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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2025 17:23

Learn 7 reasons why the Law of Attraction is unproductive and even harmful. The Law of Attraction says your thoughts and feelings manifest your reality; they contain vibrations and frequencies that create tangible outcomes or visible results. It's pseudoscience that makes vague references to neurology, metaphysics and quantum mechanics. The law of attraction is a New Thought or New Age concept. The idea is that whatever you desire, the universe will provide. The 3 steps of manifestation are to ask, belief and receive. There is no action step. When you're in the realm of possibility, action typically beats inaction. You could break down the challenge to make the action steps easier, struggle less, and apply the effort that you can reasonably manage. The incrementalist approach is more doable than trying to harness your mind power to manifest desired outcomes. Website: http://www.dyanwilliams.com/ The Incrementalist: A Simple Productivity System to Create Big Results in Small Steps, is available on Amazon and Leanpub: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CFHYHGFZ(Pros: lowest price for readers and readily available on Kindle) https://leanpub.com/incrementalist(Pros: price flexibility for readers and 60-day money back guarantee) Watch the YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@theincrementalist/ Subscribe to e-newsletter at: https://bit.ly/3J9EbsD

Kodsnack 631 - Comfortable in uncertainty, with Barry O'Reilly

Kodsnack in English

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2025 58:35

Fredrik talks to Barry O’Reilly about software architecture. Barry has spent a lot of time and energy connecting software architecture to actual code and development work, and finding good ways of actually training new generations of software architects. Architecture is a level above programming, it is a different skill, and it needs to be properly taught so that more people can think and make active decisions about it. Oh, and architecture happens at a group level. You can’t really do it alone. Barry’s quest led him to complexity science, a PhD to actually prove his ideas hold up, and two books. The idea that you have to understand what goes on in the code in order to do good architecture is more controversial than one might think. Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS! Comments, questions or tips? We a re @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at info@kodsnack.se if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive. If you enjoy Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! You can also support the podcast by buying us a coffee (or two!) through Ko-fi. Links Barry Black tulip Complexity science IDE Antifragile Nassim Taleb Nassim guesting Econtalk talking about antifragility while the book was in progress Barry’s papers: No More Snake Oil: Architecting Agility through Antifragility (2019) An introduction to residuality theory: Software design heuristics for complex systems (2020) The Machine in the Ghost: Autonomy, Hyperconnectivity, and Residual Causality (2021) The Philosophy of Residuality Theory (2021) Residuality Theory, random simulation, and attractor networks (2022) Residuality and Representation: Toward a Coherent Philosophy of Software Architecture (2023) Domain driven design Europe Leanpub Residues - Barry’s first book Barry’s NDC talks - on process and on philosophy Support us on Ko-fi Our agile release train engineer stickers The architect’s paradox - Barry’s second book Accelerate Øredev Kodsnack 346 - Tomer Gabel about the golden age of tomfoolery Dataföreningen Dataföreningen kompetens Titles How we design and think about structure Climbed the greasy pole Keep close to the code Remove themselves from the code as a status symbol I would see a lot of grey There’s a generation missing A level of thinking above programming When you look up from your IDE We had to rescue architecture When they say “architect” Headed for that ivory tower A self-titling profession Comfortable in uncertainty Multiple books, and a PhD How does this thing break Everything will always break Patching those cracks Do you have any proof of this? The key to good software architecture is pessimism The mincing of academic criticism Typing furiously Hope for the future He’s from the real world!

Writing a book. Does it make you rich and famous? (#67)

Foojay.io, the Friends Of OpenJDK!

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2025 75:28

Let me share a personal story. I started experimenting with Java on a Raspberry Pi about five years ago and blogged a few articles about it. But the more I experimented, the more I wrote down, and eventually, I had written a book… I worked on it for six months in a row, every evening and a lot of weekends. But the moment I received the box with my author copies was an incredible feeling. Holding a paper book with your name is a special moment.Fast forward to now. The 1000 paper copies are sold out. I have the last 10 copies in case you still want one ;-) But as I self-published the ebook, it's still for sale on Leanpub, and I keep updating it. That's one of the first significant differences between publishing a paper book and an ebook…. As an author, I got about 2 euros per paper book from the publisher, and LeanPub pays 80% royalties. Don't forget that I have to pay taxes on what I earn. So, if you do the math, you'll understand that the book didn't make me rich. But yes, it helped me in my career and was one of the reasons I became a Java Champion. So, we can argue about the "becoming famous".But that's only my story. I invited several guests to share their knowledge about book writing:Marián Varga is finishing a book and tells about publishing a book with a publisher.Wim Deblauwe wrote a few books and has much experience with self-publishing.Len Epp is the co-founder of Leanpub, so he can tell us a lot about ebooks.And we start with Trisha Gee, who wrote a lot of books!Guests Trisha Gee https://www.linkedin.com/in/trishagee/ https://jvm.social/@trisha_gee https://bsky.app/profile/trishagee.bsky.social https://x.com/trisha_gee Len Epp https://www.linkedin.com/in/lenepp/ https://bsky.app/profile/lenepp.bsky.social https://x.com/lenepp Wim Deblauwe https://www.linkedin.com/in/wimdeblauwe/ https://bsky.app/profile/wimdeblauwe.com https://www.youtube.com/@WimDeblauwe https://www.wimdeblauwe.com/ https://www.widit.be/ Marián Varga https://www.dastalvi.com/book/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/mari%C3%A1n-varga-4869a042/ https://mastodon.social/@mrvarga Links Book by Frank https://webtechie.be/books/ https://leanpub.com/gettingstartedwithjavaontheraspberrypi/ Books and links by Trisha Gee https://trishagee.com/books/ https://trishagee.com/2022/12/12/tools-and-processes-for-collaborating-on-a-book-remotely/ https://trishagee.com/2022/12/01/writing-a-book-is-hard/ https://medium.com/97-things https://youtu.be/RzaNJzz5jW8 https://learning.oreilly.com/search/?q=trisha%20gee&rows=100&language=en&language=es Books by Wim Deblauwe https://www.infoq.com/minibooks/spring-boot-api-backend-version2/ https://www.wimdeblauwe.com/books/modern-frontends-with-htmx https://www.wimdeblauwe.com/books/taming-thymeleaf/ Book by Marián Varga https://www.dastalvi.com/book/ https://bsky.app/profile/love2integrate.com Leanpub https://www.youtube.com/leanpub https://twitter.com/leanpub https://mastodon.social/@leanpub https://www.instagram.com/leanpub https://bsky.app/profile/leanpub.bsky.social Lulu https://www.lulu.com/ Content00:00 Introduction of the topic and guests01:53 Books by Trisha Gee02:24 Trisha's motivation for writing books04:13 Difference between publisher and self-publishing09:53 Publishers are looking for authors and course creators12:55 How long do you work on a book?17:35 Can we expect a new book by Trisha?21:00 Automating the writing process24:50 Len Epp about Leanpub and how it started27:18 On Leanpub, you can publish a book-in-progress27:51 Different publishing processes with Leanpub30:20 You can use LeanPub to generate your book, but you don't need to sell it on Leanpub32:57 80% of the selling price goes to the author40:09 How to market your book45:35 Let an expert handle the payments...50:55 Books by Wim Deblauwe51:45 Wim's motivation for writing books53:15 Earning back the time spent on the writing54:37 How to sell paper books on Lulu57:19 Tools used to write a book58:34 Wim's author-plans for the future59:42 How the books influenced Wim's career01:00:02 Marián Varga about the topic of his book01:03:07 Current status of the book01:04:03 The book is a teamwork with a publisher01:07:06 Organizing the work between multiple authors01:09:17 Time worked on the book01:10:40 Feedback from the community for the content01:12:13 What Marián wants to achieve with the book01:14:38 Conclusion

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#116: Turning Weird User Actions into Big Wins with Gojko Adzic

Agile Mentors Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2024 33:14

What do lizards have to do with product growth? In this episode, Gojko Adzic reveals how unusual user behaviors can unlock massive opportunities for product innovation. Discover the four steps to mastering "Lizard Optimization" and learn how you can turn strange user actions into game-changing insights. Overview In this episode of the Agile Mentors Podcast, host Brian Milner chats with Gojko Adzic about his new book, Lizard Optimization. Gojko explains the concept of finding product growth signals in strange user behaviors, sharing examples where unexpected user actions led to product breakthroughs. He outlines a four-step process for optimizing products by learning, zeroing in, removing obstacles, and double-checking. Gojko also discusses helpful tools like session recorders and observability tools that can enhance product development by uncovering and addressing unique user behaviors. References and resources mentioned in the show: Gojko Adzic 50% OFF Lizard Optimization by Gojko Adzic Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design by Kat Holmes Trustworthy Online Experiments by Ron Kohavi Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner® Subscribe to the Agile Mentors Podcast Join the Agile Mentors Community Want to get involved? This show is designed for you, and we’d love your input. Enjoyed what you heard today? Please leave a rating and a review. It really helps, and we read every single one. Got an Agile subject you’d like us to discuss or a question that needs an answer? Share your thoughts with us at podcast@mountaingoatsoftware.com This episode’s presenters are: Brian Milner is SVP of coaching and training at Mountain Goat Software. He's passionate about making a difference in people's day-to-day work, influenced by his own experience of transitioning to Scrum and seeing improvements in work/life balance, honesty, respect, and the quality of work. Gojko Adzic is an award-winning software consultant and author, specializing in agile and lean quality improvement, with expertise in impact mapping, agile testing, and behavior-driven development. A frequent speaker at global software conferences, Gojko is also a co-creator of MindMup and Narakeet, and has helped companies worldwide enhance their software delivery, from large financial institutions to innovative startups. Auto-generated Transcript: Brian (00:00) Welcome in Agile Mentors. We're back for another episode of the Agile Mentors podcast. I'm with you as always, Brian Milner. And today, very special guest we have with us. have Mr. Goiko Atshich with us. I hope I said that correctly. Did I say it correctly? Close enough. Okay. Well, welcome in, Goiko. Glad to have you here. Gojko (00:15) Close enough, close enough. Brian (00:21) Very, very, very happy to have Goiko with us. If you're not familiar with Goiko's name, you probably are familiar with some of his work. One of the things I was telling him that we teach in our advanced product owner class every time is impact mapping, which is a tool that Goiko has written about and kind of come up with on his own as well. Gojko (00:21) Thank you very much for inviting me. Brian (00:47) But today we're having him on because he has a new book coming out called Lizard Optimization, Unlock Product Growth by Engaging Long Tail Users. And I really wanted to talk to him about that and help him explain, have him explain to us a little bit about this idea, this new concept that his new book is about. So, Goiko, let's talk about it. Lizard Optimization, in a nutshell, what do you mean by that? What is it? Gojko (01:14) We're going to jump into that, but I just need to correct one of the things you said. I think it's very, very important. You said I came up with impact mapping and I didn't. I just wrote a popular book about that. And it's very important to credit people who actually came up with that. It's kind of the in -use design agency in Sweden. And I think, you know, they should get the credit for it. I literally just wrote a popular book. Brian (01:19) Okay. Gotcha. Gotcha, gotcha. Apologies for that incorrect. Thank you for making that correction. So lizard optimization. Gojko (01:44) So, lizard optimization. Good. So, lizard optimization is an idea to find signals for product ideas and product development ideas in strange user behaviors. When you meet somebody who does something you completely do not understand, why on earth somebody would do something like that? Brian (02:03) Okay. Gojko (02:11) and it looks like it's not done by humans, it looks like it's done by somebody who follows their own lizard logic, using stuff like that as signals to improve our products. Not just for lizards, but for everybody. So the idea came from a very explosive growth phase for one of the products I'm working on, where it... had lots of people doing crazy things I could never figure out why they were doing it. For example, one of the things the tool does is it helps people create videos from PowerPoints. You put some kind of your voiceover in the speaker notes, the tool creates a video by using text to speech engines to create voiceover from the speaker notes, aligns everything and it's all kind of for you. People kept creating blank videos and paying me for this. I was thinking about why on earth would somebody be creating blank videos and it must be a bug and if it's a bug then they want their money back and they'll complain. So I chased up a few of these people and I tried to kind of understand what's going on because I originally thought we have a bug in the development pipeline for the videos. So... I started asking like, you know, I'm using some, I don't know, Google slides or, you know, keynote or whatever to produce PowerPoints. Maybe there's a bug how we read that. And the person, no, no, we, know, official Microsoft PowerPoint. They said, well, can you please open the PowerPoint you uploaded? Do you see anything on the slides when you open it? And the person, no, it's blank. Right? Okay, so it's blank for you as well. I said, yeah. So. Brian (03:48) Yeah. Gojko (03:54) What's going on? so what I've done is through UX interviews and iterating with users and research, we've made it very, very easy to do advanced configuration on text -to -speech. And it was so much easier than the alternative things that people were creating blank PowerPoints just to use the text -to -speech engines so they can then extract the audio track from it. Brian (03:54) Yeah, why? Gojko (04:23) and then use that and it was this whole mess of obstacles I was putting in front of people to get the good audio. It wasn't the original intention of the tool. It wasn't the original value, but people were getting unintended value from it. And then I ended up building just a very simple screen for people to upload the Word document instead of PowerPoints. And it was much faster for users to do that. A month later, there was many audio files being built as videos. Two months later, audio... production overtook video production. then at the moment, people are building many, many more audio files than video files on the platform. So it was an incredible growth because of this kind of crazy insight of what people were doing. kind of usually, at least kind of in the products I worked on before, when you have somebody abusing the product, product management fight against it. There's a wonderful story about this in... Founders at work a book by Jessica Livingston and she talks about this kind of group of super smart people in late 90s who Came up with a very very efficient Cryptography algorithm and a way to compute the cryptography so they can run it on low -power devices like Paul pilots Paul pilots were you know like mobile phones, but in late 90s and Then they had to figure out, how do we monetize this? Why would anybody want to do this? So they came up with the idea to do money transfer pumping, Palm pilots, you know, why not? And kind of the built a website. This was the late nineties as a way of just demoing this software to people who didn't have a Palm pilot device next to them. The idea was that you'd kind of see it on the website, learn about it, then maybe download the Palm pilot app and use it in anger. People kept just using the website, they're not downloading the Palm Pilot app. So the product management really wasn't happy. And they were trying to push people from the website to the Palm Pilot app. were trying to, they were fighting against people using this for money transfer on the web and even prohibiting them from using the logo and advertising it. They had this whole thing where nobody could explain why users were using the website because it was a demo thing. It was not finished. It was not sexy. It was just silly. And Jessica kind of talks to one of these people who insists that it was totally inexplicable. Nobody could understand it. But then a bit later, they realized that the website had one and half million users and that the Pongpilot app had 12 ,000 users. So they kind of decided, well, that's where the product is really. And that's like today, people know them as PayPal. They're one of the biggest payment processes in the world because kind of, you know, they realized this is where the product is going. And I think in many, many companies, people Brian (07:03) Ha ha. Gojko (07:18) stumble upon these things as happy accidents. And I think there's a lot more to it. We can deliberately optimize products by looking for unintended usage and not fighting it, just not fighting it. just understand this is what people are getting as value. And I think for me as a solo product founder and developer and product manager on it, One of the really interesting things is when you have somebody engaging with your product in an unexpected way, most of the difficult work for that user is already done. That person knows about you, they're on your website or they're using your product, the marketing and acquisition work is done. But something's preventing them from achieving their goals or they're achieving some value that you did not really know that they're going to achieve. you know, that's something the product can do to help them and remove these obstacles to success. So that's kind of what lizard optimization is making this process more systematic rather than relying on happy accidents. And by making it more systematic, then we can help product management not fight it and skip this whole phase of trying to fight against our users and claim that users are stupid or non -technical or... They don't understand the product, but they're trying to figure out, well, that's what the real goals are. And then following that. Brian (08:47) That's awesome. So the pivot, right? The pivot from here's what we thought our problem was we were solving to now here's what we're actually solving and we should organize around this actual problem, right? Gojko (09:02) or here's what we're going to solve additionally. This is the problem we've solved, but hey, there's this problem as well. And then the product can grow by solving multiple problems for people and solving related problems and solving it for different groups of people, for example. And that's the really interesting thing because I think if you have a product that's already doing something well for your users and a subset of them are misusing it in some way, then kind of... Brian (09:04) Yeah. Gojko (09:30) The product might already be optimized for the majority of users, but there might be a new market somewhere else. So there might be a different market where we can help kind of a different group of users and then the product can grow. Brian (09:43) Yeah, I like to focus on the user. There's an exercise that we'll do in one of our product owner classes where we have a fake product that is a smart refrigerator. And one of the exercises we try to get them to brainstorm the different kinds of users that they might have for it. And one of the things that always comes out in that class is as they're going through and trying to describe the types of users, they inevitably hit to this crossroads where they start to decide Well, yes, we're thinking of this as a home product, something for people to use in their homes. But then the idea crosses their mind, well, what about commercial kitchens? What about people who might use this in another setting? And it's always an interesting conversation to say, well, now you've got a strategic choice to make, because you can target both. You can target one. You can say, we're ignoring the other and we're only going in this direction. So to me, I think that's kind of one of the interesting crossroad points is to say, how do I know when it's time to not just say, great, we have this other customer segment that we didn't know about, but actually we should start to pivot towards that customer segment and start to really target them. Gojko (11:03) Yeah, think that's a fundamental question of product development, isn't it? Do you keep true to your vision even if it's not coming out or if something else is there that's kind more important than I think? For me, there's a couple of aspects to that. One is, laser focus is really important to launch a product. You can't launch a product by targeting... the whole market and targeting a niche type, figuring out, you know, user personas, figuring out like really, really, this is the product who we think the product, this is the group who we think the product is for and giving them a hundred percent of what they need is much better than giving 2 % to everybody because then the product is irrelevant. But then to grow the product, we need to kind of grow the user base as well. And I think one of the things that... is interesting to look at and this comes from a book called Lean Analytics. It's one of my kind of favorite product management books is to look at the frequency and urgency of usage. If you have a group that's kind of using your product, a subgroup that's using your product very frequently compared to everybody else, that might be kind of the place where you want to go. The more frequently, the more urgently people reach for your product when they have this problem. the more likely they are going to be a good market for it. with kind of another product that I've launched in 2013, we originally thought it's going to be a product for professional users. And we aimed at the professional users. And then we found that a subcategory that we didn't really expect, were kind of teachers and children in schools. we're using it a lot more frequently than professional users. And then we started simplifying the user interface significantly so that it can be used by children. And it's a very, very popular tool in schools now. We are not fighting against other professional tools. We were kind of really one of the first in the education market there. And it's still a very popular tool in the education market because we figured a subgroup that's using it very frequently. Brian (13:14) Hmm. Yeah, that's awesome. How do you know when, you know, what kind of threshold do you look for to determine that, this is, because, you know, in your book, you're talking about, you know, behaviors that are not normal, right? People using your product in a way that you didn't anticipate. And what kind of threshold do you look for to that says, hey, it's worth investigating this? You know, I've got this percentage or this number of people who are using it in this strange way. At what point do you chase that down? Gojko (13:49) I think it's wrong to look at the percentages there. I think it's wrong to look at the percentages because then you get into the game of trying to justify economically helping 0 .1 % of the users. And that's never going to happen because what I like about this is an idea from Microsoft's Inclusive Design and the work of Kat Holmes who wrote a book called Mismatch on Brian (13:52) Okay. Gojko (14:17) assistive technologies and inclusive design for disabled people. And she talks about how it's never ever ever going to be economically justified to optimize a product to help certain disabilities because there's just not enough of them. And there's a lovely example from Microsoft where, Microsoft Inclusive Design Handbook where they talk about three types of, Brian (14:34) Yeah. Gojko (14:44) disabilities, one are permanent. So you have like people without an arm or something like that. And I'm going to kind of throw some numbers out now, order of magnitude stuff. I have these details in the book and there's kind of the micro -inclusive design handbook. Let's say at the moment, the 16 ,000 people in the U .S. without one arm or with a disabled arm. And then you have these kind of situational disabilities where because of an occupation like you have a bartender who needs to carry something all the time or a worker who does it, one arm is not available and they only have one arm to work on and this temporary like a mother carrying a child or something like that. So the other two groups are order of magnitude 20 -30 million. We're not, by making the software work well with one hand, we're not helping 16 ,000 people, we are helping 50 million people. But you don't know that you're helping 50 million people if you're just thinking about like 16 ,000. I think they have this kind of, one of the key ideas of inclusive design is solve for one, kind of help, design for one, but solve for many. So we are actually helping many, many people there. So think when you figure out that somebody is doing something really strange with your product, you're not helping just that one person. Brian (15:45) Right, right. Hmm. Gojko (16:13) you're helping a whole class of your users by making the software better, removing the obstacles to success. this is where I, you know, going back to the PowerPoint thing I mentioned, once we started removing obstacles for people to build the audios quickly, lots of other people started using the product and people started using the product in a different way. And I think this is a lovely example of what Bruce Torazzini talks about is the complexity paradox because He's a famous UX designer and he talks about how once you give people a product, their behavior changes as a result of having the product. So the UX research we've done before there is a product or there is a feature is not completely relevant, but it's a changed context because he talks about people have a certain amount of time to do a task. And then when they have a tool to complete the task faster, they can take on a more complicated task or they can take on an additional task or do something else. I think removing obstacles to use a success is really important. Not because we're helping 0 .1 % of people who we don't understand, but because we can then improve the product for everybody. And I think that's kind of the magic of lizard optimization in a sense, where if we find these things where somebody's really getting stuck. but if we help them not get stuck, then other people will use the product in a much better way. And I think this is, know, the name lizard optimization comes from this article by Scott Alexander, who talks about the lizard man's constant in research. And the article talks about his experiences with a survey that combined some demographic and psychological data. So they were looking at where you live and what your nationality is and what gender you are and then how you respond to certain psychological questions. he said, like there's about 4 % of the answers they could not account for. And one person wrote American is gender. Several people listed Martian as nationality and things like that. some of these, he says some of these things will be people who didn't really understand the question. they were distracted, they were doing something else, or they understood the question but they filled in the wrong box because, know, the thick thumbs and small screens, or they were kind of malicious and just, you know, wanted to see what happens. when you kind of add these people together, they're not an insignificant group. kind of, he says 4%. And if... we can help these people, at least some of these people, and say reduce churn by 1%. That can compound growth. Reducing churn, keeping people around for longer is an incredible way to kind of unlock growth. going back to what we were talking about, some people might be getting stuck because they don't understand the instructions. Some people might be getting stuck because they're using the product in a way you didn't expect. And some people might just like not have the mental capacity to use it the way you expected them to be used. But if we can help these people along, then normal users can use it much, easier. And you mentioned a smart fridge. I still remember there was this one wonderful bug report we had for my other product, which is a collaboration tool. we had a bug report a while ago. that the software doesn't work when it's loaded on a fridge. And it's like, well, it was never intended to be loaded on a fridge. I have no idea how you loaded it on a fridge. It's a mind mapping diagramming tool. It's intended to be used on large screens. Where does a fridge come in? And then we started talking to this person. This was before the whole kind of COVID and work from home disaster. The user was a busy mother and she was kind of trying to collaborate with her colleagues while making breakfast. breakfast for kids and kind of running around the kitchen she wasn't able to kind of pay attention to the laptop or a phone but her fridge had a screen so she loaded the software on the fridge and was able to kind of pay attention to collaboration there and you know we of course didn't optimize the software to run on fridges that's ridiculous but we realized that some people will be using it without a keyboard and without a mouse and then we kind of restructured the toolbar, we made it so that you can use it on devices that don't have a keyboard and then the whole tablet thing exploded and now you get completely different users that don't have keyboards and things like that. I think that's where I think is looking at percentages is a losing game because then you start saying, but 0 .1 % of people use this. But yeah, I think lizard optimization is about using these signals to improve the products for everybody. Brian (21:30) That's a great example. I love that example because you're absolutely right. You're not trying to necessarily solve that one problem because you don't anticipate there's going to be a lot of people who are going to want to run that software on a fridge. However, the takeaway you had from that of, we can do this for people who don't have a keyboard or a mouse. There's another way that they might operate this that could apply to lots of different devices and lots of different scenarios. Now we're talking about a much bigger audience. Now we're talking about opening this up to larger segments of the population. I love that. I think that's a great example. I know you talk about that there's kind of a process for this. Help us understand. You don't have to give away the whole candy story here from the book, but help us kind of understand in broad, terms what kind of process people follow to try to chase these things down. Gojko (22:26) So there's like a four step process that's crystallized for me. And the book is kind of more as a, like a proposal or a process. It's something that works for me and I'm hoping that other people will try it out like that. So it might not necessarily stay like that in a few years if we talk again. And I've narrowed it down to four steps and kind of the four steps start with letters L, Z, R and D. Lizard. And it's kind of so learn how people are misusing your products, zero in on one area, on one behavior change you want to improve, then remove obstacles to use a success and then double check that what you've done actually created the impact you expected to make. I think kind of when we look at people who follow their own logic or people who follow some lizard logic you don't really understand, by definition they're doing something strange. your idea of helping them might not necessarily be effective or it might not go all the way or it might. So double checking at the end that people are actually now doing what you expect them to do or doing something better is really, really, really important. And then using signals from that to improve the kind of feedback loop is critical. I had this one case where people were getting stuck on a payment format entering tax details and The form was reasonably well explained. There was an example in the forum how to enter your tax ID and people were constantly getting stuck. A small percentage of people was getting stuck on it. However, I don't want to lose a small percentage of people that want to pay me on the payment form. So I thought, well, how about if I remove that field from there? I speed it up for everybody and then I can guide them later into entering the tax details to generate an invoice. I thought that was a brilliant idea. tested it with a few users. Everybody loved it, so I released it. And then a week later, I realized that, yes, I've sold it for the people that were getting confused, but I've ended up confusing a totally different group of people that expects the tax fields there. So the net effect was negative. then I went back to the original form. so there's lots of these things where people don't necessarily behave the way you think they will. Brian (24:38) Hahaha. Gojko (24:48) Ron Kohavi has a wonderful book about that called Trustworthy Online Experiments. And he has data from Slack, from Microsoft, from Booking .com and... The numbers are depressive. on one hand, the numbers range from 10 to 30, 40 % success rate for people's ideas. And if leading companies like that do things that don't pan out two thirds of the time, then we have to be honest building our products and say, well, maybe this idea is going to work out, maybe not. Brian (25:03) Hahaha. Wow. Gojko (25:30) the more experimental the population is, the more risky that is. think monitoring and capturing weird user behaviors, capturing errors helps you understand that people are getting stuck. as you said, you don't want to follow everybody. There's going to be a lot of noise there. We need to extract signals from the noise. That's what the second step is about, focusing on one specific thing we want to improve. Then, try to remove obstacles and then double -checking that we've actually removed them. That's the four steps. And there's like a shorter version of all the four steps. It's easier to remember. It's listen alert, zooming, rescue them, and then double check at the end. that's again, LZRD. Brian (26:13) That's awesome. Yeah, I love the process and I love the kind of steps there. Are there tools that you recommend for this that are easier to try to determine these things or chase them down or are there tools that you find are more helpful? Gojko (26:32) So there's lots of tools today for things like A -B testing and looking at experiments and things that are very helpful to do this scale. And it's kind of especially useful for the last step. In terms of kind of focusing and things like that, the five stages of growth from the linear analytics are a good tool. Impact mapping is a good tool. Kind of any focusing product management technique that says, well, these are the business goals we're working on now, or these are the kind of user goals we're working on now. out of, know, 50 lizards we found last week, these three lizards seem to be kind of in that area. And for the first step, spotting when people are getting stuck, there's a bunch of tools that are interesting, like session recorders for web products. There's one from Microsoft called Clarity that's free. There's another called Full Story that's quite expensive. There's a couple of open source one, one is packaged within Matomo analytics application. There's a bunch of these other things. Any kind of observability or monitoring tool is also very useful for this because we can spot when people are getting stuck. One of the things I found particularly helpful is logging all user errors. When a user does something to cause an error condition in a product, the product of course tells them like, know, an error happened. But then... logging it and analyzing that information in the back is really critical. for something like that, people sometimes use web analytics tools or any kind of product analytics. I think what's going to be interesting in the next couple of years, and I think if people start doing this more, is we'll see. more like these technical exception analytics tracking tools mixed with this because most of the product analytics are showing people what they expect to see, not what they don't expect to see. And I'll just give you an example of this way. was really helpful. So I've mentioned the screen where people can upload the Word documents. Occasionally people would select weird file types. So they'll select images, they'll select, I don't know, what else. Brian (28:31) Yeah. Gojko (28:49) Sometimes I guess that's a result of, know, a fat finger press or somebody not selecting the right thing. I have a not insignificant percentage of users every day that try to upload Android package files into a text -to -speech reader. Android package files and application files, I don't know what the right way is to read out an Android application. My best guess is people are doing that. as a, you know, these things where you drop a USB in front of an office and somebody kind of mistakenly plugs it in. So maybe they're hoping that I'll know the Android application on my phone just because they've uploaded it. I don't know, but a small percentage of users was trying to upload files that had SRT and VTT extensions, which are subtitle files. And they were not supported, but Brian (29:31) Yeah. Gojko (29:45) I kept getting information that people are uploading those types of files. And then I said, well, this is interesting because it's a text to speech system. People are uploading subtitle files, there's text in, so why don't I just ignore the timestamps and read the text? I can do that. And I started supporting that. And then some people started complaining that, well, the voice is reading it slower than the subtitles. I said, well, yes, because... Brian (30:11) Ha Gojko (30:12) You know, you're uploading subtitles that were read by an actor in a movie. This is a voice that's reading it at their speed. And then we started talking and it turns out that these people were doing it for corporate educational videos where they have a video in English, they need it in French, German, Spanish and all the else, but they don't want to kind of re -edit the video. They just want an alternate audio track. Okay, I mean, I have the timestamps, we can speed up or slow down the audio, it's not a big deal. And we've done that and this was one of the most profitable features ever. Like a very small percentage of the users need it, but those that need it produce hundreds of thousands of audio files because they translate the corporate training videos. And now, you know, we're getting into that numbers game. If I said, you know, there's like 0 .1 % of people are uploading subtitle files. Brian (30:58) Yeah. Gojko (31:07) then it doesn't matter. if we start thinking about, this is potentially interesting use case, it creates growth on its own because then people find you. And I think my product was the first that was actually doing synchronous subtitles. Competitors are doing it now as well. But it opened the massive, massive market for us. And people, you know, I got there by monitoring user errors, by, you know, the fact that somebody uploaded a file that had an unsupported extension. That was our insight. Brian (31:38) Wow, that's really cool. That's a great story. This is fascinating stuff. And it makes me want to dive deeper into the book and read through it again. But I really appreciate you coming on and sharing this with us, Goiko. This is good stuff. Again, the book is called, Lizard Optimization, Unlock Product Growth by Engaging Long Tail Users. And if I'm right, we talked about this a little bit before. We're going to offer a discount to to the listeners, Gojko (32:07) Yes, we will give you a listen as a 50 % discount on the ebook. the ebook is available from Lean Pub. If you get it from the discount URL that I'll give you, then you'll get a 50 % discount immediately. Brian (32:24) Awesome. So we'll put that in our show notes. If you're interested in that, you can find the show notes. That's a great deal, 50 % off the book and it's good stuff. well, I just, I can't thank you enough. Thanks for making time and coming on and talking this through your book. Gojko (32:40) Thank you, it was lovely to chat to you.

