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Badass Unscripted - Agile Must Be Formless from 2022-02-11T22:45:37
The more we try to learn the 'rules' of Agile practice, the more we should be learning that there can be no rules.***JOIN THE FORGE***Sign up for more info about our online leadership immersion exp...
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Episode 204 - No Competition from 2022-01-24T07:12:59
Here’s how you know you have no competition.When you interact with people, notice if:-They make promises and then don’t keep them-They make excuses-They become harder to find when work has to be do...
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Episode 203 - The Year Ahead from 2022-01-06T08:44:14
At the end of each year, I like to look ahead to the currents and opportunities of our craft. While I see some progress here and there, I don't see potent shifts. I'm learning that it's better to ...
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Badass Unfiltered - What Are We Accountable For? from 2021-11-30T02:12:39
In the debate on measurement, we seem to have strong views on what we DON'T want to examine, but little to say on what we will put our hands up to be accountable for. We can't forget that a team i...
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Episode 202 - The World Will Respond To Your Courage from 2021-11-22T09:07:44
One of the best things that has happened because of this podcast is inspiring courage worldwide.There's a fine line between recognition and impact. I like hearing when people enjoy the show, but I...
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Episode 201 - Comfortable? Then You're Not Growing! from 2021-11-07T22:08:45
Nothing good - no uncommon outcome - is easy, otherwise, everyone would be doing it, and it wouldn't be uncommon. How do you know if you're performing like an uncommon badass?Here are some guideli...
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Episode 200 - The Most Important Lessons from 2021-10-24T14:47:28
What are the key learnings that made me radically more effective?After 200 episodes, it's time to reflect!-First, some gratitude. Thank you to all who have listened to and supported the show. To al...
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Badass Unscripted - Seek Truth, No Matter The Source from 2021-10-20T11:23:35
We have a duty to seek the truth, even if it doesn't align with our existing beliefs. To red-team our ideas; to challenge what is accepted and permitted without scrutiny. Otherwise, we fall to dog...
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Badass Unfiltered - You Have to Scale "Mattering" from 2021-10-14T08:18
In a race to keep your talent, offering what YOU think they will like is a short route to failure. People want to matter. That can be hard to do when dealing with one person, much less 10,000. Neve...
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Episode 199 - Should We Eliminate Commitment? from 2021-10-13T10:36:26
Let's have a little controversy today.People are afraid of commitment. They're starting to say we should change the word - eliminate it all together. I'm fine with minimizing estimates. I'm super...
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Badass Unscripted - What You Avoid Will Find You from 2021-09-30T21:29:10
It's my experience that what you avoid - whether it's because it scares you, or you believe you're no good at it - will find you. Specifically, your inability to face and conquer your discomfort w...
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Episode 198 - Failure To Execute from 2021-09-26T22:03:58
THE ONE FAILURE THAT KILLS ALL TEAM PROGRESS.....and how to solve it.Perhaps the most important thing Scrum teaches us to do is make and keep small commitments with consistency.On these points, I'v...
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Episode 197 - The Great Resignation from 2021-09-21T14:00:22
-Across the world, people are leaving - or thinking of leaving - their jobs and careers in stunning numbers.-Is the solution in Agile?-Perhaps because of the pandemic, people are waking up and ligh...
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Badass Unfiltered - Strength from 2021-09-13T03:23
One of the critical pieces of leadership is strength - strength of character, ideasWe're never taught how to be strong so strong has become a bad word, associated with bullies or pushinesss or ange...
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Episode 196 - Stay Hungry from 2021-09-07T21:33:28
The secret to boundless energy and consistent forward momentum is to stay hungry every day. Keep reaching, stretching, learning, and acting as if you're starting from zero. Assume you know nothi...
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Episode 195 - The Three Things That Destroy Agile Effectiveness from 2021-08-29T19:00
When looking for the cause of delivery issues in teams, think of the three P's.
Permission
Perfection
Past
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Badass Unscripted - A Great Coach Keeps Watch from 2021-08-27T15:40:24
Most teams are composed of people who have other day jobs. This will be particularly true of a product owner who has multiple priorities and projects, but increasingly true of all team members - t...
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Badass Unfiltered - The Hero's Arc from 2021-08-24T20:00
A dark stage, a single light, and a stool. The feel of a live room (that we all miss) is the perfect crucible for a contemplation that becomes a rallying cry. What if we feel called to do more, b...
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Episode 194 - Do, Practice, Rehearse from 2021-08-22T18:53
Too much of what we "know" about in the field of high performance comes from books, memes, or youtube videos. Inspiration is essential, so is knowledge, but it is how you ACT upon both of these th...
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Badass Unscripted - Why You Need To Work On Your Shadow from 2021-08-19T12:00
Was someone unjust in their words? Or are you just bad with criticism?
Were you really just observing, or just scared to jump in?
Are you working on yourself, waiting for the right moment,...
Badass Unfiltered - Fences from 2021-08-17T19:00
Picture a smoky club. The spill of the stage light, hushed chatter, and the chiming of glasses and plates carrying good drinks and passable food punctuate the mood.
A well-worn house mic and P...
Episode 193 = Welcome Changing Requirements from 2021-08-15T19:37:26
Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness change for the customer’s competitive advantage.
This is what most people mean when they put in air quotes "Agil...
Badass Unscripted - How To See from 2021-08-11T20:00
You cannot ascend if your beliefs, routines thoughts, experiences and emotions are limited to your present circumstances and reality. Think and feel bigger than your environment.
Artists see. S...
Episode 192 - Come With Me from 2021-08-08T18:30
"Come With Me If You Want To Live" - The Terminator.
At any stage in a transformation or ramp-up, mayhem or uncertainty can undo some of your progress. The consequences of standing still aren'...
Badass Unscripted - More Output Than Anyone from 2021-08-05T18:52:29
The pride that comes from creating more output = although not necessarily expending more effort - than anyone you know. This comes from working with clients who feel everything they do is a hercu...
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Episode 191 - Principle 1 - Do We Prioritize The Customer? from 2021-08-03T13:29:06
Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.
Do we do this? No, we don't. It's one of the biggest problems with Agile.
-The ...
Badass Unscripted - How To Change Culture from 2021-07-28T23:45:41
I can change your culture in 5 minutes. It's commitment and consistency that take time. It's overcoming the disbelief and old attitudes.
The first thing we do wrong when trying to chang...
Episode 190 - The Boldest Thing You Can Do from 2021-07-26T00:15:22
One way to begin to change the arc of your life as a leader is to ask "what is the boldest thing I can do today"?
Your day will present you with opportunities and choices. What you choose refl...
Badass Unscripted - Solve Their Biggest Problem from 2021-07-21T20:00
The most profitable and in-demand agile practitioner will be the one who can solve important, complex and valuable problems efficiently and confidently.
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Episode 189 - The Best Source of Customer Value from 2021-07-18T21:41
The greatest, most revealing question isn't always "what do you need?". It's just as often, "what isnt working?".
Every pain reveals an opportunity. As agilists, we should be experts in reso...
Badass Unscripted - Cameras Off from 2021-07-14T20:00
I get asked "how can i get teams to turn their cameras on and get engaged?". Engagement is YOUR job. A great facilitator doesn't need cameras, visuals, or physical presence to make unforgettable...
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Episode 188 - Patience and Persistence from 2021-07-11T21:21:51
To grow yourself AND your team, develop your patience and persistence.
Although the industry would like you to believe that great delivery and performance are days away, the really good s...
Badass Unscripted - Distractions from 2021-07-07T20:00
The biggest disruptor of productivity is distraction. No matter how small, distractions interrupt flow, engagement, and deep work. The biggest offender is usually electronics - smartphones, lapto...
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Episode 187 - Paint With The Big Brushes from 2021-07-04T20:46:10
Creativity requires freedom. The ability to desire and dream with impunity. That doesn't happen by accident. You have to enable and defend it.
* Remove the cost of failure
* Stand ...
Episode 186 - Own Your Time from 2021-06-28T12:37:42
We must be careful to ensure that we own our time.
We frequently complain that we are 'overloaded'
Overwhelm is not something that is done TO YOU. It is something that you accept; or even ...
Agile In Toronto At Night - Adam Smith from 2021-06-22T11:18:26
Most of us (especially in the midst of global stay-at-home orders) experience our favourite brands digitally far more than we do physically. Great creative and experience design is fascinating; es...
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Badass Unscripted - Overdeliver from 2021-06-16T21:38:34
If you're struggling to get exceptional traction or results with your clients...try this. Set the bar to "Overdeliver".
This means declaring an intention of delivering exceptional, ...
Episode 185 - The Best Questions from 2021-06-13T20:27:03
Some people want direction. But for those that don't, leading means helping them get where they want to go. That starts with great questions.
When you lead, you can't often push. You may kno...
Episode 184 - How Much Does Uncertainty Cost You? from 2021-06-06T17:34
Seeking certainty costs you time and money. Think about how much.
This topic isn't new, but it is perhaps the most pervasive cause of failure and disappointment in teams of every kind.
It...
Badass Unscripted - Stretch Goals from 2021-06-03T20:11:42
* I was recently caught in an online conversation about how its inhumane to give teams stretch goals.
* We've been fooled into believing that this is how people are getting more and m...
Episode 183 - Creating The Best Companies To Work For from 2021-05-30T23:32:46
If you want to work for "the best companies to work for" - make it yourself.
Great companies must model the ability to venture into the unknown and the uncommon in order to attain and sust...
Badass Unscripted - The Truth About Badasses from 2021-05-27T00:46:05
We don't like to hear about it, but there's a certain kind of practitioner who is certain and confident in every situation. Either they know what to do, or they'll figure it out. They have no nat...
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EP 182 - What Will You Bring from 2021-05-23T22:01:54
Too many agilists seek out bank jobs and pretend they are going to innovate and advance the craft. When you go to banks, you ask questions like "what is the salary, comp, vacation: or "w...
Badass Unscripted - Measuring The Wrong Things from 2021-05-19T23:11:58
When you measure the wrong things, you get the wrong results. What you incentivize has deep impact on behaviour. Can you help your organization realize that shaving the bottom line can kill the t...
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Episode 181 - An All-Too-Common Story Arc from 2021-05-16T18:00
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There is a tragic story arc that is becoming more common with...
