Badass Agile

By Fuse Chamber, IncTechnology

Badass Agile episodes

May 05, 2019 Episode 95 - The Language Innovators Use
Words have impact. Some say ‘words are things’. If you want to innovate, you have to choose your words carefully. Why?
* The words you choose have an impact on your internal state; which alters your beliefs, and affects your ability to act with courage and certainty
* The words you choose also impact the state of those around you; and likewise their determination and certainty to act in alignment with the teams values and goals.
10 min
May 03, 2019 Badass Unscripted - Have Lots Of Lines
The only way to make sales is to have lots of prospects.The only way to find a partner is to meet a lot of people and have a lot of conversations.
The only way to get that book written is to have a lot of ideas you can play with.
The only way to find a solution is to have lots of experiments that you're willing to try.
It's all a numbers game. You have to have lots of lines in the water in order to catch the fish.
6 min
April 29, 2019 Episode 94 - Delighting Customers
What does it really mean to delight your customer? Are we doing this just because we're doing Agile? And if not, why not?
* Focusing on delighting the customer is the edge - that most businesses miss
* You can minimize the bottom line all you want, but isn’t it easier to maximize the top line? In fact, what good are efficient processes and policies if you have no revenue because you have no customers?
* What is the cost of replacing or retaining a customer? Is focusing on the bottom line still cheaper?
* An Agile practitioner must support Customer Delight by not only creating shared values and advertising them at the sprint, daily, and momentary level, but also by trusting the teams….not only setting targets for how we live our values, but letting them actually go out and do the footwork of delivering it.
15 min
April 26, 2019 Badass Unscripted – Mindfulness
You won’t want to hear this, but as I stated in a previous episode on “Building A Shark Tank”, having an extra few seconds to orient and observe BEFORE responding to a physical or mental event gives you the edge over most other leaders. The common name for the practice that develops this edge is mindfulness, or meditation. It’s not only trendy, it’s table stakes, at this point, to be able to control your emotions and to telegraph self-mastery to those you lead and work with.
7 min
April 25, 2019 Badass Unscripted - Mindfulness
You won’t want to hear this, but as I stated in a previous episode on “Building A Shark Tank”, having an extra few seconds to orient and observe BEFORE responding to a physical or mental event gives you the edge over most other leaders. The common name for the practice that develops this edge is mindfulness, or meditation. It’s not only trendy, it’s table stakes, at this point, to be able to control your emotions and to telegraph self-mastery to those you lead and work with.
7 min
April 23, 2019 Badass Unscripted – Survival
I like to think that what I’m teaching is not oriented at learning Agile, but honing survival skill. Adapting – being nimble for our customers – is no longer an ‘ought to’; its a ‘got to’. While it is wrong to (and customers often perceive our efforts as attempts to) ‘convert’ or switch an organization from 100% traditional to 100% Agile, survival is about finding and outfitting the areas of greatest impact.
8 min
April 23, 2019 Episode 93 – Your Reasons
Reasons – I’ve discussed how purpose informs vision, service, discipline and overall effectiveness. But likewise, reasons can slow you down. If you’re not conscious of the reasons why you do the things you do, not only can you not access higher levels of achievement, you may also be self-sabotaging your progress.
Right reasons are necessary to access 10-20x performance levels. The life you aspire to takes way more work and capacity than when you’re at now
16 min
April 21, 2019 Episode 93 - Your Reasons
Reasons - I’ve discussed how purpose informs vision, service, discipline and overall effectiveness. But likewise, reasons can slow you down. If you’re not conscious of the reasons why you do the things you do, not only can you not access higher levels of achievement, you may also be self-sabotaging your progress.
* Right reasons are necessary to access 10-20x performance levels. The life you aspire to takes way more work and capacity than when you’re at now
* Summary Bullets
16 min
April 17, 2019 Badass Unscripted - Survival
I like to think that what I’m teaching is not oriented at learning Agile, but honing survival skill. Adapting - being nimble for our customers - is no longer an ‘ought to’; its a ‘got to’. While it is wrong to (and customers often perceive our efforts as attempts to) ‘convert’ or switch an organization from 100% traditional to 100% Agile, survival is about finding and outfitting the areas of greatest impact.
7 min
April 15, 2019Episode 92 – Fear, And Failure To Commit
When fear shows up as a failure to commit fully to Agile, we experience one of the most common behaviours associated with Agile failure – failure to commit.
Fear of Change, Fear of Failure, and Fear of Loss of Significance all roll together to create a failure to commit
Very Slow Agile Adoption – Planning to Plan
“Backsliding Into Waterfall”
Insisting on specific processes or artefacts – BRD’s, Charters and Business Cases, Dashboards and Reports
“The Only Way Is the Old Way”
Summary Bullets
14 min