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Blog postThis is a transcript of episode 130 of the Troubleshooting Agile podcast with Jeffrey Fredrick and Douglas Squirrel.
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 30-year consulting career, illustrating missteps he’s seen in digital transformations like “You Folks Do Agile” and “Agile as a Quick Fix”. He advocates the metric of “team fun” as the best way to determine whether you’re do -
Blog postThis is a transcript of episode 127 of the Troubleshooting Agile podcast with Jeffrey Fredrick and Douglas Squirrel.
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 being rude or when you yourself feel your emotions are out of control. We suggest ways to increase your sense of safety with an escape plan, but also demonstrate methods for staying in the conversation and learning from it even -
Blog postThis is a transcript of episode 126 of the Troubleshooting Agile podcast with Jeffrey Fredrick and Douglas Squirrel.
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 others (claiming that tasks are better than user stories for technical work). This leads us to propose “human stories” which may not involve traditional users but do involve humans who are affected by the software we’re bui -
Blog postThis is a transcript of episode 125 of the Troubleshooting Agile podcast with Jeffrey Fredrick and Douglas Squirrel.
Clarke Ching has been studying bottlenecks and constraints for thirty years, and has lots of stories and insights for us. He explains why bottlenecks are important, why your developers should always be your bottleneck, and how to explain the theory of constraints using a herd of buffalo.
Show links: Our Sloan Management Review article
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Blog postConversational Transformation Newsletter - No 7 of 2020 Hello Readers! Our activity following the launch of Agile Conversations continues. We’ve got an upcoming conference, a guest podcast appearance, and more. See all the updates below—and of course don’t forget to get your own copy of the book!
MIT Sloan Management Review and Avoiding the ‘Walled Garden’ By now it is accepted dogma that silos are bad. And yet the “walled garden” is an anti-pattern we’ve encountered with such freque -
Blog postThis is an excerpt from our recent article in MIT Sloan Management Review, Solving the Problem of Siloed IT in Organizations.
In the past decade, the growing understanding of the importance of technology to business has led to a surge in business transformations—whether the flavor is digital, DevOps, Lean, or Agile, the aim is to speed up software development by boosting cross-functional collaboration to deliver innovations. How, then, do we end up with so many walls and so little com -
Blog postThis is a transcript of episode 127 of the Troubleshooting Agile podcast with Jeffrey Fredrick and Douglas Squirrel.
Jeffrey and Squirrel had very different experiences at recent tech conferences including DOES London/Virtual. We describe what worked and what didn’t for us, and how listeners can apply the lessons to their own remote attendance at conferences and meetings.
Show links:
Audiobook Companion at IT Revolution site
Podcasts on remote working and affor -
Blog postThis is a transcript of episode 126 of the Troubleshooting Agile podcast with Jeffrey Fredrick and Douglas Squirrel.
Coming to the final chapter of Agile Conversations, we look at how leaders can not only provide accountability for others, but be accountable themselves, including stories from the early days of agile and from today’s clients.
Show links:
XP Explained book Rapid Development book Dynamics of Software Development “don’t flip the bozo bit” Nurtureshock Greenshi -
Blog postConversational Transformation Newsletter - No 6 of 2020 Hello Readers! Our activity following the launch of Agile Conversations continues. In addition to our writing and podcasting we will be speaking at two events next week! See all the updates on our various activities below—and of course don’t forget to get your own copy of the book!
Live with Jeffrey and Squirrel June has been a busy month for us with two more events still to go. Next we are speaking at not one but two conference -
Blog postThis is a transcript of episode 125 of the Troubleshooting Agile podcast with Jeffrey Fredrick and Douglas Squirrel.
Moving on to Chapter 6 of Agile Conversations, it’s time to talk about commitment. Not engagement, which we argue is insufficient to produce effective results, only enthusiasm that is far too often misdirected out of confusion about what important words mean and how to measure progress. We offer specific tools for effective commitments and hear a story about a company t
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