Developing an Internal Agile Certification Program with Dan Eberle

Dan Eberle is the Agile Coach at the New York Times where he's been hard at work developing an Agile Certification program. During this episode of the podcast, Dan explains why he developed the program, the different areas it focuses on, and how employees of the New York Times will evolve through the different levels of certification. 

You can find the interview here.

To sign up for Dave's in-person CSM/CSPO classes in Atlanta:

• CSM (April 5-6, 2022) https://bit.ly/APR5CSMATL
• CSPO (April 7-8, 2022) https://bit.ly/APR7CSPOATL

* Use the discount code DPM10 to get a 10% discount off the list price

Career Refactoring - Find the Gig that Sparks Joy w/ Luis Garcia

The pandemic has caused many of us to reassess how we spend our days. After years of climbing to the top of the ladder from his start as a Project Manager, Luis Garcia realized he was missing the thing about work that he loved most - working with teams to build products that impact the lives of others. This interview is about how Luis chose to return to the gig that brings him the most joy.

You can find the interview here.

The Journey to Enterprise Agility w/ Daryl Kulak and Hong Li

 

In their book The Journey to Enterprise Agility - Systems Thinking and Organizational Legacy, Daryl Kulak and Hong Li share stories about their experiences working with organizations that are on the journey towards agility and explain how this shift in approach works, why so many organizations fail at adopting agile, and how the changes they recommend impacts the way we think and work with people at all levels of the enterprise.

You can find the interview here.

Product Goal Resources

In the 2020 Scrum Guide, information on the Product Goal is contained in the Product Backlog section: https://scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html#product-backlog

DrunkenPM Interviews on Product Goal

• The Product Goal with Ryan Ripley 
• The Product Goal with Dave West 
• Understanding the Product Goal with Don McGreal 
• Scrum Guide 2020: Scrum Artifacts w Chris Li 
• Scrum Guide's Product Goal  (Lancer Kind interviews me about Product Goal)

Product Goal Articles and Blog Posts 

• Scrum Guide 2020 Update - Introducing the Product Goal  (Dave West)
• Product Goal & Sprint Goals – A Simple Example (Simon Kneafsey)
• PRODUCT GOALS IN SCRUM (Roman Pichler)
• How to Craft a Product Goal (Sjoerd Nijland)
• What is Good Product Strategy? (Melissa Perri) - For use with the Product Strategy Canvas below 

Links to Helpful Videos on Product Goal

• Product Goals In Scrum (Roman Pichler) 
• Go Product Roadmap Introduction (Roman Pichler) - For use with Go Product Roadmap below
• Scrum Guide 2020 - Product Goal (Ralph Jocham) 
• Product Goal Canvas  (Ralph Jocham)  - For use with Product Goal Canvas below
• The Product Goal of Scrum (Jeff Sutherland) 

Helpful Tools 

• THE GO PRODUCT ROADMAP (Roman Pichler)  - The "GOAL" section could be used to define a Product Goal
• Product Strategy Canvas (Melissa Perri)  - The "CHALLENGE" section could be used to define a Product Goal
• Product Goal Canvas (Ralph Jocham)

Using Data to Drive Enterprise Adoption of Agile w/ Mike McCalla

Mike McCalla, President, and Founder of Lean Agile Intelligence joins me in this episode to discuss why taking an Object-Oriented Data-Driven approach to change is critical to your enterprise-wide agile transformation.

You can find the podcast here.

If you are curious about how Lean Agile Intelligence can help you and your organization continually assess how you are progressing in your transformation journey and what next steps are likely to help the most. 

https://leanagileintelligence.com

How to Run a Lean Coffee with Derek Huether

What is a LeanCoffee? How do they work? How will this agendaless meeting format save you from the desperate time suck of those endless soul-sucking meetings you've been languishing in? You can find all about it here: https://bit.ly/3q7twar

PLUS! Special tips for Jira users at the end of the interview to help you find resources to amp up your Jira skills.

Finding the Right Problem to Solve w/ Braden Cundiff

Braden Cundiff is back to discuss finding the right problem to solve in Part 2 of our series on using his FLIP method to change behavior. 

In this interview, we explore how to find the problem, why you need to name that problem and create a definition around the scope of it, and then how to assess whether or not it is a problem you can, and should take on.

You can find the podcast here: https://bit.ly/3s1cKLs

You can pick up Braden's book here: https://t.co/aQl3a5FY1z

Common Sense Scrum with Eric Tucker

Sustained Agility’s Eric Tucker, CST, joins me to talk about missteps people and organizations make while transitioning to Scrum that could be easily avoided if they would just use common sense. Eric has put together a talk highlighting some of these mistakes and during the interview, he and I explore why they occur in the first place, and how two avoid them.

You can find the interview here.

Assumptions Mapping with David Bland

Assumptions are often the Achilles heel of any development effort. These are the things we’ve unintentionally decided are true and unfortunately, far too often, our assumptions are wrong. If you’ve based the success of the work you are doing on incorrect assumptions… VERYBADTHINGS.

In this episode Founder David Bland has joined me to talk about why we need to pay attention to assumptions and how to use Assumptions Mapping to determine which of our assumptions present the biggest threat and need to be addressed first. During the interview, we review how to use the Assumptions Mapping approach that is included in Testing Business Ideas, the book David co-wrote with Alexander Osterwalder.

You can find the interview here: https://bit.ly/3DhlVcR

When Your Team Members Also Report to Other Teams w Dan Eberle

In this episode of the podcast, Agile Coach Dan Eberle is back to help me respond to a student question that is complicated, confusing, and more common than it should be…

Ivan (not the person’s real name) explained the situation like this… 

Six Product Owners/Developers oversee 20 reports within the org. Each of the reports has a specialized role. They are broken up into teams that range in size from 1-5 people, and the team size tends to fluctuate. Some of the Product Owners/Developers oversee teams and are also the people managers of the individuals on the team. Some of the team members report to people managers who are Product Owner/Developers of other teams, team members of other teams, or people completely outside the grouping of 6 + 20. There is competition for the attention/efforts of team members who are allocated to more than one project and/or reporting to a people manager who has different priorities than the PO/Dev they are assigned to work with. 

You can find the interview here.