UN-Common Sense
19 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -As popular as Agile is, its success rate is not particularly high. Your three hosts believe this is because most organizations are being led by cargo cult and echo chambers. Many brilliant and proven concepts are not in any of the more popular approaches. This has resulted in a huge gap between what is possible and what is being achieved. The Uncommon Sense sessions will present many concepts that organizations should be using but that are not popular while also uncover myths present in popular methods that are holding organizations back.The hosts of Uncommon sense are either creators of cutting-edge, but proven approaches and/or experts in Agile and Lean methods. This will ensure you get both the theory and the practice of the methods being described.
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UN-Common Sense Episode 15: The Opposite of Agile used to be Waterfall - Those Days are Long Past!
September 11, 2021 20:00 - 58 minutes - 40.3 MBThe opposite of Agile used to be Waterfall - those days are long past. What is next and why? Please join Steve Tendon, Al Shalloway, and Joshua Barnes for a discussion lead by Clarke Ching where he will “take us off the beaten track, looking for truffles!”. Clarke is the author of The Bottleneck Rule, Rolling Rocks Downhill and Corkscrew Solutions. He’s a computer scientist with an MBA, has been powered by the Theory of Constraints (ToC) and Lean for over 25 years and Agile since 2003.
UN-Common Sense Episode 14: Creating Clarity and Alignment with Flow Engineering
August 26, 2021 20:00 - 57 minutes - 39.2 MBPlease join Al Shalloway, Steve Tendon and Joshua Barnes for a discussion lead by Peter Maddison of the Flow Collective. Peter will discuss how Flow Engineering creates clarity and alignment around how your organization works together to deliver value to customers. #disciplinedagile #tameflow #flowcollective
UN-Common Sense Episode 12: Understanding Value Engineering with Tom Gilb
August 20, 2021 14:00 - 56 minutes - 39 MBPlease join Steve Tendon, Al Shalloway, and Joshua Barnes for a discussion lead by Tom Gilb, where he will bring his insights in Agile Engineering or “quantified value(s) agile.” A few of the focus points include: - Systems Thinking: even for programs, you need to integrate people, data, legal, hardware, cloudware, and more. - Stakeholder Engineering: not merely “customer and user” – Stakeholder Stores, Stakeholder Xperience (SX not UX) Tom has been practicing incremental value-deli...
UN-Common Sense Episode 11 - What Do Agile Teams Need to Know
August 06, 2021 11:00 - 58 minutes - 40 MBThis week’s Un-Common Sense episode discusses what concepts Agile Teams need to know (and what they need to NOT know). What skills / knowledge / concepts are needed by the AGILE TEAM? Join the discussion with Steve Tendon, Al Shalloway, and Joshua Barnes.
UN-Common Sense Episode 10 - What Do Agile Coaches Need to Know
August 02, 2021 17:00 - 56 minutes - 38.7 MBThis episode of Un-Common Sense will discuss what concepts Agile Coaches need to know. Does the agile coach supporting your team or organization understand concepts that keep improving the flow of value with today’s complex environments? Do you know what concepts you should look for when hiring/engaging an Agile Coach? Join the discussion with Joshua Barnes, Steve Tendon and Al Shalloway and bring your thoughts and questions.
UN-Common Sense Episode 9: Two Constituent Parts that Agile Project Management Has
July 23, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 41.7 MBPlease join Steve Tendon and Joshua Barnes for a discussion lead by Ian Heptinstall, where he will explore his idea of two constituent parts that Agile Project Management as a “method” has. Ian is not an Agile Project Management specialist, nor software or IT guy. His project experience comes from the world of capital projects (buildings, factories, construction, infrastructure), where he has worked both for project owners such as chemical and pharmaceutical companies and in the supply c...
UN-Common Sense Episode 8 - Where Agile Transformations Typically Start, Could Start, and Options
July 16, 2021 13:00 - 57 minutes - 39.6 MBUn-Common Sense Episode 8 Where Agile Transformations Typically Start, Could Start, and Options Why do agile transformations start with and continue to focus on delivery teams? This approach is commonplace. But is this the only way? Is this the best way? Should we expand our thinking and look at other options we have? Joshua Barnes, Al Shalloway, and Steve Tendon discuss transformation strategy options and how you and your organization can benefit.
UN-Common Sense Episode 8 - Where Agile Transformations Typically Start, Could Start, and Options
July 16, 2021 13:00 - 57 minutes - 39.6 MBUn-Common Sense Episode 8 Where Agile Transformations Typically Start, Could Start, and Options Why do agile transformations start with and continue to focus on delivery teams? This approach is commonplace. But is this the only way? Is this the best way? Should we expand our thinking and look at other options we have? Joshua Barnes, Al Shalloway, and Steve Tendon discuss transformation strategy options and how you and your organization can benefit.
UN-Common Sense Episode 7: Agile Lineout an Alternative to Scrum
July 08, 2021 20:00 - 56 minutes - 39 MBEver wondered why the performance of agile teams using Scrum tends to plateau? Albert Einstein is widely credited with saying, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.” Have you asked how Non-Software teams may use agile or how Scrum being a purposely incomplete framework impacts novice teams? Jon Ward will lead a discussion along with Al Shalloway, Steve Tendon and Joshua Barnes on a new approach, Agile Lineout. An alternat...
