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Software Process and Measurement Cast


The Software Process and Measurement Cast provides a forum to explore the varied world of software process improvement and measurement.  The SPaMCast covers topics that deal the challenges how work is done in information technology organizations as they grow and evolve.  The show combines commentaries, interviews and your feedback to serve up ideas, options, opinions, advice and even occasionally facts. 

 

Jul 26, 2015

Software Process and Measurement Cast 352 features our interview with Gil Broza.  We discussed Gil’s new book The Agile Mind-Set. Do you know what the Agile Mind-Set is or how to get one?  Gil’s new book explains the concept of the Agile Mind-Set and how you can find it in order to deliver more value!

Gil Broza helps organizations, teams and individuals implement high-performance Agile principles and practices that work for them. His coaching and training clients – over 1,300 professionals in 40 companies – have delighted their customers, shipped working software on time, increased their productivity and decimated their software defects. Beyond teaching, Gil helps people overcome limiting habits, fears of change, blind spots and outdated beliefs, and reach higher levels of performance, confidence and accomplishment.

Gil is the author of The Agile Mind-Set and The Human Side of Agile: How to Help Your Team Deliver.

Gil has a M.Sc. in Computational Linguistics and a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He is a certified NLP Master Practitioner and has studied organizational behavior and development extensively. He has written several practical papers for the Cutter IT Journal, other trade magazines, and for conferences, winning the Best Practical Paper award at XP/Agile Universe 2004. Gil co-produced the Agile Coaching stage for the “Agile 2010” and “Agile 2009” conferences.

Gil lives in Toronto, Canada.

Contact Data:
http://www.3pvantage.com/index.htm
https://leanpub.com/theagilemindset
http://thehumansideofagile.com/
https://twitter.com/gilbroza

Gil was last interviewed on SPaMCAST 210.  We discussed his first book The Human Side of Agile.

 

 

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Re-Read Saturday News

Remember that the Re-Read Saturday of The Mythical Man-Month is in full swing.  This week we tackle the essay titled “Aristocracy, Democracy and System Design”!

The Re-Read Saturday and other great articles can be found on the Software Process and Measurement Blog.

Remember: We just completed the Re-Read Saturday of Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox’s The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement which began on February 21nd. What did you think?  Did the re-read cause you to read The Goal for a refresher? Visit the Software Process and Measurement Blog and review the whole re-read.

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Upcoming Events

Software Quality and Test Management
 
September 13 – 18, 2015
San Diego, California

http://qualitymanagementconference.com/

I will be speaking on the impact of cognitive biases on teams!  Let me know if you are attending! If you are still deciding on attending let me know because I have a discount code!

 

More on other great conferences soon!

 

Next SPaMCAST

The next Software Process and Measurement Cast features three columns.  The first is our essay on leaning styles.  Learning styles are an interesting set of constructs that are useful to consider when you are trying to change the world or just and an organization. 

We will also include Steve Tendon’s column discussing the TameFlow methodology and his great new book, Hyper-Productive Knowledge Work Performance.

Anchoring the cast will be Gene Hughson returning with an entry from his Form Follows Function column. 

 

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