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Radio Free XPA Pair of Books: Marquet && VossBooks that help you earn the ability to benefit from technical excellence!
We've talked about "wisdom from books" and something like the "Radio Free XP" bookshelf.
On today's episode, we work to formalize the topic, and get into how and why _Turn The Ship Around_ and _Never Split The Difference_ can help people improve their tech career experience.
2024-04-201h 12Radio Free XPElisabeth and JaniceElisabeth Hendrickson and Janice Fraser, what else could you want to know?
2024-04-011h 01Radio Free XPGo Hack Your Bureaucracy or “Fall seven, rise eight.”Recording Date: Jan 16, 02024
Hosts: Tony Hansmann && Jesse Alford
Guest: Bryon Kroger
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryon-kroger/recent-activity/all/
Brian Kroger is the founder and CEO of Rise8.us. A consultancy inspired by the Pivotal Model. Bryon works in the DOD and calls himself a bureaucracy hacker.
In the episode, he points out that once you understand how the bureaucracy is “programmed,” you can often get a lot further than you can in private industry.
Listen through to all the way!
Tony && Jesse
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2024-02-2744 minRadio Free XPPivots in the wild with Mala JanusRecording Date: 2023-11-13
Hosts: Tony Hansmann && Jesse Alford
Guest Name: Mala Janus
Contact information:
https://magnoliadevelopment.io
https://www.linkedin.com/in/malakjanus/
Guest: Mala Janus is a Pivot who has never worked for Pivotal. She’s an XP practitioner who learned both the Dev and PM side of things while working at a large client who built their own Pivotal-style Lab.
All Pivots know the magic experience of meeting new Pivots, the origin stories, the comparison of how “we do things here,” the seekin...
2023-12-191h 16Radio Free XPLets play "Bet your badge" with Thomas SqueoRecording Date: 2023-11-15
Hosts: Tony Hansmann && Jesse Alford
Guest Name: Thomas Squeo
Social media:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomassqueo/
Previous interview on Youtube.com: https://youtu.be/iZCPAHwhTWI?si=CfjhBEkyqN69x4eF
Guest: Thomas Squeo
Title: Let’s Play “Bet your Badge” with Thomas Squeo (01h:30m)
One of the greatest things about being in the field for Cloud Foundry was meeting leaders who were deploying not just Cloud Foundry but an array of transfor...
2023-12-161h 29Radio Free XPXP is Made of PEOPLE! with Drew McManusRecording Date: 2023-11-13
Hosts: Tony Hansmann && Jesse Alford
Guest Name: Drew McManus
Drew has a 30+ year career with orgs that are serious about software. He got involved with Pivotal Labs around 2006 and shepherded the practice until 2020.
Social media:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drewmcmanus/
2023-12-041h 12Radio Free XP"Situate the collaborators against the problem" with Alex TranRecording Date: November 10th, 2023
Hosts: Tony Hansmann && Jesse Alford
Guest Name: Alex Tran
Alex Tran has spent time at Code For America, Pivotal, and touring around the US helping Climete Tech companies. He’s got a new UX Consultancy focused on climate, wellness, insurance, and govtech clients.
We had the type of really fun conversation I miss having with Designers! We talk about his pairing journey, design on a balanced team, and some of the principles he teaches his design students.
Social media:
LinkedIn: ht...
2023-11-2140 minRadio Free XP"As a Technical co-founder...." With Steve SorensonHosts: Tony Hansmann and Jesse Alford
Guest: Steve Sorenson
Contact information: steve@vrimanagementllc.com
Tony talks to Steve. Jesses and Tony about it.
2023-11-1346 minRadio Free XPNudge 61 with David MarquetRecording Date: 2023-10-31
Hosts: Tony Hansmann && Jesse Alford
Guest: Cptn L. David Marquet (Retired)
Introduction to the Leader/Leader (With Tests!)
In Cloud Foundry R&D, there was a moment when the leadership team decided they needed a new model. The book they turned to was “Turn the Ship Around” by David Marquet.
Today, we talk with David about the outline of the Leader/Leader process and how to adopt it. He recommends, “Start with self.”
Join us for t...
