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LeadingAgile SoundNotes: an Agile Podcast

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LeadingAgile's resident Scrum trainer Dave Prior, hosts a weekly podcast that covers all sorts of topics about Agile, Scrum, Organizational Transformation and Leadership. No matter if you're new to Agile development or an Agile veteran, Dave and his guest are sure to make you think about Agile in a whole new way! Alexa knows us as Leading Agile Sound Notes.

Episodes

Who Should be a ScrumMaster? Who Should be a Product Owner? w/ Dave Prior

Friday Feb 02, 2018

Friday Feb 02, 2018

We frequently get questions from clients who are transitioning to Agile when they begin working through the challenge of determining which roles are the best fit for individuals in their organization. Since many of our clients begin their Agile journey by taking on Scrum, the question usually shows up as:

Who should I make a Product Owner and who should I make a ScrumMaster?

While there is no locked down definition of who should transition into what role, there are some standard patterns that appear across organizations. A lot of it though depends on how an organization views the individuals in those positions and what level of responsibility they are given by the company.

In this short video, Dave Prior, LeadingAgile’s resident Certified Scrum Trainer, offers some advice and guidance with respect to sorting out which individuals in your organization should move into a Product Owner role and who is a better fit for ScrumMaster.

CONTACTING DAVE

If you’d like to contact Dave you can reach him at:

If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to dave.prior@leadingagile.com

And if you are interested in taking one of our upcoming Certified Scrum Master or Certified Scrum Product Owner classes, you can find all the details at https://www.leadingagile.com/our-gear/training/

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Sprint Report Basics: What Should You Be Tracking? w/ Jessica Wolfe

Thursday Jan 18, 2018

Thursday Jan 18, 2018

Jessica and Dave take a look at the Sprint Report template Dave uses in his CSM and CSPO classes. Using the report as a starting point, Jessica and Dave talk through the most valuable data points for new Scrum Teams as well as additional variables which are an important part of tracking the information that matters as your team learns to work together and gets better at delivering value for their customer. 

Contacting Jessica

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Contacting Dave

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If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to dave.prior@leadingagile.com

And if you are interested in taking one of our upcoming Certified Scrum Master or Certified Scrum Product Owner classes, you can find all the details at https://www.leadingagile.com/our-gear/training/

 

 

 

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What do you do when you can’t finish the work in a Sprint? Student Q&A w/ Derek Huether:

Wednesday Jan 10, 2018

Wednesday Jan 10, 2018

In this episode of LeadingAgile's SoundNotes, Derek Heuther and Dave Prior take on a question Derek received from a student in one of his recent classes:

What do you do, as a developer if the planned task cannot be resolved, or can not result in a potentially shippable product by the end of the Sprint?

For an audio only version of the podcast click here.

Contacting Derek

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Contacting Dave

If you’d like to contact Dave you can reach him at:

If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to dave.prior@leadingagile.com

And if you are interested in taking one of our upcoming Certified Scrum Master or Certified Scrum Product Owner classes, you can find all the details at https://www.leadingagile.com/our-gear/training/

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Team-Based New Year's Resolutions w/ Jessica Wolfe

Thursday Jan 04, 2018

Thursday Jan 04, 2018

Many of us start out the new year by making resolutions that we hope will help us become the better version of ourselves. In this episode of SoundNotes, LeadingAgile’s Jessica Wolfe and Dave Prior talk through some ideas you can use with your team to help them renew their focus on delivering value not just for the customer, but for the individual team members themselves. If you or your team are struggling to get the value you crave out of the work you are doing, this discussion will give you some ideas and tips to start getting more out of 2018!