Badass Unscripted - Handling Your Inner Critic from 2021-05-12T23:27:29
It's possible we all will have a lifelong relationship with your inner critic. It begins with acceptance that its there...something that guides your actions, and possibly limits your greatness. O...
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May 11, 1921 from 2021-05-11T13:26:55
A moment of tribute to my father, born 100 years ago today, and gone too long.
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Episode 180 - Failure of Courage In Action from 2021-05-09T18:00
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All agile failure is a failure of courage in action
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Badass Unscripted - It's Still About Profit And Speed from 2021-05-06T23:12:44
Ultimately, if Agile doesn't make for happier customers, profits won't flow; and history shows that rapid and certain decline will follow as the industry looks for something new to solve the proble...
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May Agile Mastery Series from 2021-05-04T19:46:06
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Episode 179 - Find Passion, Push Harder from 2021-05-03T00:15:54
* High Performing teams are not a secret, but we often fail to observe and apply the right principles
* Making people flow with productivity is easy to say, easy to teach, but hard to do
Badass Unscripted - Run From Popular Opinion from 2021-04-28T08:07:50
Books, social media, courses, video, blogs - there is so much content to help you grow, but how much of it is useful? When something becomes so widespread that it feels like everyone is talking abo...
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Episode 178 - Balanced Leadership from 2021-04-25T20:12:43
Great leadership has no recipe no script no singular definition.
* Leadership must be balanced - a dynamic position between two opposite poles that can only be perfected in the moment as i...
Episode 177 - 5 Ways To Think Bigger from 2021-04-18T19:23
o more for your clients, teams and customers. We're used to thinking of incremental improvement as 1-2% improvement or delivery over time...but when it comes to innovation, you need to have ideas ...
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Episode 176 - How To Have Strong Ideas from 2021-04-14T00:11:43
The next turn of business requires bold thinking and decisive action. How can you have strong ideas?
-Don't wait for perfect ideas
-Don't worry about having - or conform to - popular ideas...
Agile Mastery Series - A New Badass Agile Experience from 2021-04-13T00:05:28
Starting April 2021, you can be part of a weekly continuous learning tribe that goes way beyond traditional Agile/Scrum learning experiences. Get access to the competitive skills and the latest in...
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Episode 175 - Outgrow from 2021-04-05T21:21:48
Employee Thinking - allowing others (or the firm and its rules) to limit how far you can expand, what you can achieve, who you can talk to, what you can say, how fast you move, and what you do. Pe...
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Badass Unscripted - Choose Scary from 2021-03-31T09:20:50
Make a choice to be Comfortable with the Uncomfortable
* Fear impacts decisions, and decisions dictate results
* Its a huge mistake to avoid scary in order to feel safe
* Noth...
Episode 174 - Monitor Your Inputs from 2021-03-28T22:15:32
* The quality of your leadership, your ability to inspire others and your ability to make decisions is based entirely on what you let inside your head - your social circle, social media, the ...
Badass Unscripted - Speaking To Your Fears from 2021-03-24T22:49:05
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Episode 173 - No Quick Fixes from 2021-03-22T23:39
Too often, we're looking for the easy answer; the quick fix.
There's no single thing you can do or say to make a team more successful. No two teams are alike. To build trust, energy, eff...
Special Episode - The Future of The Scrum Master with Vasco Duarte from 2021-03-15T00:29
Always a great conversation with Vasco Duarte! This time we discussed:
-his new Scrum Master Summit - happening in may (don't miss it!!!) - www.scrummastersummit.org (http://www.scrummastersum...
Badass Conversations - Johanna Rothman - Author, Speaker and Consultant from 2021-03-11T00:41
My special guest this week is Johanna Rothman, renowned author, speaker and consultant. In this episode, we discuss her most recent release - "Modern Management Made Easy" includes three volumes -...
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Badass Unscripted - Positivity from 2021-03-03T21:03:25
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Clubhouse Roundup - March 2 2021 from 2021-03-02T21:12:34
Links change each week so check this roundup often! Here are my events on clubhouse for the week - all times EST - find me as "Badass Agile" or @fusechamber:
Agile Zen-do: Wednesday, 8AM - ht...
Episode 172 - Commitment Culture from 2021-03-01T08:41
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Badass Unscripted - The Unscripted Life from 2021-02-24T23:59:25
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Episode 171 - Self Study from 2021-02-22T21:40:04
I love that people are reading - and this is a big plus of social media - its easy to share and get great recommendations. I believe we should do a little more and set aside time to study the bes...
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Clubhouse Agile Roundup - Week of Feb 18 2021 from 2021-02-19T00:37
CORRECTION - Agile Sundays is at 6:30 PM, not 8PM as stated in the episode.
So much great stuff building out there this week - jump in. You can blame me for no longer having a life or sleep.
Episode 170 - Serve Change, or Clients? from 2021-02-15T17:59:03
There's a big difference between service and subservience. You are called to lead; serve those who seek you, not those who will merely employ you.
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New Badass Agile Events in Clubhouse from 2021-02-14T19:45:56
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Find Me on Clubhouse! from 2021-02-11T11:28:06
There is some incredible stuff happening on this new platform. New levels of opportunity to learn and grow - BUT - we have to make an agile presence there, and it starts with you guys. Network wi...
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Episode 169 - Your Old Backlog from 2021-02-07T19:27:45
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Agile Mastery Series from 2021-02-01T16:08:28
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Episode 168 - The 13 Qualities Of A Badass Leader (Revisited) from 2021-01-31T18:57:57
Reaching back to March of 2017, let's review some of the essential qualities of a badass leader; why they're important, and how to get them.
A badass:
* Has a Compelling Picture o...
Badass Unscripted - Too Smart For Your Own Good from 2021-01-27T22:03:36
Could we be too smart for our own good? Learning should be a lifelong activity, but there are some problems that aren't helped by complexity...
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Episode 167 - Talking To Big Shots from 2021-01-24T16:34:48
What is it about talking to executives, senior leaders or others with a 'title' that makes us nervous? Let's unpack how to get your head right before any important conversation or encounter.
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Badass Unscripted - Re-learning from 2021-01-21T21:40:15
Learn to write all over again? What's that got to do with leading through change? LIsten, try it out, and see....
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Episode 166 - On Documentation from 2021-01-17T22:09:44
Agile is, in many ways about the work NOT done. That includes documentation that people are unlikely to read because it doesn't inform any particular job function, documenting features that never ...
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Episode 165 - The Cause of Obscurity from 2021-01-10T16:36:34
I'm an advocate for new voices; unique voices. It's important to note that while standing still feels good - like we've finally made it, or figured out the big gnarly problem - it is exactly that ...
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Badass Unscripted - Kicking off 2021 with Momentum from 2021-01-07T00:00
This episode was inspired by a question from Richard in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook. How do you gain and sustain momentum with your teams at the start of a new year?
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Episode 164 - Finding The Leaks from 2021-01-04T20:23
When a team has found rhythm and flow, making new gains requires a hard look at where you're leaking effort and energy.
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Badass Unscripted - The Turning Of A Year from 2020-12-31T17:50:31
Although this has been a year of great uncertainty and turmoil, there has also been massive opportunity to re-write the scripts we ride on. Take time to inventory your accomplishments for the yea...
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Episode 163 - Is Creativity a Prerequisite to Agility from 2020-12-29T20:42:14
When our discussion of Agile is limited to software development, we tend to think of only the software development part as being even partly creative. But could creativity be a prerequisite to doi...
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Special Episode - Vasco Duarte, Ryan Ripley, and Chris Williams from 2020-12-25T00:00
For the holidays, three veteran podcasters came together to talk about the state of agile, and where to focus on the road ahead! Thanks to Ryan Ripley, host of "Agile For Humans" and co-author of ...
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Badass Unscripted - Learn From Agile from 2020-12-23T22:29:47
Think about how we expect our teams to fail, observe, learn and improve, yet we fail to have the same patience (or to coach leaders, teams and customer organizations) to do the same....
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Episode 162 - Agile Means Freedom from 2020-12-20T19:12:35
For the month of December, I'll be warming your home and mine by a crackling hot fire, talking about agility. This week, let's talk about the best part of Agile...the FREEDOM it gives you to turn ...
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Badass Unscripted - Keep Your Works Silent from 2020-12-17T20:54:28
Humility is a big part of leadership and the Badass Agile way (get humble, get flexible). Particularly when you have accomplished something remarkable...the best thing you can do is keep it a lit...
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Episode 161 - Living The Values from 2020-12-14T16:44:43
For the month of December, I'll be warming your home and mine by a crackling hot fire, talking about agility. This week, let's talk about the supreme importance of clearly stating and living your ...
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Badass Unscripted - Letting Yourself Off the Hook from 2020-12-10T16:52:20
There's a fine line between calibrating, baselining, or adjusting and letting yourself off the hook.
When you catch yourself giving yourself a pass, or permission to fall back into excuses, you...
Episode 160 - Fireside Chat - Nobody Owns Agile from 2020-12-06T18:01:06
For the month of December, I'll be warming your home and mine by a crackling hot fire, talking about agility. This week, I want to remind you that nobody 'owns' agile ideas...and its way more fun ...
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Badass Unscripted - Add Value from 2020-12-02T20:59:33
The point of being Agile is not being Agile. Don't forget your fundamentals - the simplest way to define great performance is to find a customer need and fill it. Figure out what they buy and why...
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Episode 159 - Be Someone Who Gets It from 2020-11-29T19:42:14
Don't fall victim to the classic causes of Agile failure by making the same mistakes so many organizations make. Be someone who gets it.
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Badass Unscripted - Stay Curious from 2020-11-25T18:00
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Episode 158 - Slowly Over Time from 2020-11-22T18:00
A common pitfall in trying to create results is pushing for too much progress and tangible result in a short time frame. Results come more consistently through the consistent application of small e...
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Badass Unscripted - Necessity Engineering from 2020-11-19T07:14
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Episode 157 - Your True Fans from 2020-11-15T18:00
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Badass Unscripted - Talking About Excellence from 2020-11-12T19:18
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Episode 156 - Trends from 2020-11-10T11:20
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Agile In Toronto At Night #11 - Sue Johnston, Communication Specialist from 2020-11-05T21:51
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Episode 155 - Coaching Is Teaching from 2020-11-03T21:53
Let's break the myth that a coach is only a facilitator and enabler. In order to help people, a coach must also give counsel, advice, and instruction.
