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Welcome!   Since most of us are working at home or stuck at home without work I decided that we should go over the tools, techniques, and tactics we can use to make working from home easier.  Then for those who don't have work and want to do something, I go over companies that are hiring with remote work or work at home opportunities.  It is going to be a busy and informative show -- so sit back and listen in.  For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Hello everybody, Craig Peterson back here on WGAN. You know, by the way, I went ahead and checked out that new show on Netflix. It must be relatively new because it seems to have some footage from late last year in it. But this Tiger King show I don't know if you've seen it. People said you know you just can't stop watching it. I found it interesting and intriguing. I'm particularly interested in the fact that some of the people in this show our nuts, and this one particularly nutty woman has now come out this week and said, "No, I did not kill my husband and put him in the meat grinder and feed him to the lions." Now, the fact that she came out and said that I think tells you something. Right now, the police have opened an investigation. It is quite a fascinating show about peculiar people, frankly weird people, that own big cats. At least as they're portrayed in this show. I guess you have to take all of that with a grain of salt. Hey, for the past two weeks, I've been doing webinars twice a day pretty much. We've been talking about security what you need to do when you're working from home. I am not turning everybody into security experts, right. Most people don't want to be security experts. They just want to keep their information safe, but hundreds of you have been attending, and that's a fantastic thing. I'm so glad that you guys have, and I hope you're getting a lot out of it. I know a lot of people are trying to attend so that they understand this better. When they do get together and back to work as the office manager, whatever that role, maybe they have an understanding of what this is all about and what they need to do and how they need to do it. In many cases, a lot of business owners have been on these calls as well. I'm so happy to do it and for free. I'm not sitting there pounding you trying to sell you something. Somebody got kind of upset with me this week because they wanted me to quit with the soft sell and I said, Well, I don't have anything to sell. So unless you want to buy something and in that case ask me. It isn't a soft sell. I'm just trying to teach you guys stuff. And I think we've all become a little jaded here over the years because everything it seems is trying to sell us something. We've certainly seen that you look at like the Kylie Jenner and the whole Kardashian clan, who get paid to advertise, although it's not an advertisement as it is not marketed as such. She sent out a picture of her with something she's wearing or makeup or whatever. She sends it out to millions of people who see it, and she gets paid a million bucks. It's just astounding to me. I'm jaded. I get it, but these webinars are to help you guys out. Just like I'm here every Saturday at 1 pm to help you guys out to kind of review the news and what's going on the technology side of things, right? Alright, let's get back into all of our collaboration stuff, which we were talking about before. Now I've been going through this article a little bit while I'm actually not even going through it, I'm just looking for what they've rated as the top ones and then giving my commentary. They've also got one listed here called liquid planner. I have never used that. They're saying it's best for complex projects. Now is that regular small business, you probably don't have these complex projects, and you know, if you're the SBA calls a small business 500 people, and under you, if you're at the upper end of that, you might well have some complex projects. If you're at the lower end of that, you probably don't, so I'm not going to get into it right now. Also, because the liquid planner is expensive, it is a full-fledged project management piece of software. So we're not going to delve into that. They've got something called pod-to pod IO and they are saying that this is best for a work hub. They say it's incredibly flexible, highly customizable, for working communication. I have never used it, and maybe I should look at it. They advertise it's so user friendly and scales easily for growing business. It is an editor's choice. I'm just not familiar with it. I don't know anyone that is using it. We'll just skip that one. Slack I have used extensively. I used it for years before I switched on to the secure platform, that is, the WebEx team's platform used to be called Spark, but now it is WebEx teams. And, with the WebEx teams, you have everything integrated. So our phone systems are where teleconferencing, video conferencing collaboration is all integrated and is all secured and it is just absolutely phenomenal. And we're setting up right now with some school districts that are having they've sent their teachers and their students home. We're setting them up with some of these Cisco WebEx teams stuff for the schools to use because it meets all of the state and federal regulations. Unlike Slack, and Zoom, that so many are currently using. But Slack, you could not have a more straightforward tool to use. It is a team messaging app that works very well. It also has a lot of integrations, probably the most of anything. You can tie Slack into your website, for instance. So if somebody has a question, they can just put it in on the site, and it's going to show up in your Slack channel. You know, how, how much simpler could it get than that? It's phenomenal. And then you can respond to it in the Slack channel. There are tons of integrations for its Really among the best when you're talking about a messaging app, and it's also the most expensive and now, and that's not too bad, you're going to be spending about $35 a month per team member. So it does add up pretty fast. Leankit is something these guys like is what's called a Kanban app. Kanban is a technique that came out of Japan. I think it was Toyota if I remember right was the first came out with this. A lot of the software we've already talked about is Kanban compatible. It came from this hole just-in-time manufacturing process. You might have remembered that was all the rage in the 70s and early 80s. Yeah, it was developed by an industrialist engineer at Toyota. I just looked it up online and basically You can think of it as kind of a big board and you have sticky notes on the board. The sticky note represents a task, so you put it on the left-hand side of the board, say, Okay, here's all of the things we're going to have to accomplish. Then as you work on them, you move them to the right into different columns, so you know, it's to be done, and then you might move it into, okay, it's underway, or it is stalled is another very popular column, and Kanban means it's complete. This is all part of what's known as agile development. Remember, I mentioned earlier the rugby references while Scrum is another agile process used to help to focus on delivering real business value real goals and objectives being done by everybody in the team in the shortest time possible. So rather than using regular project managers who will say, well, this has to be done by April 10. Now, you know, if you said it has to be done by April 10. It's not going to be done a minute before April 10. What are the odds is not going to come in until April 20. The odds are pretty good that they're not going to meet that April 10 deadline, right. But when you're using this Kanban method, a scrum kind of development or business process method. The idea is you get something done a small task and narrow tasks, get it done as soon as you can. Once it's done, you just grab the next sticky note off the left side of the board. Now, I like a couple of different packages out there that you can use for Kanban. I've used JIRA before, and I have used Trello. If you're just starting, and you wish to track some projects, and it's just you, maybe you and a couple of other people, I want you to check out Trello online T-R-E-L-L-O. I have used Trello extensively over the years and have just found it to be golden. It's so easy to use; it uses this Kanban type of board methodology. So does JIRA. However, JIRA gets more complicated and ties into other packages like Confluence and things that are all part of the same thing. But have a look at that. I really do like it a lot. That's what LeanKit does. So it's pretty darn cool. So when we come back, we're going to talk about my favorite little database now use that term within air quotes. You might have heard me put little air quotes up there. We'll talk about that out and more when we get back here. I'll give you a little understanding of what is collaboration software? What can we use? Now that we're working from home? Now that we have fewer employees, people are out sick, how can we make sure things are getting done that need to be done? And with repetitive tasks? Again, I'm going to kind of recommend the Asana stuff. But you know, these can band boards can be incredible, depending on what type of repetitive task you have. Now, if you have any questions for me any comments, if you want to attend any of the upcoming free webinars, these are like an hour-long we delve deep into a security topic or collaboration topic. Make sure you check me out—Craig Peterson dot com. You're listening to WGAN, so stick around. I'll be right back. Hey, Craig Peterson here, back on WGAN. For those of you that are interesting in these webinars or what's going on, I have been holding them twice a day, at 4 pm and 7:30 pm, for about an hour. These are live webinars answering all of your questions and doing some slightly deeper dives into topics that everybody needs to know about when it comes to security, securing your data when at home securing your offices tying offices together, Tonya home in right all these different types of things that we frankly we need to do in this day and age. And we're going to be doing more and more of because honestly, working from home that the whole concept of remote workers is going to get bigger and bigger as time goes on. So kind of keep your ear to the ground. But you will get emails from me, and I've got a lot of Mainers who have been attending these and enjoying them are just nothing but great feedback. I got hundreds of positive comments on these things and hundreds attending to, so make sure you get signed up and Attend some of these. I'm not repeating the topics from day to day, every day within the day like the 4 pm, and the 730 are the same topics. So I will be answering different questions if there are different people on it, but I will be teaching the same necessary information. So you can choose either one of those webinars during the day. But, you know, one day to the next day, I will be in I am teaching different topics. Okay, so that's kind of the bottom line there. And I'd love it if you would join us. It makes me feel really good to know that I've helped people. The more people that show up, the better and by all means, invite friends and relatives to these things because we're now opening them up. I did not widely open them up before, but starting next week; they will be open to pretty much everybody, not just the listeners. Okay, so we were talking earlier about LeanKit and Kanban and the types of, you know, processes that are behind that. JIRA, Trello, J-I-R-A in case you're wondering, and T-R-E-L-L-O. I promised to talk about the database side. I have used Airtable extensively, and I love it. For the radio show, for instance, we have an AirTable setup, and there are fixed things that must happen every week, right? We might have to find topics, or we might want to locate guests to have on the show. All of that is set up in the table. So that when so and so, you know, for instance, Karen