Lean-Agile Straight Talk

By Jim Trott

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Discussions of all aspects of applying lean and agile methods for effective software development: lean product development, agile analysis, design patterns, test-driven development. A series of podcasts by Net Objectives.

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The Six Lean Transitions that Got Us to Where We Are At a recent meeting, Al Shalloway discussed the six key transitions in Lean that has led to where we are in the application of Lean to software development. We ...

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12.13.2016 The Six Lean Transitions that Got Us to Where We Are The Six Lean Transitions that Got Us to Where We Are At a recent meeting, Al Shalloway discussed the six key transitions in Lean that has led to where we are in the application of Lean to software development. We ...
11.23.2016 Acceptance Test-Driven Development: A Quick Introduction Acceptance Test-Driven Development: A Quick Introduction Ken Pugh and Jim Trott talk about ATDD: who is involved and who leads the effort, what is involved in writing acceptance tests, how ATDD compares with regular "analysis" you have done in the ...
10.18.2016 Bringing Your Internal Coaching to the Next Level Bringing Your Internal Coaching to the Next Level Steve Thomas and Jim Trott talk about internal coaching in Lean-Agile transformations: why coaches are needed, what is involved, the difference between internal and external coaches, who makes good coaches, can manager ...
09.27.2016 Skills that Developers Need to Acquire to Achieve an Agile Transformation Skills that Developers Need to Acquire to Achieve an Agile Transformation Amir Kolsky, Rob Neppel, and Jim Trott talk about eight essential skills that developers need to acquire to work in an Agile transformation. Some of these skills are certainly ...
09.08.2016 Start Stronger, Get Better, and Do More: A Conversation with James Sutton and Marc Danziger Start Stronger, Get Better, and Do More: A Conversation with James Sutton and Marc Danziger James Sutton, Marc Danziger, and Jim Trott talk about transformation, systems thinking, the borders that Agile erects that can inhibit scaling, coaching, and why Lean ...
09.01.2016 The Net Objectives Guardrails System: A Conversation with Al Shalloway The Net Objectives Guardrails System: A Conversation with Al Shalloway Al Shalloway and Jim Trott talk about the Guardrails System, a holistic system of six agreements that people in an organization make that work together to keep all roles across ...
08.18.2016 Groupthink and Fear as Team Killers: A Conversation with Marc Danziger Groupthink and Fear as Team Killers: A Conversation with Marc Danziger Marc Dangizer and Jim Trott talk about the problems teams often face when no one on the team is willing to acknowledge the challenge if others don’t (groupthink) or ...
08.08.2016 Justifying TDD: A Conversation with Scott Bain Justifying TDD: A Conversation with Scott Bain Scott Bain and Jim Trott talk about overcoming the challenges people often have to adopting Test-Driven Development in their organization. A big part of doing TDD effectively is coming to an agreement as ...
07.27.2016 Lean-Agile Budgeting: A Conversation with Guy Beaver and Kelley Horton Lean-Agile Budgeting: A Conversation with Guy Beaver and Kelley Horton Guy Beaver, Kelley Horton, and Jim Trott discuss Lean-Agile Budgeting, a critical, though often an overlooked, topic in Lean-Agile Transformation. Budgets are powerful statements about direction and levers for changing ...
07.21.2016 Middle Management and Lean-Agile. A Conversation with with Dr. Tom Grant Middle Management and Lean-Agile: A Conversation with Dr. Tom Grant Dr. Tom Grant and Jim Trott discuss the implications of Lean and Agile software development for middle management. The role is changed, with different skills and behaviors required. Managers transition ...
07.31.2012 Management and Trust: A Conversation with Derby and Shalloway (Twibinar) Management and Trust: A Twibinar with Esther Derby and Alan Shalloway (audio of the webinar) On July 16, 2012, Alan Shalloway and Esther Derby held a twibinar conversation on Trust and Management. Talking with each other and with attendees who ...
05.31.2012 Product Portfolio Management: Essential for Agile at Scale - PODCAST Product Portfolio Management: Why It Is Critical for Agile at Scale This is going to be the topic of a webinar on June 18, 2012. We frequently hear about organizations who have had good success with Agile at a team ...
05.10.2012 A New Season of Lean-Agile Straight Talk, A New Webinar Series A New Season and a New Webinar Series It is springtime in Seattle, a good time to start anew. Since the last season of Lean-Agile Straight Talk, we have been writing and consulting and coaching and working with many clients. ...
05.07.2010 Notes from the LeanSSC Atlanta 2010 conference Notes from LeanSSC Atlanta 2010 In this show, Alan Shalloway shares his impressions from the inaugural conference of the LeanSSC which was held in Atlanta, Georgia. LeanSSC stands for the Lean Software and Systems Consortium. This is a consortium of ...
