Episode 394 | Joshua Kerievsky - Accelerating Awesome

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Joshua Kerievsky talks with Dave Rael about Industrial Logic, making great experiences, psychological safety, great businesses, and delivering value

Joshua is the founder and CEO of Industrial Logic, a pioneering Extreme Programming/Lean consultancy that radically improves the software development capabilities of organizations around the globe. In the mid-1990s, Joshua was among a small community of “lightweight methods” practitioners experimenting with better ways of developing software. Since then, he’s helped thousands of people across hundreds of organizations learn better ways of making software, carefully reviewing and revising methods with the greatest impact and return on investment. Today, he leads an effort to modernize Agile by removing outdated practices and leveraging the best of what the software community and other industries have learned about achieving awesome results. Modern agile practitioners work to Make People Awesome, Make Safety A Prerequisite, Experiment & Learn Rapidly and Deliver Value Continuously. Joshua is an international speaker and author of the best-selling, Jolt Cola-award-winning book, Refactoring to Patterns, numerous Agile eLearning courses, and popular articles like Anzeneering, Sufficient Design, and Stop Using Story Points. He’s active on Twitter, Snapchat and the emerging ModernAgile.org community.

Chapters: 0:32 - Dave introduces the show and Joshua Kerievsky3:49 - The story of Industrial Logic6:16 - Making users and developers awesome, customer obsession, the peril of becoming dangerously "too skilled," and attaining maturity as a software craftsperson10:40 - Psychological safety, positive cultures, and being yourself with your team15:47 - Creating, advancing, and supporting a culture of psychological safety18:34 - Josh's story of failure - dealing with an outage due to divergent development and production environments and the organization's healthy response to the failure and identifying and addressing the conditions that led to it21:41 - Josh's book recommendations24:26 - Josh's top 3 tips for delivering more value27:25 - Keeping up with Josh27:52 - Modern Agile

Resources: Joshua on LinkedIn Industrial Logic Modern Agile Refactoring to Patterns - Joshua Kerievsky Anzeneering Sufficient Design Stop Using Story Points Badass: Making Users Awesome - Kathy Sierra Alex Balazs on Developer on Fire Tim Ottinger on Developer on Fire The Psychology of Computer Programming: Silver Anniversary Edition - Gerald M. Weinberg Jerry Weinberg on Developer On Fire

Joshua's book recommendation: The Excellence Dividend: Meeting the Tech Tide with Work That Wows and Jobs That Last - Tom Peters

Joshua's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Look at usage metrics or you you're flying blind and don't know if you're delivering value Spend time validating or invalidating ideas before you start to work on them Hunt for bargains - look for high value at low cost