2023-11-0434 minRadio Free XPA love letter to Tanzu Pivots with Davis FrankRecorded: 2023-10-25
Hosts: Jesse Alford and Tony Hansmann
Summary:
True Believer Davis Frank joins us to share his pairing journey, what the transition from solo to pair feels like, and what happens when "pairing is just not a fit" for a staff member.
After the pair journey, Jesse and Davis make the case for joining the Pivotal Diaspora.
Join us to mainline some Pivotal goodness.
Davis recounting his Paring Journey on stage at Golden...
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Radio Free XP"Pairing made me 20x more effective" a conversation with Dwayne FordeRuntime: 1h:36m
Guest: Dwayne Forde
Host: Tony Hansmann
Today's interview is with Dwayne Forde and I'm not even going to try to be measured about it! In a world where every Pivot is an unbelievably good coach and supporter, Dwayne Forde stands out as a Pivot's Pivot.
Kind and effective without ever compromising integrity.
Capable. So capable you start to wonder if there's any limit at all.
Dwayne knows team sports, and at Pivotal, I...
2023-10-181h 36Radio Free XPJRO's Pairing JourneyRecorded: Sept 15th, 02023
Guest: Jonathan Rogivue (aka JRO)
Host: Tony Hansmann
Call to action:
JRO is looking for pairs/partners for physical makerspaces in Austin, TX, USA or Medellín, Columbia
JRO Takes us on his pairing journey.
2023-10-1431 minRadio Free XPDavid Laing WellMaintained.ioRecorded Oct 4th, 2023
Guest: David Laing (Dublin, IR CF Pivot)
Host: Tony Hansmann
Call to action: David is currently looking for collaborators who own production systems to participate in WellMaintained.io. Interested parties can join through their website.
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In today's episode, David Lang to discuss his new organization, WellMaintained.io. The episode focuses on the problem of creating efficient and humane operational teams for running software in production environments.
Key Takeaways:
Genesis of WellMaintained.io:
David...
2023-10-1313 minRadio Free XPJoshua Aresty Pairing Journey and #OpenToGuestsJoshua Aresty Paring Journey && #OpenToGuests
Joshua Aresty and Tony Hansmann take us through joining Pivotal, a pure pairing shop where coding practices and team dynamics are on another level. Joshua narrates his accidental path to Pivotal's San Francisco office. There, he plunged into the Release Integration Team, pairing with a diverse set of folks that ranged from freelance genius to PhD math candidates.
At the heart of their discussion lies the concept of paired programming. For both Joshua and Tony, pairing went beyond coding; it established an intimate, productive...
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Radio Free XPDavid Laing and WellMaintained.ioHost: Tony Hansmann
Guest: David Laing (Dublin CF Pivot)
Recorded Oct 4th, 2023
Runtime: 14 min
Pointers: WellMaintained.io
In today's episode, host Tony is joined by David Lang to discuss David's organization, Well-Maintained.org. The episode focuses on the problem of creating efficient and humane operational teams for running software in production environments.
Genesis of Well-Maintained.org: David explains that the organization aims to extend the efficient software development practices proven at Pivotal to software operations. The goal is not just efficient operation but also...
2023-10-1302 minRadio Free XPJoshua Aresty Pairing JourneyJoshua Aresty and Tony Hansmann talk pairing journey, #opentoguests, and working for a pure XP shop.
2023-10-111h 00Radio Free XPNat Bennett Newsletter: Conservation Of ConflictNat Bennett is an amazing observer of work and how it works. This is their essay on The Conservation Of Conflict, read by Jesse Alford.
Nat argues that in any group, there will be a certain number of conflicts. These conflicts cannot be created or destroyed except by changing the group's composition.Nat cites the example of teams arguing about features vs. chores. They argue this is often a sign the team is avoiding a more difficult conversation about who gets to decide what to work on.Listen now and to get the full picuture!
2023-09-1611 minRadio Free XPThe Difference between Kind and NiceElisabeth Hendrickson is a transformational leader who mentored A LOT of folks at Pivotal. Join us for a conversation on the hows and whys of management and leadership at Pivotal.
2023-09-1655 minRadio Free XPBlindsight Book ReviewJesse Alford and Tony Hansmann talk about the book "Blindsight" by Peter Watts.
Blindsight is intricate and very smart book. Exactly the kind of thing systems designers love to talk about.
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