Stop Being Busy. Start Resting.

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Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2024 12:05

When you're busy all the time, it's hard to pause, slow down and rest. But the busier you are, the more you need to recover and recharge.In episode 70 of The Incrementalist, you will learn:1) Wanting to rest is not a sign of weakness or laziness 0:002) What is rest 0:533) The benefits of passive rest, like Niksen (the Dutch term for doing nothing) 1:214) The advantages of active rest, like tactile hobbies or meditative activities 2:205) Rest can be mentally restorative, physically recharging, or spiritually renewing, or a combination of all three 2:445) The two main branches of the nervous system 4:196) Polyvagal Theory and the importance of the vagus nerve and Ventral Vagal State 5:257) The four types of responses to stress 8:218) Rest allows you to use your nervous system more effectively and activate the Ventral Vagal State to destress 8:369) Rest is key to creating big results in small steps 9:26Website: http://www.dyanwilliams.com/The Incrementalist: A Simple Productivity System to Create Big Results in Small Steps, is available on Amazon and Leanpub:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CFHYHGFZ(Pros: lowest price for readers and readily available on Kindle)https://leanpub.com/incrementalist(Pros: price flexibility for readers and 60-day money back guarantee)Watch the YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@theincrementalist/Subscribe to e-newsletter at: https://bit.ly/3J9EbsD

Episode 466: Great Grammarly

Software Defined Talk

Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2024 49:11

This week, we discuss 451's Generative A.I. Market Forecast, OpenAI launching a search engine and Apple's new iPads. Plus, a look back at Microsoft's acquiring Nokia. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENsBkKFvDSU) 466 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENsBkKFvDSU) Runner-up Titles Coté is in a Dungeon Everything's going to be different What would Stringer Bell say? Displacing Google Great Grammarly A room full of barking dogs A little bit of hustle porn. Over value activity A whole room with barking dogs Rundown Clouded Judgement 5.3.24 (https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-5324-hyperscalers?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=56878&post_id=144188884&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=2l9&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email) OpenAI To Launch Search Engine (https://www.seroundtable.com/openai-to-launch-search-engine-37319.html) Perplexity.AI raises $250 million with $3B valuation (https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/23/perplexity-is-raising-250m-at-2-point-5-3b-valuation-ai-search-sources-say/) That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit (https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/05/microsoft_nokia_anniversary/) The 7 biggest announcements from Apple's iPad event (https://www.theverge.com/24148044/apple-ipad-let-loose-event-biggest-announcements-may-2024) HashiCorp Co-Founder Reflects 48-Hours After Selling to IBM (https://open.substack.com/pub/theloganbartlettshow/p/hashicorp-co-founder-reflects-48?r=2l9&utm_medium=ios) Relevant to your Interests Google paid Apple $20 billion in 2022 to be Safari's default search engine. (https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/2/24147007/google-paid-apple-20-billion-in-2022-to-be-safaris-default-search-engine) Data Privacy: All the Ways Your Cellphone Carrier Tracks You and How to Stop It (https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/data-privacy-all-the-ways-your-cellphone-carrier-tracks-you-and-how-to-stop-it/) Supercharged Developer Portals (https://engineering.atspotify.com/2024/04/supercharged-developer-portals/) VMware eases changes and deadlines for CSPs (https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/01/vmware_cloud_partner_changes/) Over 400 million Google accounts have used passkeys, but our passwordless future remains elusive (https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/2/24147030/google-passkey-passwordless-authentication-400-million-accounts) Wiz deal to acquire Lacework collapses | CTech (https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hj3v0algc) Snowflake releases a flagship generative AI model of its own | TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/24/snowflake-releases-a-flagship-generative-ai-model-of-its-own/?ref=runtime.news) Open sourcing Octo STS (https://www.chainguard.dev/unchained/open-sourcing-octo-sts) Apple is an edge computing company. (https://www.threads.net/@benedictevans/post/C6hJol6uCht/?xmt=AQGzm5jTjO-azBUGdYe3GtrTcZuYxq_qB08WbCMmlWwqSQ) EQT snaps up API and identity management software company WSO2 for more than $600M | TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/03/eqt-snaps-up-enterprise-software-company-wso2-for-more-than-600m/) Alternative clouds are booming as companies seek cheaper access to GPUs | TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/05/coreweaves-1-1b-raise-shows-the-market-for-alternative-clouds-is-booming/) VMware Cloud on AWS - Here Today, Here Tomorrow | Hock Tan, President and CEO Broadcom (https://www.broadcom.com/blog/vmware-cloud-on-aws-here-today-here-tomorrow) Amazon's AWS to double down on Singapore with additional $9 billion cloud investment (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/07/amazons-aws-to-invest-nearly-9-billion-in-singapore.html) How the US Is Destroying Young People's Future | Scott Galloway | TED (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEJ4hkpQW8E) UniSuper and GCP (https://twitter.com/quinnypig/status/1787792760336257153?s=46&t=tKrY7ObmfMDBTim-ug3gOw) AWS ‘Disappointed' It's No Longer A VMware Cloud On AWS Reseller; Future Of Product In Doubt (https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/2024/aws-disappointed-its-no-longer-a-vmware-cloud-on-aws-reseller-future-of-product-in-doubt) Red Hat Rethinks the Linux Distro for the Container Age (https://thenewstack.io/red-hat-rethinks-the-linux-distro-for-the-container-age/) Why companies list fake jobs (https://thehustle.co/news/why-companies-list-fake-jobs) Nonsense Justice for cord boxes!!! (https://www.threads.net/@kevinroose/post/C6hhdoDvQ2F) Burnout - When does work start feeling pointless? | DW Documentary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raVms8w61No) North Yorkshire to drop apostrophes from street signs (https://www.localgov.co.uk/North-Yorkshire-to-drop-apostrophes-from-street-signs/60329) Wife Surprises Husband With Birthday Party at Costco (https://youtu.be/cnLB6FH7SmY?si=O1HZ_tlJ2eDIuOvu) Conferences Executive Dinner in Atlanta, May 22nd (https://sincusa.com/events/tanzu-atlanta-ga-dinner/) - Coté is hosting it with a former Home Depot platform engineer, Tony. MS Build (https://build.microsoft.com/en-US/home), Seattle May 21-23, Matt will be there NDC Oslo (https://substack.com/redirect/8de3819c-db2b-47c8-bd7a-f0a40103de9e?j=eyJ1IjoiMmQ0byJ9.QKaKsDzwnXK5ipYhX0mLOvRP3vpk_3o2b5dd3FXmAkw), Coté speaking (https://substack.com/redirect/41e821af-36ba-4dbb-993c-20755d5f040a?j=eyJ1IjoiMmQ0byJ9.QKaKsDzwnXK5ipYhX0mLOvRP3vpk_3o2b5dd3FXmAkw), June 12th. DevOpsDays Amsterdam (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-amsterdam/welcome/), June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024 (https://devopsdays.org/events/2024-birmingham-al/welcome/). SpringOne (https://springone.io/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming)/VMware Explore US (https://blogs.vmware.com/explore/2024/04/23/want-to-attend-vmware-explore-convince-your-manager-with-these/?utm_source=cote&utm_campaign=devrel&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=newsletterUpcoming), August 26–29, 2024. SREday London 2024 (https://sreday.com/2024-london/), September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY (https://sreday.com/2024-london/#tickets). SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Get a SDT Sticker! Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! 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Learn While Doing Things (Better)

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Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2024 14:42

Learning is a meta skill for thriving, growing, and doing better. When you don't learn, you stay stuck and repeat the same mistakes. While learning might not be as urgent as performing tasks, producing output and meeting deadlines, it's just as important. Your performance is at its lowest when you're purely performing or purely learning. You're most likely to succeed when you have the ideal mix of both. In episode 69 of The Incrementalist, you will learn:1) Chronic performance is counterproductive2) The difference between having a fixed mindset and a growth mindset3) 7 big ideas from Eduardo Briceño's book, The Performance Paradox, to break out of chronic performance and turn the power of mindset into action2:42 Big Idea #13:20 Big Idea #24:09 Big Idea #34:54 Big Idea #4 7:34 Big Idea #5 10:07 Big Idea #612:25 Big Idea #7Website: http://www.dyanwilliams.com/The Incrementalist: A Simple Productivity System to Create Big Results in Small Steps, is available on Amazon and Leanpub:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CFHYHGFZ(Pros: lowest price for readers and readily available on Kindle)https://leanpub.com/incrementalist(Pros: price flexibility for readers and 60-day money back guarantee)Watch the YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@theincrementalist/Subscribe to e-newsletter at: https://bit.ly/3J9EbsD

199-Jim: Helps Organizations Put Out Dumpster Fires, Houses 2 Ukrainian Refugees, Farmer's Son, Traveled to Cuba

Getting 2 Know U Pod

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2024 157:40

Sean and Jim talk about: (2:00) growing up as a farmer's son in a small town in California, his family's intellectual curiosities and achievements, and some of his various jobs (34:25) presenting at different conferences and in different countries with a funny story involving a kitten meme in India (49:12) being a part of a group that helps Ukrainian refugees find housing, jobs, and services in his small town along with the stories he's heard about their experience leaving so much behind (1:24:35) his trip to Cuba and staying in private residences set up by Heart of Travel, which he highly recommends using, and other travel stories (2:05:29) getting pretty competitive into volleyball as an adult and dealing with sport team clicks (2:16:11) helping organizations and teams become more efficient, grow themselves and put out dumpster-fires Get 2 Know more about Jim Uniting for Ukraine Rogue Valley: https://www.unitingforukrainerv.org/ My book The Leadership Journey is free on Leanpub: https://leanpub.com/theleadershipjourney My YouTube channel is mostly on painting miniatures: https://www.youtube.com/@frazzleddadsminis IG: https://www.instagram.com/realfrazzleddad/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-holmes/ Follow the Getting 2 Know U Pod on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook Help the Getting 2 Know U Pod upgrade our recording and sound equipment through our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/getting2knowupod Support the Getting 2 Know U Pod by SUBSCRIBING, RATING, AND REVIEWING when you listen: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/getting-2-know-u-pod/id1502868247 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/686ov3pdhcVVaN4PXZeMHA?si=hE_tJlSkRii-kaSGcJgLUw&nd=1 Podbean: https://getting2knowupod.podbean.com/

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How to step into uncertainty, make progress, and find flow

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2024 14:53

Uncertainty makes it harder to make progress and find flow in meaningful things. In easy conditions, progress is a straight line toward an end point. But when there's uncertainty, progress is more like a feedback loop. In episode 68 of The Incrementalist, you will learn:1) 0:09 When faced with the unknown, you can either do something or do nothing.2) 0:26 The difference between uncertainty and ambiguity and why they both cause frustration. 3) 1:03 The Paradox of Control and how we create anxiety.4) 1:47 How good anxiety works for you and bad anxiety works against you. 5) 2:09 The Progress Principle and ways to leverage it. 6) 4:03 How to step into uncertainty to make progress and find flow:4:08 Tip 15:15 Tip 26:23 Tip 3 (stage 1 of flow cycle)8:36 Tip 4 (stage 2 of flow cycle) 9:37 Tip 5 (stage 3 of flow cycle)11:23 Tip 6 (stage 4 of flow cycle) 7) 13:02 Benefits of the Flow Cycle8) 13:08 Benefits of the Progress Loop 9) 14:03 I'm making an online course currently titled "The Busyness Trap: How to Escape Overload and Focus on What Matters." To get updates on the course launch and registration process, subscribe to my e-newsletter at dyanwilliams.com or The Incrementalist YouTube channel or podcast. Website: http://www.dyanwilliams.com/The Incrementalist: A Simple Productivity System to Create Big Results in Small Steps, is available on Amazon and Leanpub:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CFHYHGFZ(Pros: lowest price for readers and readily available on Kindle)https://leanpub.com/incrementalist(Pros: price flexibility for readers and 60-day money back guarantee)Subscribe to e-newsletter at: https://bit.ly/3J9EbsDTheme Music by: Sebastian Brian Mehr. Album – Olemus; Song – La Nieve.

