Badass Agile

By Fuse Chamber, IncTechnology

Badass Agile episodes

January 29, 2023 Episode 228 – Agile Has Lost The Script
Agile has lost the script – we’ve become divisive, intolerant…maybe even a little arrogant. When we lose our desire to elevate the craft and the community as a whole, history tells us that the final days are near. Instead of behaving like noble beings worthy of trust and talent to make work better, we making this into a circus. We should know better.
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11 min
January 19, 2023Episode 227 – 2023 – The Year Ahead
Each year, I like to do an annual forecast. What does 2023 have in store for agile professionals?
Here are the trends you need to watch – and react to – this year:
We’re getting polarized as a community – a sign that things aren’t in good shape
Increasing need for community building that does NOT Centre around framework and method
Business Agility continues to grow
Increasing need for people who can sell culture change to leadership
Shorter-scale projects to focus on completion, and continuity
Obviously handling the burst of AI tools that have started to gain attention
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19 min
December 13, 2022 Episode 226 – Negative Energy Changes Outcomes
Agile teams are considered high-performing, so their survival depends on managing negative energy.
We’re often unaware when we leak negativity. As a defense mechanism, it operates without our awareness or permission. But negativity has a toxic effect on teams – and you might not even know its happening. Learn more about the sources of negative energy – and what you can do about it in this episode.
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15 min
November 24, 2022 Episode 225 – Agile As Artistry
If you want to follow the agile or scrum manual or worship the rules, you can’t be an artist.
An artist expresses their opinion, their creative contribution, or their vision with the tools of their medium. By definition, your art must be an original. Nobody else could make the exact same thing. Artistry involves discovery, failure, and risk. What you make might not work right away. It might require sweat and continuous refinement. It might force you to admit that you don’t know everything. It might take you to unexplored and dangerous places.
Doesn’t that sound like agile?
Without these elements, you’re applying a recipe. You’re blindly implementing best practices and rules. There is no room to create something new that serves the distinct character of your team, your client, or their customer
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13 min
October 30, 2022Episode 224 – Circulate Value – The Agile Survival Skill
Agile Survival
Agile survival depends on circulating value.
You can’t stand still, surrounded by the same four walls, and expect to grow.
A Bad Pattern
We’ve gotten into a bad pattern in the past few decades. If we’re not talking software, we don’t know how to serve our clients with agility. Most CEO’s don’t know for sure what agile is – or what it can do for them when used beyond the technology sphere.
You can apply Agile and Scrum anywhere you have a high-value and uncertain outcome. We should be using our superpowers to help companies bring products and solutions “to the market” quicker. That could be product, solutions, culture, revenue, or change.
How You Can Help
Remember, our universe is changing. There are more and more scrum masters and coaches every year. If all of us are heading straight for the software team rooms, we’re going to oversaturate the market and lose our value. Here’s where we can be helping to busines solve their MOST important problems. For example:
Remote work – how can you make this work for people who no longer want to work in centralized offices? Help companies experiment with new modes of working. Figure out the challenges and change the perceptions that remote work is bad/impossible
Quiet Quitting And Great Resignation – people are quitting and they’re not being replaced. This increases resource pressure and dissatisfaction on the people left behind – and then they quit too. Whoever solves tis problem first will recover from this unique challenge. There’s no template – this has never been done before. Innovation and creativity is required.
Throwing Money at #2 – turns out that’s not what was needed. We’ve filled a resource gap with resources that can’t/don’t want to work with passion and purpose.
Economic Instability – there has never been a better time to help companies react to unstable conditions. That could include bringing new products to market, pivoting, increasing customer value or loyalty, diversifying revenue streams, or simplifying existing processes or structures. We can also be teaching new agile and scrum practitioners how to approach these opportunities.
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14 min
October 18, 2022 Badass Unscripted – Uncommon Agile Leadership Without Certification
Agile Certification is a for-profit product. Can it be an effective way to become a better Agile Leader?
