Lyssa Adkins is one of the leading voices in Agile coaching. A founder of the Agile Coaching Institute, her book “Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition” set the bar for what it means to be an Agile Coach. In this interview Lyssa and I talk about what’s happening with the Agile Institute, coaching middle management and how to deal with coaching burnout.
Show Notes
The Super Nervous Interview Begins 2:10
Focused Listening 4:05
Four essential skill sets of coaching 6:00
The difference between “coaching” and being a professional coach 6:30
Big things going on at Agile Coaching Institute 7:45
Coaching Middle Management 8:40
The impact of the cultural change Agile brings 11:40
Is there a limit to how much change we can handle and where are the boundaries 12:30
Background on the burnt out coach14:30
Burn out is on the rise with Agile Coaches 15:00
Finding a path you can be on with heart 15:45
Finding the heart in letting the org become what it wants to become 16:40
Checking your own ambition 18:20
Goal setting and knowing when to walk away 19:00
What to do with the organizations on Life Support 19:15
Hospicing the death of old systems 20:20
Trying to reach people who don’t want to take your hand 21:30
Meeting confusion with curiosity 22:20
Agile coaches are agents of human evolution 24:00
How Agile Coaching Institute helps organizations 24:30
Developing a coaching capability that is in sync with where the organization’s goals 25:45
How to find and develop the coaches in an organization 27:45
How to help a burnt out coach/change agent 31:25
The importance of self-care if you want to be present and help others 32:50
Exposing why people avoid self-care35:00
Ways Lyssa practices self-care 35:30
The job is to “allow” 37:05
You can’t let go because it’s the tension that holds it together 38:18
What happens when you do let go 38:50
Lyssa Reads Poetry 40:25
All of us in the Agile community are part of evolving our capacity for complexity 41:45
We are in the time of organizations being living thing 43:05
How to contact Lyssa 43:25
Lyssa’s advice for the coaches who are feeling burned out 43:55
Lyssa’s Coaching Agile Teams book is 6 years old 44:45
Thanking Lyssa for making me uncomfortable (in a good way) 45:50
Upcoming Events for Lyssa 46:00
Links Mentioned in the Podcast
Lyssa in Twitter https://twitter.com/lyssaadkins
The Agile Coaching Institute
http://www.agilecoachinginstitute.com/coaches/
2016 Scrum Gathering Agenda http://bit.ly/1Upsg9W
Perseverance - Meg Wheatley http://amzn.to/1W4PSmM
Little Guide to Empathetic Technical Leadership - Alex Harms https://leanpub.com/littleguide
Agile Base Patterns, a Cross-Quadrant Conversation - a conversation between Lyssa Adkins and Dan Greening http://www.infoq.com/articles/agile-base-patterns
Iawake.com http://www.iawaketechnologies.com
The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America - David Whyte http://amzn.to/1NtifV7
Friday, April 22, 2016
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Personal Agility Canvas 2.0
Thanks to everyone who showed up for the session.
Presentation
Canvas
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
PMP Rehab: Personal Agility Canvas 2.0
I'll be leading a workshop to introduce the new version of the Personal Agility Canvas at the 2016 Scrum Gathering in Orlando on April 18 at 3 PM. If you know anyone who is struggling with getting their head (or heart) around Agile, please encourage them to attend and I promise they will leave with a plan of attack to improve their adoption of Agile.
Thursday, April 07, 2016
Podcast Interview with Woody Zuill on Mob Programming
I hope you will enjoy the interview.
Wednesday, April 06, 2016
Catching Up... 27 Podcasts, 5 Blog Posts and a Chicken
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| Me holding a chicken |
When that happens you find yourself staring at your Kanban board looking at the cards that never move... like the one that says UPDATE YOUR BLOG!
I've been total crap at keeping this up to date. Sadly, my own blog is always the last place I remember to post new things, so... here is an onslaught of things I have posted since the Agile 2015 Interviews.
I'm going to try (again) to suck a bit less at keeping this up to date.
If you like any of these, the best place to see updates from me on podcasts is on Twitter @mrsungo or @drunkenpm. (And there are some REALLY good ones coming.)
