Troubleshooting Agile

Is your timid tech team constantly seeking direction and second-guessing themselves? Improvement is possible - if you create frequent accountability. Discover how your team can get a "message to Garcia", by tuning in this episode of Troubleshooting Agile.

Links:

- Patrick McKenzie tweet: https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1781424185094402558

- Sammy (Patrick's EA) on agency: https://hath.blog/posts/cultivating-destroying-agency/

- Message to Garcia: https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.803/pdf/hubbard1899.pdf

- Theory X and Theory Y: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-we-cannot-learn-damn-thing-from-semco-toyota-niels-pflaeging/

- Briefing and Back Briefing:https://soundcloud.com/troubleshootingagile/briefing-and-back-briefing

- Radiating Intent:https://agileconversations.com/blog/driving-lessons/

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About Your Hosts

Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick first met while working together at TIM group in 2013. A decade later, they remain united in their passion for growing organisations through better conversations.

Squirrel is an advisor, author, keynote speaker, coach, and consultant, helping companies of all sizes make huge, profitable improvements in their culture, skills, and processes.

You can find out more about his work here: https://douglassquirrel.com/index.html

Jeffrey is Vice President of Engineering at ION Analytics, Organiser at CITCON, the Continuous Integration and Testing Conference, author and speaker.

You can connect with him here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jfredrick/

The Imperial Japanese Navy and Borland Software made the same strategic mistake: testing hypotheses but ignoring negative results. Join your hosts, Squirrel and Jeffrey to discover what they missed and how you can make falsification work for you on this episode of Troubleshooting Agile.

Links:

- Shattered Sword: http://www.shatteredswordbook.com/

- Borland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borland

- Bank-robbing story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJVHTQSvUIo

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Plus, get access to a free mini training video about the technique of Coherence Building when you join our mailing list.

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About Your Hosts

Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick first met while working together at TIM group in 2013. A decade later, they remain united in their passion for growing organisations through better conversations.

Squirrel is an advisor, author, keynote speaker, coach, and consultant, helping companies of all sizes make huge, profitable improvements in their culture, skills, and processes.

You can find out more about his work here: https://douglassquirrel.com/index.html

Jeffrey is Vice President of Engineering at ION Analytics, Organiser at CITCON, the Continuous Integration and Testing Conference, author and speaker.

You can connect with him here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jfredrick/

Do you have an "Eeyore" in your technology team, for whom it's all thorns and no roses? Can you help them to be more Tigger.. and would you even want to? Join Squirrel and Jeffrey as they discuss pessimism and burnout on this episode of Troubleshooting Agile.

Links:

- Eeyore & Tigger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Winnie-the-Pooh_characters

- Previous episode on burnout: https://agileconversations.com/blog/fixing-burnout-by-disagreeing-and-disappointing/

- Unilateral control model vs mutual learning: https://agileconversations.com/blog/directive-vs-mutual-learning/

- Motivational interviewing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivational_interviewing

- Dr. Burns magic button: https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/in-therapy/200901/seven-questions-david-d-burns

- Nonviolent communication: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_Communication

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About Your Hosts

Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick first met while working together at TIM group in 2013. A decade later, they remain united in their passion for growing organisations through better conversations.

Squirrel is an advisor, author, keynote speaker, coach, and consultant, helping companies of all sizes make huge, profitable improvements in their culture, skills, and processes.

You can find out more about his work here: https://douglassquirrel.com/index.html

Jeffrey is Vice President of Engineering at ION Analytics, Organiser at CITCON, the Continuous Integration and Testing Conference, author and speaker.

You can connect with him here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jfredrick/

Mistakes are only obvious looking backwards, looking forwards, they seem like good ideas. On this episode of Troubleshooting Agile, Squirrel and Jeffrey discuss why they encourage meaningful errors that lead to learning and how a negative result is a sign of a successful experiment.

Links:

- Retrospective Coherence: https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/retrospective-coherence-and-the-road-not-taken/

- Bicycle history: https://rootsofprogress.org/why-did-we-wait-so-long-for-the-bicycle

- Covid predictions: https://thezvi.substack.com/

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Order your copy of our book, Agile Conversations at agileconversations.com

Plus, get access to a free mini training video about the technique of Coherence Building when you join our mailing list.

