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Time and time again, we hear managers and executives say "Coaches are expensive." In this episode Coalition members Rudiger Wolf and Joel Stone join Andrew Leff and Jay Hrcsko to talk about how to demonstrate the value of a coach, as well as ways to circumvent the entire discussion. Enjoy!
Well, we started out intending to talk about effective remote coaching, but we took a turn and discussed how to be effective as a colleague with this "new normal" in the post-COVID world. We got a bit loose but this is one of our most "real" episodes. Coalition members Jon Schneider and Mike Caddell joined Colleen Johnson, Chris Murman, James Gifford, and Jay Hrcsko for a conversation that includes screaming kids, profanity, and honest feelings about how to try and be productive when life gets in the way. Enjoy!
Earlier this week we convened a panel of dislocated/distributed/remote work experts to discuss the impacts of the Coronavirus on the world of work, and to offer up some tips, tricks, and hints for those who are new to remote work. Join Lisette Sutherland, Mark Kilby, and Johanna Rothman as they sat down with Jay Hrcsko to have a fun and insightful conversation about this new paradigm, and maybe pick up some ideas along the way!
Lisette Sutherland
Collaboration Superpowers Website
Work Together Anywhere: A Handbook on Working Remotely
Mark Kilby
From Chaos to Distributed Agile Teams: Collaborate to Deliver
Johanna Rothman
Dina Gofman, the author of Forgetting the Money, talks to Brad Stokes about Project Accounting and how applying another lense understanding your projects.
Dina has used Project Accounting for her own startups and helped others. Dina’s experience ranges across a multitude of projects and programs within a number of international organisations.
Dina has seen the pain caused when teams forget the money and how to account for the value they bring to the table.
Links:
http://projectaccounting.com.au
https://www.amazon.com.au/Forgetting-Money-Dina-Gofman/dp/0646996681
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What exactly is an agile coach? When should you hire one? Do you ever need to "refresh" your coaching contingent? And when do you cut them loose? Join our panel comprised of Coalition member Rob Legatie along with Andy Cleff, Chris Murman, James Gifford, and Jay Hrcsko as they discuss these questions and a ton more!
Be careful what you discuss with friends at a conference, or you may end up writing a book about it. That's what Ryan Ripley is learning now that the book he wrote with Todd Miller, Fixing Your Scrum: Practical Solutions to Common Sense Problems, is on shelves. After talking about some of the challenges he's seen helping Scrum teams inspect and adapt with friends, someone said, "that sounds like a book right there!"
Ripley and host Chris Murman discuss the writing process, why Scrum is just now hitting its stride, and why it's still the best solution to take a group of people and deliver effective solutions today.
The book is available on Amazon, and be sure to tell him Murman sent you.
In the latest episode of our "Should I Take This?" series, once again Troy Lightfoot and Jay Hrcsko sit down to discuss another Scaled Agile course, and this time it's Lean Portfolio Management. Check it out and let us know if you agree!
In this episode of our "Should I Take This?" series, Jay Hrcsko and Troy Lightfoot sit down to discuss the SAFe DevOps Practitioner course.
Hint: this course isn't for just for developers, and maybe the most rewarding course that you don't hear much about!
Enjoy!
In this Agile Uprising podcast, co-hosts Andy Cleff and Erik Cottrell chat with David Marquet about his latest book. The hypothesis behind “Leadership is Language” is that how we communicate at work has been programmed by Industrial Revolution thinking. However in today’s world of creative knowledge work, we no longer labor on old-fashioned assembly lines, so why should we use language that was designed for them?
Marquet provides six plays to change the way we show up, impact our organizational cultures, and ultimately transform our outcomes:
- Control the clock, don't obey the clock
- Collaborate, don't coerce
- Commit, don't comply
- Complete, don't continue
- Improve, don't prove
- Connect, don't conform
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Links
Contact Information
- https://twitter.com/ldavidmarquet
- https://www.facebook.com/ldavidmarquet
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmarquet/
Websites
Books
- Leadership is Language
- Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders
- The Turn The Ship Around! Workbook: Implement Intent-Based Leadership In Your Organization
- Start with Why
- Wisdom of Crowds
- Thinking Fast and Slow
Videos
- Turn the Ship Around by David Marquet
- Leadership Nudges by David Marquet
Articles
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What's the hardest department to transform? What's the one thing a transformation always gets wrong? We play a game of 20 questions with Colleen Johnson, Andrew Leff, Chris Murman, and Andy Cleff where we answer these an 18 more! Enjoy!
In this episode Jay Hrcsko, Andy Cleff and guest Chris Wistrom have a panel discussion reviewing their experience at Craig Larman’s three-day LeSS Masterclass. Topics include:
- The Problem with Local Optimization: How local optimization leads to suboptimization at the global level.
- Systems Thinking: Using causal loop diagrams to visualize complex relationships between variables and outcomes
- Why none one of us will come back from the LeSS class preaching “We have found the silver bullet!!!”
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Links
Contact Information
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/chriswistrom/
Websites
- More with LeSS
- Upcoming LeSS Courses
- Larman’s Laws of Organizational Behavior
- Lean and Agile fail because we teach Lean and Agile, Jim Benson
Books
- Books by Craig Larman
- Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure
- Out of the Crisis, Deming
- Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
- Beyond Budgeting
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In this week's exciting episode we sit down with Dana Pylayeva to talk about Liberating Structures...what are they? How do we use them? Can you "daisy-chain" them together for even better results? Join us and see!
