# Brian Marick

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Lean Startup In The Enterprise

Derek Neighbors: Hello and welcome to another episode of the Agile Weekly Podcast. I’m Derek Neighbors. Roy vandeWater: I’m Roy vandeWater. Jade Meskill: I’m Jade Meskill. Clayton Lengel‑Zigich: I’m Clayton Lengel‑Zigich. Derek: Today, fresh from Twitter, we have Mike Vizdos. Mike Vi…

Why we still talk about Agile

Squirrel and Jeffrey meditate on Brian Marick's announcement that he will no longer accept talk invitations on agile development, and the (different) reasons that both of them still use term "agile". Topics include joy at work, how it leads to profit, and the "near enemy" of that joy, which can lea…

E2: Viruses, Cancer, TDD, and "Packages": Part 1

When TDD arrived on the software scene around 1980, it became popular very fast. Why did it succeed so well? I think it's because it was a combined theory and technology that hit the same "sweet spot" of intellectual infectiousness that the "proto-oncogene theory of cancer" did in the 1980's. Most …

BONUS: Seeing like a personality survey

My goal is to help you understand what it means when you see a headline like “Scientists find that people on the political right are less open to experience than people on the left.” TL;DR: For practical purposes, it doesn't mean anything. You might guess, from the previous episode, that it's just…

E30: Foucault, /Discipline and Punish/, and voluntary panopticism, part 1

Part 1 is a synopsis of Foucault's claim that the societal attitude toward punishment of criminals changed radically over a period of about 80 years, starting in the mid-1700s: from punishment as vengeance, to punishment as persuading the minds of many, to punishment as correcting the personality o…

E39: Roles in collaborative circles, part 1

Farrell describes a number of distinct roles important to the development of a collaborative circle. This episode is devoted to the roles important in the early stages, when the circle is primarily about finding out what it is they actually dislike about the status quo. In order to make the episode…

EXCERPT: Christopher Alexander’s forces

Software design patterns were derived from the work of architect Christopher Alexander, specifically his book A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction. This excerpt (from episode 39) addresses a problem: most software people don't know one of Alexander's most important ideas, that of "for…

156: It Has to be Valuable (Steve Tooke)

Ben is joined by Steve Tooke to discuss the importance of communication, testing, and building Cucumber 2. This episode of Giant Robots is sponsored by: Digital Ocean: Simple and fast cloud hosting, built for developers. Use the code GiantRobots for a $10 credit towards your new account. L…

Context in Context Driven Software Testing

Effective Software Testing is highly contextual: we adapt what we do to the project and the process. In this episode of The Evil Tester Show, host Alan Richardson describes context-driven testing. Is there really such a thing as context-driven testing, or is it just a phrase we use to describe ou…

"The Skills That Survive AI" with Michael Feathers

Michael Feathers is the author of Working Effectively with Legacy Code, the de facto survival guide for developers dealing with gnarly, untested systems for nearly two decades. He’s been a thought leader in software craftsmanship, refactoring, and technical excellence throughout his career. * Worki…