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.
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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. |
Posted on: February 09, 2016 11:36 PM
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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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Agile 2015 Video Podcast Interview - Vivek Angiras
| A post conference inteview with Agile 2015 Volunteer / Man on the Street Interviewer Vivek Angiras |
Posted on: September 07, 2015 09:37 AM
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Agile 2015 Video Podcast - Conversations on the Street
| Agile 2015 Volunteers Aakash Srinivasan and Vivek Angiras took some time during their breaks at Agile 2015 to conduct Man on the Street interviews with participants, volunteers an organizers. |
Posted on: September 07, 2015 09:35 AM
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Agile 2015 Video Podcast - Tom Mellor on the Scrum Alliance Coach's Clinic
| Each year at the Agile Conference the Scrum Alliance sponsors a Coach's Clinic. Tom Mellor has helping out at the clinic all week and he took a few minutes to stop by and share how things have been going. We talked about how the clinic benefits the people who come by for help, AND how beneficial it is for the coaching volunteers as well. |
Posted on: September 07, 2015 09:34 AM
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