Podcast appearances and mentions of Scott Ambler

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2022 26:12

SPaMCAST 706 features a conversation with Tom Henricksen. Tom makes a strong case that ignoring soft skills will limit your ability to deliver real value. Tom says, "Humans Are Hard, Code Is Easy." Tom's Bio: Tom Henricksen is a problem-solving technology professional. He has worked in various roles in technology for over twenty years. Tom has learned how to solve challenging issues in technology and lead technical teams. He can help you develop those skills too! URL: codeiseasy.co LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/tomhenricksen Twitter: @tomhenricksen Re-read Saturday News The bottom line to Chapter 10 of Why Limit WIP: We Are Drowning In Work is simple (assuming you have been re-reading along): too much WIP interferes with learning. Without the time or inclination to experiment, the best scenario is learning by accident. In Chapter 10, the author discusses how knowledge workers learn. Remember to buy a copy and read along. Amazon Affiliate LInk: https://amzn.to/36Rq3p5 Previous Entries Week 1: Preface, Foreword, Introduction, and Logistics – https://bit.ly/3iDezbp Week 2: Processing and Memory – https://bit.ly/3qYR4yg Week 3: Completion - https://bit.ly/3usMiLm Week 4: Multitasking - https://bit.ly/37hUh5z Week 5: Context Switching - https://bit.ly/3K8KADF Week 6: Creating An Economy - https://bit.ly/3F1XKkZ Week 7: Healthy Constraints - https://bit.ly/3kM8xqh Week 8: Focus - https://bit.ly/3PkE0hg Week 9: Awareness - https://bit.ly/3LBZfIl Week 10: Communication - https://bit.ly/39Tji7Q Week 11: Learning - https://bit.ly/38HQNtJ Next SPaMCAST In SPaMCAST 707 it is back to flow basics with a discussion of the attributes of flow. Scott Ambler described two attributes of flow as smoothness and scent. We will discuss. We will also have a visit from Susan Parente who will bring her Not A Scrumdamentalist column to the podcast.

Scott Ambler - Data Technical Debt - Live from OOP

SoftwareArchitektur im Stream

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2022 33:10

Technical debt is a well-known concept - but data can also cause technical debt. Links Data Technical Debt Refactoring Databases Agile Data Homepage

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#020 - Scott Ambler - disciplined agile toolkit

No Nonsense Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2022 60:06

Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Scott Ambler about the Disciplined Agile Toolkit. In this episode we discuss toolkits vs frameworks. Tailoring your ways of working for your situation vs prescriptive methods. Method prisons and framework jails. The problem with two day mastery certifications and the over commercialisation of Scrum and SAFe. The PMI and Agile and Products vs Projects. Listen to the podcast on your favourite podcast app: | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | iHeart Radio | PlayerFM | Amazon Music | Listen Notes | TuneIn | Connect with Scott via Linkedin , Murray via email or Shane in the Twitter-sphere @shagility. The No Nonsense Agile podcast is sponsored by: Simply Magical Data

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(S2)E011: Ivar Jacobson on Essence (OMG Standard) and Doing Things Smarter

