The Agile Coffee Podcast

For this episode, Vic is joined by Larry Lawhead (@LarryLawhead), Dale Ellis (@thedigitaldale) and Dr. Dave Cornelius (@DrCorneliusInfo) for quick and efficient morning of Agile and coffee. Today our heroes discuss the following topics: * How does practicing Agile/Lean change people? * The Value of Scrum to Organizations * Roadmapping with Lean Coffee and Six Thinking Hats - see Vic's recent post * book: Six Thinking Hats by Edward DeBono * Techniques for remote retrospectives * mentioned: zoom.us, trello, kanban flow, surveymonkey, etc. * Scrummaster as leader - getting things done * book: The Servant by James C Hunter * What makes a good scrum coach? Want more? Visit our brand new forums on the AgileCoffee website. AgileGathering.com has the info about our upcoming Agile Coach Camp US West, April 10-12, 2015

For this episode, Vic is joined by Larry Lawhead (@LarryLawhead), Dale Ellis (@thedigitaldale) and Dr. Dave Cornelius (@DrCorneliusInfo) for quick and efficient morning of Agile and coffee. Today our heroes discuss the following topics: * How does practicing Agile/Lean change people? * The Value of Scrum to Organizations * Roadmapping with Lean Coffee and Six Thinking Hats – see Vic’s recent post * book: Six Thinking Hats by Edward DeBono * Techniques for remote retrospectives * mentioned: zoom.us, trello, kanban flow, surveymonkey, etc. * Scrummaster as leader – getting things done * book: The Servant by James C Hunter * What makes a good scrum coach? Want more? Visit our brand new forums on the AgileCoffee website. AgileGathering.com has the info about our upcoming Agile Coach Camp US West, April 10-12, 2015

For this episode, Vic is joined by Jon Jorgensen (@WaterScrumBan) and Dale Ellis (@thedigitaldale) for a lively morning of Agile and coffee. Today our heroes discuss the following topics: * Training vs Discovery - learning styles, immersive learning, guided discovery, peer stimulus * Positivity-resistant peeps - believe in your team, like attracts like * books: Joy, Inc by Richard Sheridan & Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni * Agile mechanisms without values - Deathmarch Agile, Scrumbut * DevOps, Docker, Agile - automated testing, microservices slides, videos for DockerCon 2014 Want more? Visit our brand new forums on the AgileCoffee website. BTW, have you gone to iTunes or Stitcher to give us a review? It takes so little time and would sure help us a lot. Thanks! Reach out to Victor (@AgileCoffee) on Twitter –  and use the hashtags #askAgileCoffee or #tellAgileCoffee to interact with us on an upcoming episode.

For this episode, Vic is joined by Jon Jorgensen (@WaterScrumBan) and Dale Ellis (@thedigitaldale) for a lively morning of Agile and coffee. Today our heroes discuss the following topics: * Training vs Discovery – learning styles, immersive learning, guided discovery, peer stimulus * Positivity-resistant peeps – believe in your team, like attracts like * books: Joy, Inc by Richard Sheridan & Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni * Agile mechanisms without values – Deathmarch Agile, Scrumbut * DevOps, Docker, Agile – automated testing, microservices slides, videos for DockerCon 2014 Want more? Visit our brand new forums on the AgileCoffee website. BTW, have you gone to iTunes or Stitcher to give us a review? It takes so little time and would sure help us a lot. Thanks! Reach out to Victor (@AgileCoffee) on Twitter –  and use the hashtags #askAgileCoffee or #tellAgileCoffee to interact with us on an upcoming episode.

