall?
  • Invaluable team members that take advantage?
  • Ensuring full test coverage over multiple server teams
  • What is commitment vs velocity sprint planning?
  • Kanban startup essentials
  • Mind the gap – what falls outside the scrum teams
  • How do you introduce agile to an established company?