will find the guests to have on, and will reach out to the guest and get their bio, get some talking points, and then I will put it up on the website. Steve will do some reviewing of it. Then Karen's going to have to do a pre-interview with them. Then it is time to schedule them for the actual interview for the radio show. That's the normal flow when we book a guest, just to give you an idea of how much work we put into the show. It is totally a labor of love. Let me tell you, but with Airtable, all of this can be automated, you know, informing someone. Okay, we've chosen a topic. Now we got to find guests and then Okay, we found a guest. What do we do now and they can put right into the Airtable because it's kind of a database as well. Think of it as a spreadsheet, if you will, that has a database behind it. It's really phenomenal. They can put the guest's bio right into a cell on the air table. They can put the recorded interview right into a cell on the air table. It is just absolutely phenomenal. They have a free plan and they have various paid plans. It has to be one of the most straightforward database tools you've ever seen. It is just like a spreadsheet and designed to be useful and honest. You can manage information about anything you can manage the flow, the pass on, it is kind of just like We were talking about a little bit earlier. It's kind of a can man thing too with databases and integrated with spreadsheets. It's kind of hard to describe. But that's, I guess my best description of it. So check it out air table.com you might love it. I absolutely love it. I know I do. We're not using it right now because we've scaled back, but we'll be right back there with Airtable and then Monday is something else is kind of similar to that. And it is designed to be able to track the tasks and move them around called monday.com. And remember what their old name was actually, maybe a month I think Monday is their current name. Let me just look that up. Make sure it's not the old name because they had a simple name before and that now eludes me. Yeah, it is. It's Monday.com. And it is again, phenomenal here for project tracking, Process Management. And it is they call it a Work operating system and you know what I think it really is Monday.com check it out. Over 100,000 organizations are using it according to their website including Costco, wholesale club, PayPal, Uber, Hulu, eBay, Walmart, GE, it is incredible. It's very, very simple to use. And again, it's kind of setup in the same way that you would think of using a spreadsheet. So you're gonna love it like that. Monday comm I don't think it's listed at all here. No, it's not on this PC mag site, but it's something I highly recommend and used before. So they also here on monday.com while they're talking about the collaboration tools, bring up Basecamp now Basecamp is something that I have used as well. It has been, what four or five years Since I used it, and we gave up on it because it just wasn't what we wanted what we needed, but it might be something that's going to work for you, I don't know. But Basecamp is known for what's called a sandbox-style collaboration. So pretty much everything's in a box, okay? It's designed to allow you to transition your whole team to remote work quickly. Frankly, it puts everything together. That's the entire sandbox concept. So it's not all over the place. Now, that's one of the things I did not like about Asana is, even though it was for organizing, I didn't feel that it organized things the way we wanted to work and that we were used to working. So you're going to have to look at some of these yourself. But Basecamp is one of the oldest out there by far, and they developed a whole language A few programming languages called Ruby on Rails, you might have heard of Ruby on Rails is phenomenal. And that was that language was designed so the base camp could be written and ultimately could scale. And this is how they are running their company to remotely. They're using Basecamp for it, and I'll have to give it a try again, they're saying by the way that 6400 companies signed up last week alone to try out Basecamp which is something to look at it. I'm looking at their numbers here. Yep. 2004 they had 45 companies, you know, it might have been longer than five years ago. Now looking at this, that I tried it so I'll have to try that again. But check it out. And PC mag as I said, they seem to like it. It is not bad, I'm sure. A document collaboration they like glip. We have in our business. We have loved the WebEx teams, and we'll talk more about that when we get back in the next segment. But we use that for document collaboration along with the professional version, the secured version of Dropbox, not the, not the dropbox that you just use at home. Okay. But we liked that, and glip they didn't give an excellent rating on they gave it like, three and a half stars if you will. Then for fast setup, they like right Wrike, but you can check that out if you'd like. So what it boils down to my favorite of all of these by far are the WebEx teams. Then next to that is probably Monday, and then we like Trello for some things, and you know, we just talked about it. If you want to listen to any of these, check me out online, go to Craig Peterson dot com, you'll see all of my podcasts posted there or sign up. Craig Peterson dot com slash tune in. Stick around. We'll be right back here on WGAN Hey, welcome back, everybody. Craig Peters on here on w GAN. Did you know you can hear me during drive time on Wednesday mornings? Yeah, I'm on with Matt. And of course, we talk about the latest news lately. That's kind of been working from home and working from home safely, which somehow isn't a surprise is it to any of us. I've been doing webinars, and here are some of the titles and what we've been talking discussing. We've been talking about routers and firewalls and why fi and browser efficiency plugins you can use to keep your privacy, how to do some of the backup stuff to make sure backups are working updates and patches and how to turn them on automatically. VPN security. It has It's been quite the ride. And we're going to be starting this all up again next week. So I want to make sure you guys know about it and have access to it. So I'm going to be sending out emails to let you know about it. And the only way you're going to find out is if you're on my email lists. So make sure you sign up if you're not already there. Just go to Craig Peterson comm. You will see it right there on the top of the page if you kind of slide it up. If you want a little help if you have questions about what we talked about today, any of this online collaboration software, any questions about any of this stuff, if you're having trouble working from home, or you're not working from home, and you're just having trouble? Make sure you reach out to me, and you can schedule a phone call with me just by going to Craig Peterson dot com slash help. Couldn't be much easier, could it Craig peterson.com. slash help. It is just I think it's an important time for us all to work together to help each other out because we are all in the same boat right now. Yeah. kind of reminded me of something else. Well, we won't get into that right now. So I promised that we would talk a little bit about what Cisco is doing on the collaboration front. And Cisco has something called WebEx. And it is phenomenal when it comes to collaboration. You know, I mentioned in the last segment, that we use it also for file collaboration. So we have all kinds of groups. And we have a group for each client, for instance, and we have a group for our internal tech support people. And then within each group, we have channels that are specific to you know, the various topics or various things that we're working on. For the client. So if you have a project for our client or project for ourselves, we'll have a space for that within the WebEx teams. And then you can drop files into it. You can search right from that space for on that team. You can start a little video conference call for everybody to talk, or on an audio conference call. It integrates with the app on your phone or your smartphone. I have and we all have desk phones. And those desk phones have built-in video, and it's phenomenal. The whole thing is seamless, and it meets almost every security standard out there. In fact, that's what the President has on his desk. He has a slightly upgraded version of this because he needs the highest military-grade, but as far as HIPAA compliance or PCI compliance or most of the regular compliance, including the CMC I Tara All those types of guidelines, it is fully compliant. So WebEx has decided that they are going to give a 90-day free trial to anybody that wants it, which is I think phenomenal. Now for many companies, 90 days is all you're going to need. Hopefully, the governor is going to say get back to work within what a month or two. So the three-month window should fit for you. And you can sign up for free at WebEx dot com you're going to love it. Now, if you go through my company now you know that we sell and maintain Cisco equipment, including WebEx, and we've installed some large Cisco phone systems that also tie into WebEx we've installed small phone systems for like dentists offices and construction companies and manufacturers that have the video conferencing in it and everything works. Everything is all integrated. It's, it is unbelievable how well it works plus it is secure, which is just mind-blowing. But if you go through us, we can give you an even better free deal. How's that a that, we can offer prospects, and that's what it's all about right that they have this for us so we can do prospecting. Our offer doubles the free stuff, and all of the numbers of attendees in the conferences and the sizes of the files, you can share, etc., doubles it basically from what you can get by just signing up on WebEx dot com for yourself. If you want to talk to me about it again, you can just go to Craig Peterson dot com slash help. And we can talk about these different types of conferencing systems. We can talk about the collaboration stuff we just talked about in the last segment, but check it out. You can just get it yourself. If you want, but you will not get all of the features as you'd get for me from for free as well. But check it out @webex.com. As I mentioned earlier today in the broadcast, we all have this set up now for some schools, and school districts are using it. So far, they love it because it gives very fine-grained control over everything that they need to make sure that the kids aren't messing around getting on other people's accounts. like the zoom bombing, that we talked about a little bit earlier. Now, let's get to this because I had promised this before right at the top of the show. We're getting close to the end. Here is some career advice from Forbes, that I thought I'd mentioned because I'm sure right now there are a lot of us that are at home and have lost our jobs. Hopefully, just temporarily, and that includes you know, people who are waiters, waitresses, and the small businesses they were working for. I thought you might like this. So you can check it out. It is on forbes.com. And he'll we'll kind of run through these, but I noticed it because one of the large areas that's on there is the computer and it jobs. But first of all, it's talking about accounting and finance jobs. These are support strategies. And since people are using QuickBooks nowadays, like QuickBooks Online from Intuit or some of these other online accounting systems, it has made it a breeze for bookkeepers and accountants to be able to provide some specialized on-demand accounting services. If you know this stuff, and you can do bookkeeping as a work from home job. They are hiring right now accountants and bookkeepers, so check that out in support strategies, and you can find them online as well at Flex Jobs, flex jobs.com. You might want to check that out. That's the first one. The next category that Forbes is suggesting is computer jobs. And they have