Shane Gibson - Podcast Details

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No Nonsense Leadership#0081 - Jem ’Jelly’ D’jalel - Can you be an agile project managerJoin Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson as they discuss agile project management with certified scrum trainer, Jem Jelly (Jem D'jalel). We ask whether agile project management is possible or if it contradicts the principles of agile. We debate whether projects are inherently predictive, siloed, and staged or whether they can be adaptive fluid and cross-functional. And we discuss whether project managers are inevitably authoritarian assholes or if they can be adaptive servant leaders. Murrays explains how he uses agile practices and principles in project management. While Shane argues they cant co-exist. Join us for this insightful discussion on agile...2023-05-2657 min $Shane Gibson\'s Podcast – Social Selling – B2B Sales and Influence$ Shane Gibson's Podcast – Social Selling – B2B Sales and InfluenceSales Podcast: Moving from Extraction to Collaboration Based Selling This podcast was inspired by a sales troll on TikTok. I posted a TikTok video on “Why sales is not like dating.” The response was 99.5% positive but there’s always one guy out there. His response was “Sales is like dating …. value-based selling is weak.” This got me to think of this analogy and why it’s so popular and also how sales and expectations of salespeople have changed significantly. In this sales podcast I dig into how much sales has moved from a “skill set” to a true profession, one where today you can even become a certified sales...2022-08-0816 min $Shane Gibson\'s Sales Podcast – Social Selling – B2B Sales and Influence$ Shane Gibson's Sales Podcast – Social Selling – B2B Sales and InfluenceSales Podcast: Moving from Extraction to Collaboration Based Selling This podcast was inspired by a sales troll on TikTok. I posted a TikTok video on “Why sales is not like dating.” The response was 99.5% positive but there’s always one guy out there. His response was “Sales is like dating …. value-based selling is weak.” This got me to think of this analogy and why it’s so popular and also how sales and expectations of salespeople have changed significantly. In this sales podcast I dig into how much sales has moved from a “skill set” to a true profession, one where today you can even become a certified sales...2022-08-0816 min

No Nonsense Leadership#048 - Todd Lankford - agile anti patternsJoin Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation about agile anti patterns with Todd Lankford. Patterns are common solutions to common problems. They may be good, bad or neutral. Agile anti patterns are solutions that make it harder for agile teams to achieve the goal. The top anti patterns are: unrealistic arbitrary deadlines, functional silos and managers who dont listen to or support their teams. Other anti patterns. Pattern languages and pattern libraries. Listen to the podcast on your favourite podcast app: | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | iHeart Radio | PlayerFM | Amazon Music | Listen Not...2022-07-2247 min

No Nonsense Leadership#047 - Erik de Bos - agile as a paradigm shiftJoin Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation about Agile as a paradigm shift with Erik de Bos. Most organisations are slow moving bureaucracies defined by authoritarian hierarchies, rules and contracts. Agile is a completely new way of thinking and a new vocabulary which makes new concepts and information available. Agile is part of a broader social movement that's about workplace democracy, experimentation, change, empowerment, decentralisation and local ownership that is changing how our society works for the better. Its an evolution that produces organisations that are fast, flexible and lean. And in an uncertain and rapidly changing...2022-07-1550 min

No Nonsense Leadership#046 - Team skills vs rolesJoin Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation about effective agile product teams. Business people and technical people work together daily in one long-lasting customer-focused team. Roles vs Skills. The power of words. Do titles create hierarchy and functional silos within the team? T-shaped people. Should everyone be a developer? Are specialised rol eavyweight waterfall process. And how innovation is happening outside the traditional agile bubble. And lastly, we talk about agile leadership. If you're interested in getting to the heart of agile and exploring business agility. This is a conversation you don't want to miss....2022-07-0841 min

No Nonsense Leadership#045 - Staffan Noetberg - agile and flowJoin Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Staffan Noteberg about Agile and Flow. Agile is about adapting to unexpected change. Coaches should be practitioners. Speed up your feedback loop. Set the goal and let the team get on with it. Monotasking. Set up the environment to reduce interruptions. Start small, get things working and scale out. The problem with SAFE. We need to focus more on the interactions between people. Informal networks resolve dependencies faster. Use tools to build your network while working remotely. Listen to the podcast on your favourite podcast a...2022-07-0133 min

