Giora Morein - The State of Agile and Post-SAFeism

This episode of DrunkenPM Radio features a conversation with ThinkLouder’s Giora Morein. During this discussion Giora offers his take on how things have evolved within the Agile space over the past few years and some of the challenges we currently face. For example, if you are trying to use Scrum to build twice the work in half the time, how do you make sure that all the extra stuff you are building is the right stuff? And what if you run out of valuable things to build? Giora and I cover a lot of ground during the interview, which culminates in Giora breaking down life in the world of Post-SAFe-ism. SHOW NOTES 00:08 Podcast Begins 00:50 An update on ThinkLouder 02:15 Taking greater ownership of your organization’s Agile Transformation 03:20 Pivoting from the “You want more agile, you need more coach” mindset 03:45 Why an experienced Agilist and an agile coach are not the same thing 08:48 Have we moved on to the “cleaning up after the party” stage of agile? Have the thought leaders moved on? 12:27 Have we moved on to a less dynamic stage of the agile conversation? What new ideas in agile is Giora paying the most attention to. 16:14 If you can do twice the work in half the time, how do you make sure the additional work you are doing is the right work? 17:27 The new thing…. the language of innovation 18:10 It’s easier to sell increased velocity/speed to IT than it is to sell transformation of an entire business 19:57 It has to start with “What’s the business driver?” 20:45 The only way Giora and I are going to end up with flying cars 22:32 Use Agile to figure out how to best meet the organization’s business drivers (getting deep in Oklahoma) 23:34 Building the wrong thing really fast is not helping anyone 24:13 Micro-maturation in Scaling 24:34 Post-SAFe-ism 25:45 How to reach Giora 26:29 Podcast Ends CONTACTING GIORA If you’d like to contact Giora directly, here are some ways to reach him: Web: https://ThinkLouder.com Email: gmorein@thinklouder.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/gmorein