This just in! We're announcing that Vic will serve as facilitator for the upcoming Coach Camp. To learn more and see who will be attending, point your browser to AgileGathering.com for all the info about Agile Coach Camp US West, April 10-12, 2015 For this episode, Vic is joined by Jon Jorgensen (@WaterScrumBan) and Dale Ellis (@thedigitaldale) for a lively morning of Agile and coffee. Today our heroes discuss the following topics: * Offshoring Wisdom - is this practice achieving its objective of lowering the organization's development costs? * Tenure and Great Teams - How can we retain our people? How long does it take for a coach to affect change? * New Meeting Methods - Dale mentions Dick and Emily Axelrod's "Let's Stop Meeting Like This" * Paired Coaching and Approximating Truth - Vic gave Jon a copy of "Quantum Psychology" (Robert Anton Wilson) as a Christmas gift, and it got Jon thinking. Want more? Visit our brand new forums on the AgileCoffee website. BTW, have you gone to iTunes or Stitcher to give us a review? It takes so little time and would sure help us a lot. Thanks! Reach out to Victor (@AgileCoffee) on Twitter –  and use the hashtags #askAgileCoffee or #tellAgileCoffee to interact with us on an upcoming episode.

This just in! We’re announcing that Vic will serve as facilitator for the upcoming Coach Camp. To learn more and see who will be attending, point your browser to AgileGathering.com for all the info about Agile Coach Camp US West, April 10-12, 2015 For this episode, Vic is joined by Jon Jorgensen (@WaterScrumBan) and Dale Ellis (@thedigitaldale) for a lively morning of Agile and coffee. Today our heroes discuss the following topics: * Offshoring Wisdom – is this practice achieving its objective of lowering the organization’s development costs? * Tenure and Great Teams – How can we retain our people? How long does it take for a coach to affect change? * New Meeting Methods – Dale mentions Dick and Emily Axelrod’s “Let’s Stop Meeting Like This“ * Paired Coaching and Approximating Truth – Vic gave Jon a copy of “Quantum Psychology” (Robert Anton Wilson) as a Christmas gift, and it got Jon thinking. Want more? Visit our brand new forums on the AgileCoffee website. BTW, have you gone to iTunes or Stitcher to give us a review? It takes so little time and would sure help us a lot. Thanks! Reach out to Victor (@AgileCoffee) on Twitter –  and use the hashtags #askAgileCoffee or #tellAgileCoffee to interact with us on an upcoming episode.

For this episode, Jon (@WaterScrumBan) and Brett (@brett_palmer) find themselves reminiscing about their trip to Indianapolis for Agile Coach Camp last September 26-28, 2014. There they met Bryan Beecham (@BillyGarnet) of Iceberg Ideas and Mike Bowler (@Mike_Bowler) to discuss the following topics: * Using LEGO to teach technical topics - Mike has begun posting some of the LEGO exercises for teaching TDD and other XP principles on his site at gargoylesoftware.com. Brett referenced Rory (Story) Cubes and Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great by Diana Larsen and Ellen Grove. Bryan paraphrased Kent Beck from Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change. * Continuous Learning - Learn as fast as possible, not even build as fast as possible. Fifth Discipline identifies learning as a competitive advantage. * Human Measurement and new technologies - Bryan swears by his Moto 360 watch, and he blogs about software craftsmanship and the human body at humanrefactor.com. Bryan will be joining us at the upcoming Agile Coach Camp in Irvine, April 10-12. Will you? More info at AgileGathering.com. Have you visited our forums on the AgileCoffee website? Reach out to Victor (@AgileCoffee) on Twitter –  and use the hashtags #askAgileCoffee or #tellAgileCoffee to interact with us on an upcoming episode.

For this episode, Jon (@WaterScrumBan) and Brett (@brett_palmer) find themselves reminiscing about their trip to Indianapolis for Agile Coach Camp last September 26-28, 2014. There they met Bryan Beecham (@BillyGarnet) of Iceberg Ideas and Mike Bowler (@Mike_Bowler) to discuss the following topics: * Using LEGO to teach technical topics – Mike has begun posting some of the LEGO exercises for teaching TDD and other XP principles on his site at gargoylesoftware.com. Brett referenced Rory (Story) Cubes and Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great by Diana Larsen and Ellen Grove. Bryan paraphrased Kent Beck from Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change. * Continuous Learning – Learn as fast as possible, not even build as fast as possible. Fifth Discipline identifies learning as a competitive advantage. * Human Measurement and new technologies – Bryan swears by his Moto 360 watch, and he blogs about software craftsmanship and the human body at humanrefactor.com. Bryan will be joining us at the upcoming Agile Coach Camp in Irvine, April 10-12. Will you? More info at AgileGathering.com. Have you visited our forums on the AgileCoffee website? Reach out to Victor (@AgileCoffee) on Twitter –  and use the hashtags #askAgileCoffee or #tellAgileCoffee to interact with us on an upcoming episode.