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Badass Unscripted - Protect Your Attention from 2020-10-22T21:02:13
More than ever, your attention is under attack. If you personally, or your team is struggling with distraction, it might be time to get serious about how culture and devices demand and divide your...
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Episode 154 - Not Just For IT from 2020-10-20T21:44:31
It's becoming more important to think of Agile outside the IT realm. When every solution is assumed to be technology based, we limit the wealth of options available for solving business problems.<...
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Agile In Toronto At Night #10 - Catarina Von Maydell, Facilitating Transformation from 2020-10-16T13:42:19
Catarina Von Maydell has been studying and facilitating the human side of innovation, change and growth.
Focusing not on the technical side, but the human and business side of agility, she's an...
Episode 153 - On Solutions from 2020-10-12T00:05:13
Everything we do is solutioning. But not every solution means software or IT. We have to get better at asking the focusing question - "what hurts?". Not just considering what could be better, bu...
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Badass Unscripted - Planning vs. Preparation from 2020-10-08T20:00
One of the best ways to decrease up-front planning without increasing risk is to 'prepare'. This is different than planning, as it doesn't try to forecast a specific sequence of outcomes, but rath...
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Episode 152 - The Psychology Of "Done" from 2020-10-06T18:15:40
What is it about Done things that is such a challenge? Committing to a finished deliverable - even a small one - is difficult for all of us sometimes. Whether it's the hard work, the pressure, o...
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Agile In Toronto At Night #9 - Gino Marckx, Transformation Consultant from 2020-10-01T20:00
A compelling and experienced leader and speaker in our space, Gino talks with me for over 30 minutes on renaming Agile, framework dogmatism, and ongoing learning and education. I know you'll love ...
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Episode 151 - What's Next? from 2020-09-28T20:23:11
It's time once again to chin-scratch a little and ask "What's Next For Agile"? As in 2019, agility needs to leave the team room and venture into the organization more uniformly. This is no longer ...
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Badass Unscripted - Finding Perfect Flow from 2020-09-23T18:30
There really is no perfect cadence - just one that's perfect for you, your team, your mission, your client. It's always a little different. True in general, but equally so for teams. You have to ...
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Episode 150 - Truth Doesn't Come From Thought from 2020-09-20T23:56:28
A contemplation this week - abundance of thinking does not make us better agilists. Truth doesn't come from thought. Truth simply IS. And the only way to arrive at it is to experience it.
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Agile In Toronto At Night #8 - Daria Bagina, Agile Coach and Professional Scrum Trainer from 2020-09-15T20:00
This week I talk with Daria Bagina, a Professional Scrum Trainer, Coach and a leader in our community. For me, the biggest takeaway was that "Change is hard. You can't do it all at once. We have t...
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Episode 149 - What Agile Has Done For Me from 2020-09-13T19:00
Over the years, Agile has come to mean way more than a better way of delivering software. Agile thinking and doing has been responsible for every major accomplishment and improvement in my life; f...
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Episode 148 - By The Book from 2020-09-06T18:30
If you do Agile by the approved playbook...and everyone has the same playbook...can you still make your client/company competitive?
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Badass Unscripted - Lowest Common Denominator from 2020-09-03T19:00
Creating procedures, policies and scripts that ensure that nobody can possibly misunderstand it is waste. Instead, leverage team as a force multiplier - there's redundancy in pairs, and individual...
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Episode 147 - The Echo Chamber from 2020-09-01T20:04:22
If you grew up without social media (or internet), it's always inspiring to realize that you can stand on a podium and reach anybody, anytime. But what's the point if we use that podium to amplify...
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Agile In Toronto At Night #7 - Agile Coach Wayne Hetherington from 2020-08-25T21:08
Tonight I'm joined by my friend Wayne Hetherington. He's an Agile Coach who is deeply rooted in his practice AND his community. His open and positive mindset makes him relatable and insightful; I...
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Episode 146 - Complexity Is A Choice from 2020-08-23T18:00
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Episode 145 - What About Victory? from 2020-08-16T18:00
It's great to get comfy with failure, but I wouldn't start there. Don't forget to always be stretching...trying to deliver something meaningful each day or week, but also trying to improve on that...
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Badass Unscripted - Break Rules from 2020-08-13T18:46
Just because rules exist, doesn't mean they exist for good reason. Whether they exist for an abundance of caution, or because some people just like rules and control...the point of this show is to...
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Episode 144 - Become an Agile Badass from 2020-08-09T18:00
Want to be an Agile Badass? Sometimes, you have to choose your targets carefully. You can fight the challenges of scale...OR...you can decide to make impact in places that are truly aligned and r...
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Agile In Toronto At Night #6 - David Dame from 2020-08-06T23:24:58
David Dame is well known in our industry as an executive, change leader, and agile champion - AND for his wonderful TEDx talk on living with Cerebral Palsy. In our chat, we discuss leadership, ins...
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Episode 143 - The Ultimate Agile Mindset from 2020-08-03T20:48:05
A powerful Agile mindset is so much more that supporting continuous improvement, iterative delivery, and failing fast. The ultimate mindset requires us to abandon - to shatter - the beliefs, rules...
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Badass Unscripted - If You Don't Have A Tribe from 2020-07-30T00:23:42
Your team is not your only tribe. Each of needs a few key people with whom we have an unbreakable bond; mutual trust and complete vulnerability. Who has your back? Who can you go to for help no ...
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Agile In Toronto At Night #5 Diane Dale from 2020-07-23T21:55
My guest this week is Diane Dale - an Agile Coach who has a lot of compelling ideas about team dynamics and performance. We talk about how her focus has changed over the past few years, and what r...
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Badass Conversations - David Rutherford, ex-Navy SEAL, Author and Speaker from 2020-07-19T18:00
As you know, I bring on guests rarely and carefully. But when I KNOW someone will entertain, inform AND inspire you...its a no-brainer. There's a reason why David Rutherford is a highly sought-af...
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Badass Unscripted - Patterns and Autopilot? from 2020-07-15T23:03:41
Ever notice you always take the same path to work? Eat the same lunch at the same places at the same time? What about your mental and emotional routines? What do you automatically accept - or re...
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Episode 142 - Why Demo? from 2020-07-12T19:46:36
Often overlooked or justified 'out of the sprint', the demo is well-known for its singular ability to put product in customers' hands and gain crucial in-use insights...but there's another reason t...
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Agile In Toronto At Night #4 - Oyinkan Sanni, Enterprise Agile Coach from 2020-07-09T19:47:30
Join me this week with my good friend Oyinkan Sanni.
Oyinkan is an internal Agile Coach for a global professional services firm. In this conversation we explore adapting to COVID19 and Work Fr...
Episode 141 - Uncommon from 2020-07-05T21:30
What does uncommon mean to you?
We need more uncommon leaders, but that means there's no script for you to follow; no program of study to catapult you to effectiveness. It requires Courage, Vu...
This Week In The Forge #2 - Visualization and Hard Stuff from 2020-07-02T23:30
This week I'd like to share some of the stuff that I teach the folks in The Forge....and the stuff that they teach me.
We've been working on visualization, but also learning how to accept and l...
Agile In Toronto At Night #3 - Shahin Sheidaei - Elevate Change from 2020-06-25T20:00
This week, I sat down with Shahin Sheidaei, owner of Elevate Change and founder of the Lean Agile Network. We spoke about shifting to online, the Toronto community, and getting feedback...and much...
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Episode 139 - Your Decisions from 2020-06-21T18:51:02
Ultimately, your ability to excel - individually and as a team - has everything to do with the small decisions you make every day.
Its too easy to blame other people and outside forces when out...
Badass Unscripted - Remain A Beginner from 2020-06-17T18:12:47
In this episode, we explore the wisdom that benefits all learners (and really, aren't we all learners, all of the time?). As you grow - remain humble. Remain as a beginner, remain open to new and...
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Episode 138 - Live By Your Code from 2020-06-14T17:24:10
Coming up with a 'code' is easy. Getting the team to stick by it - to integrate it - can be far more challenging. Check out this episode to learn about the simple commitments and discipline neces...
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Agile In Toronto At Night #2 - Trish Lynch of AgileTO from 2020-06-09T21:12
I had a great whiskey-fuelled conversation with Trish Lynch, an Agile Coach who is also co-organizer of AgileTO. (I said co-founder in the episode....I stand corrected). For those of you not in t...
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Episode 137 - Time For A Different Manifesto from 2020-06-07T20:46:26
For the past three years, Badass Agile has been creating unique content, going against traffic and challenging convention. It has become obvious and urgent to me to take the concepts of agility an...
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Badass Unscripted - Check In On Your Vision from 2020-06-03T18:57:40
Know what you can do with all this spare time? Put the good stuff in your leadership fuel tank....check in on your vision. Everyday. Connect with it deeply, and let it inspire you to do more, do...
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Episode 136 - Leaders Don't Need Scripts from 2020-05-31T18:00
There's something about a badass - an authentic leader - that exudes certainty and natural presence.
If your conversations are littered with scripts that you learn in a course or read in a book...
NEW!! Agile in Toronto At Night #1 - Jason Little, Author of Lean Change Management from 2020-05-28T20:00
Welcome to my new segment, "Agile In Toronto At Night"!
This is all about meeting with the great minds and personalities on the Toronto Scene. Who better to share my first round with than The ...
This Week in The Forge - Thank You For Making Me Better from 2020-05-27T22:30:14
Every week or so, I want to give you a glimpse into what goes down in our immersive leadership experience - The Forge. A few weeks ago I recorded this segment on how an elite team elicits powerful...
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Episode 135 - Your Uncommon Edge from 2020-05-24T22:19:42
So you're a certified so-and-so...don't let an industry or a job description define you. Be distinct. Start building your hero genetics. We're overstocked on sameness and average. Ditch the scri...
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Badass Unscripted - Reduce, Reduce, Reduce from 2020-05-20T23:25:46
At a time of so much increased noise and anxiety, its time that we once again return to fundamentals as we help teams become more agile. So what could you reduce this week - in terms of frameworks...
