Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations

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Jeff Lopez-Stuit talks Global Agility, and coaching over seas Sep 03, 2016

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In this in depth audio only podcast, we get to visit with Jeff Lopez-Stuit. Jeff coaches in far away places and with companies that build products on a global scale. Jeff helps bust a few of the myths we have about coaching in other cultures, the adoption of agile in very hierarchical societies, and shares technics to coaching approaches with people from different backgrounds. He even shares some tips for those coaches that may be taking their very first assignment to coach in a foreign land. Hint: We are all very much the same.

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Andreas Schliep: "A ScrumMaster is an Agile Coach Who Isn't There Yet" at Agile2016 Sep 02, 2016

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Product Owners can prepare for the business world by getting education in business and economics, software engineers can similarly prepare for a career in development--but how do you prepare for a career as a ScrumMaster or Agile coach? Andreas Schliep wants to provide them a path. "If [young people] want to become ScrumMasters or Agile coaches, there should be something at the university or college that just leads them there." If you asked Andreas how long he thinks the ScrumMaster's education would last, it wouldn't be three days (which is longer than the typical two-day CSM course), but three years. That's because many ScrumMasters lack the soft skills required to perform a servant leadership role for a Scrum team. To this end, Andreas and others have created an open-source curriculum to help individuals learn how to be better ScrumMasters and coaches. When it comes down to it, Andreas believes that the ScrumMaster is an Agile coach for the team. As he says, "It's about helping people achieve their goals, helping people become better." SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett hosts at Agile2016 in Atlanta, GA. About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series connects the community through compelling stories, passionate people, shared knowledge, and innovative ideas. Fueled by inspiring conversations with industry thoughtleaders, Agile Amped offers valuable content – anytime, anywhere. To receive real-time updates, subscribe at YouTube, iTunes or SolutionsIQ.com. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SIQYouTube, http://bit.ly/SIQiTunes, http://www.solutionsiq.com/agile-amped/ Follow: http://bit.ly/SIQTwitter Like: http://bit.ly/SIQFacebook

CEO David Horowitz's Retrium for a Dream (Retrospective) at Agile2016 Sep 01, 2016

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CEO and co-founder of Retrium David Horowitz left his gig as an Agile coach to focus on a growing problem: retrospective fails. David says, "If you ask me, 'How would you describe Agile in just two words?' it would be, 'Continuous Improvement.'" Retrospectives are the vehicle for continuous improvement. Yet across the industry, David sees many teams who treat retrospectives like a chore or a checklist item--or, even worse, they skip the retrospective altogether. It gets even worse if the teams are distributed. David decided to quit being an Agile coach and founded Retrium, whose SaaS product makes retrospectives much more effective and engaging. The biggest pitfall in retrospectives, in David's opinion: "lack of follow-through." As for pitfalls during live retrospective, the lack of a level playing field may keep teams from getting value. Seniority, personality and physical location can all contribute to--or detract from--a participant's ability to actively participate and gain value. In other words, just because someone is junior, introverted and/or remote doesn't mean they don't want to contribute to the team's growth. David also touches on the Retrospective Facilitators Gathering, which he participates in. Mandy Ross from Sococo, SolutionsIQ partner, hosts at Agile2016 in Atlanta, GA. About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series connects the community through compelling stories, passionate people, shared knowledge, and innovative ideas. Fueled by inspiring conversations with industry thoughtleaders, Agile Amped offers valuable content – anytime, anywhere. To receive real-time updates, subscribe at YouTube, iTunes or SolutionsIQ.com. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SIQYouTube, http://bit.ly/SIQiTunes, http://www.solutionsiq.com/agile-amped/ Follow: http://bit.ly/SIQTwitter Like: http://bit.ly/SIQFacebook

Chet Hendrickson & Ron Jeffries: XP Turns 20 and What Have We Learned? Aug 31, 2016