Contacting Jessica

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Contacting Dave

If you’d like to contact Dave you can reach him at:

If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to dave.prior@leadingagile.com

And if you are interested in taking one of our upcoming Certified Scrum Master or Certified Scrum Product Owner classes, you can find all the details at https://www.leadingagile.com/our-gear/training/

 

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Student Q&A: How PBIs get into the Product Backlog & Tips for Moving from Waterfall to Agile w/ Jim Hayden and Tim Wise

Thursday Dec 21, 2017

Thursday Dec 21, 2017

In this week’s podcast, LeadingAgile’s Jim Hayden and Tim Wise join Dave to respond to questions submitted by students from our CSM and CSPO classes:

Question 1: How PBIs Get Into The Product Backlog

"Quick question. I was wondering if you had any ideas around a process for getting items into a backlog? I currently just stepped into a role and one of the first things I'm wanting to tackle is a process for placing items into our backlog. Currently things are all over the place because the developers are kind of doing their own thing . In order to create some consistency among PBI's do you think it's a good idea for one individual (ME) to create all PBI's? It's a fairly small team with 6 developers so I don't anticipate any bottle neck. If you don't think having one individual is a good idea then what recommendations do you have for putting a process in place for my team?" (Begins at 02:37)

Question 2: Moving to Waterfall From Agile

"The only thing we didn't have time to talk about was how to manage transitions from waterfall to agile.  Will you please send me or upload to the box (if you haven't already done it) some tips/techniques/advices about how to handle that process?" (Begins at 19:31)

Contacting Jim

Contacting Tim

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Feedback/Questions

If you have comments on the podcast, or have questions for the LeadingAgile coaches that you’d like to have addressed in a future episode of LeadingAgile’s SoundNotes, you can reach Dave at dave.prior@leadingagile.com

LeadingAgile CSM and CSPO Classes

For information on LeadingAgile’s upcoming public CSM and CSPO classes, please go to: http://www.leadingagile.com/our-gear/training/ Use the discount code: LA_Podcast to receive a 15% discount on the class.

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Agile in a Few Weeks and Correcting Developer Behavior w/ Tom Churchwell

Thursday Dec 14, 2017

Thursday Dec 14, 2017

In this week's SoundNotes,  LeadingAgile’s Tom Churchwell and Matt Fischer join Dave to respond to two questions submitted by students of our Certified Scrum Master and Certified Scrum Product Owner classes.

STUDENT QUESTIONS

Question 1:

"How do you see the way companies, after long years of waterfall, trying to move to Agile in few weeks?"

Question 2:

"How does a ScrumMaster correct a development team member?"

CONTACTING TOM CHURCHWELL

CONTACTING DAVE PRIOR

SEND US YOUR QUESTIONS

If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to dave.prior@leadingagile.com

UPCOMING CLASSES

And if you are interested in taking one of our upcoming Certified Scrum Master or Certified Scrum Product Owner classes, you can find all the details at https://www.leadingagile.com/our-gear/training/

 

 

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CSP Deadline 12/31/17: How to Earn SEU's Fast! w/ Special Guests: Erika Massie and Cody Winberg.

Wednesday Dec 13, 2017

Wednesday Dec 13, 2017

The Scrum Alliance’s Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) designation is changing on Jan 1, 2018. If you meet the qualifications for the current version of CSP, applying before it expires on December 31, 2017 may provide you with a much easier path to the practitioner level of certification offered by the Scrum Alliance.

You’ll find details on the current version of CSP here:

https://www.scrumalliance.org/certifications/practitioners/csp-certification

In order to qualify for CSP there are a number of requirements that must be met including earning 70 Scrum Education Units (SEUs).

With the pending change, I have been recommending to all my CSM and CSPO students that they apply for CSP as soon as possible in order to beat the deadline. Many of them have come back with questions about how to earn the SEUs required for the CSP designation.

In this podcast, Scrum Alliance Director of Global Learning and Assessment, Erika Massie and Scrum Alliance Learning Coordinator, Cody Wanberg break down the changes to the CSP certification, the timeline for the change AND we talk through different ways to attain the required SEU’s before the deadline.

It’s a short podcast, so no actual show notes for this one. Just a few things to keep in mind…

  • In order to qualify for CSP before the change, you must have your completed application submitted to the Scrum Alliance before it becomes 2018 in Denver.
  • Once you submit, the turnaround time you should expect is 8 weeks.

Here are a few of the ways you can earn SEUs…

  • Watch the CST facilitated webinars on the Scrum Alliance website. There are 19 of these and they are an hour each. If you watch them all, you’ll earn 19 SEUs.
  • Watch the Scrum Foundations e-learning series to earn 1 SEU.
  • If you took a CSM or CSPO, each class is worth 16 SEUs. If you’ve taken both, that is 32. AND, if you’ve taken CSM or CSPO more than once, you get the 16 for each time you take the class.
  • During the interview, Cody and Erika explain that listening to something like the Agile Uprising’s Manifesto Author Review podcast series could be submitted under Category E - Independent Learning. You get 1 SEU for each hour of time spent listening. It is a great series and I highly recommend it. You can find it here.
  • There are a number of additional ways to earn SEUs and you can find that detailed on the Scrum Alliance site. https://www.scrumalliance.org/certifications/practitioners/csp-certification/ways-to-earn-seus

Additional Questions

If you have questions for the Scrum Alliance about the changes to CSP or SEU’s, send an email to support@scrumalliance.org with the subject line CSP Application Question

 

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Creating Empathy Maps w/ Scott Sehlhorst

Thursday Dec 07, 2017

Thursday Dec 07, 2017

In October, LeadingAgile SVP, Scott Sehlhorst spent some time talking with Dave about the importance of Personas and Proto-Personas and how to use them. In this episode of SoundNotes, Scott is back to talk about Empathy Maps, how they work, why they are so valuable and how to create one. During the conversation, Scott and Dave talk through each step of creating an Empathy Map. The podcast is one of our longer ones, but if you are seeking a better understanding of how to put one together, you’ll find a lot of valuable information in this interview.

You’ll probably want to download a copy of David Gray’s Empathy Map to have on hand while you listen to this episode. You can find that here: http://gamestorming.com/empathy-mapping/

 

SHOW NOTES

  • 00:08 Interview Begins
  • 00:50 Some background on Scott
  • 02:30 Intro to the topic of Empathy Maps and how they relate to Proto-Personas and Personas
  • 03:09 What is Empathy? How does it relate to Sympathy and Cognitive Empathy
  • 05:46 What is an Empathy Map and who creates it?
  • 08:42 Understanding their understanding of their problem
  • 09:39 Whose job is it to create it?
  • 10:45 Where to learn how to interview users
  • 11:30 How do you pick which customers to focus on? (And the set up for the example we walk through)
  • 20:20 Who are we empathizing with? (Understanding the role you are focusing on)
  • 21:17 Understanding what they need to do
  • 24:13 What is the goal they are trying to achieve?
  • 26:25 Understanding what success means for the person we are focusing on
  • 27:54 What they see and what do they say - situational awareness and how they interpret what they see
  • 30:08 The disconnect between what do I see and what do I say
  • 32:16 What do they do
  • 33:19 The Double Design Process (Double Diamond Design)
  • 36:18 Moving from empathy maps to experiment maps or the value proposition canvas
  • 37:28 What do they hear (and how it is not all about sound)
  • 41:18 What do they think and feel
  • 45:45 How often do I revise the empathy map
  • 48:35 When I’m done filling out the empathy map, what do I do with it?
  • 51:05 How to reach Scott with additional questions about Empathy Maps
  • 51:57 Podcast Ends

LINKS FROM THE PODCAST

CONTACTING SCOTT

If you’d like to contact Scott you can reach him at:

CONTACTING DAVE

If you’d like to contact Dave you can reach him at:

SEND US YOUR QUESTIONS

If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to dave.prior@leadingagile.com

UPCOMING CLASSES

And if you are interested in taking one of our upcoming Certified Scrum Master or Certified Scrum Product Owner classes, you can find all the details at https://www.leadingagile.com/our-gear/training/

 
 

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Student Q&A: Dealing with Performance Issues and Stakeholder Expectations w/ Jessica Wolfe

Thursday Nov 30, 2017

Thursday Nov 30, 2017

For this episode of SoundNotes, we’re back with more of the questions submitted by recent  CSM and CSPO students.

