The Agile Wire

Jeff Bubolz & Jeff Maleski

Stories on the journey from doing Agile to being Agile.

  • 32 minutes 49 seconds
    Product Discovery and Validation with Paul Kuijten and Fredrik Wendt

    00:00 Intro

    00:48 What's the problem in the product space?

    03:30 The Three Vs of Product Ownership

    06:00 Discovery and validation!

    07:35 Assumptions and analysis?

    11:30 My ideas are the best

    13:40 Levels of investment risk

    16:30 Knowing vs doing

    18:22 ScrumMatch data on Scrum Masters

    20:30 Shift in leadership

    22:04 "Adoption" of cutting edge is slow

    25:55 Bike shedding

    27:00 To put it disrespectfully

    28:14 Launch of Professional Product Discovery and Validation (PPDV) Workshop

    31:00 Organizing Scrum around product yields more value

    32:29 Outro


    https://www.scrum.org/courses/professional-product-discovery-and-validation-training


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    17 September 2024, 4:33 pm
  • 17 minutes 15 seconds
    Agile Is Dead? Scrum Day Is Alive! with Mary Iqbal

    00:00 Intro 00:42 State of agile conferences 03:30 Agile is dead? 04:30 Agile is just good business 05:30 The speakers at Scrum Day 2024 08:13 What is different this year at Scrum Day? 11:55 Tragedies in the product space 13:43 Scrum in healthcare 16:34 Join us at Scrum Day! 17:05 Outro Scrum Day is October 23, 2024 in Madison, Wisconsin! Get your tickets now with our Wisconsin Agility 20% discount! Tickets: https://www.scrumday.org/event-details/scrum-day-madison-2024 Use Code: WIAGILITY20 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Connect with us at the following places: Wisconsin Agility Training: https://wisconsinagility.com/training Advising: https://wisconsinagility.com/advising Merch: https://wisconsinagility.com/merch Jeff Bubolz Jeff Bubolz LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffbubolz/ Jeff Bubolz Twitter: https://twitter.com/JeffBubolz Chad Beier Chad Beier LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chadbeier/ Agile Songs YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@agilesongs Agile Songs Shorts: https://www.youtube.com/@agilesongs/shorts Agile Songs Twitter: https://twitter.com/AgileSongs The Agile Wire Web: https://theagilewire.com Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0YKEHJtcJXZ55ohsUOvklI Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-agile-wire/id1455057621 Agile Wire Clips: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLl0ryedF7y7HWTsbur4ysdpUcY7tniSG Agile Wire X: https://x.com/AgileWire Make sure you subscribe to the channel! #Scrum #Agile #ProfessionalScrum #Kanban #BusinessAgility

    23 August 2024, 1:11 am
  • 26 minutes 36 seconds
    Untrapping Product Teams with David Pereira

    00:00 Intro

    00:35 Bullshit Management

    01:35 Backlog Length

    04:09 Hierarchal Backlogs

    06:30 Moving Away from the Status Quo

    09:50 Where to Start?

    12:10 Victim of Circumstance vs Hero of Your Story

    14:30 Writing a Book via Gradual Commitment Escalation

    12:03 Find a Mentor

    25:09 Don't Lecture People, Help Others See What You See

    26:10 Outro


    David's Book: https://www.d-pereira.com/untrapping-product-teams


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    #Scrum #Agile #ProfessionalScrum #Kanban #BusinessAgility

    14 July 2024, 11:47 pm
  • 34 minutes 54 seconds
    Scrum Masters! Get Your Hands Off The Team's Work with Angela Johnson

    00:00 Intro

    00:30 The Scrum Master's Accountability?

    03:15 Meetings Suck...Facilitate!

    13:30 Self-Management Tactics

    19:20 Contracts Drive Anti-patterns

    22:12 Roles to Accountabilities

    25:05 Adult Day Care Provider?

