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232 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★ - 16 ratingsA podcast about Agile and Project Management
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What's The Next Most Important Thing to Learn with Scott Sehlhorst
April 25, 2024 04:22 - 56 minutes - 77.8 MBI’m testing out the AI Generated Summary… In this conversation, Dave Prior and Scott Sehlhorst discuss the importance of improving the product plan while executing it. They explore the common problem of companies jumping straight into execution without considering what they should build and why. Scott emphasizes the need to shift from a mindset of control to one of influence, where product managers focus on solving problems and creating value for customers and the business. They also discuss...
Fixing PI planning with Alan Dayley
April 15, 2024 05:03 - 42 minutes - 57.7 MBAlan Dayley is back to help me continue the quest of figuring out why so many companies are struggling with PI Planning or quarterly planning. During the interview, we discuss some of the reasons organizations struggle with this type of planning. We address the topic from the perspective of senior leadership, why they want it, how they often approach it, and the challenges that creates. We also explore the way the request is often interpreted by the Development Teams, how they often respond, ...
How to Pick the Right Scrum Training For You with Vic Bonacci
April 08, 2024 17:11 - 14 minutes - 19.8 MBYou’ve decided to take a Scrum certification class. Now the question is, which one? If you are looking for something like Certified Scrum Master or Certified Scrum Product Owner, there are so many options to choose from that it can be overwhelming. All of them should result in certification and price is certainly a concern. But there are a number of other factors to consider when trying to find the Scrum training that is right for you. When you take a certification class, whether its focus ...
Making Sense of Co-Pilots, Agents, and Changes in AI with Snehal Talati
April 01, 2024 05:10 - 45 minutes - 62.2 MBKeeping up with what is happening in AI is no small task. You probably know some folks who spend a lot of free time learning how to bend (insert AI flavor of the week) to their will, there are folks who are preaching to anyone who will listen about all the amazing things that are right around the corner, and then there are the folks who just periodically peek over their shoulder and say “Yeah, um… let me know when you’ve got this bit actually working.” And then there are people like Snehal T...
AI and Agile Udpate March 2024 w Snehal Talati
April 01, 2024 05:10 - 45 minutes - 62.2 MBKeeping up with what is happening in AI is no small task. You probably know some folks who spend a lot of free time learning how to bend (insert AI flavor of the week) to their will, there are folks who are preaching to anyone who will listen about all the amazing things that are right around the corner, and then there are the folks who just periodically peek over their shoulder and say “Yeah, um… let me know when you’ve got this bit actually working.” And then there are people like Snehal T...
5 Things You Can Do to Fix Your Sprint Planning
March 14, 2024 03:47 - 8 minutes - 7.43 MBIf you are on one of those teams that has made a habit of dragging unfinished work from one Sprint to the next... YOU NEED TO STOP! When you get to the end of a Sprint and have work that isn't done, you can't show it to the stakeholders in the Sprint Review. If you don't show it to Stakeholders in the Sprint Review, you can't get feedback. And if you can't get feedback, you can't inspect and adapt, and you negate the entire point of working in a Sprint. This podcast offers five things th...
Successful Distributed Teams
March 06, 2024 03:44 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MBAt the Modus Institute, Jim Benson and Mark Kilby have created a new offering called Successful Distributed Teams. This new course focuses on how to build strong remote teams, how to create a humane, healthy balance of productivity and accountability, and what tools you can use to make it all work. In this interview, Jim and Mark join me to discuss what happened when they combined the many years of experience they each have in shaping remote teams that work. We cover how the idea of remote wo...
Developing Trust in Your Organization w Gil Broza
February 27, 2024 02:00 - 57 minutes - 78.3 MBA few weeks ago I interviewed Gil Broza about his new book, “Deliver Better Results: How to Unlock Your Organization's Potential". The book was designed to quickly provide actionable practices that organizations can utilize to improve their value delivery system. It focuses on understanding the fitness for purpose of your system of delivery, and how to employ his ten strategies to improve your level of maturity. During my prep for the interview and during our conversation, there was one thing...