drunkenPM Radio Interviews (Episode 3 is coming soon)
- Episode 2: Bimodal with Steve Elliott and Dennis Stevens (2/2016)
- Episode 1:Hybrids and Organizational Agility with Shane Hastie and Data Literacy with John Cook and Troy Magennis (12/2015)
Note: these require registration, but it is free
- Jim Benson - Personal Kanban, Lean Coffee, his new Distributed Teams workshops and great new stuff coming from Modus Cooperandi (3/2016)
- Johanna Rothman - Becoming Influential Agile Leader and the workshops she is doing with Gil Broza (3/2015)
- Dean Leffingwell Scaled Agile Framework 4.0 or "The one where Dean completely changed the way I think about SAFe "(2/2016)
- Mike Vizdos - Starting, Practicing, Coaching and Leading Scrum - Note: You should listen to this one because... Vizdos (2/2016)
- Manny Gonzales - The new mission of the Scrum Alliance (1/2016)
- Mike Cohn - Mike Cohn on when we need Estimates and Why (12/2015)
- Kathryn Kuhn - Human Centered Design Thinking and Agile (11/2015)
- Rex Madden - Estimating and Answering "How Long, How Much?" (10/2015)
- John Miller - AgileSchools and using Empathy Maps with students (10/2015)
- Michael Tibbert - The challenge of moving from PM to Scrum Master (9/2015)
- Tim Wise - Agile Bodhisattvas and Developing Empathy For Change (3/2016)
- Dan Greening - The Five Characteristics of Sustainable Agility (3/2016)
- Russ Pena - Managing Value in the Portfolio (3/2016)
- Mike Cottmeyer - The Focus of Agile in 2016 (2/2016)
- Jann Thomas - Why Should the ScrumMaster be a Full Time Role? (1/2016)
- Derek Huether - The Agile Baltimore Unconference (12/2015)
- Mike Cottmeyer - The Rise of Bimodal IT (12/2015)
- Tim Wise - Portfolio Telemetry and Optimization (11/2015)
- Russ Pena - The Integrated Business Analyst (11/2015)
- Isaac Hogue - The Importance of Measurable Progress in Agile Transformation (10/2015)
- Tim Wise - DevOps in Product Development Organizations (10/2015)
- Robert Sfeir and Adrian Wible - Coaching Q&A : Answering Student Questions (9/2015)
- Andrew Fuqua - ATDD, BDD, TDD and More (9/2015)
- Mike Cottmeyer - The Emperor Has No Clothes Part 2 (9/2015)
- Chris Spagnuolo - System Design for Innovation Hubs in Large Enterprises (8/2015)
- Should We Limit WIP for Organizational Change (3/2016)
- Why Bimodal IT Matters (2/2016)
- Digital PM Summit Report on the Use of Agile in Digital Agencies (10/2015)
- This Year's Model - Hybrids! (10/2015)
- Personal Agility Canvas (9/2015)
Tuesday, February 09, 2016
drunkenpm radio EP 2 - BiModal! with Steve Elliott and Dennis Stevens
In this podcast I got to dig into the topic of Bimodal with two guys who are deeply knowledgeable about both the traditional and the Agile space. If you aren’t familiar with Bimodal yet, you definitely want to check this out because it is poised to have a massive impact on how organizations introduce and work with Agile. And if you are already up to speed on bimodal, there is a good chance some of the discussion in this podcast is going to challenge what you know on this topic.
Some links from the Podcast
Steve Elliott Interview
AgileCraft http://agilecraft.com
AgileCraft on Twitter - https://twitter.com/theagilecraft
Dennis Stevens Interview
LeadingAgile http://www.leadingagile.com
LeadingAgile on Twitter https://twitter.com/leadingagile
Dennis Stevens on Twitter https://twitter.com/dennisstevens
The blog post Dennis mentioned on Agile vs. Waterfall http://www.leadingagile.com/2013/08/agile-vs-waterfall/
The blog post Dennis mentioned on Agile vs. Waterfall http://www.leadingagile.com/2013/08/agile-vs-waterfall/
Show Notes
0:00 Introduction to the Bimodal Podcast
Steve Elliott Interview
2:50 Start Interview with Steve Elliott from AgileCraft
3:22 Background on Steve and AgileCraft
5:30 Defining Organizational Agility
6:50 The challenges of scale (with Agile)
8:00 The challenge of Bimodal
9:00 Defining Bimodal
9:40 AgileCraft’s take on Bimodal
11:15 Is Bimodal just a way of legitimizing a hybrid model
12:28 Admitting when we can’t actually go 100% Agile
13:00 The Agile Walk of Shame
13:51 AgileCraft’s decision to support Bimodal and “meet them where they’re at”
15:00 How Bimodal brings the data from both worlds into once place
16:00 Transparency and Measuring Value
17:10 Agile’s connection to strategy
18:11 Figuring out what data you need to pay attention to
20:22 The dangers of big wave planning
21:30 How the Agile space is evolving and maturing
22:30 How to contact Steve
Dennis Stevens Interview
23:15 - Dennis Steven’s interview begins
24:14 Background on Dennis and LeadingAgile
25:00 Dennis explains Bimodal
26:00 Why some things can’t move fast in an organization
27:00 Not everything (in an organization) is ready to move to Agile
27:47 Not everyone is trying to move everything to Agile
28:00 How most people are misinterpreting the message of Bimodal
29:10 Nobody thinks matrix teams are the right way to build software
29:52 People are still running by the pool with scissors in their mouths
30:15 It’s like crack for the business world
31:43 Conditions that must exist for fast feedback cycles and bimodal to work
33:50 Is transitioning to bimodal harder than just transitioning to Agile? (3 options for transformation)
35:51 Realizing when your organization has changed enough
36:45 You have to make Mode 1 be sexy and desirable
37:10 Creating the urgency for change
37:45 Do organizations have the self-awareness needed to understand what change they need?
