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  • Episode 13: Scaled Agile processes and stories with Raxit Ramani

    Episode 13: Scaled Agile processes and stories with Raxit Ramani
    Mar 14 2025
    We've got Raxit Ramani, a highly experienced Agile Coach and Project Manager talking about Scaled Agile, SAFe, Stories of things being wrong, and how different government bodies have operated in the past. Subscribe to our new Newsletter! (https://newsletter.ctrl-alt-expletive.com/subscribe). Stay informed about new episodes, and get beautiful news and recommendation links. Michael is still pale after a weekend in the sun. He didn't shed a tear after being in the Spa's floation tank Mark dropped a treadmill on his foot. Raxit had a good job interview You only need one server, given it is sufficiently powerful... Quickfire Questions Your opinion of Agile, in one word. Personal preference: Public sector or private sector work? What’s the biggest crime against Jira? Worst excuse you’ve ever heard for missing a sprint goal or PI goal, or just not having a bit of work done? Longest you’ve ever seen a story carried over in the next, and the next, and the next sprint? You join a team, day 1, they show you their organisation stuff, and they do all planning in excel. Do you go with the flow, or immediately advocate something else? Why? Biggest red flag that someone isn’t really agile? What’s a task you dread doing throughout the PI increment? Most valuable certifications? ## Breaking Prod Leaderboard We have a new winner! With 3 distinct stories! Big topic for the week How would you describe to a new developer, the definition of modern agile software development? What’s it all about? You’ve done a scrum master / agile lead type role before. How does a department know when it’s ready to start thinking about a scaled agile framework? What sort of problems might they notice first that agile hasn’t seemed to solve for them, even though they’re doing scrum and/or kanban well? If 5 or so teams have identified the problem, how do they get business buy-in to get someone in to help with a scaled agile framework? Have you seen a scaled agile implementation fail? What are the biggest mis-steps in scaled agile failing? How would you even know it’s failing? What sort of stuff gets measured? Are there KPIs? Does it make any impact on individual contributors? Or is this just something that helps their managers and product owners be better organised? Do top software companies do this? Are there any scenarios you’ve seen people implement this, and it was just the wrong idea? News Google chrome sale from DOJ (https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/10/doj-google-chrome-sale/) (MacRumors) Google donates to Trump inauguration (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/09/google-donates-1-million-to-trumps-inauguration-fund.html) (CNBC) Artists release album “Is This What We Want?”, protesting AI (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/25/kate-bush-damon-albarn-1000-artists-silent-ai-protest-album-copyright) (The Guardian) HR managers creates 22 fake employees and cashes their pay check for 10 years (https://townflex.com/hr-manager-created-22-fake-employees-steal-2-2-million/) (TownFlex.com) Recommendations SAFe & Scaled Agile Scaled Agile Website (https://scaledagile.com) The Art of Avoiding a Trainwreck (https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9781094752280/ART-Avoiding-Train-Wreck-Practical-1094752282/plp) (Abe Books) Learning Agile (https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/learning-agile/9781449363819/) (O'Reilly) Tech Ghostty (https://ghostty.org) vs. Warp (https://www.warp.dev), and oh-my-posh (https://ohmyposh.dev) Music Courting - Lust for Life, Or: 'How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story' :: British Alt Rock album :: Apple Music (https://music.apple.com/gb/album/lust-for-life-or-how-to-thread-the-needle-and-come/1773066446) · Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/7m3pnC0KsBgoLlkTkiaId6?si=LQlcNK7ZRFKqOdvi3Ar5yA) · YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILaWbHwRjXo&list=PLHTo__bpnlYUN_ffmtGQXosM0w-IkQjxz) Mercury Rev :: American Rock Band :: Apple Music (https://music.apple.com/gb/artist/mercury-rev/3240538) · Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/artist/77oD8X9qLXZhpbCjv53l5n) · YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMmXzJaR-kZgt12dhyncGCw) Fat White Family - Champagne Holocaust :: British Alt Rock album :: Apple Music (https://music.apple.com/gb/album/champagne-holocaust-deluxe-edition/1090360470) · Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/6WeKsrSDY4XHEYenu3HEZc) · YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSWOXeS19vdpX4GxZTkcj5A) The Limiñanas :: French Rock band:: Apple Music (https://music.apple.com/gb/artist/the-limi%C3%B1anas/389053777) · Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/artist/2joJCoCL4EmiVqic3vZn7n?si=RaChBiS7RyiFSOOXY-WVqQ) · YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqtSEOA-Toztj74wKq6H7gw) DJ Counselling - Caring EP :: House album :: Apple Music (https://music.apple.com/gb/album/caring-ep/1733656722) · Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/1OlUD0LH7yiFLfDiSatt8l) · YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nu0JuFN5xhXWVQNJhkl327YJNYWCfuN7E) TV Drive ...