three different listings here. LiveArea is a company that helps with digital commerce. They do design strategy, technology, digital marketing, best practices, and they've got jobs open right now that you can do from home. They are a company that started as a database company that's still their bread and butter for the most part. They have accounting software now, ERP systems that they downscaled for small businesses, and they're hiring right now, including database administrators that can work from home and talking about a job. That's a great work from home job, DBAs database administrators. I've hired more than one of those over the years. Red Hat, which was bought by IBM last year, is also offering some jobs right now, again, work from home jobs, including sales force, configuration engineers, architects, healthcare, all kinds of job openings there. When we get back, we'll kind of run through some more openings, some ideas for some work at home jobs, because I've had quite a few people. Sign up for my webinars, thinking it was about jobs you can get to work at home. No, no, my webinars are about the technology and security for working from home. But check them out. Sign up Craig Peterson dot com. We'll be right back on WGAN. Welcome back, everybody, Craig Peterson here on WGAN. We are talking about some of the technologies surrounding work at home. We've covered collaboration today. What are the top collaboration tools, file sharing tools, the top tools for having meetings, and even a little bit of bumbler conversation? It's important, right? Many of us are stuck in our apartments, or in our homes, and we don't see anybody else. It is kind of a shame. It is important for us all to get together and maybe even have a happy hour. I know a couple of companies that have done that. They get together at their WebEx conference, where they all have their own drinks and just enjoy each other's company. You got to let the hair down. I think it's a great thing. They're doing. We were talking before the break about some of the jobs listed in this forbes.com article about working at home. We ran through some accounting and finance job categories and actual jobs that they provide links to. Then we covered some computer and IT jobs. Those are the ones that already have been kind of out-sourced and or have been work from home. Think about all of the remote workers in the Philippines, India, and China that have been doing exactly that. Working from their homes now for years. I see that as true going forward for quite a while. Construction jobs are another one right now called a renovation project consultant. There are job listings for them here. They're looking for people who have experience viewing contracts. Here is a work from home part-time contract creation jobs for content creators/writers which is another one we see out-sourced for a very, very long time. If you read articles online, you will not see these on my site. But if you read articles online, there is a technology called spinning. Have you heard of that before? They'll take an existing article, and they will spin it, which means they run it through some special software that changes the words around uses different words to make it so that it is not technically stolen but when you read it doesn't make sense much of the time. So I know you've seen those types of articles because I've seen them you say, Whoa, a native English speaker, did not write this. Well, It might have been put up by a native English speaker who just uses spinning software. But there are still jobs for real writers. They've got listings here for fandom writers who can write about favorites like Star Trek or Doctor Who. However, this last season, I haven't liked Doctor Who. Supernatural, Grey's Anatomy, and more, right all these different fan shows. There are digital health content producers and other creative jobs. I know a lot of people who use video editors to put together their marketing videos. So they'll shoot them like, like I do all of it myself, right I shoot the videos, I record them, I edit them, and I put them up online, and you can tell. But there are a lot of openings for video editors to work at home animators as well. Vitamin T is a creative talent agency that connects freelance creative-work that occurs with digital marketing firms and advertising agencies. You can find that in this article too. If you want me to send it to you, just email me at Craig Peterson dot com, and I can make sure I get it to you. But you can just find it out on Forbes. Continuum global solutions have got contact center solutions and jobs to fortune 500 companies that bringing in customer service reps. LiveOps is a cloud contacting customer service Solution Center. And they've got worked from home jobs, including call center reps, call center, licensed insurance, people, education and training jobs. It goes on and on. These are jobs that are going to stay out there in the remote work category. Even the food industry which kind of surprised me. But then I said Ah, of course. They're talking about chef instructors. It is a remote opportunity where they are helping people learn, they're supervising in the kitchens. Remember now with the, with the smartphones, the guys and gals working in the kitchen can just pull it out, show you what they're doing. Media jobs, Thomson Reuters is looking for people, Vox media brands who were just reading from one of their articles well not reading it, but looking at their list. They've got film editors, community managers, TV, transcription, jobs, medical jobs. It goes on and on the categories, and I just don't want to spend all the time we only have five minutes left here in the show today, but lots of them Translation jobs, Science jobs, Sales and marketing jobs, Medical and Health jobs. Check it out. Just do some searching online. Look into your favorite career opportunities site. Or see if you can find this article here from our friend over @forbes.com. A couple of the things to get to before we go away. If you are looking at working from home and you're overwhelmed, we've got some tips here for you. Okay, you need to have a bit of a flexible routine, instead of a rigid schedule, you know, time was you were driving into work, you might take half an hour an hour or if you live in LA three hours to get to work every day. Well, you know, make sure that you're not just sitting there all day long. Use that Pomodoro technique that I talked about earlier. In the show today. Look it up. It is Italian for tomato, in case you're trying to find it online, where you're doing little 20 minute stretches, and that ties in with the Kanban and scratching methodology that we were talking about earlier. But understand that you're not going to be at your maximum productivity right now, we're all overwhelmed. Turn off that news channel, don't sit there watching it all day long, because he can drive you crazy, and is going to make you feel even more overwhelmed than you need to be. Okay, so a few tips there from our friends over at Google, working at home, and being efficient. That's why in some of these webinars that I've been giving and will give over the course the next week or so, I talk about some of the extension some of the tools you can use to make your life easier to make it faster to make it more secure. But employers can boost productivity and reduce their turnover. And of course, that means lowering your costs by giving people that flexibility even before The Coronavirus hit. The majority of workers in the United States had been working at home one day a week. And I think this is going to change it all we're going to be working more and more at home. But you need to make sure you've got all of the technology you need that you have a fast enough internet that you are secure. I separate workspaces, and I have a completely separate workspace at home. Just find a room or even just a corner of the room, that you can use and that you have the right kind of internet service, a workable schedule, etc. The top fields for remote work again, computers and IT education and training, health care, customer service reps, virtual assistants, data entry, transcription teachers, of course, a lot more if you need to find a new job. Okay, that's a great way to look at it. Right now, a majority of the top firms out there have remote work in the IT biz like Amazon and Dell. In the medical space Humana, you've got Kaplan, SalesForce, all offering remote work opportunities, and that means you can work from home and be efficient and effective. So many people now are doing a little bit of homeschooling. I think many parents are overwhelmed by it. If you have listened to me for a while, you know my wife and I homeschooled our eight kids, all the way up to college. That's a lot of years of homeschooling, my wife is going a little gray, but we haven't lost our hair over it. If you think you might want to do it, do it. Remember the mathematics from 10 to 1040. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday type schedule that they might have at school does not fit a homeschool environment. Again, that rigid environment is just isn't going to work, and there's no way it's going to work into homeschool. Be flexible. But whatever your kids are interested in at the time, turn it into a learning opportunity. If, as one of our daughters was interested in cooking, remember we had eight kids, that's a lot of food, you know, for ten people, and you're looking at a recipe designed for four, so she learned how to do mental fractions. She's gone on now she has her Master Mariners license for unlimited oceans, unlimited tonnage, unlimited vessels, she could command any US Navy vessel at sea. That's all before she's 30. And yeah, she's got an MBA, now she's working on her doctorate. That's just phenomenal. And it all started with her home school, interested in fractions, learning together. She was curious and determined to do them in her head, multiplying and dividing fractions and look at where she's at now right understanding and calculating celestial navigation and everything else. She loves it. We have other kids one has gone on to be a regional Operations Manager for an International Bank, and also has an MBA. You know, I've got two other of my kids who are working with me who are fire jumper security experts and understand networking inside out and backward like hardly anyone else I've ever met. Just amazing. I've got yet another son, a mechanical engineer now, and he is finishing up a master's program this year. You can do it, and I think it is important. If you can homeschool, it is the best thing you can do for your kids. We homeschool while working from home, for much of it, I was working here at home during parts of it while was doing contract engineering and was on the road. My wife was doing almost everything all the time. It isn't a regiment where you're sitting there, sitting there at 10 to 10:40 with mathematics, etc, etc. It is life. It is living the best thing we can teach our kids, and the best thing we can give them is a love of learning. If you can pull it off, it's a fantastic thing, and it is so rewarding. We've had success with all eight kids. It's just been phenomenal. Hey, I hope you have a great week. Any questions? If you need a little help go to Craig Peterson comm slash help and make sure you sign up anyways at Craig Peterson calm. We'll be back next week with webinars and more on Wednesday morning. Transcribed by https://otter.ai --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. 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In this episode of Startups in the Studio, host Phil Shmerling interviews the former CEO and Co-Founder of LeanKit, an agile and lean project management software company based in Nashville, TN. Chris talks about how he raised $10.5 million from 106 local investors and gives advice on how to raise from and manage such a large number of investors. He also talks about his path to raising $15 million from a coastal institutional VC and gives advice on how other founders can do the same.

