John Sextro
Co-Host of This Agile Life
John Sextro is a husband and father of four with a passion for agile development, mobile development and podcasting. John specializes in helping organizations adopt agile and lean development principles to improve quality and efficiency. John wrote his first program at age twelve and has been addicted to computers, technology and gadgets ever since. When John doesn’t have his nose buried in his computer you can find him podcasting, speaking at user group meetings, attending conferences or talking to anyone that will stand still long enough to listen to him wax on about these topics. When he has free time John loves relaxing with his family.
John Sextro has hosted 80 Episodes.
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Episode 40: Tice is the Reason I Drink (TDD, Pairing and Mobbing )
March 16th, 2014 | 1 hr 6 mins
TDD, Pairing and Mobbing
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Episode 38: Don’t be a Douchebag
March 2nd, 2014 | 1 hr 6 mins
10 Commandments of Egoless Programming
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Episode 33: Wanted Posters (Retrospectives)
January 26th, 2014 | 58 mins 52 secs
Getting Value Out of Agile Retrospectives
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Episode 32: Location, Location, Location
January 19th, 2014 | 1 hr 1 min
Location, Location, Location
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Episode 31: Physical versus Digital Work Boards
January 12th, 2014 | 54 mins 21 secs
Pros and Cons of Physical and Digital Work Boards Digital Pros Easily shared and viewed by many Automatic metric capture Cycle Time Cumulative Flow Velocity Trend Analysis Etc.
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Episode 30: People Work Here (2014 Predictions)
January 5th, 2014 | 1 hr 10 mins
2014 Predictions regarding the Human Side of Agile By Gil Broza, The Human Side of Agile People will still refer to other people as “resources”
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Holiday 2013
December 29th, 2013 | 29 secs
Happy Holidays from This Agile Life. The next episode will be released on Sunday, January 5, 2014.
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Episode 29: Yesterday Me was an Idiot (Pair Switching)
December 22nd, 2013 | 52 mins 23 secs
Recorded Wednesday, December 18, 2013 Hosts: John Sextro, Amos King, and Craig Buchek Pair Switching Pairing, in general How to pair switch Using a “Pair-a-mid” to track pairings How to rotate pairs Length of pair sessions 1 week, 2 day, 1 day,
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Episode 28: The Incentive is the Freedom (Too Big)
December 15th, 2013 | 57 mins 57 secs
What is Too Big for a Team How do you know if your team is too big? Size alone isn’t enough. Can a team be too big? Indicators Stand up takes too long Losing track of...
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Episode 27: That’s Some Nasty Kool-Aid (Product Owners)
December 8th, 2013 | 1 hr 1 min
Product Owners What they should and should not be doing on the team Hierarchy of needs from a product owner Product Vision Release Planning
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Episode 26: Isn’t That Where They Put Richard Simmons
December 1st, 2013 | 1 hr 3 mins
Walking Skeleton, Minimal Marketable Feature and Thin Vertical Slice Minimal Marketable Feature, definitive article Walking Skeleton
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Episode 25: 4 Estimates and a Gantt Chart Ago
November 24th, 2013 | 1 hr 3 mins
Planning, How much is too much. Jason planning to create his blog, http://TheAgileFactor.com Amos’ blog using Jeckly and Github, http://DirtyInformation.