No Nonsense Leadership#044 - Mary and Tom Poppendieck - lean software developmentJoin Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Mary and Tom Poppendieck about Lean and Software Development. Organizations have queues because they don't care about the customer. The three rules of lean, customer focus, flow and highly efficient expert teams. Scale your organization like a micro services architecture. Its not about doing the work right its about doing the right work. Don't focus on utilization focus on the value we provide. Don't copy practices copy the principles behind the practices. Don't centralize processes. Set goals and let teams develop their own processes. Listen t...2022-06-241h 08

No Nonsense Leadership#043 - Bruce Taylor - working with offshore teamsJoin Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Bruce Taylor about working with offshore teams in developing countries. Why do people send their work offshore? Cost or talent? Is it cheaper to send work offshore or not? Outsourcing projects or augmenting the team. How to recruit the right people in a developing country. How does Agile work with people who have been brought up in a very hierarchical culture? Pairing and site visits are a powerful way to improve trust, knowledge and collaboration. Retaining team members. Scrum vs Flow for remote working. What do you do when y...2022-06-1745 min

No Nonsense Leadership#042 - Kyle Griffin - uncertainty, complexity and changeJoin Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Kyle Griffin about uncertainty, complexity and change. Our requirements are probably wrong. So show people and build small bets. Our plan is likely to be wrong. So let's do things to mitigate our plan, being wrong. Our estimates are going to be wrong. So don't rely heavily on the estimates being right. Our code's going to be wrong. So design your code to be easy to change. Agile is good because at its core Agile is a system for dealing with uncertainty effectively. Listen to t...2022-06-1036 min

No Nonsense Leadership#041 - Raj Nagappan - agile 2Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson for a conversation with Raj Nagappan on using Agile 2 to create awesome products. The early Agile movement was a rebellion against traditional command and control waterfall development that was failing everyone. Agile is a very important paradigm shift that has led to great improvements but it hasn't evolved as we have learnt more. Agile 2 is an evolution of Agile that brings it up to date with a focus on Thoughtfulness and prescription.; Outcomes and outputs.; Individuals and teams.; Business understanding and technical understanding.; Individual empowerment and good leadership; Adaptability and planning. 2022-06-0342 min

No Nonsense Leadership#040 - Scott Sievwright - becoming a better leaderJoin Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson for a powerful conversation with Scott Seivwright on becoming a better leader. Leading the Agile 20 Reflect conference. Building community, co-creating a vision and principles, skeletons vs exoskeletons, dealing with conflict, angry fathers and controlling managers, letting go and sharing responsibility, the responsibility process, Johari window, Transactional analysis, five dysfunctions of a team, the courage to be open, non-violent communication, leaders vs managers, anthropology and alpha males, teams as systems, servant leadership, authoritarian psychopaths roll back agile, evolution favours agile organisations, soft systems analysis, imposter syndrome, humility, being a work in progress and open...2022-05-2647 min

No Nonsense Leadership#039 - Michael Kusters - defending SAFeJoin Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson for a debate with Michael Kusters about the pros and cons of SAFe. The Scaled “Agile” Framework for enterprises. SAFe is taking over because executives like its detailed 3-month program plans, detailed processes, hierarchical organization, and comprehensive rollout plans. SAFe has been great at sales and marketing, and it provides a great way for consultants to make money. But is it agile? If not, what are its benefits? Should we leave the field for unscrupulous consultants making money out of SAFe, or should we try and make it work? Should we use SAFe as t...2022-05-1957 min

No Nonsense Leadership#038 - Dave Farley - continuous deliveryJoin Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Dave Farley on Continuous Delivery. Working in a way so that our software is always in a releasable state. Establishing fast, high quality feedback so that we can make decisions based on the reality of our customers needs and our systems state, rather than on guesses. The difference between CD, DevOps, Agile and XP. The business case for CD. Test Driven Development makes developers better. Three ways to safely deploy your code to trunk. Design on the assumptions that your wrong. Implementing CD. Listen to the podcast on...2022-05-1344 min

No Nonsense Leadership#037 - Lisa Crispin - holistic testingJoin Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Lisa Crispin on Holistic Testing. Build quality in. Continuous testing for continuous delivery. Building shared understanding of requirements. Shorten feedback loops. Moving from traditional testing to agile testing. Test automation. The test pyramid and agile testing quadrants. Business-facing tests with behavior-driven and acceptance test-driven techniques. High performing teams. Listen to the podcast on your favourite podcast app: | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | iHeart Radio | PlayerFM | Amazon Music | Listen Notes | TuneIn | Audible | Connect with Lisa via Linkedin or https://lisacrispin.com/ and https://agiletestingfellow.com/ , Murray via...2022-05-0638 min

No Nonsense Leadership#036 - Esther Derby - agile coachingJoin Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Esther Derby on Agile Coaching, Agile Leadership, Culture and Continuous Improvement. Making work more humane. Successful coaches understand the context and the content. Taking responsibility for personal growth and business outcomes. Good leadership adds a lot of value. Influencing senior managers. Underlying extractive structural patterns reemerge. Agile Governance. Listen to the podcast on your favourite podcast app: | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | iHeart Radio | PlayerFM | Amazon Music | Listen Notes | TuneIn | Audible | Connect with Esther via Linkedin or www.estherderby.com , Murray via email or Shane in the Twi...2022-04-2939 min

No Nonsense Leadership#035 - Bas Vodde - LeSSJoin Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Bas Vodde on LeSS. LeSS is true Scrum at Scale not just at the team level. LeSS applies the principles, purpose and elements of Scrum in a large-scale context, as simply as possible. Many scrum teams with one product, one product owner, one product backlog, one sprint, one sprint planning meeting, one sprint review and one retrospective. Large-Scale Scrum is Scrum. Empirical process control. Transparency. More with less. Whole-product focus. Customer-centric. Continuous improvement towards perfection. Systems thinking. Listen to the podcast on your favourite podcast app: 2022-04-2247 min

No Nonsense Leadership#034 - Jurgen Appelo - designing an agile organisationJoin Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Jurgen Appelo on how to design an organisation to support self management, continuous innovation and human experience. Jurgens unFix model supports gradual change, dynamic teams, and recognises that managers play an important role. The model is inspired by innovative companies including Haier and Tesla, various agile scaling frameworks, and books such as Team Topologies, Dynamic Reteaming, and Organization Design Listen to the podcast on your favourite podcast app: | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | iHeart Radio | PlayerFM | Amazon Music | Listen Notes | TuneIn | Audible | Connect with Jurgen via...2022-04-161h 02

No Nonsense Leadership#033 - Marty Cagan - empowered product teamsJoin Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Marty Cagan on Empowered Product Teams. Do discovery and delivery in one team. Discover problems worth solving, rapidly test prototypes and develop the best ideas using an agile approach. Low and high fidelity user experience prototypes, feasibility prototypes and data prototypes. Good leaders build highly aligned loosely coupled team, coach them and give them strategic problems to solve not requirements to build. Agile is great for delivery but the agile process police are killing product development. Listen to the podcast on your favourite podcast app: | Spo...2022-04-0849 min

No Nonsense Leadership#032 - Jason Yip - Agile @ SpotifyJoin Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Jason Yip about Spotify. The Spotify approach works for Spotify, but it might not work for you. Develop your product strategy first, and then design your organisation to support it using team topologies. To succeed, you need unity of purpose, trust in people and playful growth. When you have alignment, you can give people autonomy and trust them to do the right thing. Design your architecture to enable autonomous teams. Define golden paths for teams and encourage them to experiment. Play drives innovation and growth. Don't outsource your strategic c...2022-03-3144 min

No Nonsense Leadership#031 - David Pereira - product leadersJoin Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with David Pereira about Product Leaders. Successful Product Leaders don't write requirements; they define the problem, set a goal and empower the team to get the job done. Be curious about customers' problems but don't take their word on the solution. Constantly test your assumptions with prototypes. Get your ideas in front of a customer early. Start with low fidelity and only enhance it when it shows value. Focus on outcomes, not deliverables. Measure value with leading indicators not lagging ones. Empower your team to solve your customers problems better th...2022-03-2543 min

