In this week's episode join Chris Murman, Jason Cusak, Andrew Leff, and Jay Hrcsko as they discuss the trials and tribulations of going through an enterprise agile transformation, through the lens of both a contractor brought in to help with the change, and as a full-time employee who is on the receiving end of said change. They discuss the differences of the experience from both sides, the group swaps tips on how to work better with "the other side", and they even discuss the concept of "skin in the game," and how that plays into opinions and attitudes during a transformation. Enjoy!
Join hosts Colleen Johnson and Paul Elia and guests David J. Anderson and Teodora Bozheva as they discuss the Kanban Maturity Model (KMM) and Evolving Fit-for-Purpose Organizations.
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Recorded during Agile2018 in warm (but not as warm as the Netherlands!) San Diego, our own James Gifford sits down with Jurgen Appelo to see what he's been up to. This conversation covers all of Jurgen's current projects, including Management 3.0, Agility Scales, and even hints at an upcoming book!
Recorded during the Agile2018 conference in San Diego, James Gifford sat down with Billie Schuttpelz, Charles Neighbors, and Valera Kushnir to talk about agile team maturity. The discussion then runs the gamut, covering topics like toxic team members, scrum master candidates, how to address team dysfunctions, and they poke around the question of "Should a scrum master be able to write code?" Enjoy!
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Ryan Lockard, Paul Elia, and Brad Stokes discuss the challenges of working in the world of transformation and how things differ between being an employee versus a consultant.
- Ryan: RyanLockard.com / @_Lockard
- Paul: PaulElia.com / @Paul_V_Elia
- Brad: LinkedIn.com/in/BradleyMStokes / @BradStokes
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This week's episode features special guest William Strydom and host Troy Lightfoot on the topic of "Integral Theory." William and Troy discuss how leadership and teams can make better decisions by applying "A Theory of Everything." They discuss past experience with this theory in personal life as well as individual, team and and organizational levels in Agile Transformations. As a bonus they discuss how to use this theory for everyones favorite topic, METRICS!
Links mentioned in the episode
- A Theory of Everything
- Spiral Dynamics Integral
- Mastering Leadership (Leadership Circle)
- Integral Retro Idea
- Team Mood Tracker
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Join host Andy Cleff as he chats with Nate Wixom and Torrey Powell who have been leading mob programming at Clearlink.com since January 2017.
Their experience, the good, the bad, and the ugly is the focus of our show.
You can reach Nate at nate.wixom@clearlink.com and Torrey at torrey.powell@clearlink.com.
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Websites/Books
- TDD and Mob Programming for Non Programmers (1:40)
- Nobody gets credit for fixing problems that never happened.
- Mob Programming Book - A Whole Team Approach
- Mob Programming Web Site
- A Day in the Life of a Mob: Time lapse video
Podcasts
- Stopping the Enterprise Death Spiral (Mob Programming Pt. 2)
- Mob Programming with Woody Zuill
- Work Together Anywhere with Lisette Sutherland
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Join Troy Lightfoot, Andrew Leff, and Chris Murman as they ruminate on why we have so many meetings...and why they overwhelmingly add little to no value to our lives. They discuss why meetings go off the rails, tips to keep your meeting moving in the right direction, and how to avoid those headshaking disasters most of us encounter in corporate life...Seemingly every day!
Interestingly enough, the facilitator plays such a crucial role in these meetings. We discussed how we can see the facilitator can be part of the solution!
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Join host Andy Cleff as he chats with Professor Dave Snowden. Topics include the development of narrative as a research method, the role of complexity in sensemaking, physics, philosophy, the coffee/alcohol cycle, cognitive biases and if agile/Agile has gone astray.
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Contact Information
- http://cognitive-edge.com/contact/
Website
Books/Articles
- http://cognitive-edge.com/resources/influential-books/
- The Power of a Good Story: https://www.frontrowagile.com/blog/posts/48-the-power-of-a-good-story
- Agile at Scale: https://hbr.org/2018/05/agile-at-scale
Videos
- Agile By Example 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVx_jIBqu
- Wolves in Yellowstone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysa5OBhXz-Q
Events
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In this week's episode host Jay Hrcsko sits down with Karen Martin to discuss her book Value Stream Mapping. They cover topics like executive engagement, how concentrating on a small part of a process will yield large results and the importance of having a great facilitator!
