Thomas M. Cagley Jr
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SPaMCAST explores the varied world of software process improvement and measurement. The cast covers topics that deal with the challenges found in information technology organizations as they grow and evolve.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
A practitioner-minded examination of software delivery, organizational change, accessibility, and AI governance, guided by direct questions and attention to real operating constraints.
Tom Cagley treats software work as a problem of judgment: what enters the queue, how change is managed, and which methods suit the situation. Software Process and Measurement Cast moves between interviews, panel discussions, and Cagley's own reflections, with questions that…
A quarterly backlog purge might be exactly the management advice your to-do list fears.
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A grounded case for context-driven retrospectives, where psychological safety comes before routine attendance.
Product owners in retrospectives can get flattened into a yes-or-no attendance issue: invite them, keep them out, and call the matter settled.
A grounded case for software measurement that supports learning, delivery, and better decisions.
Software measurement anchors this December 2021 conversation around a plain but persistent question: what should teams measure, and what role might that work play by 2028 or 2030?
A patient, practical look at Agile habits, framework limits, and learning through feedback.
Software Process and Measurement Cast 837 revisits an August 2019 two-part conversation with Al Shalloway, first heard across Spamcast 559 and 560.
A sharp August 2019 Agile discussion about frameworks, feedback, and why teams should not have to reinvent the wheel.
Software process debates can harden into fights over labels, and this return to an August 2019 conversation with Al Shalloway asks a more useful question: what should an Agile framework help a team do?
A Halloween-flavored look at work intake, team change, and the value of fresh eyes.
Poor work intake gets a Halloween frame as Software Process and Measurement Cast turns familiar team problems into spooks and shades that can be named, challenged, and cleared away.
A grounded process discussion about finite attention and the cost of calling people resources.
Software Process and Measurement Cast 852 takes the process word "scaling" and pulls it back toward attention. Tom Cagley starts from Seth Godin's point that attention does not scale, then treats focused attention as something finite, and not the same thing as allocation.
A practical look at when resistance is really indifference, and why messaging alone misses the problem.
Change resistance gets the headline, but the episode is really about the quieter failure mode underneath it: apathy and indifference, the kind of organizational drift that can look like disagreement until it is named more precisely.
A blunt warning against letting the result excuse the damage done getting there.
The episode presses on a familiar problem: good outcomes do not erase the harm of bad methods. It argues that an ends-justify-the-means mindset can damage individuals, organizations, and stakeholders, and it stays closest to the concrete work of manipulation, persuasion,…
Long-form interviews on AI coding agents, infrastructure, and security, plus a recurring SED News roundup.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
Stack Overflow's Ryan Donovan interviews founders and engineers on AI agents, protocols, and dev tools.
Michael Kennedy interviews Python maintainers on packaging, security, web tools, and AI.
Michael Kennedy and Brian Okken run down the week's Python tooling, typing, and packaging news.
Matt Stratton interviews DevOps practitioners on security, platform engineering, and trusting AI-written code.
Outcomes are not enough.
Tom Cagley discusses the common pitfall of treating symptoms instead of root causes in work intake processes, emphasizing strategies like the five whys.
Host Tom Cagley interviews David Minarsch, an expert in multi-agent systems and CEO of Valerie, discussing the evolution of AI, autonomous agents, and the concept of co-owned AI.
Host Tom interviews Pete Oliver Kruger and Michael Doherty about their business novel 'Shift from Product to People,' which advocates for a people-centric approach to Agile transformation.
Tom Kegley and Jeremy Willits reflect on the first year of their book 'Mastering Work Intake,' discussing its impact, common workplace myths like multitasking, and plans for 2025 including a focus on delivery and practical workshops.
A panel of experts discusses the ongoing relevance of the Agile Manifesto after 25 years, debating which values have endured or been ignored, such as the tension between tools like JIRA and human interactions.
Tom Kegley interviews Barzan Mosafari, CEO of Kibo AI, about the industrialization of AI, focusing on cost management, adoption barriers, and practical strategies for businesses.
In this year-end panel discussion, host Tom Kegley and guests Jeremy Willits, Jeremy Berrio, Susan Parente, and John Quigley explore balancing process improvement with delivery, challenging outdated rules, and the role of AI in software development.
Host Tom Cagley explores Seth Godin's idea that 'busy is a morally superior distraction,' arguing efficiency is a tool for productivity, not an end goal.
Open source becomes the career argument.
Change resistance may be the wrong label.
Tom Cagley interviews Paul Gibbons about his book 'Impact', exploring topics like humanizing organizational change, debunking change management myths, the role of AI in the future of work, and strategies for debiasing decision-making.
This episode explores the limitations of human attention and critiques the dehumanizing practice of treating people as resources.
Tom Cagley interviews Mike Paciello, Chief Accessibility Officer at AudioEye, about why digital accessibility is an ethical imperative beyond legal compliance.
Host Tom Cagley and guest Susan Parente explore the interconnected concepts of accountability, responsibility, performance, and freedom in software development.
Spamcast 853 starts with level setting.
Software Process and Measurement Cast #839 revisits Jody Kane's June 2020 conversation with Tom Kegley about product owners in retrospectives.
Software Process and Measurement Cast 838 revisits a December 2021 conversation with Mauricio Aguiar and Christine Green about the state and future of software measurement.
SPaMCAST 837 reunites Tom Cagley’s August 2019 interview with Al Shalloway, originally split across SPaMCAST 559 and 560, and centers on the Agile Industrial Complex.
SPaMCAST 837 reunites Tom Cagley with Al Shalloway in a consolidated August 2019 interview that originally ran across SPaMCAST 559 and 560.
Tom Cagley turns work intake problems into Halloween figures like "Zombie Teams," "Haunted Backlogs," and "The Grim Reaper of Deadlines" in Software Process and Measurement Cast 836.