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This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.

In this podcast recorded at the Agile 2016 conference, Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, talks to five of the leading minds of Agile Management: Steve Denning, Ray Arell, Todd Little, Hendrik Esser and Steve Holyer.

They explore the question “Is agile still agile?”, look at the challenges around agile development and product management, and what is needed for large scale agile transformation.

Why listen to this podcast:

 - Agile is a mindset, not a set of processes or practices
 - The risks and dangers of packaged implementation of “agile” using process checkboxes without understanding why
 - Agile adoption is hard – simple but not easy
 - When agile practices are adopted for the wrong reasons it causes stress levels to go up and drives unsustainable behavioursIt’s not “twice the work in half the time”; it should be about twice the value with half the work
 - The Scrum role of Product Owner is broken
 - Product management is the hardest part of product development, irrespective of the development approachIn a complex world your only chance for survival is learning

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4m:15s - Some teams can benefit from checkbox, packaged implementations of agility as a starting point but they must be able to evolve.

4m:30s - Agility is a journey – you need to be agile in mindset, based around continuous improvement.

4m:40s - The most agile teams are the ones who continually inspect and adapt their practices to work most effectively for their context.

5m:00s - Checkbox teams who follow every one of the practices without knowing why are unable to improve and are not effective.

5m:15s - It’s about understanding and getting to the heart of why – for your process and for your product.

5m:30s - The checkbox process is easy for companies to measure and doing so drives bad behaviour.

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Show Notes

Exploring if Agile is Still Agile

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Josh Evans, former engineering manager at Netflix on how Netflix does DevOps and the freedom and responsibility culture that undermines their way of working. 

Why listen to this podcast:

•	There are many interpretations of the term DevOps, it is a useful shorthand for a wide variety of technologies and approaches 
•	“You build it, you run it” is the concrete application of the freedom and responsibility culture
•	When building a platform tool make it so easy to use that the product teams are not tempted to try and build something for themselves
•	Product teams are free to experiment and learn, which can feel chaotic and is a valuable part of the freedom and responsibility culture
•	The value of blameless and safe incident reviews – the goal is to learn and find patterns and use that information to present whole classes of failure from happening in the future
•	Don’t view the value stream in a fragmented way – see the whole end to end system with all its interactions and dependencies and optimize the system as a cohesive whole rather than different tools and domains

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