Damo's Podcast Highlights 2016 #30

I subscribe to many podcasts, you can see the list as it was in 2015 here: Developer podcasts v2 but I thought I would start to keep a weekly log of the episodes that I found interesting or useful in some way.

[The Cognicast] Michael Nygard - The new normal, failure is a good thing http://blog.cognitect.com/cognicast/106
Blog series the new normal http://blog.cognitect.com/blog/2016/2/3/the-new-normal-failure-is-a-good-thing

• "What we need is a new approach where “continuous partial failure” is the normal state of affairs"
• "Instead of expecting everything to run like clockwork, we should anticipate the opposite. We must embrace failure as a means to build IT infrastructures and organizations that not only withstand threats but profit from them."
• Everything breaks. It's just a question of when and how badly.

[Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast] Yves Hanoulle - How systems influence individual and team performance http://www.scrum-master-toolbox.com/2016/07/podcast/yves-hanoulle-on-how-systems-influence-individual-and-team-performance/

[This Agile Life] You Can’t Handle the Truth http://www.thisagilelife.com/114/

• Constructive criticism as a gift
• How have we (the hosts) established safety (trust) on teams?
• Can we have trust without transparency?
• Can we have safety without trust?

[This Agile Life] The Version One 10th Annual State of Agile™ report http://www.thisagilelife.com/115/
The team discuss the bottom 10 of the agile techniques employed on page 10 of the 'Version One 10th Annual State of Agile™ report' http://info.versionone.com/state-of-agile-report-thank-you.html
Can you be 'Agile' with out TDD, BDD, refactoring, and pairing?

[AudioBookPodcast.Microservices] Daniel Bryant - The Seven Deadly Sins of Microservices https://www.infoq.com/presentations/7-sins-microservices
https://opencredo.com/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-microservices-redux/

1. LUST – Using the latest and greatest tech…
2. GLUTTONY – Excessive communication protocols
3. GREED – All your service are belong to us…
4. SLOTH – Creating a distributed monolith
5. WRATH – Blowing up when bad things happen
6. ENVY – The shared single domain fallacy
7. PRIDE – Testing in the world of transience

[Mastering Business Analysis] Addressing Bottlenecks with Theory of Constraints http://masteringbusinessanalysis.com/mba082-addressing-bottlenecks-theory-constraints/
The Theory of Constraints is an approach to improving organizational performance created by Dr. Eli Goldratt and is explained in his book, The Goal.

• Step 0: Define the Goal
• Step 1: Identify the Bottleneck
• Step 2: Exploit the Bottleneck
• Step 3: Subordinate Decisions to the Bottleneck
• Step 4: Elevate the Bottleneck
• Step 5: Repeat