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How to Detect Agile BS - Part 2
The US Defense Department (yes, the huge bureaucratic government body) recently released a brief and readable guide to troubleshooting your agile tea…
7 years, 4 months ago
How to Detect Agile BS - Part 1
The US Defense Department (yes, the huge bureaucratic government body) recently released a brief and readable guide to troubleshooting your agile tea…
7 years, 5 months ago
From Agreement To Action
Once you've been vocally critical and identified areas to improve in your agile team, what next? "We should" too often turns into "We won't", so good…
7 years, 5 months ago
Earning Trust at Amazon
Inspired by a listener comment, we look at one of Amazon's leadership principles, which describes how leaders are expected to earn trust in that orga…
7 years, 5 months ago
Overcoming Normalisation of Deviance
In our one-year anniversary episode, we start with a story about "flickering" tests and generalise to look at the idea of normalisation of deviance. …
7 years, 5 months ago
Be Predictable to Build Trust
We've been talking about building trust in agile teams by aligning your stories; an important ingredient for this is being predictable, so others can…
7 years, 5 months ago
The Sit-Down Standup and Other Woes
We answer a listener question about standups for feature teams, but we think the problem is actually a larger one of disengagement. A common symptom …
7 years, 6 months ago
Introspection with the Ladder of Inference
Last time we talked about sharing reasoning and building trust in your agile team using TDD for People, one way to use the Ladder of Inference. Today…
7 years, 6 months ago
Test-Driven Development for People
As promised, we start describing our favourite trust-building technique: the Ladder of Inference. Our take this week is on using the Ladder to unders…
7 years, 6 months ago
The First Thing to Build is Trust
We start previewing the ideas in our forthcoming book on using conversations to improve your agile results. First up: why you need trust before you d…
7 years, 6 months ago