No Nonsense Leadership#030 - Alidad Hamidi - systems thinkingJoin Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Alidad Hamidi about Systems Thinking. Systems Thinking is about understanding that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. It is the interactions between things that drive the outcome. For example, cutting costs locally often increases costs globally. One person's solution is often another person's problem. To solve the real problem, we need to bring people together to agree on the issue, the goal and the scope of the system. Then we need to keep asking why until we can create a model of how everything interacts...2022-03-1748 min

No Nonsense Leadership#029 - Steve Tendon - Tameflow and the theory of constraintsJoin Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Steve Tendon about Tameflow and the theory of constraints. If you can find the constraint preventing the organisation from achieving its goal and address it, you can make extraordinary improvements in performance. But sadly most improvement efforts fail because they don't address the constraint in the system. We talk about how to understand and address the constraint using the story of Herbie and the scout troop going for a hike. And what happens when you drive a group of jeeps through the jungle. We discuss the importance of unity...2022-03-1047 min

No Nonsense Leadership#028 - Daniel Mezick - open leadershipJoin Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Daniel Mezick about open leadership. What motivates people and how to get great results in a group. Organizations are social games with goals, rules and players with different resources and decision rights. Most organizations are totalitarian dictatorships with a heavy management tax. Open organizations are much more effective at harnessing the talents of their people and resources. Harness peoples talents by giving them an attractive goal, clear boundaries, leadership support and the right to make decisions about their own work. Be generous, calm and support your people. L...2022-03-0358 min

No Nonsense Leadership#027 - Scott Middleton - agile is dead McKinsey killed itJoin Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Scott Middleton about his article Agile is dead. McKinsey killed it. The Agile PMO. Agile as a cost out tool. Slathering the Agile word onto everything to sell services. Do big consulting companies really understand Agile? What about people and interactions over processes and tools. What about delivering value to customers early and often? Real agile still has a lot of value. Tailoring your agile approach and getting close to customers. Read Scott's article https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/agile-dead-mckinsey-just-killed-scott-middleton/ Listen to the podcast...2022-02-2441 min

No Nonsense Leadership#026 - Tobias-Mayer - self organisation and servant leadershipJoin Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Tobias Mayer about self organization and servant leadership. Everyone can be a leader. Take responsibility. Be generous and humble. Stop demotivating people. Create an environment for people to be brilliant. Create a vision, define boundaries and get out of the way. Be a servant leader. Empowerment and anarchism. Servant leadership and Christianity. There's nothing better than having a good relationship with another human being. Help people step into their brilliance. Listen to the podcast on your favourite podcast app: | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | iHeart Radio | PlayerFM | Amazon Musi...2022-02-1846 min

No Nonsense Leadership#025 - Maarten Dalmijn - product owner vs product managerJoin Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Maarten Dalmjin on Product Owners vs Product Managers. What are they, what's the difference between them and why does it matter? Why do we need a product manager if we have a product owner? Overwhelmed vs Absentee product owner. Supporting the Product Owner. Product discovery. The sprint bubble. The rift between product management and scrum. Rapid feedback loops. Getting close to the customer. Building the right thing. Dual track vs integrated design. Scaling product development. Anti patterns. Product Management is more than Scrum. Listen to the podcast o...2022-02-1050 min

No Nonsense Leadership#024 - Alex Stokes - Organisation transformationJoin Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Alex Stokes on Agile Transformation. Why do organisations do agile transformations? If agile transformations are working why is the state of agile so poor in large organisations? Is a waterfall transformation process incompatible with agile? Measuring the benefits of a transformation. Transformations are a way to get leadership support for major change. Imposing vs empowering. Coaching vs telling. Patterns vs frameworks. Continuous change vs transformational change. Using agile to become agile. Listen to the podcast on your favourite podcast app: | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | iHeart Radio | PlayerFM ...2022-02-0433 min

bringothersalong PodcastShane Gibson| Why We Started A Podcast?| The Vision For The Podcast| Building A BusinessThis week we're having a one to one with ME. We're answering some of your questions and questions I've been getting in general (from everyone I know). Why did you start a podcast? What is the vision and purpose of the podcast? Are just some of the questions we're addressing on this week's episode. I'm so grateful to everyone who has cared to listen, share, rate, subscribe and simply found what we are building of interest and willing to support. We've got some exciting things planned and more 🔥🔥🔥guest sharing their experiences and plenty 💎💎💎. Let us know what you thi...2022-01-3136 min

