Giora Morein - The State of Agile and Post-SAFeism

This episode of DrunkenPM Radio features a conversation with ThinkLouder’s Giora Morein. During this discussion Giora offers his take on how things have evolved within the Agile space over the past few years and some of the challenges we currently face. For example, if you are trying to use Scrum to build twice the work in half the time, how do you make sure that all the extra stuff you are building is the right stuff? And what if you run out of valuable things to build? Giora and I cover a lot of ground during the interview, which culminates in Giora breaking down life in the world of Post-SAFe-ism.

SHOW NOTES

00:08 Podcast Begins

00:50 An update on ThinkLouder

02:15 Taking greater ownership of your organization’s Agile Transformation

03:20 Pivoting from the “You want more agile, you need more coach” mindset

03:45 Why an experienced Agilist and an agile coach are not the same thing

08:48 Have we moved on to the “cleaning up after the party” stage of agile? Have the thought leaders moved on?

12:27 Have we moved on to a less dynamic stage of the agile conversation? What new ideas in agile is Giora paying the most attention to.

16:14 If you can do twice the work in half the time, how do you make sure the additional work you are doing is the right work?

17:27 The new thing…. the language of innovation

18:10 It’s easier to sell increased velocity/speed to IT than it is to sell transformation of an entire business

19:57  It has to start with “What’s the business driver?”

20:45 The only way Giora and I are going to end up with flying cars

22:32 Use Agile to figure out how to best meet the organization’s business drivers (getting deep in Oklahoma)

23:34 Building the wrong thing really fast is not helping anyone

24:13 Micro-maturation in Scaling

24:34 Post-SAFe-ism

25:45 How to reach Giora

26:29 Podcast Ends

CONTACTING

If you’d like to contact Giora directly, here are some ways to reach him:

Web: https://ThinkLouder.com

Email: gmorein@thinklouder.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/gmorein