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b'SPaMCAST 559 part one of our interview with Al Shalloway. I am breaking two guidelines this week.\\xa0 First, rarely do I bring guests back so quickly. And secondly, I have not broken an interview into two parts for 7 years (ish).\\xa0The conversation with Al was full of huge ideas, s, concepts, and calls to action cutting any of the content did not make sense. Al and I talked about about the troubles dogging classic agile, the Agile Industrial Complex, using a scientific approach to change, and FLEX.\\xa0 Edited, the interview was 49 minutes (with about 20 minutes of chit chat ended up on the cutting room floor - figuratively). I have broken the interview into two parts of approximately 27 and 22 minutes.\\xa0 Today we have part one and next week we will complete the interview.\\xa0\\xa0 Mr. Shalloway\\u2019s bio: Al Shalloway is the creator of FLEX (FLow for Enterprise Transformation), a framework that is a platform for any practices consistent with Flow, Lean, and Agile, including technical practices. Al has made explicit his thought leadership in Scrum, XP, SAFe, Lean, Flow, design patterns and test-first methods into creating FLEX. FLEX takes a scientific approach regarding what methods work best. While it integrates with its own baseline of practices to offer a complete solution to organizations, its architecture enables it to be both tailored as needed to an organization as well as having other consultants integrate their own practices in it. The intention is to create a community of consultants that can offer the services needed by practitioners in a cohesive manner while avoiding a one-size-fits-all approach. Al is the co-author of 5 books as well as the author of the upcoming book on FLEX. Website: \\xa0 Email: \\xa0 LinkedIn:\\xa0 Re-Read Saturday News Chapter 16, Causes Trump Statistics, was revelatory for me the first time I read\\xa0 , and it was revelatory during this read. Over my career, I have been shocked many times to see a perfectly sane leader stand up and show a single statistic or estimate which promises delivery of a product at a cost or in a timeframe that is well outside of normal performance.\\xa0 This chapter provides a rationale for what often seems to be less than rational. Remember, if you do not have a favorite, dog-eared copy of , please buy a copy.\\xa0 Using the links in this blog entry helps support the blog and its alter-ego, The Software Process and Measurement Cast. ,\\xa0 It\\u2019s time to get reading!\\xa0\\xa0 \\xa0The installments: Week 1: \\u2013 Week 2: \\u2013 Week 3: \\u2013 Week 4: \\u2013 Week 5: \\u2013 Week 6: \\u2013 Week 7: \\u2013 Week 8: - \\xa0 Week 9: - \\xa0 Week 10:\\xa0 - \\xa0 Week 11: - \\xa0 Week 12: - \\xa0 Week 13: - \\xa0 Week 14: - \\xa0 Week 15: - \\xa0 Week 16: - Next SPaMCAST SPaMCAST 560 will feature part two of our interview with Alan Shalloway including more on the Agile Industrial Complex and how we can reinvigorate learning and challenging ideas.\\xa0 Let not let inspect and adapt perish!'