In this episode, Ricardo joined Shahin to talk about Practical Agile; and indulge in an in-depth conversation on Agile through time from trenches to executives, and much more.
Quotes from this session:
Coach please come on in, help us with this. That’s the dream scenario.
Never hire Agile Coaches that are gonna tell you what they are going to do to make things better.
The one thing I recommend is never to be a hero!
Hiring for Leader: I am hiring you for how you think. I can teach you what you do not know. But I can’t teach you how to think.
The following has been topics of our conversation:
In this episode, Dave joined Shahin to talk about Kanban; and indulge in an in-depth conversation on Kanban going main stream, Consulting, Kanban vs Others, Training, and much more.
The following has been topics of our conversation:
Kanban Facts
Kanban’s take on Estimation
Kanban Spread to Whole Company
What really does Kanban do?
Misconceptions of Kanban
Kanban offers a long-term solution rather a short-term achievements
One reason that the Kanban Method was created, was to make life better for people.
Kanban; it’s just a way to see your problems, describe solutions, put them in a place that everybody understands, and to bring all of your people together to solve these problems.
Scrum, SAFe, XP Barrier on evolving change in any organization
Kanban Going Mainstream
Draft letter of the start of Kanban University – Soestduinen, Netherlands 2012
In this episode, David joined Shahin to talk about all things Kanban; KMM, the new Kanban Guide, and more.
Kanban Resources: To learn more about The Kanban Guide, please visit https://resources.kanban.university/kanban-guide/ To learn more about the Kanban Maturity Model please visit https://kmm.plus/en/
In this episode, Steve joined Shahin to talk about Value Stream Mapping. For the first time, we had a live audience recording the episode. Peter, Ali, and Nasima from the audience asked questions from Steve by the end of the show.
Topics
We conversed about and around the following topics:
Value Streams let you see the big picture and your biggest bottlenecks, risks, and opportunities.
A value stream captures a view beyond common Agile and DevOps visibility to how we create and deliver value.
A Value Stream Map lets to share that view with others and align on what to do next.
A map should be simple to start (you can always add more data if you want) – avoid heavy/complex approaches.
People are the most important part. Facilitation, handoffs, incentives, psychological safety are major factors.
People & Resources:
We referred to and/or mentioned the following people and/or resources:
Book
Learning to See: Value Stream Mapping to Add Value and Eliminate – Amazon US | Amazon Canada
Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation Amazon US | Amazon Canada
Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results Amazon US | Amazon Canada
Steve helps teams escape and avoid software delivery challenges using value stream techniques. In tech for over 20 years, he started in support and was most recently a startup CTO. He works with 10 and 100000 person companies to remove friction and boost value through his value delivery program at visible.is. He’s an active community member and organizer, running DevOps Toronto and Toronto’s DevOpsDays conference, but often seen in agile and systems thinking events as well.
Allen Holub (https://holub.com, @allenholub, allen@holub.com) is an internationally recognized software architect and Agile-transformation consultant. He speaks internationally about these topics and agile-friendly implementation technology (like microservices) and architecture. He provides in-depth consulting and training in those areas. He excels at building highly functional Lean/Agile organizations and designing and building robust, highly scalable software suitable for agile environments. He’s worn every hat from CTO to grunt programmer and is an expert-level programmer in many languages and platforms.
Allen is widely published. His works include 10 books, hundreds of articles in publications ranging from Dr. Dobb’s Journal to IBM DeveloperWorks), and video classes for agilitry.com (Agility with Allen), Pluralsight (Swift in Depth, Picturing Architecture, Object-Oriented Design), O’Reilly (Design Patterns in the Real World) and forthcoming on Lynda/LinkedIn.
Agile approaches have downplayed the role of management. Too many people say, “We don’t need no stinkin’ managers.” On the contrary. We need managers to create and refine the agile culture and create leadership capability across the organization. Without modern management, any agile transformation dies a quick and ugly death. Instead, it’s time to invite managers to change their behaviors to transform to an agile culture. Learn to see and create management excellence for your agile culture.
In this session, Johanna Rothman talked about the myths, traps, and illusions that prevent management from achieving leadership excellence and agility. She showed us actions to bypass several of these myths, traps, and illusions; How to learn which management behaviors to change, to serve the agile team or organization; and learn ways to invite your or your manager’s thinking patterns to change.
Many enthusiasts joined us from around the world to learn from Johanna. You can find a screenshot of the presentation below.
Lean Agile Network Session with Johanna Rothman
Podcast
You can also listen to Johanna Rothman’s talk with Shahin on the Lean On Agile Show.
Modern Management: Adapt How You Lead for Agile Success with Johanna Rothman
Thursday, Jun 25, 2020, 7:15 PM
Online event ,
89 Members Went
About session: Agile approaches have downplayed the role of management. Too many people say, “We don’t need no stinkin’ managers.” On the contrary. We need managers to create and refine the agile culture and create leadership capability across the organization. Without modern management, any agile transformation dies a quick and ugly death. Instead…
In this episode, Jamie joined Shahin to talk about the recent disruption all of us are experiencing.
We conversed about and around the following topics:
Cognitive overload, learning tips, and personal disruptions
Disruptions in our professional lives and the following: Instagram Influencers, Lonely Planet, etc.
Responding to Change and Agile transformation at the time of covid19
Creative ways of teaching then and now: SMS based learning
Psychic Entropy: a state of mind where your thoughts cannot flow to have concrete ideas but are stuck in the same state of thought like a Merry go Round.
We referred to and/or mentioned the following people:
Phil Abernathy is talking about Agile Coaching in this video. It has been recently presented in Agile India, and resonated with us very much. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did.