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    1 h y 13 m
  • Episode 12: Engineering Management with Director of Engineering Sam Jones

    Episode 12: Engineering Management with Director of Engineering Sam Jones
    Feb 24 2025
    We've got Director of Engineering Sam Jones talking all things Engineering Management. How to get into it, how she stays organised, great books to learn from, and how she approaches the challenges of the job. Michael prepares for putting together an event on developer experience Sam helps merge 2 companies together RIP duolingo bird Who is Sam Jones (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sammiej/)? loosely... Frontend Dev -> Team Lead @ gamesys ---> Eng. Manager @ Monzo -----> Director of Eng. @ Benifex Quickfire Questions One to ones, all in one day or evenly spread throughout the week? Best new joiner swag you’ve ever had? Scrum or Kanban? Longest probation period you’ve ever heard of? Ever failed someone’s probation? Ever failed probation yourself? Interviewing off camera – yay or nay? Best team building activity? Slack or Teams? Breaking Prod The near miss that could've topped our leaderboard, working on trading systems Big Topic How do you get into it? What does training look like, for an engineering manager? Skip levels – do you do these? How often? Best way you’ve improved your abilities as an engineering manager? The danger zone! What it is and how to work through it? Is AI coming for your job? How do you see signs of burnout in people you’re managing? What are your KPIs as an engineering manager? Stack ranking employees – necessary evil? How do you make the jump from managing engineers, to managing managers? ## News 1. Alphabet drops a longstanding ban on AI being used for developing weapons (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy081nqx2zjo) (BBC) 1. ELON MUSK act (https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/05/the-elon-musk-act-aims-to-ban-special-government-employees-from-having-federal-contracts/) (TechCrunch). The proposed bill is called the ELON MUSK Act, which stands for “Eliminate Looting of Our Nation by Mitigating Unethical State Kleptocracy” 1. Asahi Linux Hector Martin project leads resigns – maintainer burnout (https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/13/ashai_linux_head_quits) (The Register) 1. Apple Lamp - Expressive and Functional Movement Design for Non-Anthropomorphic Robot research paper (https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/elegnt-expressive-functional-movement) (Apple) 1. Hauwei release tri-folding phone (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv_S7KrOlfk) (Youtube - Marques Brownlee) Recommendations Engineering Management Books Resilient Management, Lara Hogan (https://resilient-management.com) Management 3.0 (https://management30.com/books/management30/) The Manager's Path, Camille Fournier (https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-managers-path/9781491973882/) (O'Reilly) An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management, Will Larson (https://press.stripe.com/an-elegant-puzzle) (Stripe Press) Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50363684-become-an-effective-software-engineering-manager) (Good Reads) Managing Humans: Biting and Humourous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager, Michael Lopp (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4302-4315-1?gtmf=s) Scaling People, Claire Hughes Johnson (https://press.stripe.com/scaling-people) (Stripe Press) Non Engineering Management Books The Staff Engineer's Path (https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-staff-engineers/9781098118723/) (O'Reilly) Platform Engineering, Camille Fournier (https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/platform-engineering/9781098153632/) (O'Reilly) Music I Love You, Honeybear - Father John Misty (https://music.apple.com/gb/album/i-love-you-honeybear/931563362) (Apple Music). Royal Albert Hall Event (https://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/events/2025/father-john-misty) Movies Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32063050/) (IMDb) Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2049403/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1_tt_5_nm_2_in_0_q_beetlejuice) (IMDb) Miscellaneous Canada vs. USA ice hockey match, 3 fights in first 9 seconds of play (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUa6c7DNmQY) (YouTube) Next Time Rax talks about Scaled Agile frameworks Listen to the end to hear this episodes bloopers! If you've enjoyed the show, please recommend us to someone else who would like it, leave us a rating/review, or give us some feedback. Give us your feedback about the podcast (https://www.ctrl-alt-expletive.com/feedback) Special Guest: Sam Jones.