No Nonsense Leadership#023 - SAFe and Scaling with Al Shalloway Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Al Shalloway about the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and scaling. We explore the benefits and shortcomings of SAFE, focusing on value streams, batch and flow systems, lean principles, and the importance of short feedback cycles. We critique the traditional command-and-control approach and emphasize customer value, lean methodologies, adaptive implementations, and system thinking. Al Shalloway shares his experiences and insights, advocating for a more holistic approach to scaling agile practices. Tune in for valuable perspectives on implementing agile frameworks effectively. Listen to the podcast on your favourite podcast app: ...2022-01-2838 min

No Nonsense Leadership#022 - Fredrik Carleson - SAFe from the Business Owners point of view Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Fredrick Carleson, who has successfully managed a 1500 person SAFe program in a Swedish government department. We explore the challenges of Safe and it's alignment with Agile values so you can decide if SAFe is right for you. In this discussion, Frederick emphasises the importance of agile leadership, autonomous customer focused teams and the need to address root cause problems within your system asas you scale. Join us for a fascinating and critical discussion of SAFe. Listen to the podcast on your favourite podcast app: | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Goog...2022-01-2138 min

No Nonsense Leadership#0021- 3 amigosJoin Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a discussion of the Three Amigos pattern, where a product person, a developer, and a tester work ahead of the team to define features before estimation. We explore the benefits, challenges, and anti-patterns of the three Amigos approach, emphasising the importance of early preparation, collaboration and testable requirements. Listen to the podcast on your favourite podcast app: | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | iHeart Radio | PlayerFM | Amazon Music | Listen Notes | TuneIn | Audible | Podchaser | Deezer | Podcast Addict | Contact Murray via email or Shane on LinkedIn shagility. Yo...2022-01-1323 min

No Nonsense Leadership#0020 - Scott Ambler - disciplined agile toolkit Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Scott Ambler about the Disciplined Agile Toolkit. In this episode we discuss toolkits vs frameworks. Tailoring your ways of working for your situation vs prescriptive methods. Method prisons and framework jails. The problem with two day mastery certifications and the over commercialisation of Scrum and SAFe. The PMI and Agile and Products vs Projects. Listen to the podcast on your favourite podcast app: | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | iHeart Radio | PlayerFM | Amazon Music | Listen Notes | TuneIn | Audible | Podchaser | Deezer | Podcast Addict | Connect with Scott via Link...2022-01-0627 min

No Nonsense Leadership#0019 - agile ux design with Jared Spool Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Jared Spool about user experience design. We discuss the importance of research in understanding users' problems so that you can develop solutions that provide a great user experience. We talk about the need to do some lightweight research and planning upfront to build a shared vision and the value of doing most of your research and design continuously with the whole team so that you can learn what users really need. This conversation highlights the importance of building your team's UX capabilities and blending UX into everything you do. Li...2021-12-2228 min

No Nonsense Leadership#0018 - The joy of agility with Joshua Kerievsky Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Joshua Kerievsky about his new book “Joy of Agility”. In this podcast we talk about the poor state of agile today. Commodification, fake agile, dark scrum and water-scrum-fall. Real agility should be a joy to work in. Agility doesn't mean process frameworks, it means moving with quick, easy grace and being quick, resourceful, and adaptable. Use mantras and stories to get the message across. Be quick but don't hurry. Be poised to adapt. Be balanced and graceful. Listen to the podcast on your favourite podcast app: | Spotify | Apple Po...2021-12-0825 min

