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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
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
Join the discourse via Coalition.agileuprising.com
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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!
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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Join the discourse by sharing your experiments around putting an end to organizational multitasking so we can enjoy a beer with full focus via Coalition.agileuprising.com
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In this @agileuprising episode, guest @Nazee_Hajebi discusses her talk at Agile2019’s Women in Agile @womeninagileorg: “Nevertheless, She Finally Thinks She Persisted”
Cohosts Andy Cleff @justsitthere and Chris Murman @chrismurman ramble on, as usual, exploring two main threads with a very patient Nazee:
- Hajebi’s experience leading up to, during, and after her Women in Agile 2019 talk
- How unrealized/unprocessed trauma plays out in the workplace
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Contact Information
Websites
- https://www.agilealliance.org/resources/initiatives/women-in-agile-initiative/
- https://www.agilealliance.org/events/women-in-agile-2019/
- https://womeninagile.org/voices/
- Spaceteam: iPhone / Android
- The Moth https://themoth.org/
- The Power of a Good Story
Books
Videos
- https://www.agilealliance.org/resources/videos/nevertheless-she-finally-thinks-she-persisted/
- Brene Brown’s Ted Talk https://buff.ly/2wipIcr
- Brene Brown’s YouTube Channel https://buff.ly/11CoIDS
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In this week's episode James and Colleen sit down with David Bernstein while at Mile High Agile 2019 to discuss the importance and impact of software craftsmanship on business agility. Enjoy!
Do you ever have trouble with user stories? Not enough detail? Hard to write? What about non-functional requirements? Join Jay as he sits down with the father of use cases, Ivar Jacobson, to discuss his newest project: Use Cases 2.0. Ivar proposes that use cases are actually highly relevant in the agile world...listen with Jay as they explore this topic as well as touch on Essence and the methods prison!
James Gifford @scrummando chats with Tomo Watanabe @TomoWatanabe6 while at MHA2019 @agiledenver
Their conversation covers how to know if you're being a good scrum master.
Topics include:
- Continuous learning
- How a scrum master can be of service to the teams, product owners, and the organization
- What servant leadership looks like
- Active listening
- Facilitation
Contact Info
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomowatanabecsmpmp/
https://twitter.com/TomoWatanabe6
Episode Permalink
http://agileuprising.libsyn.com/mha2019-you-might-be-a-good-scrum-master-if
Agile practitioners always talk about using "agile outside of IT"...well in this episode, James Gifford sits down with Colorado teacher Bret Thayer (and some of his students!) to talk with how he uses agile in his high school classroom! Enjoy!
In this episode of the Agile Uprising podcast, Troy Lightfoot sits down with scientist Bart Kay to discuss the concept of empiricism. They go in the fundamentals of the empirical method and discuss how Scrum is meant to be an empirical process but is often lacking. They also talk about why and how to introduce more empirical process in your life, Agile transformation, and Organization as a whole.
Links:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30529885
Join Dan Montgomery and James Gifford @scrummando as they discuss: Start Less, Finish More: Building Strategic Agility with Objectives and Key Results
Topics include:
- Agile strategy - not an oxymoron
- Balanced scorecards
- Bringing Agile into OKRs
- Making work visible
- Business Outcomes
- Thinking in terms of results
- Slippage Organizations
- Goal setting, iterating and adapting
- Kanban and WIP
- Taking the time for everybody - leadership included - to understand agile
- Theory of Constraints - The Goal
Recorded at MHA2018
Contact/Book Info
Permalink
http://agileuprising.libsyn.com/mha2019-start-less-finish-more-with-dan-montgomery
- Organizational Silence
- Famous rejection letters... like "First, we must ask, Mr. Melville, does it have to be a whale?"
Web Links
- Join the conversation on Coalition.AgileUprising.com
In our next episode recorded at Mile Hile Agile 2019, James Gifford sits down with author Trent Hone to discuss complexity and organizational learning. Enjoy!
Trent's Book: Learning War: The Evolution of Fighting Doctrine in the US Navy, 1898-1945
Permalink
http://agileuprising.libsyn.com/mha-2019-complexity-organizational-learning-with-trent-hone
In this episode (recorded on location at MHA 2019), James Gifford @scrummando chats with Lynn Winterboer @agileLynn and Christen McLemore @mschrismac about coaching the coaches.
Topics include
- Avoiding the liverwurst on banana bread feedback sandwich
- Modeling the behavior you’re looking to catalyze - like saying aloud “There’s something that I’m not really good at that I want to get better at.”
Contact Info:
- https://twitter.com/scrummando
- https://twitter.com/agilelynn
- https://winterboeragileanalytics.com/
- https://twitter.com/mschrismac
- https://heymacconsulting.com/thepassiontest/
- https://www.milehighagile.org/
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