This week our guest is Daniel Norton. He was the co-founder and CTO of LeanKit, received an MBA at MIT and now helps launch startups. We'll let him tell you more about building companies, going back to school, and what it's like in the business world.

Kate Moore is the former VP of Marketing for LeanKit, where she played a crucial role in scaling revenue from 5 million to 25 million ARR. She previously served as a trusted go-to-market consultant for multiple SaaS companies. Currently, Kate is a co-founder for her new venture, Meetingful.

SPaMCAST features our interview with Julia Wester.  Julia returns to the cast to discuss spectrum thinking.  Specturn thinking is an important tool in system thinking and required to address complexity.  Even though using binary thinking is rarely the most effective path, it is rare to use spectrum thinking to address problems. Julia provides a path to more effective decision making. Julia’s Bio Julia is a Co-Founder of Lagom Solutions and its Principal Consultant. Lagom Solutions is an outcome-focused consulting and product company. Julia leads the consulting side of Lagom Solutions. When working with customers, she leverages her 18 years of experience working in and managing high-performing teams at companies such as Turner Broadcasting, F5 Networks, and LeanKit. Julia is passionate about teaching others how to tame the chaos of everyday work by embracing transparency, continuous improvement, and a lagom mindset. She also loves talking about how management doesn’t have to be a dirty word. Julia blogs at everydaykanban.com and tweets at @everydaykanban. Re-Read Saturday News This week we continue our re-read of The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell. In Chapter one, Gladwell suggests that there are three factors that impact whether an idea or product crosses a tipping point; they are the law of the few, the stickiness factor, and the power of context. Chapter one introduces these concepts and presents real-life examples to illustrate the factors. Dust off your copy or buy a new copy. Current entry: Week 2 - The Three Rules of Epidemics - https://bit.ly/2DQnRNV Previous entries Week 1 – Plans and Introduction -https://bit.ly/2S8PPwc Next SPaMCAST SPaMCAST 533 will feature our essay titled, Can Agile (SAFe) Be Interfaced With Waterfall? The long answer is yes, but the short answer is closer to try to find a way to avoid the self-inflicted complexity. We will also hear from Jeremy Berriault.  In this installment of the QA Corner, Jeremy tackles the “why” of testing.    

In this episode we talk to Chris Hefley, the founder and former CEO of LeanKit and currently the Chief Revenue Officer at Retrium. Click here to connect with this guest on LinkedIn.

Bienvenue sur La French Touch, le podcast dédié au meilleur du Produit et Design français. Dans ce nouvel épisode, je vais à la rencontre de Florent de Gantès, CPO chez Inato et ancien Product Manager chez Google. Nous parlerons de son expérience chez Leankit et chez Google à améliorer un produit générant des milliards de dollars, de sa vie aux US et de son travail chez Inato, startup qui travaille dans le secteur de la santé et plus spécifiquement sur le recrutement de patients pour les essais cliniques. Et de l'importance qu'accorde Florent aux process. ★★★★★ Si le podcast vous plaît, svp n'oubliez pas d'ajouter 5 étoiles sur iTunes. Cela me permet de le faire découvrir à d'autres personnes. ✌️

We finally get to the bottom of what this kubernetes thing is and is not, thanks to guest co-host, Andrew Clay Shafer (https://twitter.com/littleidea). There is no co-host shortage. Pre-roll SDT news & hype Jan 16th, first Live Recording (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/mzfzwnyxcbvb/) in Austin Texas - guest co-host Tasty Meats Paul (https://twitter.com/pczarkowski). Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack), subscribe the newsletter (https://softwaredefinedtalk.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=ce6149b4008d62a08093a4fa6&id=5877922e21), and pay-up for our members only podcast (https://www.patreon.com/sdt). This week In k8s - Confularity at Kublecon KubeCon (http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubecon-and-cloudnativecon-north-america) - that a thing? As Kubernetes matures, the cloud-native movement turns its attention to the service mesh (https://www.geekwire.com/2017/kubernetes-matures-cloud-native-movement-turns-attention-service-mesh/) - climb the stack! List of announcements (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/07/kubernetes_tasting_menu_for_devops_types/), from The Register. “We’ve built Conduit from the ground up to be the fastest, lightest, simplest, and most secure service mesh in the world” (https://buoyant.io/2017/12/05/introducing-conduit/) - well, I guess we can all pack it up and go home. Intel and Hyper partner with the OpenStack Foundation to launch the Kata Containers project (https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/05/intel-and-hyper-partner-with-the-openstack-foundation-to-launch-the-kata-containers-project/) Datadog survey (https://www.datadoghq.com/container-orchestration/). Heptio has DR in Azure (https://siliconangle.com/blog/2017/12/07/heptio-brings-disaster-recovery-tool-ark-microsofts-azure-container-service/) - file under, “oh, I assumed k8s already did that kind of thing…” Relevant to your interests You’re not doing agile (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/11/you_say_you_are_doing_devops/) - Coté’s Christmas bonus column. Whole bunch of SpringOne Platform videos being posted (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAdzTan_eSPQ2uPeB0bByiIUMLVAhrPHL&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWVdGak9URXdPVGxrTTJSbCIsInQiOiJQcXNRc3RWZFRXVTlDbnhuNWYwWmV3a2p3V0ZtVkkrZ1pBdGcxcTlUR1Z5WERIRFgrMnd4N0Q3WE9qWTQ4MzhVQ0I3NThDS1ZRM2VpYnNraGRBMXhcLzE0eHpYNWZvYWtkSlJWQkZWUDVQUm1rTXZpaGNBc3liVzg4Rnh4WmJzRXgifQ%3D%3D&disable_polymer=true) - hey, obviously there’s some hustle, but it’s rich in actual case studies and enterprises talking about how they figured out sucking less. Related: receipts considered stupid (http://www.businessinsider.com/american-express-mastercard-kill-receipt-signatures-2017-12) - Matt gets tremendous eye rolls from everywhere outside the US when it asks for a signature Planview buys LeanKit (http://www.planview.com/company/press-releases/planview-extends-work-and-resource-management-platform-into-lean-and-agile-with-acquisition-of-leankit/). Why do I keep seeing “quantum computing” everywhere. Shouldn’t we figure out “computing” first? Update on Dell financials (http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/data-center/300096621/crn-exclusive-michael-dell-on-completing-the-emc-integration-ma-strategy-vmware-nsx-synergies-and-refocusing-on-storage-in-2018.htm/pgno/0/7): "You look at our balance sheet, you see $18 billion in cash and investments. We paid down to close $10 billion since the combination with EMC and VMware. For the third quarter, we had $19.6 billion in revenue and $2.3 billion in EBITDA.” Conferences, et. al. It’s the end of the year, not many conferences left. Dec 19th, 2017 - Coté will be doing a tiny talk at CloudAustin on December 19th (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/244459662/). Jan 16th, 2018 - live SDT recording at CloudAustin on Jan 16th, 2018 (https://www.meetup.com/CloudAustin/events/244102686/), Coté, Brandon, Tasty Meats Paul](https://twitter.com/pczarkowski). May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London (https://continuouslifecycle.london/sessions/the-death-of-enterprise-architecture-defeating-the-devops-microservices-and-cloud-native-assassins/). Recommendations Brandon: Long Shot (https://www.netflix.com/title/80182115), Netflix; Presentations: Ten Year Futures (https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2017/11/29/presentation-ten-year-futures?utm_source=Benedict%27s+newsletter&utm_campaign=74e4152c08-Benedict%27s+Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4999ca107f-74e4152c08-70424493), Ben Evans. Coté: finally got that AAdvantage Executive (https://thepointsguy.com/guide/citi-aadvantage-executive-review/) card. Andrew: principals sections in the Google SRE book (http://amzn.to/2z3Odti) (still free (https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html)!). Kubernetes Up and Running (http://amzn.to/2yiI9JK). Badass (http://amzn.to/2z4rn4J). Paper on ML indexing stuff (https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01208). Special Guest: Andrew Clay Shafer.

