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drunkenpm radio Ep. 1 - Interviews with Shane Hastie, Troy Magennis and John D. Cook.
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Categories: troy magennis, organizational agility, Shane Hastie, John D Cook, drunkenpm radio, hybrid, metrics, data, business agility, Agile
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I've changed the way I am doing the interviews and putting the podcasts together. So, this is a bit of a test and any feedback would be greatly appreciated...
Following a suggestion from Derek Huether, I'm including some notes (below) to moments in the interviews you may find of interest. Shane Hastie Interview Podcast Overview 00:44 Shane Interview Start 02:14 Opening question on hybrids, organizational agility, and bimodal 02:32 Will Hybrid models continue to exist 03:31 Letting Infrastructure off the hook 03:50 Why knowledge workers aren’t off the hook 04:25 Infrastructure example to explain where you need traditional and where you need agile 05:00 Where you need incremental roll out without iterative change 06:05 The PMP / Architect Happy Dance 07:00 The Agile people are all spitting on themselves 07:24 Launching a new product example 07:50 Learning is everything - you want Lean Startup 08:10 Knowing when to stop pivoting 08:50 Agile is spot on - Learning and Adapting 09:10 The goal is not agile, the goal is learning 09:30 Are we making progress 09:58 Throwing down the Agile banner 10:21 Agile is just a set of tools and a nice brand 10:40 We are still addicted to waterfall 11:00 People have been successful in the old way or working 11:25 There are not many pathological managers out there. 12:05 Helping them see that the global paradigm of business has changed 12:20 Finding the right combination of techniques and practices12:35 Packing agile brands 12:50 Can you design a new insurance product with TDD 13:19 What about the people who do not recognize that the business paradigm has changed 13:41 The pace of change is increasing 14:30 Cultural Change Officer 14:43 People don’t resist change unless they can’t see the benefits 15:00 Finding the personal win 15:40 Defining (Organizational) Business Agility 16:40 Bimodal 17:45 Leveraging skill and knowledge of people in your organization 18:33 Practices designed to fill the gaps in Agile 18:50 Shane’s favorites from the Agile 2015 19:40 Defining value for organizations 12:08 Teaching the organization 21:00 If we could all be Sweden… 21:50 Wrap up 22:00
John Cook and Troy Magennis Interview Intro 22:35 Are we data literate enough? 24:05 experiments and lean startup 24:34 Using legacy charts we don’t understand 15:00 Bing addicted to bad data in legacy charts 25:20 How do we help them see the right data 25:50 What should we measure and look at 26:23 Working on multiple projects 26:35 How much work are we doing 27:00 When they ignore what the data tells them 27:30 The chronic problem of multitasking 28:00 Extreme examples from academia and leveling 29:22 Tools fostering dysfunction 29:50 How do we teach them to ask for better stuff 30:25 We knew this stuff and we threw it all away 31:00 Agile and the laws of physics 31:15 Probability in the future 31:30 A predictable environment vs rolling dice 32:15 How long will things take 32:40 Creating / Defining a stable team 33:00 Tracking interruptions per week: 33:23 Helping hem understand why interrupts are bad by visualizing it 34:20 Understanding the difference between what you do and what the tool says you do 35:25 Interrupting managers v interrupting programmers 35:40 Tracking positive interruptions 36:00 A level playing field - they all suck so it worked well 37:15 The managers that will breed 38:00 Finding the multiplying factors 38:35 Technical Debt 39:10 Figuring out if we are looking at something meaningful 39:45 What is the mission with respect to data? 40:10 Trying to find the best course of action 40:45 We’re more about removing metrics and detail 41:10 Closing 41:40 |
Posted on: January 05, 2016 02:14 AM
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