This Agile Life

Released Sunday, June 28th, 2015 Hosts: John Sextro, Nate McKie and Amos King Special Guest: Wes Higbee (Full City Tech) author of Commitment To Value: How to make technical projects worthwhile. Discussion Commitment to Value Building trust Successful projects require commitment to value Value and value pricing on agile projects. How should we decide what to charge for a […]

Released Sunday, June 14th, 2015 Hosts: Jason Tice, Craig Buchek and Lee McCauley Discussion On Episode 87 of ThisAgileLife, join Lee, Craig and Jason for a discussion on John Kotter’s ideas about “Change Leadership” and how this concept relates to agile transformation. Kotter’s work outlines an eight-step process to enable organizational change by building influence rather than mandate, and […]

Released Sunday, May 31st, 2015 Hosts: John Sextro, Craig Buchek and Amos King Discussion Central teams consisting of coaches As a barrier to organizational learning Once people become designated coaches they want to perpetuate themselves and everyone becomes dependent Picks Craig The Little Lisper series The Little Lisper The Little Schemer The Seasoned Schemer The Reasoned Schemer […]

Released Sunday, May 24th, 2015 Hosts: John Sextro, Jason Tice and Amos King Discussion Agile Games 2015 Recap and Review (Held at the Microsoft NERD building in Cambridge, MA) Opening Keynote and Game by Renee Troughton The Puppet Mastery Game Mobbing Origami Specialization of skills Warm up your meetings with Improv by Wayde Stallman Team First […]

Released Sunday, May 17th, 2015 Hosts: John Sextro, Natalie Simonsen and Craig Buchek Discussion Product Owners  and their product vision, or lack there of. The product owner has a clear vision but the team or team members are not bought in/disagree. Market Viability – the team does not think it will be successful The product […]