SPaMCAST 514 - DevOps, people, and Agile Fitting The Pieces Together, An Interview With John Clapham

SPaMCAST 514 features our interview with John Clapham. John and I talked DevOps, people, agile, and how all those pieces fit together coherently or not. John even quoted Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. This is a big, fun, informative interview!

John Clapham is an experienced coach, trainer, and consultant, specializing in DevOps and Agile.  He helps teams to build great products, creating environments and systems which are effective, productive and enjoyable to work in. Often this means introducing Scrum, or developing a deeper understanding of the method and it's principles.  John draws on broad experience as an engineer and lead, he has built web and enterprise applications in government, publishing, telecommunications, commerce, defense and public sector arenas.

Twitter:  @johnC_bristol

Web: http://www.cotelic.co.uk/

 

Re-Read Saturday News

This week we tackle Chapter 9 of The Checklist Manifesto.  The Save is the final chapter in the book.  Next week we will discuss our final thoughts and decide on the next book.  In chapter 9 Atul Gawande talks about his experiences with the surgical checklist he helped to create.  The last chapter is a combination of emotion and evidence.

Remember to buy a copy of The Checklist Manifesto and READ along!

Current Installment:

Week 10 - The Save - https://bit.ly/2NdhaXA

Previous Installments:

Week 9 - The Hero In The Age of Checklists - https://bit.ly/2PWu2TC

Week 8 - The Fix - https://bit.ly/2NeKyBE

Week 7 - The Checklist Factory - https://bit.ly/2wV3yu3

Week 6 - The First Try - https://bit.ly/2Q0PhVt

Week 5 - The Idea - https://bit.ly/2PCs0Zz

Week 4 - The End Of The Master Builder - https://bit.ly/2BmIGBc

Week 3 – The Checklist - https://bit.ly/2KMhVFR

Week 2 – The Problem With Extreme Complexity - https://bit.ly/2AGZQZX

Week 1 - Approach and Introduction - https://bit.ly/2LYi9Lv

 

Conferences and More!

Agile Online Summit 2018

Virtual

October 8 – 12

https://www.agileonlinesummit.com/

Speaking on Agile Metrics!

ISMA 16

Sao Paulo, Brazil

October 16

Register Now; https://bit.ly/2PXH8A5

Presentation: Product Owners In Agile – The Really Hard Role

ITMPI Webinar

Virtual

October 31

Register Now: https://bit.ly/2zo8MAV

Webinar:  Agile, Where Agile Fears to Tread

 

Next SPaMCAST

SPaMCAST 515 will feature an essay on transformation and agile metrics. Whether you like the word transformation or not, many in the process improvement and agile communities help to facilitate change. Involvement in any non-trivial change effort requires resources, people, support and the expenditure of political capital.

We will also hear from Kim Pries and Gene Hughson.