Faster Than A Standup

In this parking lot-sized episode, we have a very deep discussion about a transformation. Brent, Dale, and Michael do a deep dive into what a Dojo is, how a transformation domain for that dojo would be created, and how to use critical conversations to help the domain get off to the right start. The post Episode 149: The Aim Is Really The Horizon first appeared on Faster Than A Standup.

In this very brief conversation, Brent, Justin, and Ronnie ask you to action. We're wanting our listeners to give us feedback about how agile expertise is shared in your organization and what you think works best, is it a centralized model across an entire organization or a distributed model throughout the organization. The post Episode 148: That's A Good Call To Action first appeared on Faster Than A Standup.

The last iteration in our Change Management series discusses change fatigue. Amy, Brent, Dustin, Erin, and Michal cover how real change fatigue is to teams, individuals, and leaders. Topics include how to prioritize the changes and recognizing that change is everywhere, not just on a given team. The post Episode 147: Prioritize Which Changes They Should Focus On first appeared on Faster Than A Standup.

In the sixth iteration of our Change Management series, we cover the impact of change management from the perspective of individual contributors. In this conversation, Amy, Brent, Erin, and Michal discuss feedback loops, how multiple layers of leaders play a role in making a change be positive for teams, and why honesty is the best […] The post Episode 146: Be Seen Supportive Of The Change first appeared on Faster Than A Standup.

The fifth iteration of our Change Management series discusses the intentionality of Change Management. In this conversation Amy, Brent, Erin, and Michal go over topics such as how change management is not just doing a plan, what change management is like on a sprint cadence, and the return on investment of change. The post Episode 145: The Feedback Loop Is Super Important first appeared on Faster Than A Standup.

The fourth iteration in our Change Management series covers the cost of doing or not doing Change Management In this conversation Amy, Brent, Erin, and Michal cover the rumor mill, the telephone game, as well as how to create the capacity to do Change Management. The post Episode 144: Being Intentional With Those Tasks Are Very Important first appeared on Faster Than A Standup.

In the third iteration of our Change Management series, we have a conversation about those who are advocates of change. Amy, Brent, Erin, and Michal discuss the individual contributors who help drive organizational change but aren't part of the original decision. The post Episode 143: Want To Be Part Of Something first appeared on Faster Than A Standup.

We continue our series on Change Management with a conversation on well-run and poorly-run change. Amy, Brent, Erin, Dustin, and Michal cover topics about how change can pivot from bad to well run and where leadership can play a role in pivoting change. The post Episode 142: You Have To React Immediately first appeared on Faster Than A Standup.

We start the fifth season with a series on Change Management. Amy, Brent, Dustin, Erin, and Michal start the series with a conversation covering a variety of topics, such as why people are important in Change Management. The post Episode 141: Change In Their Everyday Life first appeared on Faster Than A Standup.

In our season four finale and our last repeat episode, we build off of the last episode and discuss change management with Amy, Brent, Jesse, Robin, and Teresa. The post Episode 140: It's A Monumental Challenge first appeared on Faster Than A Standup.

As we continue to revisit prior episodes, we bring back a Parking Lot episode on organizational change and leadership from last season where Amy, Brent, Jesse, Robin, and Teresa. The post Episode 139: Focus Continues On The Why first appeared on Faster Than A Standup.

Our third trip in the time machine is another combination of two episodes into a parking lot-sized one from Season 2 where Brent, Patrick, and Sunny cover two opposing myths about time and Agile (mostly discussing Scrum as “Agile”): that Agile doesn't have deadlines or takes too much time. The post Episode 138: When You Do The Fundamentals, It's Easy first appeared on Faster Than A Standup.

In our second trip down memory lane, we're combining two episodes into a parking lot-sized one from Season 2 (Episodes 42, and 43). The conversation with Mark, Patrick, and Ryan starts on the challenges of sharing resources across teams. In the second half, we planned to discuss managing resources, but took a pivot. The post Episode 137: It's Very Hard To Push This New Initiative first appeared on Faster Than A Standup.

In our first rerun, we revisit Psychological Safety from season three with Jesse Mar Chun and Teresa Kremer. They discuss the Westrum Culture survey, the benefits of a generative culture, and how an Agile and DevOps environment benefits from a safe environment starting at the top of the organization. The post Episode 136: Need Leaders Who Are Listeners first appeared on Faster Than A Standup.

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Brent, Dennis, and Philipp have a conversation about Domain Driven Design (DDD). As part of the discussion, they also cover the relationships with microservices, design thinking, the various classifications in DDD and the Business Model Canvas.