Goal Setting to Make Your Best Year Ever

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2024 11:04

Setting goals - when done right - puts you on the path to a more desired life. In goal setting, do not make the finish line the main thing or lose sight of the journey. In episode 67 of The Incrementalist, you will learn:1) 0:15 By breaking your big goals down into mini goals, you achieve small wins that build your confidence, grow your knowledge, and keep you on an upward spiral.2) 0:32 Goals are spotlights pointing you in a certain direction. They are not always your ultimate destination point. 3) 1:21 The key differences between extrinsic goals and intrinsic goals. 4) 1:53 Why it's better to focus on goals you control, like your daily habits and actions.5) 2:41 How to measure progress by thinking about the gains rather the gaps.5) 4:09 The benefits of embracing failure as a chance to learn, instead of a negative experience to avoid at all costs. 6) 5:05 Why you need to choose or design the ideal environment and not rely on your willpower.7) 6:40 Fear of hope is a root cause for why we resist change. 8) 9:56 I'm creating an online course currently titled "The Busyness Trap: How to Escape Overload and Focus on What Matters." To get updates on the course launch and registration process, subscribe to my e-newsletter at dyanwilliams.com or The Incrementalist YouTube channel or podcast. Website: http://www.dyanwilliams.com/The Incrementalist: A Simple Productivity System to Create Big Results in Small Steps, is available on Amazon and Leanpub:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CFHYHGFZ(Pros: lowest price for readers and readily available on Kindle)https://leanpub.com/incrementalist(Pros: price flexibility for readers and 60-day money back guarantee)Subscribe to e-newsletter at: https://bit.ly/3J9EbsDTheme Music by: Sebastian Brian Mehr. Album – Olemus; Song – La Nieve.

SPaMCAST 784 - Agile Best Self, A Conversation With Michaele Gardner and Brian Hackerson

Software Process and Measurement Cast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2023 46:59

Software Process and Measurement Cast 784 features our interview with Michaele Gardner and Brian Hackerson. We talk about their Agile Best Self Initiative. We also, and perhaps more importantly, discuss being in control of yourself so you can truly deliver value to those around you. As we start to close out 2023 it is a wonderful opportunity to reflect on how you can be your best self. Michaele Gardner started out as a counselor at an emergency crisis line. Clients were too messy: clear inputs did not lead to predetermined outputs. So she moved into the world of IT and has not looked back. Becoming a developer on an XP team brought together her interests in psychology, flow, teamwork and problem solving. She quickly realized that many teams (and organizations) poured their hearts and souls into projects that added little value. Her next natural step was to help engineers and organizations understand business value at a micro and macro level. At all levels, Michaele loves giving change agents tools to define their own “why” and stay emotionally resilient. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaele-gardner-0829205/ Brian R. Hackerson is the co-creator of the Agile Best Self mindset, the VP of People Operations and Enterprise Agile Consultant at . An innovator at the intersection of Agile practices and personal development, Brian has revolutionized team engagement and performance in various leadership roles. His approach uniquely blends professional growth with personal empowerment, embodying his belief in the transformative power of aligning individual journeys with Agile principles. LinkedIn: Agile Best Self: Re-Read Saturday News Chapter 11 of is titled Saving The El Faro. In this final chapter, the author could have just as easily reimagined the outcomes of the Pinto design or the Deepwater Horizon disasters. The theme throughout the book is that Industrial-age thinking fails more often in the age of Knowledge Work. My final thoughts on this book? Not to put too fine a point on it, this is Marquet's most important book yet. Use the links below to read all of my final thoughts on and to catch up on previous installments. Week 1: – Week 2: – Week 3: – Week 4: – Week 5: – Week 6: – Week 7: – Week 8: – Week 9: – Week 10: – Week 11: – Week 12: - Next week we begin the READ (my first time) of ; which is available at LeanPub. We re-read Volume I in 2018 () that book was life changing…I am looking forward to Volume II. Learn to Solve IT's Dirtiest Secret! Work input, which includes prioritization and sequencing, is how work gets to an organization or team. If you get it wrong you are throwing time and money away. Simply put, poor work intake means “no agile for you”. Jeremy Willets and I have written tackling the topic that JRoss Publishing will publish in January 2024. In support of the book, we are building a live, workshop-based course for anyone involved in deciding on what work gets completed! This includes Agile Coaches, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Project Managers, Program Managers, and Portfolio Managers - lots of people are involved which is part of the problem! The workshop will cover why work intake is the biggest challenge to teams and organizations today. Attendees will also learn what to do to solve this challenge. This cohort-based course will combine very short lectures, discussions, and exercises. It will provide space to learn and share with peers. We're using a survey to build a waitlist for the first cohort – link below. We will use the list to alert you when the workshop is available. Next SPaMCAST As we celebrate the impending publication of (it is going to the printers very soon) I will continue the discussion of work intake scenarios that bedevil teams and organizations. Controlling work entry is controlling WIP which helps us be our best selves. We will also have a visit from Jeremy Berriault bringing his Evolutionary Agilist Column to the cast!

Scaling Simplified with Prateek Singh and Dan Vacanti

Agile Uprising Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2023 47:00

In this episode, hosts Troy Lightfoot and Andy Cleff sit down with Prateek Singh and Dan Vacanti about the new book "Scaling Simplified ." which can be currently found on Leanpub and Amazon. It challenges many common assumptions about "Scaling Agile" and teaches techniques for simplifying scaling by focusing on flow. Resources Mentioned: About the Agile Uprising If you enjoyed this episode, please give us a review a rating, or leave comments on iTunes, Stitcher or your podcasting platform of choice. It helps others find us. Many thanks to the artist from who provided us our outro music free of charge! If you like what you heard, check out these links to find more music you might enjoy! If you'd like to join the discussion and share your stories, please jump into the fray at our We at the Agile Uprising are committed to being free. However, we have a if you'd like to contribute and help us defray hosting and production costs. Who knows, you might even get some surprises in the mail!

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Think Slow to Act Fast in Big Projects

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2023 17:36

A bias for action can help you do big things and reach big goals. In big projects, it's vital in the delivery phase, which should be fast. But it hurts the planning phase, where it's better to be slow. In episode 66 of The Incrementalist, you will learn:1) 0:00 A bias for action feels productive but can also backfire and cause big failure in big projects.2) 0:55 Every big project has 2 basic phases: Planning and Delivery. 3) 1:11 In their book, How Big Things Get Done, authors Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner note that 99.5 percent of megaprojects go over budget, over schedule, fail to deliver promised results, or have some combination of these.4) 2:01 Failed projects use the Think Fast, Act Slow approach (rushed, superficial planning before project delivery). Successful projects apply the Think Slow, Act Fast pattern (careful, precise planning before project delivery). 5) 2:59 To do big things, apply the Think Slow, Act Fast approach with these 5 action tips: i) 3:05 Tip #1 - Commit to not committing. ii) 6:06 Tip #2 - Think from right to left. iii) 8:33 Tip #3 - Tinker, test, and experiment. iv) 12:10 Tip #4 - Figure out what's your LEGO - your basic building block – and keep adding one block to another. v) 13:19 Tip #5 - Take the outside view, not just the inside view.5) 15:15 Why the significance of planning is often downplayed: The Principle of the Hiding Hand and the Theory of Beneficial Ignorance or Providential IgnoranceYou don't need to be deep in delivery mode to spark creative ideas. Use the think slow, act fast pattern to plan carefully, deliver effectively, and get the best results in big projects. Website: http://www.dyanwilliams.com/The Incrementalist: A Simple Productivity System to Create Big Results in Small Steps, is available on Amazon and Leanpub:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CFHYHGFZ(Pros: lowest price for readers and readily available on Kindle)https://leanpub.com/incrementalist(Pros: price flexibility for readers and 60-day money back guarantee)

Advanced Topics in Metrics and Predictability with Dan Vacanti and Prateek Singh

Agile Uprising Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2023 38:47

In this episode, host Troy Lightfoot sits down with Dan Vacanti and Prateek Singh about the new book "" which can be currently found on Leanpub. 7 years Later, with the help of Prateek, Dan released the follow-up to his book Actional Agile Metrics for Predictability. It challenges many common assumptions about "Agile" and teaches techniques for understanding variation for process improvement, forecasting, and avoiding common mistakes. It's also a deep dive into flow metrics. Resources Mentioned: About the Agile Uprising If you enjoyed this episode, please give us a review a rating, or leave comments on iTunes, Stitcher or your podcasting platform of choice. It helps others find us. Many thanks to the artist from who provided us our outro music free of charge! If you like what you heard, to find more music you might enjoy! If you'd like to join the discussion and share your stories, please jump into the fray at our We at the Agile Uprising are committed to being free. However, we have a Patreon if you'd like to contribute and help us defray hosting and production costs. Who knows, you might even get some surprises in the mail!

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246 Sushil Bhattachan Marries AI with Agile Consulting

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2023 12:05

POPal Jira Plugin: https://tinyurl.com/3pndafps POPal web version: https://popalpro.com/ Company website: https://www.theagilemove.com/ YouTube video on How to breakdown Epic into stories using ChatGPT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3FA7JV0ED8&t Interested in Agile at your big company but struggling to resolve headaches? Is trying to do the usual Scrum or Kanban templates causing a lot of problems when more than one team is involved?Are you having trouble getting your management to align around what you see as obvious solutions?Do you want to learn about Systems Thinking and Whole Product Focus but find what you're reading is uninspiring and boring?The business novel, Agile Grande, will teach you these skills through dramatic story telling. Scrum Master Kartar takes a job to improve a logistics company's adaptability. But efforts to scale Agile practices are being blocked by Mr. Cherneski, a vice president who's organized the company into siloed pigeon holes in order to secretly make millions with a dark web shipping service. Kartar's life is in danger. He goes underground. A spy agency hunts Kartar.... The following concepts are covered in this dramatic story: scaling Scrum with LeSS, systems thinking, organizational design, systems modeling, and how to develop a transformation plan that your organization can actually do. Get a pre-release copy of Agile Grande for free at LeanPub.com.

245 How POPal reduces the Labor of the PO

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2023 11:04

POPal Jira Plugin: https://tinyurl.com/3pndafps POPal web version: https://popalpro.com/ Company website: https://www.theagilemove.com/ YouTube video on How to breakdown Epic into stories using ChatGPT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3FA7JV0ED8&t Interested in Agile at your big company but struggling to resolve headaches? Is trying to do the usual Scrum or Kanban templates causing a lot of problems when more than one team is involved?Are you having trouble getting your management to align around what you see as obvious solutions?Do you want to learn about Systems Thinking and Whole Product Focus but find what you're reading is uninspiring and boring?The business novel, Agile Grande, will teach you these skills through dramatic story telling. Scrum Master Kartar takes a job to improve a logistics company's adaptability. But efforts to scale Agile practices are being blocked by Mr. Cherneski, a vice president who's organized the company into siloed pigeon holes in order to secretly make millions with a dark web shipping service. Kartar's life is in danger. He goes underground. A spy agency hunts Kartar.... The following concepts are covered in this dramatic story: scaling Scrum with LeSS, systems thinking, organizational design, systems modeling, and how to develop a transformation plan that your organization can actually do. Get a pre-release copy of Agile Grande for free at LeanPub.com.

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242 Agile Framework Fight Night Bout 4—The Audience Rushes the Ring

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 21, 2023 16:16

This is the fourth series of Agile Framework Fight night. This fight night was hosted in Seattle by Beyond Agile. Like the first Agile Framework Fight Night, we brought together another winning panel of experts to represent the frameworks of DA, Fast Agile, LeSS, and SaFE. Agile Framework Fight Night, the THIRD series happened at Beyond Agile, transmitted from Seattle. You can find Beyond Agile at Meetup.com here: https://www.meetup.com/BeyondAgile/ The expert panelists are: Ricardo “Dad of Doom” Garcia stomping toes for Team DA This “Dad of Doom” has over 30 years of industry experience and has implemented and managed numerous software projects using Agile Practices for Fortune 500 companies. His work has been featured in white papers, cover stories in magazines, and is a frequent speaker at conferences and Agile expert panels. He is the organizer behind Seattle Disciplined Agile Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Seattle-Disciplined-Agile-Meetup/ Page "Paginator" Watson knocks heads for team FAST Agile This technical coach works for Industrial Logic. Page worked with Ron Quartel at Premier Blue Cross that used FAST Agile. https://www.linkedin.com/in/paige-is-xp/ Richard Hundhauson is Scrum Hausen vilifying the opponent for team Nexus Richard works is a Scrum devops trainer and is a co-creator of Nexus. https://www.linkedin.com/in/rhundhausen/ Barry Smith, aka Barry the Blizzard wrestles for team SAFE Is a member of Unify's Lean-Agile practice, and committed to helping product teams to enjoy a better way of working and delivering exceptional value to their customers. His over 25+ years of working in technology has shown him that innovation can be fostered anywhere, from startups to Fortune 500 firms. Lancer “Unkind” Kind, moderating a lucha libre lifestyle “Unkind” lives in Kirkland, and loves nothing more than writing micro tested software. For the last five years he has delivered consulting services in China, India, as well as the USA. He's a publishing author of science fiction and Agile Noir, a project management business novel. He's podcasting at Agile Thoughts, 敏捷理念 (the Chinese edition of Agile Thoughts), and SciFi Thoughts. His Agile at scale business novel is “continuously delivered” via Lean Pub at: https://leanpub.com/AgileGrande Here is a link to this Beyond Agile event in Meetup which contains comments about the fight night: https://www.meetup.com/beyondagile/events/286465281/ Other Agile Framework Fight Night Bouts You can listen to the first, second, and third Bouts of Agile Framework Fight Night series here: https://agilenoir.biz/en/agilethoughts/agile-framework-fight-night/ Interested in learning Agile? Kartar Petal starts a new job as a project manager of a waterfall project that's failing. But the biggest problem is that his LIFE is on the line if he doesn't deliver on time. His best chance of survival is to listen to a hindu godman who has decided to coach Kartar in becoming Agile. But will it be enough to save Kartar from being killed? Agile Noir teaches the following through dramatic story telling: Agile Manifesto and it's meaningUser StoriesPoker Planningservant leadershipScrum roles: Scrum Master, PO, and team.negotiating a win-win with stakeholdersScrum of Scrums Available in India, USA, and China from the following sellers: ACM (Association of Computing Machines): ACM BookstoreUSA: Amazon.comIndia: Pothi.comChina (Mandarin edition): WeChat store

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241 How localized are the funding decisions in your framework?—Agile Framework Fight Night Bout 4 battles over this question

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 14, 2023 12:16

This is the fourth series of Agile Framework Fight night. This fight night was hosted in Seattle by Beyond Agile. Like the first Agile Framework Fight Night, we brought together another winning panel of experts to represent the frameworks of DA, Fast Agile, LeSS, and SaFE. Agile Framework Fight Night, the THIRD series happened at Beyond Agile, transmitted from Seattle. You can find Beyond Agile at Meetup.com here: https://www.meetup.com/BeyondAgile/ The expert panelists are: Ricardo “Dad of Doom” Garcia stomping toes for Team DA This “Dad of Doom” has over 30 years of industry experience and has implemented and managed numerous software projects using Agile Practices for Fortune 500 companies. His work has been featured in white papers, cover stories in magazines, and is a frequent speaker at conferences and Agile expert panels. He is the organizer behind Seattle Disciplined Agile Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Seattle-Disciplined-Agile-Meetup/ Page "Paginator" Watson knocks heads for team FAST Agile This technical coach works for Industrial Logic. Page worked with Ron Quartel at Premier Blue Cross that used FAST Agile. https://www.linkedin.com/in/paige-is-xp/ Richard Hundhauson is Scrum Hausen vilifying the opponent for team Nexus Richard works is a Scrum devops trainer and is a co-creator of Nexus. https://www.linkedin.com/in/rhundhausen/ Barry Smith, aka Barry the Blizzard wrestles for team SAFE Is a member of Unify's Lean-Agile practice, and committed to helping product teams to enjoy a better way of working and delivering exceptional value to their customers. His over 25+ years of working in technology has shown him that innovation can be fostered anywhere, from startups to Fortune 500 firms. Lancer “Unkind” Kind, moderating a lucha libre lifestyle “Unkind” lives in Kirkland, and loves nothing more than writing micro tested software. For the last five years he has delivered consulting services in China, India, as well as the USA. He's a publishing author of science fiction and Agile Noir, a project management business novel. He's podcasting at Agile Thoughts, 敏捷理念 (the Chinese edition of Agile Thoughts), and SciFi Thoughts. His Agile at scale business novel is “continuously delivered” via Lean Pub at: https://leanpub.com/AgileGrande Here is a link to this Beyond Agile event in Meetup which contains comments about the fight night: https://www.meetup.com/beyondagile/events/286465281/ Other Agile Framework Fight Night Bouts You can listen to the first, second, and third Bouts of Agile Framework Fight Night series here: https://agilenoir.biz/en/agilethoughts/agile-framework-fight-night/ Interested in learning Agile? Kartar Petal starts a new job as a project manager of a waterfall project that's failing. But the biggest problem is that his LIFE is on the line if he doesn't deliver on time. His best chance of survival is to listen to a hindu godman who has decided to coach Kartar in becoming Agile. But will it be enough to save Kartar from being killed? Agile Noir teaches the following through dramatic story telling: Agile Manifesto and it's meaningUser StoriesPoker Planningservant leadershipScrum roles: Scrum Master, PO, and team.negotiating a win-win with stakeholdersScrum of Scrums Available in India, USA, and China from the following sellers: ACM (Association of Computing Machines): ACM BookstoreUSA: Amazon.comIndia: Pothi.comChina (Mandarin edition): WeChat store

Solitude: The Overlooked Path to Move Through Loneliness

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Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2023 19:24

Solitude is a chosen state of being alone. It is not the same as interpersonal loneliness or existential loneliness, which may lead to an early death or death by suicide in extreme cases. The need for alone time is as vital to human life as the need for social interaction. When you practice solitude, you will be better able to move through loneliness with skill, rather than try to end it unskillfully at all costs. In episode 65 of The Incrementalist, you will learn:1) The main differences between solitude and loneliness 2) The key differences between loners and introverts, who both enjoy solitude3) The reason extroverts might need solitude more than loners and introverts4) The four key benefits of solitude:i) Intentionalityii) Intellectualityiii) Simplicityiv) Self-sufficiency5) Easy ways to practice solitude in daily lifeThe Incrementalist: A Simple Productivity System to Create Big Results in Small Steps, is available on Amazon and Leanpub:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CFHYHGFZ(Pros: lowest price for readers and readily available on Kindle)https://leanpub.com/incrementalist(Pros: price flexibility for readers and 60-day money back guarantee)To learn more about how to get a Leanpub book on your Kindle, or into the Kindle app on your phone or tablet, go to:How do I get Leanpub books on my Kindle, or into the Kindle app on my phone or tablet? | Leanpub Help CenterWatch the video, Solitude: The Overlooked Path to Moving Through Loneliness, on our YouTube channel, The Incrementalist - A Productivity Show.Website: http://www.dyanwilliams.com/Subscribe to e-newsletter at:https://bit.ly/3J9EbsDTheme Music by:Sebastian Brian Mehr. Album – Olemus; Song – La Nieve.

