Don Kim - I Think, Therefore I Plan
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You can find Don’s book here: http://amzn.to/2n7VEHu You can find Don’s blog post about certifications here: http://bit.ly/2okDUZA
Show Notes:00:07 Interview Start 00:30 What is a Human APEE 03:38 What is an Artisan approach to Project Management 05:15 Don’s Philosophy of Project Management 07:22 Trying to slow down and do less 08:21 Don explains his way of approaching project work and the reason for the book 10:56 How has the traditional vs. Agile debate changed over the past few years 12:53 Seeing the value in every project you work on - regardless of how you got it 16:15 The downside of certifications 17:29 The positive aspects of certifications 18:03 There is more to project management training than just PMP certification 19:48 Making the case for the value certifications can provide and how it can be misunderstood 23:22 Does it make sense for people to want to have a way of gauging their professional achievement? 23:55 What Don expected from PMP certification and how he went deep with the Kerzner to get the most learning out of it (instead of just passing the test) 26:41 Is it the certification that is an issue, or the way people interpret it as an end point rather than a beginning 27:50 An overview of the approach Don’s book takes towards the art of Project Management 30:56 Where you can find Don’s book and how you can reach him with follow up questions 31:54 Podcast Ends You can reach Don Kim on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donkim/ Feedback/Comments: [email protected] |
A few weeks ago Don Kim put up a blog post challenging the value of certifications. I reached out to Don in hopes of doing an interview about it and found out he’s also written a new book “I think Therefore I Plan”. In this interview we discuss the pros and cons of different certifications, taking an artisan approach to managing projects as well as Don’s new book.
Agile Coach to Agile Gamer - Peter Saddington
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| Peter Saddington, the founder of AgileScout.com, is an Agile Coach, Certified Scrum Trainer, Author, Entrepreneur and Scientist. On March 4, 2017 he put up a blog post on AgileScout.com announcing a new experiment he is running... on himself. Taking a step back from helping others adopt Agile, Peter is now using Agile to transform his life, and he's starting with his career. He's going from being a full time Agile Consultant to a full time professional video game player. It might sound a bit insane, but his reasoning and research are sound. In this interview I got the chance to talk with Peter about his new experiment, why he's doing it and how he approaching transforming his life. Click here to read Peter's manifesto: http://agilescout.com/time-for-change/ |
Scrum in School - A Case Study of Grandview Prep's Transformation
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| This podcast features an interview with two educators from Grandview Prep in Boca Raton, FL. Aileen Palmer and Susan Rose have been working with the Scrum Alliance, John Miller and Mike Vizdos to help the school implement Scrum for both the students and school administration. The interview explains how Scrum got started at Grandview, the impact it has had on the students, as well as the benefits and challenges they’ve experienced along the way.
Show Notes01:16 Interview Begins 02:01 How Grandview Prep got interested in Scrum 04:59 Agile can be a lot easier for kids than adults 05:52 How Scrum has changed the way the students at Grandview collaborate 06:32 How the kids self-organize to make sure everyone is participating in the work 06:59 How teaching Scrum to a junior in high school impacts their ability to get work done and prepare for college 07:54 How visualizing the work is helping the students understand how to break work down into manageable pieces 08:35 Teaching students and teachers about how to break down the work and plan things out 10:20 Differences between how 1st graders and older kids are using Scrum at Grandview 11:17 The hardest parts of getting started with Scrum in school 13:17 Sometimes the transparency and seeing how much you have to do is overwhelming for adults 14:03 The struggle between Trello and Post-its 14:59 Student rankings and grading at Grandview - and how it has been impacted by Scrum 17:14 How using Scrum has improved the students and teachers ability to give and receive feedback 17:45 The reaction from parents/stakeholders to the introduction of Scrum at Grandview Prep 20:28 What Scrum means for the quiet kids who like to sit back and let others lead and drive the work 21:30 How will Grandview measure success to determine if/how Scrum is helping 22:33 The support Grandview Prep received from the Scrum Alliance 23:14 Advice for educators who are interested in learning more or trying to implement it at their school 24:39 How to get in touch with Susan and Aileen to learn more about Scrum at Grandview Prep 26:10 Wrap up 26:48 Podcast End
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Grandview Prep Info and ContactsGrandview Prep Aileen Palmer Susan Rose
Scrum Alliance Info and ContactsScrum Alliance John Miller Mike Vizdos Heather Leigh |
Forecasting Tools Based on Team Performance with Troy Magennis
| In this special video podcast, FocusedObjective’s Troy Magennis provides a walk through of two important tools that can help you in understanding the impact of trying to inject work into your team’s backlog and in forecasting how much work your teams can achieve within a certain time frame.