No Nonsense Leadership#0017 - DevOps with Mirco Hering Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Mirco Hering where we dive into the world of DevOps. Join us as Mirco shares his insights on the essence of DevOps and its implementation challenges, from redefining DevOps beyond tools to the importance of feedback loops. Mirko sheds light on the goals and misconceptions surrounding DevOps. Discover how DevOps aligns with agile principles and explore the role of professional services firms in driving agile and DevOps transformations. Join us as we share practical advice for adopting DevOps practices effectively. Listen to the podcast on y...2021-12-0330 min

No Nonsense Leadership#016 - Sam McAfee - digital product development Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Sam McAfee about leading digital product development. Building a great product team. Working remotely. Real agile vs fake agile. Factory model vs product model. Empowering teams. Building influence and trust. Bringing marketing, design and engineering into one cross functional product team. From functional silos to capability building. Product managers vs Product owners. What a great product manager does. Holistic product leaders. Lean startup and fast feedback. Long term vs short term thinking. The Product canvas and hypothesis testing. Scaling product teams. Change requires leadership. Listen to the podcast on y...2021-11-2335 min

No Nonsense Leadership#0015 - Agile Military ideas with Ben Ford Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with former Royal Marine Commando Ben Ford about how agile practices mirror modern military practices in the field. We discuss John Boyd's OODA loop and the value of an accurate model of one's environment for good decision making. And we discuss mission command and the value of leadership training to develop an effective approach for orders, planning, delegation, and review. We hope this episode provides food for thought on how you can utilise some of these military leadership principles to enhance your agile practices in the software product development world. ...2021-11-1637 min

No Nonsense Leadership#0014 - Agile Product Development Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation about Agile product development. discuss what a product is and what a product manager does. We talk about the value of customer feedback and the need to test your hypotheses. We define minimum viable products and discuss technical debt, scaling and co-designing products with customers. And we talk about how you can move from a project to a product mentality and the value of applying an iterative approach to your marketing and sales. All this and more, stay tuned. Listen to the podcast on your favourite podcast app: 2021-11-1135 min

No Nonsense Leadership#0013 - Visualizing your workflow with Mark Jørgensen Chaudhry Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Mark Jørgensen Chaudhry about visualising your work so you can identify bottlenecks and remove them. We emphasize the need to work together to map out your process and identify delays and waste. We discuss work in progress, touch time, wait time and process efficiency. And we identify the root cause of waste and inefficiency in large organisations. Join us for lots of examples, challenges and recommended resources for improving your workflow. Listen to the podcast on your favourite podcast app: | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | iHeart Radio ...2021-11-0224 min

No Nonsense Leadership#0012 - Matrix team models aka the "spotify model" Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation on the "Spotify Model" for scaling agile teams. We cover the role of leadership team structures. Tribe dynamics and the importance of coaching and support during organisational change. We share our experience with implementing this model in organisations and some of the anti-patterns. Join us to learn how to use the Spotify model to scale your agile organisation successfully. Listen to the podcast on your favourite podcast app: | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | iHeart Radio | PlayerFM | Amazon Music | Listen Notes | TuneIn | Audible | Podchaser | Deezer | Podcast Addict | Contact M...2021-10-2622 min

No Nonsense Leadership#0011 - Lean agile transformations with Matt TurnerJoin Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation about the psychology of change in lean agile transformation with Matt Turner. We discuss how to implement agile and Kanban practices in IT operations, the challenges faced by managers, and the importance of visualising work and understanding flow. We also touch upon the misconceptions and misapplications of agile in the industry. Join us to learn how to be a much more effective change agent. Listen to the podcast on your favourite podcast app: | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | iHeart Radio | PlayerFM | Amazon Music | Listen Notes | Tun...2021-10-1927 min

No Nonsense Leadership#0010 - Quality skills vs rolesJoin Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson as they discuss why quality as a whole team's responsibility. We discuss why it's critical to integrate QA processes from the beginning, the importance of clear acceptance criteria, how to handle technical debt and the continuous improvement process. Tune in for an engaging and informative discussion on quality in your agile projects. Listen to the podcast on your favourite podcast app: | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | iHeart Radio | PlayerFM | Amazon Music | Listen Notes | TuneIn | Audible | Podchaser | Deezer | Podcast Addict | Contact Murray via email or Shane on Li...2021-10-1237 min