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Episode 134 - What Persistent Blockers Really Tell You from 2020-05-17T21:34:42
Blockers that come up repeatedly are a symptom...even the most complex issue can be worked around or decomposed.somehow. The problem occurs when nothing moves; creating delays and other diseases.
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Badass Unscripted - What Could You Let Go Of? from 2020-05-14T00:07:19
The right question is not "How can I be more confident, more leader-like, more influential...?", but rather, "what beliefs and stories am I hanging on to that I should let go of?"
Can you let g...
Episode 133 - Tap Into Your Creativity With Daily Journalling from 2020-05-10T19:55:27
What do I need to journal for? What does this have to do with agility?
One of the big byproducts of Agile thinking and doing is innovation - that requires massive creativity. It requires sharp ...
Badass Unscripted - Mastering Yourself from 2020-05-07T11:57:18
So often, we look to gain influence over other people, or outside forces. We believe that studying and practicing certain scripts or techniques will create better results. Yet, how often do we lo...
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Episode 132 - Agile As The New Way Of Working from 2020-05-03T22:56
Time to move on from this "Agile is a super-secret funky method for developers" thing we do. At this point, the fundamentals of Agility belong everywhere work happens. In every department, at eve...
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Badass Unscripted - Your Reaction Teaches Them Everything from 2020-04-29T15:20:10
As you know by know, I love old-school wisdom. "Practice what you preach" being a great example. If you expect your teams to behave with awareness, self-control, accountability, and growth mindse...
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Episode 131 - Opposites in Agile from 2020-04-26T20:41:11
I like universal, timeless wisdom. One of the things I've come to learn is that often, we must be the opposite of what we want in order to get it. So in order to make Agile bigger and better, we ...
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Badass Unscripted - Uncommon Does Not Mean Overdoing from 2020-04-22T23:56:07
Being a hero doesn't mean going crazy with tools and processes - sometimes less is more.
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Episode 130 - Management Destroys Trust from 2020-04-19T21:01:13
As a learning living leader, one of the first things that you need to sort out is how to be quiet and listen.
How to offer yourself as a broker of solutions, not as a dictator, or an originator...
Badass Unscripted - If There Was A Formula, We'd All Be Using It from 2020-04-15T23:14:03
Looking for a formula to be successful with Agile?
Start with intention. Define the problem. - What does success look like? What experiment might work and what are the three things we can do ...
Badass Unscripted - Discomfort Is Where The Growth Is from 2020-04-08T23:50:22
Badass Unscripted - Discomfort Is Where The Growth Is
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Episode 129 - A Small Shift to Become More Cross Functional from 2020-04-05T21:29:47
A cross-functional teem doesn't require that everyone has technical skill. Simply being available to help is the only required trait - but it also requires that people know how to ask for help.
Badass Unscripted - Don't Ask Me To Lower The Bar from 2020-04-01T21:52:10
Do you want the challenge? When things get tough...do you rise to the occasion, or do you ask to make things easier?
Scrum teaches us that we have options in changing conditions - to ask for h...
Episode 128 - The Best Way To Handle Lessons Learned from 2020-03-30T02:06:52
With the toll, risk, and sacrifice of a global health crisis, we’re learning new things every day. Wouldn’t it be a shame if we did what we’ve always done - and forgotten them as soon as this is...
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Our Next COVID19 Special Event - Mar 30, 7PM EST from 2020-03-27T13:29:24
Calling all leaders...you belong to an uncommon tribe. Time to create the future.
What do you need to do to ensure survival - for our economy, our community, our clients, and ourselves?
Si...
Badass Unscripted - COVID19 - What Happens Next Is Yours To Lead from 2020-03-26T09:59:28
This is our time.
Do you feel the call to lead?
We want to create an uncommon tribe that not only adapts and assists, but leads the way. Let us not be at the mercy of the changing times, b...
Join Us Today at 12PM EST! from 2020-03-23T10:09:55
Today March 23, 2020 from 12-2 PM EST. All are welcome; free to all.
Join us. Ask for help. Be heard. Be part of our tribe. Let's build something uncommon.
Time to lead.
To join th...
REMINDER - Join Together this Monday, March 23 Online! from 2020-03-21T21:55:45
Monday March 23, 2020 from 12-2 PM EST. All are welcome; free to all.
Join us. Ask for help. Be heard. Be part of our tribe. Let's build something uncommon.
Time to lead.
To join t...
COVID Live Event - Monday March 23 2020 12-2PM Eastern Standard Time from 2020-03-19T16:32
Monday March 23, 2020 from 12-2 PM EST. All are welcome; free to all.
Join us. Ask for help. Be heard. Be part of our tribe. Let's build something uncommon.
Time to lead.
To join t...
Badass Unscripted - Embody True Certainty from 2020-03-18T01:30:56
The kind of certainty people really want can't be had with more process, more documentation, more planning.
It comes from a leader who is in control of their actions. Who impacts the world, ra...
Episode 127 - Mastering Your Craft - Where Leaders Must Focus from 2020-03-15T22:08:23
If you have teams under your care, and you are looking to improve so you can show up for THEM...here are the areas you should integrate into your daily practice and improvement.
-Acting With In...
Badass Unscripted - Lead Without Imposing Your Will from 2020-03-10T23:48:11
We all used to want to 'be the boss'...king of the hill. But leadership has changed radically. It requires something completely different - in fact, it would seem to be a complete contradiction t...
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Episode 126 - Does Agile Need Rules? from 2020-03-08T20:55:10
Leaders are traditionally considered to be the ones who set and enforce rules, or 'standards'.
Yet, if we are being asked to innovate, and to fail forward fast, are rules the right construct to...
Badass Unscripted - Be Relentless With Waste from 2020-03-05T11:45:11
What are your wasteful things? Remember that productivity is not about jamming more stuff into a limited time window, but rather stripping away the things that distract you and muddy your attentio...
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Episode 125 - Whining And Complaining from 2020-03-02T01:04:31
What is negativity doing to your team room, and your leadership? Time for a spot check....are you making this problem better, or worse? Do you engage in the negative talk, both in your mind, and ...
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Badass Unscripted - Absence Allows Leaders To Emerge from 2020-02-26T23:04:20
Sometimes, its good to step away. We tend to forget that other people are dying to lead too. The silence, or deference of others may be due to you...taking up too much leader space. Rotating cha...
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Badass Conversations - Navy SEAL (Ret.) Mark Divine on The 7 Commitments That Forge Elite Teams from 2020-02-24T09:12:27
Nothing invokes the image of a badass like a special operator. In 2014, this guest changed the course of my life, and set me on a path that sparked my career and personal trajectory, which included...
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Badass Unscripted - How To Get Practice Building Great Teams from 2020-02-19T00:04:07
As always, start with the willing. Find people who already have an interest in agility, in change. Help people who already 'get it' to make tiny increments of change. Build your own dream team b...
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Badass Unscripted - Living with Your Limiters On from 2020-02-11T20:36:37
Do you live life with your limiter on? Is your output artificially capped? Do you resist "GO!"? Do you rely on permission?
If you knew that it was your failure to leap that inhibits your out...
Episode 124 - Balanced Learning from 2020-02-10T09:04:07
As I've launched the new Badass Agile leadership learning experience, I had something I wanted to ramble about the partisan politics and binary thinking around modern education and certification.
Episode 123 - Return to Simplicity - Here's How from 2020-02-02T17:17:48
This year, let's keep it simple. As frameworks and tools pile up, it's helpful to return once again to fundamentals. To clear the space, to question our established rules, and look for our own so...
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Badass Unscripted - Not Ready For Change from 2020-01-29T23:06:37
A lot of people talk about improving, but very few people are willing to do the work it takes to actually improve.
No matter how much they may say they want change, when faced with actual chang...
Episode 122 - Do You Struggle With Consistency? from 2020-01-26T19:24:35
If you are struggling to do anything consistently, you could be biting off too much. The secret is to create ANY consistent habit, and then increase the scope and ambition once it's habitualized.
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Badass Unscripted - Dealing With Low Uptake Rates from 2020-01-22T18:30
What happens if you summon all of your courage and creativity to put something new, authentic and valuable into the world....and nobody comes?
Better to wait for those who are naturally magneti...
Episode 121 - Want To Be More Creative? Do These Three Things from 2020-01-19T20:30
Creativity is fundamental to agility. Problem solving blockers, interpersonal conflict, adapting and scaling agile, and general innovation demand that we tap into our deepest well of creativity.
Badass Unscripted - ....It Won't Make You Faster from 2020-01-15T06:30
If the sole motivation is efficiency, and the means create unhappy people or lower quality...it still won't be faster, even if it's faster.
You'll lose people, you'll lose fans, you'll lose tim...
Episode 120 - Leveraging Lessons Learned from 2020-01-14T06:00
You've been doing daily lessons learned or silver linings in your journal, right?
If you have, I'll show you the next step in the brainstorming process - a periodic grooming of you best ideas f...
Neil Peart 1952-2020 from 2020-01-12T00:06:35
When you have adult heroes as a kid, there's a good chance you're going to have to say goodbye someday.
The more life you live, the more this happens, and it always sucks in varying degrees, bu...
Episode 119 - Vision Check from 2020-01-08T14:21:52
It's a new year...but don't make resolutions. When was the last time that worked anyway?
Instead, use the occasion to reflect on your existing vision and service statements (you DO have one of...
Badass Unscripted - Business Value Statements from 2020-01-01T20:00
Commitments with a resounding and well-communicated 'why' have the best chance of getting done well. That 'why' should not be limited to the '...so I can' element of a story headline. A business v...
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Episode 118 - How To Improve Accountability from 2019-12-29T19:00
At the core of Scrum is the assumption that teams need lightweight mechanisms to assist people in sizing, making, tracking and keeping commitments. From the user story, which communicates why we'r...
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Badass Unscripted - Too Many Questions from 2019-12-26T19:50:48
What it means when you get too many rapid-fire questions when training a new team - especially if those questions appear to question Agile or seem unduly negative or fearful.
