All Episodes

Do We Need Agile Process Frameworks Like Scrum?

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss the need for agile process frameworks.

December 04, 2013

17:52

The Trade Offs of Organic vs Prescriptive Agile Coaching

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss trying a different approach of prescriptive agile coaching to get a high performing team.

November 13, 2013

17:10

How Praising Effort Incorrectly Negatively Affects Your Culture

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss how blindly praising effort can damage teams. While highlighting the benefits of laziness via automation.

November 06, 2013

17:16

Automated Testing, Everything That Can Be Automated, Should Be Automated

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss automated testing and why everything that can be automated, should be automated.

October 23, 2013

17:08

Agile Team Standards, Finding the Right Balance for Efficiency vs Innovation

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss agile team standards and the effect they have on efficiency vs innovation.

October 09, 2013

16:39

Multiple Commitments and Multitasking in Agile Organizations and Teams

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss the why organizations commit people to multiple projects and why individuals fall for the traps of multitasking in agile.

October 02, 2013

17:00

Asking For Help, The Low Cost, High Value Action Your Organization Is Missing

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss the low cost but high value of asking for help.

September 24, 2013

15:55

Building Great Products Requires Presence Over Planning

The Agile Weekly crew and Jim McCarthy discuss what it means to be human. That prioritizing presence over planning helps in building great products.

September 18, 2013

28:58

How To Deal With People Who Constantly Are To Slowing Things Down

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss how culture affects ability to make decisions. Why people like to slow things down to get comfortable and how to deal with people who want to slow things down.

September 04, 2013

16:43

High Performance Teams And Having Fun At Work

The Agile Weekly Crew and David Foster discuss having fun at work and how culture affects it.

August 28, 2013

15:13

Building Product Owner Authority

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss treating the product owner as the customer. Whether the product owner is part of the delivery team and the role of the development manager.

August 20, 2013

18:10

eXtreme Programming (XP) Is Really Hard To Do

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss eXtreme Programming. How optimizing for efficiency can kill innovation.

August 07, 2013

15:52

Commitment Considered Harmful?

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss an article, Commitment Considered Harmful by Allan Kelly.

July 24, 2013

15:36

Sprint Failure, How To Use It As A Learning Mechanism

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss what failing a sprint means and how a team should react.

July 10, 2013

16:05

High Costs and Negative Value of Pair Programming

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss the harm of hypothesis that pair programming is high cost and negative.

July 03, 2013

16:33

7 Agile Best Practices that You Don’t Need to Follow

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss an article 7 Agile Best Practices that You Don’t Need to Follow.

June 19, 2013

17:29

Inspiring Personal Growth in Agile Teams

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss what individual growth looks like on a team in an Agile organization.

June 12, 2013

15:03

What Makes A Senior Developer On An Agile Team

The Agile Weekly Crew and David Foster discuss what it means to be a senior software developer.

May 28, 2013

15:21

Using The Decider Protocol and Presence To Limit Revisiting Decisions

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss why teams revisit decisions and use of the decider protocol.

May 15, 2013

15:36

How To Deal With Imperfect Situations And Get Better Results

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss dealing with imperfect situations.

May 08, 2013

14:49

Will Agile Make Us Faster or Better?

The Agile Weekly Crew and Alan Dayley discuss whether Agile is faster.

April 25, 2013

16:47

Lean Startup In The Enterprise

The Agile Weekly Crew and Mike Vizdos discuss lean startup in the enterprise, vanity metrics and lean pub.

April 17, 2013

16:12

Delivering News and Doing the Right Thing

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss how to deliver and help teams do the right thing.

April 10, 2013

12:56

Executives In Agile, Rewrites and Information Radiators

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss executives in agile, the big re-write and the cost of ignoring information radiators.

April 03, 2013

16:41

What Does Delivering Value Mean

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss the definition and types of value.

March 27, 2013

14:49

How to Use Agile Metrics to Measure Your Team and Organization's Agility

The Agile Weekly crew discuss how to use agile metrics to measure your team and organization's agility. What it means to "be agile". How the lack of automation and releasing infrequently impact team performance.

March 20, 2013

16:41

Team Working Agreements Deep Dive

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss the nuances of team working agreements

March 13, 2013

15:09

Building A Culture Of Learning, Fun and Failure

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss a culture of learning, fear of failure and having too much fun.

