UN-Common Sense

The opposite of Agile used to be Waterfall - those days are long past. What is next and why? Please join Steve Tendon, Al Shalloway, and Joshua Barnes for a discussion lead by Clarke Ching where he will “take us off the beaten track, looking for truffles!”.Clarke is the author of The Bottleneck Rule, Rolling Rocks Downhill and Corkscrew Solutions. He’s a computer scientist with an MBA, has been powered by the Theory of Constraints (ToC) and Lean for over 25 years and Agile since 2003.

Please join Al Shalloway, Steve Tendon and Joshua Barnes for a discussion lead by Peter Maddison of the Flow Collective. Peter will discuss how Flow Engineering creates clarity and alignment around how your organization works together to deliver value to customers.#disciplinedagile #tameflow #flowcollective

Please join Steve Tendon, Al Shalloway, and Joshua Barnes for a discussion lead by Tom Gilb, where he will bring his insights in Agile Engineering or “quantified value(s) agile.” A few of the focus points include: - Systems Thinking: even for programs, you need to integrate people, data, legal, hardware, cloudware, and more.- Stakeholder Engineering: not merely “customer and user” – Stakeholder Stores, Stakeholder Xperience (SX not UX) Tom has been practicing incremental valu...

This week’s Un-Common Sense episode discusses what concepts Agile Teams need to know (and what they need to NOT know). What skills / knowledge / concepts are needed by the AGILE TEAM? Join the discussion with Steve Tendon, Al Shalloway, and Joshua Barnes.

This episode of Un-Common Sense will discuss what concepts Agile Coaches need to know. Does the agile coach supporting your team or organization understand concepts that keep improving the flow of value with today’s complex environments? Do you know what concepts you should look for when hiring/engaging an Agile Coach? Join the discussion with Joshua Barnes, Steve Tendon and Al Shalloway and bring your thoughts and questions.

Please join Steve Tendon and Joshua Barnes for a discussion lead by Ian Heptinstall, where he will explore his idea of two constituent parts that Agile Project Management as a “method” has. Ian is not an Agile Project Management specialist, nor software or IT guy. His project experience comes from the world of capital projects (buildings, factories, construction, infrastructure), where he has worked both for project owners such as chemical and pharmaceutical companies and in the s...

Un-Common Sense Episode 8Where Agile Transformations Typically Start, Could Start, and Options Why do agile transformations start with and continue to focus on delivery teams? This approach is commonplace. But is this the only way? Is this the best way? Should we expand our thinking and look at other options we have? Joshua Barnes, Al Shalloway, and Steve Tendon discuss transformation strategy options and how you and your organization can benefit.

Ever wondered why the performance of agile teams using Scrum tends to plateau? Albert Einstein is widely credited with saying, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.” Have you asked how Non-Software teams may use agile or how Scrum being a purposely incomplete framework impacts novice teams? Jon Ward will lead a discussion along with Al Shalloway, Steve Tendon and Joshua Barnes on a new approach, Agile Lineout. An a...

In this episode, Steve Tendon will lead the discussion along with Al Shalloway and Joshua Barnes. Un-Common Sense Episode 6: while we might all be very concerned about processes, methods and frameworks to make our organizations more effective, we must not forget that we are operating in socio-technical systems. Technology is so widespread around us that we almost take it for granted. What about if we paid more attention to how new emerging and innovative technologies can ...

In this episode, Al Shalloway, Steve Tendon and I discuss an interesting observation that fear drives people into sub-optimization and protecting their silos. #valuestreammanagement focuses on the whole and the relationship between the different parties in the #valuestream . By attending to the workflows and not the people in them, fear can be reduced because it becomes a larger team that is creating the work.