No Nonsense Leadership#0009 - invitational agile with Michael DelamazaJoin Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Michael Delemaza about agile coaching. We discuss invitational coaching, the differences between coaching and mentoring and the challenges faced in transforming traditional organizations into agile ones. We also talk about the importance of clear communication and alignment at the executive level, as well as dealing with politics and resistance within organizations. Listen to the podcast on your favourite podcast app: | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | iHeart Radio | PlayerFM | Amazon Music | Listen Notes | TuneIn | Audible | Podchaser | Deezer | Podcast Addict | Connect with Michael via LinkedIn, M...2021-10-0547 min

No Nonsense Leadership#0008 - Leadership support for becoming an agile organisationJoin Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a no-nonsense Agile discussion. In this episode, we talk about leadership support for agile ways of working. Why leadership support is critical for change. Why some leaders support agility and others secretly undermine it. How agile is being sold as a miracle cure by big consulting companies. And why agile is rolled back by authoritarian leaders with a factory mindset. How executives can learn what agile really means by working with agile coaches. Why servant leadership is the key to agility. And how you can change your culture rapidly by changing who...2021-09-2930 min

No Nonsense Leadership#0007 - fixed price agile contractsJoin Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a no-nonsense Agile discussion. In this podcast, Murray and Shane talk about why projects with fixed price, fixed scope contracts often go way over time and budget. We talk about uncertainty, sales incentives and underestimating. How fixed scope contracts lead to big design up front, siloed delivery, authoritarian management and conflict with suppliers. We discuss how to use an agile approach to solve these problems. We talk about testing suppliers by starting small and scaling up. And we talk about agile contracts where you engage a supplier to provide a fixed team...2021-09-2140 min

No Nonsense Leadership#0006 - agile scalingJoin Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a no-nonsense agile discussion. In this podcast, Murray and Shane discuss how to scale agile. We discuss the problems with a big bang top-down agile transformation and the benefits of starting small and experimenting to find a scaling approach that works for you. We talk about the factory model of organisation vs autonomous product teams. And we contrast agile change management with waterfall change management. Listen to the podcast on your favourite podcast app: | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | iHeart Radio | PlayerFM | Amazon Music | Listen Notes | TuneIn | Aud...2021-09-0740 min

No Nonsense Leadership#0005 - Agile project managementJoin Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a no-nonsense agile discussion. In this episode Murray and Shane have a robust discussion about about projects and project managers. Are agile and project management fundamentally incompatible. Are projects waterfall and hierarchical by definition or can they be done in an Agile way. Are project managers unhelpful authoritarians controllers by definition or can project managers be agile servant leaders. If a project is Agile is it a project anymore? Tune in for this controversial discussion. Listen to the podcast on your favourite podcast app: | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Pod...2021-08-2533 min

No Nonsense Leadership#0004 - Evolutionary design & architectureJoin Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a no-nonsense agile discussion. In this podcast, we talk about evolutionary design and the problem with a narrow focus, planning at different time horizons, big blocks and small blocks and the importance of having flexible roadmaps that change as we learn. We also talk about centralised teams vs experts in teams, how the role of the coach is to build the team’s capability and how a coach should be a sports coach, not a therapist. Listen to the podcast on your favourite podcast app: | Spotify | Apple...2021-08-1833 min

No Nonsense Leadership#0003 - is scrum brokenJoin Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a no-nonsense agile discussion. In this podcast, we discuss Ron Jeffries' recent article “Can scrum be fixed?” We talk about Ron’s concerns with the Scrum Industrial complex and Developers issues with Scrum. We talk about what we like and don't like about Scrum and how the gaps we've experienced can be overcome. Listen to the podcast on your favourite podcast app: | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | iHeart Radio | PlayerFM | Amazon Music | Listen Notes | TuneIn | Audible | Podchaser | Deezer | Podcast Addict | Contact Murray via email or Shane on...2021-08-1029 min