SPaMCAST 624 - Grateful and Servant Leadership Combined, Our Stories Aren’t Getting Done!, Essays and Conversations
Software Process and Measurement Cast
Release Date: 11/08/2020
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
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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
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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_outlineSoftware Process and Measurement Cast 624 is structured a little differently. We begin with the conclusion of a three-column arc on grateful leadership from Susan Parente’s Not A Scrumdamentalist Column. In this installment, Susan and I discuss how servant leadership, commonly practiced by agilists, can combine with grateful leadership to be even more powerful.
Catch up on earlier installments of this arc
After Susan’s column, we visit the first essay in the four-part series on why teams don’t get stories done when they say they will. The essay Our Stories Aren’t Getting Done! names the three usual suspects that cause stories to “escape” sprints.
Re-Read Saturday News
Chapter 20 of Tame your Work Flow is titled Operational Governance in PEST Environments. Daniel Doiron describes this chapter as an ode to management by exception. There are two threads in this chapter that I highlight. The first is Steve and Daniel’s discussion on the need for different perspectives to identify the constraint in complicated environments. The second major component in the chapter is a discussion of an approach for governance. As I am quoted at the end of the chapter giving this book my highest praise, “this book is very useful.”
This weeks installment
Week 20: Operational Governance in PEST Environments - https://bit.ly/2U2TGu2
New? Start your re-read at the beginning
Week 1: Logistics and Front Matter – https://bit.ly/2LWJ3EY
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Next SPaMCAST
The Software Process and Measurement Cast 625 will feature our interview with Drew Angell. Drew and I talk about web development and software development excellence. Being good is more than just excellence in coding, listening and problem-solving are also needed.