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b'Please distribute the PDF version!\\xa0\\n\\nFor Immediate Release January 23, 2012\\nAvon Lake, OH \\u2013 The Software Process and Measurement Podcast (SPaMCAST) is celebrating its 170th episode after five years of interviewing many of the leaders in the software development world. The anniversary edition of SPaMCAST features an interview with Hillel Glazer, speaker, process guru and author of High Performance Operations.\\nSPaMCAST feature interviews have included:\\n\\xb7\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Chris Hefley, Chief Executive Officer, Leankit Kanban, Bandit Software, LLC\\n\\xb7\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Dean Leffingwell author of Scaling Software Agility and others\\n\\xb7\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Peter Taylor\\xa0 author of many books including The Lazy Project Manager\\n\\xb7\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Elizabeth Harrin author, award winning blog, The Girl\\u2019s Guide to Project Management\\n\\xb7\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Tim Lister, co-author of \\xa0Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies \\n\\xb7\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 David Anderson the author of \\xa0Agile Management for Software Engineering\\n\\xb7\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Kent Beck, pioneer in Agile Methods\\n\\xb7\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Scott Ambler, though leader in Test Driven Development\\n\\xb7\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Ivar Jacobson, developer of Use Cases\\n\\xb7\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Grady Booch, discussing Life, the Universe and Development\\nThe Cast covers topics that deal with the challenges of how work is done in information technology organizations as they grow and evolve.\\xa0 The show combines commentaries, interviews and feedback to serve up ideas, opinions, advice and facts.\\xa0 In a nutshell, the Cast has provided and will continue to provide advice for and from practitioners, methodologists, pundits and consultants. The editor, Tom Cagley, is a leading consultant in software development process improvement, the Vice President of Consulting for the David Consulting Group, Past President of the International Function Point Users Group and co-author of Mastering Software Project Management.\\nThe Software Process and Measurement Cast can be found at www.spamcast.net. It is also available on all major podcast services including iTunes and the Zune Marketplace. All previous episodes are available download.\\xa0 The Cast currently enjoys 10,000 downloads a month, up 20% in the past year It is delivered as a free public service to the information technology community and has listeners across the globe.\\n\\xa0Contact: Thomas M. Cagley Jr. Editor'