All In With Three Amigos

Are you running Three Amigos conversations for each work item/user story your team does? If not, start now. Seriously. Jim Holmes shares his advice on using the Three Amigos approach. http://developer.telerik.com/featured/all-in-with-the-three-amigos/ 00:01 Ed Charbeneau: This podcast is part of the Telerik Developer Network. Telerik, by Progress. [music] 00:08 EC: Hi. This is Ed Charbeneau with Eat Sleep Code and I just wanted to let you guys know that we are trying to make the show better. So we've set up a survey at developer.telerik.com/survey and we're collecting feedback from listeners to see what we can do to make the show better for you. So please stop by developer.telerik.com/survey and fill it out. We'd appreciate it. We've also got 10 licenses to Telerik products and T-shirts that we'll be giving away to 10 lucky winners. Thanks for your help. [music] 00:53 EC: Hello and welcome to Eat Sleep Code, the official Telerik podcast. I'm your host Ed Charbeneau and with me today is Jim Holmes. How you doing, Jim? 01:01 Jim Holmes: I'm doing very well. 01:04 EC: And today, we're gonna be talking about going "All In With The Three Amigos." We'll explain that in a moment. Let's start with a little bit about you, Jim. Tell us a little bit about yourself. 01:19 JH: So let's see. I will avoid going back to the dawn of time when I was born. I've been around various corners of software delivery coming up on 30 years now, so I'm an old fart. But I've done a lot of different roles, PM, developer, have been customer relations, I've done support. My focus really for kind of the last 10 or 15 years has been diving deeper and deeper into getting good quality out of software delivery teams, and have really been focusing a lot on kind of a human communication and how we get all of the hardest stuff, which is not the technology, but communication, collaboration, clarity, and what we're really trying to build and how to do it well. 02:15 JH: I'm currently an executive consultant with Pillar Technologies. That's a midwest consulting firm, although we've got offices around other places. I've got a side company, Guidepost Systems, that lets me also do different types of engagements. Used to work for Telerik. Was there about three and a half years working with the awesome folks on Test Studio. I was both the evangelist for all of that time and then for about a year, a year and a half, I also was director of engineering for that, and got to work with the teams in Austin and Sophia. So, Telerik is near and dear to my heart even after the merger with Progress, I still fondly think of... Gosh, I guess it's been about a 10-year association with Telerik. So, that's it for me. 03:11 EC: Well, thanks for sharing that with us, Jim. We appreciate the Telerik love, definitely appreciate your input on the Test Studio Project over the years. It's quite the useful tool that... I don't get enough chance myself to get involved and talk about. Really wish we still had one of the Test Studio evangelist spots in our team of evangelist folks. 03:44 JH: Right, right. It's a wonderful tool and I was lucky. They made the evangelist spot for me. When I started talking with Telerik years ago about coming on board, it was because I'd seen Test Studio. And it's not the perfect tool for everybody, but the thing was, it solved so many problems that I was struggling with on a regular basis. I fell in love with it and was doing the right sorts of things. You can have tools that kinda lead you off down a very bad path, and a few months after you've dived into this tool, it turns out that all of a sudden you're in the midst of a whole bunch of pain because it wasn't doing maintainable solutions, and... Find the full transcript on Telerik Developer Network http://developer.telerik.com/featured/all-in-with-the-three-amigos/