No Nonsense Leadership

Explore the benefits, challenges, and importance of collaboration among a product person, a developer, and a tester in defining features early in Agile development. Learn about the valuable roles and skills needed, the significance of light documentation, testable requirements, and shift left testing. Discover how managing complexity and implementing useful patterns can enhance Agile team workflows.

Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Scott Ambler about the Disciplined Agile Toolkit. In this episode we discuss toolkits vs frameworks. Tailoring your ways of working for your situation vs prescriptive methods. Method prisons and framework jails. The problem with two day mastery certifications and the over commercialisation of Scrum and SAFe. The PMI and Agile and Products vs Projects.   Listen to the podcast on your favourite podcast app: | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | iHeart Radio | PlayerFM | Amazon Music | Listen Notes | TuneIn | Audible | Podchaser |  Deezer | Podcast Addict |   Connect with Scott via Linkedin   Contact Murray via email or Shane on LinkedIn shagility. You can read the podcast transcript at: https://agiledata.io/podcast/no-nonsense-agile-podcast/disciplined-agile-toolkit-with-scott-ambler/#read   The No Nonsense Agile podcast is sponsored by: Simply Magical Data

Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Jared Spool about user experience design. We discuss the importance of research in understanding users' problems so that you can develop solutions that provide a great user experience. We talk about the need to do some lightweight research and planning upfront to build a shared vision and the value of doing most of your research and design continuously with the whole team so that you can learn what users really need.  This conversation highlights the importance of building your team's UX capabilities and blending UX into everything you do.   Listen to the podcast on your favourite podcast app: | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | iHeart Radio | PlayerFM | Amazon Music | Listen Notes | TuneIn | Audible | Podchaser |  Deezer | Podcast Addict |   Connect with Jared via Linkedin , or over at https://leaders.centercentre.com/   Contact Murray via email or Shane on LinkedIn shagility. You can read the podcast transcript at:   The No Nonsense Agile podcast is sponsored by: Simply Magical Data

Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Joshua Kerievsky about his new book “Joy of Agility”. In this podcast we talk about the poor state of agile today. Commodification, fake agile, dark scrum and water-scrum-fall. Real agility should be a joy to work in. Agility doesn't mean process frameworks, it means moving with quick, easy grace and being quick, resourceful, and adaptable. Use mantras and stories to get the message across. Be quick but don't hurry. Be poised to adapt. Be balanced and graceful.   Listen to the podcast on your favourite podcast app: | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | iHeart Radio | PlayerFM | Amazon Music | Listen Notes | TuneIn | Audible | Podchaser |  Deezer | Podcast Addict |   Connect with Joshua via Linkedin , or over at https://www.industriallogic.com/   Contact Murray via email or Shane on LinkedIn shagility. You can read the podcast transcript at: https://agiledata.io/podcast/no-nonsense-agile-podcast/the-joy-of-agility-with-joshua-kerievsky/#read   The No Nonsense Agile podcast is sponsored by: Simply Magical Data

Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Mirco Hering where we dive into the world of DevOps.  Join us as Mirco shares his insights on the essence of DevOps and its implementation challenges, from redefining DevOps beyond tools to the importance of feedback loops. Mirko sheds light on the goals and misconceptions surrounding DevOps. Discover how DevOps aligns with agile principles and explore the role of professional services firms in driving agile and DevOps transformations. Join us as we share practical advice for adopting DevOps practices effectively. Listen to the podcast on your favourite podcast app: | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | iHeart Radio | PlayerFM | Amazon Music | Listen Notes | TuneIn | Audible | Podchaser |  Deezer | Podcast Addict | Connect with Mirco via LinkedIn or over at https://notafactoryanymore.com/   Contact Murray via email or Shane on LinkedIn shagility. You can read the podcast transcript at: https://agiledata.io/podcast/no-nonsense-agile-podcast/devops-with-mirco-hering/#read   The No Nonsense Agile podcast is sponsored by: Simply Magical Data

Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Sam McAfee about leading digital product development. Building a great product team. Working remotely. Real agile vs fake agile. Factory model vs product model. Empowering teams. Building influence and trust. Bringing marketing, design and engineering into one cross functional product team. From functional silos to capability building. Product managers vs Product owners. What a great product manager does. Holistic product leaders. Lean startup and fast feedback. Long term vs short term thinking. The Product canvas and hypothesis testing. Scaling product teams. Change requires leadership.   Listen to the podcast on your favourite podcast app: | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | iHeart Radio | PlayerFM | Amazon Music | Listen Notes | TuneIn | Audible | Podchaser |    Connect with Sam via Linkedin , Murray via email or Shane in the Twitter-sphere  @shagility.   The No Nonsense Agile podcast is sponsored by: Simply Magical Data

Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with former Royal Marine Commando Ben Ford about how agile practices mirror modern military practices in the field. We discuss John Boyd's OODA loop and the value of an accurate model of one's environment for good decision making. And we discuss mission command and the value of leadership training to develop an effective approach for orders, planning, delegation, and review.  We hope this episode provides food for thought on how you can utilise some of these military leadership principles to enhance your agile practices in the software product development world.     Listen to the podcast on your favourite podcast app: | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | iHeart Radio | PlayerFM | Amazon Music | Listen Notes | TuneIn | Audible | Podchaser |  Deezer | Podcast Addict | Connect with Ben on LinkedIn or over at https://commando.dev   Contact Murray via email or Shane on LinkedIn shagility. You can read the podcast transcript at: https://agiledata.io/podcast/no-nonsense-agile-podcast/agile-military-ideas-with-ben-ford/#read   The No Nonsense Agile podcast is sponsored by: Simply Magical Data

Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation about Agile product development. discuss what a product is and what a product manager does.  We talk about the value of customer feedback and the need to test your hypotheses.  We define minimum viable products and discuss technical debt, scaling and co-designing products with customers.  And we talk about how you can move from a project to a product mentality and the value of applying an iterative approach to your marketing and sales. All this and more, stay tuned.   Listen to the podcast on your favourite podcast app: | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | iHeart Radio | PlayerFM | Amazon Music | Listen Notes | TuneIn | Audible | Podchaser |  Deezer | Podcast Addict |   Contact Murray via email or Shane on LinkedIn shagility. You can read the podcast transcript at: https://agiledata.io/podcast/no-nonsense-agile-podcast/agile-product-development/#read   The No Nonsense Agile podcast is sponsored by: Simply Magical Data

Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Mark Jørgensen Chaudhry about visualising your work so you can identify bottlenecks and remove them.  We emphasize the need to work together to map out your process and identify delays and waste. We discuss work in progress, touch time, wait time and process efficiency. And we identify the root cause of waste and inefficiency in large organisations. Join us for lots of examples, challenges and recommended resources for improving your workflow.   Listen to the podcast on your favourite podcast app: | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | iHeart Radio | PlayerFM | Amazon Music | Listen Notes | TuneIn | Audible | Podchaser |  Deezer | Podcast Addict |   Connect with Mark via LinkedIn Contact Murray via email or Shane on LinkedIn shagility. You can read the podcast transcript at: https://agiledata.io/podcast/no-nonsense-agile-podcast/visualizing-your-workflow-with-mark-jorgensen-chaudhry/#read   The No Nonsense Agile podcast is sponsored by: Simply Magical Data

Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation on the "Spotify Model" for scaling agile teams. We cover the role of leadership team structures. Tribe dynamics and the importance of coaching and support during organisational change.  We share our experience with implementing this model in organisations and some of the anti-patterns. Join us to learn how to use the Spotify model to scale your agile organisation successfully.   Listen to the podcast on your favourite podcast app: | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | iHeart Radio | PlayerFM | Amazon Music | Listen Notes | TuneIn | Audible | Podchaser |  Deezer | Podcast Addict |   Contact Murray via email or Shane on LinkedIn shagility.   You can read the podcast transcript at: https://agiledata.io/podcast/no-nonsense-agile-podcast/matrix-team-models-aka-the-spotify-model/#read   The No Nonsense Agile podcast is sponsored by: Simply Magical Data