No Nonsense Agile Podcasts
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Roman Pichler – fundamentals of product management
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson as they discuss the fundamentals of product management with Roman Pichler, author of agile product management with scrum. What is a product manager? What is a...
Brett Maytom and Michael Kusters – The agile brand has been destroyed by con men and clowns
In this episode, we discuss the sad state of the agile industry with Michael Kusters and Brett Maytom. We talk about how the agile brand has been destroyed by con artists, life coaches and big...
Howard Podeswa – bring back business analysis
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson as they talk with Howard Podeswa about agile business analysis. What do business analysts do? What's its value? Why are big requirements up front, a bad idea?...
Jonathan Crossland – How to make better decisions with Ammerse
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson as they talk with veteran developer, Jonathan Crossland about Ammerse, a value based decision making guide for products and teams. Ammerse is a mnemonic for...
Rich Mironov – the problem with sales led development
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson as they talk with Rich Mironov about the problem with sales led development. It's easy for B2B enterprise companies to fall into a sales lead development model...
Donna Spencer – UX Design in empowered product teams
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson as they talk with Donna Spencer from Maker X about user experience design in empowered product teams. We discuss user research, information architecture, and...
Al Shalloway – Pattern Libraries for knowledge work
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson as they talk with Al Shalloway about Amplio and the movement back to pattern libraries to improve knowledge work. As lean and agile have become commercialised...
Jim Benson – Kanban and the Collaboration Equation
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson as they talk with Jim Benson, author of personal Kanban, about his new book, the collaboration equation. Jim describes how Kanban allows teams to focus and see...
agile innovation
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson as they chat about their experience with start ups and scale-ups venture capitalists and corporate innovation. We talk about manager's fear of innovation,...
Eric Lopez – mission command
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson as they discuss mission command with Eric Lopez, a management consultant, CEO and retired US Army Colonel who commanded troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Eric...
Teresa Torres – continuous discovery.
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Teresa Torres, a product coach, speaker, and author of continuous discovery habits. She explains how product managers, designers, and...
Dan Olsen – the lean product development playbook
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Dan Olson, author of the lean product development playbook. A practical guide to building products that customers love. Most new products...
Anabela Cesario – productops
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Anabela Cesário VP of product ops at OutSystems, a low code development platform. Anabela describes what product ops is and how her team...
Jonathan Hall – implementing continuous delivery
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Jonathan Hall about implementing Continuous Delivery. CI/CD requires a level of test automation that seems impossible for most...
Jeff Gothelf – Lean UX and Sense and Respond
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Jeff Gothelf about Lean UX and Sense and Respond. Lean UX explains how to do UX design and product development in a highly agile way.
Adam Thomas – product survival metrics
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Adam Thomas about Product Survival Metrics. Empower the product team to make decisions quickly in uncertain situations by negotiating...
Christian Crumlish – the intersection between UX design and product management
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Christian Crumlish about the intersection between UX Design and Product Management.
Willem-Jan Ageling – agile project management and leadership
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Willem-Jan Ageling about agile project management and leadership
Bryan Finster – continuous delivery
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Bryan Finster about Continuous Delivery and SAFe. Continuous delivery improves quality, productivity, value, and developers’ lives
Scott Baldwin – product management
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Scott Baldwin about product management
Chris Butler – agile product management
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Chris Butler about agile Product Management at Microsoft, Facebook and Google. Three core things, that product managers should do.
Matthew Skelton – Team Topologies
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Matthew Skelton about Team topologies.
Sandy Mamoli – Building great teams
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Sandy Mamoli about building great teams. Why do some teams perform well and others perform poorly.
Simon Wardley – Wardley maps
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Simon Wardley about Wardley maps. Wardely maps are a discussion tool that surfaces assumptions about competitive landscapes.
Assessing agile capability
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation about assessing the agile capability of individuals, teams and partners.