Agile Innovation Leaders

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2021 41:20

Interview video available on the Agile Innovation Leaders Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/FYFKaJoagTc Guest Bio: Dr. Ivar Jacobson is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Ivar Jacobson International. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, was awarded the Gustaf Dalén medal from Chalmers in 2003, and made an honorary doctor at San Martin de Porres University, Peru, in 2009. Ivar has a flourishing career in both academia and business. He has authored ten books, published more than a hundred papers and is a frequent keynote speaker at conferences around the world. Ivar is a father of components and component architecture - work that was adopted by Ericsson and resulted in the greatest commercial success story ever in the history of Sweden, and it still is. He is the father of use cases and Objectory, which, after the acquisition of Rational Software in 1995, resulted in the Rational Unified Process, a widely adopted method. He is also one of the three original developers of the Unified Modelling Language. But all this is history. Ivar founded his current company, Ivar Jacobson International, which since 2004 has been focused on using methods and tools in a smart, super light and agile way. This work resulted in Ivar becoming a founder and a leader of a worldwide network, SEMAT, which has the mission to revolutionize software development based on a kernel of software engineering. The kernel has been realized as a formal OMG standard called Essence. Contact/ Social Media Email: ivar@ivarjacobson.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivarjacobson Twitter: @ivarjacobson Books The Essentials of Modern Software Engineering by Ivar Jacobson et al https://www.amazon.co.uk/Essence-Software-Engineering-Applying-Kernel/dp/0321885953 Denotational Semantics by Joseph E Stoy https://www.amazon.co.uk/Denotational-Semantics-Computer-Science-Scott-Strachey/dp/0262690764 Resources/ Websites Essence for Agility Meetup https://meetup.com/essence-for-agility Essence Education Forum https://forum.essenceineducation.org Ivar Jacobson International https://ivarjacobson.com Interview Highlights: Timestamp 02:59 – Growing up in Sweden 07:05 – Coming up with concept for component-based software development and architecture 15:14 – On Essence OMG Standard as a unifying platform for methods 24:22 – Special offer announcement (Better Scrum Through Essence course) 29:41 – “Shy Boys Don't Kiss Beautiful Girls” – Swedish proverb 32:34 – “Doing it smarter…” Interview Transcript Ula Ojiaku: 0:04 Hello and welcome to the Agile Innovation Leaders podcast. I'm Ula Ojiaku. On this podcast I speak with world-class leaders and doers about themselves and a variety of topics spanning Agile, Lean Innovation, Business, Leadership and much more – with actionable takeaways for you the listener. Hello everyone! Welcome to Season 2 of the Agile Innovation Leaders podcast! I'm honoured to have Dr Ivar Jacobson – Founder, Chairman and CEO of Ivar Jacobson International (IJI - a global consulting and training organisation) as my guest on this episode. Known as one of the fathers of modern software engineering, he has many accomplishments under his belt including developing the concept of Use Cases and Use Case modelling. In this episode, Dr Jacobson shares his experience growing up in Sweden; how he came up with the concept for components and component architecture whist at Ericsson (which helped Ericsson with its remarkable commercial success) and his current focus on Essence, an Object Management Group (OMG) standard revolutionising the world of Software Development. Quick sidebar: Ivar Jacobson International Chief Scientist, Ian Spence will be delivering a training on ‘Better Scrum Through Essence' this November, 2021. Make sure you listen to the very end for details on offers available to AILP listeners. You won't want to miss this! Without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, my conversation with Dr Ivar Jacobson – enjoy! Ula Ojiaku: 02:28 Thank you so much Ivar for joining us on the Agile Innovation Leaders' podcast. It's a great pleasure to have you. Ivar Jacobson: 02:35 Thank you. Thank you. I'm looking forward to it. Ula Ojiaku: 02:40 Well, I've been very excited right from when I got your response saying “yes”, the honor is definitely mine. Now, with I know that our audience would be, you know, keen to know, who is Ivar, you know, can you tell us about yourself? Ivar Jacobson: 02:59 Yes, I can. I was born in a very nice family in a small city, in Sweden, in the very south of Sweden, very close to Denmark. And, I was an ordinary kid. Nobody in my family had ever studied, so to speak. My father had six years in school, and my mother, maybe one year more. And he was an entrepreneur, quite successful. And, I hated by the way when I was older, the idea that I would be an entrepreneur, but it always a seed in the blood. So, I was not very good at school, clear. And I remember my mother, when I had passed Junior High School. And I suggested, maybe I should go to high school, I have very low grades. And so, but I can work hard, I said. And my mother said, it's good if you can just pass junior high school. You know, you don't have a head for studies. So, I don't know what happened. But I really got the interest and succeeded to get up to high school. But in high school, I was not very good either. I was more interested in sports, I played handball, handball is similar to soccer, but you play with the hands instead of the feet and it's very popular in Europe, probably gets popular in US too, but it takes time. And I was passionate about it. But even if I worked harder than anyone else, I never really became the star. I was okay. But instead, I became a coach and now I found passion. I really worked hard as a coach, my team became the best team in the city, we had many handball teams, and not only in the city - in the province. And then what I started to know I loved to coach, I loved to feel that I could help people to become better and they became much better. I was a coach both for boys and ladies. So that made me popular. And so, I was very well treated and had a very hard time to imagine moving away from my small city. I went out High School and then I wanted to stay in the city, to be electrician. But my aunt decided differently - she applied to Chalmers which is an Institute of Technology. And, I actually was accepted as the last student, had so low grades, so last student (to be accepted to study) to Electric engineering. Ula Ojiaku: 06:28 Wow! Ivar Jacobson: 06:29 And yeah, I did quite well. I found it so fascinating - engineering, mathematics and so on, but became very different. So, I was the first one in my whole big family that ever passed junior high school, high school, and becoming a bachelor of electrical engineering or almost the master. It was unthinkable in my family. Ula : 07:04 Wow! Ivar Jacobson: 07:05 And then I was absolutely sure I should continue to do research. But I was smart enough, to say you need to know what it means to work in the industry. So, I took the most boring work I could imagine at Ericsson, working with old fashioned systems, not digital, it was a electromechanical. And I was sure after one year, I will go back to Chalmers to get the doctor (my doctorate degree). But after one year, I felt, “this is life!” Projects, people, collaborating, is very different from doing a research at Chalmers. So, it was not in my mind to go back. Instead I learned something absolutely fundamental, that impacted me for the rest of my life, namely, how to build systems. And in hardware, you build with components. So, after a couple of years, I was actually working with hardware system. And they had, the managers had seen something in Ivar. And so, they actually offered him to become project manager for the most mission critical system, which was based on computing. And that was absolutely unbelievable - I knew nothing at that time about computing. And I didn't, I've never written a code. (At the time) I never really understood how a computer works. But I was now Project Manager, and the reason was, they probably felt like I could manage a project and you don't need so deep knowledge, you're probably more difficult if you know too much. But to me, it was unthinkable to be a project manager without knowing how we work and what it was. So, I studied very hard every night. And at that time, there were no books, really, But after three months, I felt well, this was not so hard and now I became difficult. Because I couldn't see that the product we're building would ever be successful. Because Ericsson was selling to the whole world. But every country wanted their own market adaptation. And the way we built software - the standard way of building the software at that time, was not easy to change. Modularity was only in the code-oriented data structures. So, you separate the code and data and this separation meant, if you made a change, it could result in changes anywhere. Anyway, so that's how I came up with component-based development, which was the biggest fight I've ever had in my life. It was when I was 28 plus, and, no one did component-based development at that time, as we heard about Bell Labs, the other competitors did it the same way as Ericsson did. But for some reason, there was one guy ‘up there' who said, “Ivar is right. Let's do it”. And that resulted after some years in the greatest commercial success story in the history of Sweden. And it still is, it's even more successful than ABBA and Spotify – so you can imagine. I was rewarded, I got after 10 years people said, “oh, God that was so good”. And so, I could study, get the PhD during work hours. Ula Ojiaku: 11:34 Wow. Ivar Jacobson: 11:35 So, I think I leave it a little for you now. Ula Ojiaku: 11:40 Know this yours is a very fascinating story. So, there were lots I could pick on (to ask more questions) but the first one you said about, you know, playing handball, and despite how hard you worked, you didn't quite make it as a superstar you wanted to be in handball, but you found out that you did great at coaching. I think there's a parallel to that and coaching in real life as well. A coach doesn't necessarily have to be the expert in the area, but it's really about being able to draw out the best in people. Would you say… Ivar Jacobson: 12:18 And show a path forward… Actually, girls at that time were playing handball in a way that was very girlish, you know, balls like this and not like shooting it . I mean, very softballs. Whereas my girls were trained with my boys. So, I put together guys and girls in the same team and made two teams. And the girls started to play like boys, and that made them superior other teams because they didn't do it. So, I mean, I invented a new method, let's say that. Ula Ojiaku: 13:00 You definitely are an innovative inspiration. It seemed like everyone in your family knew you were barely getting by in Junior High school, High school. I'm wondering, what was it that your aunt saw that made her despite all the indications she went and registered you at Chalmers? Did you ask her? Ivar Jacobson: 13:25 No, I felt, I really didn't think about it. I felt I understood her. I mean, I had showed her that I was not very good at school. So… But then what really happened was that I was fed up by school in the last semester (of) Junior High and wanted to leave. Then she said to me, “No, no, you should at least go get the junior high school graduation”. Because we celebrated it in Sweden at that time, not anymore but at that time. But now when I relaxed and didn't study, didn't prepare for mathematics or anything like that. Really, I tried. I had private lessons in mathematics. I mean, it's hard to believe I had it. And the reason was that the way I had learned was by learning rules. I mean, not thinking. “This is the rule you use when you see this problem” and that limits you. So now for the first time, I had no rules to apply. I start to think, and I remember very well, after one exam that the teacher came in with a book and he had all the books in a package and then he put it on the desk and he says, one of you have (has) decided to change his life; Ivar Jacobson - best in class. And you know, I was flabbergasted and not only me, the whole class. So, and then I understood that was something I could do. So, everything all my grades went up. Ula Ojiaku: 15:14 That's just amazing. So, you are currently, you are credited with you know, developing the used cases, components, the RUP rather the Rapid Unified Process, which is, you know, one of the ‘fore bringers' of Agile Methodologies. And currently you are working or you've been working most recently on Essence, can you tell us a bit more about Essence, what it is and you know, what's the story behind it? Ivar Jacobson: 15:52 Now we were around year 2000. And then, I was a rock star traveling around the world, talking about the UML and Rational Unified Process. And everyone wanted to have… use these things. They misused both UML and they misused RUP (Rational Unified Process), but they were wanted to have it. It's very similar situation with SAFe today. So anyway, at that time, it was very popular. But I… now Agile came. And I remember very well when I was at the OOPSLA (Object-oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications) conference, the biggest conference at that time. And I was on a panel of 2000 people in the audience, and I was there with agilisters really great guys - people I'm very good friends with today. And the audience basically booed every time I was about to talk. Ula Ojiaku: 16:49 Why? Ivar Jacobson: 16:50 Because we're talking about the we enemy, the Empire, the old Empire, that the audience wanted to kill. And I listened very carefully, and then I went home and studied more about XP, it was about XP. And I said, “Okay, this will dramatically change the future”. I tried to convince my company at that time Rational, with the top stars in the company, many famous people. But it took a while; there was nothing new in XP is what I heard. But it was a lot of new (it had lots that were new) particularly about social engineering. So, and then a couple of years later Rational was acquired by IBM and I had a chance to be with IBM in a very interesting position. But I decided no, IBM is too big for me, I want to do my own business. So, but I also was thinking this is not sustainable. The world is ridiculous. Here you have gurus like me, and we