Agile After Dark

reated during the pandemic and the current corporate push to go back to the office? We discuss this as well as: In the end, we find that it still comes […]

Productivity Paranoia to Visibility Paranoia and Productivity Theater. What is all this nonsense that was created during the pandemic and the current corporate push to go back to the office? […]

“Be a goldfish… Be curious, not judgmental… I want you to know, I value each of your opinions, even when you’re wrong…” – are these words from an Agile coach […]

“Be a goldfish… Be curious, not judgmental… I want you to know, I value each of your opinions, even when you’re wrong…” – are these words from an Agile coach […]

How do Leaders, specifically mid-level managers, do just that… LEAD? In an environment and culture where people feel it’s not ok to fail, much less do it fast – where […]

How do Leaders, specifically mid-level managers, do just that… LEAD? In an environment and culture where people feel it’s not ok to fail, much less do it fast – where […]

It’s not easy. There are no answers that we can give to make it right. Stereotypes are something that we are trying to address. We have an amazing guest, Sunny […]

Jessica, Greg and Brandon get together (in person AND virtually) to discuss a very timely topic – Distance Learning (and how to teach in that environment as well). While examining […]

From being called the dopey one (due to his tendency to whisper words softly to himself before saying them) to being one of the most well regarded physicists and minds […]

What is your purpose? Can you detach it from motivation, vision and inspiration? And should you? We dive into giving yourself the space to explore your purpose with our special […]

We are fortunate to be joined by Stas Zvinyatskovsky (otherwise known simply as Stas, like Prince or Madonna) to take us on a journey from the late 19th century to the future of software engineering. And what he helps us uncover is how you have to strive for getting bits to customers faster in a world where organizations don't want to change as fast as they want their ideas to show up in production. And there might be discussions about jello shots. It all gets a little hazy towards the end.

It’s been awhile. Some things have happened in the last calendar year that were, let’s say challenging. But EVERYTHING IS FINE, because it’s Agile After Dark time! We couldn’t think […]

We have a special guest inside the Apollo 13 Studio to talk to us about this little thing we like to call Management Debt. Hey, we all know technical debt, and we knot that accruing interest in doing things the wrong way has massive implications down the road. So we put that concept to the test when looking at Management and see if empathy and servant leadership are the ways to whittle down the problems of years of management training and thinking.

Good ideas come along only so often. Truly transformational ones come along so infrequently, we wonder if the good ideas are great ones. Dojo is the future, the now, and where we believe true transformation can happen. No smart quips, no catchy tag lines. This is the real deal, and we have one of the few people that has every launched one at a Fortune 50 company. So pull out your yoga mat, breath deep, and take in the lessons that only Dojo can teach.

A marathon discussion on the repercussions of DevOps, Product Management and Lutefisk. Take the risk, take a chance, take a sync up of great thoughts through 2018 and see who gives a real crap about what we are trying to say, with a goal to re-imagine where the Agile world will take a stand and put a stake in the ground.

Brandon, Jessica and Greg sit down for Part 1 of our yearly retrospective. We know we talked about a lot of good things, but after a year of podcasts, we figured it would be good to look through what worked, what didn't (hello sound quality early on), and what we had fun with (Nerd Alerts and Greg's Rants abound)! This episode is a weeeeee bit long given we pulled clips from past shows and see whether we hit our initial goal of looking at things differently. We also work to offer up encouragement and positive outlooks on where the world of Agile is now and can be in the future. It's a trip, and we hope you enjoy taking it with us!

Grab a cocktail and listen as Greg, Jessica and Brandon have a Halloween edition of Agile After Dark. Jessica tries to take us seriously in our sailing hats while we dig into how work in the Agile world scales, and if we are adding "levels" rather than addressing the true constraints that require the need to scale. We examine whether, like a good cocktail, all the right ingredients can be mixed to perfection when getting leadership, product management and team delivery to work in sync.