March 06, 2013

15:00

Remote Work Optimizes For The Individual Instead Of The Team

The Agile Weekly crew discuss technical scrum masters, team work spaces and working from home.

February 27, 2013

16:00

Allow Storming Teams To Generate Team Culture

The Agile Week Crew discuss team culture, alpha developers and safety in retrospectives.

February 20, 2013

16:59

Effective Product Owners, Backlog Grooming And Continuous Delivery

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss product owner availability, delivering value, continuous delivery vs deployment and backlog grooming.

February 13, 2013

16:15

Sprint Zero, Working Agreements, Performance Testing and Backlog Grooming

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss sprint zero, working agreements, performance testing and backlog grooming.

January 30, 2013

18:03

Benefits Of Shared Space On An Agile Team

The Agile Weekly Crew, Isaac, Deepa and Ryan discuss moving from cubes to team rooms, self-organizing teams and collaboration.

January 23, 2013

15:46

Agile Design and User Experience (UX) with Kevin Goldman

The Agile Weekly Crew and Kevin Goldman discuss Agile design, pen sketching, ideation and collaboration.

January 16, 2013

15:40

Agile in Education, Agile Schools with John Miller

The Agile Weekly Crew and John Miller discuss Agile in education, Scrum in the classroom and how software developers are like kids.

January 09, 2013

15:46

Hiring For Agile Teams

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss disrupting Agile teams, hiring and Tuckman's model.

December 12, 2012

16:20

Soul Crushing Technical Debt

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss tackling technical debt and cutting your losses and starting over.

December 05, 2012

17:56

One Day Sprints, Promiscuous Pairing and the Checkout Protocol

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss one day sprints, the checkout protocol and promiscuous pairing.

November 28, 2012

16:41

Recovering From Lost Motivation On A Team Requires Shared Alignment And Commitment

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss losing motivation, personal alignment and hard work.

November 21, 2012

15:47

Developer Class Systems in an Organization

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss class systems, cowboy coders and real leaders.

November 14, 2012

17:08

Scrum Team Roles, Product Owner, Scrum Master, Developer

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss the Product Owner, Scrum Master and developer roles on a team.

November 07, 2012

16:09

Lean UX with Adrian Howard

The Agile Weekly Crew and Adrian Howard discuss how developers and designers can work together.

October 31, 2012

15:20

Agile Outside Software with Raoul Encinas

The Agile Weekly Crew and Raoul Encinas discuss Agile outside of software, working with customers and trust on teams.

October 24, 2012

16:24

The Agile Culture Conference

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss organziational culture, the Core Protocols and culture hacking.

October 17, 2012

17:26

The Agile Manifesto and Embedded TDD with James Grenning

The Agile Weekly Crew and James Grenning discuss the history of the agile manifesto, TDD in embedded systems and estimates.

October 10, 2012

20:47

Implementing Agile with Peg Haustetter

The Agile Weekly Crew and Peg Haustetter discuss Agile adoptions and organizational culture.

October 03, 2012

15:11

Estimating Before Planning, Blocked Stories, Research Stories and Spikes

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss spikes, research stories, estimating during planning, blocked stories and failing sprints.

September 26, 2012

18:12

Demanding Technical Excellence with Declan Whelan

The Agile Weekly Crew and Declan Whelan discuss technical excellence relevancy, XP practices, pair programming and Agile coaching.

September 19, 2012

16:22

The Leadership Mindset with Christopher Avery

The Agile Weekly Crew and Christopher Avery discuss the leadership mindset and taking responsibility.

September 12, 2012

15:59

Leanpub with Peter Armstrong

The Agile Weekly Crew and Peter Armstrong discuss leanpub, advice for publishing books and the minimal viable product.

September 05, 2012

15:29

Managers and Developers Growing Apart with Gil Zilberfeld

The Agile Weekly Crew and Gil Zilberfeld discuss manager/developer communication, management practices, quality assurance and common manager mistakes.

August 29, 2012

18:00

The Learning Organization and Scrum with Derek Wade

The Agile Weekly Crew and Derek Wade discuss distributed teams and Scrum in different industries.

August 22, 2012

17:00

Agile Success with Woody Zuill

The Agile Weekly Crew and Woody Zuill discuss Agile success, the Agile manifesto, new Agile mantras and clean code.

