Join our hosts Troy Lightfoot, Paul Elia, James Gifford, and Jay Hrcsko as they discuss the 2017 update to the Scrum Guide. We've got some strong feelings being shared on this episode, this isn't one you want to miss out on!
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Join us as we celebrate the Agile Uprising’s 1-year anniversary.
Host Jay Hrcsko walks us through our past year and we talk about:
(Shots fired early from Texas…)
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Self selection, the fastest and most efficient way to form stable teams, is based on a belief that people are at their happiest and most productive if they can choose what they work on and who they work with.
Self selection is a radical idea to some: Trust people to know best and let them decide which team they should work in.
Listen to this episode and learn:
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In this talk from Agile DC 2017, a yearly conference in Washington DC, James Gifford promotes five metrics: lead time, quality, happiness, agile maturity, and business value.
Focusing on these five metric areas as a diagnostic tool helps teams grow.
Coaching teams to harness data in a positive way also creates a culture of Continuous Improvement.
Links: https://www.agiledc.org/
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Get into the flow on Modern Agile principle Deliver Value Continuously.
Special guest: John Willis, co-author of The DevOps Handbook
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In this week's episode coalition member Brad Stokes joins Ryan Lockard and Jay Hrcsko as they attempt to "demystify" SAFe for listeners who may not have used the Scaled Agile Framework. Ryan and Jay have opposing viewpoints when it comes to utilizing the "big picture", the role of official training in the effectiveness of utilizing SAFe, as well as a bevy of other topics. Whether you're pro- or anti-SAFe, this one is definitely a passionate debate!
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This week, our guest is Heidi Helfand, Director, Engineering Excellence at Procore Technologies and author of a new book Dynamic Reteaming.
Our discussion challenges the notion that we need to keep our software develop teams “the same” in order to be successful.
And instead, as agilists and coaches our goal should be helping teams to self-reflect and shift from working in silos to working as cohesive and perhaps non-persistent teams.
In short, to help them dynamically reteam, of their own volition, when there’s value and wisdom to be gained by doing so.
This episode is hosted by Andy Cleff and Paul Elia.
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Modern Agile: Make Safety a Prerequisite
In this week’s episode of the Agile Uprising Podcast, hosts Jay Hrcsko and Paul Elia continue our 5-part mini-series exploring the principles of Modern Agile. In this episode we explore “Make Safety a Prerequisite” - what this principle means to us with examples from our careers. As the episode comes to a close we challenge listeners to try some experiments with this principle, and we encourage people to report back with results, questions, or feedback via Twitter @AgileUprising or the Agile Uprising Coalition website, https://coalition.agileuprising.com/.
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This week's show is hosted by Paul Elia, Ryan Lockard and special guest Mike Ackerbauer. We dive into the second of the four Modern Agile Principles, Experiment and Learn Rapidly.
In this show, we peel apart the position "You can’t make people awesome or make safety a prerequisite if you aren’t learning. We learn rapidly by experimenting frequently. We make our experiments “safe to fail” so we are not afraid to conduct more experiments. When we get stuck or aren’t learning enough, we take it as a sign that we need to learn more by running more experiments.".
Our panel peels apart what this means to them, how it has been applied in their careers and we dive into Mike’s keys to strong teams:
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What do you do when your leadership attempts to hijack your agile transformation to make it more waterfall? Join our hosts Paul Elia, Andrew Leff, and Jay Hrcsko as they discuss the idea of "usurping agile." While the conversation ostensibly starts with this subject it veers off to cover points, trust, project managers in agile, organizational change, and host of other topics. Enjoy!
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In this week’s episode of the Agile Uprising Podcast, our hosts Paul Elia, Jay Hrcsko and Ryan Lockard begin a mini-series exploring the principles of Modern Agile. In this episode, the hosts explore “Make People Awesome”. Our hosts discuss the principle, what it means to them and then individually explore examples from their careers where making people awesome was demonstrated.
As the episode comes to a close, each of the hosts has some exercises for the listeners to try at work to promote making others awesome in their lives. We encourage the listeners to try these experiments and report back their results either via twitter, the coalition or email.
Links from the episode:
Simon Sinek books Leader’s Eat Last and Start With Why
Bob Chapman – Everybody Matters
Agile Uprising’s own James Gifford was lucky enough to attend the #WomenInAgile event prior to #Agile2017, with This year's theme being Empowering the Changing Face of Agile: Women in Agile ; James had nothing but great things to say and we want to share the lighting talk portion of the event. The Organizer took an interesting approach to selecting speakers by utilizing only women speakers that had never before been compensated for a talk; Each person selected was provided a mentor to prep for their talks.
