SPaMCAST Episode 374, hosted by Tom Cagley and published in December 2015, featured gerald-weinberg in a wide-ranging conversation about quality, software development culture, and his career. The episode's subtitle—"Grandfather of Agile"—helped popularize that framing of Weinberg's historical significance, connecting his 1970s work on egoless-programming, iterative development, and human-centered practice to the agile movement that had coalesced in the early 2000s.
Weinberg had never been a formal participant in the agile movement's founding documents—he was not a signatory of the Agile Manifesto—but the "grandfather of agile" label captured something real: his psychology-of-computer-programming-1971 had anticipated many of agile's core values, and figures like kent-beck were explicit about debts to Weinberg's ideas. The podcast episode made this connection explicit and accessible to a practitioner audience.
The episode is a useful primary source for Weinberg's self-presentation in his later career, his views on quality as "value to some person," and his perspective on how the agile movement had absorbed (and sometimes distorted) ideas he had been developing since the 1960s. It also reflects the role of podcasting as a medium through which Weinberg's community maintained connection and spread his ideas during the late-career-teaching-and-self-publishing-2000-2018 era.