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**The Agile Wire**

The Agile Wire with Jeff Bubolz and Chad Beier is focused on long-form conversations about the struggles associated with increasing agility of teams, products, and organizations around the world. As change agents, advisors, coaches, and trainers the hosts are focused on helping listeners get agile and stay agile.

Latest Episodes:

Wild West to Agile with Jim Highsmith Aug 21, 2023

Show notes

00:00 Intro

00:50 "AGILE" or "ADAPTIVE"?

03:00 Coopetition

09:00 Agile Transformation vs Transforming

12:22 Shu Ha Ri

13:30 Advice for People New to Agile

18:50 The Need for Adventurous People to Drive Change

25:48 The Future of Agile Is...

31:20 Working at NASA

37:50 Old Coding Languages and Variable Names

39:48 Full Stack Developer

44:52 If You Could Rewrite the Agile Manifesto...

46:57 Why Has Agile Been So Successful?

Wild West to Agile: Adventures in Software Development Evolution and Revolution (the book): https://www.amazon.com/Wild-West-Agile-Adventures-Development/dp/0137961006

Jim's Website: https://jimhighsmith.com

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Building the Right Product with Johanna Rothman Aug 07, 2023

Show notes

00:00 Intro

00:40 How Do You Know What Product to Build?

02:30 Mass Market Products

04:30 Product Market Fit vs Product for Everyone

08:24 Testing Market Fit

10:58 3x3 Tool for Vision

14:22 Visualization Enhances Discovery and Delivery Feedback Loop

15:40 Cost Accounting is Killing Agile Transformations

17:00 Analysis Mindset to Feedback Mindset

18:22 Live in the WHY State

19:47 Optimizing Your Work Environment for Delivery

21:12 Operational Agility First then Move into Strategic Agility

23:23 Know the Cost of Your Team

27:13 Make the Hidden Visible

29:17 Wrap Up

30:25 Outro

Successful Independent Consulting: Relationships That Focus on Mutual Benefit - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C4MMZY4J/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0

Johanna Rothman website - https://www.jrothman.com/

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Successful Independent Consulting with Johanna Rothman Jul 24, 2023

Show notes

00:00 Intro

00:22 Virtual vs In-Person

01:52 New Book - Successful Independent Consulting: Relationships That Focus on Mutual Benefit

03:49 Payment Terms - Don't give interest free loans

11:45 Manual for Independent Consulting

14:00 There is no slack fairy (sales, marketing, learning are required)

20:30 Know your unique value

25:18 How do you get started? - Build your personal brand

28:15 Public Speaking for introverts and extroverts

30:30 Successful Independent Consulting

32:07 Outro

Successful Independent Consulting: Relationships That Focus on Mutual Benefit - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C4MMZY4J/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0

Johanna Rothman website - https://www.jrothman.com/

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Scale Up Without Selling Out with Tommy Norman Jun 19, 2023

Show notes

00:00 Intro

00:28 How do companies keep their soul as they grow?

15:30 To keep a company's soul, 3 things you cannot sacrifice.

31:15 Why don't people have ownership mentality?

39:20 Decision making in organizations

45:08 Great leaders take extreme ownership

48:11 Summary

48:50 Agile music

54:33 Outro

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Practical Approach to Product Management for Product Owners with Robbin Schuurman and Chris Lukassen Jun 05, 2023

Show notes

00:00 Intro

00:49 Most Common Problems PO Have

06:45 Practical Approach to Product Management for Product Owners

10:58 Product Owner Stances

15:25 What Product Owner course is right for you?

20:19 Favorite Product Owner Stance

26:15 Stakeholder Engagement over Stakeholder Management

28:28 Does a product need multiple Product Owners?

35:40 Defining Leadership, Management and Products

41:02 Agile Governance

44:45 Summary of the book "Practical Approach to Product Management for Product Owners"

48:57 Outro

Get a copy of the new book “Practical Product Management for Product Owners":

On InformIT: https://www.informit.com/store/practical-product-management-for-product-owners-creating-9780137947003

On Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Product-Management-Owners-Professional-ebook/dp/B0BLYGFYQV

Get a copy of their other books:

Master the Art of No (in English): https://www.amazon.com/Master-Art-Effective-Stakeholder-Management-ebook/dp/B08P3KFR3X/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1681897513&refinements=p_27:Robbin+Schuurman&s=digital-text&sr=1-1&text=Robbin+Schuurman

50 Tinten Nee (in Dutch): https://www.bol.com/nl/nl/p/50-tinten-nee/9200000101843852/?bltgh=iWPPoVGjm68M9S1nT-pIWw.2_11.12.ProductTitle