Big thanks to Natalie Warnert, Billie Schuttpelz, Eric Willeke, and so many others for a great event! Enjoy!
Join our hosts James Gifford and Ryan Lockard for a fantastic discussion with pioneering Lean thought leaders, Mary and Tom Poppendeick. Mary and Tom were gracious enough to come on the show and share stories from the early days of Lean, the issues with waterfall development, the unique stance on backlogs and the product owner role, a discussion on Lean Value Mapping and a discussion on diversity in software engineering.
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What happens when your organization is not ready for agile but you know this methodology will help? What types of behaviors or activities could you introduce to start your enterprise along the path to agility, without explicitly saying so? Join our hosts Andrew Leff, James Gifford, Troy Lightfoot, and Jay Hrcsko as they discuss answers to these questions and many more as part of "undercover agile!
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On this episode, the Agile Coaching Exchange Atlanta chapter welcomes Arlen Bankston, Executive VP and Managing Partner for LitheSpeed. Arlen 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. He was one of the earliest Certified ScrumMaster Trainers, and he specializes in the role of the Product Owner, drawing upon first-hand experience in product design and management.
Agile and Lean ideas originated outside of the domains of software and Information Technology (IT) and are beginning a return to these broader origins. Join us as we explore how non-IT teams are benefiting from the same mindset that we use to develop great software, to reach customers and to promote and launch products and services. Our podcast takes place during ACE Atlanta’s monthly chapter meeting. The conversation is expertly guided by Jenn Fix who leads digital strategy and agile process for the Rollins Center, a non-profit program of the Atlanta Speech School. Non-IT areas discussed include Marketing, HR, Finance, and Federal Government.
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"it was all going great until someone brought up Metallica's Load album..."
Join our panel of Troy Lighfoot, Rob Legatie, and Jay Hrcsko as they ostensibly talk about agile while discussing their love of music. They discuss gateway bands and compare them to "gateway agile," concepts like the lean startup, inspect and adapt, and continuous delivery as applied to the music industry, as well as their 2017 top album picks, the impact of the internet on music, and much much more!
Links:
Rob’s Picks:
Melvins - https://melvinsofficial.bandcamp.com/album/a-walk-with-love-death
Mastodon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZt7PPjpKuA
Troy’s Picks:
311 - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/mosaic/id1222002228
Ghost - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/popestar-ep/id1151573272
Opeth - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/sorceress/id1137688564
Opeth - https://youtu.be/CoW3Sywb5xQ
Childish Gambino - https://soundcloud.com/childish-gambino/sets/awaken-my-love-1
Jay’s Picks:
Artificial Brain - https://profoundlorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/infrared-horizon
Full of Hell - https://profoundlorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/trumpeting-ecstasy
Deez Nuts - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw8klmBwJdk
Dying Fetus - http://relapse.com/dying-fetus-wrong-one-to-fuck-with/
Origin - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/unparalleled-universe/id1232320681
Books:
Extremity Retained - https://www.amazon.com/Extremity-Retained-Jason-Netherton/dp/1631734741/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1481688096&sr=8-2&keywords=extremity+retained
The Song Machine - https://www.amazon.com/Song-Machine-Inside-Hit-Factory-ebook/dp/B00TIZFO2W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1500514044&sr=8-1&keywords=the+song+machine
Misc:
Pop music has a formula that a computer can mimic? https://www.yahoo.com/news/mozard-botzard-machines-write-music-164029102.html
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Join our hosts Jay Hrcsko and Andrew Leff as they sit down to discuss SAFe 4.5 with none other than Dean Leffingwell himself. The group discusses multiple features of the new update, which include SAFe as a configurable framework, the implementation road map, and an emphasis on DevOps. The panel also reviews other changes for 4.5, such as the role of risk and compliance, how agile architecture fits into the framework, and a slew of other topics!
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On this episode, Ryan Lockard welcomes Brett Schuchert, Senior Consultant with Industrial Logic. Brett has 25+ years of teaching and consulting experience. He has worked with numerous Fortune 500 firms across a number of industries and countries to train, mentor, and coach developers and non-developers in Agile/Lean methodologies. Brett has led several Agile in the Large Transitions (> 100 people) and Agile/XP Immersions for both online and traditional businesses spanning industries from oil/gas to insurance to rental car providers. His Agile coaching style is immersive and delivers tangible results in areas from automated tests and architectural assessment to the honing of technical skills such as Test Driven Development.
