Badass Agile

By Fuse Chamber, IncTechnology

Badass Agile episodes

February 24, 2019 Badass Answers - Timelines and Predictions
How do you handle date and deadline pressures in Agile Environments?
* A listener sends us his question on what to do if you are pressured in the early days of a project to commit to specific deliverables on certain dates
* Remember that some projects reasonably require delivery commitments - especially those with regulatory, audit, or compliance expectations. These may not make great first experiments in Agility, because Agile requires flexible scope in order to work well with the philosophy
* It is also perfectly normal for a business to want to make promises to its customers (and therefore demand them from its delivery teams)
* Agile provides a better model that allows for continuous scope negotiation. This requires trust between product owner and team
* Attitudes and beliefs, or ‘frames’ have to change in order for the ‘when by’ culture to change
19 min
February 21, 2019 Badass Unscripted – Estimation
Sooner or later…I have to tackle estimation. As the debate rages on (estimates versus no estimates), the fact remains that while customers need to know how much of an investment they’re in for, and what they will be getting for their money, we also need to admit that unless you’re repeating some variation of something you’ve already done before, it is very difficult to predict the future when so many variables can intersect to influence the outcome.
10 min
February 19, 2019 Badass Unscripted – Coaching Vision
In order to spread and scale Agile practices, we need to raise up a tribe of elite, influential leaders. Those who know how to inspire the courage to change in others.
If you are coaching – whether team members, Agile leaders or executives, it is important to balance their Agile/Scrum education with leader fundamentals. The first of these is the ability to articulate your vision. Helping others find theirs is a rewarding and eye-opening experience (for both the coach and the coaches).
5 min
February 17, 2019 Episode 86 - Fearing Loss of Significance
At the team level, you might be dealing with fear of change, but you will also be dealing with another fear that results from the fallout of change - what happens to our established roles and job descriptions?
* Loss of significance is a fear that shows up in the team room and the board room. It happens at all levels.
* The underlying fear is not just that we might lose our jobs, but our status among the tribe.
* We are afraid to feel ‘less than enough’ - not smart enough, not important enough - and in addition to feeling unimportant, we will actually feel like we don’t matter
* Biologically, our need to create an indelible imprint is extremely strong. It drives our careers, innovation, creation and service to others
* For many, it feels unnatural to not have a purpose - and this can become more pronounced as age and rank increases
* It shows up as ‘bruised ego’ and results in stonewalling, sabotage, self-exclusion from the tribe, and antisocial behaviour
* To manage it, you have to connect to universal and individual senses of contribution and significance, and give people opportunities to connect them to the new world
* Universal sources of significance - helping others, healing, creating or building, communicating, teaching, nurturing
* Personal sources of significance are based on these, but more specific to an individual and their interests
19 min
February 16, 2019 Badass Unscripted – Shutting Off Messenger
A large corporate culture can get to the point where there are so many thoughtless demands on our time that we are forced to ’shut off’ our tools and dim our availability – either to hide from people asking us to do even more work, or just to find 10 minutes of respite to catch up or take a mental break. This can’t be good – have we missed the point?
5 min
February 13, 2019 Badass Unscripted - Shutting Off Messenger
A large corporate culture can get to the point where there are so many thoughtless demands on our time that we are forced to ’shut off’ our tools and dim our availability - either to hide from people asking us to do even more work, or just to find 10 minutes of respite to catch up or take a mental break. This can’t be good - have we missed the point?
5 min
February 11, 2019 Badass Conversations – Scott McCarthy of Moving Forward Leadership
This week, I interview Scott McCarthy of Moving Forward Leadership. Scott is a leader in the Canadian Armed Forces, and also runs his own leadership consultancy and podcast. In this conversation, we discuss why it’s so critical to trust your teams, planning for your own exit, teaching leadership from Day 1, and how to survive and thrive in the face of fear and failure. It was a great conversation that brought a very different leadership perspective into our world and Agile values!
Check Scott out at www.movingforwardleadership.com, subscribe to his excellent podcast today, and stay tuned to the end because Scott has a very special free offer for you that I encourage every listener to take advantage of!
43 min
February 10, 2019 Badass Conversations - Scott McCarthy of Moving Forward Leadership
This week, I interview Scott McCarthy of Moving Forward Leadership. Scott is a leader in the Canadian Armed Forces, and also runs his own leadership consultancy and podcast. In this conversation, we discuss why it's so critical to trust your teams, planning for your own exit, teaching leadership from Day 1, and how to survive and thrive in the face of fear and failure. It was a great conversation that brought a very different leadership perspective into our world and Agile values!
Check Scott out at www.movingforwardleadership.com, subscribe to his excellent podcast today, and stay tuned to the end because Scott has a very special free offer for you that I encourage every listener to take advantage of!
43 min
February 04, 2019 Badass Answers – How To Master Public Speaking
This week, we take a listener question from a new Scrum Master who struggles with public speaking.
Ultimately, public speaking is something that has a good deal of fear associated with it, and the usual suggestions for dealing with it have something to do with imagining the fear isn’t there, or overcoming it through exposure.
But there’s something more.
Time to fall back to the Badass Agile Principles – Get Visionary, Get Focused, Get Humble and Flexible, and Get Gritty.
Most important is the first one – if your reason for doing something is strong enough, and centred in your vision and purpose, you will have a much easier time managing and wrestling the fear.
Check it out in this week’s episode!
22 min
February 03, 2019 Badass Answers - How To Master Public Speaking
This week, we take a listener question from a new Scrum Master who struggles with public speaking.
Ultimately, public speaking is something that has a good deal of fear associated with it, and the usual suggestions for dealing with it have something to do with imagining the fear isn’t there, or overcoming it through exposure.
But there’s something more.
Time to fall back to the Badass Agile Principles - Get Visionary, Get Focused, Get Humble and Flexible, and Get Gritty.
Most important is the first one - if your reason for doing something is strong enough, and centred in your vision and purpose, you will have a much easier time managing and wrestling the fear.
Check it out in this week’s episode!
22 min