The Agile Daily Standup - AgileDad

Join the team at AgileDad as we explore breaking down Agile Scaling and have an in depth discussion regarding Scaling Frameworks and which one is the best for your organization. Scaling may not even always be the answer. Learn about how to tell if your organization is ready to pull the trigger and if scaling is the right choice. 

Join V. Lee Henson as we uncover one of the most avoided Agile topics, how a product or project should be funded. How do we align the money with the work being performed? This topic is most certainly taboo in most companies and is certainly one of the very few things that we avoid at all costs and hope it all just falls into place in the end. We learn to focus on funding solutions and outcomes ins...

What on Earth is Outcome Driven Delivery? It should be the new tagline for any Agile Business. We should re-align our goals to focus on the outcome with as little output as possible. In this session we learn why this is important and should be a critical part of our Business Agility Toolkit. 

Join V. Lee Henson, President and Founder of AgileDad as we celebrate the release of the long awaited Agile Meetings Playbook!  This meeting playbook was born as a solution to a  growing problem we have seen on our coaching  engagements. One of the largest bottomless holes  that organizations sink valuable resources into is  meeting attendance, duration, and frequency. This  guide will help elimin...

In The Daily Podcast Episode 42 we learn the answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything. Although it was not planned, we close out the week with a question regarding finding the best training and coaching for your organization. I will tell you up front that this is a VERY matter of fact approach and is in no way an AgileDad advertisement. While we are very good at what we do, I took a VERY objec...

The topic of Agile Team Working Agreements seems to be a pressing issue right now. How do we careate a healthy agreement without having the team feel like they are cementing in a set of rules which will enforce team penalty instead of uplifting and adding team value? Join V. Lee Henson, President and Founder of AgileDad as we explore and dive deep into what makes a Team Working Agreement Tick and...

Based on the recent free webinar - The 7 Deadly Sins of Technical Debt, a writer asked how do we not lean on the debt sprint and put off debt until the next one instead of addressing it in a timely mannet when it arrives? Does the debt sprint become a crutch? Tune in and learn how the debt sprint is intended to be used and how new debt work is addressed in a more timely fashion.  

The current situation seems to be driving more and more organizations to moving some positions permanently remote. I’ve had several colleagues say they don’t believe Agile can survive remotely, I know it can. Love to hear your thoughts on how to maintain or even build mature teams while working remote. Join V. Lee Henson as we address this issue head on and talk about the current state of working...

Join V. Lee Henson President and Founder of AgileDad as we discuss how to properly use tasks and stories. We will also discover tips for what should be measured and how to make cetain you are continuing to focus on Outcome over Output while still delivering meaningful Agile visual indicators. 

Retrospectives might be the most difficult to have and to facilitate for many organizations. They turn into either a festival of silence or a mud-slinging, into the octogon, type of event. There is never a happy medium.  Join V. Lee Henson and learn some healthy tips and tricks to make your retrospectives much more powerful. 

Join V. Lee Henson, President and Founder of AgileDad as we explore the purpose of the internal review to make certain we have a grasp on meeting the acceptance criteria and having a potentially shippable increment ready for the public demo. Great information empowering great meetings! 

Yes you read correctly. In an effort to keep all of our meetings aligned and in order by podcast episode, and by popular demand, we are running with another episode dedicated to the daily standup meeting. Join us in this episode where you will learn and expore what we need to do as a team in order to nail this meeting, thereby making all of our other Agile meetings more clear and enjoyable. 

Sprint Planning is the perfect time to align the Scrum team and their work with the will of the product owner for each Sprint increment. Join V. Lee Henson, President and Founder of AgileDad as we explore everyting you need to know about this valuable meeting. 

  Join AgileDad University as V. Lee Henson chats with you about the ONLY and BEST way to achieve meaningful Agile Estimates. Shoe Size Matters... We will openly discuss the following topics: Why you should never estimate using time Who is responsible for sizing and forecasting What is a Story Point and how is it useful to you How can we forecast without using time Can you achieve 85% estimation a...

The PO should be willing to spend one hour per week with each team. This will help with communication alignment and allow the PO to get work estimated, broken down, refined, acceptance criteria refined, etc. Basically the team is working closely with product ownership in order to align the work for upcoming sprints. Join V. Lee Henson President and Founder of AgileDad as we explore this time savin...

This episode may surely become one of the most listened to episodes in the history of the Daily Standup Podcast! How can we leverage large scale planning to achieve a great forecast without burning out the team in a multi-day meeting? Join V. Lee Henson as we learn how the BIG meeting should flow, who should be there, and how to keep it streamlined! 

Join V. Lee Henson as we explore the POBAFATA Backlog Item Creation Workshop. Once we have our head around the scope of the products or projects in flight, the next step is for the Product Owner to hold brainstorming sessions and create backlog items. This episode focuses on the Who? What? Where? When? Why? and How? to make this stremalined and effective. 

Agile and RoadMapping are often not talked about in the same sentence, but should they be? Having some forecast for future work is critical and roadmapping could unlock the communication key betweeen Agile Product Ownership and the leadership who is striving for predictability. In this episode we will explore the value of a rolling wave roadmap and how this can impact relationship building in a po...

What is the difference between Purpose? Vision? Mission? Strategy? and Tactics? At what level should the Vision and Strategy be applied? Is this orgnaization specific? Product Specific? or Both? Join V. Lee Henson President and founder fo AgileDad as we explore why this piece is so critical to a great Agile implementation. 

The Technical Analyst is by far the most critical to have in the mix if you ar ebuilding technical products or services. This person often serves as a team lead or an architect that has their head fully engaged on how the product or service functions and is ready to engage to help the team have whet they need from a technical perspective so that they can focus on building what makes sense. Join V....

The Functional Analyst puts the word fun in dysfunction! Explore with V. Lee Henson as we learn how this critical role helps the PO best understand business strategy and helps align the Vision and Strategy with the product or service that we are building. 

Join V. Lee Henson President and Founder of AgileDad as we review and discuss the responsibilities of the agile business analyst. Learn how they should always have their thumb on the pulse of the consumer and how this full time assistant helps uplift and support agile product ownership. 

The Product Owner role is often the most misunderstood and misinformed role in the entire Agile Framework. Join V. Lee Henson, president and founder of AgileDad as we discuss what the PO role should really be doing and why they should be the most revered role in your organization. 

Happy Memorial Day! In the United States, today we remember and show respect for those who have served us and provided us with our civil liberties and freedoms. As we focus on those closest to us, we should also take an opportunity to ask ourselves what we are doing to share our talents to uplift and serve others. Join V. lee Henson as we spend a few moments exploring what we can do to make a diff...

Is it real? Or is it a unicorn? Who wants to be the product manager? How are they any different from the product owner? product lead? product governor? product solutions architect? product evangelist? product ruler? product overlord? product undertaker? product vader? product yoda? product master? product ninja? product wizard? product coach? product professor? product chief? product etc...   In t...