August 15, 2012

16:41

Lean Startup with Aaron Eden

The Agile Weekly Crew and Aaron Eden discuss lean startup, customer development, innovation labs and horizon planning.

August 15, 2012

16:41

Less Everything with Steven Bristol

The Agile Weekly Crew and Steven Bristol discuss Less Everything and lean startup.

August 08, 2012

14:29

How Management Changes with Agile with Esther Derby

The Agile Weekly Crew and Esther Derby discuss the role of managers, management models and who makes decisions.

August 01, 2012

17:33

Managing Traditional Culture with Tom Mellor

The Agile Weekly Crew and Tom Mellor discuss working with vs changing a companies culture and historical revolutionaries.

July 25, 2012

14:52

Agile 2012 Conference Technical Track Teaser with Mitch Lacey

The Agile Weekly Crew and Mitch Lacey discuss Agile 2012, technical tracks and gaining buy in from developers.

July 19, 2012

18:04

Extreme Programing (XP) Practices with Arlo Belshee

The Agile Weekly Crew and Arlo Belshee discuss XP practices, software craftmanship, pair programming and test driven development.

July 18, 2012

17:02

Cognitive Bias in Estimation with Jim Benson

The Agile Weekly Crew and Jim Benson discuss cognitive bias, estimation accuracy, planning poker and group think.

July 11, 2012

22:32

Design Thinking with Jeff Patton

The Agile Weekly Crew and Jeff Patton discuss design thinking, ideation and lean startup.

July 04, 2012

17:40

Deloitte Digital Agile with Alex Sloley

The Agile Weekly Crew and Alex Sloley discuss Agile in a consulting environment, estimating and 1 week iterations.

June 27, 2012

17:01

New Team Members with Mark Levison

The Agile Weekly Crew and Mark Levison discuss team formation, conflict, working agreements and Scrum masters.

June 20, 2012

15:27

Special Episode: Scrum For Authoring Content and Curriculum

The Agile Weekly Crew and the Mathsters discuss Scrum outside of software.

June 19, 2012

15:25

The Myth of 100% Utilization with Pawel Brodzinski

The Agile Weekly Crew and Pawel Brodzinski discuss the myth of 100% utilization.

June 13, 2012

17:01

Managing Your Job Search with Johanna Rothman

The Agile Weekly Crew and Johanna Rothman discuss personal kanban for job search, decomposition of work, collecting feedback and holding yourself accountable.

June 07, 2012

19:16

Rewarding Developers For Working Hard

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss Esther Derby's article But Are They Working Hard?

May 31, 2012

17:49

Is the Process the Problem?

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss Jamie Flinchbaugh's article Don't Just Change The Process If People Aren't Following The Existing One.

May 24, 2012

16:36

10 Destructive Team Behaviors with Deb Spicer

The Agile Weekly Crew and Deb Spicer discuss 10 destructive behaviors that can bring down a team's success.

May 17, 2012

18:12

Running a Transparent Consultancy with Chris Sims

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss using Scrum to run a consultancy.

May 10, 2012

20:32

Personal Kanban with Gerry Kirk

The Agile Weekly Crew and Gerry Kirk discuss personal kanban.

May 03, 2012

16:30

Performance Reviews with Kane Mar

The Agile Weekly Crew and Kane Mar discuss performance reviews.

April 26, 2012

15:26

Leveraging Strengths Finder with Scott Dunn

The Agile Weekly Crew and Scott Dunn discuss Strengths Finder and self-organizing teams.

April 19, 2012

16:30

Lean Startup Principles and Agile with David Bland

The Agile Weekly Crew and David Bland discuss lean startup principles in Agile.

April 11, 2012

16:59

How to Handle Defects in Scrum with Mike Vizdos

The Agile Weekly Crew and Mike Vizdos discuss how to handle defects in Scrum

April 04, 2012

14:14

Managers in Agile with Jurgen Appelo

The Agile Weekly Crew and Jurgen Appelo discuss Management 3.0.

March 29, 2012

17:28

Lean Principles in Healthcare with Mark Graban

The Agile Weekly Crew and Mark Graban discuss Agile in healthcare and lean principles.

March 22, 2012

16:05

Traveling Pair Programming with Software Journeyman Corey Haines

The Agile Weekly Crew and Core Haines discuss software craftmanship and Corey's journey traveling while pair programming.

