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In Defense Of Winston Royce Jul 23, 2023

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This week we continue our deep-dive into the annals of history to discuss another often-maligned paper, Winston Royce's "Managing the Development of Large Software Systems" a.k.a. -"the birthplace of waterfall"...but it is really? How much of what is attributed to Royce is WRONG? And how much did he really get RIGHT that is sadly ignored? Listen in and find out! Accidentally Load Bearing article Sam's notes from his re-read Encouraging a Culture of Written Communication 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 really helps others find us. Much thanks to the artist Krebs from Machine Man Records 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 Discord Server! We at the Agile Uprising are committed to being totally free. However, if you'd like to contribute and help us defray hosting and production costs we do have a Patreon. Who knows, you might even get some surprises in the mail!

Monte Carlo: A Matter of Life And Death w/Prateek Singh and Troy Lightfoot from ProKanban.org Jul 16, 2023

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In this week's episode, Troy Lightfoot and Prateek Singh from ProKanban.org discuss techniques used in other industries used to help people save lives, and money, and even develop artificial intelligence. They cover what can be used in planning for product development to bring more accurate forecasts with a real understanding of risk to help companies make better decisions on a continuous basis. Links: ProKanban.org https://prokanban.org/applying-metrics-for-predictability/ https://prokanban.org/professional-applied-metrics-learning-resources/ https://leanpub.com/whenwillitbedone 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 really helps others find us. Much thanks to the artist Krebs from Machine Man Records 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 Discord Server! We at the Agile Uprising are committed to being totally free. However, if you'd like to contribute and help us defray hosting and production costs we do have a Patreon. Who knows, you might even get some surprises in the mail!

Creative Problem Solving using Framers and Claude Shannon Jul 09, 2023

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This week's episode started out as a discussion of the book Framers by Ken Cukier et al. but then we went off into all sorts of heuristics for approaches to creative problem solving, and we landed with Claude Shannon's hints for Creative Thinking. Enjoy! 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 really helps others find us. Much thanks to the artist Krebs from Machine Man Records 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 Discord Server! We at the Agile Uprising are committed to being totally free. However, if you'd like to contribute and help us defray hosting and production costs we do have a Patreon. Who knows, you might even get some surprises in the mail!

In Defense of Taylorism Jul 02, 2023

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Every great man has a great enemy, every great movement a great antagonist. For "agile" that antagonist is typically attributed to Frederick Winslow Taylor, and his book Scientific Management...but SHOULD he be? This week we host a discussion between two people who actually took the time to READ the book, to try and answer the question: "Is the problem Taylorism...or how we're taught to INTERPRET it?" Enjoy! 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 really helps others find us. Much thanks to the artist Krebs from Machine Man Records 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 Discord Server! We at the Agile Uprising are committed to being totally free. However, if you'd like to contribute and help us defray hosting and production costs we do have a Patreon. Who knows, you might even get some surprises in the mail!

We're All Wrong About Little's Law w/Troy Lightfoot and Andy Cleff Jun 25, 2023

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In this week's episode, co-hosts Andy Cleff and Troy Lightfoot discuss the misconceptions about Little's law, the differences between what Dr. Little created and what is often taught, and how Little's Law can be useful in practice today by understanding the five underlying assumptions. This episode contains follow-along images which can be found below. If you'd like to join the discussion and share your stories, please jump into the fray at our Discord Server! We at the Agile Uprising are committed to being totally free. However, if you'd like to contribute and help us defray hosting and production costs we do have a Patreon. Who knows, you might even get some surprises in the mail! Images: Cycle Time with Checkboxes Cycle Time with Backlog Aging WIP Chart

Deliberately Developmental Organizations with Andy Flemming (Re-release) Jun 18, 2023

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From the archives: Join Andy Flemming and Andy Cleff as they discuss An Everyone Culture: Deliberately Developmental Organizations. DDO's create an unusual kind of environment, one that tolerates — even prefers — making one's failures, risks, and weaknesses public so that colleagues can support each other in the process of overcoming them. There's a wonderful congruence with Modern Agile principles: Make People Awesome Make Safety a Prerequisite Experiment & Learn Rapidly Deliver Value Continuously Guest contact information https://www.facebook.com/waytogrowinc/ https://twitter.com/WaytoGrowINC https://www.linkedin.com/company/way-to-grow-inc/ Websites mentioned during the show www.waytogrowinc.com http://flashpoint.gatech.edu/ Book - An Everyone Culture https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01BO2ITX2 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 really helps others find us. If you'd like to join the discussion and share your stories, please jump into the fray at our Discord Server! We at the Agile Uprising are committed to being totally free. However, if you'd like to contribute and help us defray hosting and production costs we do have a Patreon. Who knows, you might even get some surprises in the mail!

