Troubleshooting Agile

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Troubleshooting Agile episodes

October 27, 2021 Different Drummers: Data Science and Product Cadence, with Ian Ozsvald
A listener asks about "de-silo-ifying" data science and how to match cadences between data teams and product teams. Data expert Ian Ozsvald tells stories of insurance forms and data horrors as he helps us explore ways to address this cadence mismatch.
SHOW LINKS:
- Ian Ozsvald: https://ianozsvald.com
- PyData London: https://london.pydata.org/
- Gemba walk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemba#Gemba_Walk
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22 min
October 20, 2021 Just Say No to "Need"
Squirrel and Jeffrey explore their different reasons for recommending that you remove the word "need" from your vocabulary.
SHOW LINKS:
- “Need” tweet: https://twitter.com/douglassquirrel/status/1445683926983340037
- Correct vs useful episode: https://soundcloud.com/troubleshootingagile/correct-vs-useful
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12 min
October 13, 2021 Ringfencing Redux
A listener asks about conditions where ringfencing might make sense, and we explore the differences among ringfencing, focus, and empowerment.
SHOW LINKS:
- Listener question: https://twitter.com/DeliverItCast/status/1443304167313915907
- Ringfencing episode: https://soundcloud.com/troubleshootingagile/the-ringfencing-trap
- The Goal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goal_(novel)
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10 min
October 06, 2021 Correct vs Useful
Jeffrey tells the story of his team writing code that gives incorrect but still useful results, and we reflect on why it can be hard to choose to "pay to learn".
SHOW LINKS:
- Thinking, Fast and Slow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow
- Worse is Better: https://dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html
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12 min
September 29, 2021 Unlearning Helps You Slice Your Work
Squirrel helps teams split their work into tiny "slices" they can release daily or weekly, and finds that the biggest obstacle is all the things that developers think they know about users, many of which they have to first unlearn.
SHOW LINKS:
- Original tweet: https://twitter.com/douglassquirrel/status/1435602671306674176
- Falsehoods programmers believe about names: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/
- Elephant carpaccio: https://alistair.cockburn.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Elephant-Carpaccio-exercise-instructions.pdf
- Will Rogers: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/11/18/know-trouble/
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9 min
September 22, 2021 The Ringfencing Trap
Squirrel tells stories of clients whose attempt to ringfence developers on certain tasks ended badly, and we explore why hiding from a difficult conversation with "dedicated" engineers doesn't work.
SHOW LINKS:
- Original tweet: https://twitter.com/douglassquirrel/status/1435602662796537861
- https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/solving-the-problem-of-siloed-it-in-organizations/
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13 min
September 15, 2021 Consciously Violating Norms
We discuss making radical change in an organisation by violating its norms in use and producing productive conflict.
SHOW LINKS:
- How Should the Company Decide?: https://soundcloud.com/troubleshootingagile/how-should-the-company-decide
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18 min
September 08, 2021 Turning the Same Cranks
We consider the dynamics—or perhaps statics!—of an organisation that is stuck running the same agile processes or following an unchanging strategy, even though it isn't providing any improvement, and consider why an organisation might get stuck in this way.
SHOW LINKS:
- Double-Loop Learning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-loop_learning
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13 min
September 01, 2021 Daily Delivery for Designers
We discuss why daily delivery via "elephant carpaccio"—already challenging for engineers—is doubly difficult for designers, and what to do about it.
SHOW LINKS:
- Elephant Carpaccio: https://alistair.cockburn.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Elephant-Carpaccio-exercise-instructions.pdf
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11 min
August 25, 2021 Finding a Great Company
A listener asks how to find a great company to work for, and Jeffrey and Squirrel share a few opinionated, biased heuristics for discovering great environments to work in.
SHOW LINKS:
- CITCON conferences: https://citconf.com/
- DevopsDays: https://devopsdays.org/
- DOES conference: https://events.itrevolution.com
- Joel Test: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-steps-to-better-code/
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21 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…