A bit of festive magic for you. 

We have invited Marcin Floyran and Sebastian Lambla back onto the podcast to discuss VeST (Vertical Slice Technologies). They were last on the podcast about two years ago to talk about Agile Anarchy and we asked them back to talk about VeST. So here it is. Aslak is asking the questions. 

This is a great listen for those who are interested in building customer-centric, high-quality software products.


Topics discussed during the podcast include:

 - The core concepts of VeST and its benefits.

 - Why focusing on the customer can be a great first-step for teams steeped in legacy code.

 - Debunking hexagonal architecture and ports and adapters. 

 - The role of traditional testers and mob testing. 

Shownotes

 - Sebastian's blog - https://serialseb.com/serials/vest-redux/

 - Agile Anarchy podcast - https://cucumber.io/blog/2016/02/16/agile-anarchy

 - Kind of Green - Aslak's post about how we are building Cucumber Pro -https://sdjournal.org/bdd-like-jazz/

Shout out the pod on Twitter @cucumberbdd - https://twitter.com/cucumberbdd

VeST - Vertical Slice Technologies

In this week's Podcast we're on to the penultimate Agile Principle, number 11: 'The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.'

Amongst much more, we discuss:

-How what should actually constitute a team is the sharing of a problem, not a manager.
-The importance of employing a dynamic team approach, rather than a static one, to solving problems.
-How the unique specificity of this principle is designed to get us away from the old 'phase' approach and avoid costly hand-offs.
-Specific techniques to inspire a mutiny and become a self-organizing team, with some lessons from Stephen Bungay's 'The Art of Action', such as how to employ Direct Opportunism.
-The Spotify model and the importance of shunning the easy route of adopting an off-the-shelf model.

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SHOWNOTES:

-The 12 Agile Principles: http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html 

-Alistair Cockburn's mighty fine Koan for Agile development:
"Management tells the workers to mutiny.
The workers refuse"
http://alistair.cockburn.us/Self-organization+means+mutiny 

-Stephen Bungay's brilliant book, 'The Art of Action': https://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Action-Leaders-between-Actions/dp/1857885597/

-The unique case of the General Electric plant in Durham, North Carolina:
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/28/ge.html

-Spotify's self-organised teams, not an off-the-shelf model to copy: https://labs.spotify.com/2014/03/27/spotify-engineering-culture-part-1/

-Sign up to CITCON in Vienna, there aren't many spaces left: http://citconf.com/

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Inspire a Mutiny and Become a Self-Organizing Agile Team

This week, Jeffrey and Squirrel are on the road at CITCON Vienna, interviewing participants about how they use agile techniques and principles outside development.

SHOW LINKS:

-The 12 Agile Principles: http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html

-CITCON: http://citconf.com/

-London Organisational Learning Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/London-Action-Science-Meetup/

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We'd love to hear any thoughts, ideas or feedback you have regarding the show.

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Tweet us: twitter.com/TShootingAgile

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