play such an important role. And still, the guru is just a methodology salesperson. You can be an expert on a few things, but you're never an expert on all things you need to do when you develop software, or develop anything for that matter. Hardware systems… and anything. So I wanted to get rid of (this attitude). I felt this is stupid. And I use the word foolish because it's a little nicer. But having gurus that develop methods and ideas in the methods cannot be used in another method without rewriting it. So, for instance, Scrum has been used in SAFe, but it doesn't fit into SAFe without rewriting it. And that means with the original authors of Scrum are diminished, instead it moves into something else. So, we get no collaboration between these top guys. They don't like one another. And I'm not talking about any particular person, but that's the general problem. Instead, we want the top guys to collaborate and help to work. So, I came to the conclusion we need to do something dramatically different. Instead of having all these different methods and with nothing in common, nothing in common and that is visible and still a lot is common. It's just hidden, because everyone hides it without the purpose to hide, but it becomes hidden in a particular method. So, what I said is that every method has a number of ideas - you can call them practices or method precepts. They are in a precept guarded by a guru. Isn't this foolish? At least I think so. So, in 2005 we decided in my company to do something different and we started to identify a common ground between all methods. What is it that is essential… that we always do always produce, always have in terms of competences, for instance, and so on. And it created, let me call it the kernel. It's very small, it's very powerful. And it works as a platform to describe methods. So, instead of it (being that) every methodology has its own way of describing everything: its own language, its own terminology, its own isolated island, we created a common ground which has actually become a standard and on top of this standard, people now can describe their own method. So, Scrum, for instance, has become Scrum Essentials. (It) is described on top of this kernel, which is called Essence. A standard is very important, because… first of all, nothing should be standard without being such that everybody can accept it. If there is any, really controversial stuff, throw it out and keep it at such a small level. So, but big enough to be useful, and as useful for everybody. So, now many companies are using Essence to describe their own methods. We are working with Jeff Sutherland (co-creator of Scrum) - he has ‘Essentialised' as we call it, both Scrum, and his Scrum at Scale. We're also working with Scott Ambler (co-creator of Disciplined Agile Delivery, DAD) who has essentialised some of his practice. He has so many practices. So, he has to wait till we build a bigger library of practice. So, we have it today in my company, we have 100 practices, this guide; 50 of them are published and available. But there are many other people around the world, that develop practices. And we can put them in an ecosystem, which we are trying to do. So, people can go there and select the practices. And they (could) say, ‘I want user stories, I want to Scrum, I want test driven development..', compose, these three practices, and I have my method. And then you can add more and more as you become more and more competent, you scale up, you don't scale down, but you have to do with big frameworks, like RUP and SAFe. So, the idea is that we in this way by collecting knowledge and making it available at one place or many places - similar places can grow competency instead of having (this) so fragmented. You know, in one single company today, you may have 10 different ways of using use cases for instance. Ula Ojiaku: 24:07 True, true… Ivar Jacobson: 24:08 If they don't learn for one. Okay? Ula Ojiaku: 24:13 Because they work in silos, so everyone is just doing their own thing. Ivar Jacobson: 24:18 Yeah, they have their own methodology and everything you know. So… Interlude/ Announcement (Ula Ojiaku) 24:22 Hi again listeners. Quick message before we continue with Ivar Jacobson's interview. Did you know, according to Scrum Inc., 58% of Scrum implementations fail. Dr Jeff Sutherland, co-creator of Scrum says their investigation revealed that, of the 21 components of Scrum, an average Scrum team implements one-third well, one-third poorly and the last one-third not at all! Dr Sutherland also acknowledged that Essence ‘is the key to success…' As mentioned earlier, Ian Spence, Chief Scientist at IJI will be running a 3-day, live virtual training on ‘Better Scrum Through Essence with Essence Games Master certification' this November 2021. If you want proven ideas on how to address failed Scrum implementations, this course is for you! I know - because I'd attended the alpha version of the course earlier on in the year. Register on the website www.ivarjacobson.com at least 2 weeks before the training to take advantage of the early bird pricing. As a valued Agile Innovation Leaders podcast listener, you can also get an exclusive 5% off when you use the code AILP5OFF. That's AILP5OFF. Back to my conversation with Ivar Jacobson… Ula Ojiaku: 26:32 Wow, well, it does sound like Essence is going to be a game changer. Where do you see it? What's your ideal state for Essence, in terms of adoption? Ivar Jacobson: 26:44 Okay. So, the roadmap is we now have developed tools that we are using with clients and they're tools we never had before - the kind of tools we never had in the software engineering discipline before. And we are using web client learning, and we take, we work with one client after the other. We expect to, at the end of the year, have verified and vetted the work. Then the approach is that we make it more widely available. Okay, and we are looking more for volume than for big accounts. Ula Ojiaku: 27:34 Right, right. Ivar Jacobson: 27:35 So now we are extremely optimistic. There are as, you know, we have a forum … two forums…. One is a meetup called Essence for Agility, which has now in just a couple of months got 2000 members. And next time, we will get my good friend Grady Booch to speak together with (a) couple of other people about Architecture and Agile Methods. We also have created a forum in the academic world called Essence Education Forum; where more than 50 university professors are collaborating to create a material for training and so on, and also do projects and basically anything on top of Essence. So, it's… no I'm very bullish. I've never seen so much progress as now You know, if I look back on the things I have contributed to, and I can say basically all of them have been by first identifying a problem but no one else has identified. And then sell that problem, so other people think it is a problem. And that's not trivial, that's absolutely the hardest thing and once I have succeeded to sell it, then of course the solution is not so far away. Ula Ojiaku: 29:14 Wow. Now that is just fascinating. So, it seemed like in selling your idea, it wasn't really about the technical skill, it was more about what's … quote, unquote, you'd call the you know, “soft skills” of selling, marketing. That you had to…” Ivar Jacobson: 29:27 Yeah, that's it was the most important I mean, you can be the best technical guy had best ideas, but if you cannot sell them, you won't have them. Ula Ojiaku: 29:41 Okay, now it is kind of ties in with, you know one of your favourite (Swedish) quotes that you shared with me that “Shy boys don't kiss beautiful girls”, do you want to expand on that? Ivar Jacobson: 29:59 This is a Swedish expression. There is nothing similar that I know in English that you can say that is strong enough, probably similar but not strong enough. It means basically, that even if you have an idea that is controversial, you have to express it, because it will never … otherwise it will never happen. I remember a situation when I was in South (of) France and at the conference, for it was a conference for executives. And they I had a company with 10 employees and I was CEO. So, I was an executive. It happened that Bill Gates was also there. And he had a company with 10,000 employees. So, we were colleagues. And I was out jogging and came back after half an hour sweating and maybe smelling too. And I saw crowd standing beside the pool. And in the middle of that crowd was Bill Gates. Now is the chance. So, I ran up and I don't know, for what reason… if I was… I was not really rude in any way, but they moved around, they opened - the crowd… and I stood face to face with Bill Gates and I did my elevator pitch. And then we talked a little and when he said he welcomed me to Microsoft, he gave me his business card and said you have to come and talk about the engineering in software. So that's an example of that, shy boys may not kiss beautiful girls. So don't be shy. Ula Ojiaku: 32:09 It reminds me of the saying in English that Fortune favours the brave. So maybe that's the closest saying to that, but it's really about being bold and seizing the moment. Ivar Jacobson: 32:24 Yeah. That is exactly what it is. And by way it's valid in the other direction too. It's not the only boys you're talking about. It can be anything. Ula Ojiaku: 32:34 Well said Ivar. Well said. You also have another quote that you like… or that you use a lot in your organization, “Can we do it smarter?” What do you mean by that? Ivar Jacobson: 32:49 Basically in every situation where you meet difficulties, and you may come up with a solution, that is very straightforward. Most uncontroversial story, solution, but it's really not fantastic. It just is a solution. In this situation, I ask all.. almost always, “can we do it smarter?” And the interesting thing is but if people start to think like that, can we do it smarter? They often come up with smarter solutions. And I have my own experience has been exactly that. Ula Ojiaku: 33:43 Would you tell us about the book you're writing for your son? You said you have a five-year-old son, and you're writing a book for him that's titled “What They Don't Teach You in School?” Ivar Jacobson: 33:58 Yes, I am a very lucky man. I have a five-year-old son. My name is Ivar in Swedish. And his name is Ivar Theodor, which becomes IT. And the thing was not on purpose. It just happened. We like to name; my wife liked the name Ivar Theodor. Ivar is a Viking name. Theodor means God's gift. And then you know, I am not 20 years old. So, (to) get the son is really God's gift if I may use these words. So I want to write the book for him that he can read when, when I don't know where I will be. I'm certain if I will be somewhere else, than on this planet, it will be in heaven, that's for sure. So, he will get the book. And this book is about smart cases. So, I describe situations in life, when you can do something smart or not so smart. I mean, first of all, there is a huge difference between being intelligent and being smart. I have a lot of friends that are extremely intelligent, analytical, and so on, but I wouldn't say they are smart. I have written about the 100 pages, it takes quite a lot of time. And it must be funny or entertaining, otherwise, he will not read it. Ula Ojiaku: 35:44 Now, what books have you found yourself recommending to people, or giving as a gift to people the most and why? Ivar Jacobson: 35:59 Yes, I think two books I would mention and this is also where I could recommend others. One of the most influential books on my career was about the denotation semantics as it's called. It's a way to mathematically describe, for instance, a language. And, I have used it to describe several languages. Ula Ojiaku: 36:35 Denotational Semantics. Okay. Do you know … what was the name of the author, please? I can always (look this up) ... Ivar Jacobson: 36:43 First book I learned was pure mathematics. It was Discrete Mathematics in computer science. And when it comes to Denotational Semantics, I read a book about the Vienna Development Method. The Vienna Development Methods, it was developed by a Dines Bjorner, and Chris, Chris Jones, I think, and a couple of our people at IBM. But then there are later versions on Denotational Semantics that may be that I don't know that. But this is a book I read. Ula Ojiaku: 37:21 It's been a fascinating conversation Ivar, and I really appreciate your time, where can the audience find you, if they you know, want to learn more, or if they want to contact you? Ivar Jacobson: 37:34 They can always contact me via email. And they are welcome to do that. And also, I get a lot of emails, so it may take a couple of days. But I always respond, even if I had to work many hours to do it. But I think attending this Essence for Agility meet up a there will be a lot related to what we have been talking about. And if you're an academic, I would recommend (you) join Essence Education Forum. Ula Ojiaku: 38:20 Okay. And we will put all the links and you know, the resources you mentioned in this, in the show notes. So just to wrap up, then do you have any final word of advice for the audience? What would you like to leave us with, as we end this conversation? Ivar Jacobson: 38:42 Yeah, in some way, the books I mentioned, and the quotes about, the shy boys becoming smarter. But I think what really has helped me has been that if I have an idea, and I believe in it, I don't give up. So, perseverance is probably a very important property. And some people when things were not so good, after introduce components, people will replace perseverance with stubbornness. So, the difference is: if it's good, it's perseverance; if it's bad, it's stubbornness. So, I may be a little stubborn, but I think it's more being persevere. Ula Ojiaku: 39:48 Depends on who you ask. Ivar Jacobson: 39:52 Yeah. So don't give up. Push your ideas. And also, I'm very lucky, I think what I'm doing is fun. I don't do anything for money. I do it for fun. But of course, it's very important to have money. So, I do my best to help my company to make a profit so we can invest in doing these things. It's not money for me, it's money for the company. Ula Ojiaku: 40:29 Thank you for sharing those wise words. Ivar, thank you so much for your time. Ivar Jacobson: 40:35 Thank you. It was a pleasure. Ula Ojiaku: 40:38 The pleasure is mine. Thanks again. That's all we have for now. Thanks for listening. If you liked this show, do subscribe at www.agileinnovationleaders.com. I'd also love to hear from you, so please drop me an email at ula@agileinnovationleaders.com