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Episode 117 - 4 Mindsets That Amp Up Your Coaching Skills from 2019-12-22T19:00
If you lead agile teams, your attitudes and beliefs about work, delivery and teams matter. In this episode, we talk about 4 such mindsets:
* Opposition is Good
* You Can’t Contro...
Badass Unscripted - The Stories You Tell Yourself from 2019-12-18T20:00
Self-limiting beliefs, or 'the stories you tell yourself' can derail your progress and effectiveness as a teacher, coach and influencer.
The trick is...they're hard to recognize and repair. Th...
Badass Answers - How To Stand Out In a Sea of Scrum Masters from 2019-12-15T20:11:05
This week, I answer an email from a reader who is launching his second career, hoping to break into the world of Agile, Scrum, and training.
In the answer, I discuss the things you can do to st...
Badass Unscripted - Agile Secret Sauce - Teams from 2019-12-11T20:00
Team is everything. It doesn't matter how much technique you've got, its all about the way people come together, stretch, reach, dream, and do the impossible.
If you're not part of a high-perf...
Badass Unscripted - Knowledgeable, or Effective? from 2019-12-04T23:34:16
Is it better to be knowledgeable, or effective? As recent trends point to a decrease in elite-level post-graduate enrolment; its worth asking if all of this schooling is creating value in such a v...
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Episode 116 - 5 Tips For Better Coaching from 2019-12-03T00:39:03
In this episode, I discuss a few tips that will help you improve the 'intangibles' - the non-technical, non-academic qualities that make for great inspiration and great leadership. Among these - b...
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Badass Unscripted - Authenticity, Originality, and The Year Ahead from 2019-11-28T02:37:41
A late night reflection on standing out from the crowd by increasing authenticity and originality...to distinguish oneself from the sameness that permeates our culture so we can serve our agile tea...
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Episode 115 - Move (And Never Swim Alone) from 2019-11-25T21:27:03
What’s the one thing you need to get good at in order to stand out above competition? You need to MOVE…and, you might want to think about getting a swim buddy.
* Moving means you ne...
Badass Unscripted - Agile As Non-Event from 2019-11-20T22:52:13
We often describe Delivery as a non-event in the ideal; why not agility itself?
Must it really be such a huge enterprise undertaking - especially as we hope to infuse agility into our everyday ...
Badass Conversations - Get Burly And Build an Elite Team With Michael Caron from 2019-11-17T20:00
I don’t do a lot of interview shows. When I do, I want to bring on my friends - People I know personally who are making a real difference.
Mike Caron is a fellow Unbeatable Mind student and me...
Badass Unscripted - Trophies For Everyone? from 2019-11-13T16:30
Should we hand out trophies to everyone...even when we lose? Or are we better to signal the loss and focus on the learning opportunity? Who do we really help or hurt by calling a loss a victory?
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Episode 114 - Simplicity from 2019-11-10T21:15:45
This week, we give pause to think about all of the complexity in the agile space; the overload of books, articles, opinions, and techniques, and how a return to simple fundamentals allows you to s...
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Badass Unscripted - What Happens When You Act With Courage from 2019-11-05T18:41
Be courageous this week. Ask for the opportunity. Speak your truth. Do the unexpected, the new, the unusual. When you do, you define your own reality. You create your own luck.
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Episode 113 - Starting From Zero - How New Teams Evolve from 2019-11-03T20:39:01
Ramping up a new team is a difficult time. Confused and afraid, the early days and weeks are full of hesitation, anxiety, and expectations. In this state teams can’t perform. Let’s see how a te...
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Badass Unscripted - Tips to Build A Badass Resume from 2019-10-29T08:45
Do you want your resume to stand out from the stack? Don't worry so much about how 'little' experience you have. It's not about the number of years.
Document every experiment that you run, al...
Badass Answers - How Do You Find Your Vision And Purpose? from 2019-10-27T18:39:47
If you've been a follower for any length of time, you know how much importance I put on being visionary and understanding your purpose. I believe it is at the heart of great leadership - excellent ...
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Badass Unscripted - How To Have A Coaching Mindset from 2019-10-22T20:30
Start with the approach that you co-create agility WITH your teams. Its not something you force or install. Be the living example of embracing and chasing failure as the best way to improve...
Episode 112 - How To Set The Bar High from 2019-10-20T20:30
How Do You Set the Bar High in the culture of hugs and trophies for everyone?
* Start With Yourself
* Create Team Creeds
* Focus on setting progressive and selective go...
Badass Unscripted - On "Cheaper" from 2019-10-17T12:44:49
The main problem with "Better, Faster, Cheaper" is that everyone can sense 'cheap'. When you're trying to cut corners, you aren't fooling anyone. That includes your people, projects and products.
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**Announcement** - The Badass Agile Netherlands Chapter from 2019-10-16T09:08:34
Please join me in welcoming the first official Badass Agile Chapter!
Marianne and Laurens from the Netherlands will lead this community - stay tuned for details. If you're in the Netherlands, ...
Episode 111 - How To Train Integrity from 2019-10-14T21:42:03
It’s easy to act with integrity when your environment doesn’t challenge your standards. But how do you teach others to act with integrity when it matters?
* You must lead by ex...
Badass Unscripted - Multi-Project Teams from 2019-10-08T19:32:25
Its all too common to have 'agile' teams that work on 5 or more projects at the same time. In theory, more is better; but spread too thin, a team loses immersion, continuity, and momentum. Know ...
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Episode 110 - Making Work Visible from 2019-10-06T23:41:46
Why Is ‘Make Work Visible’ one of the three Scrum artifacts? Why does it matter and how can you apply it to non-technical and non-scrum initiatives?
* Making Work Visible doesn’t see...
Badass Unscripted - Silver Linings from 2019-10-01T20:30
“Looking on the bright side” may seem like an empty practice - putting a cheap paint job on a crappy situation - but actually, learning to see the wisdom and opportunity in challenges is a very po...
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Episode 109 - Dealing With Changes from 2019-09-29T20:44:41
Projects and teams can involve frequent and sometimes painful change. How does a leader lead through change by example?
* Make sure you have been listening to my episodes on fundament...
Badass Answers - Capacity and Theme Song from 2019-09-26T19:25:27
This week, we explore two very different questions submitted from two different listeners: how do you measure and describe ‘capacity’ when you have teams working on non-technical (or just ‘other’)...
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Badass Unscripted - 3 Components Of Influence from 2019-09-23T08:51:59
One common question I get is how to become more influential. If you want your massage to have impact - to resonate and to stick - just follow the example of those who have gone successfully befor...
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Badass Unscripted - Two Kinds Of People from 2019-09-17T21:00
There are two sorts of people you meet in the halls of a large enterprise; those who want to learn specific job skills so they can meet their targets, impress their bosses and get a particular job ...
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Episode 108 - The Grooming Habit from 2019-09-15T21:00
Everyone loves retrospectives. This is where we get to improve. Everyone loves demos… Because this is where we get to show off our finished work to the customer in waiting.
But nobody ever...
Badass Unscripted - Getting Good At Mayhem from 2019-09-10T21:00
You know what we should teach more of? How to respond to mayhem - rapidly changing expectations in unstable conditions.
What I’ve found - and what’s helpful to communicate to clients - is...
Episode 107 - 4 Reasons Why We Still Need Captains from 2019-09-08T21:00
There's been a change in how people organize in enterprise. But with flat hierarchies, and self-organizing teams, has the concept of leader or even team captains become obsolete and forbidden?
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Badass Unscripted - 100% is Waste from 2019-09-04T21:00
Seeking perfection is a major source of wasted effort; particularly if you are seeking it BEFORE taking action.
There’s no such thins as perfect output, only perfect effort.
Perfe...
Episode 106 - Business Agility - Placing Small Bets from 2019-09-02T21:16
Forget Sprints and Standups - Business agility is about travelling light so you can go faster. One important way to do that is by taking small, frequent experimental risks, also known as placing ...
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Badass Unscripted - Making Agile Teams vs. Making Teams Agile from 2019-08-28T21:00
Do you take an existing team and ‘make’ them agile? Or do you build teams of agile people - people who have, or are likely to have, the right mindsets and openness to new practices?
Here ...
Episode 105 - Reclaiming The Badass from 2019-08-25T20:59:42
Hey friends, time for a bit of a wake up, a bit of inspiration, a bit of a refresh. It's time to reclaim the Badass.
* Get clear on your vision. If you haven’t created one for yours...
Badass Unscripted - Authenticity from 2019-08-21T22:11:21
Your unique value in this world is the unedited, uncensored, unfiltered you. Be exactly who you are, and don’t let anyone tell you it’s wrong, or not good enough.
The thing that makes you uniq...
Episode 104 - Nailing the Interview for Scrum Master or Coach from 2019-08-18T21:02:27
A career as a Scrum Master or Agile coach can be very rewarding, and an incredible opportunity... But many who are new to the field have difficulty getting experience when the job description requi...
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Badass Unscripted - Butthurt Revisited from 2019-08-13T21:34:54
Badass Unscripted - Butthurt Revisited
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Episode 103 - Herds Versus Heroes from 2019-08-11T21:00
Most people follow the herd, we are told what to buy, how to act, how to speak, how to think, and what to believe. But either you belong to the herd, or you behave in like a hero. Let me explain t...
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Badass Unscripted - When Org Values Don't Match Agile Values from 2019-08-07T21:00
One of the main causes of Agile failure is an organizations refusal to get behind (ie, to ‘value’) Agile values.
When there is no living instance of these concepts in the organizations, th...
Epiosde 102 - Rails from 2019-08-05T21:12:09
Interactions with other people can be complex and challenging because people do things differently. Here's a tool to add to your toolbox… When you want to simplify communications, create rails.
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Badass Unscripted - Beliefs and Actions from 2019-07-31T06:00
Badass Unscripted - Beliefs and Actions
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Episode 101 - Iron Sharpens Iron from 2019-07-29T05:00
There are two things you always need to be doing consistently - getting coaching, and coaching others to make them better. It starts with surrounding yourself with people better than you.
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Badass Unscripted - Stretch from 2019-07-23T20:30
In this episode, I’ll ask you how you stretch….how do you get out of your comfort zone and do things that make you bigger and better? Look for your weaknesses and uncomfortable m...
