Get Agile
- Get Agile #1
What are the Product Owner Key Skills?
Tomasz Wykowski from ProCognita interviews Gojko Adzic, author, trainer and consultant on the key skills of successful Product Owners.
Learn more about Gojko Adzic at https://procognita.com/company/team/trainers/gojko-adzic
Books mentioned during the interview:
“The Four Steps to the Epiphany” by Steve Blank
“Practices for Scaling Lean and Agile” by Craig Larman and Bas Vodde,
"Four Disciplines of Execution” by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey and Jim Huling
“Inspired” by Marty Cagan
“What Customers Want” by Anthony Ulwick
“Problem Frames” by Michael JacksonArticles mentioned during the interview:
Christmas prioritization by Gojko Adzic https://gojko.net/2017/12/11/christmas-prioritisation.html
Ten ways of 5 whys by Chris Matts https://theitriskmanager.com/2013/12/30/ten-ways-of-five-whys/ - Get Agile #2
Descaling Organization
Tomasz Wykowski from ProCognita interviews Jurgen De Smet, Certified LeSS Trainer on why it’s hard to increase agility of large organization, how to start the transformation and what are the key principles of successful transformation.
Learn more about Jurgen De Smet at https://procognita.com/company/team/trainers/jurgen-de-smet
Books mentioned during the interview:
“Specification by Example” by Gojko Adzic
“Impact Mapping” by Gojko Adzic
"Your code is a crime scene” by Adam Tornhill - Get Agile #3
It’s not about the software
Tomasz Wykowski from ProCognita interviews Mary and Tom Poppendieck - authors and speakers who’d translated Lean principles and practices into the software development world. Listen to the origins of Lean and XP in Toyota and Chrysler, and learn how successful companies develop their services.
Tomasz Wykowski from ProCognita interviews Mary and Tom Poppendieck - authors and speakers who’d translated Lean principles and practices into the software development world. Listen to the origins of Lean and XP in Toyota and Chrysler, and learn how successful companies develop their services.
You can find their books at Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Mary-Poppendieck/e/B001IGNU3O
Learn more about Mary Poppendieck at https://procognita.com/company/team/trainers/mary-poppendieck
- Get Agile #4
Agile Hardware Development
Tomasz Wykowski from ProCognita interviews Joe Justice, Certified Scrum Trainer, TEDx speaker, founder of WIKISPEED, and creator of the Extreme Manufacturing and Scrum@Hardware methods. Hear how companies are increasing agility in their hardware product development and what Tesla is doing differently from all other car manufacturers.
Learn more about Joe Justice at https://procognita.com/company/team/trainers/joe-justice
Resources mentioned during the interview:
* The Scrum Master book by Joe Justice (beta version): https://oikosofyseries.com/no-estimates-book-order
* Tesla Factory Tour with Elon Musk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr9kK0_7x08
* Joe Justice analyzes SpaceX Boca Chica, TX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oQ3GBIsp0c - Get Agile #5
Agile Engineering Practices
In this episode, Tomasz Wykowski from ProCognita interviews Ron Jeffries and Chet Hendrickson - people who were involved in the creation of: Extreme Programming, Agile Manifesto (Ron is one of the authors, Chet is the first signatory), and Certified Scrum Developer Program by Scrum Alliance. Plus a few other things.
Listen to their discussion about how Extreme Programming impacted the way software is being developed now, the benefits of agile engineering practices, and why so many Scrum teams are still not using them.
Learn more about Chet at https://procognita.com/company/team/trainers/chet-hendrickson
Their websites:
https://www.hendricksonxp.com/
https://ronjeffries.com/ - Get Agile #6
Kaizen - making employee life easier
In this episode Tomasz Wykowski from ProCognita interviews Kiro Harada, Agile Practitioner from Japan, who was involved in development of the supply chain system for Toyota. Listen to their conversation about how Toyota Production System was initially misunderstood and how to transfer Lean Principles into the software development world.
Learn more about Kiro and his company at https://www.attractor.co.jp/english/
The Scrum Patterns can be found at http://scrumbook.org/
Books mentioned during the conversation:
James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, Daniel Ross “The Machine That Changed the World” https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001D1SRRS
James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones “Lean Thinking” https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0048WQDIO
James M. Morgan, Jeffrey K. Liker “The Toyota Product Development System” https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1563272822
Allen Ward, Durward Sobek “Lean Product and Process Development” https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IPNN1Z0 - Get Agile #7
Scrum Patterns
In this episode, Tomasz Wykowski from ProCognita interviews Arne Ahlander, a Certified Scrum Trainer from Sweden about Scrum Patterns.
Learn more about Arne Ahlander at https://procognita.com/company/team/trainers/arne-ahlander
Scrum Patterns links:
A Scrum Book: The Spirit of the Game https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1680506714
Collection of patterns from the book https://www.scrumbook.org/
Patterns community - http://www.scrumplop.org/ - Get Agile #8
Mob Programming
In this episode, Tomasz Wykowski from ProCognita interviews Woody Zuill about Mob Programming. Join them to learn where the name comes from, how to start, what to expect during mobbing sessions, and common pitfalls to avoid.
Mentioned resources:
Mob Programming book: https://leanpub.com/mobprogramming
Mob Programming website: https://mobprogramming.org/
Where to practice online: https://exercism.io/ https://www.codewars.com/ https://codingdojo.org/
Coding Dojo: https://codingdojo.org/
A day of Mob Programming Videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_pvslS4gEI and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVqUcNKVbYg - Get Agile #9
Stakeholders Value
In this episode, Tomasz Wykowski from ProCognita interviews Tom Gilb about defining Customer Value. Learn about Tom’s EVO method and why one goal is not enough for your product.
Learn more about Tom from https://procognita.com/company/team/trainers/tom-gilb
Tom’s talk at TedxTrondheim “Quantify the un-quantifiable” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOfK6rSLVTA
You can find Tom’s Value Requirements book in ProCognita Free Agile Handouts: https://procognita.com/agile-handouts
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