Shows
Agile and Project Management - DrunkenPM RadioHow to be a Podcast Guest with Jay HrcskoThis interview is also available via video form here: https://youtu.be/vkNbgwcolIM
If you’ve never been on a podcast before, the whole idea of it can be intimidating. What if you say the wrong thing? Or say “Um… to your point” too many times. EVERYONE will judge you. Your career will be over. It will be the end of days….
Except none of that will happen. But just to put your mind at ease, Jack Hrcsko and I have put together a podcast with tips to help you be an excellent podcast guest. Between the two of us we’ve done...
2025-10-2344 min
Agile and Project Management - DrunkenPM RadioDeliver Better Results w Gil BrozaGil 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 re...
2024-02-1457 minAgile and Project Management - DrunkenPM RadioWhen they ask you to be the ScrumMaster AND the Product Owner...In Scrum, everyone is supposed to have one job. You get to be a ScrumMaster, a Product Owner, or a Development Team member. Each team member of the Scrum Team is supposed to be able to totally focus on the role they play. However, in many organizations, they ask people to play more than one role. You might be SM/PO, SM/Dev, or PO/Dev, or in my case (once upon a time), SM/Project Mgr/BA, and since we had no PO, I got to try and be that too… AND IT SUCKED LIKE A FLEET OF VACUUMS!
In...
2020-09-1155 minAgile and Project Management - DrunkenPM RadioWhat To Do When They Want To Know Cost Per Point w Troy LightfootWhat do you do when they start asking for cost per point?
This issue often arrives wrapped in requests that are pure in their intent and seem to be reasonable requests from the business…
How much are we spending each month and how many points are we delivering for that spend?
or
Since we are now estimating work in User Story Points, we need to be able to determine how much to charge for the work that clients are asking for. So how much does a point cost us?
or
We need to evaluate the change requests so we can de...
2020-08-1451 minAgile and Project Management - DrunkenPM RadioProbabilistic Forecasting with Troy LightfootTrying to figure out when you will be ready to ship is incredibly challenging. Many Scrum teams track historic velocity, or story points completed in a Sprint, and then use the average number of points completed per Sprint as a way of making an educated guess as to when they could deliver when they’d expect to deliver a certain number of story points in the future. There are, however, many who feel that this approach is no better than just making a completely random guess, and there is evidence to support the value in taking a different approach.
In th...
2019-05-2457 min
Technology Leadership Podcast ReviewIncremental Bumps and Swiss Army Knife ApproachesMary and Tom Poppendieck on The Modern Agile Show, Daniel Mezick on Agile Uprising, Jennifer Tu, Zee Spencer, Thayer Prime, and Matt Patterson on Tech Done Right, James Colgan on This Is Product Management, and Matt Kaplan on Build by Drift. I’d love for you to email me with any comments about the show or any suggestions for podcasts I might want to feature. Email podcast@thekguy.com. This episode covers the five podcast episodes I found most interesting and wanted to share links to during the two week period starting March 18, 2019. These podcast epi...
2019-03-2911 minTechnology Leadership Podcast ReviewMyths, Norms, and Expired OptionsJorgen Hesselberg and Steven Wolff on Agile Amped, Melissa Perri on Agile Uprising, Eric Elliott on Simple Leadership, Liz Keogh on Being Human, and Alex Schladebeck on Test Talks. I'd love for you to email me with any comments about the show or any suggestions for podcasts I might want to feature. Email podcast@thekguy.com. This episode covers the five podcast episodes I found most interesting and wanted to share links to during the two week period starting March 4, 2019. These podcast episodes may have been released much earlier, but this was the week when I...
2019-03-1509 min
This Agile LifeShower StandupLinks
Agile Connection (https://www.agileconnection.com/question)
Subway Map to Agile Practices (https://www.agilealliance.org/agile101/subway-map-to-agile-practices/)
Picks
Craig
Doug DeMuro car videos (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsqjHFMB_JYTaEnf_vmTNqg)
Auto Trader column called Oversteer
Music without lyrics, but that I like
2Cellos (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyjuFsbclXyntSRMBAILzbw)
Harp Twins (https://www.youtube.com/user/CamilleandKennerly)
Lee
Agile Connection (https://www.agileconnection.com)
Bonus pick not mentioned in the show (http://dilbert.com/strip/2018-01-22)
John
2017 Top 66 Developer Resources (https://hackernoon.com/the-top-66-developer-resources-from-2017-e82531365e6d)
Agile Coalition (https://coalition.agileuprising.com/)
2018-01-2800 minAgile and Project Management - DrunkenPM RadioDescaling the Enterprise w James GiffordFinding a way to scale Agile within the Enterprise has been a very popular topic in Agile for the past several years. With options like SAFe, LeSS, DAD and many others, it can be easy to lose sight of the fact that your organization may simply not be structured in a way that can truly support the introduction of Agile.
In this interview, James Gifford took some time away from coaching and his work on the Agile Uprising to talk about why the conversation should really be about how “Descaling the Enterprise”.
SHOW NOTES
00:10 Podcast Begins
00:44 The work James is doin...
2017-11-2039 min
LiminalArc SoundNotesLive from Agile 2017: Agile Uprising w/ Mike McCalla
Agile Uprising is one of the fastest growing networks in the Agile community, and Mike helped to create it and is an active board member. He’s also helped organize the Heart of Agile conference for the last two years and is one of the developers of the Lean Agile Intelligence tool which is a self-assessment model that Mike is helping to grow. In this short video, Dave and Mike discuss the what Agile Uprising is all about and the development of Lean Agile Intelligence.
Agile Uprising:
Web: http://www.agileuprising.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/agileuprising?lang=en
2017-08-2809 min