UN-Common Sense Episode 6:Should You Care About the TECHNOLOGY Part of Socio-Technical Systems
July 08, 2021 19:00 - 59 minutes - 40.6 MBIn this episode, Steve Tendon will lead the discussion along with Al Shalloway and Joshua Barnes. Un-Common Sense Episode 6: while we might all be very concerned about processes, methods and frameworks to make our organizations more effective, we must not forget that we are operating in socio-technical systems. Technology is so widespread around us that we almost take it for granted. What about if we paid more attention to how new emerging and innovative technologies can impact our ways o...
UN-Common Sense Episode 5: How value streams highlight relationships and relationships can lower fear.
June 27, 2021 20:00 - 55 minutes - 38 MBIn this episode, Al Shalloway, Steve Tendon and I discuss an interesting observation that fear drives people into sub-optimization and protecting their silos. #valuestreammanagement focuses on the whole and the relationship between the different parties in the #valuestream . By attending to the workflows and not the people in them, fear can be reduced because it becomes a larger team that is creating the work.
UN-Common Sense Episode 4: Driving DevOps with Value Stream Management
June 11, 2021 12:00 - 58 minutes - 40.3 MBIn this session, Gary Rupp leads a discussion based on his upcoming book “Driving DevOps with Value StreamManagement.” The central premise of his book is that the Value Stream Management (VSM) tool’s industry will have a short life if all they do is apply their tools to IT-oriented value streams.
UN-Common Sense - Driving DevOps with Value Stream Management
June 11, 2021 12:00 - 58 minutes - 40.3 MBIn this session, Gary Rupp leads a discussion based on his upcoming book “Driving DevOps with Value StreamManagement.” The central premise of his book is that the Value Stream Management (VSM) tool’s industry will have a short life if all they do is apply their tools to IT-oriented value streams.
UN-Common Sense Episode 3: Distributed Agility Health Checks Using Virtual Canvas Technology
June 04, 2021 21:00 - 58 minutes - 40 MBIn this podcast we are going to discuss the awareness and usage of virtual collaboration canvases such as #Miro, #Mural, and #InVision. These have expanded tremendously in this past year with the shift to distributed working. The productivity of agile teams has benefited, but can we use these tools for other events? Yes! Usage for conducting agility health checks is just one of them we will discuss.
UN-Common Sense: Distributed Agility Health Checks Using Virtual Canvas Technology
June 04, 2021 21:00 - 58 minutes - 40 MBIn this podcast we are going to discuss the awareness and usage of virtual collaboration canvases such as #Miro, #Mural, and #InVision. These have expanded tremendously in this past year with the shift to distributed working. The productivity of agile teams has benefited, but can we use these tools for other events? Yes! Usage for conducting agility health checks is just one of them we will discuss.
UN-Common Sense: The egg of Columbus of Business Agility
June 04, 2021 20:00 - 59 minutes - 40.6 MBImprovement initiatives abound, and most of them fail to deliver. Change fatigue is real, and people cannot bear it anymore. What can we do about it? Maybe apply some science instead of preconceptions! However, science is often counter-intuitive. It might be obvious in hindsight, but not self-evident from the outset. One needs to suspend disbelief and actually learn to see how easy it is – provided you have the knowledge In this session, we are going to talk about the Egg of Columbus of B...
UN-Common Sense Episode 2: The egg of Columbus of Business Agility
June 04, 2021 20:00 - 59 minutes - 40.6 MBImprovement initiatives abound, and most of them fail to deliver. Change fatigue is real, and people cannot bear it anymore. What can we do about it? Maybe apply some science instead of preconceptions! However, science is often counter-intuitive. It might be obvious in hindsight, but not self-evident from the outset. One needs to suspend disbelief and actually learn to see how easy it is – provided you have the knowledge In this session, we are going to talk about the Egg of Columbus of B...
UN-Common Sense Episode 1: Closing the technology gap by looking at the myths and missing pieces of Agile
June 02, 2021 09:00 - 56 minutes - 39.1 MBUN-Common Sense: Closing the technology gap by looking at the myths and missing pieces of Agile. As popular as Agile is, its success rate is not particularly high. Your three hosts, Al Shalloway, Steve Tendon, and Joshua Barnes believe this is because most organizations are being led by cargo cult and echo chambers. Many brilliant and proven concepts are not in any of the more popular approaches. This has resulted in a huge gap between what is possible and what is being achieved. The Uncomm...
UN-Common Sense: Closing the technology gap by looking at the myths and missing pieces of Agile
June 02, 2021 09:00 - 56 minutes - 39.1 MBUN-Common Sense: Closing the technology gap by looking at the myths and missing pieces of Agile. As popular as Agile is, its success rate is not particularly high. Your three hosts, Al Shalloway, Steve Tendon, and Joshua Barnes believe this is because most organizations are being led by cargo cult and echo chambers. Many brilliant and proven concepts are not in any of the more popular approaches. This has resulted in a huge gap between what is possible and what is being achieved. The Uncomm...