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Daniel Vacanti is co-founder of ProKanban.org and a 20-year veteran of the Lean and Agile software industry who helped develop the Kanban Method in 2007 and managed its first project implementation. He also co-founded ActionableAgile in 2013, building predictive analytics tools that help teams forecast delivery and manage risk using flow metrics such as cycle time, throughput, and work in progress.

Daniel has authored several books on the subject, including Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability: Tenth Anniversary Edition and the recently released Actionable Agile Metrics Volume II He also teaches lean principles for software management at UC Berkeley and is a certified trainer across ProKanban.org's full course catalog. This is Daniel's third appearance on the show

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielvacanti/
X Account - https://x.com/danvacanti
Lean Pub - https://leanpub.com/u/daniel_vacanti
Actionable Agile Metrics Volume II - https://leanpub.com/actionableagilemetricsii

Drunk Agile - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC758reHaPAeEixmCjWIbsOA
ProKanban Community Day - https://prokanban.org/kanban-community-event

Previous episodes with Daniel Vacanti:
Episode 103 - https://azuredevopspodcast.clear-measure.com/daniel-vacanti-on-actionableagile-episode-103
Episode 199 - https://azuredevopspodcast.clear-measure.com/daniel-vacanti-measuring-agile-software-teams-episode-199

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Sam Nasr is a Senior Software Engineer and Trainer at NIS Technologies in Cleveland, Ohio, specializing in the Microsoft AI stack, Azure, and .NET development. A software developer since 1995, Sam is an 8-time Microsoft MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer who leads the Cleveland C# User Group, the .NET Study Group, and the Azure Cleveland User Group. He shares his expertise as a contributing author for Visual Studio Magazine and through his LinkedIn Learning courses, and he blogs regularly at samnasr.blogspot.com, This will be his second appearance on the podcast, having previously joined me to discuss SQL Server for developers.

Sam's Blog - https://samnasr.blogspot.com/
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/samsnasr/
Github - https://github.com/samnasr
X Account - https://x.com/samnasr
Upcoming Event - https://www.meetup.com/caparea-net/events/316713608
Linktree - linktree.com/samnasr

Previous Appearances on the Azure & DevOps Podcast:
Episode 122 - https://azuredevopspodcast.clear-measure.com/sam-nasr-on-sql-server-for-developers-episode-122

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Today I'm joined by Mark Michaelis, founder, CEO and Chief Technical Architect of IntelliTect in Spokane, Washington, and a Microsoft Regional Director and C# MVP for more than twenty-five years. Mark is the lead author of the Essential C# book series and the free companion site essentialcsharp.com, and he's continued that work as a member of Microsoft's design review teams for C#, Azure, and Azure DevOps, and as an adjunct professor at Eastern Washington University. He's been on the conference circuit recently with talks like "Mastering the Agentic Coding Workflow" and "AI Axioms: Principles for Thriving in the Age of Artificial Intelligence," bringing his deep C# background to bear on how developers work with AI day to day. You can find him on GitHub as markmichaelis and connect with him on LinkedIn. This is Mark's first time on the show, and I'm excited to get his perspective on where AI-assisted development is headed.

Intellitect Website - https://intellitect.com/team/mark-michaelis/
Essential CSharp - https://essentialcsharp.com/
Github - https://github.com/markmichaelis
EssentialCSharp Github - https://github.com/IntelliTect/EssentialCSharp
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/markmichaelis/
Email - mark@IntelliTect.com

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Today I'm joined by Justin Martin, a product-focused engineering leader based in Austin, Texas, with more than twenty years of experience driving technical innovation at startups and high-growth tech companies, from Groupon-era Rails to fraud prevention for banks. He is now commanding fleets of AI agents from a single post. He is currently the Head of Engineering at 6Lock.

Github - https://github.com/LupusDei
X Account - https://twitter.com/LupusDei18
Website - https://justinmmartin.me/
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mythinking/

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Today I'm joined by Robert C. Martin, known to most of the industry as Uncle Bob - a programmer since 1970, co-author of the Agile Manifesto, and the first chairman of the Agile Alliance. He's the founder of Uncle Bob Consulting LLC and has written many of the field's defining books, including Clean Code, Clean Architecture, Clean Agile, and his newest release, Functional Design.

Lately he's been deep into a project called swarm-forge, an open-source tool he built for coordinating teams of AI coding agents through disciplined, tmux-based workflows, and he's been documenting his experiments running it on real projects on X.

This is actually Robert's fourth time on the show - we've previously talked about Agile and Extreme Programming, about clean code, and about being a software leader - I'm looking forward to hearing how his thinking on AI and software programming has evolved.

Clean Coder Website - https://cleancoder.com
Uncle Bob Github - https://github.com/unclebob
Swarm Forge Github - https://github.com/unclebob/swarm-forge
X Account - https://x.com/unclebobmartin
Clean Coder LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/cleancoder

Previous Appearances on the Azure & DevOps Podcast:
Episode 105
Episode 283
Episode 357

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Joseph Guadagno is an experienced executive level software leader and architect over 30 years of software development experience and a Microsoft MVP since 2007, having also served as President of the .NET Foundation from 2023 to 2024. he blogs regularly about .NET, Azure, and AI-assisted development workflows. This will be Joseph's second appearance on the podcast - he previously joined me in 2021 to talk about the latest in Azure DevOps. You can find more about Joseph and his work at josephguadagno.net.

Website - https://www.josephguadagno.net/
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephguadagno/
Github - https://github.com/jguadagno
X Link - https://x.com/jguadagno

Previous Appearances on the Azure & DevOps Podcast:
Episode 159 - https://azuredevopspodcast.clear-measure.com/joe-guadagno-on-the-latest-in-azure-devops-episode-159

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Anna Hoffman is a Principal Group Product Manager for Azure Data on Microsoft's SQL Engineering team, where she works across SQL Server, Azure SQL, and SQL database in Fabric. She is also the host of Data Exposed, Microsoft's video series covering the data platform. Anna holds an engineering degree from Georgia Tech along with a master's degree in data science, and started her career as a data and applied scientist before moving into product management. She continues to blog regularly for the Azure SQL Devs' Corner. You can find her on GitHub and on X at @AnalyticAnna.

Anna's Devblogs - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sql/author/antho/
Anna's Github - https://github.com/amthomas46
X Account - https://x.com/analyticanna
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amthomas46/
What's New Across Microsoft
Microsoft SQL Server Blog Author Page
Azure SQL Devs' Corner Author Page
Data Exposed (YouTube playlist, 500 episodes)
Azure SQL YouTube channel
"The Era of the Agentic Database Developer" (Build 2026 recap)
"What's new across Microsoft SQL in 2026 so far" (mid-year recap)

MSSQL extension roadmap - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-mssql/wiki/roadmap
GitHub Copilot Agent Mode in SSMS - https://learn.microsoft.com/ssms/github-copilot/agent-mode

Previous Appearances on the Azure & DevOps Podcast:
Episode 160 - https://azuredevopspodcast.clear-measure.com/azure-sql-database-with-anna-hoffman-episode-160

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