Episode 100 - A Retrospective On Badass Agile from 2019-07-21T18:35:06
100 Episodes in, I thought it was a good time to stop and express my gratitude and to reflect on what we’ve accomplished so far….and what I’ve learned..
* Our growth and reach after 2 year...
Badass Conversations - Ardita Karaj Part II - Frameworkless Transformations from 2019-07-16T20:30
In the second part of my interview with Artida Karaj, we get specific about the How of frameworkless transformation. She drops a ton of cool wisdom in this part, including:
* Start ...
Badass Conversations - Ardita Karaj Part I - Frameworkless Transformations from 2019-07-14T19:21
This week, I meet with coach, colleague, and friend Ardita Karaj to discuss her take on large enterprise transformation.
Ardita is very well known in the international Agile community. I've had...
Badass Unscripted - How To Break A Slump from 2019-07-09T20:30
When you’re slumping, your normal routines and methods don’t work (hence the slump). Try this the next time you’re struggling to get your energy, enthusiasm or creativity going:
* Surroun...
Badass Answers - Regulators, and New Scrum Masters from 2019-07-07T18:53
"How can a financial institution bring regulators along the Agile journey, to help them realize that Agile actually reduces risk?" - Julio Sanchez
* Tough one. No quick fix. Finserv does...
Badass Unscripted - Do Scary Things from 2019-07-02T20:30
An easy way to accelerate learning and development - not to mention your effectiveness as a leader - is to do more scary things.
If you don’t flex the muscle of acting the face of fear, yo...
Episode 99 - Agile Evangelism from 2019-06-30T18:30
What helps Agile scale and spread even more than practice excellence? How you evangelize.
* It’s not enough to to be Agile amid your teams - a transformation demands ongoing and dee...
Badass Unscripted - Transformation - Speed or Consistency? from 2019-06-25T20:33:09
Badass Unscripted - Transformation - Speed or Consistency?
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Badass Answers - Coaching 1:1; Using Gantt Charts from 2019-06-23T18:20:12
Question 1 - When coaching teams when should you have one on ones with the individuals and when could having one on ones impact self organizing teams and creating silos?
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Team coachi...
Badass Unscripted - Leap from 2019-06-18T20:30
This week, let’s remember one of our most important fundamentals….the ability to leap.
It’s a skill we don’t teach in school - to be ready when you’re not ready, to forget all of your doubts an...
Episode 98 - Sharing Lessons Learned from 2019-06-16T18:30
Collecting our lessons learned and sharing them with others is a tribal behaviour that predates formal education. Let’s talk about how to apply this in our team practices
* In experimenta...
Badass Unscripted - The Courage Habit from 2019-06-12T20:30
* Notice, Do Differently, Reflect
* Drown the Fear and Reduce the Fear
* Reducing means rehearsing, exposing, inoculating
* Part of exposing and rehearsing is about skill buil...
Badass Unscripted - Be Graceful from 2019-06-10T20:30
* People love to complain and blame.
* Learn to see from the other's perspective.
* We are all doing the best we can.
* Leaders do not gossip.
* Realize that as a leader others...
Episode 97 - Small Business Agile from 2019-06-09T18:30
So what did we learn from the practical yet unofficial use of Agile at the small business level?
* To disrupt like a startup, you have to act like one. Focus on value, plan and invest lea...
Badass Unscripted - What Would Dirty Harry Do from 2019-06-04T22:06:57
The cinematic antihero is in possession of mythical, almost unattainable qualities that make them larger than life. But…if you look more closely, there are a few lessons to be learned from our big...
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Episode 96 - Why I'm So Over Agile from 2019-06-02T18:32:55
There’s such a thing as too much. At this point, there’s only so much discussing and explaining around Agility that i can handle, after which point, I’m kind of over it. Now, I feel the need to ...
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Badass Ideas - Talks from the Agile and Beyond Speaker's Lounge from 2019-05-31T12:59
This is a long one, so make sure you're on Wifi!
Had a great time at Agile and Beyond this year, and as I was chilling with the speakers Thursday afternoon, we decided to record some cool conve...
Badass Unscripted - Why Your Organization Can't Compete from 2019-05-29T20:30
* You bring too many people to low value meetings
* You don’t push decisions and accountability down, so ‘decision makers’ are in high demand and block teams - they can’t get where they ne...
Badass Unscripted - Agile Is Not For Everyone from 2019-05-27T20:34:25
Badass Unscripted - Agile Is Not For Everyone
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Badass Conversations - Jeff Dalton, Agile CxO from 2019-05-26T18:30
Badass Conversations - Jeff Dalton, Agile CxO
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Badass Unscripted - Badass Time Management from 2019-05-23T07:56:06
If you expect Agile, and your message, to spread, you need to be very good at setting targets and crushing them.
You can’t do that using traditional big-business time management. You’ll ...
Badass Conversations - Carl Oxholm, PwC from 2019-05-19T18:30
Recently, I sat down with Carl Oxholm, Tax Partner with PwC Canada about the topic he is most passionate about - emotional intelligence and it’s growing importance in leadership. In this discussion...
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Badass Unscripted - Find A Way Or Make A Way from 2019-05-14T21:00
“What else might work?” is to customer delight what “Yes, and…” is to improv. Great solutions are the result of breaking rules; forays into unknown, even forbidden territory. This flies in the fa...
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Badass Conversations - Matt Comand, Performance Coach from 2019-05-12T18:30
In this conversation, Matt Comand of Consistent Elite Performance joins me in my home studio to talk about something that they don’t teach you in scrum master school….how to build elite, high, perf...
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Badass Unscripted - Agile Must Evolve from 2019-05-08T20:30
In much the same way that technical evolution makes old tools and techniques unnecessary and extinct, it is time for us as leaders to shift fire away from the mechanics of agility to the logistics ...
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Badass Unscripted - Journalling from 2019-05-06T20:30
A journalling practice is a great way to delve into increased discipline, structure, and self-examination. Your daily practice should include:
* Planning Your Day
* Stating your gratit...
Episode 95 - The Language Innovators Use from 2019-05-05T19:00:02
Words have impact. Some say ‘words are things’. If you want to innovate, you have to choose your words carefully. Why?
* The words you choose have an impact on your internal state; whic...
Badass Unscripted - Have Lots Of Lines from 2019-05-02T20:30
The only way to make sales is to have lots of prospects.The only way to find a partner is to meet a lot of people and have a lot of conversations.
The only way to get that book written is to ha...
Episode 94 - Delighting Customers from 2019-04-29T10:07:14
What does it really mean to delight your customer? Are we doing this just because we're doing Agile? And if not, why not?
* Focusing on delighting the customer is the edge - that mos...
Badass Unscripted - Mindfulness from 2019-04-24T21:08:13
You won’t want to hear this, but as I stated in a previous episode on “Building A Shark Tank”, having an extra few seconds to orient and observe BEFORE responding to a physical or mental event give...
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Episode 93 - Your Reasons from 2019-04-21T18:33:01
Reasons - I’ve discussed how purpose informs vision, service, discipline and overall effectiveness. But likewise, reasons can slow you down. If you’re not conscious of the reasons why you do the ...
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Badass Unscripted - Survival from 2019-04-16T20:45
I like to think that what I’m teaching is not oriented at learning Agile, but honing survival skill. Adapting - being nimble for our customers - is no longer an ‘ought to’; its a ‘got to’. While ...
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Episode 92 - Fear, And Failure To Commit from 2019-04-14T18:30:16
When fear shows up as a failure to commit fully to Agile, we experience one of the most common behaviours associated with Agile failure - failure to commit.
* Fear of Change, Fear of Failu...
Toronto Meetup Announced - "Becoming Badass - Essential Qualities of An Agile Leader" from 2019-04-13T11:11:06
Join me on Wednesday May 8 AT NOON For a Meetup in downtown Toronto. I'll be discussing the leadership qualities necessary to make Agile change in large organizations. We'll discuss the Badass Ag...
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Badass Unscripted - If It Doesn't Challenge You, It Won't Change You from 2019-04-10T20:45
I read this quote somewhere.
Too often, now, we seek to avoid challenge. We look for ‘low hanging fruit’ ‘low-risk, high-reward’ opportunities.
There’s only one problem with that…..we don’...
Badass Unscripted - Leverage from 2019-04-08T20:45
In this episode, I think out loud about why getting leverage is an Agile leader superpower. Getting Leverage refers to your ability to tap into another person’s intrinsic motivation to act and to ...
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Episode 91 - Redefining Business Agility from 2019-04-07T18:45
What’s the common interpretation of business agility, and is it the best interpretation?
* Business Agility is too often understood to mean Agile Software Development in support of busines...
Badass Unscripted - No Longer A Choice from 2019-04-02T20:45
Strategically, Agile is not something you can politely decline. Agility is not something you MUST convert all operations too, but rather a tool in the toolkit that should be appli...
Episode 90 - Essential Qualities Of An Agile Leader from 2019-03-31T18:45
The Agile leader will not be bounded by traditional definitions of leadership - they need to have a very different persona than the groomed, well-suited leader that we've come to idolize and genera...
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Badass Answers - Lunch Meetings from 2019-03-27T20:30
Scheduling meetings over lunch is getting more and more common. But just because something happens often, doesn’t make it right. There are times in life when the seemingl...
Episode 89 - Listening from 2019-03-24T18:30
I never used to be good at listening. My mind runs at a hundred miles per hour. So I used to find listening to be a fidgety, painful experience, that wasn't focused on me... so I kind of hated it.<...
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Badass Answers - Connecting With New Teams from 2019-03-20T20:30
Question from Enzo in Texas:
"How do you adapt faster with a new team, in a company very different from any previous companies you've worked with? What advice would you give in regards to ...
Episode 88 - Working Around Fear from 2019-03-17T18:45
Now that we’ve learned some things about fear, what are some practical ways to work around it?
* You don’t have to make change all at once
* Remember, you have to deliver things that T...
Badass Unscripted - Too Much of The Wrong Thing from 2019-03-12T20:30
As I was looking at yet another sales deck for which I was asked to comment on an Agile approach, I’m overwhelmed that even a meagre attempt to stick to the 7x7 rule of PowerPoint presentations is ...