March 15, 2012

22:45

EPotentially Shippable Software

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss potentially shippable software.

March 08, 2012

15:51

Approaches to Building Agile Teams

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss a team member that doesn't fit on the team and hiring quality people.

March 01, 2012

19:40

Dealing With Impending Deadlines on a Scrum Team

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss impending deadlines on a Scrum team.

February 23, 2012

15:32

Teaching Kids to Program Teaches Us a Lot About Programming with Llewellyn Falco

The Agile Weekly Crew and Llwellyn Falco discuss teaching kids to program.

February 16, 2012

17:27

Corporate Cultures and Agile

The Agile Weekly Crew, Perry Reinert and Alan Dayley discuss Corporate Cultures

February 09, 2012

16:52

Digital Boards Vs Physical Boards Agile

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss the pros and cons of digital vs physical boards.

February 02, 2012

19:15

Story Sizes, Named Sprints and Partial Credit

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss story sizes, naming your sprints and partial credit.

January 26, 2012

16:08

2012 Agile Predictions

The Agile Weekly Crew, Alan Dayley and Perry Reinert discuss predictions for Agile in 2012.

January 24, 2012

22:22

Scrum is a Diet, Kanban is a Mirror

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss controversial topics found on Twitter.

January 18, 2012

19:51

Shared Commitments

The Agile Weekly Crew and Howard Sublett discuss shared resources, multitasking and team members having multiple commitments.

January 11, 2012

17:03

Working with Proxy Customers

The Agile Weekly Crew and Alan Dayley discuss working with proxy users.

January 04, 2012

16:17

Management Inbreeding with Darrin Ladd

The Agile Weekly Crew and Darrin Ladd discuss management inbreeding.

December 28, 2011

20:40

What is the Right Iteration Length

The Agile Week Crew discuss Todd Landry's article What is the Right Iteration Length

December 21, 2011

11:40

User Story Class Interview with Rose Hess-Nunn

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss what challenges Rose Hess-Nunn has with user stories.

December 16, 2011

142

User Story Class Interview with Sandra Bufford

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss what issues Sandra Bufford has with user stories.

December 14, 2011

142

Communities in Scrum

The Agile Weekly Crew and Perry Reinert discuss communities in Scrum.

December 14, 2011

16:10

Software Craftsmanship with Adam Sroka

The Agile Weekly Crew and Adam Sroka discuss software craftsmanship.

December 07, 2011

16:53

Alan Dayley Interview with Doug Hall Phoenix Scrum User’s Group Oct 2011

Alan Dayley interview with Doug Hall after Phoenix Scrum User's Group October 2011.

December 01, 2011

288

Liftoff: Launching Agile Teams and Projects, with Ainsley Nies

The Agile Weekly Crew and Ainsley Nies discuss the book Liftoff: Launching Agile Teams and Projects

November 30, 2011

26:18

Technical Excellence in Scrum

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss Dave Rooney's article technical excellence in Scrum

November 23, 2011

19:05

Creating a Sense of Urgency

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss creating a sense of urgency around the work that needs to be done.

November 16, 2011

15:07

Commitments, Rules, Velocity, Good Scrum Master and the Sprint Review

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss controversial tweets.

November 09, 2011

15:59

Usage of Agile Tools

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss the use of agile tools and their place.

November 02, 2011

16:16

White Elephant Estimating vs Planning Poker

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss white elephant estimating, a new way to generate estimates for stories.

October 26, 2011

15:54

Leadership and Finding Them On Your Team

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss leadership and how you might identify leaders within your team.

October 19, 2011

16:04

How Rigid is Scrum

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss an article How Rigid is Scrum

October 12, 2011

13:38

Integrating User Experience Design with Agile Process with Alix Holmes

The Agile Weekly Crew and Alix Holmes discuss integrating user experience design with Agile process.

October 04, 2011

72

Game Programming for Fun and Keeping Thousands of People Happy with Chris Scripca

The Agile Weekly Crew and Chris Scripca discuss game programming for fun and keeping thousands of people happy.

October 03, 2011

34

Agile Chartering with Ainsley Nies

The Agile Weekly Crew and Ainsley Nies discuss Agile chartering.