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Mini 87 - Agilizing Tangibles vs. Intangibles with Scott Ambler

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Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2021 9:50

About Scott Ambler I am the co-founder of Disciplined Agile (DA), which was acquired by Project Management Institute (PMI) in August 2019. The DA tool kit is the world's only comprehensive agile body of knowledge (BOK) that provides straightforward and practical guidance to help individuals, teams and enterprises choose their “way of working” in a context-specific way. Together, PMI and DA offer a unique and unparalleled value proposition to stakeholders who are committed to improving their personal, team and enterprise agility. In addition to my work on the DA tool kit, I am the creator of the Agile Modeling (AM) (AgileModeling.com) method and Agile Data (AD) (AgileData.org) methods. I have also (co-)authored several books, including Choose Your WoW!, An Executive's Guide to Disciplined Agile, Disciplined Agile Delivery, Refactoring Databases, Agile Modeling, and The Elements of UML 2.0 Style. For a full list of my books visit www.ambysoft.com/books/. As a frequent conference keynote, I speak about Lean/Agile Enterprises, Scaling Agile Software Development, and Disciplined Agile (DA). From LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sambler/

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0:00 - Introductions 3:11 - Discipled Agile - What is it? 9:05 - Value proposition - Succeed fast over fail fast 11:35 - DA and agile coaching 13:45 - Agile coach or a child? 26:45 - How can the DA toolkit help the coach (experienced or not) 38:11 - Free advise from Scott for typical problems 53:00 - Maintaining the DA toolbox - DA IP team 58:58 - The Mob Programming inclusion example 1:01:30 - The Scoop!...not. 1:02:20 - The EVM example 1:04:27 - Back to Mob Programming... 1:06:07 - EVM as a communication tool 1:08:14 - Human side of DA 1:11:43 - Badly used and agnostic DA terminology 1:20:23 - DA in 5 to 10 years 1:22:29 - DA for construction? 1:24:30 - Processes and techniques for tangible vs intangible things 1:34:04 - Conclusion About Scott Ambler I am the co-founder of Disciplined Agile (DA), which was acquired by Project Management Institute (PMI) in August 2019. The DA tool kit is the world's only comprehensive agile body of knowledge (BOK) that provides straightforward and practical guidance to help individuals, teams and enterprises choose their “way of working” in a context-specific way. Together, PMI and DA offer a unique and unparalleled value proposition to stakeholders who are committed to improving their personal, team and enterprise agility. In addition to my work on the DA tool kit, I am the creator of the Agile Modeling (AM) (AgileModeling.com) method and Agile Data (AD) (AgileData.org) methods. I have also (co-)authored several books, including Choose Your WoW!, An Executive's Guide to Disciplined Agile, Disciplined Agile Delivery, Refactoring Databases, Agile Modeling, and The Elements of UML 2.0 Style. For a full list of my books visit www.ambysoft.com/books/. As a frequent conference keynote, I speak about Lean/Agile Enterprises, Scaling Agile Software Development, and Disciplined Agile (DA). From LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sambler/ Links Mob Programming : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mob_programming EVM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earned_value_management Agile in the construction industry : https://www.agilebim.org/ Pixar book Mathieu was referring to : https://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Inc-Overcoming-Unseen-Inspiration/dp/0812993012 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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104: Get Better at Getting Better with Scott Ambler

PMO Strategies

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2021 21:39

Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! .fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-0{width:100% !important;margin-top : 0px;margin-bottom : 20px;}.fusion-builder-column-0 > .fusion-column-wrapper {padding-top : 0px !important;padding-right : 0px !important;margin-right : 1.92%;padding-bottom : 0px !important;padding-left : 0px !important;margin-left : 1.92%;}@media only screen and (max-width:1024px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-0{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-0 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}@media only screen and (max-width:640px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-0{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-0 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}.fusion-body .fusion-flex-container.fusion-builder-row-1{ padding-top : 0px;margin-top : 0px;padding-right : 0px;padding-bottom : 0px;margin-bottom : 0px;padding-left : 0px;} PMI Talent Triangle: Leadership .fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-1{width:100% !important;margin-top : 0px;margin-bottom : 20px;}.fusion-builder-column-1 > .fusion-column-wrapper {padding-top : 0px !important;padding-right : 0px !important;margin-right : 1.92%;padding-bottom : 0px !important;padding-left : 0px !important;margin-left : 1.92%;}@media only screen and (max-width:1024px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-1{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-1 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}@media only screen and (max-width:640px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-1{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-1 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}.fusion-body .fusion-flex-container.fusion-builder-row-2{ padding-top : 0px;margin-top : 0px;padding-right : 0px;padding-bottom : 0px;margin-bottom : 0px;padding-left : 0px;}Hey there, IMPACT Driver! In this episode, we're looking at how you can get better at getting better by becoming a learning organization. There's a shift happening in how organizations build capability and adapt to shifting demands which will have a huge influence on the PMO and project space (yes, even if you're doing an Agile transformation program). Are you sure you're keeping pace with the changes necessary to help your organization thrive? Today, Scott Ambler and I will talk about how transitioning to a learning organization will save your PMO, your agile transformations, and even help you boost your career. Check it out now because the future of your organization depends upon it! Powerful ProductsPassionate PeopleProfitable Portfolios As a leader in Agile Portfolio Management, KeyedIn offers SaaS solutions that support the evolving needs of PMOs, ePMOs and SROs, enabling business transformation, strategy realization and organizational change. Thanks for taking the time to check out the podcast! I welcome your feedback and insights! I'd love to know what you think and if you love it, please leave a rating and review in your favorite podcast player. Please leave a comment below to share your thoughts. See you online! Warmly, Laura Barnard .fusion-button.button-1 {border-radius:2px;}GET NOTIFIED ABOUT NEW EPISODES .fusion-button.button-2 {border-radius:2px;}TELL US WHAT YOU WANT TO LEARN .fusion-button.button-3 {border-radius:2px;}PDU REPORTING INSTRUCTIONS .fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-2{width:100% !important;margin-top : 0px;margin-bottom : 0px;}.fusion-builder-column-2 > .fusion-column-wrapper {padding-top : 0px !important;padding-right : 0px !important;margin-right : 1.92%;padding-bottom : 0px !important;padding-left : 0px !important;margin-left : 1.92%;}@media only screen and (max-width:1024px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-2{width:100% !important;}.fusion-builder-column-2 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}@media only screen and (max-width:640px) {.

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Disciplined Agile Certifications at PMI with Scott Ambler

Agile and Project Management - DrunkenPM Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2021 45:37

This week my guest is Scott Ambler. Scott is the Vice President and Chief Scientist of Disciplined Agile at the Project Management Institute. He's is also the co-founder of Disciplined Agile (DA), the creator of the Agile Modeling method and Agile Data methods, and he is the author of a number of books that focus on software development and Agile. (See links below.) In this episode of the podcast, Scott and I discuss how PMI's efforts in support of Agile have evolved since August 2019 when PMI acquired Disciplined Agile and Alan Shalloway's FLEX. We also discuss how the PMBOK is evolving, and we dig into the Project Management Institute's new Agile certification programs: what they focus on, who they are aimed at, and how they are different from the other Agile certifications. Links: PMI's Agile Certifications: https://www.pmi.org/certifications/agile-certifications PMI Speaker Request: https://www.pmi.org/about/press-media/speaking-engagements Agile Modeling method: http://agilemodeling.com Agile Data methods: http://agiledata.org Scott's books: http://www.ambysoft.com/books/ Contacting Scott Disciplined Agile Blog: https://www.projectmanagement.com/blogs/611075/Disciplined-Agile Personal Website: http://www.ambysoft.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/scottwambler LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sambler/

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063: Applying a Disciplined Agile Mindset to the PMO with Scott Ambler