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Badass Answers - Keeping Procrastinators on the Rails and Being vs. Doing Agile from 2019-03-10T18:30
Today, we’ve got two killer listener questions, one to do with procrastination in agile team members, and the other on the difference between Being and Doing Agile. What I love most about these qu...
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Episode 87 - Fear of Failure from 2019-03-03T19:46:40
* Fear of failure surfaces at every level of your organization
* In individuals, teams, units, leadership
* It is a perfectly natural human instinct. People don’t want to lose face, l...
Badass Unscripted - Your One Thing from 2019-02-26T18:38:51
What’s the one thing you’ve always been good at?
* Knowing your ‘one thing’ allows you to link your passion to your profession, even if they seem completed unrelated
* Having that pass...
Badass Answers - Timelines and Predictions from 2019-02-24T18:30
How do you handle date and deadline pressures in Agile Environments?
* A listener sends us his question on what to do if you are pressured in the early days of a project to commit to spec...
Badass Unscripted - Estimation from 2019-02-20T20:30
Sooner or later…I have to tackle estimation. As the debate rages on (estimates versus no estimates), the fact remains that while customers need to know how much of an investment they’re in for, an...
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Badass Unscripted - Coaching Vision from 2019-02-18T20:30
In order to spread and scale Agile practices, we need to raise up a tribe of elite, influential leaders. Those who know how to inspire the courage to change in others.
If you are coaching - wh...
Episode 86 - Fearing Loss of Significance from 2019-02-17T18:30
At the team level, you might be dealing with fear of change, but you will also be dealing with another fear that results from the fallout of change - what happens to our established roles and job d...
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Badass Unscripted - Shutting Off Messenger from 2019-02-12T20:30
A large corporate culture can get to the point where there are so many thoughtless demands on our time that we are forced to ’shut off’ our tools and dim our availability - either to hide from peop...
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Badass Conversations - Scott McCarthy of Moving Forward Leadership from 2019-02-10T18:30
This week, I interview Scott McCarthy of Moving Forward Leadership. Scott is a leader in the Canadian Armed Forces, and also runs his own leadership consultancy and podcast. In this conversation, w...
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Badass Answers - How To Master Public Speaking from 2019-02-03T18:30
This week, we take a listener question from a new Scrum Master who struggles with public speaking.
Ultimately, public speaking is something that has a good deal of fear associated with it, and ...
Favourite Podcasts - Moving Forward Leadership from 2019-01-29T20:30
Scott McCarthy is a fellow Canadian, and a member of the Canadian Armed Forces. His podcast is focused “on one thing, and one thing only….” making you a better leader.
He also curates gre...
Episode 85 - The Innovation Inhibitor from 2019-01-27T18:30
In small enterprise, innovation is almost easy - natural. But what happens when we try to innovate at scale? What forces hold us back and slow us down?
* In large groups, fear beco...
Badass Unscripted - Ego from 2019-01-22T20:30
Stop caring about who likes you
Stop caring about who wins
Stop caring about outcomes
Stop caring about your ego
Because all of these are causing you to fail
Episode 84 - The Different Types of Fear You'll Meet from 2019-01-20T18:30
While we seek to understand patterns of Agile success and failure, we often overlook the impact of human emotion - specifically fear - on adoption and acceptance. This upcoming series kicks off t...
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Badass Unscripted - Favourite Podcasts - Agile Chuckwagon from 2019-01-17T20:30
Now and then I’ll draw your attention to the best of the best - the great online shows that can really help take your practice to the next level. Check out Chuck Durfee and the Agile Chuckwagon - ...
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Badass Unscripted - All 1-Hour Meetings Must Die from 2019-01-15T20:30
One of the biggest productivity stealers in modern business is the 1-Hour Meeting. In large organizations, long meetings can often comprise the entire day, and mask a lack of productivity and deci...
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Episode 83 - The Source Of All Leadership from 2019-01-13T18:30
Thinking about leadership, there's a lot of information - of varying degrees of quality and helpfulness - about becoming an effective leader.
The information overload doesn't really help ...
Episode 82 - Agile Takes Time from 2019-01-06T22:42:05
With any other skill, we understand that it takes time to learn the fundamentals, practice them, and gain experience. So why would agile be any different?
Episode 81 - Planning For The Next 365 from 2018-12-30T18:30
Another year is wrapping up. Let’s talk about maximizing the next 365 days to truly up your game.
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Badass Unscripted - Focus Styles from 2018-12-27T11:24:02
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Remember to "work your fives"
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figure out-"what your style?". Working as a team? Then build working sessions and have a trigger word.
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You might like ...
Episode 80 - On Getting Butt Hurt from 2018-12-23T19:27:02
Getting Butt Hurt Actually Costs you Money and Results. Let’s think about why.
* Inability to have frank discussions about improvement areas means that we stay blind to blind spots
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Badass Unscripted - Storming Blockers from 2018-12-18T20:57:52
You can’t just raise blockers and let them sit there. Makes sense right? But how often do we let impediments linger for days, weeks, months?
Or raise a critical performance iss...
Episode 79 - What Service Buys You from 2018-12-16T18:30
If you want to know the secret sauce to leadership and success in anything, I believe this is central - service. Its time to visit this crucial concept so you can re-integrate it into your ongoin...
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Badass Unscripted - Agile or Not? from 2018-12-12T20:00
How do you choose 'when' to use Agile? I say 'willing minds and fitting objectives' but you actually can evaluate Agile fit on a case-by-case basis....but its not what you might think.
It's l...
Badass Unscripted - Expanding Your Edges from 2018-12-10T21:00
Staying steady and comfortable is easy. Are you pushing your edges?
Growth depends not on a singular moment of glory, but on consistent, repeated action to gently stretch your capabilitie...
Episode 78 - The Real Value of Done Things from 2018-12-09T19:30
What is The Real Value of working in ‘Done Things?'
* It’s too easy to let ourselves off the hook if we work to vague objectives.
* It’s even easier to let ourselves off the hook...
Episode 77 - Order Versus Overhead from 2018-12-02T19:30
Have you stopped to look at the things you do, and questioned the value they add - or subtract - to your ability to achieve?
* Process is neither good nor bad, but process almost neve...
Badass Unscripted - Total Accountability from 2018-11-27T19:30
Think and act like an owner. The world changes when you act as though you are accountable. Accountable can mean 'on the hook for' or 'in charge of', but it truly means feeling empowered to enact...
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Episode 76 - Doing The Hard Things from 2018-11-25T19:30
How many people do you know that can cite the Agile principles and seem to know the ins and outs of Scrum, but can’t fully embrace the mindsets of minimizing planning, letting go of their need for ...
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Badass Unscripted - Agile Is What You Strip Away from 2018-11-21T21:30
Agile is not meant to be a building up - of process and complexity, or rules, or even ‘methodology’. It is meant to be a stripping away - down to the essential mindsets and practices that actuall...
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Badass Unscripted - Fundamentals from 2018-11-19T21:30
Processes don’t make people better - right mindsets and the behaviours that flow out of them do.
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Episode 75 - Learning From Conferences from 2018-11-18T19:30
Believe it or not, up until 2018, I had no exposure to the conferencing scene whatsoever. So what kept me from participating, and what did I learn once I started?
1. Just because its a confere...
Badass Unscripted - DONE Things, Not ING Things from 2018-11-14T07:16:20
If you actually want to get more predictable results in projects/product development, you have to work towards ‘Done’. Find out why words like ‘workING’, ‘meetING’, ‘plannING’ and other ING word...
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Badass Unscripted - Finding Your Own Way from 2018-11-08T21:30
-People often ask "what's the best way?".
-There is no best way. Your job as a leader is to help teams find their own way.
-Creating doctrine is useless
-create habits instead.
-Fig...
Badass Unscripted - Loving the Fight from 2018-11-06T21:30
Love the fight.
I don't think it's true that all life is suffering, like to believe that almost the struggle. And if that's the case, the sooner you get used to combat, get used ...
Episode 74 - Business Agility from 2018-11-04T19:30
We hear the words Business Agility a lot now - to agilists it probably makes perfect sense but there seems to be a need for better understanding and education. I want to give you some information...
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Badass Unscripted - Haters, Consensus and People Pleasing from 2018-10-31T21:00
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You will always have haters.
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Never seek approval.
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Never hate back.
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Most hatred comes from deep-seated fear.
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It's oka...
Badass Unscripted - Agile Podcasting from 2018-10-30T06:30
It’s important that leaders, especially in this tribe, get their voice out there. The practice doesn’t grow unless people are contributing opinions through blogs, articles, videos or podcasts.
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Episode 73 - Get Badass (Revisited) from 2018-10-28T19:30
This episode revisits the concept of ‘Badass Agile’, and distills the badass keys further into a tidy bit of text that, if only some of the words rhymed, we could turn into a hymn...
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Episode 72 - Shoot For The Moon from 2018-10-21T20:25:32
Does your team really shoot for the moon?
* Getting ‘scrummy’ isn’t enough. Teams need to find ways to set stretch goals to find out what they’re capable of
* Try some impossib...
Episode 71 - Creating The Future - Your Creative Habit from 2018-10-14T19:30
Does Creativity Matter in your Agile Leadership Journey. You bet it does. It is your key to shaping the future for your clients and the agile community. Ill go so far as to say its a secret weap...
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Badass Unscripted - Agile Wants To Be Simple from 2018-10-11T22:16:22
There’s good money in presuming to be expert in Agility, to have all the answers. Those answers predictably take the form of complex rules and structures, roles and protocols.
But Agile w...
Episode 70 - The Problem with Agile Leadership from 2018-10-08T19:30
Whether you identify with Agile, Lean or any philosophy of effective workplace design, we still need leaders. We need the qualities that only people of true impact can bring. But there are some ...
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Badass Unscripted - Handling Objections from 2018-10-05T07:18:45
Objections are caused by (a very natural) fear of change. Here are the two most common objections:
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We can’t forego documentation
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We can’t release to production when...
Episode 69 - Design Your Agile Life from 2018-09-30T19:30
You Don’t Have to be A Chef To Open a Restaurant. Do you have to be a Scrum Master - or an Agile Practitioner - to be in the business of Agility?
* Don’t be limited by what roles an...
Badass Unscripted - Your Voice, Your Value from 2018-09-27T22:41:25
Are you publishing? If not, why not?
