The Agile Pubcast

In this episode, Geoff and Paul meander around discussing Paul's lack of focus on mundane tasks towards how we as coaches and faciliators maintain "presence" and help others to maintain their focus too. Geoff needs a name for one of the techniques he had creates, and stay tuned right to the end to listen for a unique code which allows you as a listener to claim a special discount off Geoff and Pau...

Geoff & Paul give a short (and fairly brutal) review of Marty Cagan's new book, in which he makes several bold suggestions about how to transformation organisations to become more product-centric. Our concerns centered around those reading will make radical decisions which jeopardise jobs through cost savings. Is this the right thing for our thought leaders to do? How is this similar to Ken Sc...

From Our Homes, UK! Geoff and Paul caught up over a ZOOM call and got into a conversation about LISTENING. Both Geoff and Paul share both why it's important for us to listen, and also some exercises on how to practice listening in a group or even on your own. Some links that are mentioned during this episode... https://tastycupcakes.org/2012/10/intuitions/ https://www.instagram.com/reel/C17B57AOWh...

From The Channings, Bristol. Happy 2024!! Geoff and Paul met up with Nigel to bring the new year in with a pint and a chat about the year ahead. The three lads talked about how companies have changed post-COVID and some of the strange decisions many orgs are making on cutting roles and jobs. Is this the end of "agile" roles as we see them? Be sure to listen and subscribe to find out!! Hosted on Ac...

From The Hatherley, Cheltenham, UK. Our final pubcast of the year! All about rituals.. or are they traditions? Make sure you stay to the end for the special Christmas message... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From Deus Ex Machina, Boscombe UK. The name of this pub took us on another meandering conversation into the realms of possibilities with an AI-related future and how our role as humans may need to adapt into a creating more people-centric (or even planet-centric) processes. Most of Paul's AI knowledge is based on the Terminator film franchise, which Geoff hasn't seen (no surprises there!!) Hosted...

From The Long Bar, Bristol. It's been a long time since our last episode, but Geoff and Paul are back! Taking a short break in our busy schedules brought us together for a catch up in Bristol, where we discussed everything from karaoke singing to kanban training! We hope you enjoy the episode, and we hope to get back to a more frequent recording schedule! "I’m not the pheasant plucker, I’m the phe...

Are you superstitious? Do you believe in ‘luck’? In this episode, Paul shares his excitement about an upcoming football match for his favourite team and whether his superstitions about the game are a good or bad thing. The conversation moves onto being “lucky” and how an agile approach could quickly proves or disprove a lucky occurrence. Enjoy! The Secret of Luck - Derren Brown https://youtu.be/Ru...

Hello there! (In the style of Obi-Wan Kenobi!) This next episode is a recording from our appearance at Product Tank Cardiff, where Geoff and Paul were invited to host a LIVE pubcast to field some questions from the product people in the crowd. The boys took on questions such as: ❓Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) is moving forward as breakneck speed. What (if any) changes do...

Can you believe what you are seeing?! Welcome to Episode 7 of Series 7 of The Agile Pubcast! Join agile coaches Geoff Watts and Paul Goddard at the virtual pub "The Coach House" as they delve into the fascinating world of optical illusions and explore how it relates to the role of an agile coach. 🍻🧠 In this episode, the boys discuss Geoff's recent experience visiting a museum of optical illusion...

Welcome to The Coach House!! Geoff and Paul recorded this episode after a few hours fishing and got onto the topic of team topologies. After Paul had been spending some time with a client looking to scale up scrum teams, his research led him to Team Topologies (Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais) and a nice visualisation tool provided by Agile Stationery. In this episode, Geoff and Paul talk throug...

Recorded at The Bayshill, Cheltenham. After noticing some large murals in the car park outside and some cool "artwork" the theme quickly became evident as "Visualisation". We discussed how powerful visualisation or graphical recording can be, how much easier it can be than many people think it will be and we even illustrated this point (see what we did there?) in some drawing challenges. Plus ther...

Welcome to another episode from the new series of The Agile Pubcast! In this episode, we catch up with Geoff and Paul after a hard day’s fishing as they share a drink and discuss a couple of questions from our listeners around “psychological safety” and “the law of immutability”. They also discuss some LANDLORD LOGIC around being “naughty” and whether that is indeed a good or bad thing for an agil...

Welcome back to another episode of Series 7 of The Agile Pubcast! In this episode, Geoff and Paul discuss and demonstrate the art of debating “respectfully” whilst examining a quote they picked up from a Twitter thread, in a new feature called “OVERHEARD AT THE BAR” and we also have another contender for “YOU’RE BARRED” - from a member of the agile community and there social media stance! If you w...

Strength is an interesting topic though, especially when it comes to agile…and leadership… It’s often not about knowing the answer but having the strength to say “I don’t know”. It’s about having the strength to say “Let’s try some stuff”, being prepared to stand out of the crowd and go against the status quo…trust people. Welcome to Episode 2 of the revamped format for the new year Geoff Watts an...

Tomorrow never comes, or so the saying goes. Sometimes, when we're in the midst of our daily lives, focusing on our future progress, we forget to stop and appreciate the present moment. Because of that, we tend not to make the best use of our time and opportunities. So should we learn how to to live life right here and now? In a revamped format for the new year Geoff Watts and Paul Goddard get tog...

Geoff & Paul catch-up after the Global Scrum Gathering 2022 in Lisbon, where Paul presented two sessions and also attended the entire gathering and CST Retreat. This episode a round up of the event and also some exploration into what the word "community" really means. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello from the Blue Bell in Cardiff, Wales! An early morning to discuss our emotions and how both scrum teams AND leaders can benefit from psychological safety. Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From The Frog & Fiddle, Cheltenham, UK. A question posed by one of Geoff's followers about how to assess whether Scrum is actually working. Now THAT'S a question!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this special bonus episode the boys are joined by Vasco Duarte - host of the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast and the Agile Online Summit - to discuss a question many people are being asked in interviews...how do you measure the productivity of a team? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

An episode from the archives!! This episode was recorded back in April 2017 but never made it to air so Geoff and Paul have pulled this episode out to share with you. We found ourselves back in our old drinking haunt "The Knight's Templar" in Bristol discussing a questions from a certain Geoff Goddard (yes, that really IS his name) about the existence of an Agile PMO. Nigel joins us on this one, s...

Geoff was in Hull and Paul was in Amsterdam for this one. Quite a bit of background noise so we painstakingly added the subtitles manually. Paul was supporting a CST applicant in their attempts to meet the requirements of the Scrum Alliance to become a certified trainer so we discussed how that came about, what it involves and how it was going for him, the co-trainer and the class. Hosted on Acast...

The boys grabbed a nice summery pint at the Portwall Tavern in Bristol and, experimenting with some new kit, discussed visualising alternative perspectives to deal with different orders of magnitude. Inspired by Tim Urban of waitbutwhy.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Geoff and Paul get together in The Libertine in Westbourne, Dorset for a mystery pint and a chat about hedonism - the theory that the satisfaction of desires is the highest good and proper aim of human life - and our tendency to over-value what we own in the here and now. We discuss a number of topics including Temporal Discounting, The Endowment Effect and Visualisation as well even drifting way...

Recorded in the nearly 500 year old pub Ye Olde Mitre in London, Geoff and Paul discuss what ScrumMasters, Product Owners and themselves should start, stop and continue. For those of you on the Regular and Legend tiers this is your third bonus episode of the year and our Legends are invited to the Discord chat on Friday 10th June @ 12:30 GMT+1 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform...