This week Darin is happy to be sad, James shows Facilitator Ari around town, and Tyler nails Commitment 7 (Appreciation). All of that and the guys discuss shifting back to a product first company with multi-functional teams.

00:00:00 - Pre Show

Skinned knuckles...and proper bandages

00:01:23 - Show Start

3 Nerds only this week

00:01:58 - Follow-Ups 

Listener Brandy - Wait, is this season 2? Did I miss the end of Season 1?

No - We just have no clue how to properly name podcast episodes

00:04:32 - The Headlines - Theme this week - “A good Great Week for All”

Darin

2nd Week back from vacation and in the groove

Getting happy about feeling sad?

Shifting roles in Infoplus

Tyler

No Sadness this week, so no happiness either?

Entering vacation mode for next week

James

Managers starting to make progress on the company shift

2020 - Delegated too much

2021 - Taking a step back?

Less delegating, more hands on problem solving

Facilitator Ari got to experience a day in the life of James (and Chester, IL)

00:14:12 - Topic 2 (1) Restructure and Transition (Part 1) - What are we doing with the Product Side of Infoplus

Focus on Customer Success through a Product First Mindset

New Cross Functional Teams

Tactical (now) Product Team

Complete product releases that improve the current nature of the product

Strategic (future) Product Team

Not features, but a better foundation for 2021

Performance, Scalability, Control, UI/UX

Rollout (WiTS) Product Team

All things other than code (Turn features into assets)

WiTS (Wheel in the Sky)...what does it mean

DevOps Product Team

Outsourcing system maintenance and infrastructure monitoring

James is still Company Visionary and Product Visionary

“Everyone is chomping at the bits”

Darin Takes on scrum master for Strategic Product Team and gets back to coding

“I think we can all agree I’m the best at it”.

Darin gets to Co-engineer with Co-founder Tim

Darin cries happy tears recalling his greatest addition to Infoplus

Moving to Product Board software to create and manage a backlog

Lots of initial excitement, but…

“We’re in the easy part right now, we have to start doing it over the next couple weeks”

00:36:50 - Questions and Long Answers 

None this week

00:36:556 - End of Show 

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“If they don’t give you joy and happiness, it’s known that nothing else will”

00:58:58 - Aftershow  

Darin watches Mandalorian

“I appreciate your appreciation of my appreciation”

Darin’s rating...Fantastic!

Hosts, Garret Richardson, Tyler Samples, Darin Kelkhoff, and James Maes

Show Notes by Garret Richardson

Proofing and Title by Darin Kelkhoff

Editing, Mixing, and Mastering by Brenton Wainscott