Episode 77: If you’re implementing pagination, you’re not doing agile.

Summary: <p>Is agile software development bullshit? This is what we discuss, along with a short tale of the best uber driver ever.</p> <h1>Show Notes</h1> <h2>Follow-up</h2> <ul> <li>Moved to fireside.fm. So, now you can just go to <a href="http://SoftwareDefinedTalk.com" rel="nofollow">http://SoftwareDefinedTalk.com</a>. No more multi back-end management crap.</li> <li>Check out <a href="http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/76" rel="nofollow">the last episode, the show page</a> is- God-damned nifty!</li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/matt_traverse/status/790600017778249728" rel="nofollow">Review in iTunes France</a></li> <li> <a href="https://twitter.com/scrub/status/790190603023843328" rel="nofollow">Osprey “one bag” style backpack</a>.</li> </ul> <h2>The Best Uber Driver Ever</h2> <ul> <li> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po-rVFBC5Ps" rel="nofollow">Hands on a Hard Body guy, Ronald McCowan</a>.</li> <li><a href="http://thesweathotel.iheart.com/" rel="nofollow">The Sweat Hotel</a></li> </ul> <h2>Coté’s Agile shit</h2> <ul> <li>Excerpt from <a href="https://www.getrevue.co/profile/cote/issues/you-re-not-really-agile-airports-hitting-yourself-absurd-ai-tams-cote-memo-18-34432" rel="nofollow">a PDF in process</a>.</li> <li>IBM design people.</li> <li>We don’t know what we’re doing; celebrity diet books; agile people are squarely.</li> <li> <a href="https://twitter.com/cote/status/794349731627446272" rel="nofollow">It’s only cargo culting when the planes stop coming</a>.</li> <li> <a href="https://medium.com/@sheldonline/the-government-it-self-harm-playbook-6537d3920f65#.p8cuon2mj" rel="nofollow">UK GDS rant</a>.</li> <li>Three types of projects; then the agile tools and tactics; then approach/culture</li> <li>How do I get developers to care about boring shit? ...or contain the blast radius of their boredom.</li> <li>Magic tactic: features are locked for two weeks, no interruptions</li> <li>The Product Manager's Lament.</li> <li>If you’re implementing pagination, you’re not doing agile</li> <li> <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/19T1B-jdhpNr58p7sONWtT5W48xFtV92aV9hMeb29w6I/edit?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow">The big PDF on all this stuff that Coté is working on</a> - leave some comments!</li> </ul> <h2>The End-roll Mid-roll</h2> <ul> <li>Coté: Check out <a href="https://cote.io/promos/" rel="nofollow">cote.io/promos</a> for more - free books, free cloud time, etc.</li> <li>Coté: Nov 15th, everywhere - I'll be speaking early in <a href="http://www.alldaydevops.com/" rel="nofollow">the All Day DevOps virtual conference</a>.</li> <li>Coté: Nov 16th, <a href="https://pivotal.io/event/cloud-native-workshop/omaha" rel="nofollow">Cloud Native Roadshow in Omaha</a> - couldn’t make it to Kansas City? Come on over to Omaha for the same! We just did the one in Kansas City this week and it was an excellent turn-out and session list.</li> <li>Coté: Various dates - <a href="https://pivotal.io/event/pivotal-cloud-native-roadshow" rel="nofollow">Pivotal’s Cloud Native Roadshows</a>.</li> <li>Matt: DevOps Days Australia 20% <a href="https://ti.to/devopsaustralia/2016-sydney/discount/SDT2016" rel="nofollow">discount code - SDT2016</a>.</li> <li> <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Infrastructure-Coders/events/233990769/" rel="nofollow">Matt’s at Melbourne Infracoders “Compliance as Code”</a>. </li> </ul> <h2>BONUS LINKS! Not covered in episode.</h2> <h3>OpenStack Anyone?</h3> <ul> <li> <a href="http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2475081/openstack-revenues-predicted-to-top-usd5bn-by-2020" rel="nofollow">There’s a Summit going on in Barcelona</a> 35% annual growth sounds good</li> <li> <a href="http://www.computerworlduk.com/cloud-computing/mark-shuttleworth-on-openstack-hpe-layoffs-prove-bs-as-service-theory-3648336/" rel="nofollow">With friends like these…</a>: “Ubuntu founder and product lead at Canonical Mark Shuttleworth says he feels validated by his earlier claims that the expansion of OpenStack projects – known as the ‘big tent’ approach - would collapse and that the community needs to focus on its core services.”</li> <li>Bullshit as a Service: “My rule of thumb is if you're not [creating] virtual networks, compute or disks, and you can't survive on AWS, you are never going to survive on OpenStack. That's the bullshit as a service story.”</li> <li>OTH,