PMO Strategies

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2020 18:34

Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! .fusion-fullwidth.fusion-builder-row-1 a:not(.fusion-button):not(.fusion-builder-module-control):not(.fusion-social-network-icon):not(.fb-icon-element):not(.fusion-countdown-link):not(.fusion-rollover-link):not(.fusion-rollover-gallery):not(.fusion-button-bar):not(.add_to_cart_button):not(.show_details_button):not(.product_type_external):not(.fusion-quick-view):not(.fusion-rollover-title-link):not(.fusion-breadcrumb-link) , .fusion-fullwidth.fusion-builder-row-1 a:not(.fusion-button):not(.fusion-builder-module-control):not(.fusion-social-network-icon):not(.fb-icon-element):not(.fusion-countdown-link):not(.fusion-rollover-link):not(.fusion-rollover-gallery):not(.fusion-button-bar):not(.add_to_cart_button):not(.show_details_button):not(.product_type_external):not(.fusion-quick-view):not(.fusion-rollover-title-link):not(.fusion-breadcrumb-link):before, .fusion-fullwidth.fusion-builder-row-1 a:not(.fusion-button):not(.fusion-builder-module-control):not(.fusion-social-network-icon):not(.fb-icon-element):not(.fusion-countdown-link):not(.fusion-rollover-link):not(.fusion-rollover-gallery):not(.fusion-button-bar):not(.add_to_cart_button):not(.show_details_button):not(.product_type_external):not(.fusion-quick-view):not(.fusion-rollover-title-link):not(.fusion-breadcrumb-link):after {color: #008af4;}.fusion-fullwidth.fusion-builder-row-1 a:not(.fusion-button):not(.fusion-builder-module-control):not(.fusion-social-network-icon):not(.fb-icon-element):not(.fusion-countdown-link):not(.fusion-rollover-link):not(.fusion-rollover-gallery):not(.fusion-button-bar):not(.add_to_cart_button):not(.show_details_button):not(.product_type_external):not(.fusion-quick-view):not(.fusion-rollover-title-link):not(.fusion-breadcrumb-link):hover, .fusion-fullwidth.fusion-builder-row-1 a:not(.fusion-button):not(.fusion-builder-module-control):not(.fusion-social-network-icon):not(.fb-icon-element):not(.fusion-countdown-link):not(.fusion-rollover-link):not(.fusion-rollover-gallery):not(.fusion-button-bar):not(.add_to_cart_button):not(.show_details_button):not(.product_type_external):not(.fusion-quick-view):not(.fusion-rollover-title-link):not(.fusion-breadcrumb-link):hover:before, .fusion-fullwidth.fusion-builder-row-1 a:not(.fusion-button):not(.fusion-builder-module-control):not(.fusion-social-network-icon):not(.fb-icon-element):not(.fusion-countdown-link):not(.fusion-rollover-link):not(.fusion-rollover-gallery):not(.fusion-button-bar):not(.add_to_cart_button):not(.show_details_button):not(.product_type_external):not(.fusion-quick-view):not(.fusion-rollover-title-link):not(.fusion-breadcrumb-link):hover:after {color: #461a5b;}.fusion-fullwidth.fusion-builder-row-1 .pagination a.inactive:hover, .fusion-fullwidth.fusion-builder-row-1 .fusion-filters .fusion-filter.fusion-active a {border-color: #461a5b;}.fusion-fullwidth.fusion-builder-row-1 .pagination .current {border-color: #461a5b; background-color: #461a5b;}.fusion-fullwidth.fusion-builder-row-1 .fusion-filters .fusion-filter.fusion-active a, .fusion-fullwidth.fusion-builder-row-1 .fusion-date-and-formats .fusion-format-box, .fusion-fullwidth.fusion-builder-row-1 .fusion-popover, .fusion-fullwidth.fusion-builder-row-1 .tooltip-shortcode {color: #461a5b;}#main .fusion-fullwidth.fusion-builder-row-1 .post .blog-shortcode-post-title a:hover {color: #461a5b;} PMI Talent Triangle: Strategic and Business Management Hi, there IMPACT Drivers! Have you heard of Disciplined Agile? I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know Scott Ambler, the Vice President, Chief Scientist of Disciplined Agile at the Project Management Institute (PMI) and he’s introduced me to Disciplined Agile and I LOVE IT! It’s the perfect approach to putting common sense into common practice. It’s not a framework or methodology, but more of a toolkit of guidance and resources to help you make good decisions to have a more Agile approach to implementing yo...

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Leveraging Thought Leadership | Scott Ambler | 246

Leveraging Thought Leadership with Peter Winick

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2020 24:27

Today’s guest is Scott Ambler, Project Management Institute Vice President and Chief Scientist of Disciplined Agile. Scott is the co-creator of the Disciplined Agile Toolkit, author of Introduction to Disciplined Agile Delivery, and Choose Your WoW. Scott talks with us about the creation and evolution of the Disciplined Agile Toolkit and how businesses can use it to create agile teams capable of responding to various situations properly regardless of their skillset, then adjust in the future as they learn and grow. We discuss the position of Disciplined Agile at PMI and how the two work and learn together to be a stronger single organization and how PMI has allowed stronger creation of communities that include chapters all over the world helping people learn and expand their knowledge. Three Key Takeaways: · How thought leaders can use Agile Discipline to better adjust to any situation. · Why thought leaders should not get stuck in a “best practice” might not be for the best. · Why thought leaders need to focus on creating communities and what can be gained from them.

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Scott Ambler on Disciplined Agile and Agile Beyond Software Teams

Engineering Culture by InfoQ

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2020 21:46

In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Scott Ambler of Disciplined Agile about the DA toolkit and taking agile beyond software devlopment Why listen to this podcast • Disciplined Agile is a toolkit which provides a view of agile adoption at four levels – software development, DevOps, IT departments and whole enterprise • The toolkit provides context and questions to help you to make better choices for the specific context each team is working in and to do process improvement • Consistency across teams should not be a goal of agile adoption – each team is different, and they must inspect and adapt in ways that work best for their context. There is no one size fits all • Guided continuous improvement gives teams and organisations a head start on improvement by identifying patterns that have worked elsewhere, showing the choices available and the trade-offs that need to be made between different approaches • Good governance is all about motivation, enablement, monitoring and transparency, ideally with an automated framework – not bureaucracy and manual checks. Transparency over false predictability More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/3fwQyiZ You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq Subscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq Like InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ Follow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq Check the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/3fwQyiZ

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075 A Scrum Myth, with Scott Ambler

Agile Thoughts

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 19, 2019 6:13

CONNECT Visit Agile Thoughts and register to receive free development, analysis, or leadership and management materials and learn to excel at developing software. I’ll also send information on my low cost email courses you can take via the internet. 075 A Scrum Myth, with Scott Ambler You can find more information about DA here: https://disciplinedagiledelivery.com

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Scott Ambler on PMI's Acquisition of Disciplined Agile

Agile and Project Management - DrunkenPM Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2019 34:29

In August of 2019, The Project Management Institute announced that it had acquired Disciplined Agile. According to Mark Lines, who together with Scott Ambler created Disciplined Agile, " The Disciplined Agile approach recognizes that every organization is different, and within each organization, there are different ways of working. The Disciplined Agile approach meets you where you are and allows you to tailor solutions for the way that you and your organization need to work.” The acquisition of DA is part of the PMI's continued effort to bring valuable tools and methods to the hands of people whose work involves management, enablement, support and delivery of projects and products. In this episode of the podcast, Scott Ambler who co-created Disciplined Agile together with Mark Lines, shares his thoughts on what this change means for those who practice a Disciplined Agile approach, those who follow a more traditional approach and why the PMI and DA have so much to offer each other. 2019 PMI Global Congress Mark Lines will be presenting at PMI Global Congress on Sunday, October 6 at 10:05 AM. For more info: https://sched.co/VH9T Contacting Scott Blog: https://www.projectmanagement.com/blogs/578692/Disciplined-Agile Disciplined Agile site: http://disciplinedagiledelivery.com ProjectManagement.com: https://www.projectmanagement.com/profile/ScottAmbler/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/scottwambler

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Read Widely and Always be Willing to Learn from Others with Scott Ambler