240 How will your framework improve the engineering capabilities of my teams?—Agile Framework Fight Night Bout 4 battles over this question

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2023 11:33

This is the fourth series of Agile Framework Fight night. This fight night was hosted in Seattle by Beyond Agile. Like the first Agile Framework Fight Night, we brought together another winning panel of experts to represent the frameworks of DA, Fast Agile, LeSS, and SaFE. Agile Framework Fight Night, the THIRD series happened at Beyond Agile, transmitted from Seattle. You can find Beyond Agile at Meetup.com here: https://www.meetup.com/BeyondAgile/ The expert panelists are: Ricardo “Dad of Doom” Garcia stomping toes for Team DA This “Dad of Doom” has over 30 years of industry experience and has implemented and managed numerous software projects using Agile Practices for Fortune 500 companies. His work has been featured in white papers, cover stories in magazines, and is a frequent speaker at conferences and Agile expert panels. He is the organizer behind Seattle Disciplined Agile Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Seattle-Disciplined-Agile-Meetup/ Page "Paginator" Watson knocks heads for team FAST Agile This technical coach works for Industrial Logic. Page worked with Ron Quartel at Premier Blue Cross that used FAST Agile. https://www.linkedin.com/in/paige-is-xp/ Richard Hundhauson is Scrum Hausen vilifying the opponent for team Nexus Richard works is a Scrum devops trainer and is a co-creator of Nexus. https://www.linkedin.com/in/rhundhausen/ Barry Smith, aka Barry the Blizzard wrestles for team SAFE Is a member of Unify's Lean-Agile practice, and committed to helping product teams to enjoy a better way of working and delivering exceptional value to their customers. His over 25+ years of working in technology has shown him that innovation can be fostered anywhere, from startups to Fortune 500 firms. Lancer “Unkind” Kind, moderating a lucha libre lifestyle “Unkind” lives in Kirkland, and loves nothing more than writing micro tested software. For the last five years he has delivered consulting services in China, India, as well as the USA. He's a publishing author of science fiction and Agile Noir, a project management business novel. He's podcasting at Agile Thoughts, 敏捷理念 (the Chinese edition of Agile Thoughts), and SciFi Thoughts. His Agile at scale business novel is “continuously delivered” via Lean Pub at: https://leanpub.com/AgileGrande Here is a link to this Beyond Agile event in Meetup which contains comments about the fight night: https://www.meetup.com/beyondagile/events/286465281/ Other Agile Framework Fight Night Bouts You can listen to the first, second, and third Bouts of Agile Framework Fight Night series here: https://agilenoir.biz/en/agilethoughts/agile-framework-fight-night/

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Turn your hard efforts into easier steps (become an Incrementalist)

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Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2023 3:19

As you make gains, step by step, your actions and behaviors that used to take a lot of effort become more like a habit. You can choose to stay there and enjoy what you've accomplished or take the next step for a new challenge. The Incrementalist: A Simple Productivity System to Create Big Results in Small Steps, is now available on both Amazon and Leanpub.The book shows you how to skillfully practice the Incrementalist principles to do the right things, in the right way, at the right time – even when you feel unmotivated or uninspired.If you buy it, read it, and enjoy it, please recommend it to others and post a 5-star customer review on Amazon! Your support goes a long way in encouraging more readers to check it out and benefit from it as well.https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CFHYHGFZ(Pros: lowest price for readers and readily available on Kindle)https://leanpub.com/incrementalist(Pros: price flexibility for readers and 60-day money back guarantee)To learn more about how to get a Leanpub book on your Kindle, or into the Kindle app on your phone or tablet, go to: How do I get Leanpub books on my Kindle, or into the Kindle app on my phone or tablet? | Leanpub Help CenterWatch the video, Turn your hard efforts into easier steps, on our YouTube channel, The Incrementalist - A Productivity Show.Website: http://www.dyanwilliams.com/Subscribe to e-newsletter at: https://bit.ly/3J9EbsDTheme Music by: Sebastian Brian Mehr. Album – Olemus; Song – La Nieve.

239 Why should I lock into your Agile framework instead of working out my own?—Agile Framework Fight Night Bout 4 battles over this question

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 8, 2023 18:48

This is the fourth series of Agile Framework Fight night. This fight night was hosted in Seattle by Beyond Agile. Like the first Agile Framework Fight Night, we brought together another winning panel of experts to represent the frameworks of DA, Fast Agile, LeSS, and SaFE. Agile Framework Fight Night, the THIRD series happened at Beyond Agile, transmitted from Seattle. You can find Beyond Agile at Meetup.com here: https://www.meetup.com/BeyondAgile/ The expert panelists are: Ricardo “Dad of Doom” Garcia stomping toes for Team DA This “Dad of Doom” has over 30 years of industry experience and has implemented and managed numerous software projects using Agile Practices for Fortune 500 companies. His work has been featured in white papers, cover stories in magazines, and is a frequent speaker at conferences and Agile expert panels. He is the organizer behind Seattle Disciplined Agile Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Seattle-Disciplined-Agile-Meetup/ Page "Paginator" Watson knocks heads for team FAST Agile This technical coach works for Industrial Logic. Page worked with Ron Quartel at Premier Blue Cross that used FAST Agile. https://www.linkedin.com/in/paige-is-xp/ Richard Hundhauson is Scrum Hausen vilifying the opponent for team Nexus Richard works is a Scrum devops trainer and is a co-creator of Nexus. https://www.linkedin.com/in/rhundhausen/ Barry Smith, aka Barry the Blizzard wrestles for team SAFE Is a member of Unify's Lean-Agile practice, and committed to helping product teams to enjoy a better way of working and delivering exceptional value to their customers. His over 25+ years of working in technology has shown him that innovation can be fostered anywhere, from startups to Fortune 500 firms. Lancer “Unkind” Kind, moderating a lucha libre lifestyle “Unkind” lives in Kirkland, and loves nothing more than writing micro tested software. For the last five years he has delivered consulting services in China, India, as well as the USA. He's a publishing author of science fiction and Agile Noir, a project management business novel. He's podcasting at Agile Thoughts, 敏捷理念 (the Chinese edition of Agile Thoughts), and SciFi Thoughts. His Agile at scale business novel is “continuously delivered” via Lean Pub at: https://leanpub.com/AgileGrande Here is a link to this Beyond Agile event in Meetup which contains comments about the fight night: https://www.meetup.com/beyondagile/events/286465281/ Other Agile Framework Fight Night Bouts You can listen to the first, second, and third Bouts of Agile Framework Fight Night series here: https://agilenoir.biz/en/agilethoughts/agile-framework-fight-night/

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238 Agile Framework Fight Night Bout 4—How does your framework reduce or remove dependencies?

Daily Flow - for practitioners, coaches & leaders in Product Management, Lean, Agile and Lean/Agile

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2023 25:28

This is the fourth series of Agile Framework Fight night. This fight night was hosted in Seattle by Beyond Agile. Like the first Agile Framework Fight Night, we brought together another winning panel of experts to represent the frameworks of DA, Fast Agile, LeSS, and SaFE. Agile Framework Fight Night, the THIRD series happened at Beyond Agile, transmitted from Seattle. You can find Beyond Agile at Meetup.com here: https://www.meetup.com/BeyondAgile/ The expert panelists are: Ricardo “Dad of Doom” Garcia stomping toes for Team DA This “Dad of Doom” has over 30 years of industry experience and has implemented and managed numerous software projects using Agile Practices for Fortune 500 companies. His work has been featured in white papers, cover stories in magazines, and is a frequent speaker at conferences and Agile expert panels. He is the organizer behind Seattle Disciplined Agile Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Seattle-Disciplined-Agile-Meetup/ Page "Paginator" Watson knocks heads for team FAST Agile This technical coach works for Industrial Logic. Page worked with Ron Quartel at Premier Blue Cross that used FAST Agile. https://www.linkedin.com/in/paige-is-xp/ Richard Hundhauson is Scrum Hausen vilifying the opponent for team Nexus Richard works is a Scrum devops trainer and is a co-creator of Nexus. https://www.linkedin.com/in/rhundhausen/ Barry Smith, aka Barry the Blizzard wrestles for team SAFE Is a member of Unify's Lean-Agile practice, and committed to helping product teams to enjoy a better way of working and delivering exceptional value to their customers. His over 25+ years of working in technology has shown him that innovation can be fostered anywhere, from startups to Fortune 500 firms. Lancer “Unkind” Kind, moderating a lucha libre lifestyle “Unkind” lives in Kirkland, and loves nothing more than writing micro tested software. For the last five years he has delivered consulting services in China, India, as well as the USA. He's a publishing author of science fiction and Agile Noir, a project management business novel. He's podcasting at Agile Thoughts, 敏捷理念 (the Chinese edition of Agile Thoughts), and SciFi Thoughts. His Agile at scale business novel is “continuously delivered” via Lean Pub at: https://leanpub.com/AgileGrande Here is a link to this Beyond Agile event in Meetup which contains comments about the fight night: https://www.meetup.com/beyondagile/events/286465281/ Other Agile Framework Fight Night Bouts You can listen to the first, second, and third Bouts of Agile Framework Fight Night series here: https://agilenoir.biz/en/agilethoughts/agile-framework-fight-night/

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Tom Gilb on eliciting what stakeholders need & solving customer problems, opportunities and threats, the principles of success planning & impact estimation tables

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2023 53:13

Tom Gilb joins me on this week's episode of the Agility Island podcast to discuss what stakeholders need and how to solve solve customer problems, opportunities and threats? On the agenda: 1. How can we, as practitioners, be better at eliciting what stakeholders really need, who the right stakeholders are, and how can we solve customer problems, opportunities, and threats? 2. Tom's Background 3. Review and quality control of requirements 4. Definition of ready 5. Definitions of success and failure and examples 6. Value objectives 7. The principles of success planning and definition: Define the success criteria and the constraints of the failure criteria 8. The importance of rigorous systematic thought 9. Definition of the state of success 10. Scientific inquiry 11. The secret of avoiding failure 12. No evil and outsmarting the evil 13. Limiting losses 14. Choose good 15. The importance of having estimates for much safety will be delivered in a timeframe 16. Who are your critical stakeholders? Who do we need t look after? 17. Tom's experience at Boeing 18. Value requirements and examples 19. Constraint levels: intolerable, tolerable, success, stretches 20. Impact estimation tables 21. Long-term objectives: mature planners vs. immature planners 22. Technical debt 23. Laws of project success 24. Ethics of success 25. De-composing stakeholder needs 26. Delivering miracles while in planning mode? Tom's Amazon Repository: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Tom-Gi... Tom Gilb on Leanpub: https://leanpub.com/u/tomgilb Tom's website (free ebooks): https://www.gilb.com/ About John Coleman: John Coleman's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johncolem... John Coleman's website: https://orderlydisruption.com/ Looking to get your Scrum/Agility training? Check out my courses at: https://orderlydisruption.com/collect... Thank you for watching. #scrum #agile #productmanagement --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/agilityisland/message

058. Richard Bartlett: Decentralized by Design

Remake

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2023 54:21

TODAY'S GUEST Today, I'm speaking to Richard D. Bartlett, aka Rich Decibels. During the Occupy movement in 2011, Rich caught a glimpse of a different way of being together — more compassionate, more intelligent, more creative, inclusive, and animating than he'd experienced as a student worker or citizen up to that point. Since then, he's been on a mission. In 2012 he co-founded Loomio, a digital tool for deliberation and decision-making in groups of 3-300 people. In 2016 he co-founded The Hum, a management consultancy for organizations without managers. The Hum has recently published an online training course that shares what they know about working in highly decentralized organizations. Rich is also a Director and longstanding member of Enspiral — a network of people supporting each other to grow up and to get paid for doing meaningful work. Rich has a daily writing practice. He writes about how people work together, at any scale, from relationships, to organizations, to social change, and he's prolific on Twitter and on Medium. His fascinating book (currently in beta) is called Patterns for Decentralized Organizing and can be downloaded from Leanpub. EPISODE SUMMARY In this conversation we talk about: How growing up in a strict fundamentalist Christian upbringing, and decoupling from that, shaped his outlook. His complex relationship with atheism and religion today. How he discovered love and solidarity in activism. Technologies of organizing. Forming decentralized decision-making processes. Nihilism in the face of dysfunction as a form of cowardice. Loomio, and collective decision-making software. Status and hierarchy. Shifting culture through fermentation. And the concept of stewardship. We spoke in mid-June 2022, and I was excited to talk to Rich since he's been introduced to me by Daniel Thorson, whom I interviewed here in episode 10. I've been following his writing on Twitter and find the idea of decentralized work and collaboration fascinating, exciting, and challenging. It's perhaps the greatest question of our time: now that we're all connected and have incredible tools of self-organization, how can we make better decisions together? How can we outcompete centralized organizations? And how can we benefit from the wonderful richness of so many brains without descending into chaos, nihilism and mob rule? This conversation is one of a dozen or so weekly conversations that we already have lined up for you with thinkers, designers, makers, authors, entrepreneurs, and activists who are working to change our world for the better. So follow this podcast on your favorite podcast app, or head over to RemakePod.org to subscribe. And now let's jump right in with Richard D. Bartlett. TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS [5:23] Life in the Present [8:07] Early Childhood Community [10:33] A Complex Religious Journey [18:37] The Occupy Movement [23:45] A Transformational Insight [28:21] Cowardice and Courage [30:40] Membership Groups [35:16] Intersecting Communities [41:06] Status and Hierarchy [44:35] Fermenting the Right Culture [48:21] The Stewardship System [51:58] A Short Sermon EPISODE LINKS Richard's Links

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#040: Content Creation and Self Publishing with Tim McConnaughy and Nick Russo, Part 2

Network Automation Nerds Podcast

Play Episode Play 45 sec Highlight Listen Later May 17, 2023 51:55

Hello Network Automation Nerds! Today on the show, we will continue discussing self-publishing with my fellow authors, Nick Russo, and Tim McConnaughy. In today's world, it is important for everybody to find their voice, create their brand, and be an advocate for themselves. In part 2 of the talk, we will talk about lessons learned from self-publishing, the tools we used, and looking forward to the next steps. I know each of us has some hard-earned badges in that arena, and we are happy to share them with you. I am super excited to continue the conversation with Tim and Nick. Let's dive right in! [Sponsor] Opengear: https://opengear.com/ciscolive2023/ (Visit Opengear's booth 7712 at Cisco Live 2023!). Part 1: https://podcast.networkautomationnerds.com/1864201/12819513-039-content-creation-and-self-publishing-with-tim-mcconnaughy-and-nick-russo-part-1 Connect with Tim on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tmcconnaughy/Follow Tim on Twitter: https://twitter.com/juangolbezThe Hybrid Cloud Handbook: https://www.amazon.com/Hybrid-Cloud-Handbook-AWS-Traditional/dp/B0BW2ZKNB6/Tim's Blog: https://carpe-dmvpn.com/Connect with Nick on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/njrusmc/ Follow Nick on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nickrusso42518Nicke's Blog: http://njrusmc.net/Leanpub: https://leanpub.com/PublishDrive: https://publishdrive.com/Kindle Direct Publishing: https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/Ingram Content Group: https://www.ingramcontent.com/--- Stay in Touch with Us —Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/EricChouNetworkAutomationNerdsFollow Eric on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ericchouNetwork Automation Learning Community: https://members.networkautomation.community/Subscribe on Apple Podcast for Bonus Episodes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/network-automation-nerds-podcast/Patreon of the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=62594522

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#039: Content Creation and Self Publishing with Tim McConnaughy and Nick Russo, Part 1

Network Automation Nerds Podcast

Play Episode Play 45 sec Highlight Listen Later May 10, 2023 37:12

Hello and welcome to the Network Automation Nerds podcast! Today on the show, we will discuss a topic near and dear to my heart, something I have been doing for the last 6 years and probably my primary side project during that time frame. I am talking about content publishing. In today's episode, I am joined by my fellow authors, Tim McConnaughy and Nick Russo. In part 1 of the talk, we will discuss why to become a creator, create your own brand, extend your audience, and much more. I am super excited to have Tim and Nick on the show today, and I know we will have a great time chatting. Let's dive right in! [Sponsor] Network to Code University: https://go.networktocode.com/ntcuConnect with Tim on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tmcconnaughy/ Follow Tim on Twitter: https://twitter.com/juangolbez The Hybrid Cloud Handbook: https://www.amazon.com/Hybrid-Cloud-Handbook-AWS-Traditional/dp/B0BW2ZKNB6/Tim's Blog: https://carpe-dmvpn.com/Connect with Nick on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/njrusmc/ Follow Nick on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nickrusso42518 Nicke's Blog: http://njrusmc.net/Leanpub: https://leanpub.com/ PublishDrive: https://publishdrive.com/Kindle Direct Publishing: https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/Ingram Content Group: https://www.ingramcontent.com/--- Stay in Touch with Us —Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/EricChouNetworkAutomationNerdsFollow Eric on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ericchouNetwork Automation Learning Community: https://members.networkautomation.community/Subscribe on Apple Podcast for Bonus Episodes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/network-automation-nerds-podcast/Patreon of the show: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=62594522

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230 Agile Framework Fight Night Bout 3—Are Agile Frameworks missing the mark in handling Dependencies and Architecture?

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2023 16:09

This is the third series of Agile Framework Fight night. This fight night was hosted in Seattle by Beyond Agile. Like the first Agile Framework Fight Night, we brought together another winning panel of experts to represent the frameworks of DA, Fast Agile, LeSS, and SaFE. Agile Framework Fight Night, the SECOND SERIES happened at Beyond Agile, transmitted from Seattle. You can find Beyond Agile at Meetup.com here: https://www.meetup.com/BeyondAgile/The expert panelists are: Ricardo “Dad of Doom” Garcia from Team DAThis “Dad of Doom” has over 30 years of industry experience and has implemented and managed numerous software projects using Agile Practices for Fortune 500 companies. His work has been featured in white papers, cover stories in magazines, and is a frequent speaker at conferences and Agile expert panels. He is the organizer behind Seattle Disciplined Agile Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Seattle-Disciplined-Agile-Meetup/Ron Quartel AKA "Crocodile Ron-dee"Software Crafter, Disruptor, Pioneer and Intrapreneuer. On a mission to unleash the human spirit in the workplace. Founder of FAST Agile. https://www.fastagile.ioViktor "the Simplifier" GrgicViktor is an Agile Coach, software developer and Certified LeSS trainer with 17 years of experience in delivering enterprise systems and Agile adoptions. He worked first 15 years in The Netherlands, and since 2013 in Hong Kong. https://less.works/profiles/viktor-grgicBarry Smith, the Nexus KnightIs a member of Unify's Lean-Agile practice, and committed to helping product teams to enjoy a better way of working and delivering exceptional value to their customers. His over 25+ years of working in technology has shown him that innovation can be fostered anywhere, from startups to Fortune 500 firms.https://www.linkedin.com/in/barrylsmith/Lancer “Unkind” Kind, moderating“Unkind” lives in Kirkland, and loves nothing more than writing micro tested software. For the last five years he has delivered consulting services in China, India, as well as the USA. He's a publishing author of science fiction and Agile Noir, a project management business novel. He's podcasting at Agile Thoughts, 敏捷理念 (the Chinese edition of Agile Thoughts), and SciFi Thoughts. His Agile at scale business novel is “continuously delivered” via Lean Pub at: https://leanpub.com/AgileGrandeHere is a link to this Beyond Agile event in Meetup which contains comments about the fight night: https://www.meetup.com/beyondagile/events/286465281/Other Agile Framework Fight Night BoutsYou can listen to the first and second Bouts of Agile Framework Fight Night series here: https://agilenoir.biz/en/agilethoughts/agile-framework-fight-night/Resources about the TopicHOW TO USE PRODUCT EXTRACTION TO BREAK TECHNICAL DEPENDENCIES: https://www.leadingagile.com/2022/02/how-to-use-product-extraction-to-break-technical-dependencies/Putting the Enterprise Back in Enterprise Architecture w/ Ross BeurmannLeSS on Architecture & Design: https://less.works/less/technical-excellence/architecture-designNexus Dispelling the Myth that Scrum Teams Don't Think About Architecture: https://www.scrum.org/resources/dispelling-myth-scrum-teams-dont-think-about-architectureNexus Why architecture should emerge?: https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/why-architecture-should-emergeNexus Whitepaper: You Can't Scale Enterprise Agility Without Architecture https://www.scrum.org/resources/whitepaper-you-cant-scale-enterprise-agility-without-architectureDA Enterprise Architecture: https://www.pmi.org/disciplined-agile/process/enterprise-architectureThe Disciplined Agile Enterprise (DAE) Layer: https://www.projectmanagement.com/blog/blogPostingView.cfm?blogPostingID=66383&thisPageURL=/blog-post/66383/The-Disciplined-Agile-Enterprise--DAE--Layer#_=_

229 Agile Framework Fight Night Bout 3—In your Framework, how do Teams Work Together?

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2023 21:18

This is the third series of Agile Framework Fight night. This fight night was hosted in Seattle by Beyond Agile. Like the first Agile Framework Fight Night, we brought together another winning panel of experts to represent the frameworks of DA, Fast Agile, LeSS, and SaFE. Agile Framework Fight Night, the SECOND SERIES happened at Beyond Agile, transmitted from Seattle. You can find Beyond Agile at Meetup.com here: https://www.meetup.com/BeyondAgile/ The expert panelists are: Ricardo “Dad of Doom” Garcia from Team DA This “Dad of Doom” has over 30 years of industry experience and has implemented and managed numerous software projects using Agile Practices for Fortune 500 companies. His work has been featured in white papers, cover stories in magazines, and is a frequent speaker at conferences and Agile expert panels. He is the organizer behind Seattle Disciplined Agile Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Seattle-Disciplined-Agile-Meetup/ Ron Quartel AKA "Crocodile Ron-dee" Software Crafter, Disruptor, Pioneer and Intrapreneuer. On a mission to unleash the human spirit in the workplace. Founder of FAST Agile. https://www.fastagile.io Viktor "the Simplifier" Grgic Viktor is an Agile Coach, software developer and Certified LeSS trainer with 17 years of experience in delivering enterprise systems and Agile adoptions. He worked first 15 years in The Netherlands, and since 2013 in Hong Kong. https://less.works/profiles/viktor-grgic Barry Smith, the Nexus Knight Is a member of Unify's Lean-Agile practice, and committed to helping product teams to enjoy a better way of working and delivering exceptional value to their customers. His over 25+ years of working in technology has shown him that innovation can be fostered anywhere, from startups to Fortune 500 firms. Lancer “Unkind” Kind, moderating “Unkind” lives in Kirkland, and loves nothing more than writing micro tested software. For the last five years he has delivered consulting services in China, India, as well as the USA. He's a publishing author of science fiction and Agile Noir, a project management business novel. He's podcasting at Agile Thoughts, 敏捷理念 (the Chinese edition of Agile Thoughts), and SciFi Thoughts. His Agile at scale business novel is “continuously delivered” via Lean Pub at: https://leanpub.com/AgileGrande Here is a link to this Beyond Agile event in Meetup which contains comments about the fight night: https://www.meetup.com/beyondagile/events/286465281/ Other Agile Framework Fight Night You can listen to the first and second Bouts of Agile Framework Fight Night series here: https://agilenoir.biz/en/agilethoughts/agile-framework-fight-night/ Mentioned in this episode Dynamic Reteaming: https://www.amazon.com/Dynamic-Reteaming-Wisdom-Changing-Teams-ebook/dp/B08B48ZTJ5/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=dynamic+reteaming&qid=1681092242&sprefix=dynamic+reteaming%2Caps%2C151&sr=8-1 Creating Great Teams: How Self-Selection Lets People Excel: https://www.amazon.com/Creating-Great-Teams-Self-Selection-People-ebook/dp/B019EKWG6M/ref=sr_1_1?crid=20WLOY01G4ED3&keywords=self+selection&qid=1681092286&sprefix=self+selection%2Caps%2C100&sr=8-1

