Recent Podcast

With the state of Agile as it is today, I find myself frequently wondering, “Is this the Darkest Agile Timeline”? Things have been getting a bit bleak lately in the Agile space. With the layoffs, the job market, and the fact that the business world has change fatigue and is tired of not getting what they expected from a way of working they’ve mostly only kinda half-done... 

Where’s the hope?

For this podcast (and to find some hope), I reached out to George Schlitz because 1. George is way smarter than me and sees things I can only vaguely sense the shape of, and 2. His new company Adaptivity Group has a mission statement that includes “an unquenchable thirst for ‘better’" and "a fearlessness about the unknown” that kinda smelled like hope to me. 

During this interview, George and I discuss whether or not this is the darkest timeline, what that means, how we got here, where we can find hope, and what we can do to make things more better-er and think that little old ant can move that rubber tree plant.
 
If you aren’t familiar with The Darkest Timeline, in the show Community there was a storyline where a random occurrence created multiple parallel timelines. A roll of the dice created six possible ways things could have gone… basically a six-sided multiverse. 

And one of the parallels created is THE DARKEST TIMELINE. It’s basically the Lemony Snicket timeline of worst case scenario where Captain Kirk is sporting his Van Dyke beard, Thomas Wayne is Batman instead of Bruce Wayne, it rains all the time, you miss every bus, never made that play in the big game, never asked that person to the prom, never got that promotion… you get the idea.

During the podcast, George references his blog post on "Addicted to More" blog posts which can be found here: https://www.adaptivitygroup.com/insights/addicted-to-more

If you’d like to reach George you can find him here:
Adaptivity Group:https://www.adaptivitygroup.com
LinkedIn:http://linkedin.com/in/gschlitz

Is This The Darkest Agile Timeline? w George Schlitz

Gil Broza joins me for a podcast about his new book, “Deliver Better Results: How to Unlock Your Organization's Potential". During the interview, Gil and I discuss how he designed the book to quickly provide actionable practices that organizations can utilize to improve their value delivery system. Our conversation includes details on how to understand the fitness for purpose of your system of delivery, and how to employ his ten strategies to improve your level of maturity. 

The first chapter of the book provides an executive-level summary of the 10 strategies and how they work as well as an assessment that readers can complete to determine the maturity level of their organization and select strategies to help them improve. 

Gil has offered an electronic version of the first chapter to listeners of this podcast. Just follow this link: http://HeardOnPodcast.DeliverBetterResultsBook.com

The Book
You can purchase the book here: http://DeliverBetterResultsBook.com

Other Podcasts About the Book
During the podcast, I mentioned that I had listened to a few other interviews with Gil about the book. They are definitely worth checking out because each one focuses on a different aspect of the book. 

 - Agile Uprising: https://agileuprising.libsyn.com/driving-better-results-with-gil-broza
 - Tech Lead Journal: https://techleadjournal.dev/episodes/160/
 - SPAM: https://spamcast.libsyn.com/spamcast-792-deliver-better-results-a-conversation-with-gill-broza

Contacting Gil
Work: https://3pvantage.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gilbroza/

Dave's Upcoming Classes
In the introduction to the podcast I mentioned a few of my upcoming classes:
A-CSPO February 29-March 1 http://tinyurl.com/bde5acnv
CSM Atlanta - March 4-5 - http://tinyurl.com/yhwzr3bs
CSPO Atlanta - March 6-7 - http://tinyurl.com/24be92zy
And you can find links to all of my upcoming classes here: http://tinyurl.com/4wbkkhra

Deliver Better Results w Gil Broza

A few weeks ago I interviewed Gil Broza about his new book, “Deliver Better Results: How to Unlock Your Organization's Potential". The book was designed to quickly provide actionable practices that organizations can utilize to improve their value delivery system. It focuses on understanding the fitness for purpose of your system of delivery, and how to employ his ten strategies to improve your level of maturity. During my prep for the interview and during our conversation, there was one thing that was stuck in my head. None of this works without trust. How can a traditional, potentially toxic organization pivot into an approach that is mostly dependent on a certain level of trust? 

So, during our first interview, I asked Gil if he’d be open to a second conversation where we focus on the question “How do you build trust in an organizational system that does not have it? Gil was kind enough to agree and that is where this podcast began.

If you’d like to check out our initial conversation you can find it here: https://on.soundcloud.com/Ed2C4

Deliver Better Results: How to Unlock Your Organization's Potential 
You can purchase the book here: http://DeliverBetterResultsBook.com

Gil has made the first chapter of the book available for download. It provides an executive-level summary of the 10 strategies and how they work as well as an assessment that readers can complete to determine the maturity level of their organization and select strategies to help them improve. You can download it for free here: http://HeardOnPodcast.DeliverBetterResultsBook.com

Contacting Gil  
* Work: http://3pvantage.com/  
* LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/gilbroza/


Dave's Upcoming Classes

 In the introduction to the podcast I mentioned a few of my upcoming classes:

* A-CSPO February 29-March 1 http://tinyurl.com/bde5acnv
* CSM Atlanta - March 4-5 - http://tinyurl.com/yhwzr3bs  
* CSPO Atlanta - March 6-7 - http://tinyurl.com/24be92zy 

And you can find links to all of my upcoming classes here: http://tinyurl.com/4wbkkhra

Developing Trust in Your Organization w Gil Broza

At the Modus Institute, Jim Benson and Mark Kilby have created a new offering called Successful Distributed Teams. This new course focuses on how to build strong remote teams, how to create a humane, healthy balance of productivity and accountability, and what tools you can use to make it all work. In this interview, Jim and Mark join me to discuss what happened when they combined the many years of experience they each have in shaping remote teams that work. We cover how the idea of remote work has changed over the past few years, what makes it so challenging, and things you can start doing to foster a thriving collaborative remote team. 

This podcast was originally recorded in video. You can find that version here: https://youtu.be/TnFzQr80tBg

To learn more about Successful Distributed Teams
https://modusinstitute.com/course/successful-remote-work-teams

To check out Mark Kilby and Johanna Rothman’s book From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams
https://tinyurl.com/5fbnynxe

Contacting Jim
Web: https://modusinstitute.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jimbenson
Email: jim@moduscooperandi.com

Contacting Mark
Web: MarkKilby.com
Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@mkilby
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mkilby/
Email: mark@markkilby.com

Successful Distributed Teams

If you are on one of those teams that has made a habit of dragging unfinished work from one Sprint to the next... YOU NEED TO STOP! 
 
When you get to the end of a Sprint and have work that isn't done, you can't show it to the stakeholders in the Sprint Review. If you don't show it to Stakeholders in the Sprint Review, you can't get feedback. And if you can't get feedback, you can't inspect and adapt, and you negate the entire point of working in a Sprint. 

This podcast offers five things that you and your team can do
right now to stop carrying over unfinished work and start enabling Scrum to provide you with the results you and your organization were hoping for when you headed down the path to agility. 

This podcast was originally recorded in video. You can find that version here: https://youtu.be/df8Ig_KYPUg

If you liked this podcast, please click subscribe and let me
know so I keep adding more. 

If you are interested in attending one of my upcoming CSM or
CSPO classes, just follow this link: https://tinyurl.com/yc5k84z5

And if you'd like to contact me, you can find all my links
right here: https://linktr.ee/mrsungo

5 Things You Can Do to Fix Your Sprint Planning

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