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About Your Hosts

Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick first met while working together at TIM group in 2013. A decade later, they remain united in their passion for growing organisations through better conversations.

Squirrel is an advisor, author, keynote speaker, coach, and consultant, helping companies of all sizes make huge, profitable improvements in their culture, skills, and processes.

You can find out more about his work here: https://douglassquirrel.com/index.html

Jeffrey is Vice President of Engineering at ION Analytics, Organiser at CITCON, the Continuous Integration and Testing Conference, author and speaker.

You can connect with him here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jfredrick/

Agile is dead, but does anyone care? Cynefin tells us that we should be watching the slope of improvement, not aiming for a mythical "best practice".

Squirrel and Jeffrey discuss why agile is irrelevant, on this episode of the (ironically named) Troubleshooting Agile podcast.

Links:

- Ubiquitous Language: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/UbiquitousLanguage.html

- Cynefin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin_framework

- No Vehicles in the Park episode: https://soundcloud.com/troubleshootingagile/no-vehicles-in-the-park

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Order your copy of our book, Agile Conversations at agileconversations.com

Plus, get access to a free mini training video about the technique of Coherence Building when you join our mailing list.

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About Your Hosts

Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick first met while working together at TIM group in 2013. A decade later, they remain united in their passion for growing organisations through better conversations.

Squirrel is an advisor, author, keynote speaker, coach, and consultant, helping companies of all sizes make huge, profitable improvements in their culture, skills, and processes.

You can find out more about his work here: https://douglassquirrel.com/index.html

Jeffrey is Vice President of Engineering at ION Analytics, Organiser at CITCON, the Continuous Integration and Testing Conference, author and speaker.

You can connect with him here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jfredrick/

Has "adopting Jira" become the definition of "being agile"? If so, Squirrel says he’ll find another line of work! Tune in to hear Squirrel and Jeffrey's discussion on using the right tools for certain and uncertain environments, on this episode of Troubleshooting Agile.

- Squirrel’s Jira tweet: https://x.com/douglassquirrel/status/1767536165790376281?s=20

- Chris Matts on Needs and Solutions: https://theitriskmanager.com/2015/04/19/communities-of-need-community-of-solutions/

- Confirmation bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

- Cynefin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin_framework

- Last week’s episode on certainty and uncertainty: https://soundcloud.com/troubleshootingagile/decentralisation-dilemmas

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Order your copy of our book, Agile Conversations at agileconversations.com

Plus, get access to a free mini training video about the technique of Coherence Building when you join our mailing list.

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Email us at [email protected]

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About Your Hosts

Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick first met while working together at TIM group in 2013. A decade later, they remain united in their passion for growing organisations through better conversations.

Squirrel is an advisor, author, keynote speaker, coach, and consultant, helping companies of all sizes make huge, profitable improvements in their culture, skills, and processes.

You can find out more about his work here: https://douglassquirrel.com/index.html

Jeffrey is Vice President of Engineering at ION Analytics,

Organiser at CITCON, the Continuous Integration and Testing Conference, author and speaker.

You can connect with him here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jfredrick/

Build centralised, standard structures for your tech only when you're sure the terrain isn't moving under your feet and stable software is no guarantee against market avalanches. This week’s episode is all about centralisation and decentralisation, with your hosts, Squirrel and Jeffrey.

Links:

- Wardley Mapping: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardley_map

- Pioneers, Settlers, Town Planners: https://wardleypedia.org/mediawiki/index.php/Pioneers_settlers_town_planners

- Cynefin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin_framework

- Entangled Trios: https://www.peterhinssen.com/blog/dealing-with-complexity-in-the-never-normal

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Order your copy of our book, Agile Conversations at agileconversations.com

Plus, get access to a free mini training video about the technique of Coherence Building when you join our mailing list.

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About Your Hosts

Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick first met while working together at TIM group in 2013. A decade later, they remain united in their passion for growing organisations through better conversations.

Squirrel is an advisor, author, keynote speaker, coach, and consultant, helping companies of all sizes make huge, profitable improvements in their culture, skills, and processes.

You can find out more about his work here: https://douglassquirrel.com/index.html

Jeffrey is Vice President of Engineering at ION Analytics, Organiser at CITCON, the Continuous Integration and Testing Conference, author and speaker.

You can connect with him here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jfredrick/

Cancel your standup and record your decisions in writing, not conversations. This week on Troubleshooting Agile, Collaborations Expert and Author, Sumeet Moghe joins Squirrel and Jeffrey to explore "async-first" software development.

Links:

- Sumeet Moghe: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sumeetmoghe/ and https://www.asyncagile.org/

- The Async-First Playbook: https://www.thoughtworks.com/en-gb/insights/books/async-first-playbook

asyncagile.org

- Alistair Cockburn graph: https://agileconversations.com/AlistairCockburnCommunicationGraph.png

- Martin Fowler "Periodic Face-to-Face": https://martinfowler.com/bliki/PeriodicFaceToFace.html

- James Tannier, Effective Remote Work: https://pragprog.com/titles/jsrw/effective-remote-work/

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Order your copy of our book, Agile Conversations at agileconversations.com

Plus, get access to a free mini training video about the technique of Coherence Building when you join our mailing list.

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Email us at [email protected]

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About Your Hosts

Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick first met while working together at TIM group in 2013. A decade later, they remain united in their passion for growing organisations through better conversations.

Squirrel is an advisor, author, keynote speaker, coach, and consultant, helping companies of all sizes make huge, profitable improvements in their culture, skills, and processes.

You can find out more about his work here: https://douglassquirrel.com/index.html

Jeffrey is Vice President of Engineering at ION Analytics, Organiser at CITCON, the Continuous Integration and Testing Conference, author and speaker.

You can connect with him here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jfredrick/

Go ahead and bravely demand the next feature right after the completion of the last! This week on Troubleshooting Agile, Squirrel tells us why he likes to be more demanding than Kent Beck.

Links:

- Kent Beck: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Beck

- Tidy First: https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/tidy-first-in-one-page

- Extreme Programming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_programming

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Order your copy of our book, Agile Conversations at agileconversations.com

Plus, get access to a free mini training video about the technique of Coherence Building when you join our mailing list.

We'd love to hear any thoughts, ideas, or feedback you have about the show.

Email us at [email protected]

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About Your Hosts

Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick first met while working together at TIM group in 2013. A decade later, they remain united in their passion for growing organisations through better conversations.

Squirrel is an advisor, author, keynote speaker, coach, and consultant, helping companies of all sizes make huge, profitable improvements in their culture, skills, and processes.

You can find out more about his work here: https://douglassquirrel.com/index.html

Jeffrey is Vice President of Engineering at ION Analytics, Organiser at CITCON, the Continuous Integration and Testing Conference, author and speaker.

You can connect with him here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jfredrick/

This week on Troubleshooting Agile, we bring you a bumper edition of 2022’s Summer Shorts - Learning Loops. Taking iterative development to heart, Squirrel and Jeffrey discuss six learning loop topics in less than five minutes each.

Join us to learn about:

- Basic daily learning loops

- Weekly planning

- Elephant Carpaccio

- Walking the board

- Retrospectives

- OKRs

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Order your copy of our book, Agile Conversations at agileconversations.com

Plus, get access to a free mini training video about the technique of Coherence Building when you join our mailing list.

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Email us at [email protected]

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About Your Hosts

Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick first met while working together at TIM group in 2013. A decade later, they remain united in their passion for growing organisations through better conversations.

Squirrel is an advisor, author, keynote speaker, coach, and consultant, helping companies of all sizes make huge, profitable improvements in their culture, skills, and processes.

You can find out more about his work here: https://douglassquirrel.com/index.html

Jeffrey is Vice President of Engineering at ION Analytics, Organiser at CITCON, the Continuous Integration and Testing Conference, author and speaker.

You can connect with him here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jfredrick/