Say, have you gone to iTunes or Stitcher to give us a review? It takes so little time and would sure help us a lot. Thanks! For this episode, Vic and Jon are joined by Larry Lawhead (lawhead5@hotmail.com), Dale Ellis (@thedigitaldale) and Brett Palmer (@brett_palmer) for quick and efficient morning of Agile and coffee. Today our heroes discuss the following topics: * Dale started things off telling us about Pooh Camp, Disney's take on O'Reilly's Foo Camp. This inspired questions and conversation from Brett, Jon and I (organizers of this year's ACCUC in California). * Does UAT have value for Scrum teams? * Time-boxing elaboration and requirements discussions * Ten Deployments a day? * Mobile Build frequency Want more? Visit our brand new forums on the AgileCoffee website. AgileGathering.com has the info about our upcoming Agile Coach Camp US West, April 10-12, 2015 Reach out to Victor (@AgileCoffee) and Jon (@WaterScrumBan) on Twitter –  and use the hashtags #askAgileCoffee or #tellAgileCoffee to interact with us on an upcoming episode.

Say, have you gone to iTunes or Stitcher to give us a review? It takes so little time and would sure help us a lot. Thanks! For this episode, Vic and Jon are joined by Larry Lawhead (lawhead5@hotmail.com), Dale Ellis (@thedigitaldale) and Brett Palmer (@brett_palmer) for quick and efficient morning of Agile and coffee. Today our heroes discuss the following topics: * Dale started things off telling us about Pooh Camp, Disney’s take on O’Reilly’s Foo Camp. This inspired questions and conversation from Brett, Jon and I (organizers of this year’s ACCUC in California). * Does UAT have value for Scrum teams? * Time-boxing elaboration and requirements discussions * Ten Deployments a day? * Mobile Build frequency Want more? Visit our brand new forums on the AgileCoffee website. AgileGathering.com has the info about our upcoming Agile Coach Camp US West, April 10-12, 2015 Reach out to Victor (@AgileCoffee) and Jon (@WaterScrumBan) on Twitter –  and use the hashtags #askAgileCoffee or #tellAgileCoffee to interact with us on an upcoming episode.

Before we begin... have you gone to iTunes or Stitcher to give us a review? It takes so little time and would sure help us a lot. Thanks! New: * Agile Coach Camp US West, April 10-12, 2015 - AgileGathering.com for more info * Visit our brand new forums on the AgileCoffee website For this episode, Vic and Jon are joined by Larry Lawhead (lawhead5@hotmail.com), Dale Ellis (@thedigitaldale) and Brett Palmer (@brett_palmer) for peaceful morning of Agile and coffee. Today our heroes discuss the following topics: * Why is IT Ops the next big thing? We discussed Jez Humble and David Farley's Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation * Coach Crisis Corner - Jon wants to build a databank of shared coaching problems (not necessarily the "solutions"). To help him, we've started a Coach Crisis topic in our new forums area. Stop by to submit your problem scenario. * Larry's promise to his CEO - Jeff Sutherland's new book (Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time) has inspired Larry promise his CEO that as sales goes up, the cost of production will go down because the team will be better at what they do. * Kanban Standup meeting formats - What techniques (beyond "walking the board") can be used for kanban teams? Reach out to Vic (@AgileCoffee) and Jon (@WaterScrumBan) on Twitter –  and use the hashtags #askAgileCoffee or #tellAgileCoffee to interact with us on an upcoming episode.

