Agile Weekly Podcast

Drew LeSueur, Roy van de Water, and Derek Wade discuss: Distributed teams Working with teams in non-software situations Scrum as a learning framework Scrum in different industries

Drew LeSueur, Derek Neighbors, and Roy van de Water, and Aaron Eden discuss: Lean Startup Customer Development Fear of releasing Innovation labs Lean Startup Teams vs Lean Startup Organizations Horizon Planning

Jade Meskill, Drew LeSueur, Roy van de Water, and Woody Zuill discuss: Agile Success Questioning the Agile Manifesto 3 new Agile mantras The importance of clean code Agile Open SoCal

Clayton Lengel-Zigich and Steven Bristol discuss: Less Everything Lean startup Lean mentality at Less Everything Agile and Lean in big corporations

Clayton Lengel-Zigich, Roy van de Water, Drew LeSueur, and Esther Derby discuss: Role of Managers Working with vs managing Hierarchical Management Model vs. Flat model Bringing managements' role into the fold Team decisions and managerial decisions

Roy van de Water, Derek Neighbors, Clayton Lengel-Zigich, and Tom Mellor discuss: How to work with management that has traditional culture Working with vs changing a company's culture Trying to sell process opposed to something deeper Historical revolutionaries

Jade Meskill, Roy van de Water, Drew LeSueur, and Mitch Lacey discuss: Agile 2012 Technical development tracks Iterative Development Gaining buy-in from developers

Clayton Lengel-Zigich, Derek Neighbors and Drew LeSueur chat with Arlo Belshee about: Scrum vs. eXtreme Programming Learning practices All About Engineering Most important XP practices Software Craftsmanship Introducing pair programming TDD and Mocking

Clayton Lengel-Zigich, Drew LeSueur chat with Jim Benson about: Cognitive Bias Estimation versus estimates Estimation accuracy PlanningPoker(tm) Group think Meaningful estimates Story points interpreted as money or time Story points vs cycle time Estimating new projects You can find Jim on twitter @ourfounder and learn more about his company Modus Cooperandi, Inc.

Drew LeSueur sits down with Jeff Patton to discuss: Design Thinking Ideation Iteration and re-work Potentially shippable product Lean Startup Split Testing

Drew LeSueur and Alex Sloley discuss: What is Deloitte's Digital Agile? Alex's Agile vs. traditional Agile Agile in a consulting environment Forecasting and estimating Overview of the entire backlog Estimating velocity Benefits of mobile application life cycles 1-week iterations

Drew LeSueur, Roy van de Water and Mark Levison, a Certified Scrum Trainer in Canada discuss adding new members to scrum teams: ScrumMaster Tales Storming, Forming, Norming, Performing Disrupting teams with new members Team hazing rituals and on boarding new members Dealing with crises in Scrum Avoiding conflict in Scrum? Working agreements Part-time Scrum Master Neutral Scrum Masters

Clayton Lengel-Zigich sits down with a team using scrum outside of software to organize and complete their work. The "Mathsters" are a relatively new team that was formed to deliver content for the organization's flagship product. They discuss their experience with scrum, how it was adopted, what they like and dislike and what it's like to use a physical board.

Clayton Lengel-Zigich, Derek Neighbors and Pawel Brodzinski discuss his blog post titled "The Myth of 100% Utilization": What is the 100% utilization myth? Kanban and WIP limits Slack time What's a good amount of slack? Experimentation with slack and utilization What does a team do with slack time? Should slack time move the team/work forward? You can find Pawel on twitter @pawelbrodzinski and on his blog Software Project Management.

Derek Neighbors, Drew LeSueur and Roy van de Water are joined by Johanna Rothman to discuss Johanna's upcoming book: Manage Your Job Search Using personal Kanban to manage the job search Breaking down tasks into small, manageable pieces Collect feedback in small iterations and pivot How do you hold yourself accountable?