In this week’s podcast, Jessica Wolfe and Dave Prior respond to the following questions:

Question 1:

What is the desired relationship interaction between the Scrum Master and Development Managers with regard to developers who are participating on a scrum team, and how does that impact performance management from an HR standpoint? In other words, if there are performance issues with a Developer, where does the responsibility fall for addressing & resolving those performance issues?

Question 2:

I work at a fairly large company on a product that has direct eyesight from the CEO, who constantly says things like, “Wouldn’t it be cool if our app did X?” with the expectation being that it doesn’t matter how cool X actually is, we can expect to be implementing it right frickin’ now. How, for the love of SCRUM can I deal with this within my framework?

 

Contacting Jessica

If you’d like to contact Jessica you can reach her at:

Contacting Dave

If you’d like to contact Dave you can reach him at:

If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to dave.prior@leadingagile.com

And if you are interested in taking one of our upcoming Certified Scrum Master or Certified Scrum Product Owner classes, you can find all the details at https://www.leadingagile.com/our-gear/training/

 

 

 

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The Trust and Influence Loop w/ Mike Cottmeyer

Thursday Nov 16, 2017

Thursday Nov 16, 2017

One of the best parts of working at LeadingAgile is the continual focus on helping the brilliant people who work here amplify their ability to deliver value for customers. We have a weekly call where we focus on different aspects of the work we do and how we can get better at delivering on the LeadingAgile approach so that our customers can achieve their goals. In a recent call Mike Cottmeyer walked through the Trust Influence Loop, which explains the way we interact with our clients in order to develop the safety and trust we need to be able to help them achieve the outcomes they are looking for. The model had a huge impact on me and I asked Mike if he’d be willing to do an interview on it so that we could share it with others.  While this podcast is a little on the long side, the whole conversation is incredibly valuable.

SHOW NOTES

  • 00:08 Interview Begins
  • 00:30 How LeadingAgile syncs up in the morning
  • 02:47 The Tuesday Night Calls
  • 04:17 The Trust Influence Loop Model - Part 1: Influence
  • 08:55 Getting Access… then what”
  • 11:12 The importance of continually creating safety and earning the right to have influence
  • 13:25 Demonstrating empathy, listening and learning
  • 17:43 Why it is so important to hear the client’s explanation of the problem
  • 19:18 The girl with the nail in her head
  • 20:34 The difference between thinking everything is a nail and asserting a position you believe in
  • 23:31 The Trust Influence Loop Model - Part 2: Trust
  • 26:45 Integrity in context  - are you going to do what you said you are going to do
  • 28:04 Developing integrity from the promise through the delivery
  • 30:13 Integrity and maintaining a shared understanding with the client throughout execution
  • 36:28 It’s not about artifacts, it is about demonstrating integrity, building consensus and reaching shared understanding
  • 37:52 You have to understand who the client is and what problem you are trying to solve
  • 43:13 How the Trust-Influence loop applies outside of work
  • 46:19 Why LeadingAgile writes SOWs that take one trip through the loop at a time
  • 49:06 Mike’s journey of unpacking what’s he’s learned and sharing it with other people
  • 50:17 Random Question for Mike: What was the last album you downloaded and listened to that wasn’t Collective Soul?
  • 51:29 Nothing but peace and martinis

LINKS FROM THE PODCAST

Trust Influence Loop Graphic

You can download a copy of the Trust Influence Loop here

If you want to watch the video of the girl with the nail in her head, you can find it here:

The Slash album Mike refers to during the interview is:

CONTACTING MIKE

If you’d like to reach Mike, here is how you can contact him:

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