Agile Uprising Podcast

From the archives: Join Andy Flemming and Andy Cleff as they discuss An Everyone Culture: Deliberately Developmental Organizations. DDO's create an unusual kind of environment, one that tolerates — even prefers — making one's failures, risks, and weaknesses public so that colleagues can support each other in the process of overcoming them. There's a wonderful congruence with Modern Agile principle...

In this week's episode, co-hosts Jay Hrcsko and Troy Lightfoot discuss the fallacies of prioritization and other agile-related practices that need rethinking including the cost of delay, WIP, release planning, forecasting, and more. This episode contains follow-along images which can be found below. If you like this episode and want to attend an upcoming class on these topics, Troy is running a 4-...

Discord members Niklas Kari, Mike Caddell, and Janel Lanza welcome fellow agilist Christiaan Verwijs to discuss his recent article on a data-driven approach to discussing SAFe. It's everyone's favorite framework to bash and blame for the issues in our work, and often the arguments are based on anecdotal evidence. So, when someone decided to do some extensive research on the topic, it got our atten...

This week we sit down with Dan Doiron to discuss his new book, Seeing Money Clearly: Using Throughput Accounting to Understand and Manage Knowledge-Work. We discuss the different types of capacities, why buying capacity should always be a last resort, and how common cause variation will be a software team's undoing. Enjoy! Slides to support today's conversation Seeing Money Clearly @ Amazon Seeing...

FROM THE ARCHIVES: "I promise..." What if we applied the idea of a promise to engineering, systems design, and how we interact with each other? Join host Jay Hrcsko and special guest-host Jonathan Magen as they sit down early in the morning to chat with the brilliant Mark Burgess, creator of Promise Theory. Make sure you've had your coffee before you listen, this just may change how you interact w...

Architecture....as in "software architecture"....what do these people do? Do they do more harm than good? Have we replaced this need with advances in software engineering? And what about the different types of architects? This week we go all-in on this topic, along with why engineers want to be architects, what the role REALLY entails, and how to use your Enterprise Architect to your advantage. En...

One from the way back machine! This Agile Uprising podcast was hosted in 2017 by Ryan Lockard (@AgilePHL) and James Gifford (@scrummando) and featured Agile pioneer and Manifesto Co-Author Jim Highsmith (@jimhighsmith) We're looking forward to Jim's new book: Wild West to Agile: Adventures in Software Development Evolution and Revolution Learn more jimhighsmith.com thoughtworks.com/profiles/jim-hi...

This week Co-hosts Troy Lightfoot and Chris Murman sit down with special guest Colleen Johnson, CEO of ProKanban.org, and discuss an interesting topic, "Death of the Product Roadmap." Colleen makes a case for moving away from traditional roadmaps to utilizing portfolio Kanban at scale to achieve agility at all levels of an organization. TLDL: The idea of a roadmap is not bad, but the most common f...

Return guest Chris Li joins host Chris Murman to discuss the state of conferences today, why they matter, and how #Agile2023 is our favorite of the bunch. We also discuss how much we adore Troy Lightfoot, and why his voice was built for radio. Li and Murman then discuss Agile Advice at the conference. Since he created the space for Agile Alliance, Li speaks to the history, why it's extremely under...

It seems like EVERYONE is talking about ChatGPT, and large language models, and that it's going to replace everything...but will it really? Join us this week as we sit down to discuss what potential impacts these tools will have on the agile industry and the agile job family. Enjoy! If you enjoyed this episode, please give us a review, a rating, or leave comments on iTunes, Stitcher or your podcas...

Join Andrew Leff, Troy Lightfoot and Andy Cleff as they make a pilgrimage to The Lodge at Snowbird, UT. There they discover some amazing artifacts that date back to circa 2001. This episode is graciously sponsored by Wellington Dowd. His framework, the Foundation Utilizing Core Knowledge To Actualize Realistic Delivery, is a multi-level phase-gated process to roll out "the agile" to your organizat...

Are we humans at the mercy of hard-wired circuits buried deep in the animalistic parts of our brains or are we the architects of our own experience? In this episode, Andy Cleff shares his research on the Triune Brain theory and some surprising facts. Links Your Brain Is Not an Onion With a Tiny Reptile Inside Joseph Cesario Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain Lisa Feldman Barrett How Gut Bact...

