SPaMCAST 621 - Why An Agile Coach Code of Ethics, Keeping Grateful Leadership Fresh, Conversations and Essays
Software Process and Measurement Cast
Release Date: 10/18/2020
SPaMCAST 661 - Jumping The Queue and Remedies, Risk Management, Hybrid Agile, Essays and Conversations
Software Process and Measurement Cast
Despite the unpredictable outcome, jumping the queue is practiced by many in traffic and even more when funneling work to teams. The consequences when working on information technology products are far more predictable than driving, and they are ALWAYS bad. Let’s fix some of the problems leading to queue jumping.
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SPaMCAST 660 - AIoT, Doing Business Differently, An Interview with Rob Rastovich
Software Process and Measurement Cast
In this week’s Software Process and Measurement Cast, I speak with Rob Rastovich, CTO of ThingLogix. We talked about meeting customer needs through developing solutions using the AIoT (not a typo). This is a seachange for both businesses and developers who will need to reskill and rethink what is possible.
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SPaMCAST 659 - The Impact of Adopting ERP Packages, An Interview with Christiano Gherardini
Software Process and Measurement Cast
In this episode, we feature our interview with Christiano Gherardini. Chris and I talk about the impact of using Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) packages on businesses and as importantly, the impact of packages and consultants as a tool to influence the direction of software development in a firm.
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SPaMCAST 658 - Prioritization, Testing, Agile Performance Holarchy, Essays and Conversations
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The Software Process and Measurement Cast features an essay on prioritization. There is often a difference between assigned priority and the real priority based on when teams start and complete a piece of work. This essay is part of the overall conversation on controlling work entry and answering the question: Are we working on the most important thing?
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SPaMCAST 657 - Teams, Value Chains, and Coaching, A Conversation With Søren Pedersen
Software Process and Measurement Cast
In this podcast, I talk with Søren Pedersen. We talk about teams, value streams, and leveraging agile to improve how teams deliver value. We started with the definition of a team and then got into the practical nitty-gritty of defining value streams and coaching teams.
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SPaMCAST 656 - Gig Economy and Making The Market, A Conversation With Rahul Aggarwal
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In Software Process and Measurement Cast 656 we stay with an agile product and entrepreneurship theme with a conversation with Rahul Aggarwal. We discussed building a business and products to support the gig economy and entrepreneurship. Rahul provides excellent advice on recognizing market needs, experimenting, pivoting when necessary, and building a business.
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SPaMCAST 655 - Product Pricing and Scale, A Conversation With Ajit Ghuman
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This week we dive into what is often viewed as arcane science by the development community, pricing. One critical part of the conversation focuses on whether there is an ideal pattern for product and development to work together? If not, what are the consequences? Our conversation just skims the surface of Ajit Ghuman’s new book Priced to Scale which hit the book stands in April.
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SPaMCAST 654 - Monotasking, A Conversation With Staffan Nöteberg
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This week is a doubleheader (baseball term for two games played by the same teams on the same day against each other). We begin our re-read of Monotasking by Staffan Nöteberg and we have my interview with Staffan. Several years ago I read Staffan’s book on Pomodoro which changed how I work. Monotasking might be even more useful and impactful. We discussed how to apply the ideas in the book to improve focus, productivity, and quality of life.
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SPaMCAST 653 - Work Entry An Introduction, Product Backlog and Projects, Conversations and Essays
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Work Entry: An Introduction, focuses on what work entry is and why it is the single most important part of determining whether a team is dependable, predictable, and even remotely agile.
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SPaMCAST 652 - Intellectual Property Protection and Software, A Conversation With Rick Martin
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Intellectual property protection impacts almost everyone whether they are aware of it or not. Trademarks, copyrights, patents, and trade secrets are all part of a wide-ranging discussion of IP protection in the software environment. Rick provides great insight into a rapidly evolving field.
info_outlineThe Software Process and Measurement Cast 621 features our essay on why agile coaches need a code of ethics. Agile is practiced in nearly every culture. Each culture has its own definition of duty and of right and wrong. Coaches help to establish and address the client’s needs by leveraging approaches that align with the values and principles of the Agile Manifesto. It's time for coaching to grow up and be a profession.
We also have part 2 of Susan Parente’s discussion of grateful leadership. Susan discussed how to keep grateful leadership fresh as part of her Not A Scrumdamentalist column. I will play part 3 in SPaCAST 623.
Part 1: SPaMCAST 617 - https://bit.ly/35UWLDQ
Re-Read Saturday News
We are back with Chapter 17 in our re-read of Steve Tendon and Daniel Doiron’s Tame your Work Flow. Full Kitting is an important concept! Use the link to buy a copy of the book and support the authors and blog!
Week 1: Logistics and Front Matter – https://bit.ly/2LWJ3EY
Week 2: Prologue (The Story of Herbie) – https://bit.ly/3h4zmTi
Week 3: Explicit Mental Models – https://bit.ly/2UJUZyN
Week 4: Flow Efficiency, Little’s Law and Economic Impact – https://bit.ly/2VrIhoL
Week 5: Flawed Mental Models – https://bit.ly/3eqj70m
Week 6: Where To Focus Improvement Efforts – https://bit.ly/2DTvOUN
Week 7: Introduction to Throughput Accounting and Culture – https://bit.ly/2DbhfLT
Week 8: Accounting F(r)iction and Show Me the Money – https://bit.ly/2XmDuWu
Week 9: Constraints in the Work Flow and in the Work Process - https://bit.ly/33Uukoz
Week 10: Understanding PEST Environments and Finding the Constraint in PEST Environments - https://bit.ly/3ga3ew9
Week 11: Drum-Buffer-Rope Scheduling - https://bit.ly/32l0Z3Q
Week 12: Portfolio Prioritization and Selection in PEST Environments - https://bit.ly/31Ea4WC
Week 13: Flow Efficiency, DBR, and TameFlow Kanban Boards - https://bit.ly/32rYUVf
Week 14: Outcomes, Values, and Efforts in PEST Environments - https://bit.ly/3jd52qw
Week 15: Introduction to Execution Management Signals - https://bit.ly/3mS9j4V
Week 16: Introduction to Full Kitting - https://bit.ly/2FKkD2g
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Agile Online Summit 2020
The Agile Online Summit was created for people who couldn’t attend major conferences. This will be its third year, and the main goal is to bring major level agile speakers to people all over the world as well as spotlight some up and coming agile coaches and trainers. October 26th to 30th, 2020, Live and recorded too. https://bit.ly/3gNR2Bw
Next SPaMCAST
The Software Process and Measurement Cast 622 will feature my interview with Brian Gill, CEO at Gillware. In the age of hacking and ransomware, we discussed the importance of cybersecurity and data recovery (pssst...its important).