Deliver Better Results w Gil Broza
February 14, 2024 04:51 - 57 minutes - 79.3 MBGil Broza joins me for a podcast about his new book, “Deliver Better Results: How to Unlock Your Organization's Potential". During the interview, Gil and I discuss how he designed the book to quickly provide actionable practices that organizations can utilize to improve their value delivery system. Our conversation includes details on how to understand the fitness for purpose of your system of delivery, and how to employ his ten strategies to improve your level of maturity. The first chapte...
Is This The Darkest Agile Timeline? w George Schlitz
January 31, 2024 16:38 - 50 minutes - 69.3 MBWith the state of Agile as it is today, I find myself frequently wondering, “Is this the Darkest Agile Timeline”? Things have been getting a bit bleak lately in the Agile space. With the layoffs, the job market, and the fact that the business world has change fatigue and is tired of not getting what they expected from a way of working they’ve mostly only kinda half-done... Where’s the hope? For this podcast (and to find some hope), I reached out to George Schlitz because 1. George is way s...
Fixing Your Quarterly Planning W Nigel Baker
January 11, 2024 21:57 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MBThere seems to be a current trend where organizations that say they are doing PI planning or quarterly planning are making a decision for the teams about what must be delivered in the time box. The teams just accept the commitment because they either feel they do not have the agency to push back and say no to some of it or are too busy trying to finish up their last overcommitment to look at new work. So, they begin the new time box already behind and then assess the new work only to (shockin...
Advice for a Wayward Scrum Master with Jeff Howey
December 27, 2023 03:38 - 12 minutes - 16.6 MBWhat do you do when your Scrum Master’s understanding of their role seems to be less about acting as a servant leader to the Scrum Team and more about making the team to work in a way that is most convenient for them? In this episode of the podcast, Jeff Howey joins me to talk through the real-life case of a Scrum Master who seems to have lost their way. Here are some of the concerns shared in the podcast: - Dev Team is offshore and holds a Daily Scrum before 8 AM in Scrum Master’s time z...
Is Agile Delivering The Business Outcomes Your Are Looking For? with Jessica Wolfe
December 08, 2023 17:09 - 43 minutes - 39.6 MBFor the video version of this podcast: https://youtu.be/pnmbdAxskXo When an organization has taken the decision to switch an Agile way of working, they often get so caught up in trying to adopt the various practices and processes that they forget to stop and ask the question, “Is this providing the business outcome we need?” Remembering to keep that question top of mind is important. Knowing what to pay attention to and how to understand the answer is even more important. In this episode...
Is Agile Delivering The Business Outcomes You Are Looking For? with Jessica Wolfe
December 08, 2023 17:09 - 43 minutes - 39.6 MBFor the video version of this podcast: https://youtu.be/pnmbdAxskXo When an organization has taken the decision to switch an Agile way of working, they often get so caught up in trying to adopt the various practices and processes that they forget to stop and ask the question, “Is this providing the business outcome we need?” Remembering to keep that question top of mind is important. Knowing what to pay attention to and how to understand the answer is even more important. In this episode...
The Future of AI with Mark Kilby
November 28, 2023 16:31 - 27 minutes - 37.8 MBOn Friday, December 8, The Agile Alliance is hosting a MiniCon on the Future of Artificial Intelligence. During the event, Mark Kilby will be hosting a roundtable discussion with the speakers to explore the ways AI is poised to impact how we work and what it will take to utilize it in an ethical and responsible way. Mark joins me in this episode of the podcast to discuss why he made a conscious decision to get schooled up on AI, how he’s going about doing it, some of the key learnings he ha...
Letting Go of Pure Agile w Andy Jordan
November 18, 2023 20:33 - 35 minutes - 48.6 MBAgile is going through a lot of changes right now. The changes aren’t so much in what it is and how it works - that seems to be a bit stable at the moment. The changes stem more from how adopters feel about it, their ideas about much agile they need, what they need to achieve it, and what kind of support they want getting there. As the space works through these growing pains, many Agilists respond to discomfort they way they (unfortunately) have since the very beginning, by pointing figures ...
The Agile Coach's Dilemma with Alan Dayley
November 06, 2023 06:22 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MBWith each new round of layoffs, the existential crisis facing the agile coaching community deepens. Alan Dayley joins me to discuss how the community is retrospecting on this moment and whether or not it is asking the right questions. Over the past year, a number of high-profile organizations have made a decision to let go of their agile coaches. The impact of that choice on those organizations will become apparent in time. The impact on the coaches, however, has been more immediate. In thi...
Louder Than Ten Goes Full CoOp w Rachel and Travis Gertz
October 27, 2023 13:13 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBLouder Than Ten is a Vancouver-based Project Management Training and Consulting company. L>10 was founded by Rachel and Travis Gertz, and for the past 14 years, everything they have done has been centered around fostering healthy and humane ways of working together and managing projects. There aren’t many organizations in the digital agency space that have taken the time to develop their own project management manifesto. It is truly a unique place and now, as they do, Rachel and Travis have c...
Using Personal Kanban to Start Agile Transformation with Michael Grill
October 09, 2023 07:41 - 44 minutes - 60.5 MBAs long as there have been agile teams there has been the challenge of putting people together and getting them to actually be agile. You can send them off to a class and teach them Scrum or Kanban, or bring in team coaches, and that helps, but it doesn’t address one fundamental issue. Most people have not taken (or been given) the time they need to learn how to be agile in how they manage themselves as individuals. Michael Grill is a Product Owner and Head of Process and Methods in the Agi...
Creating Connections with Together To Gather w LIa James and Jessie Shternshus
September 29, 2023 03:23 - 52 minutes - 72.2 MBGetting people to open up to one another and connect at work is not an easy thing. It wasn’t easy before the world went remote, and now that many of us are somewhere in the middle of being half remote and half in-person, it’s not getting any easier. But if we can get to know each other a little better and a little deeper, we will foster stronger connections. As we become more invested in one another, the work we do together will improve as a result. Together To Gather is a card game develop...
Can AI Replace a Scrum Master? w Zach Stone
September 14, 2023 20:40 - 43 minutes - 59.3 MBAI is everywhere now. You can’t have a conversation that involves the future of work without heading down the rabbit hole of how Chat GPT and tools like it are changing the workspace. For some, it is a very exciting time. For others, it is scary as hell because it is so hard to figure out how it will impact our work. In this interview, Zach Stone is back for a chat about the following questions: - What parts of the work we do on Scrum Teams will be augmented or replaced by AI? - How do ...
What Happens When the Agile People Leave w Jesse Fewell
September 01, 2023 03:07 - 47 minutes - 65.4 MBTimes are weird in the land of Agile. More and more big companies are letting go of the people they’ve brought on to help them adopt agile practices, or replacing their Scrum Masters with Technical Program Managers, or creating a homegrown version of Agile by taking an established framework and bailing on the practices they don’t like. Is this just business accepting that what they’ve been trying to do for the past 10+ years was just too hard, have they achieved a level of agility that they a...
Cultivating A Soulful Transformation Community W Jardena London
August 06, 2023 21:29 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MBJardena London is on a mission. After spending years helping organizations transform, adopt agile, and achieve business agility she realized there was something missing. Soul. Yes, change was happening, but at what expense? Were people any more able to bring their whole selves to work, authentically show up, rise to the challenge of the day, and fully contribute themselves to the work? Mostly, not so much. And that is what led her to shift her focus to helping create soulful transformation ...
Tuning Your Distributed Team with a Right Environment Exercise at Agile 2023 Preview
July 21, 2023 03:49 - 26 minutes - 24.2 MBAgile 2023 is almost here! Mark Kilby, Tim Nolan, and I are putting the final touches on our session Tuning Your Distributed Team with a Right Environment Exercise. We are looking forward to sharing some of the things we learned in Modus Cooperandi’s Lean Agile Visual Management Certification program. The workshop will be held at Agile 2023 on Tuesday, July 25th from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM. This video gives an overview of our workshop and some of the key concepts we will be covering with the p...
Taking a Responsible Approach to AI with Snehal Talati
July 19, 2023 19:18 - 50 minutes - 68.9 MBArtificial Intelligence and its impact on the Agile and Project Management space has become a conversation most of us are now having daily. There are a number of products already on the market and more coming every hour. In the same way that several years ago everyone had an app, now everyone wants to have a product leveraging AI. Snehal Talati, the AI Agile guy, has an app he’s been working on, but he’s also working on something bigger… the question of how we will use AI, responsibly, to n...
