Troubleshooting Agile

Learn how frequent repetition and practice can reinforce accountability and alignment within tech teams. Discover the importance of daily rehearsal, feedback, and the value of coaching over micromanagement. Explore the benefits of daily practice for skill improvement and adapting leadership styles to individuals' readiness levels.

Exploring product pitfalls and avoiding them, measuring impact and converting usage into revenue, increasing product price through usability improvements, understanding user engagement for financial control, regular testing of value hypotheses in product management.

Learn how to shift from individual ticket tracking to managing whole flocks of engineers and customers with insights from Squirrel and Jeffrey. Discover the difference between gardening and farming in tech leadership, and avoid getting trapped in local optima for improved outcomes.

Discover the art of blameless postmortems in aviation and software development. Learn about incident response rules, E-commerce outage resolutions, and effective root cause analysis. Explore the importance of understanding customer impact and timely actions in addressing issues.

This podcast explores leadership styles in wartime and peacetime, emphasizing the need for decisive decision-making and exploring historical examples to highlight the importance of informed choices. The hosts share insights on effective leadership, contrasting strategies, and the value of sticking to decisions despite opposition and uncertainties. They provide practical tips for making prompt and well-informed decisions in challenging scenarios.

Discover the importance of accountability and leadership communication as the hosts delve into the historical 'Message to Garcia' and its implications on team performance. Explore the value of agency, empathy, and problem-solving through real-world examples, encouraging listeners to engage and seek diverse perspectives.

Explore how the Imperial Japanese Navy and Borland Software made similar strategic mistakes by testing hypotheses but ignoring negative results. Learn how to make falsification work for you with insights on stress testing plans, challenging assumptions through Red Teaming, lack of genuine learning in organizations, strategic shifts in software market competition, and embracing an experimental mindset for organizational improvement.

Join Squirrel and Jeffrey as they tackle the challenge of helping pessimistic team members, likened to 'Eeyore'. They discuss navigating personality traits, behavior change, and team dynamics with empathy and understanding.

Exploring the importance of meaningful errors for learning, the evolution of bicycle designs, building on existing work for better results, and emphasizing learning for improvement in this insightful podcast episode.

Does anyone care that Agile is dead? The discussion revolves around why agile is irrelevant, focusing on the slope of improvement rather than 'best practices'. The hosts highlight the importance of defining language in Agile contexts and the evolution of agile principles. Emphasizing continuous improvement, the podcast delves into the essence of agile practices and the importance of adaptation and learning cycles.