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Thrashing vs Focus
Squirrel describes a client of his that is "thrashing"—trying to do so many different things that they aren't getting anything finished. We reflect o…
5 years, 10 months ago
Fun as the Key Agile Metric, with Steve Berez
We're joined by Steve Berez, partner at Bain and co-author of Doing Agile Right: Transformation Without Chaos. Steve tells us some stories from his 3…
5 years, 10 months ago
Handling Negative Emotions Safely
A reader points out that our example conversations often show people masking emotions, but we don't say as much about what to do when someone is bein…
5 years, 11 months ago
User Stories Gone Wrong
We respond to an article on user stories that has some good points (user stories are prompts for conversations) and, in our view, misses the mark on …
5 years, 11 months ago
Clarke the Bottleneck Guy
Clarke Ching has been studying bottlenecks and constraints for thirty years, and has lots of stories and insights for us. He explains why bottlenecks…
5 years, 11 months ago
Lessons for Remote Work from DevOps Enterprise Summit London Virtual
Jeffrey and Squirrel had very different experiences at recent tech conferences including DOES London/Virtual. We describe what worked and what didn't…
5 years, 11 months ago
Accountability: Leaders are Accountable Too
Coming to the final chapter of Agile Conversations, we look at how leaders can not only provide accountability for others, but be accountable themsel…
6 years ago
Commitment: Engagement is Not Enough
Moving on to Chapter 6 of Agile Conversations, it's time to talk about commitment. Not engagement, which we argue is insufficient to produce effectiv…
6 years ago
Why: Finding the Balance for Joint Design
Although we talk about joint design a lot, we haven't managed to do an episode on it. As we get to chapter 4 in our tour through Agile Conversations,…
6 years ago
Fear: The Original Sin of Unproductive Conversations
We're up to chapter 4 of Agile Conversations: "Fear: The Default Feeling". We look at why defaulting to fear was a successful adaptation for our ance…
6 years ago