In this episode, we dive into the topic of DevOps for legacy systems. The show begins with our host butchering another guests name, then Brett providing his description of what Legacy Systems are, and what DevOps is. The show continues to dive into the cultural and mindset shifts required to implement DevOps. We talk about the three critical elements to improving delivery flow:
Brett gives a number of examples from his past where focusing on these three items significantly improves delivery. We also dive into the impact distributed team have on impacting delivery flow. As the talk comes to an end, we reflect on the absence of tools in our conversation, and how tools are secondary to mindset shifting.
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We are joined by James Grenning, co-author of the agile manifesto, this week. James joins to discuss his training framework for Test Driven Development; TDD Guided by Zombies. James sits with Ryan Lockard and discusses unit testing, TDD and how both apply to his ZOMBIE paradigm.
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This week we come live from the Music City Agile conference from Nashville Tommy Norman and Gaines Kergosien along with our host James Gifford. Tommy and Gains sit and discuss the work that goes into establishing a conference and the approach that goes into creating a conference. Learn about the work that goes into deciding on conference track selection, venue importance, scheduling, and the importance of networking breaks.
The talk also covers the emergence of the agile scene in Tennessee and the large degree of technical Meetup groups. To subscribe to the Music City Agile group, fill out this form.
As the show comes to an end, the idea of blending conferences. Tommy and Gaines are asking you, the listener, to share your thoughts about blending topics/workshops – please join the show discussion on the Coalition to do just that.
Join our hosts, Chris Murman, Jay Hrcsko, and Andy Cleff as they dive into the discussion around Red-Amber-Green (RAG) status reporting and the use of this information radiation. This topic came from Andy’s Coalition post “Why Red is Good”. The post has quite a few comments – which you are welcomed to join into.
The conversation covers traditional use of the RAG status, modern adaptations like the Spotify Health Check model and how the hosts are currently using RAG status. Andy Cleff dives into his current usage, starting all projects at Red as there will inevitably be the highest degree of uncertainty at the beginning of a project. Andy also shares commentary on this article about RAG status reporting in the US Military.
Unfortunately, we were unable to find a video of a ferret being introduced to a kindergarten resulting in chaos (sorry Jay), but here is the closest thing we have to satisfy the metaphor introduced towards the end of the show.
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In this episode, we welcome David Horowitz on the show with our host James Gifford. David and James take a deep dive into the reality of distributed teams, the importance of continuous improvement and the effective facilitation of agile retrospectives.
David tells the story of his career from a software developer, to agile coach, and finally his creation of Retrium, and agile retrospective product/company.
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This episode of the Agile Uprising Podcast found its start in a blog post Chris Murman posted on his (must subscribe) blog. The post synthesizes the recent white paper from 6point6 that essentially says we aren’t “doing” agile right. 6point6 commissioned a survey of 300 CIOs in the UK and the US to examine their experiences of Agile and measure how successfully the principles of Agile are being applied and executed. One of the key findings was “British business is set to waste an estimated £37 billion on failed Agile IT projects over the course of the next 12 months”.
Our hosts, Jay Hrscko, Chris Murman, Andrew Leff and Ryan Lockard talk through various parts of the white paper and the subsequent blog post from Chris. We talk about the impact of agile-as-a-business, the reality of distributed teams, team commitment, the criticality of modern DevOps and the show closes with a passionate conversation about non-functional requirements (NFRs).
Through the show, you will hear mentions of Chris’ Texas-ness, Ryan’s love of sour beer and Jay’s metal album of the year.
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Join a conversation with Llewellyn Falco and our host Ryan Lockard about Learning and Habits. Llewellyn is an independent agile coach. He discovered strong-style pair programming which evolved into Mob Programming. He is creator of the open source testing tool ApprovalTests (approvaltests.com). He spends most of his time programming in Java and C# specializing in improving legacy code.He is also co-founder of TeachingKidsProgramming.org.
This show found its beginning in April 2017 at the Agile Alliance Technical Conference in Boston, MA. Llewellyn, Ryan and Arlo Belshee discussed the merits and neuroscience of human learning. Llewellyn is an avid student of learning and a great voice on these topics.
The conversation really shifts into the core topic when Ryan mentions the great book 'The Power of Habit' by Charles Duhigg. (If you have not read this book, you should consider picking it up). From here Llewellyn shares some personal lifehacks he has been experimenting with. The conversation then goes into how habits and learning can be effectively invoked in engineering, agile teams, or in human behavior in general.
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Join our panel, including Jay Hrcsko, Jason Cusack, Andrew Leff and Ryan Lockard as they discuss the 11th annual State of Agile report from Version One. The report and discussion are both on the Agile Uprising Coalition on this thread.
The discussion traverses the areas of distributed teams, reasons why companies decide to work with the agile mindset, software quality, DevOps, the famous framework discussion and of course the scaling conversation.
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