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In this weeks episode Jay Hrsko and Troy Lightfoot discuss case studies on what makes a great scrum master. Note: Troy's microphone quality was a bit poor due to hotel internet.
Resources mentioned:
- Coaching Agile Teams
- Scrum Mastery
- Moving Motivators
- Agile Coaching Institute
- Getting Rid of Powerpoint Course
Join our hosts Brad Stokes, Troy Lightfoot, Andrew Leff, and Jay Hrcsko as they continue the conversation around the scaled agile framework; they come at the topic as if you the listener are new to the concept and they cover multiple topics, as well as discuss the pros/cons to SAFe and scaling frameworks overall.
Come and join the discussion on the coalition and share of your experiences with SAFe.
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Join host Troy Lightfoot and special guest Kevin Callahan as they discussed Product Ownership beyond just process and into real life decision making. Kevin and Troy discuss making decisions depending on Business context, Prioritization techniques, LeanUX and LeanStartup applied to enterprise, Lean Flow, and Quality.
Kevins website: www.interactionagility.com
Black Swan Farming: www.blackswanfarming.com
Books Mentioned:
- Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
- The Alchemy of Growth: Practical Insights for Building the Enduring Enterprise
- The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development
- Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability: An Introduction
- Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
- Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design
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Arlen Bankston and Brad Stokes chat about how HR can support a journey into an Agile environment, supporting the team, metrics and using HR as a stepping stone to transform an entire organisation. It is Agile and PeopleOps with Arlen Bankson.
Arlen is one of LitheSpeed’s two founders and owners and has been actively involved in the application and evolution of Agile software development processes such as Scrum, Kanban and Extreme Programming for over a decade and a half. He is also a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and was an early adopter in the application of broader lean principles to agile methods to deepen theoretical understanding and drive organizational change.
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Arlen's Book: HR and the Agile Organization
Links
- https://lithespeed.com/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/arlenbankston/
- https://www.youtube.com/user/LitheSpeed
- https://www.facebook.com/LitheSpeed/
This week's episode features special guest William Strydom and host Troy Lightfoot on the topic of "Transformative Cultural Change." William and Troy discuss why "transformations" in general are so difficult and how Agile transformations are not unique to cultural change. They apply the lessons learned in Apartheid South Africa to change at the individual, team and and organizational levels in Agile Transformations. They also dive into why coaches who are expected to "install or roll out" agile will have limited success if the underlying human psychology is ignored.
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Stop lying about when the teams will deliver. Instead make your roadmaps a communication device, not a commitment, or a list of promises to be broken. Links
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- RebelCon
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Matt Barcomb
Melissa Perri
For our 100th episode, Jay Hrcsko hosts James Gifford, Chris Murman, Andrew Leff and Brad Stokes in a spirited discussion about VersionOne's 12th Annual State of Agile™ Report.
Topics include:
- Distributed agile teams
- % of teams using agile
- Reasons for adopting agile
- Agile methods
- Agile in outsourced projects
- Challenges to adoption
- Success measures
- SCALING SCALING SCALING
- Does DAD/LeSS/NEXUS/etc. have a chance
- And, of course, since Giff is on the show, poop
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Join David Allen, Brad Stokes and Andy Cleff as they discuss
Getting Things Done in an Agile World.
"Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them."
David is the New York Times best-selling author of Getting Things Done - The Art of Stress-free Productivity. Since it was first published almost fifteen years ago, Getting Things Done has become an incredibly influential business book and one of the gotos for personal organization. GTD is now shorthand for a way of approaching professional and personal tasks and is used by individuals from CEOs to developers.
David discusses the origins of GTD, the journey upon the way, mistakes made and lessons learned. He touches on a range of research such as distributed cognition, the influence of the martial arts and experience of establishing one of the first truly holocratic companies.
Come and join the discussion on the coalition and share of your experiences with GTD.
