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Data Consultant Network
to become their customers "fractional data team", at a fraction of the typical time, cost and effort, while providing recurring subscription incomeWe have been data consultants, we know the daily struggles you face, we...
Data Analyst
As a Data Analyst, your focus is on delivering insights quickly and efficiently. But traditional data engineering processes can slow you down, requiring deep technical expertise or IT involvement. You need a solution...
Head of Data
we become your "fractional data team", at a fraction of the time, cost and effort it will take you to create and manage an internal team of data experts and disparate data cloud technologiesTo enable your business to...
Data Governance
Uncover and document your data platform in just minutes with AgileData Disco, instead of waiting months.Let the machine handle the discovery and documentation of your data platform, freeing up your Business Analysts to...
Data Team
As a data team, staying agile and continuously improving your approach to data work is essential. You’re looking for effective ways to upskill your team and adopt new, efficient methods that can streamline your...
Data Consultant
As a full-time data consultant, you manage every part of your business, from client relationships to delivering data solutions. You aim to scale your services, enhance efficiency, and increase revenue, but balancing...
Data Clean Room
Sharing, combining, and analysing data across multiple partner organisations is key to driving collaborative insights and business outcomes. However, traditional methods of data sharing often expose your organisation...
Track N Trace
Track and trace your data as if its your parcel from Amazon Why do you need to use a complex data lineage graph to work out where specific data goes in your data platform?When you can track n trace that data just like...
Mob Programming and Software Teaming with Woody Zuill
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson as they chat with with Woody Zuill about mob programming.
Woody explains the concept of mob programming where a cross-functional software development team focuses on completing one feature at a time. Woody describes how mobbing has increased the effectiveness of development teams he’s worked with by 10 times while rapidly increasing team learning, capability and skills. Tune in to learn about the practical implementation of mobbing techniques to improve your product development.
AI Data Agents with Joe Reis
Join Shane Gibson as he chats with Joe Reis on how the potential adoption of GenAI and LLM’s in the way Data teams work.
The Dojo with Joel Tosi and Dion Stewart
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson as they chat with Joel Tosi and Dion Stewart about Dojo’s.
Dojo’s are a six week immersive learning experience where teams learn and practice new ways of working on real work with skilled coaches. We discuss the structure and implementation of Dojos, chartering, coaching dynamics, and frequent feedback loops. We emphasize the challenges and anti-patterns that can emerge, such as treating Dojos as bootcamps or lacking stakeholder support. Finally, Joel and Dion offer insights into the future of Dojos and their potential for building capability and driving organisation change.
We are working on something new at AgileData, follow us as we build it in public
The AgileData team is dedicating 30 days to exploring a novel data use case, which might lead to a new product, feature set, or module. They’ll document their daily progress publicly to share learnings and insights. Follow their journey on their blog for updates as they build and experiment in real-time.
Product Management with John Cutler
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson as they discuss product management with John Cutler, famous for his newsletter The Beautiful Mess.
We dive into the purpose of product management as a driver of profitable growth. And we discuss how to use the north star framework to align your organisation around common goals. We examine how to use product roadmaps to communicate and prioritize plans and discuss how critical it is to be an open, honest, and effective leader. And finally we look at whether agile is critical or useless in product management. Join us as we uncover the insights and best practices product managers need to be more effective.
UX Research with Nick Fine
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson as they discuss UX research with Dr. Nick Fine. Nick explains what to expect from a UX researcher, how to do user research well, and the challenges that researchers have to overcome to obtain valid results. Whether you’re a product manager, designer, or developer this episode is packed with actionable insights, real world examples and expert tips to enhance your understanding of UX research and its role in creating high value, digital products and services.
The Vanguard Method with Ibrar Hussain
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson as they discuss the Vanguard method with Ibbi Hussain, one of the founding architects of this revolutionary approach to organisation change. Ibi describes how the Vanguard method uses systems thinking, service design, and occupational psychology to make profound improvements to call center performance. Join us as we navigate through the philosophy of change, the importance of leadership. And practical insights into implementing sustainable improvement within organisations.
Episode 100 – A retrospective
Welcome to our 100th episode.
In this episode, we talk about what we’ve learnt from our guests about agile, product development and leadership. We discuss what the podcast is about and why we started it. We unpack our critical take on fake agile and discuss agile leadership and product development. Join us as we take a deep dive into the insights, experiences and conversations that have shaped our podcast ovr the last 99 episodes. And here’s to another hundred episodes of cutting through the nonsense and bringing you the advice you need to succeed.
Business Agility with Evan Leybourn
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson as they chat with Evan Leybourn from the Business Agility Institute about business agility. We discuss how to define and measure business agility, examples of agile organisations, and the struggle with traditional bureaucratic models. We delve into the different types of leadership, the nature of internal cultural and political changes, and the challenges faced by organisations in adopting and implementing agility.
Bridging Data and Product Management Practises and Patterns with Juha Korpela
Join Shane Gibson as he chats with Juha Korpela on how to adopt patterns and practises from Product Management and apply them to the data domain.
Innovation and disaster with Ron Westrum
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson as they chat with Ron Westrum about how organisational culture drives innovation and disaster. We discuss generative, bureaucratic and pathological cultures, using real-world examples from NASA, Boeing and others. This episode highlights the importance of leadership integrity, openness, honesty, the free flow of information, and a mission-focused approach to achieving organisational goals. Listen for insights on identifying and promoting a generative culture, dealing with bad news, the role of technical maestros, and much more.
Unmanaged with Jack Skeels
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson as they chat with Jack Skeels about agile for digital and marketing agencies. Jack advocates for reducing the managerial overhead in organisations to promote productivity and improve communication. We discuss common hurdles in agile implementations. The value of a manager as a sports coach. The importance of scoping the work. Over managing and how real change must start from the top. This episode is full of practical advice and critical insights into organisation dynamics. This conversation is especially useful for those seeking to implement agile in a more holistic, efficient, and outcome oriented way in a service provider.