Successful Independent Consulting W Johanna Rothman
July 10, 2023 00:47 - 47 minutes - 43.9 MBJohanna Rothman is one of my favorite people to interview and in this episode, she’s back to talk about her new book Successful Independent Consulting: Relationships That Focus on Mutual Benefit. The book is full of insights and practical tips not just for consultants but anyone looking to establish themself and make their presence known in their profession. The conversation also covers the book she published last year, Free Your Inner Nonfiction Writer: Educate, Influence, and Entertain Your...
Tracking Flow Metrics W Atlassian Analytics
June 26, 2023 13:31 - 26 minutes - 24 MBI’ve done several podcast interviews over the past few months about Flow Metrics. These podcasts are all pretty much aligned around the fact that if you want metrics you can rely on to predict what to expect from your teams in the future, nothing is perfect, but flow metrics are better than velocity. Since most of the people I meet while I am coaching, or teaching use Jira, I reached out to a friend at Atlassian to learn more about how to get this data. Here’s the best part… if you are using...
The Art of War with Gary Gagliardi
June 19, 2023 12:59 - 55 minutes - 76.1 MBIn the classes I teach and the podcasts I record I talk frequently about how deeply Sun Tzu’s The Art of War has impacted the way I understand the opportunities that show up in my life. Once you get past the title, you can begin to understand how it is really a book about collaboration. I have MANY translations of the Art of War in my apartment but none of them have reshaped my brain as profoundly as the ones by Gary Gagliardi. His book The Amazing Secrets of Sun Tzu's The Art of War: The Mys...
Investing in Business Strategy NOT IT Strategy with Ross Beurmann
June 10, 2023 23:35 - 39 minutes - 54.3 MBJoin us in this new episode as we welcome back Ross Beurmann, who takes us on an exploration in IT funding, and how the way we fund IT impacts how work gets done and the outcomes it delivers. Drawing inspiration from his thought-provoking LinkedIn post, Ross advocates for making intentional decisions about how we fund IT projects and products, ensuring their separation between operations IT projects and strategic IT projects. Discover how this distinction can impact the outcomes of our work,...
Your First Test - Driven Development with James Grenning
June 01, 2023 02:45 - 1 hour - 96.2 MBGet ready for an electrifying episode of DrunkenPM Radio as I welcome the esteemed James Grenning to unravel the world of Test Driven Development (TDD). Agile 2023 is just around the corner, and during the conference, James will be leading a workshop called "Your First Test-Driven Development." While TDD is not a new concept, it remains unfamiliar to many tech professionals who didn't come from a development background. That's precisely why I reached out to James and invited him to join me f...
Decision Sprints with Atif Rafiq
May 09, 2023 13:39 - 59 minutes - 81.7 MBAre you tired of endless meetings, indecision, and lack of progress? Do you want to learn a powerful problem-solving technique that will help you transform your digital business? If so, you won't want to miss this exciting podcast episode! Join Dave Prior as he interviews Atif Rafiq, a change leader who has worked with some of the biggest companies in the world, including McDonald's, Volvo, and Amazon. Atif's new book, "Decision Sprint," reveals a breakthrough problem-solving technique that ...
Agile and Artificial Intelligence with Marty Bradley
May 01, 2023 03:58 - 35 minutes - 48.7 MBChatGPT was used to create the blog post to go with this podcast... Are you ready to step into the future of work? Join Marty Bradley and Dave Prior for a mind-blowing conversation about the power of Artificial Intelligence! In this podcast, you'll learn how Marty has teamed up with AI to write a book and create epic briefs, and how this cutting-edge technology is already transforming the way we work and lead. Discover how to leverage AI to its fullest potential, and unlock new opportuniti...
When Your Leadership Can't Agree - Featuring Mike Vizdos
April 20, 2023 02:22 - 46 minutes - 64.5 MBWhat do you do when you and your fellow product owners are competing for limited resources (human and otherwise) within your organization and senior leadership seems unwilling or unable to align around strategic priority for the company and create clarity on what the most important things to work on are. Is it okay for leadership to just wait for the Product Owners to fight it out? If you are a PO looking for strategic guidance, how can you get it? In this podcast, Mike Vizdos joins me to ta...
