October 20, 2021
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation about lean agile transformations with Matt Turner. In this podcast, we discuss Matt's views on leading change. Fear of change and taking people on the journey. Valuing managers while changing their role to focus on people and flow. Being useful as an agile coach rather than imposing a standard pattern. Visualizing the work to identify bottlenecks and see delays and waste. Combining practices from different agile frameworks to create the best solution for your situation.
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The No Nonsense Agile podcast is sponsored by:
Simply Magical Data
October 13, 2021
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a no-nonsense agile discussion. In this podcast, Murray and Shane discuss Quality in the agile world. We define quality and explain why it is everyone's responsibility. How testing and development are integrated in one agile team. Shifting testing left and Defining Ready and Done. Why waterfall projects have huge numbers of defects. Whether there is any role for a specialist Tester in an agile team. Test automation, tech debt and aiming for zero defects. Test guilds and communities of practice.
You can read the podcast transcript over at www.ev0lve.work/podcast/quality-in-the-agile-world
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Simply Magical Data
October 6, 2021
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation about invitational agile coaching with Michael De La Maza. In this podcast, we discuss Michaels views on agile executive coaching and how it differs from sports coaching and management consulting. We discuss the invitational approach to coaching and the professional coaches role and mindset. What an executive coach actually does. Why organisations need to become agile and the failure of agile transformations. How agile coaches create resistance to change and how to overcome it by relaxing and letting the client drive."
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Simply Magical Data
September 29, 2021
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a no-nonsense Agile discussion. In this podcast, Murray and Shane discuss why Agile change must come from the top. Why some managers support an agile transformation and others block it. How agile transformations are done by big management consulting firms and how they should be done. Agile as cost cutting vs evolutionary change. The politics of management and the gulf between words and actions. The importance of servant leadership and the negative effects of power politics
You can read the podcast transcript over at http://www.ev0lve.work/podcast/business-agility-and-the-problem-with-management
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September 22, 2021
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a no-nonsense Agile discussion. In this podcast, Murray and Shane talk about why projects with fixed price, fixed scope contracts often go way over time and budget. We talk about uncertainty, sales incentives and underestimating. How fixed scope contracts lead to big design up front, siloed delivery, authoritarian management and conflict with suppliers. We discuss how to use an agile approach to solve these problems. We talk about testing suppliers by starting small and scaling up. And we talk about agile contracts where you engage a supplier to provide a fixed team for a fixed time and budget to achieve a goal with a variable scope.
You can read the podcast transcript over at https://www.ev0lve.work/podcast/fixed-price-contracts
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Simply Magical Data
September 8, 2021
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a no-nonsense agile discussion. In this podcast, Murray and Shane discuss how to scale agile. We discuss the problems with a big bang top-down agile transformation and the benefits of starting small and experimenting to find a scaling approach that works for you. We talk about the factory model of organisation vs autonomous product teams. And we contrast agile change management with waterfall change management.
You can read the podcast transcript over at https://www.ev0lve.work/podcast/agile-scaling
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August 25, 2021
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a no-nonsense agile discussion. In this podcast Murray and Shane have a robust discussion about whether Projects and Project Managers are compatible with Agile. Can projects be done in a truly agile way or are they inevitably waterfall in practice. Is Project Management an authoritarian role that conflicts with self managing agile teams or can a Project Manager be a servant leader who empowers teams.
You can read the podcast transcript over at https://www.ev0lve.work/podcast/agile-projects
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August 18, 2021
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a no-nonsense agile discussion. In this podcast, we talk about evolutionary design and the problem with a narrow focus, planning at different time horizons, big blocks and small blocks and the importance of having flexible roadmaps that change as we learn. We also talk about centralised teams vs experts in teams, how the role of the coach is to build the team’s capability and how a coach should be a sports coach, not a therapist.
You can read the podcast transcript over at https://www.ev0lve.work/podcast/agile-architecture-and-design
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The No Nonsense Agile podcast is sponsored by:
Simply Magical Data
