The Art of Lawyering Podcast 067: Agile Lawyering with John Grant
Building a Law Firm
English - September 22, 2015 07:42 - 1 hour - 87.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsBusiness Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
On this episode of The Art of Lawyering Podcast I talk to John Grant, a lawyer by trade and a project manager at heart.
We talk about all kinds of cool stuff but at the end of the day we try to solve one problem: how can we get our work done faster and better?
John has an interesting path that lead him to where he is today, and his expertise in the area of project management shines through early and often. He's clearly a guy that knows what he is talking about.
If you are feeling like you've got a ton to do and you don't know where to start or what activity will give you the biggest return on your time investment, this is a must listen.
John does go through a quick rundown of the process, and I want to share that with you right now:
planning phase (what are you doing in the next two weeks)
daily stand-up (rules: 1 - everyone is there on time; 2 - only 2 minutes times number of people in room; 3 - what did you accomplish since last meeting (within context of board)?; what do you plan to accomplish before next meeting?; what is in your way (roadblocks)?)
sprint review (go back to planning meeting notes and review) - and, did you do it well?
retrospective - it's about the process used to get the work done - write the answers to these questions on the wall (what is going well that we should keep?; what is not going well?; what should we try that is different?)
Show Resources
Simple Gantt Chart
Simple Kanban Board
Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
Seyfarth Shah Law Firm
Agile Attorney Slack community
threadkm
lawcus
trademarkia
willing.com
legalzoom
Casey Flaherty
Kanban for Lawyers - John Grant
Book Recommendation: The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
Theory of Constraints
agileattorney.net
John on Twitter: @jegrant3
On this episode of The Art of Lawyering Podcast I talk to John Grant, a lawyer by trade and a project manager at heart.
We talk about all kinds of cool stuff but at the end of the day we try to solve one problem: how can we get our work done faster and better?
John has an interesting path that lead him to where he is today, and his expertise in the area of project management shines through early and often. He’s clearly a guy that knows what he is talking about.
If you are feeling like you’ve got a ton to do and you don’t know where to start or what activity will give you the biggest return on your time investment, this is a must listen.
John does go through a quick rundown of the process, and I want to share that with you right now:
planning phase (what are you doing in the next two weeks)
daily stand-up (rules: 1 – everyone is there on time; 2 – only 2 minutes times number of people in room; 3 – what did you accomplish since last meeting (within context of board)?; what do you plan to accomplish before next meeting?; what is in your way (roadblocks)?)
sprint review (go back to planning meeting notes and review) – and, did you do it well?
retrospective – it’s about the process used to get the work done – write the answers to these questions on the wall (what is going well that we should keep?; what is not going well?; what should we try that is different?)
Show Resources
Simple Gantt Chart
Simple Kanban Board
Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
Agile Attorney Slack community
Kanban for Lawyers – John Grant
Book Recommendation: The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
John on Twitter: @jegrant3