Get Agile #11 | Training from the Back of the Room | Nicole Fleming
Release Date: 04/13/2021
GetAgile #37 | Is Your Team Integrating Continuously, or Just Running a CI Server? | Terry Yin
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In this episode, Tomasz Wykowski talks with Terry Yin, a seasoned software product developer specializing in helping large-scale software development organizations. They discuss what Continuous Integration really means and why most teams that claim to be doing CI are, in fact, only running a CI server. Terry explains why integration tests can hide the lack of real integration, and how deterministic versioning, trunk-based development, and a shared codebase support true Continuous Integration in multi-team environments. They also discuss the organizational factors that make continuous...
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Get Agile #36 | Mapping Strategy and Why AI Won’t Replace Developers | Simon Wardley
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In this episode, Tomasz Wykowski from ProCognita talks with Simon Wardley - creator of Wardley Mapping - about how mapping helps leaders make sense of rapid change, why AI won’t replace developers, and what strategic mistakes organizations are already making. Simon explains how mapping strategy reveals patterns of technological evolution, why efficiency often creates more complexity, and how AI will increase the demand for skilled engineers rather than eliminate it. They also explore the long-term consequences of not hiring juniors, the cultural impact of large language models, and the need...
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Get Agile #35 | How Should Strategy Shape Organizational Design? | Rowan Bunning
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In this episode, Tomasz Wykowski from ProCognita talks with Rowan Bunning, Scrum trainer and long-time Agile practitioner, about designing organizations for real adaptability instead of copy-pasting “big framework” solutions. Drawing on experiences from Australia, New Zealand, and the UK, Rowan explains how to align org design with strategy, choose clear optimization goals, and avoid the Spotify/Safe cargo-cult trap. You will learn: why copying popular scaling models often fails, how to start from strategy and define the capabilities your org actually needs, how to use the Opposite Test...
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Get Agile #34 | Painless Performance Reviews | Paul Klipp
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In this episode, Tomasz Wykowski from ProCognita talks with Paul Klipp – coach, entrepreneur, and organizer of the ACE! Conference – about one of the most challenging topics in corporate life: one-on-ones and annual performance reviews. With more than two decades of experience in small startups as well as large corporations, Paul shares insights from both sides of the table – as a manager running dozens of one-on-ones and reviews, and as an employee going through them himself. He explains why traditional performance reviews are built on poor psychology, why managers often avoid hard...
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Get Agile #33 | Theory behind Scrum | Alex Sloley
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Alex Sloley, Agile Coach, sits with Tomasz Wykowski from ProCognita to discuss how Scrum teams can learn the ‘whys’ of Scrum. They examine three pillars and five values, and how these can be applied to enhance events, accountabilities, and artifacts. Analyzing examples from their experience, they check how organizations can avoid ‘Robotic Scrum’, where people follow mechanics, but don’t see any value in doing that. They discover that understanding of the theory behind Scrum cannot be enforced, as opposed to mandating events or artefacts, and they search for ways managers can help...
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Get Agile #32 | Improving knowledge work delivery with Kanban | Todd Little
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Todd Little, chairman of the Kanban University, calls himself an ‘accidental agilist’. He joins Tomasz Wykowski from ProCognita to discuss why the Agile movement is failing in a lot of companies, which often leads to ‘Agile is dead’ statements. They start by looking at how agile courses make people happy, but don’t deliver what they promise. Then they check why comparing Scrum to Kanban doesn’t make sense and deep dive into the Kanban approach to improving knowledge work delivery. Todd explains why the Kanban approach prefers smaller changes over large transformations, as the...
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Get Agile #31 | The hidden costs of async code reviews | Dragan Stepanovic
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“No one wants to review PR that took one week or more to develop,” says Dragan Stepanovic, Principal Engineer who helps companies and teams evolve their engineering culture. In this episode of the Get Agile Podcast, Tomasz Wykowski from Procognita meets with Dragan to deep dive into the unrealized consequences of async code reviews. Dragan shows how developers are often forced to work in isolation and instead of forming one team, they become N teams of one person. Often with different engineering culture and coding practices. Code reviews are industry standard in software development, used...
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Get Agile #30 | How do you get people to collaborate? | Jim Benson
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"The longer you put off talking to your colleagues, the more likely it is, that you're going to have integration problems", says Jim Benson in his conversation with Tomasz Wykowski. They start their conversation with The Collaboration Equation, which is “Individuals x Teams = Value. Jim explains that teams are covered by the Agile movement, and Value is discussed in Lean, but the individuals are somehow forgotten - the way they interact, work with each other, help each other, monitor their work, and are self-aware of what they lend to the team and what they gain from it. Jim defines...
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Get Agile #29 | Why Agile Teams Need Extreme Programming Practices? | Tim Ottinger
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“CI is developers' behavior, it has nothing to do with running Jenkins,” says Tim Ottinger, XP coach from Industrial Logic. Join Tomasz Wykowski, from ProCognita as he interviews Tim Ottinger about the ongoing relevance of Extreme Programming in modern software development. They look at the state of different XP practices, including TDD, CI/CD, User Stories, Swarming, Pairing, and Teaming. Tim explains why these behaviors are necessary for teams to iteratively develop product, and how they differ from “solo ticket processing” commonly used in software development. Tim...
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Get Agile #28 | Designing organization with Org Topologies | Alexey Krivitsky
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Join Tomasz Wykowski from ProCognita as he sits down with Alexey Kryvitsky, Certified Scrum Trainer, Certified LeSS Trainer, and co-creator of Org Topologies. Together they discuss how to avoid making the implementation of the Agile framework as an organizational goal. Alexey introduces the concept of Org Topologies as a mapping technique to help companies discover where they are, where they want to be, and how to get there. He discusses two dimensions of the map, which are the scope of capabilities and the scope of work. Then he explains each of the four levels on both axis. They...
info_outlineJoin Tomasz Wykowski from ProCognita and Nicole Fleming, Training From the Back of the Room Certified Trainer and Certifier. Learn about brain-based learning and how to make your training more effective and engaging. Find out how to move from the stage to be a guide for your participants. Discover principles behind Training from the Back of the Room approach and how to move your physical courses into the virtual world.
Learn more about Nicole at https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicole-fleming-b6726a10/ and about her courses at https://flemingservices.biz/
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- The Ten-Minute Trainer book: http://www.amazon.com/Ten-Minute-Trainer-Teach-Quick-Stick/dp/0787974420/
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