Agile Uprising Podcast

Getting Teams Unstuck with William Strydom

In this episode Lisette Sutherland @lightling and Andy Cleff @justsitthere discuss how to work together anywhere. The biggest takeaway: there isn’t a one-solution-fits-all for remote working, no single formula to follow. Each person, each company, will need to experiment with tools and processes to find what makes him, her, or them most productive. Listen in and learn about the tools available and various processes that can work for different kinds of remote teams.

The theme of this episode is "How life’s scary moments become great learning experiences." Bucking the trend of the vast trove of conferences held across the world on a near weekly basis that focus on successes, Andy Cleff, Colleen Johnson, Ryan Lockard explore with our guest Tracey Welson Rossman what HASN’T worked: defeats, floundering initiatives, outright failures. We reflect on these experiences as part of “understanding failure as a part of learning.”

Join Andrew Leff, Troy Lightfoot and Andy Cleff as they make a pilgrimage to The Lodge at Snowbird, UT. There they discover some amazing artifacts that date back to 2001. This episode is graciously sponsored by Wellington Dowd. His framework, the Foundation Utilizing Core Knowledge To Actualize Realistic Delivery, is a multi-level phase-gated process to roll out "the agile" to your organization WITHOUT ACTUALLY CHANGING ANYTHING!

On Friday, March 23, 2018, the agile community experienced a tremendous loss. Mike Beedle, Agile Manifesto signer and creator of Enterprise Scrum passed away, leaving behind a wife and 3 young children. We at the Agile Uprising are saddened by this loss. Mike's passing will leave a void in our community that cannot be underestimated. We honor Mike Beedle (@mikebeedle) with this rebroadcast from our Agile Manifesto author review.

Listen in as Jeff Patton and Jeff Gothel chat about scrum product ownership, lean UX, product discovery, and believability weighted design with Colleen Johnson and Chris Murman.

Agile Uprising chats with a panel of guests about the changing face of agile. We cover a range of topics ranging from gender issues, emotional intelligence, social consciousness, imposter syndrome, open space and the Women In Agile workshop being held at Agile2018 this August.  The overarching topic is how our community can continue supporting and compassionately including underrepresented groups.

Dr. Jen Frahm, Lois Kelly and host Andy Cleff discuss resiliency practices that help you keep going and find meaning in the often long and political process of creating change. Combine resilience with courage, vulnerability and three kinds of alliances, and you’ll be equipped to see the good in organizations – even on days that can feel like you’re lost in a bureaucratic hairball. Learn to reduce suffering and be the best version of yourself.

This week's episode features is a continuation of last weeks with special guest Woody Zuill and host Troy Lightfoot on Stopping the Enterprise Death Spiral with Mob Programming  Woody also answers Mob Programming objections, ideas on how to get teams started and a lot more! 

Mob Programming with Woody Zuill

During this special Valentine's Day episode Lyssa Adkins, Debbie Madden, Brad Stokes, Troy Lightfoot and Andy Cleff share how they use their agile mindsets, those values and beliefs - in their daily lives: With their partners, their children, on Thanksgiving and Christmas Nothing was off the table… well, maybe some things… they kept the episode SFW as they took Software Development out of the Manifesto...

This week's episode features special guest Troy Magennis and host Paul Elia on the topic of Forecasting. "Forecasting is about answering the right questions, to a transparent degree of certainty, with as little effort as possible." - Troy Magennis, CEO, Focused Objective In our discussion we explore the top three mistakes that people make when forecasting and what can be done to mitigate problems.

If someone stole your wallet, you'd notice it. So why don't people notice when they are robbed of something much more valuable - their time? Dominica DeGrandis explains how to make visible - and reduce - the churn and burn that is creating a workforce constantly on the edge of burnout. Business is moving at a pace faster than ever before, and it shows no signs of slowing down. Instead of consigning ourselves to the pressure cooker, it's time to elevate how we work. Level up our game. Make work visible.

David Marquet describes his experiences as captain aboard the nuclear submarine USS Santa Fe. When he took command, the ship was, how shall we say… “underperforming” - and after two years it was the highest performing ship in the Navy. Captain Marquet shares the framework he developed to build highly effective communities based on personal responsibility and trust. Leadership is not for the select few at the top. In highly effective organizations, there are leaders at every level.

Daniel Vacanti, one of the instrumental founders what we know of as the Kanban Method of software development, chats with hosts Colleen Johnson and Andy Cleff about agile metrics, Little's Law, the one metric that matters most, and the one that doesn't matter at all. (Spoiler Alert: It's Size)