Welcome to Agile Clips where coaches Santosh Kolhatkar, Andrew Webster and Steve Sanoff break down Agile into manageable pieces, from changing organizational culture to best practices at the team level.
In this episode we talk about people that bring Agile practices to teams and, due to limited knowledge or the wrong motivation, make things worse.
We discuss how to identify these people and remedy the situation, which leads to a discussion about agility and how to recognize when a team is truly agile.
Welcome to Agile Clips.
In this episode our guest is Linda Rising - she is a speaker, author, and recipient of the 2020 World Agility Forum Lifetime Achievement Award.
Today’s topic is “change”. We start the conversation with misconceptions about our ability to help others and organizations change and go on to techniques for achieving long lasting changes.
Although the focus is Agile, the discussion is wide ranging and applicable to some of the biggest and toughest challenges we face in the world today.
You can contact Linda at https://lindarising.org.
The following book by Linda and Mary Lynn Manns is mentioned in the podcast: https://fearlesschangepatterns.com.
In this episode we discuss the so-called hybrid work model, where some team members are working remotely and some from a traditional office environment. As people return to offices following working from home, most organizations will have to work this way. The model presents both challenges and opportunities for more effective collaboration.
We talk about this trend, some of the tools available and offer some tips on how to adapt to this new working model.
There is a misconception that in Agile development you can plan as you go along. In fact, you still need to plan ahead. What is different compared with waterfall development is that we respond to change over following a plan created when we knew less than we do now.
In this episode, we discuss several techniques for understanding what the desired business outcome is so that we can plan how to achieve the outcome more than, for example, the detailed features that, in any case, we may want to adjust as we start to gather user feedback.
We also talk about understanding dependencies and risks so that those can be planned for, rather than being surprised by them late in the development cycle.
In this episode we discuss the vast number of collaboration tools available, some of our experiences with specific tools and various aspects of collaboration with and without electronic tools.
The listing of tools mentioned in the episode can be found at https://www.collaborationsuperpowers.com/tools.
Who is a Leader? What does it take to be a Leader?
In this episode we are joined by James Saliba, author of “Reviving the Work Environment: Taking Your Position as a Leader” to discuss how leaders can find themselves "stuck" and how they can get “unstuck” by taking time to assess themselves, assessing overall performance, and then taking the appropriate actions.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamessaliba/
https://www.amazon.com/Reviving-Work-Environment-Taking-Position/dp/1734906103
We are excited to announce that Andrew Webster has joined us as a co-host of the Agile Clips podcast.
In this episode Steve, Santosh and Andrew have a conversation about negative views of Agile, what can cause people to have these negative views and how to overcome them to help teams reap the benefits of the Agile values and principles.
In this episode we discuss the pluses and minuses of Scrum and Kanban, which is the most appropriate in specific situations and how they can be used together to achieve the best of both worlds.
In this episode we discuss the role of manager in an Agile setting and how it compares to the role of manager in a waterfall organization. We also talk about the difference between being a manager and being a leader.
The following books are referenced in the podcast.
Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage in Human Consciousness
by Frederic Laloux
https://www.amazon.com/Reinventing-Organizations-Frederic-Laloux/dp/2960133501
Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders
by L. David Marquet
https://www.amazon.com/Turn-Ship-Around-Turning-Followers/dp/1591846404
In this episode we speak with Dr. David A. Bishop about the role of Agile methods in the development of complex systems comprising hardware, firmware and software. Often these systems are developed using a hybrid methodology with some teams using Agile and others using waterfall techniques.
David can be contacted via https://agile-worx.com/.
You can read about his book, “Metagility: Managing Agile Development for Competitive Advantage” at https://agile-worx.com/product/.