38:20 Explaining it to Executives
40:10 Why Dennis does not have a “bimodal” conversation with executives
41:00 The value of having a pragmatic and safe roadmap for transformation that resonates with Executives
41:47 The hardest part of transforming to bimodal
42:40 How to contact Dennis
Any feedback (good, bad, whatever) would be greatly appreciated. You can reach me at drunkenpm@gmail.com or twitter.com/drunkenpm.
Monday, December 21, 2015
drunkenPM Radio - Episode 1 - Shane Hastie, John D. Cook and Troy Magennis
Part 1 - Interview with Shane Hastie on Hybrid Agile models, Business (Organizational) Agility and Bimodal.
Part 2 - Interview with John D. Cook and Troy Magennis on data literacy, what we should be looking at and finding the multiplying factors to help us increase productivity.
Following a suggestion from Derek Huether, I'm including some notes (below) to moments in the interviews you may find of interest.
Some info on the interviewees:
Shane Hastie on LinkedIn and Twitter
Troy Magennis at FocusedObjective or on Twitter
John D. Cook can be found on his website, or on Twitter.
Shane Hastie Interview
Podcast Overview 00:44
Shane Interview Start 02:14
Opening question on hybrids, organizational agility, and bimodal 02:32
Will Hybrid models continue to exist 03:31
Letting Infrastructure off the hook 03:50
Why knowledge workers aren’t off the hook 04:25
Infrastructure example to explain where you need traditional and where you need agile 05:00
Where you need incremental roll out without iterative change 06:05
The PMP / Architect Happy Dance 07:00
The Agile people are all spitting on themselves 07:24
Launching a new product example 07:50
Learning is everything - you want Lean Startup 08:10
Knowing when to stop pivoting 08:50
Agile is spot on - Learning and Adapting 09:10
The goal is not agile, the goal is learning 09:30
Are we making progress 09:58
Throwing down the Agile banner 10:21
Agile is just a set of tools and a nice brand 10:40
We are still addicted to waterfall 11:00
People have been successful in the old way or working 11:25
There are not many pathological managers out there. 12:05
Helping them see that the global paradigm of business has changed 12:20
Finding the right combination of techniques and practices12:35
Packing agile brands 12:50
Can you design a new insurance product with TDD 13:19
What about the people who do not recognize that the business paradigm has changed 13:41
The pace of change is increasing 14:30
Cultural Change Officer 14:43
People don’t resist change unless they can’t see the benefits 15:00
Finding the personal win 15:40
Defining (Organizational) Business Agility 16:40
Bimodal 17:45
Leveraging skill and knowledge of people in your organization 18:33
Practices designed to fill the gaps in Agile 18:50
Shane’s favorites from the Agile 2015 19:40
Defining value for organizations 12:08
Teaching the organization 21:00
If we could all be Sweden… 21:50
Wrap up 22:00
John Cook and Troy Magennis Interview
Intro 22:35
Are we data literate enough? 24:05
experiments and lean startup 24:34
Using legacy charts we don’t understand 15:00
Bing addicted to bad data in legacy charts 25:20
How do we help them see the right data 25:50
What should we measure and look at 26:23
Working on multiple projects 26:35
How much work are we doing 27:00
When they ignore what the data tells them 27:30
The chronic problem of multitasking 28:00
Extreme examples from academia and leveling 29:22
Tools fostering dysfunction 29:50
How do we teach them to ask for better stuff 30:25
We knew this stuff and we threw it all away 31:00
Agile and the laws of physics 31:15
Probability in the future 31:30
A predictable environment vs rolling dice 32:15
How long will things take 32:40
Creating / Defining a stable team 33:00
Tracking interruptions per week: 33:23
Helping hem understand why interrupts are bad by visualizing it 34:20
Understanding the difference between what you do and what the tool says you do 35:25
Interrupting managers v interrupting programmers 35:40
Tracking positive interruptions 36:00
A level playing field - they all suck so it worked well 37:15
The managers that will breed 38:00
Finding the multiplying factors 38:35
Technical Debt 39:10
Figuring out if we are looking at something meaningful 39:45
What is the mission with respect to data? 40:10
Trying to find the best course of action 40:45
We’re more about removing metrics and detail 41:10
Closing 41:40Monday, August 10, 2015
Special 20% Discount on Upcoming NYC CSM and CSPO classes for PMI Members
LeadingAgile has been kind enough to set up a special discount code for my upcoming CSM and CSPO classes in New York. You can register with the code PMI-NYC to get a 20% discount.
NYC CSM - 8/31/15-9/1/15
NYC CSPO - 9/2/15-9/3/15
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NYC CSM - 8/31/15-9/1/15
NYC CSPO - 9/2/15-9/3/15
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Friday, August 07, 2015
Agile 2015 Video Podcast - Ahmed Sidkey
Ahmed Sidky from ICAgile sits down with Chris Li at Agile 2015
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