If you want to have a long-lasting career in Agile- or anything for that matter, you have to stand out. You have to have not only a calling card, but...
Badass Unscripted - 5:15 AM from 2018-09-26T06:39
In this episode, we discuss the importance of getting after it - not so much because earlier is better, but because is an example of a habit in the 'doing what other's won't so you can have what ot...
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Episode 68 - How To Properly Spread and Scale from 2018-09-23T19:30
Transformation is a bit of a terrifying word. And yet, it seems to be a popular topic in enterprise agility circles these days. So what's the problem and how can we approach it properly?
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Badass Unscripted - Ice Breakers from 2018-09-20T09:41:30
There are two kinds of Ice breakers - here are some examples of each from the episode:
Ice breakers with purpose - questions that force people to think about their personal vision
Episode 67 - Converting A Vision Into a Backlog from 2018-09-17T22:52:13
As you are spreading agile within your organization or to clients, you’re going to be doing a lot of marketing and demonstrating. Something you’ll need to get good at doing quickly and without a s...
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Badass Unscripted - Intention from 2018-09-14T08:00
Efficiency is not about Doing More Things. You can work less, but direct your best energies toward IMPORTANT things - the highest priority things - and make a greater impact.
You have to make ...
Badass Unscripted - More On Magic Bullets from 2018-09-12T12:00
In addition to our weekly release, we're adding a short, unscripted contemplation of whatever is happening this week in Agile - whether its current events, musings on the industry, things I'm exper...
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Episode 66 - Square Pegs, Round Holes and Magic Bullets from 2018-09-09T19:30
This is an open letter to all Agile implementers and leaders. Are you trying to fit a square peg into a round hole?
* I love the Apollo 13 moment, but if you’re not in outer space an...
Episode 65 - Task Level Prioritization With Stickies and Dots from 2018-09-03T19:30
We are accustomed to prioritizing backlogs - product and sprint - but we may not be as accustomed to prioritizing our day. This technique is often overlooked by teams, and yet how often do we find...
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Episode 64 - Performance Rituals from 2018-08-26T19:30
How do you ‘perform’? When you have to deliver a performance - whether its a speech in front of an executive, your team or a large crowd, how do you show up? Performance Rituals might be the answ...
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Episode 63 - What's Your Backlog? from 2018-08-19T22:49:50
A Leader Has to Be Constantly Growing And Moving
* You need to have a backlog of items for your professional and leader development
* The areas I recommend are Education and Learn...
Episode 62 - Becoming a Great Storyteller from 2018-08-12T19:30
You know whats missing in our leaders in every area of endeavour? Great communication. We need more storytellers. Want to become one?
* A compelling and dynamic leader has been pl...
Episode 61 - Build a Shark Tank from 2018-08-05T19:30
Sooner or later, most leaders need to address emotional control. But how do you control emotions when they are automatic and sub-conscious reactions?
* Being mercurial, moody, or unpredic...
Episode 60 - Think Like An Owner from 2018-07-29T19:30
It’s not uncommon to find people feeling very disconnected from their work. Sometimes an individual’s passion and purpose is connected to their work in the team room, and sometimes, it’s not. Som...
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Episode 59 - Tension Kills Everything from 2018-07-22T21:27:59
In North America, our lives are increasingly defined by the amount of stress we can shoulder. The ability to ‘push a little harder’ each year is considered a mark of dedication and achievement - b...
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Episode 58 - Slow Is Smooth, Smooth Is Fast from 2018-07-15T19:30
Agility is surrounded with the expectation that things will happen quickly - teams will ramp up fast, agility will spread quickly and easily, and projects will immediately start delivering value fa...
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Episode 57 - Setting, Achieving, and Re-setting Targets from 2018-07-08T19:30
How do legendary performers become legendary? What separates them from the rest of the vastly talented, inspired and hard working people in the world? I believe it’s the habit of constantly mov...
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Episode 56 - Is Agile Coaching Dead? from 2018-07-01T19:00
Is this the end for the Agile Coach? Have we reached the summit of our useful lives?
* If Coaching is dead, it is incumbent on all Agile leaders then to find the next thing, the next...
Episode 55 - The Most Common Questions from 2018-06-24T21:08:40
What are the most common questions that I get from listeners and clients?
In this episode, I address the 10 questions I get most commonly from listeners and clients, including what to do a...
Episode 54 - Visioning The Sprint from 2018-06-17T18:30
The nature of Scrum is a cycle. Every two weeks feels like a brand new mission. Sometimes, its easy to lose sight of the overall vision and lose our sense of passion and shared purpose. A Spr...
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Episode 53 - Asking for Forgiveness Instead of Permission from 2018-06-10T20:38:13
One of the badass leadership principles is Ask for Forgiveness, not for Permission. That scares a lot of people. So how do you really integrate that into your badass life and practice?
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Episode 52 - The Simple Art of Discipline from 2018-06-03T21:09:07
To fully live Agile values of frequent value delivery, self-organizing teams, continuous improvement, face-to-face communication - WHILE maintaining high standards for design and quality requires s...
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Episode 51 - Badass Leadership - Recruiting A Passionate Tribe from 2018-05-27T20:00
Building a Tribe Requires that You Set a High Bar for Quality. Excellence. Vision. Dedication. Ethos. To do any less is to guarantee the dilution of the tribe’s effectiveness. But how do you...
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Episode 50 - Badass Leadership - The New Wave Of Leader from 2018-05-20T22:10:38
Leadership has to change in lockstep with changes in society, culture, and values
* We can’t lead the same way as we did 100 years ago…or even 20 years ago.
* The core traits of ...
Episode 49 - Badass Leadership - If You Don't Trust People, You Are The Problem from 2018-05-13T19:55:20
So Your Agile Practice is Broken. Your Centre of Excellence Isn’t Excellent. Your teams are not moving with agility, and your product is not faster, nor cheaper, nor better. This isn’t what we ...
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Episode 48 - Badass Leadership - Spreading And Scaling Agile from 2018-05-06T20:30
How do you take the elegance and simplicity of Agile and apply to complex, large scale organizations?
* Part of the answer is determining if we ‘should’ scale agile - or at least if w...
Episode 47 - Badass Leadership - Owning The Team Room from 2018-04-29T23:40
If you are starting with an in-flight team, and trying to get them more agile, the easiest place to start is the stand up. It’s the smallest, the most frequent, AND the most important ceremony fo...
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Episode 46 - Badass Leadership - My Low-Down Sneaky, Badass Trick to Make People Awesome from 2018-04-22T18:40
There’s only one reason you should listen to this podcast. If you want to learn Agile technique or get opinions on the latest developments…there are so many shows and resources that do that extrem...
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Episode 45 - Badass Leadership - A Life of Distinction from 2018-04-16T03:48:35
As leaders, it is enough to instruct, motivate or even inspire people to meet a list of yearly targets? Or is there a different kind of leader? Someone who breaks through what was previously cons...
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Episode 44 - Badass Leadership - Why Service Matters More Than Vision from 2018-04-09T02:15:21
The word ‘visionary’ is possibly quite overused. Is vision enough to create an elite leader, and to find success in increasingly difficult agile landscapes?
* Vision, as applied to l...
Episode 43 - Revisiting the 12 Agile Principles from 2018-04-02T01:04:31
What is Agile anyway? And what does it mean to ‘make an organization Agile?
* There’s a lot of confusion around the terms - Agile versus Scrum, Philosophy versus Practices
* Agil...
Episode 42 - Badass Leadership - Courage from 2018-03-26T04:00
We fear right action because of the consequences imposed by those who are truly fearful. There is a courage deficit in society, especially in business. and if you want to stand out like a badass, ...
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Episode 41 - Badass Leadership - Value from 2018-03-19T03:00
The best way to get value is to give it - but what does that mean? This week, we’ll look at how to think about value - to the world, to your clients, and to your team.
* All Transact...
Episode 40 - The Next Phase - Badass Leadership from 2018-03-12T03:00
Does Agile Need Leaders? I mean, self-organizing teams and down with hierarchy and all….is there value in leadership, and what should it look like? That’s this week, on the Badass Agile podcast....
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Episode 39 - Team Life VI - Performance Through Promises from 2018-03-05T03:00
The only way to create a culture of trust, and to fully leverage the power of teams, is to make sure you keep promises you make.
* Keeping promises is a crucial component of building ...
Episode 38 - What Boxing Taught Me About Agile from 2018-02-26T03:00
What can we learn from the sweet science?
* I learned more from boxing than anywhere else
* Team sports are great, and obviously applicable, but when it comes to leadership ...
Episode 37 - Agile Wants To Be Simple from 2018-02-20T03:00
* There’s so much focus on frameworks and subtlety of practice
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* Frameworks - definitions of roles, processes, interactions, flows, inputs and outputs
* Subtleties - p...
Episode 36 - Team LIfe V - People Voodoo from 2018-02-12T03:00
Magic matters. I was having a conversation today and I realized some of the most impactful things that I do with my team have nothing to do with coaching Agile. It’s not teaching them Scrum techn...
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Episode 35 - Team Life IV - Protecting the Team Through Failure from 2018-02-05T03:00
Failure is initially perceived as a bad word - especially for new agile teams, and especially in ‘vintage’ cultures. Fear of failure is well over half of the cause of the Resistance. Avoiding fai...
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Episode 34 - Team LIfe III - Creating Compelling Cultures from 2018-01-29T03:00
In environments where we can’t control how the team is composed, how can we control the team’s attitude, commitment and performance? The culture you create has a lot to do with it.
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Episode 33 - Team Life II - Building Teams With Beer from 2018-01-23T01:24:23
A high-performing team doesn’t just evolve naturally. What are some of the things you can do that will help kick-start team synergy, trust, and communication, even on day 1?
* There’...
Have Your Own Voice from 2018-01-15T02:09:13
What could I do to set me apart from every other Scrum Master, Coach, or Leader?
* It’s fine to rest on the shoulders of giants and imitate their mindsets and habits, but you can’t im...
Episode 32 - Team Life I - About Teams from 2018-01-08T03:00
Of all the Agile Keys we’ve discussed - ‘Team’ is the most mysterious, and yet the most powerful. How do you build great teams, and what qualities does a great team have?
* Done righ...