    30:57 Capability and Opportunity

    33:55 The Scrum Master Files

    34:32 Outro


    Angela's Book: https://www.amazon.com/Scrum-Master-Files-Secrets-Should/dp/B09MR91GDV

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    17 June 2024, 2:17 am
  • 37 minutes 59 seconds
    Mapping The Agile Airspace with Nate Amidon

    00:00 Intro

    00:22 Nate Amidon - Airforce and Agile

    02:53 Form 100 Consulting - Request to leave active duty

    04:07 Serving in the military applied to serving as a Scrum Master

    8:22 How the Airforce using an Agile Mindset

    10:09 Owner Mentality

    14:00 Building "Extreme Ownership"

    15:17 Navigating change in big organizations

    18:53 Stakeholder Management vs Stakeholder Engagement

    21:45 Change is not hard - Don't change hearts and minds

    26:50 How to change your approach for different people

    28:58 Giving orders is failing

    34:00 Centralized command decentralized execution

    35:50 Add ex-military leaders to you organization - Form 100 Consulting

    37:50 Outro


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    13 May 2024, 1:20 am
  • 35 minutes 43 seconds
    Continuously Improving! Everywhere Everyone Everyday with Chris Stone

    00:00 Intro

    00:21 Chris Stone - The Continuous Improvement Coach - So Much Content

    03:13 Virtual Agile Coach to Continuous Improvement Coach

    6:20 Why is continuous remove from improvement

    11:20 The hardest part of continuous improvement at scale

    14:47 Data and feedback loops are crucial for continuous improvement

    18:08 Company Values?

    26:08 What can I improve today? What did I improve today?

    28:21 Tesla Employee Handbook

    31:17 Improve everywhere, everything, and everyone

    31:56 Connect with Chris Stone and checkout his free content

    33:44 The Chris Stone look

    35:33 Outro


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    #Scrum #Agile #ProfessionalScrum #Kanban #BusinessAgility

    15 April 2024, 1:23 am
  • 34 minutes 44 seconds
    Scaling Simplified with Prateek Singh

    00:00 Intro

    00:21 Scaling Simplified boiled down to one sentence

    02:50 Leading with flow

    04:05 Scaling flow is common sense unfortunately common sense is not common

    05:09 Blockers are a type of dependency - remove them don't manage them

    07:06 Focus on efficiency of flow

    10:08 Prioritization is waste - remove your backlogs

    14:37 Who makes decisions

    20:02 One large team is better than a small team

    23:10 Removing upfront planning is revolutionary

    26:40 Thank you to the creators of SAFe if it wasn't for your misguided framework I would not have wrote this book.

    30:35 Conway will help us design the org and Little will help us optimize it.

    33:17 Going back to the basics

    34:34 Outro


    Book - Scaling Simplified: A Practitioner's Guide to Scaling Flow - https://www.amazon.com/Scaling-Simplified-Practitioners-Guide-Flow-ebook/dp/B0CKM3TBQ5


    ProKanban - https://prokanban.org/


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    #Scrum #Agile #ProfessionalScrum #Kanban #BusinessAgility

    18 March 2024, 12:20 am
  • 42 minutes 24 seconds
    Unlocking Business Agility with Patricia Kong, Todd Miller, Kurt Bittner, and Ryan Ripley