We're particularly excited to share this week's conversation with Denise Grey who is the CMO at LeanKit—this continues our conversations about technology and tooling services that support a marketer's Agile practice. Besides bringing a wealth of experience with both Scrum and Kanban to the conversation, Denise has a strong point of view about why Kanban is the way […] The post Why Kanban is the Future with Denise Grey appeared first on Agile Marketing Blog - Home of Marketing Agility Podcast.

It's all too common for the "business" to provide conflicting priorities for development teams, and Dominica DeGrandis is helping to get them re-aligned. She shares her experience with how LeanKit approached this exact problem internally. Dominica is presenting "From Divided to United--Aligning Technical and Business Teams" at Mile High Agile this year. Dominica DeGrandis teaches Kanban Flow to Devops enthusiasts. Her passion involves helping organizations improve workflow and optimize throughput. She is keen on providing visibility and transparency across teams to reveal mutually critical information. As Director of Learning & Development at LeanKit, Dominica combines experience, practice and theory to help teams level up their capability. SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett hosts. About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series engages with industry thought leaders at Agile events across the country to bring valuable content to subscribers anytime, anywhere. To receive real-time updates, subscribe at YouTube, iTunes or SolutionsIQ.com. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SIQYouTube, http://bit.ly/SIQiTunes, http://www.solutionsiq.com/agile-amped/ Follow: http://bit.ly/SIQTwitter Like: http://bit.ly/SIQFacebook

This week on The Guardian Podcast with Ryn Melberg, Agile and tools for managing and tracking are the topic. Among others, Ryn reviews: Atlassian. Jira, Leankit, Rally Platform for Agile Lifecycle, Excel, Version One, Agile Craft and Planbox. Each has its advantages and things that are also less desirable. Listen to hear Ryn's candid assessment.

Check out JS Remote Conf!   02:22 - Elijah Manor Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog LeanKit Eliminate JavaScript Code Smells (Elijah's Talk Abstract) A video containing the 30 min version of the talk: Eliminate JavaScript Code Smells The full slides (60 mins worth of material) 04:49 - What is a “Code Smell”? Martin Fowler: CodeSmell ESLint JSHint 10:21 - Copy/Paste Code Error jsinspect and jscpd ES6, ES7, Babel Support 13:11 - Using ES6 to Eliminate Code Smells 15:48 - Refactoring Case Statements The Strategy Pattern 21:29 - Juniors and Code Smells Code Reviews 27:29 - Isomorphic Code 31:12 - Framework Code Smells 33:47 - Identifying New Code Smells 36:33 - When Code Smells are OK 39:10 - Why use parameters? Picks Terms And Conditions May Apply (AJ) Nodevember (Aimee) Developer Tea (Aimee) Jake Shimabukuro (Joe) Screeps (Joe) react-styleguide-generator (Elijah) react-styleguidist (Elijah) The Phantom Menace - What it Should Have Been (AJ) Attack of the Clones - What it Should Have Been (AJ)

Check out JS Remote Conf!   02:22 - Elijah Manor Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog LeanKit Eliminate JavaScript Code Smells (Elijah's Talk Abstract) A video containing the 30 min version of the talk: Eliminate JavaScript Code Smells The full slides (60 mins worth of material) 04:49 - What is a “Code Smell”? Martin Fowler: CodeSmell ESLint JSHint 10:21 - Copy/Paste Code Error jsinspect and jscpd ES6, ES7, Babel Support 13:11 - Using ES6 to Eliminate Code Smells 15:48 - Refactoring Case Statements The Strategy Pattern 21:29 - Juniors and Code Smells Code Reviews 27:29 - Isomorphic Code 31:12 - Framework Code Smells 33:47 - Identifying New Code Smells 36:33 - When Code Smells are OK 39:10 - Why use parameters? Picks Terms And Conditions May Apply (AJ) Nodevember (Aimee) Developer Tea (Aimee) Jake Shimabukuro (Joe) Screeps (Joe) react-styleguide-generator (Elijah) react-styleguidist (Elijah) The Phantom Menace - What it Should Have Been (AJ) Attack of the Clones - What it Should Have Been (AJ)

Check out JS Remote Conf!   02:22 - Elijah Manor Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog LeanKit Eliminate JavaScript Code Smells (Elijah's Talk Abstract) A video containing the 30 min version of the talk: Eliminate JavaScript Code Smells The full slides (60 mins worth of material) 04:49 - What is a “Code Smell”? Martin Fowler: CodeSmell ESLint JSHint 10:21 - Copy/Paste Code Error jsinspect and jscpd ES6, ES7, Babel Support 13:11 - Using ES6 to Eliminate Code Smells 15:48 - Refactoring Case Statements The Strategy Pattern 21:29 - Juniors and Code Smells Code Reviews 27:29 - Isomorphic Code 31:12 - Framework Code Smells 33:47 - Identifying New Code Smells 36:33 - When Code Smells are OK 39:10 - Why use parameters? Picks Terms And Conditions May Apply (AJ) Nodevember (Aimee) Developer Tea (Aimee) Jake Shimabukuro (Joe) Screeps (Joe) react-styleguide-generator (Elijah) react-styleguidist (Elijah) The Phantom Menace - What it Should Have Been (AJ) Attack of the Clones - What it Should Have Been (AJ)

This week’s Software Process and Measurement features our interview with Julia Wester.  Julia is an Improvement Coach at LeanKit and writes the Every Kanban Blog.  Julia and I discussed the role of management in Agile. Is it time to throw out managers?  Julia’s perspectives is that management must play a constructive role in helping Agile teams deliver the most value. Julia espouses Lean principles and considers herself on an eternal journey to make teams as happy, effective and customer-value oriented as possible. As an Improvement Coach at LeanKit, she is excited to continue to learn and integrate Lean principles into efforts that help others tame the chaos of traditional organizations and streamline processes in order to make customers and teams more satisfied.         You can read more about Julia at her blog, Everyday Kanban Reach out to Julia on twitter @everydaykanban and visit LeanKit Call to Action! For the remainder of September let’s try something a little different.  Forget about iTunes reviews and tell a friend or a coworker about the Software Process and Measurement Cast. Let’s use word of mouth will help grow the audience for the podcast.  After all the SPaMCAST provides you with value, why keep it yourself? Re-Read Saturday News Remember that the Re-Read Saturday of The Mythical Man-Month is in full swing.  This week we tackle the essay titled “Ten Pounds In A Five-Pound Package”!  Check out the new installment at Software Process and Measurement Blog. Upcoming Events Software Quality and Test Management September 13 – 18, 2015San Diego, California http://qualitymanagementconference.com/ I will be speaking on the impact of cognitive biases on teams.  Let me know if you are attending! If you are still deciding on attending let me know because I have a discount code. Agile Development Conference EastNovember 8-13, 2015Orlando, Florida http://adceast.techwell.com/ I will be speaking on November 12th on the topic of Agile Risk. Let me know if you are going and we will have a SPaMCAST Meetup. More conferences next week including Agile DC and Agile Philyy! Next SPaMCAST The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will feature our essay on Reviews and inspections.  Reviews and inspections are critical tools for improving quality and team effectiveness.  We will also have a new QA Corner with Jeremy Berriault and a new installment from the Software Sensei, Kim Pries.   Shameless Ad for my book! Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: “This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, neither for you or your team.” Support SPaMCAST by buying the book here. Available in English and Chinese.

The Software Process and Measurement our essay on Mind Mapping. I view Mind Mapping as a great technique to stimulate creative thinking and organize ideas. Mind Mapping is one of my favorite tools.  Note:  this essay has a lot of visual examples, while there they are explained in the reading of the essay, I have also included them in a separate document for reference.  We also feature Steve Tendon’s column discussing the TameFlow methodology and Chapter 4 of his great book, Hyper-Productive Knowledge Work Performance.  Steve and I discussed the impact of management’s profound understanding of knowledge work and that understandings impact on the delivery of value. Anchoring the cast will be Gene Hughson, returning with an entry from his Form Follows Function blog.  This week Gene discusses the ideas in his entry, “Who Needs Architects?”  Call to Action! For the remainder of August and September let’s try something a little different.  Forget about iTunes reviews and tell a friend or a coworker about the Software Process and Measurement Cast. Let’s use word of mouth will help grow the audience for the podcast.  After all the SPaMCAST provides you with value, why keep it yourself?! Re-Read Saturday News Remember that the Re-Read Saturday of The Mythical Man-Month is in full swing.  This week we tackle the essay titled “Calling The Shot”!  Check out the new installment at Software Process and Measurement Blog. Upcoming Events Software Quality and Test Management September 13 – 18, 2015San Diego, Californiahttp://qualitymanagementconference.com/ I will be speaking on the impact of cognitive biases on teams.  Let me know if you are attending! If you are still deciding on attending let me know because I have a discount code.   Agile Development Conference EastNovember 8-13, 2015Orlando, Floridahttp://adceast.techwell.com/ I will be speaking on November 12th on the topic of Agile Risk. Let me know if you are going and we will have a SPaMCAST Meetup. Next SPaMCAST The next Software Process and Measurement feature our interview with Julia Wester.  Julia is an Improvement Coach at LeanKit and writes the Every Kanban Blog.  Julia and I had wide ranging conversation that included both process improvement and the role of management in Agile. Julia’s [WHAT?] is that management can play a constructive role in helping Agile teams deliver the most value. Shameless Ad for my book! Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: “This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, neither for you or your team.” Support SPaMCAST by buying the book here. Available in English and Chinese.