Agile Coaching Skills - Certified Facilitator w Anu Smalley
April 11, 2023 19:07 - 41 minutes - 56.5 MBThis episode of the podcast is all about Facilitation. Fellow Certified Scrum Trainer, Anu Smalley joins me to talk about a brand new Scrum Alliance certification called: Agile Coaching Skills - Certified Facilitator (ACS-CF). During the conversation Anu and I discuss what the certification focuses on, what you can expect from someone who has it, and why it might be valuable to those leading and/or coaching teams. In the podcast, Anu references a TED talk where the facilitation skills of di...
Jennifer Tharp 3-1-2023
March 29, 2023 03:31 - 36 minutes - 50.5 MBJennifer Tharp 3-1-2023 by Dave Prior, Agile Trainer, Consultant and Project Manager
Building Trust and Connection In Your Team with Cozy Juicy Real
March 28, 2023 15:36 - 54 minutes - 74.4 MBConnecting with new people can be a challenge. More for some than others. In work, and in life, knowing how much to share, where the line is, what it is okay to ask ... this was always tough. And when every team on the planet suddenly became a distributed team.. the stakes got higher. And as welcoming as the solutions are for some, they have the opposite impact on others. Some people love virtual escape rooms and virtual happy hour. Others just wonder why they are being required to spend ev...
PMI Board Chair Jennifer Tharp - Staying Relevant and Finding Joy
March 23, 2023 01:33 - 36 minutes - 50.5 MBPMI Chair Jennifer Tharp joins me for this episode of the podcast from Venice, Italy where she is making the most of being a remote worker . During our conversation, we cover a wide range of topics including: - What is the best movie about project management - What fictional character best represents your inner project manager - Has the profession of Project Management at an inflection point - What you need to do in order to stay current and relevant as our profession evolves - How to find ...
The Future of Agile Project Management w Howard Sublett
March 13, 2023 13:51 - 45 minutes - 62.6 MBThe Future of Project Management This episode features Howard Sublett as we discuss where Project Management and Agile are headed in the future. Howard is the former CEO of the Scrum Alliance. He’s been working in the space for years and has been doing consulting work since leaving SA. During the conversation we explore how the agile transformation space has been changing, some of the issues organizations are having with agile coaching, and where things are headed with the intersection of a...
(Re)Start Your Team Using Modus REE with Erich Hahn
March 06, 2023 02:47 - 42 minutes - 58.6 MBThere is a massive difference between being a group of people who work together and being a high-performing team. It doesn’t matter if you are working in an agile organization or one that is more traditional, a group of people who share an understanding of how they work, why they work, and how they can show up and support one another every day are going to achieve greater things than those who lack that understanding. If this is something your team is struggling to develop, this podcast will...
Artificial Intelligence and Project Management with Ricardo Vargas
February 23, 2023 04:42 - 26 minutes - 36.5 MBPMI Fellow Ricardo Vargas joins me in this episode of the podcast to talk about Artificial Intelligence, Chat GPT, and the Future of Project Management. During our conversation, I got the chance to dig deeper into some of the ideas raised in his recent HBR article "How AI Will Transform Project Management." Whether you are working in a traditional organization or one that has adopted agile, the work of managing work is going to go through some pretty intense changes in the coming years. This ...
Sprint Goals and Sprint Planning with Chris Li
February 13, 2023 03:22 - 34 minutes - 47.5 MBIn this episode, my good friend Chris Li joins me for a conversation about Sprint Goals. While Chris and I are aligned on the importance of having a Sprint Goal, we approach the creation of it in different ways. During this conversation, you’ll get a detailed breakdown of how each of us shows up for the Sprint Goal conversation, when, and how it happens. If you would prefer to check out a video version of this interview it can be found here: https://youtu.be/UxZypEeuFww Contacting Chris Web...
Lead Without Blame with Tricia Broderick
February 02, 2023 03:49 - 52 minutes - 48 MBIn “Lead Without Blame: Building Resilient Learning Teams” Diana Larsen and Tricia Broderick present tools, techniques, and strategies you can employ to transform the way you approach leading teams. Throughout the book, they present case studies and examples from their own experiences that showcase the impact you can have by fostering a psychologically safe environment that supports collaborative learning, autonomy, and purpose. In this episode of the podcast, Tricia Broderick joins me to ...