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Guest contact information
- https://gettingthingsdone.com/
- https://twitter.com/gtdguy
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/david-allen-company/
Book - Getting Things Done - The art of stress-free productivity
Upcoming Book - Getting Things Done for Teens
Join Andy Flemming and Andy Cleff as they discuss An Everyone Culture: Deliberately Developmental Organizations.
DDO’s create an unusual kind of environment, one that tolerates — even prefers — making one's failures, risks, and weaknesses public so that colleagues can support each other in the process of overcoming them.
There's a wonderful congruence with Modern Agile principles:
- Make People Awesome
- Make Safety a Prerequisite
- Experiment & Learn Rapidly
- Deliver Value Continuously
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Guest contact information
- https://www.facebook.com/waytogrowinc/
- https://twitter.com/WaytoGrowINC
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/way-to-grow-inc/
Websites mentioned during the show
Book - An Everyone Culture
Members of the Agile Uprising present for this episode have held a number of certifications. Join us as we discuss each certification, why we think it exists, what it means if one has it, and whether renewing makes sense and if so in what situations.
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This week's episode features special guest William Strydom and host Troy Lightfoot on the topic of "Getting Teams Unstuck with Structured Dynamics for Dialogue." William and Troy discuss the David Kantor "4 Player Model" and how to help teams to high performance by focusing on "how" we communicate. This episode is all about Individuals and Interactions!
Links mentioned in the episode
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In this episode, Lisette Sutherland @lightling and Andy Cleff @justsitthere discuss how to work together anywhere. The biggest takeaway: there isn’t a one-solution-fits-all for remote working, no single formula to follow. Each person, each company, will need to experiment with tools and processes to find what makes him, her, or them most productive. Listen in and learn about the tools available and various processes that can work for different kinds of remote teams.
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Contact Information
- Twitter https://twitter.com/lightling
- LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/collaboration-superpowers/
Websites
- Podcast: https://www.collaborationsuperpowers.com/podcasts/
- Workshops: https://www.collaborationsuperpowers.com/anywhereworkshop/
- About Lisette: http://www.lisettesutherland.com/
Book
- Work Together Anywhere - A Handbook on How to Work Remotely—Successfully—for Individuals, Teams, and Managers: https://www.collaborationsuperpowers.com/book/
Videos/Slides
- TEDx: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=7GtVD-nnVqU
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/lighthousepromo
- SlideShare: https://www.slideshare.net/lightling
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The theme of this episode is "How life’s scary moments become great learning experiences."
Bucking the trend of the vast trove of conferences held across the world on a near weekly basis that focus on successes, Andy Cleff, Colleen Johnson, Ryan Lockard explore with our guest Tracey Welson Rossman what HASN’T worked: defeats, floundering initiatives, outright failures.
Reflecting on these experiences as “understanding failure as a part of learning” we can inspire each other to keep going when we feel like throwing in the towel.
Show Links
- Women in Tech Summit Chicago
- Tech Girlz
- Charriott Solutions
- Dev Ops Days Atlanta
- Agile Day Atlanta
- Palo Alto Ignite
- Agile Dev West
Contact Info
Tracey Welson-Rossman
- Email: Twr@chariotsolutions.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/traceywelsonrossman/
Join Andrew Leff, Troy Lightfoot and Andy Cleff as they make a pilgrimage to The Lodge at Snowbird, UT.
There they discover some amazing artifacts that date back to circa 2001.
This episode is graciously sponsored by Wellington Dowd. His framework, the Foundation Utilizing Core Knowledge To Actualize Realistic Delivery, is a multi-level phase-gated process to roll out "the agile" to your organization WITHOUT ACTUALLY CHANGING ANYTHING!
On Friday, March 23, 2018, the agile community experienced a tremendous loss.
Mike Beedle, Agile Manifesto signer and creator of Enterprise Scrum passed away, leaving behind a wife and 3 young children.
If you would like to make a donation to help support Mike's family, please go to:
We at the Agile Uprising are saddened by this loss. Mike's passing will leave a void that cannot be underestimated.
We honor Mike Beedle with this rebroadcast from our Agile Manifesto author review.
Mike shared his story as one of the very first adopters of the Scrum framework and his early involvement with Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland.
Mike, if you're listening from the Great Stand Up, thank you for all you've done.