Episodios

  • Episode 7: Top 20 Agile Books

    Episode 7: Top 20 Agile Books
    Aug 17 2022
    Dustin Johnson and Lemont Chambliss take turns sharing their top 10 agile books with brief descriptions or reasons why. This one first in a series of short 10min podcasts, We hope you enjoy listening and hopefully adding some books to your to read list. 
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    12 m
  • Episode 6: How can a backlog stifle innovation

    Episode 6: How can a backlog stifle innovation
    Jul 6 2022
    In this episode we invite Product Owner and Scrum Master Sarah Kurjanovs to join as and discuss what it means to manage a backlog and how ever growing backlogs can lead to stifling innovation. You'll also get to learn two great ways to pronounce Sarah's last name. Curry + (On/Off) or Curry+ (Stroganoff-Strog) 
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    40 m
  • Episode 4: Story Points, the good bad and ungly

    Episode 4: Story Points, the good bad and ungly
    May 19 2022
    In this episode we discuss story points and earn some important uses like triggering conversations, understanding capacity but also that you must set clear expectations when adopting story points. These include knowing your assumptions and understanding factors like maturity, time, and purpose. This conversation was longer than normal so this is part one and for alternatives to using story points look for our part two follow up. 
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    29 m
  • Episode 5: Alternatives to Story Points, aka Lemont's World

    Episode 5: Alternatives to Story Points, aka Lemont's World
    May 19 2022
    In this episode welcome to Lemont's World, Lemont's World... where we continue the conversation on story points but dive into alternatives for measuring capacity and forecasting without story points. We discuss measures like story counts, cycle and lead time, throughput, and monte carlo  forecasting. 
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    12 m
  • Episode 3: Commitment

    Episode 3: Commitment
    Apr 11 2022
    In this episode Lemont & Dustin discuss what commitment means and how it affects agility. Listen to two agile gurus pretend to be experts on marriage come up with idea: Alignment and shared understanding lead to commitments but, commitments without sacrifice are unprioritized. 
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    29 m
  • Episode 2: Empathy & Courage

    Episode 2: Empathy & Courage
    Mar 21 2022
    In this episode, inspired by a conversation on diversity, equity, and inclusion that led to discussing unconscious bias,  we discuss what empathy & courage mean to scrum teams aspiring to be high performing teams.  It's an interesting segue from one topic to another that leads us to uncovering new ideas for scrum masters and leaders to push team towards higher performance through a deeper empathy and understanding of one another. 
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    26 m
  • Episode 1: Agile Coaching secret sauce, voodoo, magic, or something in between

    Episode 1: Agile Coaching secret sauce, voodoo, magic, or something in between
    Mar 21 2022
    24 m