Episodes
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Agile as a framework is focused beyond just the team, but the system as a whole. Your system might be on a more macro level as your department, or even your entire company. In this weeks episode of The Standup Podcast we discuss the concept of Systems Thinking and how Agile Coaches can pull their mindset to the macro level to look at their Agility at the Systems level.
We sincerely hope everyone is staying safe and healthy during the current COVID-19 pandemic. While we have some episodes in the can ready to go, we're not sure when we'll be able to record more. Because of that, expect new episodes to be spaced out a little until life returns to back to normal.
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We're diving right into the first episode of 2020 with a hot button topic in the Agile community: No Estimates. Agile Coaches and Scrum teams are starting to adopt a "No Estimates" mentality when it comes to planning and building out their backlog. How does it work? How will it impact the organization? We tackle these questions and give our guidance as well to this controversial topic.
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Agile Teams are very much a community, and it's the Scrum Masters job to make sure that the community is interacting and communicating in a healthy manner. But what happens when your team has a toxic team member? Jennifer Nusbaum, CSP joins The Standup this week to discuss the different types of toxic team members, and strategies to help these individuals as well as the team.
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Backlog Refinement is one of those ceremonies in Scrum that often gets looked over, but honestly it's the one ceremony you can have that will make literally every other ceremony easier. It gives the Delivery Team an opportunity to see work coming down the pipes and a venue for discussions to be had with the Product Owner about the work.
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We talk a lot on The Standup Podcast about developing software and delivering features to our customers in an Agile methodology, but what happens in Agile prior to actually writing software? What does the Product Development side of an Agile process look like? Join us this week on The Standup Podcast where we take a deep dive on Agile Product Development!
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There are so many electronic tools out now that organizations use to track and organize their Scrum teams, but sometimes what they don't realize is they've molded their process around the tool and not the team. It's time for them to go Unplugged!
This week on the Standup Podcast we discuss the topic of Scrum Unplugged, and the benefits of taking things back to basics and materializing Scrum artifacts in physical forms. Physical Burndown Charts, 3x5 and note card planning walls, and more! Join us and let us know your thoughts!
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An important part of having values is our willingness to defend them, to actually stand for what we believe in. Agile is no different, and if you truly value the Agile principles you will, at some point in your career, have to take a stand. This week on The Standup Podcast we cover what this means and what it looks like to take a stand in your organization for Agile values.
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An Anti-pattern is a common response to a recurring problem that is usually ineffective and risks being highly counterproductive. You run into a lot of these in the Scrum and Agile community, with some of these actually being considered a "best" or "standard" practice. This week on The Standup Podcast we call out some of these Anti-patterns that have worked their way into our community.
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It's not always perfect, and STUFF happens. Your team could find itself one day without a Scrum Master, or perhaps you lose your Product Owner to another project. What do you do? Obviously these are very important roles and the ultimate long term success of your team relies on your ability to backfill this role, but what about short term?
In this weeks episode of The Standup Podcast we talk about strategies teams can take short term to temporarily fill empty team roles like Product Owner or Scrum Master to make sure the team is still productive in their absence.
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In physics, the hardest friction to overcome is static friction, or the friction from first starting motion. Same goes for Scrum and Agile in that there's a lot of work and effort that goes into successfully starting a new team. Today on The Standup Podcast we talk about what goes into starting a new team and strategies for you to be successful.
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Some folks view Kanban as "Scrum Lite", or something you can do if you just don't like all the ceremonies or "rules" in Scum. These are common, and incorrect misconceptions about Kanban. Kanban is a great Agile framework which is often abused, this week we aim to talk about some of these misconceptions and how you can use Kanban successfully.
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A T-Shaped Developer is someone with a broad skill set, but perhaps one or two skills that run particularly deep. A specialist in an area, versus a proficient generalist. Companies run into the pitfall of stacking their teams with experts in an area they think the team will be working, and run into a major issue: A T-Shaped Team!
This week on The Standup Podcast we talk about the concept of T-Shaped teams, and how organizations can avoid forming their Agile or Scrum teams around this concept while focusing on the goal of cross functional teams.
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Sizing is an important topic in Scrum and other Agile Frameworks. While it's important for planning, the most critical piece of Sizing is the team coming to a shared, common understanding of the work. In this weeks episode of The Standup Podcast we revisit the topic of Sizing and how teams can continue to improve on this very important ceremony.
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When we talk about our "Users" in Agile or Scrum, who are we talking about? It's too easy for companies to unintentionally capture their stakeholder voice as their user, so in this weeks episode of The Standup Podcast we talk about how to identify your end user when we discuss the User Voice within a User Story and how to best synthesize their feedback as part of your product features.
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We learn lessons as we progress through life and our careers. Some large, some small, some easy, and some hard. This week on The Standup Podcast we wanted to share some of the hard lessons we had to learn both in Leadership and Agile in the hope that others don't have to learn these lessons the hard way as well.
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Every Agile team, regardless of what framework they're using, should have a Working Agreement. At its very core, the Working Agreement is the team coming to a common understanding of how the team will operate and agree upon the methods they will use to be successful.
On this weeks episode of The Standup Podcast, we will be discussing Working Agreements in depth, what they are, how you create them, and what they are best used for. We also advise on common misconceptions or traps you might fall into while writing your working agreements.
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How do you know when your User Story is ready to start? How do you know when a User Story is done? These questions should be defined in your Teams working agreement as your Definition of Ready and Definition of done. This week on The Standup Podcast we discuss these two important definitions and why they're critical to the success of a team.
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Being Proactive in general is a great habit to be in, but you specifically start to see real benefits from Agile frameworks when you're proactive. Specifically Scrum, where being proactive helps us be better prepared and tighten those feedback loops with stakeholders.
This week on The Stand Podcast we discuss the benefits of being proactive in Scrum and what benefits you can start seeing. This drives home Nande's mantra of "Come prepared", but explains how folks can start to be proactive around the ceremonies specifically.
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Hey Everyone! This week on The Standup Podcast we're celebrating our One Year Anniversary! It was on July 11th, 2018 we put out our first episode as an experiment thinking nobody would probably listen. A year later, we still think that but the stats tell us otherwise! Thank you again everyone for your continued support and listenership.
This week we pull back the curtain a little bit and give everyone insight into how we started the Podcast, our process for recording, our history together, favorite episodes, and much more looking back on the past year!
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How can a company that is "Date Driven" still be an Agile organizations? Some companies are in lines of business that have date which need to be met. Your business can be seasonal, you can have contractual obligations, or you need to meet regulatory deadlines. So how can you have both? How can you drive to meet dates and still be Agile?
This week on The Standup Podcast we cover the topic of what we're calling, "Scrum on A Schedule" where we discuss the idea of still maintaining value driven prioritization while still meeting hard calendar deadlines.
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