Before we begin… have you gone to iTunes or Stitcher to give us a review? It takes so little time and would sure help us a lot. Thanks! New: * Agile Coach Camp US West, April 10-12, 2015 – AgileGathering.com for more info * Visit our brand new forums on the AgileCoffee website For this episode, Vic and Jon are joined by Larry Lawhead (lawhead5@hotmail.com), Dale Ellis (@thedigitaldale) and Brett Palmer (@brett_palmer) for peaceful morning of Agile and coffee. Today our heroes discuss the following topics: * Why is IT Ops the next big thing? We discussed Jez Humble and David Farley’s Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation * Coach Crisis Corner – Jon wants to build a databank of shared coaching problems (not necessarily the “solutions”). To help him, we’ve started a Coach Crisis topic in our new forums area. Stop by to submit your problem scenario. * Larry’s promise to his CEO – Jeff Sutherland’s new book (Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time) has inspired Larry promise his CEO that as sales goes up, the cost of production will go down because the team will be better at what they do. * Kanban Standup meeting formats – What techniques (beyond “walking the board”) can be used for kanban teams? Reach out to Vic (@AgileCoffee) and Jon (@WaterScrumBan) on Twitter –  and use the hashtags #askAgileCoffee or #tellAgileCoffee to interact with us on an upcoming episode.

Vic is joined by returning guest Dale Ellis (@theDigitalDale) and newcomer Alberto Hernandez for a fresh brew of Agile topics: * "Death March" Scrum and Kanban - Dale bases this question on Edward Yourdon's "Death March" * How can ERP implementations be sped up using Agile methodologies? - Alberto has much experience with ERP rollouts but wants to know how they can improve * Internal Hackathons - Vic talks about running a four-day coding event inside his company Announcing Agile Coach Camp US West. For the first time on the US west coast (and only the sixth time in the USA), Agile Coach Camp is coming to Irvine, California, from April 10-12, 2015. Organized by yours truly, this multi-day "unconference for Agile coaches" will be set amidst the bunkhouses and hiking trails of the Irvine Ranch Outdoor Education Center. We guarantee your fill of 'smores around the campfire. Be sure to visit AgileGathering.com to find out more information. Finally, regular listeners remember Dr. Dave Cornelius (@DrCorneliusInfo) whose 5 Saturdays program introduces teens to Scrum practices and other skills to build a career on. Visit 5Saturdays.org to learn more and support Dr. Dave's work.

Vic is joined by returning guest Dale Ellis (@theDigitalDale) and newcomer Alberto Hernandez for a fresh brew of Agile topics: * “Death March” Scrum and Kanban – Dale bases this question on Edward Yourdon’s “Death March“ * How can ERP implementations be sped up using Agile methodologies? – Alberto has much experience with ERP rollouts but wants to know how they can improve * Internal Hackathons – Vic talks about running a four-day coding event inside his company Announcing Agile Coach Camp US West. For the first time on the US west coast (and only the sixth time in the USA), Agile Coach Camp is coming to Irvine, California, from April 10-12, 2015. Organized by yours truly, this multi-day “unconference for Agile coaches” will be set amidst the bunkhouses and hiking trails of the Irvine Ranch Outdoor Education Center. We guarantee your fill of ‘smores around the campfire. Be sure to visit AgileGathering.com to find out more information. Finally, regular listeners remember Dr. Dave Cornelius (@DrCorneliusInfo) whose 5 Saturdays program introduces teens to Scrum practices and other skills to build a career on. Visit 5Saturdays.org to learn more and support Dr. Dave’s work.

For this episode, Vic and Jon are joined by Dale Ellis, Larry Lawhead and Dr. Dave Cornelius (@DrCorneliusInfo) in an undisclosed location for a lively morning of Agile and Coffee. In this episode, our Agile heroes discuss the following topics: * having fun with self-organizing teams - we mentioned Game Changers and Mike Bonifer's ERGO framework * organizing daily meetings with kanban - ever heard of chorei or asakai? Neither did I. We discussed Dave Anderson (Microsoft) and "walking the board" * voting when you can't see eachother - Larry introduced another timely topic * long-term value of a coach / scrummaster - Dr. Dave talks about our role after the team becomes self-managing We offer our thanks to Gene Kim (@RealGeneKim) for giving us copies of The Phoenix Project to give to you. Listen to the episode to find out how. Also we want to congratulate Dr. Dave for the success of his 5 Saturdays program. Check out the progress at 5Saturdays.org Reach out to Jon (@waterScrumBan) and Vic (@AgileCoffee) on Twitter –  and use the hashtags #askAgileCoffee or #tellAgileCoffee to interact with us on an upcoming episode.