Education is a way to develop skills and learn concepts quickly. Modern education, and industry certifications are designed to ensure predictable outcomes from regular employees. While Agile Certifications can be a great way for a beginner to ramp up quickly, they are NOT the best way to develop Agile Leadership skill.
We are not trying to be doctors or lawyers. Life, death, or freedom do not depend on what we do as Agile practitioners. A computer-based quiz and a paper certification is not a testament to our effectiveness in our role.
Leaders don’t graduate. They arise.
The best way to develop your skill is to immerse yourself in a team. Lead when called for, and be content to follow too. Focus on becoming visionary. Develop your discipline. Learn to focus and commit. Learn to persist in the face of challenge. In the face of your own shortcomings. Find mentors and walk toward mastery. This is the most effective path. You can use Agile Certification to complement the journey, but it can never be a replacement.
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9 min
October 05, 2022 Badass Unscripted – Seeing Beyond Your Limiting Beliefs
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You cannot ascend if your beliefs, routines thoughts, experiences and emotions are limited to your present circumstances and reality. Think and feel bigger than your environment.
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9 min
September 28, 2022 Episode 223 – Time To Act
Either we struggle with change or we struggle with productivity. If we struggle with change we struggle to start things, but sometimes we struggled to sustain them. Change is very hard but I’m convinced that one of the reasons we plan so much is because we’re avoiding action. That’s right – I’ll say it again. We’re not foolish. We know that nobody can predict the future and that most attempts to plan into that future will create rough guess estimates at best. So we don’t really believe that planning will save us. It’s time to act.
Wasn’t the promise of agile 20 years ago that we can reduce upfront planning? It’s obvious now that this is a tough nut to crack. We don’t plan because we’re chomping at the bit to get moving. We plan because the act of planning is in and of itself a safe activity. It requires energy to plan. It requires energy to act, to do, to create. To produce and to ship
And yet it seems like we’d much rather do more planning than shipping. Why? Because planning risks nothing. To create deep complex spreadsheets ventures nothing. And the bigger we make those spreadsheets, the more detailed we make those plans, the more likely it is nobody will look at them.
This is very clever, but what’s required is action. We shouldn’t be making deeply complex plans that shield our commitments. We should be making bold declarations and exploring into the unknown. We should be honest about what we know and what we don’t know.
But most importantly, we should ship We should sit down every day and lean into the hard things
Do the things that we keep promising to do but never seem to get around to. Finding the things that we ladle excuses on and stop making excuses. This is simple but hard. Such wisdom is obvious and yet somehow counterintuitive. We know what we should do, but we don’t do it
So what can you do? Commit, fail, recommit, failed, commit, commit, commit. Success comes at the end. Eventually, it sticks. If you commit all the way and nothing happens, try something more reachable. But remember, it still has to be shippable.
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11 min
September 23, 2022 Badass Unfiltered – Why Hope Begins With The Agile Leader
Despite the bad news all around, I have tremendous hope in us. This is a time of great divisiveness, and yet, we’ve been through this before. The Agile Leader has the ability to begin with one – one team, one community, and demonstrate by example how we can move from division to accord. Unless we learn to move in the same direction, we can never truly accomplish anything great.
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8 min
September 19, 2022 Badass Unscripted – Don’t Quiet Quit…Do THIS Instead
It’s not the quitting part I have a problem with; it’s the quiet part.
You absolutely should insist on a sustainable, balanced life. Agilists are supposed to be good at this. You must reclaim your time – no one will do it for you. But how?
Easy. Stop focusing on the “things you must do”. Meetings, admin, various tasks, and responding to emails. Focus on the top 3 high-value items to deliver. To make it easier, rank all of the things you (think) you are accountable for this week. Top to bottom, no ties. Now, draw a line under the top three. Those are the items you guarantee you will finish this week. Everything below the line – you probably won’t get to. This is a far more effective strategy than disengaging in conversation and negotiation. It’s not the way of the badass to simply quiet quit.
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Check out the new online magazine about the future of agility:
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10 min