Forecasting Tools Based on Team Performance with Troy Magennis from Dave Prior on Vimeo. In the first part of the video, Troy presented the Multiple Feature Cut Line Forecaster. When people in your organization start trying to add work into a team’s workflow, this tool will help you understand the impact of the added work and help you assess the impact of reprioritizing the work to deal with the additional work. If you need a way of showing management how their new requests are going to negatively impact your team’s ability to deliver, or if you just want to help them make smarter choices about what work they are adding to your plate, the walk thru presents a simple explanation of how this tool can be used to help your organization make smarter choices. In the second part of the video (12:30), Troy presents the Multiple Team Forecaster. This tool will allow you to use historical data from multiple teams in your organization to understand their throughput, even though they are sizing and estimating work in completely different ways. This is especially valuable if you are working in an organization where you have multiple teams and you are considering standardizing their estimation process so that you can get a better sense of how they are doing with delivering work across the portfolio. You do not have to standardize on a specific method of estimation - let the teams do what they do. Using this tool you can look at how each team is delivering, based on historical data, to get a better sense of their ability to deliver a certain amount of work within a given time frame. Troy makes these and a number of other incredibly valuable tools free to the public. You can find them by going to http://focusedobjective.com or http://bit.ly/SimResources. If you’d like to learn more about the tools Troy has created, you can contact him via his website above, follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/t_magennis or you can see him present them in person. He is going to be holding a workshop on Forecasting Using Data in Austin, TX on November 17. You can find information about this event here: http://forecastingusingdata.eventbrite.com He will also be appearing at a few local user group events: Lean Kanban Meetup - November 17 - https://www.meetup.com/leankanbanaustin/events/235274658/ Agile at Scale User Group meet up - November 18 - http://www.meetup.com/AgileAustin/events/235207828/?gj=co2&rv=co2 |
drunkenpm radio EP 2 - BiModal! with Steve Elliott and Dennis Stevens
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Some links from the Podcast Steve Elliott Interview AgileCraft http://agilecraft.com AgileCraft on Twitter - https://twitter.com/theagilecraft
Dennis Stevens Interview LeadingAgile http://www.leadingagile.com LeadingAgile on Twitter https://twitter.com/leadingagile Dennis Stevens on Twitter https://twitter.com/dennisstevens
The blog post Dennis mentioned on Agile vs. Waterfall http://www.leadingagile.com/2013/08/agile-vs-waterfall/
Show Notes 0:00 Introduction to the Bimodal Podcast Steve Elliott Interview 2:50 Start Interview with Steve Elliott from AgileCraft 3:22 Background on Steve and AgileCraft 5:30 Defining Organizational Agility 6:50 The challenges of scale (with Agile) 8:00 The challenge of Bimodal 9:00 Defining Bimodal 9:40 AgileCraft’s take on Bimodal 11:15 Is Bimodal just a way of legitimizing a hybrid model 12:28 Admitting when we can’t actually go 100% Agile 13:00 The Agile Walk of Shame 13:51 AgileCraft’s decision to support Bimodal and “meet them where they’re at” 15:00 How Bimodal brings the data from both worlds into once place 16:00 Transparency and Measuring Value 17:10 Agile’s connection to strategy 18:11 Figuring out what data you need to pay attention to 20:22 The dangers of big wave planning 21:30 How the Agile space is evolving and maturing 22:30 How to contact Steve
Dennis Stevens Interview 23:15 - Dennis Steven’s interview begins 24:14 Background on Dennis and LeadingAgile 25:00 Dennis explains Bimodal 26:00 Why some things can’t move fast in an organization 27:00 Not everything (in an organization) is ready to move to Agile 27:47 Not everyone is trying to move everything to Agile 28:00 How most people are misinterpreting the message of Bimodal 29:10 Nobody thinks matrix teams are the right way to build software 29:52 People are still running by the pool with scissors in their mouths 30:15 It’s like crack for the business world 31:43 Conditions that must exist for fast feedback cycles and bimodal to work 33:50 Is transitioning to bimodal harder than just transitioning to Agile? (3 options for transformation) 35:51 Realizing when your organization has changed enough 36:45 You have to make Mode 1 be sexy and desirable 37:10 Creating the urgency for change 37:45 Do organizations have the self-awareness needed to understand what change they need? 38:20 Explaining it to Executives 40:10 Why Dennis does not have a “bimodal” conversation with executives 41:00 The value of having a pragmatic and safe roadmap for transformation that resonates with Executives 41:47 The hardest part of transforming to bimodal 42:40 How to contact Dennis Any feedback (good, bad, whatever) would be greatly appreciated. You can reach me at [email protected] or twitter.com/drunkenpm. |
In this podcast is I got to dig into the topic of Bimodal with two guys who are deeply knowledgeable about both the traditional and the Agile space. If you aren’t familiar with Bimodal yet, you definitely want to check this out because it is poised to have a massive impact on how organizations introduce and work with Agile. And if you are already up to speed on bimodal, there is a good chance some of the discussion in this podcast is going to challenge what you know on this topic.