50 Arten Nein zu Sagen (in German): https://www.amazon.com/Arten-Nein-sagen-Effektives-Stakeholder-Management-ebook/dp/B08QNHVZY2/ref=sr_1_2?qid=1681897513&refinements=p_27:Robbin+Schuurman&s=digital-text&sr=1-2&text=Robbin+Schuurman

The Product Samurai (in English): https://www.amazon.com/Product-Samurai-Chris-Lukassen/dp/9462287864

Connect with them on LinkedIn:

Robbin Schuurman - https://www.linkedin.com/in/robbinschuurman/

Chris Lukassen - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrislukassen/

Check out their Blog: www.thevaluemaximizers.com

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Don't Divide by Zero - The Collaboration Equation featuring Jim Benson May 22, 2023

Show notes

00:00 Intro

00:35 Jim's New Music Album

03:52 Why write "The Collaboration Equation" book

06:38 Structure of the book

11:10 Leadership is a verb

16:10 Ten rules for jamming - applied to product development

20:13 Problems to create the right environment for collaboration

21:37 Acting with confidence

29:02 If you always bring the same tool you are the tool

31:50 Does agile scale?

33:53 Responsibility and clarity

35:57 How to make work not suck!

42:58 Outro

The Collaboration Equation: Strong Professionals | Strong Teams | Strong Delivery -https://www.amazon.com/Collaboration-Equation-Strong-Professionals-Delivery-ebook/dp/B0BHXDBG25

Modus Institute - https://www.modusinstitute.com/

10 Rules for Jamming - https://www.wamplerpedals.com/blog/music/2019/05/10-rules-of-jamming/

Getting People to Play Along - https://www.modusinstitute.net/posts/weekly-jim-33-getting-people-to-play-along

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Product Owner by Sprinting Heads Explained May 15, 2023

Show notes

00:00 Intro

00:09 Product Owner Song (the verse)

00:24 Getting Customer Feedback

01:50 One Product Owner and Stress

03:30 Product Owner Song (the chorus)

04:01 Closing the Agile Feedback Loop

08:31 Outro

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Chad Beier

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Scrum Day! Join the Rebellion! Featuring Mary Iqbal May 04, 2023

Show notes

00:00 Intro

00:21 Why Scrum Day

02:49 Behind the scenes of Scrum Day

04:50 Scrum Day as a Product

06:07 Sponsors

06:38 Scrum Day Teaser - Themes

11:03 Scrum Day Logistics

11:32 Scrum Day Speakers

15:06 Rebel Scrum

19:24 What makes Scrum pleasant

21:58 The power of Liberating Structures

26:28 Outro

Scrum Day - https://www.scrumday.org/

Mary Iqbal - https://www.linkedin.com/in/maryiqbal/

Rebel Scrum - https://www.rebelscrum.site/

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Agile Songs YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@agilesongs

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All The Scrum Things Explained May 01, 2023

Show notes

00:00 Intro

00:17 Inspiration for All The Scrum Things

01:30 Song Clip 1

01:45 Scrum Brings Agility

02:50 Feedback in Scrum

04:11 Transparency in Scrum

05:38 Song Clip 2

05:51 The Sprint in Scrum

07:38 Sprint-182 Sticker on Guitar

07:51 Song Clip 3 and Outro

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The Next Evolution of Agility with Jurgen Appelo Apr 24, 2023

Show notes

00:00 Start

00:21 Intro

01:10 SAFe Framework Vs UnFix Model

05:10 Pattern Library of the UnFix Model - Lego Analogy

13:08 Is SAFe the new waterfall?

16:55 Network vs Matrix Organizations

19:40 Startups Using UnFix

23:56 Wasteful Organizational Transformations

28:20 Sources of Innovation

30:05 From Product to Experience

35:07 Fast Delivery is NOT a Better Experience - Spotify is Destroying the Music Experience

38:51 The Value of Scarcity

46:37 Customer Learning with Scarcity

52:50 Getting started with the UnFix Model

58:42 Outro

Jurgen Appelo Links

Unfix Model - https://unfix.com/

Management 3.0 - https://www.amazon.com/Management-3-0-Developers-Developing-Addison-Wesley/dp/0321712471/ref=sr_1_1?crid=JP9NGBZ43RCK&keywords=Jurgen+Appelo&qid=1681149231&s=audible&sprefix=jurgen+appelo%2Caudible%2C131&sr=1-1-catcorr

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