September 30, 2011

160

Strengths Based Team and Personal Growth with Scott Dunn

The Agile Weekly Crew and Scott Dunn discuss strengths based team and personal growth.

September 29, 2011

132

Using Creative Processes to Drive Development with Jason Kerney

The Agile Weekly Crew and Jason Kerney discuss using creative processes to drive development.

September 28, 2011

60

Reluctant Team Members and Participants on Agile Teams with Julie Smith

The Agile Weekly Crew and Julie Smith discuss reluctant team members and participants on Agile teams.

September 27, 2011

67

Getting Started with SCRUM with Marsha Garczewski

The Agile Weekly Crew and Marsha Garczewski discuss getting started with Scrum.

September 26, 2011

89

Introduction to Agile with Woddy Zuill

The Agile Weekly Crew and Woody Zuill discuss an introduction to Agile.

September 23, 2011

68

How Can I Help My Teams Continue to Improve? with Darrin Ladd

The Agile Weekly Crew and Darrin Ladd discuss how to help teams continue to improve.

September 22, 2011

95

The Agile Weekly Crew Invades Agile Open California South in Irvine

The Agile Weekly Crew invades Agile Open California South in Irvine.

September 21, 2011

240

Scrum. Where Do You Start?

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss where a good place to start for a team wanting to adopt Scrum might be.

September 07, 2011

19:36

Stand-Ups In Agile Environments

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss stand-ups in Agile environments

August 31, 2011

14:23

Reviewing the New Edition of the Scrum Guide

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss changes to the Scrum Guide.

August 24, 2011

22:59

The Trust Paradox

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss John Hagel's article on the Trust Paradox.

August 10, 2011

15:24

Agile Principles Seen Through Paintball

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss playing paint ball and how it applies to Agile principles.

August 03, 2011

17:35

Why Enterprises Crave Documentation Artifacts

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss reasons why enterprises seem so hungry for documentation artifacts.

July 13, 2011

18:26

Is It Responsible to Not Test Your Code?

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss when it is responsible to not write tests.

July 06, 2011

15:28

Which Practices First: Retrospectives, Pair Programming or Continuous Inegration

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss which practice in Agile has the most initial value.

June 29, 2011

14:23

Vision on an Agile Team

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss what vision means to the team.

June 22, 2011

14:42

Cost of Interruptions to Teams and Organizations

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss the cost of interruptions to teams and organizations.

June 15, 2011

15:21

The Cost of Change When Implementing Agile

The Agile Weekly Crew and Mike Vizdos discuss cost of change when implementing Agile.

June 01, 2011

16:18

Multiple vs Single Product Owner

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss the role of product owners.

May 25, 2011

08:52

Agile Estimates

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss estimates.

May 18, 2011

12:18

Agile Retrospectives

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss running retrospectives.

May 04, 2011

13:40

Agile Certifications

The Agile Weekly Crew and Mike Vizdos discuss Agile certifications.

April 27, 2011

14:13

Step Away From The Tools

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss an Liz Keogh's article Step Away From the Tools.

April 21, 2011

15:29

Continuous Deployment and Project Management

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss continuous deployment.

April 13, 2011

15:32

Growing People on Agile Teams

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss growing people on Agile teams.

April 06, 2011

22:36

Design in Agile Software Development

The Agile Weekly Crew and William Price III discuss design in Agile software development.

March 31, 2011

29:42

Done is Done

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss what it means to be done with a story.

March 24, 2011

18:36

Everything You Wanted to Know About Pairing On a Scrum Team

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss pair programming on a Scrum team.

March 09, 2011

18:41

Community Questions

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss questions from Twitter.

March 07, 2011

15:07

Multi Team Retrospectives

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss the difficulty of doing retrospectives with several small teams.

February 23, 2011

11:34

Software Craftsmanship: Programming as a Craft

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss Dan North's article Programming is not a Craft.

February 17, 2011

17:59

Agile Estimations

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss Agile estimation.

January 03, 2010

690

Human Driven Development

The Agile Weekly Crew discuss bringing a human element to Agile software development.

April 22, 2009

11:04

Best Practices for Facilitating Multi-Team Retrospectives

Chris Young and Derek Neighbors reflect on the trouble of having many small teams working for the same company on different projects and handling retrospectives. We hope that you give us feed back or start sharing your stories with us.

March 25, 2009

09:22