IT Career Energizer

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2019 23:03

Phil’s guest on this episode of the IT Career Energizer podcast is Scott Ambler. Scott works with organisations around the world to help them to improve their software processes. He provides training, coaching and mentoring in disciplined agile and lean strategies at both the project and organisational level. He is also the founder of the Agile Modelling (AM) and Agile Data (AD) methods and co-founder of Disciplined Agile (DA). In this episode, Phil and Scott discuss why Scott got interested in agile and continues to develop it. How he helps large organisations to change the way they work by leveraging the experiences of other organisations. They talk about how to effectively test the architecture of a system, at an early stage, and why it must be done. KEY TAKEAWAYS: (6.41) TOP CAREER TIP Read widely. You need to be constantly consuming information from a wide range of sources. (7.46) WORST CAREER MOMENT Many years ago, Scott ended up working with a strong team who were handicapped by having to use technology that basically did not work. The different parts of the system could not talk to each other and the database could not handle negative numbers. Worse, these fundamental flaws could not be fixed. Months later, it all crashed and burned. The experience taught Scott the benefits of testing early. You have to prove the architecture as soon as possible. (10.59) CAREER HIGHLIGHT Scott really enjoys seeing software and systems he has worked on being used when he walks down the street. He also loves the fact he is still in touch with some of the teams he worked with, in the past. Working with great people has been something he feels has been a highlight of his career. (12.51) THE FUTURE OF CAREERS IN I.T The complexity and variety of the work you do as an IT professional is what helps to make things so interesting. Given the fact that the world is in a constant state of flux, Scott believes there will always be interesting challenges to tackle. (14.15) THE REVEAL What first attracted you to a career in I.T.? – At university, Scott decided to take computer science because he had enjoyed programming since high school. So, a career in IT was a natural progression for him. What’s the best career advice you received? – Read often. What’s the worst career advice you received? – Focus on one technology. What would you do if you started your career now? – Scott says he would probably follow a similar path. But, he would want to work on a legacy system. He explains why that is, in the podcast. What are your current career objectives? – Scott wants to dive deeper into understanding why certain approaches work and others don’t. He wants to be able to answer these fundamental questions. What’s your number one non-technical skill? – Being a good writer. How do you keep your own career energized? – Being curious and always striving to learn something new. What do you do away from technology? – Scott loves cycling. He also collects Atari 8 consoles and old computers. (20.22) FINAL CAREER TIP Continually expand your skillset and take every opportunity to learn from others. And always question what you do. Develop several core specialities. But, be sure to look beyond them. Work to understand the challenges of the business you work for and always be willing to pick up new skills. BEST MOMENTS (5.06) – Scott - “Own your own process, choose your way of working.” (6.41) – Scott - “Always be trying to learn, always be reading and read widely.” (9.59) – Scott - “It is important to test early and prove the architectures working code.” (18.14) – Scott - “Being able to communicate, particularly using the written word is still absolutely critical.” (21.13) – Scott - “Always be willing to pick up new skills and work with others.” ABOUT THE HOST – PHIL BURGESS Phil Burgess is an independent IT consultant who has spent the last 20 years helping organisations to design, develop and implement software solutions. Phil has always had an interest in helping others to develop and advance their careers. And in 2017 Phil started the I.T. Career Energizer podcast to try to help as many people as possible to learn from the career advice and experiences of those that have been, and still are, on that same career journey. CONTACT THE HOST – PHIL BURGESS Phil can be contacted through the following Social Media platforms: Twitter: https://twitter.com/philtechcareer LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/philburgess Facebook: https://facebook.com/philtechcareer Instagram: https://instagram.com/philtechcareer Website: https://itcareerenergizer.com/contact Phil is also reachable by email at phil@itcareerenergizer.com and via the podcast’s website, https://itcareerenergizer.com Join the I.T. Career Energizer Community on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/ITCareerEnergizer ABOUT THE GUEST – SCOTT AMBLER Scott Ambler works with organisations around the world to help them to improve their software processes. He provides training, coaching and mentoring in disciplined agile and lean strategies at both the project and organisational level. He is also the founder of the Agile Modelling (AM) and Agile Data (AD) methods and co-founder of Disciplined Agile (DA). CONTACT THE GUEST – SCOTT AMBLER Scott Ambler can be contacted through the following Social Media platforms: Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/scottwambler LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/sambler Website: https://www.scottambler.com/index.html

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S2 E30 What is Agile? - Scott Ambler Interview

How To Code Well

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2019 61:40

Scott Ambler joins me to talk about Agile development in today's How To Code Well podcast Scott Ambler is a disciplined agilist and chief scientist at 'Disciplined Agile'. Scott explains what agile is and how it can benefit a projects life cycle. Scott mentions that agile is not only suited to software development and gives some great examples of where agile can be used outside of web development. We also discuss the differences between agile and other strategies such as the waterfall methodology. Scott talks about the the future of agile and what to look out for when hiring an agile coach or consultant. Follow Scott Ambler Twitter: https://twitter.com/scottwambler Web: http://www.disciplined-agile.com *** My Programming Courses *** Docker In Motion http://bit.ly/2vvz2sA Hands-on Microservices In Python - Packt Publishing: http://bit.ly/2S6aMYB - Udemy: http://bit.ly/2tD8S3Q Python Clean Coding - Packt Publishing: http://bit.ly/2NyUVkr - Udemy: http://bit.ly/2Y5E1tL *** Programming resources *** Programming books from Manning Publications: http://bit.ly/2BIrEx Udemy courses https://www.udemy.com/user/peter-fisher-8/ Skillshare courses https://www.skillshare.com/r/user/howtocodewell *** Follow How To Code Well *** Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/howtocodewell Twitter: http://twitter.com/howToCodeWell Youtube: http://bit.ly/2wf9ufB Instagram: http://instagram.com/howtocodewell/ Website: https://howtocodewell.net *** Subscribe to the news letter *** http://tinyletter.com/howtocodewell *** My Talks *** Using a Framework or Not - PHP South West https://youtu.be/T8R3YTrqt6U How To Put Your Docker Images On A Diet - PHP South West https://youtu.be/uiABt9axPNo Software Complexities - Peter Fisher - PHPSW: Learning About Complexities, August 2018 https://youtu.be/ZQ6AkyvEaHE DISCLAIMER: This video and description contains affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the product links, I’ll receive a small commission. This helps support the channel and allows me to continue to make web development videos like this. Thank you for the support!

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Greenshifting

Troubleshooting Agile

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2019 16:35

The engineers know the project is in terrible trouble, but the executives think it's going great. This "greenshifting" anti-pattern occurs at NASA, software companies, and everywhere in between. We tell a few related stories, including a fable, and suggest methods that might work to counteract the greenshifting tendency in your organisation. SHOW LINKS: - "The Mushroom Song" by Steve Savitsky: http://steve.savitzky.net/Songs/mushroom/ - The SNAFU Principle (communication fable) from the Jargon File: http://skeptictank.org/files//cowtext/jargn10.htm - Appendix F on the Challenger disaster, by Richard Feynman: https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/51-l/docs/rogers-commission/Appendix-F.txt - Scott Ambler on Greenshifting: https://www.drdobbs.com/dr-dobbs-agile-newsletter/191600661 - Alistair Cockburn on information radiators: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=24486&ranMID=24808 - Brian Marick on lava lamps as build status indicators: https://gist.github.com/marick/3ec112bc38b2af267e15 *** We'd love to hear any thoughts, ideas, or feedback you have about the show. Email us: see link on troubleshootingagile.com Tweet us: twitter.com/TShootingAgile Also, if you'd like to leave us a review on iTunes (or just like and subscribe), you'll find us here: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/troubleshooting-agile/id1327456890?mt=2

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#57 Agile For The Enterprise - with Scott Ambler

Being Human

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2019 74:08

> Sign Up For Our Newsletter: http://www.firsthuman.com/being-human-newsletter/In this episode, I explore the enterprise perspective on Agile with Scott Ambler, Chief Scientist at Disciplined Agile. We talk:- Guided Continuous Improvement and the Kaizen Loop- Why it's best to think in terms of options and not best practices- The need for "rolling wave" budgeting- The role of the Architecture Owner- The danger of Lean = job cuts and why safety is key to transformationEnjoy!Links:http://www.disciplined-agile.com/

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#57 Agile For The Enterprise - with Scott Ambler

Being Human

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2019 74:08

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#57 Agile For The Enterprise - with Scott Ambler

Being Human

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2019 74:08

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Scott Ambler - Agile2018

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Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2018 35:37

Scott Ambler joined Bob on the podcast at Agile2018. Hear about Scott's Agile2018 talks "Database DevOps: Strategies to Address DevOps' "Last Mile" and "Agile Architecture: Mindset, skills, and practices." Connect with Bob on Twitter and @LitheSpeed.

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Ep69 - Executive's Guide to Disciplined Agile - Guest/Scott Ambler

Scope of Success

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2018 17:03

In this episode Brian and James speak with Scott Ambler about his latest book Executive's Guide to Disciplined Agile. Check out Scotts book at Amazon.com Also discussed was Agile Camp's keynote Alison Levine and her assent to Mount Everest.

Live from Agile 2018 w/Scott Ambler

LeadingAgile SoundNotes: an Agile Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2018 9:45

Scott is one of the thought leaders behind Disciplined Agile. He stopped by the booth to talk about not only Disciplined Agile, but also his Agile 2018 session entitled: Agile Architecture: Mindset, Skills, ad Practices. Contact Info: @scottambler

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Choice is good and context counts

Happiness at Work

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2018 27:14

How do the choices we make and our skills and culture determine we make decisions as a team? Scott Ambler and Mark Lines say it comes down to knowing you have options. For more, visit www.management30.com.