Dana's Website: Agile Play Consulting
Free Liberating Structures resources:
Free App: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/liberating-structures/id1206361128?mt=8
Website: http://www.liberatingstructures.com/ls-menu
Meetup in NYC: https://www.meetup.com/NYC-Liberating-Structures/
Liberating Structures Events around the world: http://www.liberatingstructures.com/news-and-events/
Events in NYC:
NYC LS Meetup - Jan 16, 2020: https://www.meetup.com/NYC-Liberating-Structures/events/267573978/
LS Immersion Workshop - Feb 28, 2020 http://bit.ly/LSNYC_feb
Training from the Back of the Room April 2-3, 2020 : http://bit.ly/TBRNYC_april
DevOps Culture (with Lego and Chocolate game) April 4, 2020: http://bit.ly/DEVOPS_april
Books and games:
Liberating Structures by Henri Lipmanowicz
https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-DevOps-Chocolate-LEGO-Scrum/dp/1484225643
https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/devops-culture-role-cards
https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/fear-in-the-workplace
https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/safety-in-the-workplace
As we leave the "Decade of Agile", a bunch of us got together to discuss where we've been and where we've headed. Have we reached "peak agile"? What's coming around the corner? Tardigrades? Blue Blazers? Have a listen!
In this Episode Troy Lightfoot discusses the impact a great RTE can have when scaling with Sylver Calfo and Nayana Chavan. They discuss how a similar role can be useful even if an organization has not adopted SAFe as a framework as well as challenges, learnings, and advice from the field.
Change...the elephant in the room when it comes to transformation. Why do we try and standardize it? Is it merely just a training thing? Join hosts Chris Murman and Colleen Johnson as they sit down to discuss this topic with Esther Derby, author of the new book 7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change. Enjoy!
7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change
Are you trying to transform your organization but still doing "projects"? How do we get "the business" speaking the same language as IT to help our chances of success? And have we found the Agile Rosetta Stone when it comes to the above? Join Jay Hrcsko as he sits down to discuss all the above with the author of Product to Project and the creator of the Flow Framework, Dr. Mik Kersten!
Join Agile Uprising host Andy Cleff as he chats with Mark Schell about a challenge most software development teams face: the struggle to keep their codebases tidy.
Often while organizations are super focused on delivering new functionality to their users, clean up tasks such as deleting unused code are not prioritized and/or viewed as important work.
Plus it is so much more fun to take on the glamorous work of using the latest technologies to create a user interface or creating a new algorithm to perform machine learning.
Listen in and grab some strategies for changing mindsets and behaviors to leave things better than you found them.
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Links
Contact Information
Websites
- https://technical.ly/delaware/2017/05/05/software-thresher-mark-schell/
- https://github.com/markaschell/SoftwareThresher
Books
Videos/Podcasts
Links Mentioned
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGrok
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_ball_of_mud
- https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/
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"I promise..." What if we applied the idea of a promise to engineering, systems design, and how we interact with each other? Join host Jay Hrcsko and special guest-host Jonathan Magen as they sit down early in the morning to chat with the brilliant Mark Burgess, creator of Promise Theory. Make sure you've had your coffee before you listen, this just may change how you interact with everyone!
Promise Theory: Principles and Applications
Thinking In Promises: Designing Systems for Cooperation
What if you want to transform your enterprise but NOT go down the path of scaling frameworks? Is that wise? Is it even possible? Join Andrew Leff, James Gifford, and Jay Hrcsko as they unpack this topic in this week's episode!
In this @AgileUprising podcast Bob Anderson @leadershipcir, Chairman of the Board of the Leadership Circle and co-author of Mastering Leadership and Scaling Leadership, chats with Andy Cleff @justsitthere.
They explore the intersections between leadership and personal mastery, between competence and consciousness, and how organizations can achieve extraordinary performance at scale through the personal transformation of leaders - from reactive, to creative, to integral and beyond.
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Links
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-leadership-circle/
- https://twitter.com/leadershipcir
- https://leadershipcircle.com/en/home/
Books
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Join us as we sit down with Ben Moisor from Hired Thought to discuss Wardley Mapping...what it is, how to use it, hints & tricks, the whole enchilada! Enjoy!
Do we really need a transformation office? Does that help or hurt our efforts at organizational change? Jason Little, Lean Change Management, explores these questions and more with Chris Murman, Andrew Leff, and Jay Hrcsko on this week's episode!
In this weeks pseudo-philosophy episode we join Andrew, Troy, and Jay as they discuss Ken Wilber's Integral Theory as applied to agile transformations...holons, the 4 quadrants of existence, perception, and how an imbalance in one may lead to problems in the others, as well as how to use this information in your (potentially struggling) transformation. Enjoy!
The Theory of Everything Retrospective
What defines a "successful" agile transformation? Is there a difference between "big T" and "little T" transformations? And what exactly is a capon? Join host Troy Lightfoot as he tries to corral an answer to this and other questions out of Chris Murman, Andrew Leff, and Jay Hrcsko. This one's a bit of a rambler, but it should be fun for you listeners. Enjoy!
What actually happens when you hire smart people and then put them in positions where they have to use their highest order thinking skills on context switching activities? Listen to Brandi Olson and Andy Cleff to understand the true costs of organizational multi-tasking.
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Contact Information
Websites
Resources
- The research behind organizational multitasking
- The Employee Burnout Crisis - Kronos Study
- A free mini-course on how to actually “start less, finish more” at your organization.
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