The Agile Pubcast

Geoff and Paul get together in a lovely Olde English pub at the source of the River Thames in the Cotswolds to talk Product Ownership. Including a discussion and debate about different 3 letter acronyms, they moved on to discuss the different mindset and psychology behind the exploit and explore states of product development. Oh yeah - and they have merch now! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privac...

In the sixth episode of our Prestigious Pints series, Geoff Watts and Paul Goddard get together (virtually in lockdown) with one of their heroes and inspirations Nana Bambara-Abban.   Nana is an agile coach and influencer that came onto a course with Geoff & Paul some years ago, and he has since become a big part of the Agile in Africa movement.   Nana explains how he became involved...

Oh what a special episode this is! The boys were back inside a real pub after a full day's fishing! So, to celebrate they had not just one drink but two while talking about what people look for from training and what they ultimately get. This led them on to self-discovery and then status - whether we have a bias for high or low status, whether certain roles are more high or low status and whether...

In the fifth episode of our Prestigious Pints series, Geoff Watts and Paul Goddard get together (virtually in lockdown) with a pair of agile inspirations Mary & Tom Poppendieck.  They chat about how the COVID pandemic has forced companies to pivot into new and innovative ideas based on purpose and then responding to feedback.  The conversation also touched on quality and craftsmanshi...

You've probably noticed our new logo - whaddaya think? And in other amazing news we got back into a real live pub! Well...outside a real live pub but that's still pretty cool, especially as the sun was out! In episode 116 we talked about the challenge of people keeping their cameras off when on work video calls. We hope you enjoy it! Cheers! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informat...

This is the summary episode of our Prestigious Pints chat with Esther Derby. In the fourth episode of our Prestigious Pints series, Geoff Watts and Paul Goddard got together (virtually in lockdown) with one of their heroes and inspirations Esther Derby. They chat about how Esther is most widely known for her work in retrospectives even though this is only a fraction of what she has done and contin...

In the fourth episode of our Prestigious Pints series, Geoff Watts and Paul Goddard get together (virtually in lockdown) with one of their heroes and inspirations Esther Derby. They chat about how Esther is most widely known for her work in retrospectives even though this is only a fraction of what she has done and continues to do before explaining how she got into that space. Esther explains how...

This is an "Ask The Landlord" episode where we covered a question from one of our patrons about the speed of decisions. This led us to talk about precrastinators (like Geoff) and procrastinators (like Paul) and unconscious heuristics (or good old intuition as Paul calls it) before looking at Cynefin, decision fatigue and Paul crumbling under pressure on TV gameshows. Enjoy!! Hosted on Acast. See a...

From our homes, UK. In this episode, Geoff and Paul round-up their chat with another one of their agile heroes, Sandy Mamoli. In a new type of pubcast for 2021, Geoff and Paul will be chatting with some of their agile inspirations over a drink. If you are interested in seeing the full interview with Sandy, and getting all the new interviews as they drop, then check out our "Full Pints" membership:...

We were so excited to have a drink with the awesome Chris Williams of Badass Agile in Canada. Apart from the inevitable pandemic conversation, we discussed the concept of Mastery as a discipline. That, and how failure is still a stigma. Chris is a legend of agile podcasting, having recorded nearly 500 episodes and please do check out his website https://badassagile.com/ where you can find out abou...

In our Prestigious Pints series, exclusively for our Patreon subscribers, we went (virtually of course) all the way to the other side of the world to chat with the most experienced agile coach in the Antipodes...Sandy Mamoli. Sandy is an awesome multi-lingual coach and all round individual who has blazed a trail over in New Zealand (and many other countries as well) for all things agile and it was...

From Our Homes, UK. In this episode, Geoff and Paul breakdown their chat with another one of their agile heroes, Roman Pichler. In a new type of pubcast for 2021, Geoff and Paul will be chatting with some of their agile heroes over a drink. If you are interested in seeing the full interview with Roman, and getting all the new interviews as they drop, then check out our "Full Pints" membership on p...

In the second episode of our new Prestigious Pints series, we invite none other than "The Product Owner guy" Roman Pichler to our virtual pub! We've been proud to be able to call Roman a friend as well as work with him over the last 15 years and he's inspired us with his work as much as you. We talked about peer pressure, courage and empowerment as a Product Owner, whether PO's should attend retro...

From our homes, UK. Episode 110 is our first "proper" episode of 2021 and, after welcoming our four newest Patrons (Paul Lister, Francesco Bianchi, Erika Braverman and Lynn Olsen) we got to tackling a question from another of our Patrons in the "Ask The Landlord" feature.  Andreas Wittler wanted our recommended games or exercises to re-energise a devastated team.  As well as exploring that, we lea...

From Our Homes, UK. In this episode, Geoff and Paul breakdown their chat with agile legend Mike Cohn. In a new type of pubcast for 2021, Geoff and Paul will be chatting with some of their agile heroes over a drink. If you are interested in seeing the full interview with Mike, and getting all the new interviews as they drop, then check out our "Full Pints" membership on patreon.com/theagilepubcast...

Hi and welcome to the first of our Prestigious Pints episodes, an experiment we are running where we invite some famous names on to have a chat with us. In this episode we talk to agile legend Mike Cohn about how he has adjusted to online training and how his natural introverted nature has been affected. We learn some random facts about him including his favourite batman and why he is encouraging...

Hello listeners, Geoff and I would like to wish you, our beloved listeners, a very happy Christmas this year. It’s been what can only be described as a “shitty” year for almost everyone, but I’m certainly hoping that 2021 brings much more joy and happiness and plenty more of those vaccines too! We’d like to end this year by sharing with you our Christmas song. If you are new to the pubcast, Geoff...

From Our Homes, UK. Geoff and Paul share a pint and get all emotional!! In interesting discussion about how we find it difficult to access our emotions. And don't forget to check out our Christmas single this year!! https://youtu.be/eHOOYxGLUyg Happy Christmas!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From our homes...again. Boo!! The pubs are still closed. But in this episode, Geoff & Paul take a bit of time to catch up and reconnect after a long period of online working - which leads onto an interesting topic in itself... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Geoff and Paul are back in Lockdown and, from the comfort of their shed and home office respectively, discuss their mutual dislike of "Wrong Answers Only", getting more stupid as they get older, the iterative approach to the development and rollout of the vaccine(s) and making decisions at the last responsible moment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Many thanks to patrons Per, Gianni and Andreas for their questions in this pubcast special! We discussed how to move from compliance to engagement (zombie scrum) and how to look for improvements in already well-versed teams. Enjoy!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From The House In The Tree, Cheltenham, UK. In this one, the topic is Paul's favourite subject... FOOD. We talk about the kitchen as an agile environment and the merits of a certain celebrity ScrumMaster!! Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From James And White, Boscombe, UK. In this episode, Geoff & Paul reflect on an exercise they ran during a CSP-SM class, using a structured debate to facilitate learning and empathy in their class attendees. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From The Prospect Inn, Exeter, UK. Lockdown may be tightening but we still managed to get together to grab a drink and have a chat. This time we were down in sunny Exeter at what turned out to be a haunted pub and somehow got talking about intuition - how to develop it, how it's useful and even a game you can experiment with on the subject. We then got on to talking about ghosts and a Netflix docu...

From Chaplins, Boscombe, UK. In this episode, we took on some questions from our social media profiles and retold some of our favourite stories about "how we nearly got fired..." And Paul tried a new type or drink! Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.