Troubleshooting Agile

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Troubleshooting Agile episodes

August 03, 2022 Ford not Ferrari: Feature Thinning and Return on Investment
Squirrel and Jeffrey look at two ways to "thin" features to achieve a better return on investment, for both customer features and productivity improvements.
SHOW LINKS:
- Squirrel’s tweet: https://twitter.com/douglassquirrel/status/1554153810876157953
- Feature thinning: http://www.agilekiwi.com/other/agile/feature-thinning/
- Poppendieck lean book: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/194338.Lean_Software_Development
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9 min
July 27, 2022 Summer Shorts and Learning Loops: OKRs
Taking iterative development to heart, Squirrel and Jeffrey discuss a learning loop topic, Summer Shorts and Learning Loops: OKRs, in five minutes or fewer. Take just a few minutes with us to improve your team's learning and speed!
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7 min
July 20, 2022 Summer Shorts and Learning Loops: Retrospectives
Taking iterative development to heart, Squirrel and Jeffrey discuss a learning loop topic, Summer Shorts and Learning Loops: Retrospectives, in five minutes or fewer. Take just a few minutes with us to improve your team's learning and speed!
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6 min
July 13, 2022 Summer Shorts and Learning Loops: Walking the board
Taking iterative development to heart, Squirrel and Jeffrey discuss a learning loop topic, Summer Shorts and Learning Loops: Walking the board, in five minutes or fewer. Take just a few minutes with us to improve your team's learning and speed!
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5 min
July 06, 2022 Summer Shorts and Learning Loops: Elephant carpaccio
Taking iterative development to heart, Squirrel and Jeffrey discuss a learning loop topic, Summer Shorts and Learning Loops: Elephant carpaccio, in five minutes or fewer. Take just a few minutes with us to improve your team's learning and speed!
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6 min
June 29, 2022 Summer Shorts and Learning Loops: Weekly planning
Taking iterative development to heart, Squirrel and Jeffrey discuss a learning loop topic, Summer Shorts and Learning Loops: Weekly planning, in five minutes or fewer. Take just a few minutes with us to improve your team's learning and speed!
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5 min
June 22, 2022 Summer Shorts and Learning Loops: Basic daily learning loops
Taking iterative development to heart, Squirrel and Jeffrey discuss a learning loop topic, Basic daily learning loop, in five minutes or fewer. Take just a few minutes with us to improve your team's learning and speed!
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5 min
June 15, 2022 Kaizen Done Right (and Wrong)
Squirrel and Jeffrey trade stories about tech organisations who are effectively improving incrementally -- and examples of those who are just doing and not learning. Rother's Coaching Kata and Torres's Opportunity Solution Tree prove helpful in illustrating how to shift to this mindset.
SHOW LINKS:
- What is kaizen? : https://www.kaizen.com/what-is-kaizen
- Plan-Do-Check-Act: https://deming.org/explore/pdsa/
- Opportunity Solution Tree: https://www.productplan.com/glossary/opportunity-solution-tree/
- The Toyota Kata: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mrother/Homepage.html
- Coaching Kata: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mrother/The_Coaching_Kata.html
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15 min
June 08, 2022 When to Stop Talking
“We may disagree but that doesn’t mean we’re going to have another meeting”. Jeffrey and Squirrel discuss what happens when you run out of difficult conversations and consensus isn't going to happen--and what to do next.
SHOW LINKS:
- Advice process: https://reinventingorganizationswiki.com/en/theory/decision-making/
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15 min
June 01, 2022 Shortcuts to Success?
Jeffrey and Squirrel reflect on a tweet from Ken Kocienda about what worked for Apple in designing the iPhone, what they think is missing from this advice, and what it tells us about improving our own delivery.
SHOW LINKS:
- Ken Kocienda’s tweet https://twitter.com/kocienda/status/1526564985995857921
- Creative Selection: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/37638098-creative-selection
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10 min

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Troubleshooting Agile is a problem-solving session for agile teams. Jeffrey Fredrick and Douglas Squirrel look at common problems agile teams face and provide practical, immediately useful advice for…