    00:00 Intro 00:21 Why Read "Unlocking Business Agility" 06:04 Goals suck in organizations 8:06 Outcomes over Outputs 10:38 Enable empowerment with outcomes 13:05 Separating the signal from the noise 18:00 Dealing with transparency - facts are friendly - how fascinating 26:03 Suffering is a prerequisite for learning and growth 29:28 Move all projects to red until proven otherwise 30:38 Is EMB only for software and Scrum? 34:57 Scrum is an instance of EBM 36:33 Unrealized Value 38:22 More ways to connect with Patricia Kong, Todd Miller, Kurt Bittner and Ryan Ripley 42:14 Outro Book - Unlocking Business Agility with Evidence-Based Management: Satisfy Customers and Improve Organizational Effectiveness - https://www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Business-Agility-Evidence-Based-Management/dp/013824457X EBM Guide - https://www.scrum.org/resources/evidence-based-management-guide When your metrics are not what you want, "GOOD". Jocko Willink's - https://www.google.com/search?q=jocko+willink+good+short&oq=jocko+willink+good+short&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigATIHCAMQIRigATIHCAQQIRigATIHCAUQIRifBTIHCAYQIRifBTIHCAcQIRifBdIBCjEyMjcwajBqMTWoAgCwAgA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:c1294a93,vid:fAnaTtoYDXs,st:0 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Connect with us at the following places: Wisconsin Agility Training: https://wisconsinagility.com/training Advising: https://wisconsinagility.com/advising Merch: https://wisconsinagility.com/merch Jeff Bubolz Jeff Bubolz LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffbubolz/ Jeff Bubolz Twitter: https://twitter.com/JeffBubolz Chad Beier Chad Beier LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chadbeier/ Agile Songs YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@agilesongs Agile Songs Shorts: https://www.youtube.com/@agilesongs/shorts Agile Songs Twitter: https://twitter.com/AgileSongs The Agile Wire Web: https://theagilewire.com Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0YKEHJtcJXZ55ohsUOvklI Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-agile-wire/id1455057621 Agile Wire Clips: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLl0ryedF7y7HWTsbur4ysdpUcY7tniSG Agile Wire Twitter: https://twitter.com/AgileWire Make sure you subscribe to the channel! #Scrum #Agile #ProfessionalScrum #Kanban #BusinessAgility

    20 February 2024, 3:25 pm
  • 34 minutes 4 seconds
    Scrum Match with Jo Geske and Stephen Sykes

    00:00 Intro

    00:21 Problem: Scrum Master Market

    02:20 What is ScrumMatch? - Save time and money finding true Scrum Masters

    03:25 How ScrumMatch got started?

    04:48 How does a Scrum Master get on ScrumMatch?

    05:59 Who reviews the Scrum Masters?

    07:00 How are we validating value for ScrumMatch?

    09:00 How do you handle all the demand for Scrum Master reviews?

    11:32 There is a huge demand for Scrum Masters that deliver value for their org

    12:55 Value Prop for Employers

    15:33 Can AI do this?

    17:25 Scrum Masters get real feedback on how to interview better and how to grow in their career

    19:00 Delivering Increments daily

    23:29 Validating Assumptions

    26:45 How to avoid weekend support

    27:45 Call to action for Scrum Masters and Employers looking for Scrum Masters

    30:52 Making Sprint Reviews public to all

    33:55 Outro


    https://scrummatch.com

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    22 January 2024, 11:05 pm
  • 38 minutes 6 seconds
    Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide with Stefan Wolpers

    00:00 Intro

    01:10 Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide

    05:00 Common Anti-Patterns

    09:50 Basketball and Scrum Teams Under Pressure

    11:10 Discipline Equals Freedom (Jocko Willink)

    14:45 How Do You See The Whole System?

    17:25 Spending Time With Customers

    20:05 Know The Cost Of Your Scrum Team

    22:40 Teach Systems Thinking To Kids

    24:51 Lead People...Manage Systems

    32:01 Technical Excellence

    36:40 How To Find Stefan

    37:55 Outro


    https://age-of-product.com/scrum-anti-patterns/


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    #Scrum #Agile #ProfessionalScrum #Kanban #BusinessAgility

    18 December 2023, 12:44 pm
  • 34 minutes 11 seconds
    Scrum Guide Update!? Scrum Master Now Scrum Manager? Don McGreal

    00:00 Intro

    01:06 Tasty Cupcakes

    02:30 Creation of the PSPO Course

    05:40 Product Ownership for Executives

    13:51 Scaling the Product Owner

    15:18 Project vs Product

    17:33 The WIP Disease

    22:50 Agile Coaching

    26:36 Scrum Master or Manager?

    32:32 improving.com


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    29 November 2023, 1:38 am
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