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Scott Ambler - Disciplined Agile Framework

Agile and Project Management - DrunkenPM Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2018 38:37

For large scale organizations that need to scale Agile, one of the biggest challenges is selecting the option that will fit best. In this interview Scott Ambler, co-creator of the Disciplined Agile framework offers explains the origin of DisciplinedAgile, what makes it different than the other scaling options and how to handle some of the more common issues facing traditional orgs that are trying to adopt Agile and handle governance. SHOW NOTES 00:07 Interview Begins 00:35 Background on the Disciplined Agile Framework 01:34 The Origin of Disciplined Agile and what it was designed to help with 05:01 What drives organizations to want one common way to practice Agile 06:13 How Disciplined Agile responds to the desire for one process to rule them all 08:36 If you support multiple approaches to development, how do you bring it all together from a governance perspective and how do you communicate with management about process and progress? 11:10 If you are going to govern, what should you actually be governing? 12:30 Do we really want the PMO to be in charge of governing all aspects of the work? 13:20 How Disciplined Agile looks at the bigger picture with respect to governance 15:55 Making room for someone who can watch how things are being measured and keeping track of performance 16:39 We do not want to inflict the same process on 50 different teams. We need to up our game and look at the full enterprise picture 17:24 Everything in the complex adaptive system impact everything else in the system 17:56 The difference between Disciplined Agile and the other options for scaling Agile 20:55 There is no such thing as a best practice… EVER 21:08 If you want to be effective, pick and choose the techniques that work for you 22:50 Teaching them how to make decisions on their own, rather than just prescribing a solution 23:15 Getting qualified, experienced coaches to help you adopt Disciplined Agile 25:19 How Disciplined Agile makes sure the people teaching it are experienced it and know what they are doing 26:42 The first step is not to park your brain at the door. Hire someone who has experience and knows what they are doing. 27:25 The legions of Agile coaches … a 4 day class does not make you an experienced expert 28:55 Avoiding the trap of hiring “experts” who have merely completed few days of training 30:20 Making the case to senior leadership for taking a more mindful approach, despite the additional risk and effort 31:36 If it took your organization decades to get into the state they are in now, it is not going to go away overnight 32:50 The investment is more than just dollars 34:44 No matter how good we are, there is always something more we can tweak to get better 35:12 Organizations need to wake up, observe and have an honest discussion - make the bigger picture obvious 36:47 If you want to get in touch with Scott 37:44 Scott’s upcoming speaking events 38:22 Interview Ends FOR MORE INFORMATION ON SCOTT AMBLER AND DISCIPLINED AGILE http://scottambler.com http://www.disciplinedagiledelivery.com https://disciplinedagileconsortium.org

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Scott Ambler - Disciplined Agile Delivery

The Work/Life Balance

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2018 54:06

Rick will be interviewing Scott Ambler, (co)-creator of the Agile Modeling (AM) and Agile Data (AD) methodologies and the Disciplined Agile (DA) framework. The Disciplined Agile (DA) process decision framework provides light-weight guidance to help organizations streamline their information technology (IT) and business processes in a context-sensitive manner. It does this by showing how the various activities such as solution delivery, operations, enterprise architecture, portfolio management, finance, security, legal, and many others work together. The framework also describes what these activities should address, provides a range of options for doing so, and describes the tradeoffs associated with each option. In effect, DA provides the process foundation for business agility. Please do not miss the opportunity to hear from one of the true leaders in the Agile Community!

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Ep41 Agile Camp Guest/Scott Ambler

Scope of Success

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2017 18:23

In this Agile Camp episode we speak with Scott Ambler and his 22 books and learn about Disciplined Agile Check out Scott's many books on Amazon

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Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) and Beyond | Scott Ambler & Mark Lines

Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2017 32:55

Scott Ambler and Mark Lines are the co-creators of Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD), and together they gave an overview of this framework in their “Disciplined Agile Master Class” at Agile2017. The duo enlighten us on the difference between their process-decision framework and scaling frameworks like Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) or Large-Scale Agile (LeSS). And while they’re at it, they open the Pandora’s Box of “What’s better than Agile? And what does it mean to be “beyond Agile?” Howard Sublett hosts at Agile2017 in Orlando, Florida. To receive real-time updates, subscribe at YouTube, iTunes or SolutionsIQ.com.Subscribe: bit.ly/SIQYouTube, bit.ly/SIQiTunes, www.solutionsiq.com/agile-amped/Follow: bit.ly/SIQTwitterLike: bit.ly/SIQFacebook

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Scaling Agile Methods

Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Podcast Series

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2017 24:27

All major defense contractors in the market can tell you about their approaches to implementing the values and principles found in the Agile Manifesto. Published frameworks and methodologies are rapidly maturing, and a wave of associated terminology is part of the modern lexicon. We are seeing consultants feuding on Internet forums as well, each claiming to have the “true” answer for what Agile is and how to make it work in your organization. The challenge now is to scale Agile to work in complex settings with larger teams, larger systems, longer timelines, diverse operating environments, and multiple engineering disciplines. In this podcast, Will Hayes and Eileen Wrubel present five perspectives on scaling Agile from leading thinkers in the field, including Scott Ambler, Steve Messenger, Craig Larman, Jeff Sutherland, and Dean Leffingwell. Listen on Apple Podcasts.

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DAD in italiano... una novità editoriale - Felice Pescatore e Alessandro Alpi

dotNETpodcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2017 32:58

Grazie alla collaborazione di Felice ed Alessandro, che insieme hanno intrapreso questa nuova avventura editoriale, possiamo muovere i primi passi verso Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) leggendo finalmente un libro in italiano."Introduzione a Disciplined Agile Delivery" fornisce una rapida panoramica su come funziona lo sviluppo software Agile dall'inizio alla fine e descrive il framework di processo DAD in un caso reale, illustrando le esperienze che un team agile tipico vive nell'applicarlo.Il libro racconta le vicissitudini di un team durante lo sviluppo del primo rilascio di un'applicazione mission-critical in un ambiente enterprise “legacy”, descrivendo le esperienze dirette dall'inizio alla fine, partendo dalla composizione e formazione del team, passando per la costruzione della soluzione arrivando infine al deploy in produzione.Nel nostro podcast Felice ed Alessandro ci racconteranno com'è nata questa collaborazione e non mancheranno alcuni retroscena sul rapporto con Scott Ambler e Mark Lines, fautori di DAD.

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Dad of DAD Scott Ambler on Bridging the Agile-Data Cultural Divide at Agile2016

Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 14, 2016 17:07

Scott Ambler literally wrote the book on the Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) process framework. As Scott says, "Disciplined Agile is all about giving people choices and explicitly sharing the decision points that you're at in Agile projects and IT efforts in general." In addition to DAD, Scott also talks about his Agile2016 session on "The Agile Database Techniques Stack: Bridging the Agile/Data Cultural Divide". Without Agile database development, Agile wouldn't be possible. Yet despite efforts to realize database testing, refactoring and other Agile practices, the data community is still working with a traditional mindset. Data warehousing is typically slow and risky, accustomed to being bottleneck for the rest of the org. Scott also sounds off on microservices, too many technology stacks, and COBOL as a still viable dev language career-wise. John Esposito, Editor-in-Chief of DZone, SolutionsIQ partner, hosts at Agile2016 in Atlanta, GA. About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series connects the community through compelling stories, passionate people, shared knowledge, and innovative ideas. Fueled by inspiring conversations with industry thoughtleaders, Agile Amped offers valuable content – anytime, anywhere. To receive real-time updates, subscribe at YouTube, iTunes or SolutionsIQ.com. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SIQYouTube, http://bit.ly/SIQiTunes, http://www.solutionsiq.com/agile-amped/ Follow: http://bit.ly/SIQTwitter Like: http://bit.ly/SIQFacebook

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MBA084: Agile Modeling with Scott Ambler

Mastering Business Analysis

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2016 29:49

The post MBA084: Agile Modeling with Scott Ambler appeared first on Mastering Business Analysis.

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007: Scott Ambler

Agile FM

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2013 25:23

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Scott Ambler (Agile.FM)

Agile FM

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2013 25:22

Jochen (Joe) Krebs speaks with Scott Ambler about Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD), his most recent work and contribution to the agile process world. They touch on the unique issues DAD addresses, as well differences to Scrum, RUP, SAFe and other lean processes. Scott wrote several books beside Disciplined Agile Delivery, for example Object Primer, Agile Modeling, Agile Database Techniques among many others.

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Interview with Scott Ambler on Disciplined Agile Delivery

Podcasts | Growing Agile

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 26, 2013

Listen to the Interview [audio:https://www.growingagile.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Interview-with-Scott.mp3] Read the Transcript What is DAD and why should we care? [0:47] DAD is a process decision framework, which is a bit different. I didn’t want to invent a new term like that, but I ended up having to. The basic idea is based on the observation that people make […] The post Interview with Scott Ambler on Disciplined Agile Delivery appeared first on Growing Agile.

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Scott Ambler Optimizes Agile

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2012 56:49

While on the .NET Rocks! Visual Studio 2012 Launch Road Trip stop in Orlando Florida, Carl and Richard stopped into the Better Software conference and interviewed Scott Ambler about his work helping companies implement agile development practices. The conversation starts out talking about the scalability of agile practices, how waterfall is hard to get rid of, and common mistakes that organizations make implementing agile. Scott also digs into the DevOps movement, talking about how all stakeholders in an application, including operations and tech support, need to be part of the process.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Innovate 2012: 5 Ways to "Get Agile" at Innovate!

Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2012 7:13

IBM Rational is "getting Agile" in a whole new way at Innovate 2012. Our new Agile Transformation Track features 50+ sessions on Agile adoption, scaling techniques, and experiences from real-world Agile teams at world-class companies. Learn the latest trends from industry experts like Mary Poppendieck, Scott Ambler and Alan Brown, and get answers to your questions from Agile coaches. Listen to this podcast so you don't miss a moment of the Agile action! Cheri Bergeron, speaker.

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Five Year Anniversary - Press Release!