Jessica Guistolise, AKA Captain Connie, the Digital Agiler, comes on to talk with us about what Digital actually constitutes in the current software delivery context. Greg rants about how Digital should only be Agile, and we get into the good stuff: examining how to eliminate the UX, Design and other gateways that have consistently plagued Digital projects. We examine how it is more effective to concentrate on a product management approach and how we can get user feedback and research without putting users in a biased position. All this while we try to survive Apollo 13 studio that's put together with duck tape and gum!

Ever feel like you're just counting stats and looking at data because you think that's what you're supposed to do? Well stop it! We talk to one of GAW's favorite people, Kaili Barone, who sets the record straight on how we should be using data instead of data using us. Stop wasting your money and your time on things that your customers don't want (and while you're at it, focus on the product, not the project). You got this!

Our good friend Nitin Dhamija joins us in the Apollo 13 Agile After Dark Studio to discuss what the life of a developer is like. Beyond the norms of trying to avoid getting carpal tunnel, keeping up by eating snacks and Red Bull and having multiple projects on the on the side, we talk about Nitin's experience as a developer, and how we went from that to project management, to being a Scrum Master and eventually an Agile Coach. he has his cupcake and we have our drinks, so we're ready to go. Happy Deployment, mainframe machine! Happy Deployment, you wonderful old Product Manager!

We welcome back our special guests and the Agile After Dark Apollo 13 Studio Audience to ask some questions that aren't really about Agile, but we wind up talking about Agile anyway. That's just how Agilists role. It's a fun look at some of the personal perspectives of our guests all while Greg continues to try and find his way back to the heartland.

In this part of another special edition of Agile After Dark, we welcome our distinguished (and not graying) guests to take part in our Inside the Apollo 13 Studio show. We discuss how our guests got to where they are today and what about Agile has them continuing to keep up the good fight!

The Lando of Tech Coaches is in the house (remotely for our first shot at this) for an amazing podcast about how pair programming can swing teams in the right directions of cross-functional nirvana. Can managers and rock star developers get past developer monogamy and get truckin' to the good days for everyone on the team? We find out in this episode.

In this special edition of Agile After Dark, Greg and Brandon do their best to understand the DNA of large corporations and consulting firms. We discuss what makes them tick and how Agile can be part of that culture rather than a virus that gets attacked.

Are all great teams made up of the same types of people? How different are sports teams and Agile teams? Are there new types of Most Valuable Players on an Agile team, or even an organization? We wrestle with these and other questions all while trying to keep the new studio from falling apart around us.

We have a very special guest come on the show and set up straight on many things from Emotional Intelligence vs. Introversion, Innovation and measurement of strengths as individuals and team, not to mention getting into the future of performance management with Agile! We also sneak in some Greg's Rants.

We have our special guest Shaila Reddy in the studio to speak the truth about Agile Transformation. And she does it with style while trying to deal with a bit of an allergic reaction to the Agile After Dark Studio cat.

Jump to conclusions on the differences between being a consultant and a coach.We try something different and go with an Office Space theme to the podcast where we talk through the differences of being a consultant or a coach on a client engagement. Don't worry, we're not asking you to also come in on Sunday to work on your TPS reports.

CD, DevOps, what is all of this stuff? We hear about it quite a bit but didn't really feel we had a true understanding of what it is. So in true Agile After Dark fashion, we had drinks with our friend Steve Thomas who knows this stuff inside and out.  It really is the best breakdown of all of this that we've heard, and we hope it helps you too. CD, DevOps & CI all up in your eye (and ears)!!!

We get together in the Agile After Dark studio in the Heartland and Accio our Product Managers to come listen to the importance of Roadmaps. A little Harry P fun […]

In our pilot episode, we come together in Arizona to talk about what started it all. This crazy idea called Agile After Dark was the brainchild of three Agile coaches and we decided it would be good to talk through the legends of Agile and whether they are true, false or just plain wrong. We have a good laugh (and some drinks) so hope you do as well!