228 Agile Framework Fight Night Bout 3, BATTLE ROYAL—Do you have any Metrics or data WHY your Framework is Effective?

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2023 21:39

This is the third series of Agile Framework Fight night. This fight night was hosted in Seattle by Beyond Agile. Like the first Agile Framework Fight Night, we brought together another winning panel of experts to represent the frameworks of DA, Fast Agile, LeSS, and SaFE. Agile Framework Fight Night, the SECOND SERIES happened at Beyond Agile, transmitted from Seattle. You can find Beyond Agile at Meetup.com here: https://www.meetup.com/BeyondAgile/ The expert panelists are: Ricardo “Dad of Doom” Garcia from Team DA This “Dad of Doom” has over 30 years of industry experience and has implemented and managed numerous software projects using Agile Practices for Fortune 500 companies. His work has been featured in white papers, cover stories in magazines, and is a frequent speaker at conferences and Agile expert panels. He is the organizer behind Seattle Disciplined Agile Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Seattle-Disciplined-Agile-Meetup/ Ron Quartel AKA "Crocodile Ron-dee" Software Crafter, Disruptor, Pioneer and Intrapreneuer. On a mission to unleash the human spirit in the workplace. Founder of FAST Agile. https://www.fastagile.io Viktor "the Simplifier" Grgic Viktor is an Agile Coach, software developer and Certified LeSS trainer with 17 years of experience in delivering enterprise systems and Agile adoptions. He worked first 15 years in The Netherlands, and since 2013 in Hong Kong. https://less.works/profiles/viktor-grgic Barry Smith, the Nexus Knight Is a member of Unify's Lean-Agile practice, and committed to helping product teams to enjoy a better way of working and delivering exceptional value to their customers. His over 25+ years of working in technology has shown him that innovation can be fostered anywhere, from startups to Fortune 500 firms. Lancer “Unkind” Kind, moderating “Unkind” lives in Kirkland, and loves nothing more than writing micro tested software. For the last five years he has delivered consulting services in China, India, as well as the USA. He's a publishing author of science fiction and Agile Noir, a project management business novel. He's podcasting at Agile Thoughts, 敏捷理念 (the Chinese edition of Agile Thoughts), and SciFi Thoughts. His Agile at scale business novel is “continuously delivered” via Lean Pub at: https://leanpub.com/AgileGrande Here is a link to this Beyond Agile event in Meetup which contains comments about the fight night: https://www.meetup.com/beyondagile/events/286465281/ You can listen to the first and second Bouts of Agile Framework Fight Night series here: https://agilenoir.biz/en/agilethoughts/agile-framework-fight-night/ The following resources are related to what was discussed in this episode ACM paper about metrics https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3454124 Goal Question Metric (GQM) https://www.leadingagile.com/2017/05/agile-metrics-gqm-approach/ LeSS Experience Reports (referred to as case studies, some of which have metrics): https://less.works/case-studies

227 Agile Framework Fight Night Bout 3, battles over—How does your Framework allow Experimentation?

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2023 18:11

This is the third series of Agile Framework Fight night. This fight night was hosted in Seattle by Beyond Agile. Like the first Agile Framework Fight Night, we brought together another winning panel of experts to represent the frameworks of DA, Fast Agile, LeSS, and SaFE. Agile Framework Fight Night, the SECOND SERIES happened at Beyond Agile, transmitted from Seattle. You can find Beyond Agile at Meetup.com here: https://www.meetup.com/BeyondAgile/ The expert panelists are: Ricardo “Dad of Doom” Garcia from Team DA This “Dad of Doom” has over 30 years of industry experience and has implemented and managed numerous software projects using Agile Practices for Fortune 500 companies. His work has been featured in white papers, cover stories in magazines, and is a frequent speaker at conferences and Agile expert panels. He is the organizer behind Seattle Disciplined Agile Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Seattle-Disciplined-Agile-Meetup/ Ron Quartel AKA "Crocodile Ron-dee" Software Crafter, Disruptor, Pioneer and Intrapreneuer. On a mission to unleash the human spirit in the workplace. Founder of FAST Agile. https://www.fastagile.io Viktor "the Simplifier" Grgic Viktor is an Agile Coach, software developer and Certified LeSS trainer with 17 years of experience in delivering enterprise systems and Agile adoptions. He worked first 15 years in The Netherlands, and since 2013 in Hong Kong. https://less.works/profiles/viktor-grgic Barry Smith, the Nexus Knight Is a member of Unify's Lean-Agile practice, and committed to helping product teams to enjoy a better way of working and delivering exceptional value to their customers. His over 25+ years of working in technology has shown him that innovation can be fostered anywhere, from startups to Fortune 500 firms. Lancer “Unkind” Kind, moderating “Unkind” lives in Kirkland, and loves nothing more than writing micro tested software. For the last five years he has delivered consulting services in China, India, as well as the USA. He's a publishing author of science fiction and Agile Noir, a project management business novel. He's podcasting at Agile Thoughts, 敏捷理念 (the Chinese edition of Agile Thoughts), and SciFi Thoughts. His Agile at scale business novel is “continuously delivered” via Lean Pub at: https://leanpub.com/AgileGrande Here is a link to this Beyond Agile event in Meetup which contains comments about the fight night: https://www.meetup.com/beyondagile/events/286465281/ You can listen to the first and second Bouts of Agile Framework Fight Night series here: https://agilenoir.biz/en/agilethoughts/agile-framework-fight-night/

226 Bout 3 of Agile Framework Fight Night Battles over—How does your framework ensure alignment with business priorities?

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2023 24:04

This is the third series of Agile Framework Fight night. This fight night was hosted in Seattle by Beyond Agile. Like the first Agile Framework Fight Night, we brought together another winning panel of experts to represent the frameworks of DA, Fast Agile, LeSS, and SaFE. Agile Framework Fight Night, the SECOND SERIES happened at Beyond Agile, transmitted from Seattle. You can find Beyond Agile at Meetup.com here: https://www.meetup.com/BeyondAgile/ The expert panelists are: Ricardo “Dad of Doom” Garcia from Team DA This “Dad of Doom” has over 30 years of industry experience and has implemented and managed numerous software projects using Agile Practices for Fortune 500 companies. His work has been featured in white papers, cover stories in magazines, and is a frequent speaker at conferences and Agile expert panels. He is the organizer behind Seattle Disciplined Agile Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Seattle-Disciplined-Agile-Meetup/ Ron Quartel AKA "Crocodile Ron-dee" Software Crafter, Disruptor, Pioneer and Intrapreneuer. On a mission to unleash the human spirit in the workplace. Founder of FAST Agile. https://www.fastagile.io Viktor "the Simplifier" Grgic Viktor is an Agile Coach, software developer and Certified LeSS trainer with 17 years of experience in delivering enterprise systems and Agile adoptions. He worked first 15 years in The Netherlands, and since 2013 in Hong Kong. https://less.works/profiles/viktor-grgic Barry Smith, the Nexus Knight Is a member of Unify's Lean-Agile practice, and committed to helping product teams to enjoy a better way of working and delivering exceptional value to their customers. His over 25+ years of working in technology has shown him that innovation can be fostered anywhere, from startups to Fortune 500 firms. Lancer “Unkind” Kind, moderating “Unkind” lives in Kirkland, and loves nothing more than writing micro tested software. For the last five years he has delivered consulting services in China, India, as well as the USA. He's a publishing author of science fiction and Agile Noir, a project management business novel. He's podcasting at Agile Thoughts, 敏捷理念 (the Chinese edition of Agile Thoughts), and SciFi Thoughts. His Agile at scale business novel is “continuously delivered” via Lean Pub at: https://leanpub.com/AgileGrande Here is a link to this Beyond Agile event in Meetup which contains comments about the fight night: https://www.meetup.com/beyondagile/events/286465281/ You can listen to the first and second Bouts of Agile Framework Fight Night series here: https://agilenoir.biz/en/agilethoughts/agile-framework-fight-night/ Chat record from Bout 3 of Agile Framework Fight Night Jon Jorgensen to Everyone (10:04 PM) I know Niels Pflaeging. Would you like me to ask him if he'd like to speak to this group? Aki Namioka to Everyone (10:05 PM) Where is Niels Pflaeging located? Jon Jorgensen to Everyone (10:06 PM) Germany Ricardo to Everyone (10:08 PM) For Jobs at Costco pls send me an email at ricardo.garcia@costco.com shama to Everyone (10:08 PM) Ron Lichty to Everyone (10:10 PM) Enterprise Agile Global Community: Dennis Stevens: Agile for Execs: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89071064881?pwd=a1NoY2ptN3BudGd1OGNINXNtQ0ZYQT09 Josh Novajosky to Everyone (10:11 PM) Amazing shirt Ron Barry L Smith to Everyone (10:18 PM) “LeSS”, of course, refers to “Lightweight Similarity to Scrum" - really, they copied all their good ideas from Nexus. Ron Lichty to Everyone (10:24 PM) I thought I heard Paige Watson describe the FAST meeting as five PdMs bringing in the five priorities for the cycle? Is a “nexus” essentially what others are calling a "tribe”? Barry L Smith to Everyone (10:27 PM) Yes, similar to tribe or ART (Agile Release Train) - the group of teams that are collaborating in developing & delivering a Product Backlog. Jon Jorgensen to Everyone (10:29 PM) Seems like HUGE enterprises would have HUGE concerns (problems) to resolve for the people of the world and inside the organization. Silpa to Everyone (10:31 PM) Our scrum team is of 16 members. We formed mini scrum teams of 4 in each team with 1 PO, 1 SM, making sure we have a process expert supporting each mini scrum team. Jon Jorgensen to Everyone (10:31 PM) The crafting of experiments to see if hardware/software or other kinds of “works” is what runs through an organization. Which of the Frameworks are predicated on the assumption that software products are the resolution of these concerns? Barry L Smith to Everyone (10:32 PM) Jon, are you essentially asking, “Is experimentation a core element of your framework”? Jon Jorgensen to Everyone (10:32 PM) yes Me to Aki Namioka (Direct Message) (10:33 PM) What is our "finish" time? One hour or? Jon Jorgensen to Everyone (10:33 PM) And “What kind of professionals are involved in the experiment?” Barry L Smith to Everyone (10:34 PM)

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214 CIO Award Honorees Doug Wells and Matt Smith tell of Transformation Results at the Digital Satellite Company

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 22, 2022 14:50

Doug Wells: https://www.linkedin.com/in/douglaswellspmp/ Matt Smith: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-f-smith/ Matt Smith and Doug Wells are CIO 100 honorees: https://www.cio.com/article/238461/cios-mean-business.html Interested in Agile at your big company but struggling to resolve headaches? Is trying to do the usual Scrum or Kanban templates causing a lot of problems when more than one team is involved?Are you having trouble getting your management to align around what you see as obvious solutions?Do you want to learn about Systems Thinking and Whole Product Focus but find what you're reading is uninspiring and boring?The business novel, Agile Grande, will teach you these skills through dramatic story telling. Scrum Master Kartar takes a job to improve a logistics company's adaptability. But efforts to scale Agile practices are being blocked by Mr. Cherneski, a vice president who's organized the company into siloed pigeon holes in order to secretly make millions with a dark web shipping service. Kartar's life is in danger. He goes underground. A spy agency hunts Kartar.... The following concepts are covered in this dramatic story: scaling Scrum with LeSS, systems thinking, organizational design, systems modeling, and how to develop a transformation plan that your organization can actually do. Get a pre-release copy of Agile Grande for free at LeanPub.com.

208 How Pavel Azaletskiy put the DYNAMIC into Value Stream Mapping

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2022 14:44

Pavel's operational excellence platform can be found and tried out for free at : http://vsoptima.com Pavel's InfoQ article on Dynamic Value Stream Mapping: https://www.infoq.com/articles/dynamic-value-stream-mapping/?itm_source=infoq&itm_campaign=user_page&itm_medium=link Pavel's article in Software Development Times: https://sdtimes.com/author/pavel-azaletskiy/ Pavel's Twitter is: https://twitter.com/AzaletskiyPavel Here is a sandbox using the value stream platform: https://app.vsoptima.com/diagram/6c055f51-5be5-4076-9097-e1ef3a875f6e Screen shots from the sandbox: Mentioned on the show: Value streams can show the you *cost* of not doing the upgrade to an M1 Mac for iOS development: Interested in Agile at your big company but struggling to resolve headaches? Is trying to do the usual Scrum or Kanban templates causing a lot of problems when more than one team is involved?Are you having trouble getting your management to align around what you see as obvious solutions?Do you want to learn about Systems Thinking and Whole Product Focus but find what you're reading is uninspiring and boring?The business novel, Agile Grande, will teach you these skills through dramatic story telling. Scrum Master Kartar takes a job to improve a logistics company's adaptability. But efforts to scale Agile practices are being blocked by Mr. Cherneski, a vice president who's organized the company into siloed pigeon holes in order to secretly make millions with a dark web shipping service. Kartar's life is in danger. He goes underground. A spy agency hunts Kartar.... The following concepts are covered in this dramatic story: scaling Scrum with LeSS, systems thinking, organizational design, systems modeling, and how to develop a transformation plan that your organization can actually do. Get a pre-release copy of Agile Grande for free at LeanPub.com.

#37 Mit IT-Büchern Geld verdienen? Wer liest überhaupt noch Bücher?

Engineering Kiosk

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2022 60:21

Lohnt es sich ein IT-Fachbuch zu schreiben?Es gibt zu jeder Software und zu jedem IT-Thema mindestens ein Buch. Doch wie ist es eigentlich, ein solches Buch zu schreiben? Was macht ein Verlag und braucht man diesen in der heutigen Zeit eigentlich noch? Wird man dadurch reich oder bleibt es Hungerlohn? Was für ein Tech-Stack steckt hinter einem Buch? Und wie würde man eigentlich starten? All das klären wir in dieser Episode mit Wolfgang, der ein Buch über MySQL im Rheinwerk-Verlag (Galileo Press) publiziert hat.Bonus: Warum Wolfgang eher ein Fan vom Reden ist und warum er wirklich so lange für seinen Dr. Titel benötigt hat.Feedback (gerne auch als Voice Message)Email: stehtisch@engineeringkiosk.devTwitter: https://twitter.com/EngKioskWhatsApp +49 15678 136776Gerne behandeln wir auch euer Audio Feedback in einer der nächsten Episoden, einfach Audiodatei per Email oder WhatsApp Voice Message an +49 15678 136776LinksBewerbungsgespräche mit Wolfgang Gassler, Interview von Nils Langner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c3ZAp7MvTIMySQL: Das umfassende Handbuch: https://www.rheinwerk-verlag.de/mysql-das-umfassende-handbuch/ LaTeX: https://www.latex-project.org/ct Magazin: https://www.heise.de/ct/Rheinwerk Verlag (Galileo Press): https://www.rheinwerk-verlag.de/Michael Kofler: https://kofler.info/ Buch "Designing Data-Intensive Applications": https://dataintensive.net/Buch "MAKE" von Pieter Levels: https://readmake.com/Use the Index, Luke (Markus Winand): https://use-the-index-luke.com/Simon Sinek: Start with why: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4ZoJKF_VuABuch "Observability Engineering": https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/observability-engineering/9781492076438/Honeycomb: https://www.honeycomb.io/LeanPub: https://leanpub.com/Amazon Print on Demand: https://www.amazon.de/Buecher-Print-On-Demand/b?ie=UTF8&node=5445727031Episode #35 Knowledge Sharing oder die Person, die nie "gehen" sollte...: https://engineeringkiosk.dev/podcast/episode/35-knowledge-sharing-oder-die-person-die-nie-gehen-sollte/Sprungmarken(00:00:00) Intro(00:00:40) Schreib-Skills(00:02:42) Thema: Das schreiben von IT Fachbüchern - MySQL, das umfassende Handbuch(00:03:39) Wie gut kennst du dich im Bereich MySQL aus?(00:05:19) Überblick über Wolfgangs MySQL Buch(00:09:34) Wie lange habt ihr benötigt, das Buch zu schreiben?(00:11:24) Welcher Tech-Stack wurde genutzt, um das Buch zu schreiben?(00:13:43) Welche Aufgaben hat der Verlag übernommen?(00:18:54) Wie hast du die Verbindung zum Verlag aufgebaut?(00:21:17) Was verdient man mit einem IT Fachbuch?(00:28:21) Warum hast du ein Buch geschrieben? Was bringt es ein Buch zu schreiben?(00:30:27) Was hat sich durch das Buch bei dir professionell ergeben?(00:32:22) Wieso habt ihr das Schreiben einer neuen Edition abgelehnt?(00:33:56) Imposter-Syndrom: Wie viel weißt du über das MySQL Datenbank-Thema, nach deiner Recherche?(00:35:52) Wie viele Amazon-Reviews hast du gekauft?(00:38:39) Liest du IT-Fachbücher?(00:43:24) Würdest du nochmal ein Buch schreiben?(00:46:32) Würdest du Leuten empfehlen, ein Buch zu schreiben?(00:51:00) Was würdest du Leuten empfehlen, die ein Buch schreiben möchten?(00:53:25) Würdest du nochmal ein Buch über eine Software/Software-Version schreiben?(00:55:50) Hattest du schon Berührungen zu einem Ghostwriter?(00:58:46) Lohnt sich das Mittel- und Langfristig ein Buch zu schreiben?(01:01:22) Selbst-Publishing und Print on Demand(01:03:56) Audio-Rants, Reddit und OutroHostsWolfgang Gassler (https://twitter.com/schafele)Andy Grunwald (https://twitter.com/andygrunwald)Feedback (gerne auch als Voice Message)Email: stehtisch@engineeringkiosk.devTwitter: https://twitter.com/EngKioskWhatsApp +49 15678 136776

058. Richard Bartlett: Decentralized by Design

Remake

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2022 54:21

TODAY'S GUEST Today, I'm speaking to Richard D. Bartlett, aka Rich Decibels. During the Occupy movement in 2011, Rich caught a glimpse of a different way of being together — more compassionate, more intelligent, more creative, inclusive, and animating than he'd experienced as a student worker or citizen up to that point. Since then, he's been on a mission. In 2012 he co-founded Loomio, a digital tool for deliberation and decision-making in groups of 3-300 people. In 2016 he co-founded The Hum, a management consultancy for organizations without managers. The Hum has recently published an online training course that shares what they know about working in highly decentralized organizations. Rich is also a Director and longstanding member of Enspiral — a network of people supporting each other to grow up and to get paid for doing meaningful work. Rich has a daily writing practice. He writes about how people work together, at any scale, from relationships, to organizations, to social change, and he's prolific on Twitter and on Medium. His fascinating book (currently in beta) is called Patterns for Decentralized Organizing and can be downloaded from Leanpub. EPISODE SUMMARY In this conversation we talk about: How growing up in a strict fundamentalist Christian upbringing, and decoupling from that, shaped his outlook. His complex relationship with atheism and religion today. How he discovered love and solidarity in activism. Technologies of organizing. Forming decentralized decision-making processes. Nihilism in the face of dysfunction as a form of cowardice. Loomio, and collective decision-making software. Status and hierarchy. Shifting culture through fermentation. And the concept of stewardship. We spoke in mid-June 2022, and I was excited to talk to Rich since he's been introduced to me by Daniel Thorson, whom I interviewed here in episode 10. I've been following his writing on Twitter and find the idea of decentralized work and collaboration fascinating, exciting, and challenging. It's perhaps the greatest question of our time: now that we're all connected and have incredible tools of self-organization, how can we make better decisions together? How can we outcompete centralized organizations? And how can we benefit from the wonderful richness of so many brains without descending into chaos, nihilism and mob rule? This conversation is one of a dozen or so weekly conversations that we already have lined up for you with thinkers, designers, makers, authors, entrepreneurs, and activists who are working to change our world for the better. So follow this podcast on your favorite podcast app, or head over to RemakePod.org to subscribe. And now let's jump right in with Richard D. Bartlett. TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS [5:23] Life in the Present [8:07] Early Childhood Community [10:33] A Complex Religious Journey [18:37] The Occupy Movement [23:45] A Transformational Insight [28:21] Cowardice and Courage [30:40] Membership Groups [35:16] Intersecting Communities [41:06] Status and Hierarchy [44:35] Fermenting the Right Culture [48:21] The Stewardship System [51:58] A Short Sermon EPISODE LINKS Richard's Links