IBM developerWorks podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2012

Please distribute the PDF version! For Immediate Release January 23, 2012 Avon Lake, OH – The Software Process and Measurement Podcast (SPaMCAST) is celebrating its 170th episode after five years of interviewing many of the leaders in the software development world. The anniversary edition of SPaMCAST features an interview with Hillel Glazer, speaker, process guru and author of High Performance Operations. SPaMCAST feature interviews have included: · Chris Hefley, Chief Executive Officer, Leankit Kanban, Bandit Software, LLC · Dean Leffingwell author of Scaling Software Agility and others · Peter Taylor author of many books including The Lazy Project Manager · Elizabeth Harrin author, award winning blog, The Girl’s Guide to Project Management · Tim Lister, co-author of Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies · David Anderson the author of Agile Management for Software Engineering · Kent Beck, pioneer in Agile Methods · Scott Ambler, though leader in Test Driven Development · Ivar Jacobson, developer of Use Cases · Grady Booch, discussing Life, the Universe and Development The Cast covers topics that deal with the challenges of how work is done in information technology organizations as they grow and evolve. The show combines commentaries, interviews and feedback to serve up ideas, opinions, advice and facts. In a nutshell, the Cast has provided and will continue to provide advice for and from practitioners, methodologists, pundits and consultants. The editor, Tom Cagley, is a leading consultant in software development process improvement, the Vice President of Consulting for the David Consulting Group, Past President of the International Function Point Users Group and co-author of Mastering Software Project Management. The Software Process and Measurement Cast can be found at www.spamcast.net. It is also available on all major podcast services including iTunes and the Zune Marketplace. All previous episodes are available download. The Cast currently enjoys 10,000 downloads a month, up 20% in the past year It is delivered as a free public service to the information technology community and has listeners across the globe. Contact: Thomas M. Cagley Jr. Editor

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IBM's Scott Ambler on being agile and lean

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2011 10:37

Scott Ambler, is chief methodologist for Agile and Lean at IBM Rational, and author of several books on the Unified Process, Agile development, the Unified Modeling Language, and CMM-based development. In this interview he explains LEAN principles as they apply to software development, talks about how governance and a flatter organization are compatible, and describes what IBM has done with these approaches internally.

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Deployment and Agile Projects

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2011 17:35

Please take a few minutes to join Scott Ambler as he shares his view on Development and Operations, what could be done to minimize the impact to agile projects, and the value addressing Development and Operations challenges would offer agile project teams and the business. Scott Ambler, speaker.

Agile. Everyware.

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2011 13:09

Please take a few minutes to join Scott Ambler as he dispels the myths that still exist about scaling Agile practices and previews the Agile. Everyware. interactive whiteboard.

Lose that excess project weight - Adapt with IBM agility@scale

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2010 22:53

In this podcast, Scott Ambler, IBMs practice leader for Agile development discusses the Agile Scaling Model (ASM) and how it can help you define a roadmap for effective adoption and tailor agile practices to meet the unique challenges faced by your software and systems delivery team.

Manage, Measure and Improve your Agile Capabilities

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 27, 2009 14:34

Whether you are just starting to adopt agile practices or expanding your adoption, Scott Ambler will discuss an approach that helps agile teams measure and iteratively improve their business processes. Find out how you can improve your process maturity by focusing on the core agile practices that matter most to you.

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APLN Washington DC - Scott Ambler - New Survey Information - What we Really Do.

IBM developerWorks podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2009 106:52

Scott gives another entertaining presentation. He talks about some very interesting survey information. Take a look at it for yourself. http://www.ambysoft.com/surveys This one is a long one but worth it. -bob

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RSDC 2008: Scott Ambler on the latest with agile development

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2008 15:19

Scott Ambler, Rational Practice Leader of Agile development, spent a few minutes chatting with Michael O'Connell today at RSDC 2008. Scott talks about the work he has been doing to promote more adoption of Agile development.

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SPaMCAST 31 – Ambler, Test Driven Development, Words and Change

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2008 27:46

Show 31 features an interview with Scott Ambler of IBM discussing Test Driven Development and other Agile topics. Scott W. Ambler is the Practice Leader Agile Development with IBM Rational and he works with IBM customers around the world to improve their software processes. He is the founder of the Agile Modeling (AM), Agile Data (AD), Agile Unified Process (AUP), and Enterprise Unified Process (EUP) methodologies. Scott is the (co-)author of 19 books, including Refactoring Databases, Agile Modeling, Agile Database Techniques, The Object Primer 3rd Edition, and The Enterprise Unified Process. Scott is a senior contributing editor with Dr. Dobb’s Journal. Check out Mr. ambler’s blogs at: Personal home page: www.ibm.com/rational/bios/ambler.html Agile at Scale blog: www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/ambler. The essay for this cast is titled “Are Words a Predictor of Change Adoption". The essay explores the relationship between words and what they predict about success in process improvement. The text of the essay can be found at www.tcagley.wordpress.com. Comments and corrections are welcome. There are a number of ways to share your thoughts . . Email SPaMCAST at spamcastinfo@gmail.com Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111 Twitter – www.twitter.com/tcagley BLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com Future Events and the next . . . I have a couple of free webinars coming up in early 2008. The first is “Getting Performance Improvement Out of Your Software Process Improvement" on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT And the second is titled “A Cost Effective Approach to Enterprise Wide Software Process Improvement" May 22nd, 2008 at 10:00 am - 11:30 am Eastern Time More information and registration information can be found at http://www.itmpi.org/webinars/ Next Software Process and Measurement Cast: On the next SPaMCAST I will be airing part 2 of the interview with Murali Chemuturi on estimation and software sizing. To describe the interview I will just say “damn!" and let you dive in. Your thoughts and comments are always a welcome addition . . .

SPaMCAST 30 - Donnellan, Metrics Programs, Passion and Success

IBM developerWorks podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2008 25:17

SPaMCAST 30 – Donnellan, Metrics Programs, Passion and Success Show 30 begins a two part interview with Rob Donnellan on the topic of metrics programs. Rob Donnellan, IT Excellence Value Builder, has more than 28 years of industry experience. Rob delivers executive-level "IT Excellence" consulting. Prior to joining Q/P Management Group, Rob was a Director with META Group, Nautilus Advisors (an outsourcing consultancy), and Cap Gemini. His key responsibilities have been to develop next-generation consulting services, and to lead IT management consulting projects primarily devoted to process improvement, IT portfolio management, IT diagnosis, performance engineering/measurement, and benchmarking. He has been a regular speaker for industry organizations such as the APQC, PMI, SPIN, SIM, IFPUG, and The Balanced Scorecard Collaborative. He holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a B.A. in Liberal Arts from the University of Connecticut. Mr. Donnellan can be contacted by email at rob.donnellan@qpmg.com or by phone at (401) 783-3005. Q/P Management Group’s web site can be found at http://www.qpmg.com/. The essay for this cast is titled “Passion and Success". The essay discusses the relationship between passion and success in process improvment. The text of the essay can be found at www.tcagley.wordpress.com. Comments and corrections are welcome. There are a number of ways to share your thoughts . . Email SPaMCAST at spamcastinfo@gmail.com Voice messages can be left at 1-206-888-6111 Twitter – www.twitter.com/tcagley BLOG – www.tcagley.wordpress.com Future Events and the next . . . I have a couple of free webinars coming up in early 2008. The first is “Getting Performance Improvement Out of Your Software Process Improvement" on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT And the second is titled “A Cost Effective Approach to Enterprise Wide Software Process Improvement" May 22nd, 2008 at 10:00 am - 11:30 am Eastern Time More information and registration information can be found at http://www.itmpi.org/webinars/ Next Software Process and Measurement Cast: On the next SPaMCAST I will be airing an interview I did with Scott Ambler on scaling test driven development. Agilistas, this one is for you! Part 2 of the interview with Rob will air on show 33. Your thoughts and comments are always a welcome addition . . .

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Scott Ambler on Agile RUP

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 19, 2008 4:53

Scott Ambler is Practice Leader Agile Development with IBM Rational, (co)-author of 19 books including many on Agile development, and a senior contributing editor to Dr. Dobb's Journal. He talks about his compilation article, highlighted this week on the developerWorks homepage, Agile RUP: Experiences from the trenches.

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Agile06 - Scott Ambler - Eclipse Process Framework

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2006 49:13

Scott and I talk about his new work with the Eclipse Process Framework and a variety of other topics. As with all my conversations with Scott this one went on for a while.Hope you enjoy.-bob

Scott Ambler - Agile Modeling, Agile Database and the Agile Development Conference

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Play Episode Listen Later Aug 16, 2005 25:26

Scott and I talk about his work integrating the modeling and data communities into agile projects. He also hints at something that will make the RUP community happy upcoming in October. Give it a listen and let me know what you think. -bob payne

Scott Ambler Optimizes Agile

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 1, 1970 56:48

Scott Ambler on the Agile Process Maturity Model

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 1, 1970 65:42

Scott Ambler from IBM talks about the Agile Process Maturity Model, which defines three levels of Agile methodology.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

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