No Nonsense Leadership

Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation about the psychology of change in lean agile transformation with Matt Turner.  We discuss how to implement agile and Kanban practices in IT operations, the challenges faced by managers, and the importance of visualising work and understanding flow. We also touch upon the misconceptions and misapplications of agile in the industry. Join us to learn how to be a much more effective change agent.   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 Matt via LinkedIn or  his website https://www.hapus.net/ or https://www.soonersaferhappier.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/lean-agile-transformations-with-matt-turner/#read   The No Nonsense Agile podcast is sponsored by: Simply Magical Data

Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson as they discuss why quality as a whole team's responsibility. We discuss why it's critical to integrate QA processes from the beginning, the importance of clear acceptance criteria, how to handle technical debt and the continuous improvement process. Tune in for an engaging and informative discussion on quality in your agile 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 |   Contact Murray via email or Shane on LinkedIn shagility. You can read the podcast transcript at: https://agiledata.io/podcast/no-nonsense-agile-podcast/quality-skills-vs-roles/#read   The No Nonsense Agile podcast is sponsored by: Simply Magical Data

Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Michael Delemaza about agile coaching.  We discuss invitational coaching, the differences between coaching and mentoring and the challenges faced in transforming traditional organizations into agile ones.  We also talk about the importance of clear communication and alignment at the executive level, as well as dealing with politics and resistance within organizations. 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 Michael via LinkedIn, Murray via email or Shane on LinkedIn shagility. You can read the podcast transcript at: https://agiledata.io/podcast/no-nonsense-agile-podcast/invitational-agile-with-michael-delamaza/#read   The No Nonsense Agile podcast is sponsored by: Simply Magical Data

Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a no-nonsense Agile discussion. In this episode, we talk about leadership support for agile ways of working. Why leadership support is critical for change. Why some leaders support agility and others secretly undermine it. How agile is being sold as a miracle cure by big consulting companies. And why agile is rolled back by authoritarian leaders with a factory mindset. How executives can learn what agile really means by working with agile coaches. Why servant leadership is the key to agility. And how you can change your culture rapidly by changing who makes decisions about what. 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 Murray via email or Shane in LinkedIn @shagility.   You can read the podcast transcript at: https://agiledata.io/podcast/no-nonsense-agile-podcast/leadership-support-for-becoming-an-agile-organisation/#read   The No Nonsense Agile podcast is sponsored by: Simply Magical Data

Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a no-nonsense Agile discussion. In this podcast, Murray and Shane talk about why projects with fixed price, fixed scope contracts often go way over time and budget. We talk about uncertainty, sales incentives and underestimating. How fixed scope contracts lead to big design up front, siloed delivery, authoritarian management and conflict with suppliers. We discuss how to use an agile approach to solve these problems. We talk about testing suppliers by starting small and scaling up. And we talk about agile contracts where you engage a supplier to provide a fixed team for a fixed time and budget to achieve a goal with a variable scope.   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/fixed-price-agile-contracts/#read   The No Nonsense Agile podcast is sponsored by: Simply Magical Data

Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a no-nonsense agile discussion. In this podcast, Murray and Shane discuss how to scale agile. We discuss the problems with a big bang top-down agile transformation and the benefits of starting small and experimenting to find a scaling approach that works for you. We talk about the factory model of organisation vs autonomous product teams. And we contrast agile change management with waterfall change management.   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/scaling-agile/#read   The No Nonsense Agile Podcast is sponsored by: Simply Magical Data

Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a no-nonsense agile discussion. In this episode Murray and Shane have a robust discussion about about projects and project managers. Are agile and project management fundamentally incompatible. Are projects waterfall and hierarchical by definition or can they be done in an Agile way. Are project managers unhelpful authoritarians controllers by definition or can project managers be agile servant leaders. If a project is Agile is it a project anymore? Tune in for this controversial discussion. 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.

Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a no-nonsense agile discussion. In this podcast, we talk about evolutionary design and the problem with a narrow focus, planning at different time horizons, big blocks and small blocks and the importance of having flexible roadmaps that change as we learn. We also talk about centralised teams vs experts in teams, how the role of the coach is to build the team’s capability and how a coach should be a sports coach, not a therapist.   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.

Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a no-nonsense agile discussion. In this podcast, we discuss Ron Jeffries' recent article “Can scrum be fixed?” We talk about Ron’s concerns with the Scrum Industrial complex and Developers issues with Scrum. We talk about what we like and don't like about Scrum and how the gaps we've experienced can be overcome. 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.

 In this episode, we talk about planning initiatives. How do you do just enough planning, just in time?  We'll discuss the team you need to plan your features, user experience and technical architecture. And we talk about how to develop a release plan and estimate time and cost in a two to four week time box.      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.   Read a transcript of the podcast at: https://agiledata.io/podcast/no-nonsense-agile-podcast/agile-initiation-and-planning/   The No Nonsense Agile podcast is sponsored by: Simply Magical Data