Troubleshooting Agile

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March 16, 2022 Why we still talk about Agile
Squirrel and Jeffrey meditate on Brian Marick's announcement that he will no longer accept talk invitations on agile development, and the (different) reasons that both of them still use term "agile". Topics include joy at work, how it leads to profit, and the "near enemy" of that joy, which can lead to disillusionment.
SHOW LINKS:
- Listener Poll Results: https://twitter.com/TShootingAgile/status/1478640273991294983
- Brian's tweet: https://twitter.com/marick/status/1499905649970397189
- Brian's article on things left out of the Agile Manifesto: http://www.exampler.com/blog/2007/05/16/six-years-later-what-the-agile-manifesto-left-out/
- Joy at Work: http://dennisbakke.com
- Joy Inc: https://menloinnovations.com : Joy, Inc.
- Near Enemies: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/jun/07/change-your-life-near-enemies-buddhism
- Alistair Cockburn on the "death" of agile development: https://heartofagile.com/agile-is-not-dead-quite-the-opposite/
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21 min
March 09, 2022 The Smallest Batch is a Pair - Dragan Stepanović Part II
Dragan returns to talk with us about why small batch sizes are valuable, and how to apply this idea way beyond just release frequency, to pull requests, co-creation, and more.
Transcript: https://agileconversations.com/blog/smallest-batch-is-pair-dragan-pt2/
SHOW LINKS:
- Dragan:
- draganstepanovic.com
- https://twitter.com/d_stepanovic
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/dstepanovic/
- Systems Thinking: https://www.extremeuncertainty.com/an-introduction-to-systems-thinking/
- Promiscuous Pairing: https://csis.pace.edu/~grossman/dcs/XR4-PromiscuousPairing.pdf
- Theory of Constraints: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_constraints
- Donald Reinertsen, The Principles of Product Development Flow: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6278270-the-principles-of-product-development-flow
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18 min
March 02, 2022 Monitoring and Intervening Through Pairing/Mobbing - Dragan Stepanović Part I
Dragan Stepanović joins us to discuss emotions as system signals, why intervening at the emotional level has less value, and why you should get back on the horse.
Transcript: https://agileconversations.com/blog/monitoring-intervening-pairing-mobbing-pt1/
SHOW LINKS:
- Dragan:
- draganstepanovic.com
- https://twitter.com/d_stepanovic
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/dstepanovic/
- Mobbing for Safety episode: https://soundcloud.com/troubleshootingagile/mobbing-for-safety
- Dragan’s tweet: https://twitter.com/d_stepanovic/status/1470009166353907716
- Systems Thinking: https://www.extremeuncertainty.com/an-introduction-to-systems-thinking/
- Causal loop diagrams: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_loop_diagram
- Woody Zuill / Mob Programming: https://woodyzuill.com
- Timothy Clark: https://www.leaderfactor.com/psychological-safety-keynote\
- Amy Edmondson: https://www.chrisclearfield.com/podcast/18
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20 min
February 23, 2022 Lean Startup in Large Organizations Part II
We're joined once again by Jim Euchner, author of Lean Startup in Large Organizations. This week we discuss how the pioneers/settlers/town-planners model applies to large organisations and how to involve all three types to ensure you combine product experimentation with financial stability and avoid cannibalising your existing business.
Transcript: https://agileconversations.com/blog/lean-startup-large-organizations-pt2/
SHOW LINKS:
- Jim’s website: https://jimeuchner.com
- Book url: https://leanstartup.biz
- Pioneers, Settlers, and Town Planners: https://wardleypedia.org/mediawiki/index.php/Pioneers_settlers_town_planners
- Double Loop Learning: https://infed.org/mobi/chris-argyris-theories-of-action-double-loop-learning-and-organizational-learning/#_Single-loop_and_double-loop
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19 min
February 16, 2022 Lean Startup in Large Organizations Part I
We're joined by Jim Euchner, author of Lean Startup in Large Organizations, and discuss how to overcome the "antibodies" that big companies have against experimentation (and why those antibodies are actually healthy).
Transcript: https://agileconversations.com/blog/lean-startup-large-organization-pt1/
SHOW LINKS:
- Jim’s website: https://jimeuchner.com
- Book url: https://leanstartup.biz
- Lean Startup by Eric Ries : http://theleanstartup.com
- Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank : https://bookshop.org/books/the-four-steps-to-the-epiphany-successful-strategies-for-products-that-win/9781119690351
- Alex Osterwalder, creator of the Business Model Canvas: https://www.alexosterwalder.com
- Clayton Christensen, Innovator's Dilemma: https://bookshop.org/books/the-innovator-s-dilemma-when-new-technologies-cause-great-firms-to-fail/9781633691780
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18 min
February 09, 2022 A Radical Enterprise: Part II
We are once again joined by Matt Parker, author of the new book A Radical Enterprise, this time discussing specific examples of organisations operating as Matt describes (and discover along the way that everything is evolving toward the shape of a crab).
Transcript: https://agileconversations.com/blog/radical-enterprise-pt2/
SHOW LINKS:
- Matt's website: http://mattkparker.com
- A Radical Enterprise: https://itrevolution.com/a-radical-enterprise/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation
- Meme as unit of culture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
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22 min
February 01, 2022 A Radical Enterprise: Part I
We are joined by Matt Parker, author of the new book A Radical Enterprise, and discuss how many organisations are achieving significant success with astonishing levels of autonomy and devolution.
Transcript: https://agileconversations.com/blog/a-radical-enterprise-pt1/
SHOW LINKS:
- Matt's website: http://mattkparker.com
- A Radical Enterprise: https://itrevolution.com/a-radical-enterprise/
- Deming pay system: https://deming.org/what-would-deserve-a-raise-within-the-deming-management-context/
- Meme as unit of culture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
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23 min
January 26, 2022 The 5-Year Backlog, Part II
Squirrel and Jeffrey continue discussing what to do with a giant backlog of work for your tech team, and suggest ways to think about paying off your tech debt and thin your features for faster feedback.
SHOW LINKS:
- Feature thinning: http://www.agilekiwi.com/other/agile/feature-thinning/
- Technical debt: http://wiki.c2.com/?WardExplainsDebtMetaphor
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24 min
January 19, 2022 The 5-Year Backlog, Part I
Squirrel and Jeffrey discuss how to help a listener whose team has a mountain of work growing beyond all proportion, and how to work with sponsors to tame (or even better, delete!) a 5-year backlog.
SHOW LINKS:
- Gold Owner / Goal Donor: https://wiki.c2.com/?GoalDonor
- Mythical Man-Month: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
- Induced demand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
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23 min
January 12, 2022 The Opposite of Co-Creation
Squirrel describes an amazing Christmas present that captures perfectly why user empathy is vital for all types of agile teams — even in hardware.
SHOW LINKS:
- The Braille Cube: https://twitter.com/douglassquirrel/status/1476967045430398979
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12 min

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