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(S2)E018: Aino Corry on Retrospectives Antipatterns

Agile Innovation Leaders

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2022 45:20

Full video interview available here: https://youtu.be/oJbZF1yiWvg Guest Bio: Aino Vonge Corry (born 1971 in Aarhus, Denmark) is an independent consultant, who sometimes works as an agile coach. After gaining her Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2001 she spent the next 10 years failing to choose between being a researcher/teacher in academia, and being a teacher/facilitator in industry. She eventually squared the circle by starting her own company, Metadeveloper, which develops developers by teaching CS, teaching how to teach CS, inviting speakers to IT conferences, and facilitating software development in various ways. She has facilitated retrospectives and other meetings for the past 15 years during which time she has made all the mistakes possible in that field. Aino has lived in Stockholm, Lund, and Cambridge, but she is now back in Aarhus, Denmark, where she lives with her family, and a growing collection of plush cephalopods. Social Media/ Website LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/aino-vonge-corry-9a23801 Twitter: @apaipi Website: https://metadeveloper.com Books/ Resources Retrospectives Antipatterns by Aino Corry https://www.amazon.co.uk/Retrospectives-Antipatterns-Aino-Corry/dp/013682336X Coaching Agile Teams by Lyssa Adkins https://www.amazon.co.uk/Coaching-Agile-Teams-ScrumMasters-Addison-Wesley/dp/0321637704 Agile Retrospectives by Diana Larsen, Esther Derby https://www.amazon.co.uk/Agile-Retrospectives-Making-Pragmatic-Programmers/dp/0977616649 Retrospectives for Organisational Change by Echstein https://www.amazon.com/Retrospectives-Organizational-Change-Agile-Approach-ebook/dp/B07NS796KY Fearless Change Patterns by Linda Rysen https://www.amazon.com/Fearless-Change-Patterns-Introducing-Ideas-ebook/dp/B0054RGYNQ Prime Directive by Norm Kirk https://retrospectivewiki.org/index.php?title=The_Prime_Directive Full Interview Transcript Ula Ojiaku: Many thanks Aino for making the time for this conversation and for being my guest on the Agile Innovation Leaders podcast. Aino Corry: And thank you for inviting me, Ula. It was great to have you in the course, you had a lot of good questions. And that's how we met. And I've been looking very much forward to this day. Ula Ojiaku: So could you tell us a bit about yourself, you know, who is Aino Corry? Aino Corry: Yeah, so Aino Corry is 50 years old, she lives in Denmark, she's got three children. And she, she's always wanted to teach. Actually when I was in primary and secondary school, I wasn't so happy with mathematics teaching, so I decided after school, I wanted to be a mathematics teacher in secondary school. Actually, I thought about it and I thought I didn't really like school. So maybe I should be a teacher in high school instead. And so I decided to try to go to university to study mathematics to become a high school teacher. But then I had to do some programming in the mathematics course. And I really, really fell in love with that. So I changed subject to computer science. And then I did my Master's degree with a focus on design patterns, which was very new at the time. And when I finished, I wanted to continue working with design patterns. And that's why I applied for a Ph.D. I applied for a Ph.D., actually, just to prolong my university studies to make more of the fun thing that I've done. And then when I finished, I thought, I wanted to be a researcher and a teacher and I had a job at the university as an assistant professor. Aino Corry: And then I decided that I wanted to go out in industry instead, because I, I had a child already, and I wanted to have another child. And I really, I was dead poor, so I wanted to earn a lot of money, so I went down industry to get some money. And that worked, I got some money. And after a few years there, I went back to university to do some research and some teaching, because they had a research project, which was interesting. It was when Bluetooth was quite young and was about programming pervasive computing devices, what you would call IoT today, yes. And then I was there for a few years, and then went back to the industry, and was there for a few years. And then I went back to university. And then I did my research in how to teach computer science and how people learn. So that was also interesting. But then I wanted to stop again because then I was full-time at university and I also did some consulting in the IT industry. So I thought I would go back to the industry. Aino Corry: And then I thought, Naah, I want to do something else. I want to be my own boss, I don't want to work that much anymore. I had three children at the time. So I decided to be an independent IT consultant, thinking that then I would work less, that was a huge mistake. I, I like having my own company, but I wouldn't say that I work less because if you have a job and you have a boss, you can tell your boss ‘Oh, it's too much. I don't want to do that much. And please take some of the tasks away from me.' But when you're your own boss, and you're a time optimist, like I can be, you think ‘I can do that. And I can do that.' And especially now with COVID, it's even worse because at least prior to this, I had to calculate time in to get from one meeting to another, you know, from one client to another from one country to another. But now I can actually I can work with clients in four different countries in a day. And I've actually, one week I spoke at six different conferences in one week. So normally I would only be at one conference. So it's actually made me a little bit confused and looking very much forward to actually spending time on trains and planes and cars again, Ula Ojiaku: To have the downtime… Aino Corry: Yes, I thought I'd never miss that, but I do, so I guess I guess that's my career. Ula Ojiaku: Great. Now, just a little bit more about your research you did on teaching, on how to teach computer science. Now I would expect there would be an intersection of you know, disciplines; it wouldn't just be computer science itself. Was there an element of maybe psychology (of), you know, how people learn and all that? Aino Corry: Yeah, it was a lot of that it was about, well, the psychological aspects of how people react to different, being in different situations, and being spoken to in different ways. And there was something that I don't think maybe you call it neurology but thinking about how to model the brain in order to make it remember what you're saying. And just something like what does it actually mean to learn something? And in Danish, the word for teaching and learning is the same word, but in English teaching and learning are two different words. And that's actually a subtle difference, which is a big difference, which makes it maybe even harder for me as a Dane to start thinking about this because you think about it as the same process. Aino Corry: But it's two very different processes. And one of the biggest things that I learned when I started doing research and teaching, and that was after having taught for 16 years or something like that, the thing that I learned was that I was so immensely focused on how to condense this book into presentations and assignments so that the students could listen to me and do the assignments. I didn't think enough about the relation between the student and the material. So I was thinking more about the relation between me and the material, and me and the student. So the really important thing is that, when you have any sort of conversation with people, it's a student, or it's a presentation that you're doing, what you want to do is that you want to change their brains really, right. But you can't see the change in the brains. So you need to figure out how can I, how can I assess that they've changed the brain? So, the first thing you have to do is think about what is it actually that you want them to be able to do differently? Do you want them to say something else? Do you want them to be able to program, to design, to facilitate, what is it that you want them to do? Because then you can set up? What is the assessment? How do you assess what they can do? Do they actually have to look at the design at an oral exam? Do they have to process some words in a written exam? What is it that you want them to do? And then when you know what you want them to do to assess it, then you can figure out what is it that you want them to do while training do you want them to do the same when you're training them, that they have to do in the assessment. Aino Corry: So that the exam is actually what they have been doing for the past hour, month, year, instead of examining something completely different than what they have been doing. And then when you know all that, then you start thinking about okay, so what material do I need for them to read? And that's, that's actually the last thing. And prior to this, I would take a book and I would think, this is the thing that I want to put in their brains. And then at the exam, I would ask them, do you understand that? Can you explain that, but maybe they never explained it during the course, maybe they just did exercises or something like that. So that was one of the most surprising things is I guess, maybe it's neurology, maybe it's psychology, it's definitely different. It's lending, from different fields. And, and you can say that the computer science part of it is actually the least part. But the interesting part about computer science and teaching computer science or natural sciences is that it's mostly not so much about discussing things. It's more about being able to understand things and relate things and apply things. Now, I guess well, you can say that all issues, all subjects are like that. But with the natural sciences, it's much more about understanding the world, changing the world. So yeah, I think it's very interesting, but also trying to explain difficult subjects to people. How do you actually do that? Ula Ojiaku: So you've already mentioned that you, you know, started your business because you wanted to be an independent, and then you realized, oh, well, there are other things because as a business owner, you probably would do all the other admin tasks that someone else would have in person. Yeah. Now, am I right? In the understanding, you still run, you know, your business, which is the meta developer, right? Do you have employees right now? Aino Corry: No, I don't, and I don't want to. And I've had a lot of people asking me over the years if I want to employ somebody and I, I did try once for just a small gig that I needed a helping hand and I employed that person and that person was not a problem, but all the extra paperwork, with taxes and insurances, and what do I know. So if I'm working with people, now they have their own company, and then they can send me an invoice and then I can pay them like that because I really want to be independent and five, no six years ago, my family and I, we moved to Cambridge in the UK for a year. And it was so easy for me, I could just do it because even though I had to really work a lot less because I didn't have my network in England and I had three kids who had to move to a different country so I had to focus on them. I could just do it, I could just work less and not make any money or almost no money. Because I didn't, I wasn't responsible to anybody, I was only responsible to myself. That gives me the freedom that I want to have. And during COVID I lost everything in my book. My calendar just was empty. Wow. And I didn't know how to continue with the company. But I only had to worry about myself. I didn't have to worry about anybody that I employed. So that was nice. Ula Ojiaku: Yes, I completely agree. I mean, it would be a lot of responsibility, having other people's livelihood as well as yours to think about that. Yeah, Aino Corry: Especially. I mean, this is such a fluid thing. It's difficult to promise anything. Ula Ojiaku: Now, but hopefully, with the, you know, lockdown restrictions on I mean, unfortunately, we're still not out, you know of the red and unfortunately, many lives have been lost, and many people have been affected but it seems like there is light at the end of the tunnel with the (covid) vaccination (roll-out) and all that. So would you say your calendar is filling up again? Aino Corry: Yes, it actually became overfilled, yeah during COVID. Because my book came out. So I had hoped that when my book came out, I would travel everywhere in the world and sign my books. Unfortunately, that couldn't happen because of COVID. But that's the least of the things that could happen to people during COVID. I've been very lucky. But my book came up... Ula Ojiaku: Retrospectives Antipatterns… Aino Corry: Yes. and, and that meant that there were a lot of people who wanted to talk to me about retrospectives, which was why I wrote the book. So that was great. So I don't know if it had filled up as easily without the book, but it definitely helped, I think. But I'm looking so much forward to getting out and speaking at conferences again. I taught at the university yesterday, and I will again tomorrow. And that was in real life. It was so nice, people were laughing and we were clapping. And we were like doing icebreaker exercises where we were standing up and moving towards each other. And it was really nice. Ula Ojiaku: Yeah, I mean, nothing can ever replace that, you know, face-to-face in-person interaction. Whilst we're grateful for technology, you know, for bridging the gap, you know, but once in a while, it's definitely important. Yeah. Great. Now, so since you've shown us your book, Retrospectives Antipatterns. And you've talked about it briefly, why don't we delve into that a bit. And for the audience who are listening either (via) audio or video only, there will be the links to the, you know, to the book, and other resources that we touch on in the show notes. So what you said people were, you know, asking you lots of questions about retrospectives, and asking for advice, which was one of the motivations for writing the book. Could you tell us the story behind that? Aino Corry: I love to tell the story behind the book. Thank you for asking, Ula. So I started facilitating Retrospectives because Linda Rising gave me a book by Norman Kerth called Project Retrospectives. And then I started facilitating them. And then Diana Larsen and Esther Derby wrote a book about Agile Retrospectives - Making Good Teams Great, which condensed all the retrospective activities into smaller bite-sized ones that you can use after each sprint. And I facilitated retrospectives at in the time I worked for a company called Trifle, inside Trifle with the customers. When I went back to university, I facilitated retrospectives there. And I just really, really liked it. I even facilitated retrospectives with my family and myself, and everybody basically who couldn't get away. And I, I got a lot of experience. And then once I was at a conference that I'd been part of organizing the conference and inviting speakers and what I do at these conferences is that if a speaker gets sick, or can't be there, then I fill in with a presentation. So they came to me and asked me is ‘Could you fill in with a presentation? Just 20 minutes?' ‘Okay, I said, When do you want it?' And they said ‘In 20 minutes, and we would want it to be a new talk, could you do that?' I was like, how can I? How can I prepare a new talk in 20 minutes for a 20-minute talk? And then I thought the only thing that I really, really know about that I can talk about for lengths, are all the mistakes that I'm continuously making when facilitating retrospectives So I thought this is definitely something I can talk about. So I just, I just, I think I drew some pictures, or I found some pictures online. And then I just spoke out from those I, I spoke about three different things that I called Antipatterns for Retrospectives, things that often go wrong for me and how to solve it. So not just explaining the problems, but also how to get out of the problem situation. And they really liked it. And then I started giving that talk. And I extended it to 45 minutes to an hour, I extended it to a day. And people kept asking me, ‘Where can we read more about this?' And I said you can't really because it's, it's in my head. And then somebody said ‘Maybe we you should write a book.' And so I thought I'm not going to write a book, I already did my Ph.D. dissertation, and I'm not doing that again. Not the best part of it for me. But then I started just writing, you know, first, it was just a few Word documents that I shared with people in my retrospective network. And they gave me feedback on that. And then I started a Leanpub book. And it turned out people wanted to buy the Leanpub book. So I thought, well, maybe I should add some more chapters. And then I thought it would be interesting to see if there's any publishers who would like to publish it. Aino Corry: And luckily, I have a very good network in IT, so I asked a lot of people who are already authors and, and Martin Fowler introduced me to somebody from Pearson, Greg Dench, and he, he read my book, the PDF that I sent from Leanpub, and he said that they thought they'd like to publish it. And there was a lot of back and forth and back and forth. And could you change the title? Because Antipatterns sounds so depressing and negative? And I said, but it is an Antipatterns, so I cannot. And then those things about I want this octopus, this big octopus? Ula Ojiaku: Yes, yes. Aino Corry: Well, it looks a little bit like a children's book, are you sure you want it to look like a children's book and I said actually, I'm, I'm really like a child myself. So I want it to be me. And then I said, and it has to be printed in color. Because I want all these Antipatterns to have not just a name, but also a picture. Because with Antipatterns, what you do is that you create an awareness, so I described, this is the context you're in, this is what normally happens, but that's the Antipattern solution. That's actually another good solution that gives you these drawbacks. But then you have the refactored solution, which gives you these benefits. And I want the patterns as well as Antipatterns, it sort of enables you to have a discussion and a higher level of extraction. So you can say, for instance, with patterns, you can say, then I use the observed or I implemented composite, and then you don't have to explain all the nitty gritty details. And it's the same with these Antipatterns. So instead of saying, ‘Well, we tried to vote, but then some people held up their vote, and I allowed them to do so. But maybe I could have done it differently', you can just say, well, then I ended in political votes. And there's also the name and then the picture because for some people, the name is easy to remember, but for other people, the picture. Ula Ojiaku: The pictures, yes. Aino Corry: I definitely am very visual. So I, I really remember pictures like that. And graphs, it really helps me understand I love UML, and when I work with architecture, it's very important for me to be able to draw these things. So that's how the book came about. And there were other publishers who didn't want it because they thought it was not technical enough or they didn't like the Antipatterns in the title or they thought it was too negative, but Pearson wanted it, so that's great. I'm very grateful for that. Ula Ojiaku: That's fantastic. Again, we'll have the link to the book in the show notes. And I mean, so I do identify with, you know, the things you said or where you kind of held your ground and in terms of how the book was meant to look for pictures. And if it's playful, it's easier to absorb. There is the saying in English, you know, a picture is worth more than a thousand words. Definitely. And in that way, you're kind of trying to cater for different people with different learning styles, because there are some of us who can read you know, but pictures kind of makes it, breaks it up and kind of, you know, conveys the message even more effectively in some instances. On that note though, are you, do you already have an audio version of it? Or do you think it would bode well as an audio version? Aino Corry: Yeah, that's a bit embarrassing, Ula, because I have narrated, I think five of the chapters. But then I stopped, but I will narrate it. I am doing it and it will happen, hopefully, yeah, but it turns out it's much more difficult to make an audiobook than you think I want to narrate it myself. I agree. Have you tried it? Ula Ojiaku: Well, no, just with, you know, starting the podcast and you know, kind of speaking, there is a whole lot to it. So I can imagine trying to bring a book to life, you know, kind of enunciating, and there'll be some places you need to emphasize. That's why I've never done it yet. But I can imagine. Aino Corry: Yeah, well, I could have hired an actor to do it, but I wanted it to be me, because it's my experience. It's, it's my voice that should be in this book. And then so I'm Danish and English is my second language. I normally think, Okay, I'm pretty good at English, I can speak fluent English, people understand what I'm saying I can express myself and the book is written in English. But then when you start recording it, and you'll listen to it afterwards, you make so many mistakes, or at least I do. So I have to repeat that again. So it just takes a lot longer than I thought, but it will be there, it's my plan. Ula Ojiaku: We'll be looking out for it, definitely, yeah. Okay, so, in your view, what are Retrospectives, and why are they important? Aino Corry: Well Retrospectives is a way for a team to set time aside to reflect on where they are, inspect, you'd say, and learn from, that, appreciate what happened, and see how can we improve going forward, the way that we communicate, the way that we work, the way that we program or design, or whatever we do. It's simply taking time aside to appreciate and inspect and then adapt to the situation. In a sense, it's the core of Agile, right, inspecting and adapting. And for a team to have regular Retrospectives, I think it's so important. Sometimes they'll think we don't have anything to talk about, we don't have any problems. But there's always something that can be improved, even if it's a small thing. And having those regular Retrospectives helps you remember, to continue to improve in all different aspects, but also, I think Retrospectives is a way to gain trust between team members, it's not the only thing you need to gain trust, but that sharing thing that showing, “Okay, that didn't go very well”, or “I need to learn this”, or “I got stuck with this”. But also, “I was really happy about this”, ”this made me so energetic, and really optimistic about these things”. It helps people understand each other as human beings and as sort of parts of the machinery or parts of the system, that's the team or even the organization. So I think it's important in all aspects. And for everybody. Ula Ojiaku: It's interesting, your definition of what a retrospective is, and I'd never really thought about it as a way for team members to, you know, build trust with themselves, so thanks for mentioning it, that really stood out for me, do you have any examples in your experience where, you know, this happened where there was maybe little or no trust and, you know, subsequently through the Retrospectives the team, started having more trust towards themselves? Aino Corry: I would like to say yes, but I have to say that when I realized in the retrospective that there's not enough trust, it is something that you have to work with also between the Retrospectives in a sense if there is not enough trust to share anything, then, then the retrospective will not be trust-building in itself, but it can help you reveal that there is not enough trust, and then you can start working with it, and to me trust is sort of the equation between relationships and that you can rely on people that you rely on people and you have a relationship. So if you have a relationship, if you know a little bit about each other as human beings, it makes it easy for you to trust people. And also if you can rely on other people, for instance, if they say, ‘Oh, I'll do this', then they'll do it. Or they'll say they can't do it, that's part of the trust as well. And if you understand, if you learn at the retrospective that there isn't enough trust, the retrospective can become a waste of time. Aino Corry: Because if they don't want to share the things that are really difficult, then you will just talk about the meal in the canteen, or whether we should have a meeting that's two hours long, or one hour long, or something like that, which is not really changing anything. It's usually things about how to give feedback or whether the code reviews can be done in this way or the other and whether we need to learn something more. So, but you can definitely be aware that there's trust issues that you can work on outside the retrospective, but then I think another important thing is that if they have already sufficient trust to be able to share things, then I've heard from a lot of people that it can, it can feel almost like team therapy to have a retrospective because they don't have to think about it, they can sort of relax and let the facilitator carry the conversation forward sometimes. And then if it can help them say, now, we talk about this, Now perhaps we've talked enough about this, now we should talk about this or could you see this from the other side, which is something that I sometimes do as well. So it can be a little bit conflict handling as well to be a facilitator to say what did you hear him say right now? Or can you imagine what his day was like yesterday or something like that? So it can be therapeutic if you want to, but that depends on the facilitator. You can also have a retrospective facilitator, which is perfectly fine, but only wants to talk about how we can improve the way that we actually design things, the architecture we make, the meetings we have, it can still be helpful, doesn't have to be therapy, but it can. Ula Ojiaku: Yeah. In running the retrospectives I would assume, I would imagine, there would be some sort of advanced preparation from a facilitative perspective. Now, would you when you get asked to do this by you know, other organizations and teams? Do you normally have a point person and you'd get the brief in terms of what they're trying to achieve from the point person, and that would set the agenda? So have you always found yourself sticking to the agenda? Or have you ever had to kind of flex depending on what you sense the team needs? Aino Corry: Yeah, I've definitely had to change my agenda. So if I get invited to facilitate a retrospective, I talk to the one who sponsors me to ask them why, why have you reached out? Do you already have Retrospectives? If you have Retrospectives, why do you need an external facilitator? What normally works for you in retrospective? What doesn't work? Is there any conflict? I should know about it? Is there anybody who's really quiet? Anybody who's really a loudmouth? Is there anything that can help me plan this retrospective in the right way? Then sometimes they say, oh, we'd really, really like this retrospective to focus on how they can learn as a team, or we'd really like this to focus on their communication with other teams. And then in some, sometimes I'll say, okay, so, so we'll say that's the theme for the retrospective. And then I'll let people know that that's a theme for the retrospective. But other times, if it's a new group, then I'll probably encourage that sponsor to allow me to make some, just a generic retrospective. So for a new group who has to work together, maybe he or she will allow me to create a futurespective for them, which is the kind of retrospective where you imagine that you're in the future, looking back at what happened. And then they say, okay, then we, then somebody got fired, or this didn't work, or the users hated it. Aino Corry: And the way that I have this futurespective, with the new team is that then I get to understand and they get to understand about each other. What do they hope and what do they feel will happen in this project, and then we can have action points, which will allow them to get the things that they hope and avoid the things that they fear. So sometimes I'll let the sponsor know, well, actually, we should do it a little bit different way. And sometimes I'll say, that's fine, we'll focus on that. But it is often so that you need to have an extra agenda when you prepare for a retrospective, at least a little bit. Because sometimes you suddenly end up in a situation where you have somebody who's speaking all the time or somebody who's really quiet. And then all the plenary discussions that you decided on, you can't have those because plenary discussions are not very nice if you have like a big difference in how much people wants to speak. And then you have to divide them into smaller groups, or you have to change it in writing. Or you have to make round robins where everybody takes turns in saying something, so just as an example. But it could also be that you notice that all the things that they're talking about are problematic, turns out to be things that we think are sort of out of their hands, not really something they can do anything about. And then if you spend all the time discussing things that you can't change, then it's just like a session where you're just complaining about everything. And in those cases, I sometimes get out the soup exercise that I learned from Diana Larsen where you make the three circles, things the team can do, things the team can influence, and then you have the soup outside. And then I say well out of all these problems that you're complaining about, how many of these are things you can do something about, how many of these things you can influence, how many of these things are in the soup, and for the things in the soup, you might just have to accept that this is the world we live in, like Corona right now. Yeah, It's what it is. Ula Ojiaku: Amazing. So, so what would you say would be, from what you've observed, I'm sure you've had a spectrum of or a continuum of teams from what you'd consider high performing to maybe people… I mean, a team that's still up and coming. What would be your view of the characteristics of a high-performing team? Aino Corry: Yeah, that's a good question. In my experience, it's not so much the individual's skill set that makes a high-performing team, an individual with the highest skill set can do a lot on its own. But if we talk about a high-performing team, it's about a team that can communicate, it's about a team where you feel there's psychological safety to say when you're stuck, or when you need help. Because if you're only working on what you want, first and foremost, and only helping other people, if you really have to, then it's not really high performing, and things will clot up and it'll be slow. One of the symptoms that I see in teams that are high-performing is that they're laughing together. So I evaluate sometimes teams based on how much they laugh, and not how much they laugh over each other, but how much they laugh together. And how, yeah, I think, I think it's a good litmus test. Because if they laugh together, then it makes them happier for each other, because the laughter starts, you know, all the happiness hormones in your brain and sensing around your body. So if you laugh together with somebody, you like them a bit more. And if you like them a bit more, you might trust them a bit more. And if you trust them a bit more, you might reach out and ask for help. Or you might offer help, when you see that somebody needs it. And if you are in an environment where you will you think that you can work freely, and you can speak freely, and you feel nice, then you're much more efficient together with other people. So that's what I see in high-performing teams. Ula Ojiaku: I mean, everything you've said because I was going to ask you to define for the benefit of the audience who might not be familiar with the term what psychological safety is? So would you say, you know, it's pretty much what you've broken down, you know, how much they laugh together, how safe they feel in asking for help, and, you know, yeah, being able to work together. Aino Corry: Yeah, I think that Gitte Klitgaard has, has taught me one of the most important things about psychological safety. And that is that it's actually not about being comfortable all the time, but it's about feeling comfortable about being uncomfortable. So even if you're saying something, which doesn't feel nice, you should still feel comfortable about it. And I think that's an interesting difference. So it's not just about making everybody feel good all the time and not having problems and only laughing and talking about positive things. That's not psychological safety. It's being okay to say I have a down day, or it's being okay to say that I don't understand what you're saying, or I feel negative, or I'm worried about this, or I don't think that this was done well enough, we could do it differently, that to me is psychological safety. Ula Ojiaku: Would you say that psychological safety, you know, having an environment that encourages the sense of psychological safety, is that only up to the team to foster? (If not) So who else would be involved, in your view? Aino Corry: I think that there's a culture in an organization and there can definitely be a culture of organizational safety and there can be a culture of non-psychological safety. And if, if the management is also showing that they're comfortable with saying uncomfortable things, I think that helps. If they're comfortable with saying, ‘Oh, we didn't do very well about that, or I made a mistake, or, if they're okay with telling people to do things differently, instead of making it really awkward or being very angry about it. That's, that's brilliant. And I remember one of the great managers, I had once that I made a huge mistake, that was really embarrassing. And when I noticed it, I felt so bad. I was beating myself up about it, but I had to tell my manager, and I had to come forward and say I messed up completely. And the way that he reacted was just wonderful. He said, ‘Well, we'll have to look into that. We'll have to figure out how we can change the process so that that doesn't happen again.' Because of course, I mean, I probably could have avoided that mistake if I thought about things in a different way. But what he said was that we should have a process where you know, that you should do this at this point in time, that should help you, support you. And I thought that was one of the things that created psychological safety for me because now I felt much safer about saying that I had a problem or made something wrong. Ula Ojiaku: In facilitating retrospectives, because you mentioned earlier that if there was anything you could talk about at length, you know, without needing preparation, it would be about the mistakes you've made in facilitating retrospectives. And hence, maybe they could also be some of you know, lead to some of the Antipatterns, could you share some of these Retrospective Antipatterns that you've observed? Aino Corry: So one of the Retrospective Antipatterns that I see most often or that I ran into most often myself is the one that I called Prime Directive Ignorance. So the Prime Directive is what Norman Kerth wrote about retrospectives. There was a longer text that states ‘everybody did the best they could at all times, and remember that before you enter a retrospective', but the problem is that, at least in some of the organizations that I've worked in with some of the people that have worked, they thought it was a bit ridiculous to expect that everybody did the best they could all the time. And to really believe that they couldn't have done any better, because they knew that somebody was slacking. They knew that somebody was being lazy. They also knew that they themselves didn't do the best they could. Aino Corry: So how could they really, genuinely believe that? So sometimes I've had retrospectives where I didn't, I didn't state that, I didn't say it out loud, I didn't state in an email or the invitation, I didn't say remember, this retrospective is not about finding a scapegoat or naming and blaming, it's about figuring out how we as a system of people can move on better together. And then I've had some awful retrospectives where some people had been made scapegoats, and they got really sad, and some of them left the retrospectives because they didn't feel safe. And then, and I think some of them may never have entered a retrospective again because it really ruined it for them because in their head now, the retrospective is a free for all, just sending arrows towards somebody, some poor person and shaming them and blaming them. So I think that the Prime Directive Ignorance Antipattern is one of the most important ones and the refactored solution, obviously, in the Prime Directive Ignorance is not to ignore the prime directive. So remember to bring it, put it on the poster in the wall, say it out loud, write it in the email, you can do it with your own words, it doesn't have to be in Kerth's words, if you like your own words better. But just make sure that people try to do that. Because the thing that Norman Kerth wanted to achieve with this was that people had the mindset of everybody did the best they could. But it's difficult to have that mindset. We're probably all brought up with our parents asking who left the milk out on the morning table? Who broke that vase, who started that fight, right? We're always trying to find a scapegoat and punish them. Although it's not very constructive, not even with children, and not even with grownups either to find that, it's, it's better to figure out how can they play? And where can they play so that they don't break the vase? How can we remind people to put milk into the refrigerator? Instead of saying you're stupid, you're forgetful, you're lazy, right. But I also appreciate that it might be a bit naive, that you might think, okay, but they could have just done a little better. But helping them out with processes, I think it's a good idea. Ula Ojiaku: With reference to the Prime Directive, you know, one of my mentors said something to me that also stuck which is that, you know, most people come to work wanting to do their best job, but sometimes it's the system that restricts them. So if we, like you said, you know, kind of move away from trying to find a scapegoat or someone to point the finger at, you know, to blame for what's going wrong, can we look at how we can shape the system in such a way that those things, you know, it would be hard to fall into those mistakes because the system is already shaped in a way that would help them focus on the right behaviours and practices and not fall into the wrong undesired ones? Yeah. Amazing. Any other Antipatterns you'd like to share? Aino Corry: Yeah, I think that the other one I'd like to share is one that I am becoming more and more aware of how important it is with so many people starting to facilitate retrospectives, because so many people are understanding how powerful it is. A lot of people who maybe aren't, let's say fully dressed, not very experienced in facilitating retrospectives are being thrown into facilitating retrospectives, by people thinking that it's easy. And it's not easy. It's really, really hard. It's hard to do it right. It's easy to understand, but it's difficult to do, it's like that one minute to learn, a lifetime to master. And a lot of people become disillusioned. So one of my retrospective anti-patterns is called the disillusioned facilitator. Because a lot of people are thrown into this role of oh, you can start facilitating retrospectives next week. And then they, maybe they hear something in a podcast like this, oh, this is an activity, you should definitely try it, or they read it online, and then they do it. But then probably they haven't done it before. They're doing it in real life the first time and they might be a bit, not really sure about it, not really having the heart in it. And people can feel that right away. And then they won't put their heart into it either, and then it will fall to the ground, you won't get what you expect to get out of it. So, I always encourage people when they start facilitating to try doing it in a sandbox, first, try out the activities with somebody that you trust and know, maybe you have some other people who want to learn how to facilitate retrospectives, and then you can try these activities out with them. Because explaining these activities can be difficult, coming up with examples that make people understand what they should do can be difficult. But also, really understanding what is the expected outcome, as we talked about right in the beginning Ula, the learning goals, what is it actually that you want to achieve? You're not doing the activity to do the activity, you're doing the activity to achieve something, to figure out what it is you want to achieve makes it easier to perform the right way. So with the disillusioned facilitator what I'm trying to say is, don't worry, you're doing your best the prime directive holds for you as well. Try it out with people, start with things that you're absolutely sure of, take boring activities for a start if you understand how to explain them. And if you understand what the expected outcome is. And we remember to debrief after the exercises to make sure that the people in the retrospective understand what they just got out of it. Because sometimes if you go just from one activity to the other, maybe they're wondering, why did we do that? Why did we spend half an hour on that? They don't understand that actually, what we got out of it was sharing this experience, or perhaps seeing the weight, how many people thought this or something like that? Ula Ojiaku Yeah, never assume, I guess is the cardinal rule there, don't assume, explain why you're doing what you're doing. You're carrying them along on a journey. And you have to (do so) like a good tour guide. This is what I, I tell the teams I coach or some of the coaches that I'm coaching: you're a tour guide, so you have to, you know you're saying ‘this is the destination we're going (to)' and as we get to some notable, you know, attraction points, call it out to them, because you can't assume that everyone is following. Aino Corry No, no Ula Ojiaku Amazing. Now what books, in addition to yours, can someone who wants to learn more about retrospectives and activities, ideas for activities to run during retrospectives? What books would you recommend to them? Aino Corry Well, the interesting thing about retrospectives is that there's a lot of different books that apply. Like when we talked about teaching computer science, it's not just computer science. It's also psychology, ethnography, neurology, things like that. And when you want to become a good retrospective facilitator, you also have to look at other things. You have to look at books about body language. A book that I keep returning to is the book Coaching Agile Teams (by) Lyssa Adkins. It's not necessarily about retrospectives, there is a little bit about that in there, but Coaching Agile Teams is about all the different ways of thinking about helping people coming from this place to this place. And that's actually what retrospectives is about. But also Jutta Eckstein has written the book Retrospectives for Organizational Change. And I think that's important as well to think about retrospectives in a different setting because then you might see that okay, so these retrospectives that you have been asked to do every sprint for a team, maybe that's actually something you can use for the whole organization to help a change or something like that. So I think sort of not just talking about the retrospective books, but other books in general about coaching or communication are very important. Ula Ojiaku: Fantastic. So are you on social media? And how can the audience who would want to get in touch with you do so? Aino Corry: Yeah, I'm on LinkedIn. LinkedIn, I think Aino Corry, just that link, and I'm on Twitter with my name, @apaipi. I'm also on Instagram, but I never use it. So that's the best place to reach me. And it's really easy to Google me because as with you, we probably have very unique names. Ula Ojiaku: Yes, yes, definitely. Aino Corry: And I have to say, Ula, thank you for that thing from the coaching that you said about pointing out the different parts of the landscape in the journey that people might not have noticed. I think that's a very, very good analogy that I'll use in my retrospective teaching as well. Ula Ojiaku: You're very welcome for that. Thank you for that. Thank you. You're welcome. Any final words before we just wrap this whole thing up? Aino Corry: Yeah, make sure you have something that you enjoy every day in your life. Ula Ojiaku: Amazing. Thanks again Aino.

