SPaMCAST 514 features our interview with John Clapham. John and I talked DevOps, people, agile, and how all those pieces fit together coherently or not. John even quoted Bill and Ted\u2019s Excellent Adventure. This is a big, fun, informative interview! John Clapham is an experienced coach, trainer, and consultant, specializing in DevOps and Agile. \xa0He helps teams to build great products, creating environments and systems which are effective, productive and enjoyable to work in. Often this means introducing Scrum, or developing a deeper understanding of the method and it's principles. \xa0John draws on broad experience as an engineer and lead, he has built web and enterprise applications in government, publishing, telecommunications, commerce, defense, and public sector arenas. Twitter: \xa0 Web: \xa0 Re-Read Saturday News This week we tackle Chapter 9 of . \xa0The Save is the final chapter in the book. \xa0Next week we will discuss our final thoughts and decide on the next book. \xa0In chapter 9 Atul Gawande talks about his experiences with the surgical checklist he helped to create.\xa0 The last chapter is a combination of emotion and evidence. Remember to buy a copy of and READ along! Current Installment: Week 10 - - Previous Installments: Week 9 - - - - - - - - - \xa0 Conferences and More! Agile Online Summit 2018 Virtual October 8 \u2013 12 Speaking on Agile Metrics! ISMA 16 Sao Paulo, Brazil October 16 Register Now;\xa0 Presentation: Product Owners In Agile \u2013 The Really Hard Role ITMPI Webinar Virtual October 31 Register Now:\xa0 Webinar: \xa0Agile, Where Agile Fears to Tread \xa0 Next SPaMCAST SPaMCAST 515 will feature an essay on transformation and agile metrics. Whether you like the word transformation or not, many in the process improvement and agile communities help to facilitate change. Involvement in any non-trivial change effort requires resources, people, support and the expenditure of political capital. We will also hear from Kim Pries and Gene Hughson.