Tony Ulwick – Outcome driven innovation
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation about Outcome-Driven Innovation with Tony Ulwick. Most products fail in the market because they don’t meet customers’ needs better than the alternatives
Debbie Levitt – UX design
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation about UX design with Debbie Levitt. UX Design is research based information architecture and interaction design that requires deep expertise.
Tom Gilb – Software metrics
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation about Software Metrics with Tom Gilb. Tom Gilb inspired the authors of the Agile manifesto with his innovative incremental and scientific approach to Software Engineering. In this podcast we talk about Evo and Value Agile.
Todd Lankford – Agile anti patterns
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation about Agile anti patterns with Todd Lankford. Patterns are common solutions to common problems.
Erik de Bos – Agile is a paradigm shift
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation about Agile as a paradigm shift with Erik de Bos. Most organisations are slow moving bureaucracies defined by authoritarian hierarchies, rules and contracts. Agile is a completely new way of thinking and a new vocabulary which makes new concepts and information available.
Team Skills vs Roles
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation about effective agile product teams. T-shaped people. Should everyone be a developer? Are specialised roles useful?
Staffan Noteberg – Agile and flow
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Staffan Noteberg about Agile and Flow. Agile is about adapting to unexpected change.
Mary and Tom Poppendieck – Lean software development
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Mary and Tom Poppendieck about Lean and Software Development. Organizations have queues because they don’t care about the customer.
Bruce Taylor – Working with offshore teams
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Bruce Taylor about working with offshore teams in developing countries. Why do people send their work offshore? Cost or talent? Is it cheaper to send work offshore or not?
Kyle Griffin – Uncertainty, complexity and change
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Kyle Griffin about uncertainty, complexity and change. Our requirements are probably wrong. So show people and build small bets. Our plan...
Raj Nagappan – agile 2
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson for a conversation with Raj Nagappan on using Agile 2 to create awesome products.
Lisa Crispin – Holistic testing
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Lisa Crispin on Holistic Testing. Build quality in. Continuous testing for continuous delivery.
Bas Vodde – Less
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Bas Vodde on LeSS. LeSS is true Scrum at Scale not just at the team level.
Jurgen Appelo – Designing an agile organisation
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Jurgen Appelo on how to design an organisation to support self management, continuous innovation and human experience. Jurgens unFix model supports gradual change, dynamic teams, and recognises that managers play an important role
David Pereira – Product leaders
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with David Pereira about Product Leaders. Successful Product Leaders don’t write requirements; they define the problem, set a goal and empower the team to get the job done.
Scott Ambler – Disciplined agile toolkit
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Scott Ambler about the Disciplined Agile Toolkit
Ben Ford – The overlap between modern military ideas and agile
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation about the overlap between modern military ideas and Agile with Ben Ford.
agile projects
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a no-nonsense agile discussion. In this podcast Murray and Shane have a robust discussion about whether Projects and Project Managers are compatible with...
Evolutionary design & agile architecture
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a no-nonsense agile discussion. In this podcast, we talk about evolutionary design and the problem with a narrow focus, planning at different time horizons, big blocks and small blocks and the importance of having flexible roadmaps that change as we learn. We also talk about centralised teams vs experts in teams, how the role of the coach is to build the team’s capability and how a coach should be a sports coach, not a therapist.
Is scrum broken?
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a no-nonsense agile discussion. In this podcast, we discuss Ron Jeffries’ recent article “Can scrum be fixed?” We talk about Ron’s concerns with the Scrum Industrial complex and Developers issues with Scrum. We talk about what we like and don’t like about Scrum and how the gaps we’ve experienced can be overcome.
Agile initiation and planning
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a no-nonsense agile discussion. In this podcast, we talk about our experience with planning agile initiatives. How to do just enough planning just in time. We discuss the team you need, user stories, UX concepts and technical architecture, how to develop a release plan and estimate time and cost in a 2 to 4-week timebox. We also talk about the common traps, pitfalls and bad patterns we see in planning agile initiatives.
Agile contracting and planning
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a no-nonsense discussion on agile and waterfall.
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