Software Process and Measurement Cast 206 features my interview with Kenny Rubin.  We discussed his book Essential Scrum, A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process.  Help support the SPaMCAST by reviewing and rating the Software Process on ITunes!  It helps people find the cast.  Kenny Rubin provides Scrum and agile training and coaching to help companies develop products in an effective and economically sensible way. A Certified Scrum Trainer, Kenny has trained over 18,000 people on agile and Scrum, Smalltalk development, managing object-oriented projects, and transition management. He has coached over 200 companies, ranging from start-ups to Fortune 10. Kenny was the first Managing Director of the worldwide Scrum Alliance, a nonprofit organization focused on the successful adoption of Scrum. In addition to this book, Kenny is also the co-author of the 1995 book Succeeding with Objects: Decision Frameworks for Project Management. He received his B.S. in Information and Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and his M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University. Kenny’s background is rooted in the object-oriented technology community. He started as a Smalltalk developer on a NASA-funded project back in 1985 and developed the first blackboard expert system outside of LISP. In 1988 he was fortunate to join ParcPlace Systems, a start-up company formed as a Xerox PARC spin-off, whose charter was to bring object-oriented technology out of the research labs and release it to the world. As a Smalltalk development consultant with many different organizations in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s, Kenny was an early adopter of agile practices. His first use of Scrum was in 2000 for developing bioinformatics software. In the course of his career, Kenny has held many roles, including successful stints as a Scrum product owner, ScrumMaster, and member of development teams. In addition, he has held numerous executive management roles: CEO, COO, VP of Engineering, VP of Product Management, and VP of Professional Services. He has also overseen the development of five commercial software product suites, generating over $200M in aggregate revenue. In addition, he has been directly involved in raising over $150M in venture capital funding and assisted in taking two companies public on the NASDAQ. His multifaceted background gives Kenny the ability to understand (and explain) Scrum and its implications equally well from multiple perspectives: from the development team to the executive board. Contact Kenny: Website: http://innolution.com/ Email:  krubin@innolution.com Twitter:  @krubinagile Buy Kenny'sBook Here!   The SPaMCAST 206 is sponsored by LeanKit Kanban.  LeanKit's visual management tools provide industry-leading visibility and control for teams following any flavor of Agile process from XP, to Scrum, to Kanban or any hybrid in-between. LeanKit makes it amazingly easy for you to visualize "Your" process, whatever it may be, so you can better see how your work is getting done, improve collaboration, communicate results to managers and customers, and analyze results for process improvement and improved forecasting. LeanKit works great as a standalone tool or integrated with other tools for issue tracking, release management, source control and more. For a free trial go to leankit.com. Use "Essential Scrum" as a coupon code when you sign-up for a 10% discount.   Also in SPaMCAST 206 I continue featuring elevator speeches for the upcoming AgileTrek and TesTrek Conferences.  This time Gil Broza! Shameless Ad for my book!  Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: "This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, neither for you or your team." NOW AVAILABLE IN CHINESE! Have you bought your copy?   Contact information for the Software Process and Measurement Cast Email:  spamcastinfo@gmail.com Voicemail:  +1-206-888-6111 Website: www.spamcast.net Twitter: www.twitter.com/tcagley Facebook:  http://bit.ly/16fBWV   Upcoming Conferecnes Conference season is coming.  I will be speaking at the following conferences and look forward to meeting up with all SPaMCAST listeners and contributors. October 20 - Agile DC (just learning!) AgileTrek, November 9th in Toronto  http://www.qaiagiletrek.org/2012/agiletrek-at-a-glance/ TesTrek, November 5 - 8 in Toronto http://www.qaitestrek.org/2012Toronto/ ISMA 7, October 28 - 31 in Phoenix, AZ http://www.ifpug.org/?page_id=252 Remember!  Help support the SPaMCAST by reviewing and rating the Software Process on ITunes!  It helps people find the cast.  Next: The Software Process and Measurement Cast 207 will feature my essay whose working title is "Instant Gratification" or my review of Discover to Deliver and  Bill Fox's column.

Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 204!   Software Process and Measurement Cast 204 features my interview with Jason Yip.  We visited the edges of lean and agile ideas.  During the visit we explored how we can all push our knowledge of how work is done! Jason Yip first encountered Extreme Programming in 1999 through discussions on comp.object, comp.software-engineering and Ward's wiki, http://c2.com.  He's been with ThoughtWorks since early 2001, experiencing engagements in operations, setting up builds and continuous integration, custom application development, Agile coaching, process improvement, and is currently a Principal Consultant focusing on organisation-level application of Agile, Lean, and Kanban. The best way to understand Jason's thoughts is to check out his blog (http://jchyip.blogspot.com), follow his Twitter feed (@jchyip), and browse his Slideshare presentations (http://www.slideshare.net/jchyip) The SPaMCAST 204 is sponsored by LeanKit Kanban.  By now, most of you in the Lean-Agile community have heard of LeanKit, recognized by community leaders and practitioners alike as the most flexible and powerful tool available for implementing visual management. Since their launch in 2009, LeanKit has helped hundreds of companies around the world to quickly and easily model even very complex processes as vertical and horizontal lanes on a virtual whiteboard with cards representing work flowing from step to step.  LeanKit has recently the launched groundbreaking new features that allow even the largest enterprise portfolio and projects to be managed using multiple levels of drill-down Kanban boards, detailed sub-taskboards, and roll-up Lean metrics - as well as a complete overhaul of their user interface that makes LeanKit more attractive, more intuitive, and easier to manage. If you haven't checked out LeanKit or haven't lately, check out the website to explore how they can help Lean-Agile scale within your organization.   Visit LeanKit Kanban! (and say hello for the SPaMCAST!) Shameless Ad for my book!  Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: "This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, neither for you or your team." NOW AVAILABLE IN CHINESE! Have you bought your copy? Contact information for the Software Process and Measurement CastEmail:  spamcastinfo@gmail.comVoicemail:  +1-206-888-6111Website: www.spamcast.netTwitter: www.twitter.com/tcagleyFacebook:  http://bit.ly/16fBWV Upcoming Conferecnes Conference season is coming.  I will be speaking at the following conferences and look forward to meeting up with all SPaMCAST listeners and contributors. AgileTrek, November 9th in Toronto http://www.qaiagiletrek.org/2012/agiletrek-at-a-glance/ TesTrek, November 5 - 8 in Torontohttp://www.qaitestrek.org/2012Toronto/ ISMA 7, October 28 - 31 in Phoenix, AZhttp://www.ifpug.org/?page_id=252 Next:The Software Process and Measurement Cast 205 will feature my essay whose working title is "Does It Matter How Agile You Are?"  

Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 202!   Software Process and Measurement Cast 202 features my interview with David Marquet.  We discussed his book Turn the Ship Around!: How to Create Leadership at Every Level.  I have already begun to put his advice to work!  I think you will get a lot out of this interview. BIO:A U.S. Naval Academy graduate, David Marquet served in the U.S. submarine force. He commanded the nuclear-powered fast-attack submarine USS Santa Fe, stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Captain Marquet completely turned around Santa Fe, where the crew went from being "worst to first." Santa Fe continued to win awards after his departure and promoted a disproportionate number of officers and enlisted men to positions of increased responsibility, including 9 subsequent submarine captains. After riding USS Santa Fe, noted author Stephen R. Covey said it was the most empowering organization he'd ever seen and wrote about Captain Marquet's leadership practices in his book, The 8th Habit. Since completing his military service David speaks to businesses and groups who want to create empowering work environments that release the passion, initiative, and intellect of each person. He has lectured on leadership at Columbia University. This bold and highly effective leadership approach can be summarized as "give control, create leaders." The result embeds the goodness of the organization in the people and practices instead of the personality of the leader, building enduring and resilient organizations. He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and lives in Florida with his wife, Jane. I highly recommend Turn the Ship Around!: How to Create Leadership at Every Level.  Required reading if you are or want to be a leader.  Buy the dead tree version or the Kindle Version SPaMCAST 202 is sponsored by LeanKit Kanban! LeanKit's visual management tools provide a great way to smoothly manage organizational change. They allow you to easily map your current processes as sticky notes on a series of interconnected virtual whiteboards, watch how work is flowing through those processes, measure your capabilities via industry leading analytics, and then re-measure as you make process changes. LeanKit provides the roadmap for organizational change management. For a free trial go to leankit.com. Use "Turn the Ship Around" as a coupon code when you sign-up for a 10% discount. Also in SPaMCAST 202 I continue featuring elevator speaches for the upcoming AgileTrek and TesTrek Conferences. This time we hear from Christin Wiedemann. Shameless Ad for my book!  Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: "This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, neither for you or your team." NOW AVAILABLE IN CHINESE! Have you bought your copy? Contact information for the Software Process and Measurement CastEmail:  spamcastinfo@gmail.comVoicemail:  +1-206-888-6111Website: www.spamcast.netTwitter: www.twitter.com/tcagleyFacebook:  http://bit.ly/16fBWV Upcoming Conferecnes Conference season is coming.  I will be speaking at the following conferences and look forward to meeting up with all SPaMCAST listeners and contributors. AgileTrek, November 9th in Toronto http://www.qaiagiletrek.org/2012/agiletrek-at-a-glance/ TesTrek, November 5 - 8 in Torontohttp://www.qaitestrek.org/2012Toronto/ ISMA 7, October 28 - 31 in Phoenix, AZhttp://www.ifpug.org/?page_id=252 Next: The Software Process and Measurement Cast 203 will feature my essay on compliance cultures.  

Welcome to the Software PRocess and Measurement Cast 120!  120?  I am making sure that all of the boxes are check so today I have found the lost episode. In this episode Jeff Anderson has a review of LeanKit Kanban.  Jeff appeared in the SPaMCAST 196 discussing lean startup for process improvement and kanban.  At the end of his interview Jeff provided a review of LeanKit Kanban.   In the spirit of full transparency . . . LeanKit has been a sponsor of the SPaMCAST (not this episode) and I hope they are in the future.  I do not believe thier sponsorship influenced the SPaMCAST carrying the review.   If you are interest in reviewing your favorate tool or book.  Please contact me at spamcastinfo@gmail.com.  I am looking for positive reviews and one major stipulation is that you can't work for the company that manufactures the tool, act as a primary re-seller of the tool being reviewed or in the case of a book . . . you can't be the author (that would be an interview). Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniquesco-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: "This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, neither for you or your team." Have you bought your copy? Contact information for the Software Process and Measurement Cast: Email:  spamcastinfo@gmail.comVoicemail:  +1-206-888-6111Website: www.spamcast.netTwitter: www.twitter.com/tcagleyFacebook:  http://bit.ly/16fBWV Next:The Software Process and Measurement Cast 199 will feature my essay on brainstorming and a technique that I think is better.

The Software Process and Measurement Cast 197 has two parts!  The first part of the Cast features my essay "What do you do when inertia wins?" The second part introduces a new column written by my friend and listener, Bill Fox.  Bill is the creator of 5 Minutes to Process Improvement Success and will bring the lessons he has learned to the SPaMCAST! The SPaMCAST 197 is sponsored by LeanKit Kanban.  By now, most of you in the Lean-Agile community have heard of LeanKit, recognized by community leaders and practitioners alike as the most flexible and powerful tool available for implementing visual management. Since their launch in 2009, LeanKit has helped hundreds of companies around the world to quickly and easily model even very complex processes as vertical and horizontal lanes on a virtual whiteboard with cards representing work flowing from step to step. Well, LeanKit has now announced the launch of groundbreaking new features that allow even the largest enterprise portfolio and projects to be managed using multiple levels of drill-down Kanban boards, detailed sub-taskboards, and roll-up Lean metrics - as well as a complete overhaul of their user interface that makes LeanKit more attractive, more intuitive, and easier to manage. If you haven't checked out LeanKit or haven't lately, check out the website to explore how they can help Lean-Agile scale within your organization.  Visit LeanKit Kanban! (and say hello for the SPaMCAST!)   Shameless Ad for my book!  Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: "This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, neither for you or your team." News just in  . . . We also just got word that the SPM book has been adopted for a class at the University of West Florida for the Fall. Have you bought your copy?   Contact information for the Software Process and Measurement Cast Email:  spamcastinfo@gmail.com Voicemail:  +1-206-888-6111 Website: www.spamcast.net Twitter: www.twitter.com/tcagley Facebook:  http://bit.ly/16fBWV   Next The Software Process and Measurement Cast 198 will feature a wonderful interview Philippe Back covering culture and organizational change.  Philippe is another long-time listener that is bringing his phenomenal intellect to the podcast!

Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 196! The Software Process and Measurement Cast 196 features my inteview with Jeff Anderson of Deloitte on topics that spanned lean, kanban and using the ideas from the work done on lean startups as a process improvement tool. Bio -  Jeff started his professional life as your typical IT development geek, creating software delivery joy through the use of things like patterns, agile methods, and overall object oriented goodness. For the most part he was disappointed in the way IT delivery projects were managed, the reason they were started, and how they ended up. This dissatisfaction with the status quo led him to gradually embrace a new mission in life, to help IT knowledge workers to become awesome at what they do. To that end he has created the Deloitte LEAN service offering, providing advisory, coaching, and change management services to IT departments. Jeff has built this capability within Deloitte to help IT clients truly transform the way they operate their business. Over the last several years he has played a leadership role in some of the largest Kanban based enterprise transformations worldwide. Jeff keeps adding new tools to his transformation utility belt, including lean startup, gamification and others to define the next generation of work environments for knowledge professionals. Last, but definitely not least, Jeff is the proud father of a brand new daughter Mila, and husband of to his amazing wife Barbara. Blog:  agileconsulting.blogspot.comTwitter: @thomasjeffrey (www.twitter.com/thomasjeffrey) The SPaMCAST 196 is sponsored by LeanKit Kanban.  By now, most of you in the Lean-Agile community have heard of LeanKit, recognized by community leaders and practitioners alike as the most flexible and powerful tool available for implementing visual management. Since their launch in 2009, LeanKit has helped hundreds of companies around the world to quickly and easily model even very complex processes as vertical and horizontal lanes on a virtual whiteboard with cards representing work flowing from step to step.  Well, LeanKit has now announced the launch of groundbreaking new features that allow even the largest enterprise portfolio and projects to be managed using multiple levels of drill-down Kanban boards, detailed sub-taskboards, and roll-up Lean metrics - as well as a complete overhaul of their user interface that makes LeanKit more attractive, more intuitive, and easier to manage. If you haven't checked out LeanKit or haven't lately, check out the website to explore how they can help Lean-Agile scale within your organization.   Visit LeanKit Kanban! (and say hello for the SPaMCAST!) Shameless Ad for my book!  Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and  published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: "This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, neither for you or your team." We also just got word that the SPM book has been adopted for a class at the University of West Flroida for the Fall.  Have you bought your copy? Contact information for the Software Process and Measurement Cast:Email:  spamcastinfo@gmail.comVoicemail:  +1-206-888-6111Website: www.spamcast.netTwitter: www.twitter.com/tcagleyFacebook:  http://bit.ly/16fBWV Next The Software Process and Measurement Cast 197 will feature an essay who's working title is What Happens After Interia Wins . . .

Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 195! The SPaMCAST 195 features my essay, Routines:  The Good and The Bad.  Routines are an important part of how we work. Like many other things routines can givith and can taketh away. The SPaMCAST 195 is sponsored by LeanKit Kanban.  By now, most of you in the Lean-Agile community have heard of LeanKit, recognized by community leaders and practitioners alike as the most flexible and powerful tool available for implementing visual management. Since their launch in 2009, LeanKit has helped hundreds of companies around the world to quickly and easily model even very complex processes as vertical and horizontal lanes on a virtual whiteboard with cards representing work flowing from step to step. Well, LeanKit has now announced the launch of groundbreaking new features that allow even the largest enterprise portfolio and projects to be managed using multiple levels of drill-down Kanban boards, detailed sub-taskboards, and roll-up Lean metrics - as well as a complete overhaul of their user interface that makes LeanKit more attractive, more intuitive, and easier to manage. If you haven't checked out LeanKit or haven't lately, check out the website to explore how they can help Lean-Agile scale within your organization.  Visit LeanKit Kanban! (and say hello for the SPaMCAST!) Shameless Ad for my book!  Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: "This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, neither for you or your team." News just in  . . . We also just got word that the SPM book has been adopted for a class at the University of West Flroida for the Fall. Have you bought your copy? Contact information for the Software Process and Measurement CastEmail:  spamcastinfo@gmail.comVoicemail:  +1-206-888-6111Website: www.spamcast.netTwitter: www.twitter.com/tcagleyFacebook:  http://bit.ly/16fBWV Next The Software Process and Measurement Cast 196 will feature my inteview with Jeff Anderson of Deloitte on topics that spanned lean, kanban and using the ideas from lean startups as a process improvement tool.  Wow . . .

Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 194! The SPaMCAST 194 features my interview with Peter Taylor.  We discussed his new book, The Lazy Project Manager and The Project From Hell. We all have had one . . . Peter's book provides a path to avoid your next project from heck! Simply put:  SPEAKER: AUTHOR: TRAINER: COACH: CONSULTANT In depth: Peter is a dynamic and commercially astute professional who has achieved notable success in business.His background is in project management and marketing across three major business areas over the last 28 years and with the last 8 years building and leading PMOs. He is an accomplished communicator, a professional speaker, workshop trainer and PM/PMO consultant. Peter is the author of ‘The Lazy Project Manager’, The Lazy Winner’ and ‘The Lazy Project Manager and the Project from Hell’ (Infinite Ideas), as well as ‘Leading Successful PMOs’ (Gower). More information can be found at www.thelazyprojectmanager.com and www.leadingsuccessfulpmos.com   and www.thelazywinner.com   – and through his free podcasts in iTunes. The SPaMCAST 194 is sponsored by LeanKit Kanban.  By now, most of you in the Lean-Agile community have heard of LeanKit, recognized by community leaders and practitioners alike as the most flexible and powerful tool available for implementing visual management. Since their launch in 2009, LeanKit has helped hundreds of companies around the world to quickly and easily model even very complex processes as vertical and horizontal lanes on a virtual whiteboard with cards representing work flowing from step to step. Well, LeanKit has now announced the launch of groundbreaking new features that allow even the largest enterprise portfolio and projects to be managed using multiple levels of drill-down Kanban boards, detailed sub-taskboards, and roll-up Lean metrics - as well as a complete overhaul of their user interface that makes LeanKit more attractive, more intuitive, and easier to manage. If you haven't checked out LeanKit or haven't lately, check out the website to explore how they can help Lean-Agile scale within your organization.  Visit LeanKit Kanban! (and say hello for the SPaMCAST!) Shameless Ad for my book!  Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: "This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, neither for you or your team." News just in  . . . We also just got word that the SPM book has been adopted for a class at the University of West Flroida for the Fall. Have you bought your copy? Contact information for the Software Process and Measurement CastEmail:  spamcastinfo@gmail.comVoicemail:  +1-206-888-6111Website: www.spamcast.netTwitter: www.twitter.com/tcagleyFacebook:  http://bit.ly/16fBWV NextThe Software Process and Measurement Cast 195 will feature my essay on the impact of routine on change, innovaton and goals! 

Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 193! The SPaMCAST 193 features my essay tilled Hyper-Conectivity and Illusions.  I sat in a meeting a few weeks ago and after about ten minutes I was brought up short.  Everyone was paying attention; not one laptop was open nor was anyone reading an email or text under the table (by the way you really can't hide by texting under the table).  People were taking notes "old school" on paper. The meeting ended on-time after 25 minutes meeting the objective and with the promise of minutes.  I was shocked by the seeming efficiency and effectiveness so I lingered after the meeting to discuss my observations with my sponsor. The SPaMCAST 193 is sponsored by LeanKit Kanban.  By now, most of you in the Lean-Agile community have heard of LeanKit, recognized by community leaders and practitioners alike as the most flexible and powerful tool available for implementing visual management. Since their launch in 2009, LeanKit has helped hundreds of companies around the world to quickly and easily model even very complex processes as vertical and horizontal lanes on a virtual whiteboard with cards representing work flowing from step to step. Well, LeanKit has now announced the launch of groundbreaking new features that allow even the largest enterprise portfolio and projects to be managed using multiple levels of drill-down Kanban boards, detailed sub-taskboards, and roll-up Lean metrics - as well as a complete overhaul of their user interface that makes LeanKit more attractive, more intuitive, and easier to manage. If you haven't checked out LeanKit or haven't lately, check out the website to explore how they can help Lean-Agile scale within your organization.  Visit LeanKit Kanban! (and say hello for the SPaMCAST!) In the near future the essay componenent of the Software Process and Measurement Cast will be adding new contnent.  The Cast will begin an evolution to a magazine format.  Bill Fox will be the first of the SPaMCAST Magazine's contributors! Interested in participating?  Contact me at spamcastinfo@gmail.com. Shameless Ad for my book!  Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: "This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, neither for you or your team." News just in  . . . We also just got word that the SPM book has been adopted for a class at the University of West Flroida for the Fall. Have you bought your copy? Contact information for the Software Process and Measurement Cast Email:  spamcastinfo@gmail.comVoicemail:  +1-206-888-6111Website: www.spamcast.netTwitter: www.twitter.com/tcagleyFacebook:  http://bit.ly/16fBWV Next The Software Process and Measurement Cast 194 will my interview with Peter Taylor, The Lazy Project Manager, talking about his new book The Lazy Project Manager and The Project From Hell.

Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 192! The SPaMCAST 192 features my interview with Mitch Lacey.  We discuss his new book, The Scrum Field Guide.  Mitch Lacey is an agile practitioner and consultant and is the founder of Mitch Lacey & Associates, Inc., a software consulting and training firm. Mitch specializes in helping companies realize gains in efficiency by adopting agile principles and practices such as Scrum and Extreme Programming. Mitch is a self-described “tech nerd” who started his technology career in 1991 at Accolade Software in San Jose, CA, a computer gaming company. After working as a software test engineer, a test manager, a developer, and a variety of other jobs in between, he settled on his true calling, project and program management. Mitch was a formally trained program manager before adding agile to his project tool belt. He began developing agile skills at Microsoft Corporation, where his team successfully released core enterprise services for Windows Live, where he has two patents pending. Mitch’s first agile team was coached by Ward Cunningham, Jim Newkirk, and David Anderson. Mitch cut his agile teeth working as a product owner or ScrumMaster on a variety of projects. He continued to grow his skills to the point where he was able to help other teams adopt agile practices. Today, with more than 16 years of experience under his belt, Mitch continues to develop his craft by experimenting and practicing with project teams at many different organizations. As a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) and a PMI Project Management Professional (PMP), Mitch shares his experience in project and client management through Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum courses, agile coaching engagements, conference presentations, blogs, and white papers. Mitch works with companies across the world, from Austria to Colombia, California to Florida, Portugal to Turkey, and just about everywhere in between. Mitch has presented at a variety of conferences worldwide, is the conference chair for Agile 2012,  on the board of directors for the Agile Alliance and was on the board of directors of the Scrum Alliance. Web:   http://www.mitchlacey.com/ Twitter:   mglacey  Buy the Scrum Field Guide (dead tree)  Kindle The SPaMCAST 182 is sponsored by LeanKit Kanban.  LeanKit Kanban is a software tool for kanban that is as simple to use as physical kanban. If you put it up on a touchscreen in your team area, it practically IS physical kanban. But your boards are available from anywhere, and updated in real-time. A slew of colors, icons, and avatars take your visual signaling to the next level. And the system tracks the metrics for you, providing analytics on bottlenecks, lead time, work distribution, process efficiency, and variability - for a single board or a whole company. It's kanban for the Lean enterprise.  FYI . . . something special is coming to LeanKit Kanban.  Words like enterprise portfolio and groundbreaking, More to come soon! I am working on several projects with friends that we are using kanban to control flow. We are using LeanKit Kanban as a mechanism to keep the project on track and organized. LeanKit allows us to share the Kanban board across the miles with ease! Visit LeanKit Kanban! (and say hello for the SPaMCAST!) Shameless Ad for my book!  Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: "This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, neither for you or your team." News just in  . . . We also just got word that the SPM book has been adopted for a class at the University of West Flroida for the Fall.  Have you bought your copy? Contact information for the Software Process and Measurement CastEmail:  spamcastinfo@gmail.comVoicemail:  +1-206-888-6111Website: www.spamcast.netTwitter: www.twitter.com/tcagleyFacebook:  http://bit.ly/16fBWV Next The Software Process and Measurement Cast 193 will feature my essay on the impact of routine on change, innovaton and goals!