02.17.2010 Reflections on a New Year: Part 2 Reflections on a New Year: Part 2 We continue reflecting about the trends in 2010 and areas in which Net Objectives will be investing some of its energy and thought as we help to serve our partners and customers. In ...
01.19.2010 Reflections on a New Year: Part 1 Reflections on a New Year: Part 1 The beginning of the year is a natural time to think about what is coming in the year. Alan Shalloway shares his thoughts about some of the areas in which Net Objectives will ...
11.09.2009 Chapter 4 - Lean Portfolio Management Chapter 4: Lean Portfolio Management This show continues a chapter by chapter discussion about the new book, Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility, by Alan Shalloway, Guy Beaver, and Jim Trott. This show focuses on Chapter 4, Lean Portfolio Management. ...
11.09.2009 Chapter 3 - The Big Picture Chapter 3: The Big Picture This show continues a chapter by chapter discussion about the new book, Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility, by Alan Shalloway, Guy Beaver, and Jim Trott. This show focuses on Chapter 3, The Big Picture. ...
11.09.2009 Chapter 2 - The Business Case for Agility Chapter 2: The Business Case for Agility This show continues a chapter by chapter discussion about the new book, Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility, by Alan Shalloway, Guy Beaver, and Jim Trott. This show focuses on Chapter 2, The ...
11.01.2009 Chapter 1: A Developer's Guide to Lean Software Development Chapter 1: A Developer's Guide to Lean Software Development This show continues a chapter by chapter discussion about the new book, Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility, by Alan Shalloway, Guy Beaver, and Jim Trott. This show focuses on Chapter ...
10.12.2009 An Overview of Two New Books An Overview of Two New Books In this show, we give overviews of two new books by Net Objectives which we think you will find helpful: The Lean-Agile Pocket Guide for Scrum Teams and another is Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving ...
09.28.2009 A New Series A New Series This podcast kicks off a new series for Lean Agile Straight Talk. We have been busy finishing several books focused on Lean-Agile. One is called the Lean-Agile Pocket Guide for Scrum Teams and another is Lean-Agile Software ...
05.22.2009 Redefining Lean Redefining Lean Lean Software Development is founded on Lean. But what is "Lean"? Some have said that "lean is just what Toyota does." That is not much of a definition and is not even accurate, although Toyota does do Lean. ...
05.11.2009 Report from Lean Kanban 2009 Report from Lean Kanban 2009 Kanban is an emerging practice in Lean software development. Founded on solid principles of flow and utilization theory, it seems to address many of the issues people have had with Agile approaches. Over the next ...
03.28.2009 Three Things You Gotta Know Three Things You Gotta Know Lean is a pragmatic framework for absorbing principles and practices that other people have learned and putting them to work in large organizations. It can feel overwhelming. It is rich and there are many, many ...
03.18.2009 Getting to the Benefit Getting to the Benefits It has been estimated that 75% of companies undertaking Scrum are not experiencing the benefits they expected. Why do you suppose this is? Why don't we take time to stop, observe, and improve our processes? Why ...
09.23.2008 Scrum and Management: Planning and Focusing Scrum and Management: Planning and Focusing Over the last several years, teams of developers have been trying Agile and getting success at their level. Now, management is getting engaged, both to figure out how to do this across divisions and ...
09.23.2008 Avoiding Coupling and Using Mocks (Webinar) Avoiding Coupling and Using Mocks (audio of the webinar) Scrum# is an extension to Scrum that was developed by Net Objectives to solve challenges that were being encountered by many teams adopting Scrum. Read about more about the issues which ...
09.23.2008 Understanding Why Scrum Works (Webinar) Understanding Why Scrum Works (audio of the webinar) Scrum# is an extension to Scrum that was developed by Net Objectives to solve challenges that were being encountered by many teams adopting Scrum. Read about more about the issues which Scrum# ...
09.23.2008 Database Agility Database Agility Databases are central to almost any software development project of any size. Developers have been gaining big improvements as they adopt Agile approaches: higher quality, more satisfaction, delivering more value to customers. It seems time for database developers ...
09.23.2008 Present and the Possible in Software Development The Present and the Possible There is a gap between what is possible and what is present - what is done - in the software industry. How much time and effort is wasted, how much re-inventing and re-discovery is done ...
08.20.2008 Avoiding Over- and Under-Design in Agile Projects (Webinar) Avoiding Over- and Under-Design in Agile Projects (audio of the webinar) Scrum# is an extension to Scrum that was developed by Net Objectives to solve challenges that were being encountered by many teams adopting Scrum. Read about more about the ...