Badass Ideas – Talks from the Agile and Beyond Speaker’s Lounge

Badass Agile

Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2019 83:49

This is a long one, so make sure you're on Wifi! Had a great time at Agile and Beyond this year, and as I was chilling with the speakers Thursday afternoon, we decided to record some cool conversations and thoughts from my colleagues. A real privilege to get some rapid insights from this crew. Here Are the Interview Notes in order of appearance: Nayan Hajratwala, Agile And Beyond Co-organizer and Speaker Coordinatorhttp://www.agileandbeyond.com/2019/ Holly Bielawa - How To Hire An Agile CoachTwitter @agilegrowthLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/hollybielawa/ Philippa Bagley - Project Management For CreativesLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/philippa-hbs/Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/Philippa.HBS/ Michael Nir - Persuading the Bear: Learn how to Build Engaged Communities through Horizontal InfluencingWebsite - http://michaelnir.com/Twitter - @michaelnirhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelnir/ Daniel Davis - Code is Easy. Humans are hard, Your Tech Career Is Wacked & Why That's OKemail - Dan@elev8.servicesTwitter - @daniel_davisLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/davisdaniel/ Colleen Esposito - Does Agile change your process - or your perspective? - Beyond Prioritization: How to Make an Impact for your CustomersTwitter - @TheColleenELInkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/colleen-esposito-5a06252/ Shahin Sheidaei, Eglys Vera - The Golden Hammer of Transformation: Culture!ShahinBlog - http://blog.sheidaei.com/Twitter - @sheidaeiLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheidaei/ EglysLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/eglys-vera-a6988b/ David Harris - Extreme Programming Practices at ScaleGitHub - https://github.com/thedavidharrisLInkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidharris16/ Mark Shead - Go With The Flow - An exercise in optimizing the delivery of value, Shifting Left With Extreme Programming - Developing Quality EarlyYoutube - www.youtube.com/marksheadLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/markshead/ Arati Joshi - Introvert's journey to AgilityTwitter - @aratisterLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/arati-joshi-12382618/ George Dinwiddie - Advanced BDD for the Whole Team -- Distillation of Essential ExamplesOut Beyond Estimates and No EstimatesTwitter - @gdinwiddieWebsite - www.idiacomputing.comBlog - http://blog.gdinwiddie.com/ Matt Heusser - Lean Coffeewebsite - www.xndev.comBooks on Leanpub - https://leanpub.com/u/mheusserTwitter - @mheusser Justin Beall - Closing the Remote Engineer GapTwitter - @dev3l_ Tom Bellinson - What is a Blameless Culture and Why Would I Want One: A Case Study

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99: Improve Your Agile Hiring Practices

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2018 73:10

Zach Bonaker (@ZachBonaker) and Amitai Schleier (@schmonz) joined Ryan Ripley (@ryanripley) to discuss ways to improve your agile hiring practices when interviewing Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches. [featured-image single_newwindow=”false”]Zach Bonaker[/featured-image] Zach is a self-described “benevolent trouble-maker” and seeks to foster servant leadership that cultivates growth, learning, and discovery. He is a systems thinker who shares his thoughts on his blog – Agile Out Loud. Zach is great at pushing agile thinking forward and has authored many popular posts on next generation agile theories and practices. Amitai is a software development coach, speaker, legacy code wrestler, non-award-winning musician, award winning bad poet, and the creator of the Agile in 3 Minutes podcast. He blogs at schmonz.com and is a frequent guest on Agile for Humans. Amitai has published many of his agile observations and musings in his new book – Agile in 3 Minutes on Lean Pub. [callout] Ryan Ripley is teaming up with Professional Scrum Trainer, Todd Miller to teach the PSM-II this year. Whether you are a CSM or a PSM-I, this Advanced Scrum Master Course is the next step on the Scrum master journey, created and present by trainers from scrum.org – The Home of Scrum. Indianapolis, IN on October 3-4 Denver, CO on October 17-18 Johannesburg, South Africa on November 15-16 Washington D.C. on December 6-7 Tampa, FL on December 11-12 [/callout] In this episode you'll discover: Combining the thinking and doing of agile It’s the age of the knowledge worker…what now? The importance of meeting people where they are at and helping them move forward Links from the show: Business Agility 2019 – https://businessagility.institute/attend/business-agility-conference-13-14-march-2019-new-york-city/ How to Support the Show: Thank you for your support. Here are some of the ways to contribute that were discussed during this episode: Share the show with friends, family, colleagues, and co-workers. Sharing helps get the word out about Agile for Humans Rate us on iTunes and leave an honest review Join the mailing list – Check out the form on the right side of the page Take the survey – totally anonymous and helps us get a better idea of who is listening and what they are interested in Techwell events – use the code AGILEDEV when you sign up for Agile Dev East in Orlando, FL November 5th – 10th. Leadership Gift Program Make a donation via Patreon Agile + DevOps East brings together practitioners seeking to accelerate the delivery of reliable, secure software applications. Learn from industry experts how your organization can leverage agile and DevOps concepts to improve deployment frequency and time to market, reduce lead time, and more successfully deliver stable new features. Choose from over 100 learning and networking opportunities this November 4–9 in Orlando, FL to improve your agile skills in hot areas such as agile and lean development, scaled agile development, leadership, digital transformation, and more. Agile for Humans listeners use code “” to receive $400 off their conference registration Visit well.tc/agileAGILEDEV The post AFH 099: Improve Your Agile Hiring Practices appeared first on Ryan Ripley.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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98: Humanizing the World of Work

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2018 61:05

(@donaldegray) Barry Tandy (@BarryTandy) and Amitai Schleier (@schmonz) joined Ryan Ripley (@ryanripley) to discuss mindsets, frameworks, manifestos, and how to humanize the world of work.Don Gray [featured-image single_newwindow=”false”]Don Gray[/featured-image] is a friend and mentor to me and a valued member of the agile community. He has contributed to multiple books including CENTER ENTER TURN SUSTAIN: ESSAYS IN CHANGE ARTISTRY, READINGS FOR PROBLEM-SOLVING LEADERSHIP, and AMPLIFY YOUR EFFECTIVENESS. He co-teaches one of the top agile and leadership workshops available – Coaching Beyond the Team – with Esther Derby.Don Barry is an agile coach on a journey filled with meaningful relationships and experiences… some of them life changing, all of them making a difference. He is a coach at Agile42 and prides himself on being able to build and maintain successful long-term relationships and through those relationships being able to follow a passion of working closely with people systems and the dynamics that make up those systems. As a Scrum Master, he is focused on solving many different problems that his teams encounter. Amitai is a software development coach, speaker, legacy code wrestler, non-award-winning musician, award winning bad poet, and the creator of the Agile in 3 Minutes podcast. He blogs at schmonz.com and is a frequent guest on Agile for Humans. Amitai has published many of his agile observations and musings in his new book – Agile in 3 Minutes on Lean Pub. [callout] Ryan Ripley is teaming up with Professional Scrum Trainer, Todd Miller to teach the PSM-II this year. Whether you are a CSM or a PSM-I, this Advanced Scrum Master Course is the next step on the Scrum master journey, created and present by trainers from scrum.org – The Home of Scrum. Indianapolis, IN on October 3-4 Denver, CO on October 17-18 Johannesburg, South Africa on November 15-16 Washington D.C. on December 6-7 Tampa, FL on December 11-12 [/callout] In this episode you'll discover: Combining the thinking and doing of agile It’s the age of the knowledge worker…what now? The importance of meeting people where they are at and helping them move forward Links from the show: Slack by Tom Demarco – https://amzn.to/2PK0nxM Manifesto of Agile Software Development – http://agilemanifesto.org/ Christopher Avery’s Responsibility Process – https://ryanripley.com/leadershipgift 5 things I learned teaching Scrum to Millennials by Steve Porter – https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/5-things-learned-teaching-millennials How to Support the Show: Thank you for your support. Here are some of the ways to contribute that were discussed during this episode: Share the show with friends, family, colleagues, and co-workers. Sharing helps get the word out about Agile for Humans Rate us on iTunes and leave an honest review Join the mailing list – Check out the form on the right side of the page Take the survey – totally anonymous and helps us get a better idea of who is listening and what they are interested in Techwell events – use the code AGILEDEV when you sign up for Agile Dev East in Orlando, FL November 5th – 10th. Leadership Gift Program Make a donation via Patreon [callout]This pocket guide is the one book to read for everyone who wants to learn about Scrum. The book covers all roles, rules and the main principles underpinning Scrum, and is based on the Scrum Guide Edition 2013. A broader context to this fundamental description of Scrum is given by describing the past and the future of Scrum. The author, Gunther Verheyen, has created a concise, yet complete and passionate reference about Scrum. The book demonstrates his core view that Scrum is about a journey, a journey of discovery and fun. He designed the book to be a helpful guide on that journey. Click here to purchase on Amazon.[/callout] [reminder]Which topic resonated with you? Please leave your thoughts in the comment section below.[/reminder] Want to hear another podcast about the life of an agile coach? — Listen to my conversation with Zach Bonaker, Diane Zajac-Woodie, and Amitai Schlair on episode 39. We discuss growing an agile practice and how coaches help create the environments where agile ideas can flourish. The post AFH 098: Humanizing the World of Work appeared first on Ryan Ripley.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

