Troubleshooting Agile

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Troubleshooting Agile episodes

May 25, 2022 How to be Helpfully Demanding
Squirrel and Jeffrey are both seeing faster results from coaching clients through the amazing technique of just asking them to go faster -- and explaining the reason. They explain why and how this works and how you can put it into practice too.
SHOW LINKS:
- Toyota Kata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Kata
- Near enemy: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/jun/07/change-your-life-near-enemies-buddhism
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16 min
May 18, 2022 Learning to Love Inconsistent Data
Squirrel advocates the radical view that data consistency is a shibboleth and an inadequate excuse. He and Jeffrey explore this position and wonder why companies are so obsessed with having a single source of truth.
SHOW LINKS:
- The Cuckoos’ Egg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book)
- Squirrel's sources of truth tweet: https://twitter.com/douglassquirrel/status/1525435952503693315
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12 min
May 11, 2022 Red Work, Blue Work
Jeffrey describes a new idea from Marquet, the division between "red work" (execution) and "blue work" (thinking and planning). He and Squirrel discuss how to balance these methods in agile teams, and when an imbalance might be useful.
SHOW LINKS:
- Leadership is Language: https://davidmarquet.com/leadership-is-language-book/
- Inno-Versity Presents: "Greatness" by David Marquet : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqmdLcyES_Q
- In Praise of Taylorism episode: https://agileconversations.com/blog/in-praise-of-taylor/
- Cynefin framework: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin_framework
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14 min
May 04, 2022 Hard Work Not Hard Conversation
Squirrel notices a pattern among his coaching clients: some prefer to work themselves and their teams much harder, rather than questioning a requirement or discussing trust issues. He and Jeffrey describe ways you can detect and overcome this habit or "twitch".
SHOW LINKS:
- Agile Conversations Dojo: https://www.meetup.com/Agile-Conversations-Dojo/
- Agile Conversations Book: https://agileconversations.com/agile-conversation-book/
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12 min
April 27, 2022 Discovering Ancient Wisdom
Description: Squirrel and Jeffrey ponder the seemingly forgot lore of their younger days and ask how those lessons will make it to the next generation. Or does such a fast moving industry have no time to learn from the past?
SHOW LINKS:
- Livestream: https://squirrelsquadron.com/events/2022/04-21-continuous-integration.html
- Doing the impossible 50 times a day: http://timothyfitz.com/2009/02/10/continuous-deployment-at-imvu-doing-the-impossible-fifty-times-a-day/
- Refactoring Databases book: https://www.databaserefactoring.com
- Working Effectively with Legacy Code: https://www.amazon.com/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Michael-Feathers/dp/0131177052
- Mythical Man-Month: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
- Peopleware: https://bookshop.org/books/peopleware-productive-projects-and-teams-revised/9780321934116
- Code complete: https://bookshop.org/books/code-complete/9780735619678
- Pragmatic programmer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pragmatic_Programmer
- Agile Conversations Slack: https://join.slack.com/t/agile-conversations/shared_invite/zt-17ut4px4y-gvPXpbYhf2tf0nvzZN1u5A
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17 min
April 20, 2022 The Cook and The Nutritionist
Squirrel and Jeffrey develop a metaphor describing effective product alignment, and suggest some ways to apply and misapply it.
SHOW LINKS:
- Getting To Yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_to_Yes
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17 min
April 13, 2022 Product-Led, Product-Minded, Product-Aligned
Jeffrey defines "product-led" organisations and contrasts with "commercially-led", "project-led", and "technology-led" organisations. Squirrel disagreed with the verb "led" as it could leave out important opportunities to bring everyone in on a product-minded culture, and we settle on "product-aligned" as a better way of describing an effective end state.
SHOW LINKS:
- Project to Product: https://projecttoproduct.org/
- Livestream on Continuous Integration: https://squirrelsquadron.com/events/2022/04-14-psychology.html
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21 min
April 06, 2022 What Your CEO Wants But Won't Tell You
We describe Marquet's "Psychological Ownership" and how it goes beyond the "turn signal" we've advocated before when building trust with stakeholders. Then we go into applications to our clients, Microsoft Excel date formats, and the candy preferences of heavy metal bands.
SHOW LINKS:
- Inno-Versity Presents: "Greatness" by David Marquet : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqmdLcyES_Q&t=260s
- https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-review/
- https://www.insider.com/van-halen-brown-m-ms-contract-2016-9
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12 min
March 30, 2022 As a Person, He's Great!
Squirrel notices that when a client starts by telling him how great her relationship is with someone, it almost always signals a lack of true collaboration and productive conflict. Squirrel and Jeffrey discuss the difference between friendly and effective and the common confusion between being liked and being successful.
SHOW LINKS:
- Matt Parker on collaboration: https://twitter.com/realMattKParker/status/1507513202522918917?s=20&t=l3vMCiBGPf172Ht0M5XRzQ
- https://stratechery.com/2013/the-uncanny-valley-of-a-functional-organization/
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11 min
March 23, 2022 MVP Cubed
Squirrel relates the tale of a sad client who refined their MVP so much all the business value was lost. Squirrel and Jeffrey reflect on the true meaning of "viable" and how boredom can be a sign your team has lost sight of delivering customer value.
SHOW LINKS:
- Elephant Carpaccio: https://blog.crisp.se/2013/07/25/henrikkniberg/elephant-carpaccio-facilitation-guide
- Walking Skeleton: https://wiki.c2.com/?WalkingSkeleton
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14 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…