08.20.2008 Managing Requirements in Agile Projects with Scrum Sharp (Webinar) Managing Requirements in Agile Projects with Scrum Sharp (audio of the webinar) Scrum# is an extension to Scrum that was developed by Net Objectives to solve challenges that were being encountered by many teams adopting Scrum. Read about more about ...
07.29.2008 Lean-Agile in Tough Times Lean-Agile in Tough Times In times of economic slowdown, you have many choices to make about how to allocate scarce time and people and money. Is it at all relevant to invest in Lean-Agile software development? Why? What would you ...
07.26.2008 Scaling Scrum to the Enterprise with Lean Software Development (Webinar) Scaling Scrum to the Enterprise with Lean Software Development (audio of the webinar) Scrum# is an extension to Scrum that was developed by Net Objectives to solve challenges that were being encountered by many teams adopting Scrum. Read about more ...
07.26.2008 Coming Up at Agile 2008 Coming Up at Agile 2008 Once again, Net Objectives is a co-sponsor of the Agile 2008 conference. This is a premier gathering for people and organizations involved in Agile software development. This year, it is being held in Toronto, Canada, ...
06.12.2008 Test-Driven Development and Design Patterns Test-Driven Development and Design Patterns Last month, in my conversation with Scott Bain on Impediments to TDD, I wanted to explore how he was incorporating TDD and Design Patterns, two areas of particular expertise for Scott. That is the topic ...
05.23.2008 Emergent Design: The Evolutionary Nature of Professional Software Development (webinar) Emergent Design (audio of the webinar) What is design? An opportunity to mitigate risk. A way to look for eliminating waste. It is certainly not simply the "thinking" part of software development. When are you doing design? Just up front? ...
05.12.2008 Overcoming Impediments to Test-Driven Development Overcoming Impediments to Test-Driven Development Recently, I had the chance to sit down with Scott Bain, author of Emergent Design and an expert in Test-Driven Development. He wanted to talk about what he has seen as impediments to implementing Test-Driven ...
03.14.2008 Post-Agile Scrum: The Need for Lean Software Development (webinar) Post-Agile Scrum (audio of the webinar) The Agile Manifesto and the Agile movement have ushered in a new way of developing software. Today, many practitioners are discovering limitations to the usual approach to Agile which focuses mostly on local teams ...
12.14.2007 Emergent Design: The Evolutionary Nature of Professional Software Development (webinar) Emergent Design (audio of the webinar) What is design? An opportunity to mitigate risk. A way to look for eliminating waste. It is certainly not simply the "thinking" part of software development. When are you doing design? Just up front? ...
10.12.2007 Enterprise Agility Enterprise Agility Often, organizations invite us in to help them think about how to bring Agile into their development practices. The initial focus is often at the local team level. Our experience is that this is not the best place ...
08.13.2007 Announcing Scrum Certification by Net Objectives Announcing Scrum Certification by Net Objectives Scrum Certification by Net Objectives is a new program by Net Objectives to help the industry and especially our clients have a reliable, repeatable, and meaningful process by which to assess the competency of ...
07.30.2007 Lean-Agile and the Process-Innovation Pendulum Lean-Agile and the Process-Innovation Pendulum Alan was the keynote speaker at the SQE Better Software Conference in Las Vegas this year. Conferences are great for stirring up ideas and generating insights. For this podcast, I wanted to continue the series ...
06.12.2007 Lean Anti-Patterns: Overview Lean Anti-Patterns: Overview It doesn’t have to be this way. Haven’t you felt that in your tummy sometimes? You and your team end up doing the same thing again and again, and you just get the same results again and ...
05.09.2007 Completing the Agile Development Puzzle Completing the Agile Development Puzzle Bob Hartman is Net Objectives’ Vice President of Business Development and Marketing. He has over 20 years experience in the software industry and has seen it all. Maybe it is all those years in the ...
05.05.2007 Know Thy Audience - Part 2 Know Thy Audience - Part 2 Happy Cinco de Mayo 2007! I will be doing a couple of shows with Alan Chedalawada, the Chief Operating Officer and manager of the coaching practice at Net Objectives. He is a gifted coach ...
03.27.2007 Know Thy Audience - Part 1 Know Thy Audience Dwight Eisenhower said, “Planning is everything, the plan is nothing.” One of the critical success factors for introducing Lean-Agile software development into an organization is to be prepared. To understand who you are going to be working ...
01.27.2007 Lean and What do we do next? - Part 2 Lean and "So, what do we do next?" - Part 2 These Lean-Agile principles all seem reasonable, but abstract. What do we do to put it into practice? This is part 2 of a discussion on this. OK. Root causes, ...
01.18.2007 Lean and What do we do next? - Part 1 Lean and "So, what do we do next?" - Part 1 These Lean-Agile principles all seem reasonable, but abstract. What do we do to put it into practice? The problem of thrashing It has been one of those years this ...

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