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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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What is domain-driven design? Isn't that an architecture thing? WTF is "ubiquitous nomenclature"? Join James Gifford and Jay Hrcsko as they compare experiences with utilizing domain-driven design in agile transformations, and how they used the central tenets and practices to drive success with their transformations. Enjoy!
Guests Lena Ross and Jen Frahm chat with Andy Cleff about empathy and resilience in leadership.
Topics include:
- Getting executives fully onboard with business agility and agile transformation.
- Helping leaders gain a better understanding of the things in front of the change community.
- Focusing on empathy, resilience, and renewal as core strengths necessary for the journey
- Dealing with congruence, balancing the needs and capabilities of self, others, and context.
- Growth mindsets and a commitment to life-long learning
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Links
Contact Information
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferfrahm/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/lenaross/
- https://twitter.com/LenaEmelyRoss
- https://twitter.com/jenfrahm
Websites
- https://agilechangeinstitute.com.au/
- https://drjenfrahm.com/
- https://www.lenaross.com.au/
- https://agilechangeinstitute.com.au/agile-change-leadership-certificate/
- https://workingoutloud.com/
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/agile-change-leadership-institute/
Books
- Hacking for Agile Change, Lena Ross
- Conversations of Change, Dr. Jen Frahm
Related stuff
- https://drjenfrahm.com/rethinking-change-resilience/
- https://hackernoon.com/the-patient-change-agent-fd8548f04777
- http://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-to-intervene-in-a-system/
- http://agileuprising.libsyn.com/resilience-courage-vulnerability-and-alliances
- https://drjenfrahm.com/8-reasons-why-leaders-dont-lead-change/
- https://drjenfrahm.com/why-leaders-dont-lead-change-part-2/
- https://conversationsofchange.com.au/we-need-to-talk-about-agile-ocm/
- https://conversationsofchange.com.au/translating-agile-for-communicators/
- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-20/richmond-tigers-embrace-vulnerability-bren%C3%A9-brown-dylan-grimes/11527620
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In this episode of the Agile Uprising podcast, Troy Lightfoot and Jay Hrsko Agile principles as a way to measure progress at all levels of an organization.
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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Join Brad Stokes and Christopher Avery as they discuss The Responsibility Process®.
When Christopher Avery was a management consultant, this was his driving question: Why are so many smart people unhappy at work?
20 years ago, Christopher realized that the most useful skills he was teaching his smart, ambitious, professional clients were coping skills. They needed coping skills because they were stuck in a suffocating culture that systematically disempowered and controlled them. An insidious control cycle kept well-meaning, high-performing leaders and key contributors at all levels from doing their best, taking risks, learning, and operating with freedom, power and choice for the organizations’ best interests.
His own career trajectory changed forever when Christopher began working with an emerging behavioral science framework — The Responsibility Process®. This powerful framework is the world's first proven how-to approach for understanding, teaching, and taking personal responsibility. It helps us apply our innate leadership ability to face and overcome any challenge. Operating in freedom, power, and choice, we encourage and support those we lead to do likewise.
Links and Contact Details
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Oh, you thought we were done??!?! Join Brad Stokes this week as he sits down with Peter Merel to discuss his descaling framework XSCALE. Enjoy!
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Troy Lightfoot, Andrew Leff, Paul Elia have a spirited discussion about the Steve Denning Forbes Article "Understanding Fake Agile"
Forbes Article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2019/05/23/understanding-fake-agile/
In this week's episode we gathered up two longtime podcast listeners to discuss the Game of Frameworks series; what did they learn? What were they surprised by? What would they use going forward? Join Andrew Leff and host Jay Hrcsko as they sit down with Mike Caddell and Benjamin AuYeung to chat about the series. Enjoy!
Sociocracy. Openspace. Beyond Budgeting. Agile. All these ideas are out there in the ecosystem, but can you combine them all to realize true agilty in your organization and create an agile environment that can't help but to succeed...? In this episode Jutta Eckstein and John Buck sit down with Jay to discuss BOSSA nova, and how these concepts can all work together to enable true growth. Enjoy!
We always talk about transformation, and "being agile"...but how does one go about accomplishing this seemingly impossible feat? Join us as we sit down with Jorgen Hesselberg, the author of the book Unlocking Agility, to discuss the critical dimensions of agility, how to tie your strategy to metrics, and much more!
Listen in as Johanna Rothman @johannarothman and Mark Kilby @mkilby discuss their new book "From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams" with @AgileUprising hosts Collen Johnson @scrumhive and Andy Cleff @justsitthere.
Distributed work is not the same as collocated work. But agile principles can be adapted and applied to distributed teams.
Contact Information
- Johanna Rothman
- Mark Kilby
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- AgileOrlando.com / Lean Coffee Orlando / AgileFlorida.com / AgileOpenFlorida.com
- Agile Alliance Community Group Support Initiative / VirtualTeamTalk.com / remotelyagile.info
- https://twitter.com/mkilby
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/mkilby/
- mark@markkilby.com
Books
- Topic of this ‘cast: https://leanpub.com/geographicallydistributedagileteams/
- Other books: https://www.jrothman.com/books/
- Influential Agile Leader: https://www.influentialagileleader.com/
Events
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In the final episode of Game of Frameworks Jay sits down with Mark Lines, co-creator of Disciplined Agile, to discuss the framework. Mark discusses how they're an agile framework but not necessarily a scaling framework, how they're pivoting to help organizations define their way of working, and how there's an "agile maturity model" built in! Enjoy!