76: Agile 2017 with Faye Thompson, Markus Silpala, and Amitai Schleier

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2017 51:09

(@msipala), Faye Thompson (@agilefaye), and Amitai Schleier (@schmonz) joined Ryan Ripley (@RyanRipley) to discuss their learnings from Agile 2017.Markus Silpala [featured-image single_newwindow=”false”]Markus Silpala and Amitai Schleier Hanging out at Agile Coach Camp[/featured-image] is a developer who enjoys close collaboration with both clients and teammates. He seeks work environments where his capabilities—both human and technical—will contribute to the production of high-quality, customer-pleasing software. Markus has a career that spans twenty years and excels as a developer, coach, or architect.Markus Faye has more than eighteen years of project delivery experience and is currently a senior agile consultant with CareWorks Tech. Focusing on agile methodologies and continuous improvement, she has had a positive impact in the financial services, healthcare, advertising, and automotive industries. Faye is passionate about using innovative solutions to drive business value and helps work groups transform into highly engaged and energized teams. Amitai is a software development coach, speaker, legacy code wrestler, non-award-winning musician, award winning bad poet, and the creator of the Agile in 3 Minutes podcast. He blogs at schmonz.com and is a frequent guest on Agile for Humans. Amitai has published many of his agile observations and musings in his new book – Agile in 3 Minutes on Lean Pub. In this episode you'll discover: How Markus Used an Agile Mindset to Confront Cancer What we all learned at Agile 2017 Why it’s important to banish our inner critics Links from the show: Handling Cancer with an Agile Mindset Markus’s Blog Agile Coaching Summit – Chicago The Path to Agility Conference in Columbus, OH Agile 2017 Conference [callout]Denise Jacobs, Speaker, Author and Chief Creativity Evangelist of The Creative Dose, who speaks at web conferences and consults with tech companies worldwide, maps a way out in her latest work, Banish Your Inner Critic. This book is your manual and toolkit to help you not only reclaim your creativity and productivity, but bump it up to extreme productivity, clearing a path for you to find your zone more often – and stay in it longer. Click here to purchase on Amazon.[/callout] [reminder]Which topic resonated with you? Please leave your thoughts in the comment section below.[/reminder] Want to hear another podcast about the life of an agile coach? — Listen to my conversation with Zach Bonaker, Diane Zajac-Woodie, and Amitai Schlair on episode 39. We discuss growing an agile practice and how coaches help create the environments where agile ideas can flourish. One tiny favor. — Please take 30 seconds now and leave a review on iTunes. This helps others learn about the show and grows our audience. It will help the show tremendously, including my ability to bring on more great guests for all of us to learn from. Thanks! Techwell's Agile Dev East is *the* premier event covering the latest advances in the agile community. Agile for Humans listeners can use the code AGILEDEV to receive up to $200 off any registration package over $800. Check out the entire program at adceast.techwell.com. You'll notice that I'm speaking there again this year. Attendees will have a chance to participate in my Aligning Toward Business Agility–360° of Freedom Leadership Summit presentation, along with my half day sessions on advanced scrum topics called Scrum: Answering the Tough Questions, as well as Rethinking Your Retrospectives. I hope to see many Agile for Humans listeners in Orlando – November 5-10, for this great event. The post AFH 076: Agile 2017 with Faye Thompson, Markus Silpala, and Amitai Schleier appeared first on Ryan Ripley.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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72: Agile Product Management with John Cutler

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2017 50:51

John Cutler (@johncutlefish) and Amitai Schleier (@schmonz) joined Ryan Ripley (@RyanRipley) to discuss feature factories, outcomes, and excellent agile product management. [featured-image single_newwindow=”false”]Product Manager John Cutler presenting his agile product management insights.[/featured-image] John Multiple hat-wearer. Product development nut. He loves wrangling complex problems and answering the why with qualitative and quantitative data. John blogs on Medium here. John is currently Senior Product Manager for Search and Relevance at Zendesk. He has a perspective that spans individual roles, domains, and products. John knows agile product management and frequently shares his knowledge on Twitter. Amitai is a software development coach, speaker, legacy code wrestler, non-award-winning musician, award winning bad poet, and the creator of the Agile in 3 Minutes podcast. He blogs at schmonz.com and is a frequent guest on Agile for Humans. Amitai has published many of his agile observations and musings in his new book – Agile in 3 Minutes on Lean Pub. In this episode you'll discover: Why a feature factory models work in the short term and fail in the long term. How to empower and engage your teams with customer collaboration When to change roles in order to gain insights and empathy Links from the show: John’s Blog on Medium Amitai’s Blog Roots of the Feature Factory by John Cutler To the Drifters, Why Askers, and System Thinkers by John Cutler [callout]Scrum is the most successful framework for agile product development and much has been written about how to follow the Scrum process but the key to success is in the leadership skills of the product owner. Product Mastery explores the traits of the best product owners offering an insight into the difference between good and great product ownership and explaining how the best product owners are DRIVEN to be successful. Click here to purchase on Amazon.[/callout] [reminder]Which topic resonated with you? Please leave your thoughts in the comment section below.[/reminder] Want to hear another podcast about the life of an agile coach? — Listen to my conversation with Zach Bonaker, Diane Zajac-Woodie, and Amitai Schlair on episode 39. We discuss growing an agile practice and how coaches help create the environments where agile ideas can flourish. One tiny favor. — Please take 30 seconds now and leave a review on iTunes. This helps others learn about the show and grows our audience. It will help the show tremendously, including my ability to bring on more great guests for all of us to learn from. Thanks! Techwell's Agile Dev East is *the* premier event covering the latest advances in the agile community. Agile for Humans listeners can use the code AFH20 by July 21st to receive 20% off any registration package over $800 in addition to Super Early Bird pricing. Check out the entire program at adceast.techwell.com. You'll notice that I'm speaking there again this year. Attendees will have a chance to participate in my Aligning Toward Business Agility–360° of Freedom Leadership Summit presentation, along with my half day sessions on advanced scrum topics called Scrum: Answering the Tough Questions, as well as Rethinking Your Retrospectives. I hope to see many Agile for Humans listeners in Orlando – November 5-10, for this great event. The post AFH 072: Agile Product Management with John Cutler [PODCAST] appeared first on Ryan Ripley.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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65: Agile Open Forum with Woody Zuill, Tim Ottinger, Amitai Schleier, and Zach Bonaker

Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2017 71:07

Woody Zuill (@WoodyZuill), Tim Ottinger (@tottinge), Zach Bonaker (@ZachBonaker) and Amitai Schleier (@schmonz) joined me (@RyanRipley) to discuss a wide range of agile topics and principles. [featured-image single_newwindow=”false”]Zach Bonaker Presenting ‘The Deception of Training' at Scrum Day San Diego 2016[/featured-image] Woody has been programming for over 35 years with 20 of those years as an Extreme Programmer (XP) and more than 15 of those years as an Agile Coach. He takes the “inspect and adapt” mantra to heart and through this type of inquiry has developed advanced agile concepts such as #NoEstimates and #MobProgramming. Woody is passionate about helping teams reinvent their workplace to make it possible for everyone to excel in their work and life. He published the Mob Programming book on Leanpub and provides his thoughts about many agile topics on his blog. Tim is committed to understanding and improving the art of software from the angle of “thinking for a living.” He is a programmer, author, trainer and globally recognized coach with over 35 years of real software development experience. His style is practical and hands-on, steeped in both Agile and classic traditions. Tim rapidly communicates concepts and practices, and is recognized for his compassionate and patient approach to working with individuals and has a sincere interest in helping people reach their goals. Zach is a self-described “benevolent trouble-maker” and seeks to foster servant leadership that cultivates growth, learning, and discovery. He is a systems thinker who shares his thoughts on his blog – Agile Out Loud. Zach is great at pushing agile thinking forward and has authored many popular posts on next generation agile theories and practices. Amitai is a software development coach, speaker, legacy code wrestler, non-award-winning musician, award winning bad poet, and the creator of the Agile in 3 Minutes podcast. He blogs at schmonz.com and is a frequent guest on Agile for Humans. Amitai has published many of his agile observations and musings in his new book – Agile in 3 Minutes on Lean Pub. In this episode you'll discover: How principles drive agile practices How turning up the good improves your team and your life Why principles trump practices Links from the show: Modern Agile Woody Zuill’s Blog Tim Ottinger’s Blog Amitai’s Blog [callout]This comprehensive set of cards is an indispensable resource for agile teams. The deck of Agile in a Flash cards teaches leadership, teamwork, clean programming, agile approaches to problem solving, and tips for coaching agile teams. Team members can use the cards as reference material, ice breakers for conversations, reminders (taped to a wall or monitor), and sources of useful tips and hard-won wisdom. Click here to purchase on Amazon.[/callout] [reminder]Which topic resonated with you? Please leave your thoughts in the comment section below.[/reminder] Want to hear another podcast about the life of an agile coach? — Listen to my conversation with Zach Bonaker, Diane Zajac-Woodie, and Amitai Schlair on episode 39. We discuss growing an agile practice and how coaches help create the environments where agile ideas can flourish. One tiny favor. — Please take 30 seconds now and leave a review on iTunes. This helps others learn about the show and grows our audience. It will help the show tremendously, including my ability to bring on more great guests for all of us to learn from. Thanks! This podcast episode is brought to you by Techwell's Agile Dev West Conference. Techwell's Agile Dev West is *the* premier event that covers the latest advances in the agile community. Agile for Humans listeners can use the code AGILEDEV to receive $200 off their conference registration fee. Check out the entire program at adcwest.techwell.com. You'll notice that I'm speaking there this year. Attendees will have a chance to see my The #NoEstimates Movement presentation, along with my half day session on advanced scrum topics called Scrum: Answering the Tough Questions. I hope to see many Agile for Humans listeners in Las Vegas – June 4–9th, for this great event. The post AFH 065: Agile Open Forum with Woody Zuill, Tim Ottinger, Amitai Schleier, and Zach Bonaker [PODCAST] appeared first on Ryan Ripley.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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63: Agile Improv with Jessie Shternshus

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2017 42:38

Jessie Shternshus (@TheImprovEffect) and Amitai Schleier (@schmonz) joined Ryan Ripley (@RyanRipley) to discuss how improv skills can help make your agile teams awesome. [featured-image single_newwindow=”false”]Jessie Shternshus[/featured-image] is the founder of The Improv Effect where her goal is to help businesses reach their full potential by means of interpersonal-communication skills training. Throughout the years, She has worked with top companies such as Groupon, Fidelity Investments, Johnson & Johnson, Getty Images, The PGA Tour, and Crayola to achieve teamwork, creative problem solving tools, on-boarding, presentation skills, and product development ideation sessions. Jessie co-authored the book, CTRLShift: 50 Games For 50 ****ing Days Like today.Jessie Amitai is a software development coach, speaker, legacy code wrestler, non-award-winning musician, award winning bad poet, and the creator of the Agile in 3 Minutes podcast. He blogs at schmonz.com and is a frequent guest on Agile for Humans. Amitai has published many of his agile observations and musings in his new book – Agile in 3 Minutes on Lean Pub. In this episode you'll discover: How improv techniques can help get the best out of your agile teams Games you can try to improve listening and collaboration Why improvisation and agile go hand in hand Links from the show: Jessie’s site: theimproveffect.com Big Apple Scrum Day Improv Wisdom: Don’t Prepare, Just Show Up by Patricia Ryan Madson [callout]What kind of day are you having? Is it a ****ing day? Or is it a ****ing day? What are you going to do about it? Mike Bonifer and Jessie Shternshus, who teach companies around the world how to apply improvisation to business, have created 50 original improv games tailored to the kind of ****ing day you’re having. From the bathroom to the board room, and every stop in between, this fun and engaging book helps you get the craziness under control. Click here to purchase on Amazon.[/callout] [reminder]What are your thoughts about this episode? Please leave them in the comments section below.[/reminder] Want to hear about the dangers of agile dogma? — Listen to my conversation with Tom Cagley on episode 55 We discuss certifications, frameworks, and the impact of dogma on a teams ability to inspect and adapt. One tiny favor. — Please take 30 seconds now and leave a review on iTunes. This helps others learn about the show and grows our audience. It will help the show tremendously, including my ability to bring on more great guests for all of us to learn from. Thanks! This podcast episode is brought to you by Techwell’s Agile Dev West Conference. Techwell's Agile Dev West is *the* premier event that covers the latest advances in the agile community. Agile for Humans listeners can use the code AGILEDEV to receive $200 off their conference registration fee. Check out the entire program at adcwest.techwell.com. You'll notice that I'm speaking there this year. Attendees will have a chance to see my The #NoEstimates Movement presentation, along with my half day session on advanced scrum topics called Scrum: Answering the Tough Questions. I hope to see many Agile for Humans listeners in Las Vegas – June 4–9th, for this great event. The post AFH 063: Agile Improv with Jessie Shternshus [PODCAST] appeared first on Ryan Ripley.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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62: Agile Testing with Lisa Crispin

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2017 44:18

Lisa Crispin (@lisacrispin) and Amitai Schleier (@schmonz) joined me (@RyanRipley) to discuss co-presenting at conferences, co-writing books, and agile testing. [featured-image single_newwindow=”false”]Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory Co-Presenting a Conference Talk[/featured-image] Lisa is a tester who enjoys sharing her experiences and learning from others. She is the co-author, with Janet Gregory, of More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team (Addison-Wesley, 2014) and Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (Addison-Wesley, 2009). Lisa is a tester on a fabulous agile team. She specializes in showing testers and agile teams how testers can add value and how to guide development with business-facing tests. Amitai is a software development coach, speaker, legacy code wrestler, non-award-winning musician, award winning bad poet, and the creator of the Agile in 3 Minutes podcast. He blogs at schmonz.com and is a frequent guest on Agile for Humans. Amitai has published many of his agile observations and musings in his new book – Agile in 3 Minutes on Lean Pub. In this episode you'll discover: How to get started in conference speaking with co-presenting The joys and techniques of writing a book with a partner What is being observed in the agile testing world today Links from the show: More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams Lisa’s website: lisacrispin.com Self.Conference – May 19th and 20th [callout]Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin pioneered the agile testing discipline with their previous work, Agile Testing. Now, in More Agile Testing, they reflect on all they've learned since. They address crucial emerging issues, share evolved agile practices, and cover key issues agile testers have asked to learn more about. Packed with new examples from real teams, this insightful guide offers detailed information about adapting agile testing for your environment; learning from experience and continually improving your test processes; scaling agile testing across teams; and overcoming the pitfalls of automated testing. You'll find brand-new coverage of agile testing for the enterprise, distributed teams, mobile/embedded systems, regulated environments, data warehouse/BI systems, and DevOps practices. Click here to purchase on Amazon.[/callout] [reminder]What are your thoughts about this episode? Please leave them in the comments section below.[/reminder] Want to hear another podcast about the getting started with speaking at technical conferences? — Listen to my conversation with Don Gray, Tim Ottinger, Amitai Schleier, and Jason Tice on episode 32. We discuss how to write a compelling abstract, what track reviewers are looking for in a submission, and how to give yourself the best change of getting selected. One tiny favor. — Please take 30 seconds now and leave a review on iTunes. This helps others learn about the show and grows our audience. It will help the show tremendously, including my ability to bring on more great guests for all of us to learn from. Thanks! This podcast is brought to you by Audible. I have used Audible for years, and I love audio books. I have three to recommend: Agile and Lean Program Management by Johanna Rothman Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time by Jeff Sutherland The Lean Startup by Eric Ries All you need to do to get your free 30-day Audible trial is go to Audibletrial.com/agile. Choose one of the above books, or choose between more than 180,000 audio programs. It's that easy. Go to Audibletrial.com/agile and get started today. Enjoy! The post AFH 062: Agile Testing with Lisa Crispin [PODCAST] appeared first on Ryan Ripley.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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61: Agile Musings with GeePaw Hill

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2017 60:25

GeePaw Hill (@GeePawHill) and Amitai Schleier (@schmonz) joined me (@RyanRipley) to discuss internal quality vs external quality, generating insights about software, and the dangers of dogma in agile software development. [featured-image single_newwindow=”false”]GeePaw Hill[/featured-image] is the internet moniker for Michael Hill. He is a professional software coach for agile teams. GeePaw blogs at geepawhill.org and is a must follow on Twitter. GeePaw is a proud grandfather of 9 and finds that to be his most important role yet.GeePaw Amitai is a software development coach, speaker, legacy code wrestler, non-award-winning musician, award winning bad poet, and the creator of the Agile in 3 Minutes podcast. He blogs at schmonz.com and is a frequent guest on Agile for Humans. Amitai has published many of his agile observations and musings in his new book – Agile in 3 Minutes on Lean Pub. In this episode you'll discover: How to debunk the quality vs quantity myth Why maximizing your insights per hour is important What is hurting the agile industry today Links from the show: GeePaw’s website – geepawhill.org Big Apple Scrum Day Agile in 3 Minutes – episode 24 Invalidate [callout]Scrum is the most successful framework for agile product development and much has been written about how to follow the Scrum process but the key to success is in the leadership skills of the product owner. Product Mastery explores the traits of the best product owners offering an insight into the difference between good and great product ownership and explaining how the best product owners are DRIVEN to be successful. Click here to purchase on Amazon.[/callout] [reminder]What are your thoughts about this episode? Please leave them in the comments section below.[/reminder] Want to hear another podcast about the dangers of agile dogma? — Listen to my conversation with Tom Cagley on episode 55 We discuss certifications, frameworks, and the impact of dogma on a teams ability to inspect and adapt. One tiny favor. — Please take 30 seconds now and leave a review on iTunes. This helps others learn about the show and grows our audience. It will help the show tremendously, including my ability to bring on more great guests for all of us to learn from. Thanks! This podcast episode is brought to you by Techwell’s Agile Dev West Conference. Techwell's Agile Dev West is *the* premier event that covers the latest advances in the agile community. Agile for Humans listeners can use the code AGILEDEV to receive $200 off their conference registration fee. Check out the entire program at adcwest.techwell.com. You'll notice that I'm speaking there this year. Attendees will have a chance to see my The #NoEstimates Movement presentation, along with my half day session on advanced scrum topics called Scrum: Answering the Tough Questions. I hope to see many Agile for Humans listeners in Las Vegas – June 4–9th, for this great event. The post AFH 061: Agile Musings with GeePaw Hill [PODCAST] appeared first on Ryan Ripley.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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58: Agile Coaching Strategies with Llewellyn Falco

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2017 57:18

Llewellyn Falco (@llewellynfalco) and Amitai Schleier (@schmonz) joined me (@RyanRipley) to discuss Agile Coaching, types of coaching, hiring coaches, and some #MobProgramming. [featured-image single_newwindow=”false”]Llewellyn Falco[/featured-image] Llewellyn is a professional teacher, speaker, agile programmer, and creator of the Approval Test project. He blogs here, appears on podcasts there, and helps make agile teams awesome everywhere. Llewellyn generously shares his insights on YouTube. Watch his videos, they are great. Seriously. Amitai is a software development coach, speaker, legacy code wrestler, non-award-winning musician, award winning bad poet, and the creator of the Agile in 3 Minutes podcast. He blogs at schmonz.com and is a frequent guest on Agile for Humans. Amitai has published many of his agile observations and musings in his new book – Agile in 3 Minutes on Lean Pub. In this episode you'll discover: How to hire an agile coach Different ways agile coaches work with teams Why you may want to get out to Boston on April 6th and 7th for the Mob Programming Conference Links from the show: Mob Programming Conference Agile in 3 Minutes #32 – Mob by Amitai Schleier The Beer Game AFH Episode 27 on #MobProgramming with Woody Zuill [callout]Written in a fast-paced thriller style, The Goal, a gripping novel, is transforming management thinking throughout the world. It is a book to recommend to your friends in industry – even to your bosses – but not to your competitors. Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager working ever more desperately to try improve performance. His factory is rapidly heading for disaster. So is his marriage. He has ninety days to save his plant – or it will be closed by corporate HQ, with hundreds of job losses. It takes a chance meeting with a professor from student days – Jonah – to help him break out of conventional ways of thinking to see what needs to be done. Click here to purchase on Amazon.[/callout] [reminder]What are your thoughts about this episode? Please leave them in the comments section below.[/reminder] Want to hear another podcast about the life of an agile coach? — Listen to my conversation with Zach Bonaker, Diane Zajac-Woodie, and Amitai Schlair on episode 39. We discuss growing an agile practice and how coaches help create the environments where agile ideas can flourish. One tiny favor. — Please take 30 seconds now and leave a review on iTunes. This helps others learn about the show and grows our audience. It will help the show tremendously, including my ability to bring on more great guests for all of us to learn from. Thanks! This podcast is brought to you by Audible. I have used Audible for years, and I love audio books. I have three to recommend: Agile and Lean Program Management by Johanna Rothman Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time by Jeff Sutherland The Lean Startup by Eric Ries All you need to do to get your free 30-day Audible trial is go to Audibletrial.com/agile. Choose one of the above books, or choose between more than 180,000 audio programs. It's that easy. Go to Audibletrial.com/agile and get started today. Enjoy! The post AFH 058: Agile Coaching Strategies with Llewellyn Falco [PODCAST] appeared first on Ryan Ripley.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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56: Women in Agile with Natalie Warnert