In Defense of Frederick Taylor w Christine Li
January 18, 2023 03:13 - 39 minutes - 54.5 MBIn this episode, I am joined by a very special guest, Christine Li, for a conversation I have been waiting to record for quite a while now. Backstory I am closing in on 30 years of work in Project Management and for most of that time, I, like many of you, have been talking smack about Frederick Taylor. My opinions were based on the things I learned from others along the way and were (obviously) deeply informed by moving from traditional PM over to Agile. As far as I was concerned, this guy...
Story Points Are Good AND Evil with Ryan Ripley
January 12, 2023 04:55 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MBA few weeks ago while I was teaching a CSM class, I got a Slack message from Ron Quartel pointing me to a tweet by Ryan Ripley. The tweet said “If you are sitting in a Scrum Training class and the trainer starts teaching Story Points, you should 1. Get up. 2. Demand Your Money Back, and 3. Walk out. You're wasting your time. Here is a link to the tweet: https://bit.ly/3XsfPAP I should mention I was just about to cover Story Points and I used Ryan's tweet in class as part of our conversatio...
Value Stream Management W Derek Huether
January 09, 2023 01:29 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MBDerek Huether is back for this episode and we’re focusing on Value Stream Management. Value Stream Mapping is about understanding all the steps from the inception of an idea to putting something valuable in a customer's hands, and using that information to optimize the flow of value through the system. But, within a business, you will have many value streams and we need to understand how best to coordinate those streams to optimize the overall value generated by the company across multiple va...
Improving Value Delivery In Your Organization w Gil Broza
January 02, 2023 22:42 - 42 minutes - 59 MBGil Broza has been a guest on this podcast a number of times in the past. He’s the author of several books that focus on Agile, including The Human Side of Agile and Agile for Non-Software Teams. Gil is a teacher, lecturer, and the founder of 3PVantage. He also helps organizations transform to Agile, and he’s developed a new tool called Square that can be used to assess your value delivery so that you can make an intentional, well-informed choice about which improvements are the right ones to...
Getting your first Scrum Master Gig w Richard Cheng
December 14, 2022 05:32 - 47 minutes - 66 MBSo you’ve made the decision that you want to get a job as a Scrum Master. Maybe you’re working on an agile team and want to switch roles, or maybe you’re moving from a field where agile has no presence. If you don’t already have experience working in an environment that has adopted Scrum, then the big question is… how do you land the gig. In this episode, I am joined by my good friend Richard Cheng to talk about how to get started working as a Scrum Master. We both run across a lot of people...
What do you do after certification? w Jeff Howey
December 06, 2022 22:20 - 24 minutes - 33.2 MBOk, so you’re a newly minted Certified Scrum Master (or Certified Scrum Product Owner), now what? How do you get started applying what you learned in class? What if the organization you work in is still primarily waterfall? What if you were the one person sent to take a 2-day class so you can transform the rest of the company and teach them to “do agile”? What if you went for the certification as your first step in trying to find your way out of the waterfall and into a healthier way of work...
Agile Practices in the Org and Home with Lee Lis
November 28, 2022 15:19 - 39 minutes - 54.9 MBDespite the fact that Agile practices have been applied to just about every type of work you can imagine, there is still a pervasive assumption that it is just for software. In the CSM and CSPO classes I teach, people often ask for “real life examples” of how people not working directly on software teams are able to use agile and to what end. This week, Lee Lis, Chief of Staff at OnPay, joins me to talk about exactly that. During the conversation, we discuss ways she has applied agile practi...
Growth Mindset - Success of Others w Mary Kaufmann
November 15, 2022 17:32 - 35 minutes - 48.2 MBIn Carol Dwek’s book Mindset, she explains the difference between a Fixed Mindset and a Growth Mindset. Earlier this year, a colleague of mine, Mary Kaufman and I began recording a series of podcasts on the five stages of growth outlined in the book. Unfortunately, Mary moved on to a new gig before we got the fifth stage posted. So, we re-recorded the conversation and it’s going up live here at drunkenpm to help complete the stages. In this conversation, we cover “Success of Others” and exp...