This Agile Life

For anyone who's actively involved in collaborate software development or operations / devops, this podcast is really enlightening. I get a regular infusion of new ways of thinking about team-based development from it. They also have a Slack channel that has a growing user base and some very interesting discussions.

I am basing this review on the two featured episodes as of Nov 2018 and a couple of other partial episodes. The podcast frequently descends into buzzwords. 12 Days of Agile is structured around highlighting single generic words like “team” from a manifesto. Few actionable steps are provided. The hosts frequently disagree with each other like they have something to prove. “Well, I did it this way once and it worked.” It doesn’t feel like there’s something useful for the audience to take away in these moments. Examples frequently lack implementation details. A lot of points just felt like truisms: “Agile means facing reality”. As opposed to what? Bad management still tries to create value for real customers, it just sometimes fails somewhere along the way. To act like those managers aren’t even trying to be efficient, face reality, work as a team, etc, is silly.

Highly recommend for anybody trying to more agile and looking for ways to get your team to the next level. Awesome, nuff said!

Give it a listen. Much better then general pmi stuff