In this iteration, Brent, Gus, and Justin take a request from a listener and start the conversation about maintenance-focused teams and whether or not they should be a Scrum team or a Kanban team. The conversation also goes down a path about selection biases for coaches and scrum masters.

In the last iteration of the Cloud Mindset series, Brent and Markus have a parking lot-sized conversation about failure and how it relates to Empowerment and Delegation. They discuss the three types of failure from Amy Edmondson, how failure works in an agile environment, and how teams can improve from experimentation.

In the next iteration of the Cloud Mindset series, Brent and Markus discuss the principle of Empowerment and Delegation. They cover Decision Poker, Delegation Poker, the agile value of courage, and how multipliers are used in an agile setting.

In this parking lot (but regular length) iteration as part of the Cloud Mindset series, Brent, Michael, and Ryan discuss story points in a data-driven process. The conversation includes gamification of estimation, how teams need to buy into whatever process is used, metaphors for teams, venting egos, as well as physics.

Join Brent, Dale, and Jesse in this first for this podcast “live” session. Recorded from Cloud Culture Day and reposted with permission from the Product Engineering team hosting the session, they discuss a wide range of topics while answering questions from the audience: DevOps as a verb, where psychological safety is important, and how sometimes… Continue reading Episode 128: Look For Your Crazy Teammate And Join Them

In this parking lot edition, Brent, Dirk, and Jesse continue the conversation on the Cloud Mindset principle of End to End Ownership and Collaboration. They discuss the parts of a value stream map, how software development contrasts with other ways of manufacturing, why people skills are important in software develop, what the title of the… Continue reading Episode 127: Complexities That Need To Be Unearthed

In this iteration of the Cloud Culture Mindset, Brent, Dirk, and Jesse discuss the principle of End to End Ownership and Collaboration. The conversation covers what the principle is about and how teams benefit from strong team-based decision-making and workflows.

In this iteration, Brent is joined by Agnieszka and Jesse as they discuss another Cloud Culture principle: Ruthless Prioritization. The conversation covers focusing on value, how great Product Owners can create innovative products, and what's important in the balancing act between customer wants or needs and technical debt.

Brent, Jesse, Klaus, and Mike talk about “Continual Learning and Relentless Improvement,” which is a Cloud Culture Principle. Our experts define what this idea means and why it's important. They talk about psychological and technological safety, the ability to grow and adapt, and having a common language. They answer the question how does earning your… Continue reading Episode 124: Opportunities Where Learning Is A Good Thing

In anticipation of Cloud Culture Day on May 24; Brent is joined by Agnieszka and Mike on one of the most important principles of Cloud Culture, which is to “Earn Your Customer Every Day.” Our experts define who the customer is, how the steps are now a bit different than they had been, and what… Continue reading Episode 123: That's A Bottom Line Issue

In anticipation of Cloud Culture Day at SAP on May 24, Brent has a conversation with friends of the podcast Agnieszka, Markus, Dirk, and Robin. In anticipation of Cloud Culture Day at SAP on May 24, Brent has a conversation with friends of the podcast (or sooner to be friends) Agnieszka, Markus, Dirk, and Robin.… Continue reading Episode 122: Spoiler – It's All About The Customer

In this eighth iteration in this series of DevOps fundamentals, Sunny, Jessie, and Dominik wrap up the series talking about CALMS, TOIL, and how DevOps is the trend the world is moving towards. They offer advice to new people starting out and some characteristics that managers and independent contributors should have. They also reflect on… Continue reading Episode 121: Behavior And Mindset Changes Are More Important

In the seventh discussion in the DevOps fundamentals series, Sunny, Jesse, and Dominik have a parking lot conversation about outcomes and metrics. Our experts discuss a quick timeline of DevOps history, and then share that the successes of the companies who used DevOps. They look at some things to measure and affect change, some of… Continue reading Episode 120: They Just Focus On Their Customer

The DevOps Fundamentals series continues with iteration six and a discussion on a having “learning culture.” Until this point, we discussed optimizing the performance of a system from end to end, and then giving time to learn by amplifying feedback loops. Now comes the culture of continual experimentation and learning to take advantage of the… Continue reading Episode 119: How To Start A Learning Culture

This discussion could not be contained to 15 min or less, so here's the parking lot on feedback loops, from the last iteration with Sunny, Jesse, and Dominik joined by Brent. They introduce the topic of feedback loops with a discussion about musical instruments and buying unbroken eggs from the store. Our experts discuss several… Continue reading Episode 118: Making Sure You Have Good Code Quality