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    1 h y 18 m
  • Episode 11: Tech for Good: Games for Kids in Hospital with creative director Nikki Stearman

    Episode 11: Tech for Good: Games for Kids in Hospital with creative director Nikki Stearman
    Feb 21 2025
    We've got BAFTA winning Creative Director Nikki Stearman, talking about tech for good. She shares her experience designing and crafting experiences for children who are about to go to hospital, to help them understand what the environment and procedure will be like. Michael's office refurb continues, as he trades signed music memorabilia for music speakers The great rebrand is in the works Lenny steals a lunch Nikki shows off her BAFTA Quickfire Questions Mac or PC? Greatest gaming console ever? Greatest game ever? Most addictive game on your phone? Yorkshire or East Anglia? Morris Ring, Morris Foundation, or Open Morris? Spend a day doing Freelance work, or a day doing your permanent job? Do you version control your code? Is big tech fundamentally evil? Death of Flash – sad or not sad? Breaking prod? Well that won't earn you a BAFTA! Nikki does her homework. Big Topic: Tech for good, making games for kids Tech for good – conscious choice or something you walked in to? Do you worry about screen time? Would you / have you ever taken a role you feel morally ambiguous about? How close do you get to the end user of your product? What’s a kid’s first interaction like with the games your company makes? Does it show demonstrable results in treatment? Do you make any games in your spare time? Research from Dylan Yamada-Rice on Exploring Children's attitides towards notions fo the digital good through hybrid arts (https://digitalgood.net/dg-research/exploring-childrens-attitudes-towards-notions-of-the-digital-good-through-hybrid-arts-practice/) News Are noise cancelling headphones causing health problems? (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgkjvr7x5x6o) Children’s views on AI will form the manifesto for world leaders (https://www.turing.ac.uk/news/childrens-views-ai-will-form-manifesto-world-leaders?utm_source=LinkedIn&utm_medium=Text_link&utm_campaign=Turing-News_childrens-views-ai-will-form-manifesto-world-leaders) AI to help us understand animal’s emotions (https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/16/researchers-are-training-ai-to-interpret-animal-emotions/?utm_source=pocket_shared) Sri Lankan grid taken out by monkeys (https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/10/sri_lanka_monkey_blackout?utm_source=pocket_shared) Recommendations Music This is Classic Club (https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/this-is-classic-club/pl.de3d438ba0724b3a8f309f333d9095b2) playlist, dance anthems (apple music) I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - Fear is on our Side (https://music.apple.com/gb/album/fear-is-on-our-side/447611770) album, Alternative (apple music) Saafi Brothers - Mystic Cigarettes (https://music.apple.com/gb/album/mystic-cigarettes/279131194) album, electronic (apple music) Podcasts Cloud Dialogues (https://www.cloud-dialogues.com) podcast from our guest on episode 7, Georgia Smith Books The Power of Bad and How to Overcome it (https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/192339/the-power-of-bad-by-tierney-roy-f-baumeister-and-john/9780141975801) TV Am I being unreasonable? (https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001c3f7/am-i-being-unreasonable-series-1-episode-1?seriesId=m001c3f9-structural-1-m001c3f8) (BBC iPlayer) If you've enjoyed the show, please recommend us to someone else who would like it, leave us a rating/review, or give us some feedback. Give us your feedback about the podcast (https://www.ctrl-alt-expletive.com/feedback) Special Guest: Nikki Stearman.
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