Badass Agile

By Fuse Chamber, IncTechnology

Badass Agile episodes

December 19, 2018 Badass Unscripted - Storming Blockers
You can’t just raise blockers and let them sit there. Makes sense right? But how often do we let impediments linger for days, weeks, months?
Or raise a critical performance issue in retrospective, and then do exactly nothing about it?
Scrum dictates that we must raise blockers and ‘do betters’, but doesn’t teach us how to aggressively - even ruthlessly - attack them. You need to teach teams had a storm around a problem
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Write for the wastebasket.
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Set a time limit.
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Let people flock to the problems that matter to them.
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Don't solve the entire problem… Come up with 3 to 5 next steps that will move you closer to solution.
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Be willing to fail.
8 min
December 17, 2018 Episode 79 – What Service Buys You
If you want to know the secret sauce to leadership and success in anything, I believe this is central – service. It’s time to visit this crucial concept so you can re-integrate it into your ongoing development.
• Everyone talks vision, but few talk service
• Service is shorthand for connecting with your customer’s value. Get in their shoes, and figure out what they need and want.
• Most importantly, take your focus off of yourself.
• The benefits that accrue include trust, reputation, increased connectivity with others but most of all…very, very happy customers
8 min
December 17, 2018 Badass Unscripted – Agile or Not?
How do you choose ‘when’ to use Agile? I say ‘willing minds and fitting objectives’ but you actually can evaluate Agile fit on a case-by-case basis….but it’s not what you might think.
It’s less about a standardized checklist and more about about appetite for adventure, uncertainty, risk, and discovery.
5 min
December 16, 2018 Episode 79 - What Service Buys You
If you want to know the secret sauce to leadership and success in anything, I believe this is central - service. Its time to visit this crucial concept so you can re-integrate it into your ongoing development.
* Everyone talks vision, but few talk service
* Service is shorthand for connecting with your customer’s value. Get in their shoes, and figure out what they need and want.
* Most importantly, take your focus off of yourself.
* The benefits that accrue include trust, reputation, increased connectivity with others but most of all…very, very happy customers
8 min
December 13, 2018 Badass Unscripted - Agile or Not?
How do you choose 'when' to use Agile? I say 'willing minds and fitting objectives' but you actually can evaluate Agile fit on a case-by-case basis....but its not what you might think.
It's less about a standardized checklist and more about about appetite for adventure, uncertainty, risk, and discovery.
5 min
December 11, 2018 Badass Unscripted – Expanding Your Edges
Staying steady and comfortable is easy. Are you pushing your edges?
Growth depends not on a singular moment of glory, but on consistent, repeated action to gently stretch your capabilities and impact.
This skill is so important for you and your teams if you are trying to spread agile and deepen your practice.
4 min
December 10, 2018Episode 78 – The Real Value of Done Things
What is The Real Value of working in ‘Done Things?’
It’s too easy to let ourselves off the hook if we work to vague objectives.
It’s even easier to let ourselves off the hook if we don’t have measurable targets at the micro level. We can just say ‘workin’ on it’
When something is Done, it is largely self reporting because it is obvious if something is complete or not. Partial states make it very hard to spot trouble early
Done things are also ready to use – ready to ship to the customer or another team member.
In general, done things force a (good) kind of accountability and visibility on a team’s work
10 min
December 03, 2018Episode 77 – Order Versus Overhead
Have you stopped to look at the things you do, and questioned the value they add – or subtract – to your ability to achieve?
Process is neither good nor bad, but process almost never concerns itself with performance; rather, order, certainty and safety
All process has some overhead, and the overhead is more costly when the activity being modelled is simple. For the most part, processes have to be engineered to be scalable.
Agile is in many ways the antithesis of process, so be especially wary of complex processes that are “needed” in order to implement or execute Agile
11 min
November 28, 2018 Badass Unscripted – Total Accountability
Think and act like an owner. The world changes when you act as though you are accountable. Accountable can mean ‘on the hook for’ or ‘in charge of’, but it truly means feeling empowered to enact change or bring about an outcome – and to accept and work around the times you can’t.
5 min
November 27, 2018 Episode 76 – Doing The Hard Things
How many people do you know that can cite the Agile principles and seem to know the ins and outs of Scrum, but can’t fully embrace the mindsets of minimizing planning, letting go of their need for certainty and safety, or inspecting their own game? Building up your leaders requires that you know how to inspire and ignite people to do the things they most dread. Here’s some thoughts on how.
21 min