Agile for Humans with Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller

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Ryan Ripley, Allen Holub

Allen Holub (@allenholub) joined me (@RyanRipley) for a discussion about #NoEstimates, #NoManagement and what it truly means for an organization to adopt agility. Allen is a trainer, writer, speaker, and coach who takes a non-tribal view of software development and eschews the dogma that surrounds many of the current agile topics and practices.

Allen recently gave a keynote at DevWeek 2015 on #NoEstimates where he opened with: “We just need to stop doing all estimation now.”

Along with #NoEstimates, Allen I discussed what it truly means for an organization to adopt agility, why such a transformation is so difficult, and how Kanban wrapped around a waterfall can make life easier for both companies and coaches.

We wrapped up with a discussion on #NoManagement and Holocracy.

And then…we called it a night.

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Ryan – http://ryanripley.com

• Vasco Duarte’s NoEstimates Book
• The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
• Drive by Daniel Pink

Allen – http://holub.com

• Allen is teaching a 3 day class on agility at SDD Deep Dive in London on Nov 10-12
• Allen’s class offerings:
  • “Agility” focuses on agile culture and what you need to do as an organization to make agile processes work
  • “Designing for Volatility” – an in-depth dive into how to design scalable fault-tolerant systems that can be built in an incremental way and can stand up to the stress of constant change
  • “Design by Coding” an extension of TDD/BDD techniques to the architectural level.
• Self-Insight: Roadblocks and Detours on the Path to Knowing Thyself by David Dunning
• The original Kruger/Dunning paper
• Then of course, there’s John Cleese on Kruger/Dunning