FROM THE ARCHIVES - we're re-running an old episode this week that some of our newer listeners might have missed. Listen in as Troy and William Strydom chat about integral theory and how they utilize it in both their personal and professional lives. Enjoy! This week's episode features special guest William Strydom and host Troy Lightfoot on the topic of "Integral Theory." William and Troy discuss...

What percentage of your and your teams' total working time is spent in meetings? What proportion of those are really good uses of everyone's time? What if businesses could eliminate meaningless and/or unproductive meetings? Listen in as co-hosts Andy Cleff and Marc Story chat with Evan Unger, a world-class fixer for the mess that are meetings, explore the power of facilitation: the missing sauce....

This week we sit down AGAIN with author Jeff Anderson to review the completed version of his book Organizing Toward Agility. We discuss the importance of organizational design in trying to enact change in an organization, along with many other ideas from his book. Enjoy! If you enjoyed this episode, please give us a review, a rating, or leave comments on iTunes, Stitcher or your podcasting platfor...

Do you have a feeling that your team/system/organization is capable of much higher performance than you are currently experiencing? Could the solution be as simple as learning to do "no" better!? Listen in as Andy Cleff ponders: The Problem With "Yes" Consequences of Status Quo Decisions vs Relationships Working with Trade-Offs The "No" Repertoire And building an action plan backlog for doing no b...

In this week's episode, host Troy Lightfoot details the number one thing he thinks impacts teams' and organizations' ability to deliver quickly and predictably. Troy uses a combination of story telling and visualization linked below to explain. Feel free to follow along! Follow Along: Cycle Time Scatterplot Kingda Ka Passes Aging Work In Progress Chart Kanback Pocket Guide Resources: ProKanbanTrai...

In this episode, host Troy Lightfoot chats with Chris Li about the current state of Agile and the growing negativity in the community. We discuss what's going on and if we can reset our thinking around Agile because it's actually awesome! Links https://www.sparkplugagility.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/realchrisli/ https://prokanbantraining.com (if you would like to take any classes with Troy!)...

The concept of flow is vital to truly adopting business agility and yet it is notoriously difficult to convey...there has to be an easier way. What about a game? This week we're joined by irregular regular Sarah Baca to discuss the Okaloa Flowlab simulation game and how it teaches flow, and we're also joined by the creators of the game itself, Arlette Vercammen and Patrick Steyaert! Enjoy! If you...

In this episode, host Troy Lightfoot chats with Ryan Ripley about his latest controversial social media posts about story points and his new mantra, "Story points are trash" We discuss why he feels that way, what are the alternatives, and how some of our "common" practices might be better left in the past if we want to progress. Links https://www.agileforumans.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanr...

Process. Practices. Principles. But what about org structure? This week we sit down with Cesario Ramos, one of the authors behind Creating Agile Organizations: A Systemic Approach to discuss the importance of organizational design and how it directly impacts the odds of success when trying to perform any type of large-scale organizational change, especially an agile transformation. Cheers! Creatin...

In a blog post last year, AU board member Chris Murman wrote about loneliness and his experience with the topic in his professional journey. Because they are gluttons for punishment and love discussing their own misery, Jay Hrcsko, and Andrew Leff joined Murman to start the new year off with an emotional blood-letting. Along the way, the three discuss: How comfortable we all are with the topic. Th...

Not long ago, Chris Murman and Jay Hrcsko recorded a podcast about some of the mistakes or failures Murman has made in his agile journey. Perhaps it wasn't an outright fail, but definitely coaching he wished he could have a do-over. It is part of a larger conversation we have been having at AU for quite some time. We even wish we could host a conference devoted solely to failure bows. It definitel...

Joining us to kick off our series on Agile Leadership is returning guest Kurt Bittner, co-author of the Professional Agile Leader! We discuss the satisfaction gap as it relates to transformation, how facts are friendly, and how your customers dont care about your revenue or operational expense, among many other topics. Enjoy! The Professional Agile Leader on Amazon If you enjoyed this episode, ple...

Break the Burnout Cycle and Unlock High Performance in the New World of Work! Hosts Andy Cleff, Jay Hrzcko, and Shana Burns chat with organizational agility expert Brandi Olson about her book: Real Flow We cover a range of topics: Brandi's inspirations for the book, cognitive science, organizational agility, lean principles, and permaculture. Listen in and learn how to cultivate an evidence-driven...