Your Prioritization is $*%#! w/ Troy Lightfoot and Jay Hrcsko Jun 11, 2023

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In this week's episode, co-hosts Jay Hrcsko and Troy Lightfoot discuss the fallacies of prioritization and other agile-related practices that need rethinking including the cost of delay, WIP, release planning, forecasting, and more. This episode contains follow-along images which can be found below. If you like this episode and want to attend an upcoming class on these topics, Troy is running a 4-night class about Flow metrics and Forecasting in July which can be found here. AU Listeners can get 20% off with promo code "AgileUprising" The No. 1 Thing killing your delivery podcast: https://agileuprising.libsyn.com/the-no1-thing-killing-your-delivery Follow Along Gamblers Ruin Picture 1 Gamblers Ruin Picture 2 Gamblers Ruin Picture 3 Drunk Agile Video Priority with a WIP of 1 Priority with a WIP of 2 Priority with a WIP of All Cycle Time Scatterplot Lunar Logic Planning Poker Cards Monte Carlo How Many Feature or Epic Right Size Calculator

Applying Research To SAFe Arguments With Chistiaan Verwijs Jun 04, 2023

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Discord members Niklas Kari, Mike Caddell, and Janel Lanza welcome fellow agilist Christiaan Verwijs to discuss his recent article on a data-driven approach to discussing SAFe. It's everyone's favorite framework to bash and blame for the issues in our work, and often the arguments are based on anecdotal evidence. So, when someone decided to do some extensive research on the topic, it got our attention and we wanted to hear more. Verwijs outlined the research method, how the questions were adapted over time to respond to research participants, and how it's been received so far in the community. Team autonomy is a big part of the data set, as is the reception and reaction of the C-suite. We're not really sure if the data proves one way or another that SAFe is truly bad. Ultimately, it will likely confirm whatever opinion you have. However, it is vitally important to base impressions on various frameworks on more than emotional evidence. This was an interesting discussion of how. Related articles in the pod: In-Depth: Is SAFe® Really That Bad? | by Christiaan Verwijs | The Liberators | Medium A Theory of Scrum Team Effectiveness | ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology 5 Colour Thinking and Change Management | CMI Good or Bad? Hard to Say. - Campbell Leadership Solutions That's all for this week gang: On behalf of the Agile Uprising, we'd like to offer a sincere thank you to our guest Christiaan for volunteering to spend time with us On behalf of all of us on this episode, we'd like to thank you, the listeners for tuning in. If you enjoyed this episode, please give us a review, rating, or leave comments on iTunes, Stitcher or your podcasting platform of choice. It helps others find us. And if this is your first time tuning in, why don't you subscribe to our podcast? There will be a thread about this podcast posted on Coalition.AgileUprising.com, so feel free to hop in and join the discussion! We also have an active Discord community where we discuss all things agile and adjacent. In the show notes will be a link to our Discord server. Lastly, we do have a Patreon set up for those that would like to help us cover our hosting and production costs. See the show notes for details on how you can become a patron.

Seeing Money Clearly with Dan Doiron May 21, 2023

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This week we sit down with Dan Doiron to discuss his new book, Seeing Money Clearly: Using Throughput Accounting to Understand and Manage Knowledge-Work. We discuss the different types of capacities, why buying capacity should always be a last resort, and how common cause variation will be a software team's undoing. Enjoy! Slides to support today's conversation Seeing Money Clearly @ Amazon Seeing Money Clearly eBook 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 really helps others find us. Much thanks to the artist Krebs from Machine Man Records 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 Discord Server! We at the Agile Uprising are committed to being totally free. However, if you'd like to contribute and help us defray hosting and production costs we do have a Patreon. Who knows, you might even get some surprises in the mail!

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Promise Theory with Mark Burgess May 14, 2023

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FROM THE ARCHIVES: "I promise..." What if we applied the idea of a promise to engineering, systems design, and how we interact with each other? Join host Jay Hrcsko and special guest-host Jonathan Magen as they sit down early in the morning to chat with the brilliant Mark Burgess, creator of Promise Theory. Make sure you've had your coffee before you listen, this just may change how you interact with everyone! Mark's Website Mark's Twitter Promise Theory: Principles and Applications Thinking In Promises: Designing Systems for Cooperation Jonathan's Twitter

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