In this fourth iteration of a series of DevOps fundamentals, Sunny, Jesse, and Dominik discuss the technical aspects of how we get things going inside teams. They discuss improving the Developer experience by “shifting left”, value stream mapping, and the three ways of DevOps.  They also discuss the “claim your 20% campaign,” which allows engineers… Continue reading Episode 117: The Best Engineers Will Leave

In this third iteration of a series of DevOps fundamentals, Sunny, Jesse, and Dominik discuss culture and change. They define culture, and discuss ways to the shift culture in DevOps. They share some microsteps to affect behavior change as well as some actions that are never effective at promoting change. For more information, check out… Continue reading Episode 116: They Thought They Could Do A Better Way

In this second iteration of a series of DevOps fundamentals, Sunny, Jesse, and Dominik discuss the theory and the important contributors to the origins of DevOps. They discuss the difference between being complicated versus being complex, the importance of customers (and competitors), and the DevOps mindset.

In this first iteration of a series of DevOps fundamentals, Sunny is joined by Jesse and Dominik, who share how they got into DevOps and how failure was part of that journey. There are many reasons why failure can exist, and our experts share some things that are important to make failure a growth opportunity.

Brent, Sunny, and Justin continue the conversation from the last iteration. They discuss a variety of topics, such as backlog refinement and the characteristics of good Product Owners. They also discuss what happens to teams that don't do a backlog refinement, and why Scrum Masters could bring snacks to sprint planning.

In this fifth iteration of a series of scrum fundamentals, we discuss backlog refinement. Brent, Justin, and Sunny give their definition of backlog refinement and discuss if it should be considered an event. They share an interesting example of a team that had a unique way of handling refinement, and they discuss the Product Owner role.

In this fourth iteration of a series of scrum fundamentals, we discuss retrospectives. Brent, Danielle, Sunny, and Justin share their thoughts on retrospectives. They talk about some important questions and data to consider during this team introspection, before creating the insights from this meeting. They also discuss which roles should be included in a retro, who should… Continue reading Episode 111: How We Get Better, Not How You Get Better.

In this third iteration of a series of scrum fundamentals, we discuss sprint reviews. Brent, Danielle, and Sunny define the importance of a sprint review meeting and well as share their opinions on showcasing the work done in the sprint. They also discuss the roles during the sprint review, especially that of the product owner… Continue reading Episode 110: What You Did Is Really Important

As a continuation of iteration 87 from last season (Adhering to the principles and values), we have our first parking lot, discussing viewpoints on timeboxed or pointed spikes. Brent, Justin, and Sunny discuss questions such as, “What spikes are used for? Should spikes be time-boxed or story-pointed? Does the time come out of capacity? Is… Continue reading Episode 109: I Can See That Perspective Now

In this second iteration of a series of scrum fundamentals, we discuss sprint planning.  Brent, Sunny, and Justin share their opinions on good practices, potential pitfalls, and that ‘one thing' that everyone should do in sprint planning.   Although they have slightly nuanced views on the amount of information that teams may need to get started,… Continue reading Episode 108: Conversation Solves So Many Problems Down The Road.

The daily scrum, the daily meeting, the daily stand up…it goes by many names, but the purpose is the same. It's a short team-centered meeting to share important information at the right time to the right team members in service of the sprint goal. In this first iteration of a series of Scrum fundamentals, Brent… Continue reading Episode 107: Share Important Information At The Right Time

When you start working with a new team and you need to evaluate them, it may be difficult to determine on the surface if they're high- or low-performing. Both types of teams may shortcut steps, but for different reasons. Joining Brent are Friends of the Pod, Justin and Charis, as they share their experience working with… Continue reading Episode 106: I'm already a friend of the podcast

Season Four starts with a super-sized conversation between Brent, Michael, and Teresa about whether Agile is a methodology or a mindset.

In the Season Three finale, join Danielle, Patrick, and Scott in their conversation about metrics.

In the first of a two part remix, Danielle, Patrick, and Scott revisit the use of metrics on an agile team.

In the second part of this series, Brent, Justin, and Michael discuss more about how Agile isn't what you call it.

In the follow-up to the last iteration and previous iterations on team culture, Brent and Kathleen talk about how Diversity and Inclusion impact Agile teams.

In a special episode (#100), Brent talks to Kathleen Marzahl, ISBN Senior Vice President of Enablement Operations with SAP about her journey.

Join Brent, Justin, and Michael in the first episode of two about how Agile isn't what you call it.

In this iteration, Amy, Brent, Jesse, Robin, and Teresa discuss change management in Agile organizations.