Improving Value Delivery In Your Organization with Gil Broza

Gil Broza joins me to provide a walkthru of Square, a new tool he has developed that will help you assess product development in your organization and determine what improvements will have the biggest impact on your ability to deliver value. 

You can find the interview here.

Getting Your First Scrum Master Job with Richard Cheng

So you’ve made the decision that you want to get a job as a Scrum Master. Maybe you’re working on an agile team and want to switch roles, or maybe you’re moving from a field where agile has no presence. If you don’t already have experience working in an environment that has adopted Scrum, then the big question is… how do you land the gig.

In this episode of the podcast my good friend Richard Cheng joins me to talk about how to get started working as a Scrum Master - even when you don't have any experience working in Agile.

You can find the podcast here.

What do you do after certification? w Jeff Howey

Jeff Howey joins me to talk about what to do after you get CSM or CSPO Certification? How do you get started using what you learned? This can be especially challenging when you don't have an opportunity at work to test out the things covered in your Scrum Training class. 

During this interview, we cover that and more!

You can find the interview here.

Agile Practices in the Org and Home with Lee Lis

Despite the fact that Agile practices have been applied to just about every type of work you can imagine, there is still a pervasive assumption that it is just for software. In the CSM and CSPO classes I teach, people often ask for “real life examples” of how people not working directly on software teams are able to use agile and to what end.

In this episode Lee Lis, Chief of Staff at OnPay, joins me to discuss ways she has applied agile practices in her role at OnPay to create an environment that fosters an agile mindset and self-managing teams that are empowered to take ownership of their work and how she has applied in at home parenting small humans who may not fully grok the idea of self-managing yet.

You can find the podcast here.

Growth Mindset: Success of Others w/ Mary Kaufmann

Mary Kaufmann joins me for the fifth podcast in our series on the Carol Dweck book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. This is the fifth episode in this series on the stages defined in Mindset. (There are links to the other four episodes in the podcast show notes.)

You can find the podcast here.

Personal Kanban - Beyond the To Do (Workshop)

Register Here-> https://bit.ly/PKBTD_11-14-22

Do you need help getting more of the right things done? Are you struggling to decide which things you should drop so you can prioritize the work that is truly valuable?

If you have more to do than you can manage, if you can't figure out what is the next most important thing

for you to do, or if you are just plain overwhelmed with all that you have on your plate, this 1 hour workshop on Personal Kanban can help.

Personal Kanban is a framework that leverages practices from Kanban so that you can apply them in your own life, managing the work you do day to day.

If Kanban is all about optimizing the flow of work through a system. Personal Kanban is all about optimizing the system that is you AND your work.

Monday, November 14, 2022 at 5 PM Eastern

Register Here-> https://bit.ly/PKBTD_11-14-22 

Leading Teams In Crisis with Zach Stone

What’s it like to be a remote Scrum Master for a team in Ukraine whose town is being attacked by Russia? Zach Stone shares stories about serving as a Scrum Master for teams in crisis as well as stories about how the pandemic led him to completely rethink his approach to how to best serve his team as a Scrum Master. 

You can find the interview here.

The Rise of the Technical Program Manager

 Jeff Howey joins me to discuss why there has been a recent increase in demand for Technical Program Manager, the common requirements for this job, whether they can actually be met, and how you can remain competitive in this volatile job market.

You can find the podcast interview here: https://bit.ly/3VoRH1J

Obeyas and Agile in Film Making with Dan Eberle

Dan Eberle is back! This time in the podcast Dan is here to talk about his work as a filmmaker. The interview focuses on the Obeya he and his team use during production and how his work as an agile coach influences his work making films. 

If the term "Obeya" seems unfamiliar...

"Conceptually akin to traditional “war rooms,” an Obeya will contain visually engaging charts and graphs depicting such information as program timing, milestones and progress-to-date and countermeasures to existing technical or scheduling issues."
(Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obeya)

The podcast was recorded in video because Dan shows examples of his work. You can find the podcast here: https://bit.ly/3SeTmEY

If you'd prefer an audio-only version, that lives here: https://bit.ly/3dGoZIJ

And if you'd like to check out a slide show with pictures of his Obeya and some of the other ways he and his crew visualize their work, you can find that here: https://bit.ly/InsurgentObeya

An Abundance of Opportunity with Chris Li

A student wrote in asking about how to deal with: 

• PO can’t or won’t prioritize the backlog

• Team members are always taking on special side projects in the company

• The team is 35 people spread across several time zones - both on and off-shore

• Everyone is working on new products and also supporting up to 30 applications

• Everyone is expected to be at 100% utilization at all times.

• The Sprints are 4-5 weeks long (the size varies depending on the work to be done)

• One hour is allocated for Sprint Planning

This is a lot to address here so I asked my good friend (and fellow CST) Chris Li to join me to talk through these challenges.

 The video version of the interview can be found here: https://bit.ly/3SgK2jL

An audio version of the podcast can be found here: https://bit.ly/3xwfWkg