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Chet Hendrickson & Ron Jeffries (briefly) take over Agile Amped after (briefly) breaking Howard Sublett. Then the duo reminisce on 20 years of collaboration since the beginning of Extreme Programming (which, you'll remember, is well before the onset of Agile). With decades of experiences in Agile (and its predecessor methodologies), Chet and Ron have lots to say about the state of Agile and aren't above saying it. Of interest: the fact that so many Agile companies focus on the tools for doing Agile and few focus on actually being Agile. On this point, Chet advocates for "more Jenkins, less Jira." Ron says it may be time to return to the roots of Agile and XP and do the unthinkable to get the desired results: change the name. SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett hosts at Agile2016 in Atlanta, GA. About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series connects the community through compelling stories, passionate people, shared knowledge, and innovative ideas. Fueled by inspiring conversations with industry thoughtleaders, Agile Amped offers valuable content – anytime, anywhere. To receive real-time updates, subscribe at YouTube, iTunes or SolutionsIQ.com. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SIQYouTube, http://bit.ly/SIQiTunes, http://www.solutionsiq.com/agile-amped/ Follow: http://bit.ly/SIQTwitter Like: http://bit.ly/SIQFacebook

Boris Gloger and Scrum 3.0: Is the Future of Scrum Really No Backlogs or Standups?? Aug 30, 2016

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Boris Gloger says it's time to reimagine Scrum. Or rather to take Scrum back to its roots, before Scrum 1.0, whose original picture, Boris contends, is wrong. Scrum originated in "The New New Product Development Game" by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka, and Boris revisits it to point out the ways that Scrum and current Agile practices need an overhaul. Here's a taste of some of Boris' thoughts on Scrum 3.0: - The team interacts directly with the customer or end-user and write user stories, not the Product Owner. - If, in Lean thinking, every type of inventory is waste, then the Product Backlog is also waste. - Sprints can begin as soon as one user story or task is ready for the team to consume. - Daily Scrum need to be rethought too, rather than daily, every 90 minutes. - Many more (very short) demos, perhaps every 90 minutes... Boris also shares some experiences using Scrum 3.0 at a client. (There's also a lot of dishes clanging in the background--sorry! But people gotta eat... :)) SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett hosts at Agile2016 in Atlanta, GA. About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series connects the community through compelling stories, passionate people, shared knowledge, and innovative ideas. Fueled by inspiring conversations with industry thoughtleaders, Agile Amped offers valuable content – anytime, anywhere. To receive real-time updates, subscribe at YouTube, iTunes or SolutionsIQ.com. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SIQYouTube, http://bit.ly/SIQiTunes, http://www.solutionsiq.com/agile-amped/ Follow: http://bit.ly/SIQTwitter Like: http://bit.ly/SIQFacebook

Anu Smalley & Kate Megaw on Making Training Fun and Women in Agile at Agile2016 Aug 29, 2016

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Earlier this year Anu Smalley and Kate Megaw co-chaired the Global Scrum Gathering in Orlando, FL, and are here with Agile Amped in Atlanta to talk about how to make training fun and women in Agile. For many people, training is nothing but death by PowerPoint, but Anu and Kate use Sharon Bowman's "Training From the Back of the Room" approach to ensure that students learn through short spurts of learning interspersed with hands-on exercises, discussion and debriefs on learning objectives. Meanwhile, both Anu and Kate are also passionate about the Women in Agile movement. In Anu's experience, "even though women come into the Agile industry, they don't stay." Now, along with many other women in the industry, the duo are working to create a group of people who are willing to mentor women in Agile. SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett hosts at Agile2016 in Atlanta, GA. About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series connects the community through compelling stories, passionate people, shared knowledge, and innovative ideas. Fueled by inspiring conversations with industry thoughtleaders, Agile Amped offers valuable content – anytime, anywhere. To receive real-time updates, subscribe at YouTube, iTunes or SolutionsIQ.com. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SIQYouTube, http://bit.ly/SIQiTunes, http://www.solutionsiq.com/agile-amped/ Follow: http://bit.ly/SIQTwitter Like: http://bit.ly/SIQFacebook

Diana Larsen: Trust and Vulnerability to Drive Learning at Agile2016 Aug 26, 2016

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Throughout Diana Larsen's Agile career, there has been a common thread: she has a strong desire to understand how people learn. Lifelong learner and champion for learning, Diana knows it's impossible to learn everything. "But if I know that you have some skills that I don't have, I can either come to you and ask you to help me learn them, or I can turn to you when I need them. And you can turn to me for the things you'd like to learn more about." Inherent in the learning process is trust and vulnerability. In team retrospectives, each team member has to trust others with their vulnerability in order to open the door to learning. Without that trust and vulnerability, no one learns--and then how do you build anything? Mandy Ross from Sococo, SolutionsIQ partner, hosts at Agile2016 in Atlanta, GA. About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series connects the community through compelling stories, passionate people, shared knowledge, and innovative ideas. Fueled by inspiring conversations with industry thoughtleaders, Agile Amped offers valuable content – anytime, anywhere. To receive real-time updates, subscribe at YouTube, iTunes or SolutionsIQ.com. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SIQYouTube, http://bit.ly/SIQiTunes, http://www.solutionsiq.com/agile-amped/ Follow: http://bit.ly/SIQTwitter Like: http://bit.ly/SIQFacebook

