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?