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SPaMCAST 656 - Gig Economy and Making The Market, A Conversation With Rahul Aggarwal

Release Date: 06/20/2021

SPaMCAST 669 - Transactive Memory and Agile, Better Daily Scrums, Conversations and Essays

Software Process and Measurement Cast

I use and observe transactive memory all the time. Used wisely, transactive memory means a team can be more than the sum of its individual members. Mess it up and you might as well put your hand in a running garbage disposal. For example, my wife remembers things like special events and then clues me in…if she is around. This week we explore when transactive memory works and when it does not.

SPaMCAST 668 - SPaMCAST - Learning, Hybrid Work Nirvana or Trouble, A Conversation With Tom Henricksen

Software Process and Measurement Cast

We are back from backpacking on Isle Royale. Simply awesome. Today, we feature a discussion with Tom Henricksen. You know Tom from the Agile Online Summit and the Dev Ops Online Summit however Tom is more than just the Summits. Today we discuss learning and then get into whether hybrid working scenarios are all they are cracked up to be. I am not sure we agreed.

SPaMCAST 666 - Jerry Weinberg, Quality, Grandfather of Agile Summer Repost

Software Process and Measurement Cast

The SPaMCAST is on summer holiday for the next two weeks (SPaMCAST 666 and SPaMCAST 667. Today we are featuring an interview released on December 27, 2015, with Gerald (Jerry) M. Weinberg.

SPaMCAST 665 - Organizations Culture Drive Teams, Decisions at Last Responsible Moment, Essays and Conversations

Software Process and Measurement Cast

Teams don’t live in a vacuum, so when the word organization gets used it reflects the influence of all sorts of organizations. Organizations facilitate teams to a greater or lesser extent. In the workplace, the employer’s organization will have the most significant impact on how teams form and perform but it is not the totality.

SPaMCAST 664 - Vision and Leading, A Conversation With Sunny Han

Software Process and Measurement Cast

The Software Process and Measurement Cast 664 features our interview with Sunny Han, CEO and Founder of Fulcrum. Sunny and I talked about motivation, we talked agile development, and we talked about what it takes to see a vision through to reality. The ideas about engineering a communication architecture are phenomenal.

SPaMCAST 663 - Prioritizing Badly, Freestyling User Stories, Essays and Conversations

Software Process and Measurement Cast

This week we explore the impact of process (it really isn’t a bad word) problems in prioritization. Prioritization requires a steady hand and consistency. The process for prioritization should have more in common with a well-oiled basketball or futbol team than five-year-olds playing soccer in the schoolyard. How the moving parts work together is a process

SPaMCAST 662 - Backing Up SaaS Application, RIsk Mitigation, An Interview with Mike Potter

Software Process and Measurement Cast

In this week’s podcast, we speak with Mike Potter, CEO of Rewind. Mike and I talk about the need to backup SaaS applications, remote and hybrid working, and entrepreneurship. This interview opened my eyes to the risks we all face by trusting SaaS application companies to back up our data. Mike also highlights in his answers how humanity in the workplace can help create special results.

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.

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.

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.

More Episodes

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.

Bio:

Being awarded as the Rising Entrepreneur of the year 2019 and Entrepreneur 35 under 35 in 2020, and Asia’s Most Promising Business Leaders 2021 by Economic Times, Rahul Aggarwal has co-founded Designhill and created a unique online marketplace to overcome the challenges faced by the business owners in

outsourcing high-quality creative solutions and designers who have been looking for creative freedom.

He’s a serial entrepreneur, passionate marketer, investor, advisor, and a firm believer in the concept of constant learning and growing. His astounding digital knowledge and impregnable business skills have led Designhill to be acknowledged as the Creative Startup Of The Year 2019 by Entrepreneur Magazine

DesignHill: www.designhill.com

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/raggarwal1

Re-Read Saturday News

This week we re-read Chapter 1 of Monotasking by Staffan Nöteberg titled Monotasking In A Nutshell. This chapter lays the foundation for translating the Five Axioms of Monotasking into a simple and straightforward approach.

Catch up on my experiment using the concepts on Monotasking by Staffan Nöteberg as part of the re-read. This week I am going to work on using shortlists and implementing both the panorama cues and panorama sessions.

Week 2 - Monotasking In A Nutshell - https://bit.ly/3gGMb72

Previous Entries

Week 1 - Logistics, Game Plan, and Preface - https://bit.ly/3x1oVap

Week 2 - Introduction - https://bit.ly/2TXVfwt

Upcoming Events!

ISMA 18 Virtual Conference, June 24th, 2021 8 AM EDT to 11:15 EDT

I will host the event. The event will have a host of great speakers on great topics!

ISMA 18 will be free for both IFPUG members and non-members. IFPUG members are eligible for 1 credit at the CFPS Extension Program (CEP) and also attract 3 Technical PDUs in the PMI Talent Triangle®, both by attending the full conference!

Real Value of TMMi (SPaMCAST is a Friend of TMMi America)

Free webinar from TMMi America featuring Mark Summers

June 25th, 2 to 3 PM EDT

This webinar will explore the common usages of the TMMi Test Process Improvement framework. We will dive into how:

You can leverage this framework to transform the way your organization delivers software.
The model can transform your career.
Next steps to take on your journey to becoming a Test Process Improvement superhero.

The real value of the TMMi is to help you dramatically change the frequency and quality of your software delivery.

Next SPaMCAST

In the next Software Process and Measurement Cast, I will talk with Søren Pedersen. We talked 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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