Dan Attfield & Paul Hammond Want to Make You Look Awesome Using Improv Comedy at Agile2016 Aug 25, 2016

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Dan Attfield and Paul Hammond discovered that the rules of improv comedy are the polar opposite of Patrick Lencioni's "Five Dysfunctions of a Team." For example, the first dysfunction is Absense of Trust, but in an effective team, you encourage the Presence of Trust. The duo walked Agile Amped through a series of exercises that they used in their session "The Five Dysfunctions of an Improvised Comedy Group"--which started out right with a blackout disco with Beyonce blaring on the speakers. In the end, Dan and Paul have one goal: getting people to change their egocentric views to one that focuses on making others look awesome. Mandy Ross from Sococo, SolutionsIQ partner, hosts at Agile2016 in Atlanta, GA. About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series connects the community through compelling stories, passionate people, shared knowledge, and innovative ideas. Fueled by inspiring conversations with industry thoughtleaders, Agile Amped offers valuable content – anytime, anywhere. To receive real-time updates, subscribe at YouTube, iTunes or SolutionsIQ.com. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SIQYouTube, http://bit.ly/SIQiTunes, http://www.solutionsiq.com/agile-amped/ Follow: http://bit.ly/SIQTwitter Like: http://bit.ly/SIQFacebook

Sococo CEO Cliff Pollan: Telecommuting in the 80s and Purple Rain at Agile2016 Aug 24, 2016

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As CEO of Sococo Cliff Pollan knows a thing or two about telecommuting. His first experience with it was back in 1980 when he worked in Minnesota out of the First Bank Produce building, right across the street from where Prince shot Purple Rain. At the time, the only technology that was available was the telephone, and there was no voicemail or email. Cliff spent a lot of time on airplanes "commuting" between home and work to maintain strong ties and get work done. Cliff's telecommuting experiences made it clear how important interpersonal connections are to effective work. Now as the CEO of Sococo, an online office platform, Cliff is able to realize the value of Agile by enabling more face-to-(virtual)face interactions, so that distributed teams can be more productive without devoting so much time to telecommuting. Mandy Ross from Sococo, SolutionsIQ partner, hosts at Agile2016 in Atlanta, GA. About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series connects the community through compelling stories, passionate people, shared knowledge, and innovative ideas. Fueled by inspiring conversations with industry thoughtleaders, Agile Amped offers valuable content – anytime, anywhere. To receive real-time updates, subscribe at YouTube, iTunes or SolutionsIQ.com. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SIQYouTube, http://bit.ly/SIQiTunes, http://www.solutionsiq.com/agile-amped/ Follow: http://bit.ly/SIQTwitter Like: http://bit.ly/SIQFacebook

David J. Bland Uses LeanUX and Design Thinking to Map Team Assumptions at Agile2016 Aug 23, 2016

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David J. Bland's session "Introduction to Assumption Mapping" walked participants through how to "facilitate a conversation with your team and enable them to focus on what matters". Some of the questions the team can tackle: 1. Does anybody want this? 2. Do we have any viability risks? 3. Can we feasibly built it? Then the team maps the answers. The goal is to elucidate the gaps in understanding of the problem space and the associated risks. Assumption mapping allows you to clear the air so they can talk about the problem openly and decide where to focus their efforts. SolutionsIQ's Alan Dayley hosts at Agile2016 in Atlanta, GA. About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series connects the community through compelling stories, passionate people, shared knowledge, and innovative ideas. Fueled by inspiring conversations with industry thoughtleaders, Agile Amped offers valuable content – anytime, anywhere. To receive real-time updates, subscribe at YouTube, iTunes or SolutionsIQ.com. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SIQYouTube, http://bit.ly/SIQiTunes, http://www.solutionsiq.com/agile-amped/ Follow: http://bit.ly/SIQTwitter Like: http://bit.ly/SIQFacebook

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