No Nonsense Leadership

Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson as they chat with Pawel Huryn about product management. What it is, and isn't? How to motivate teams and what makes a product succeed. We discuss the difference between product management, which focuses on discovery and project management, which focuses on delivery. And how to do both at the same time in one empowered product team. We talk about how you can become a product manager and the best product management tools to use. Join us as we uncover valuable insights to help you succeed in this critical role. 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 Pawel on LinkedIn or at huryn.substack.com Contact Murray via email or Shane on LinkedIn shagility.   The No Nonsense Agile Podcast is sponsored by: Simply Magical Data

Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson as they chat with Stefan Wolpers about scrum anti-patterns. We discussed common Anti-patterns such as a scrum master assigning tasks to a disempowered team and the solution for them. And we discuss why these anti-patterns keep occurring. The problems with scrum master education and training and the big consulting companies who sell scrum as a project management process. Finally we delve into the core differences between scrum and the assumptions that bureaucratic organisations have about the nature of work. 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 Stefan on LinkedIn or at https://age-of-product.com/ Contact Murray via email or Shane on LinkedIn shagility.   The No Nonsense Agile Podcast is sponsored by: Simply Magical Data

Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson as they chat with Brendan Marsh about what it was like to work at Spotify. How Spotify's agile ways of working are just a way to achieve the speed to market and speed to learning that their leaders feel are its key competitive advantage against bigger and better funded companies . How the Spotify model really works and how it's changed over time. And how the model is all about empowered teams, constantly trying new ways of working and organizing themselves to find the best way to move faster. 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 Brendan on LinkedIn or at https://www.organa.com.au/ Contact Murray via email or Shane on LinkedIn shagility.   The No Nonsense Agile Podcast is sponsored by: Simply Magical Data

Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson as they discuss the fundamentals of product management with Roman Pichler, author of agile product management with scrum. What is a product manager? What is a product? What's the difference between a product and a project? What's the difference between a product owner and a product manager? How do you know what to build? How do you develop a product strategy? How do you develop a product roadmap and define sprint goals? Focusing on objectives, not lists of features. Focus on one goal at a time. Time box product goals to maximize value for money. Don't be an order taker. And how to do continuous discovery while delivering. 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 Roman on LinkedIn or at www.romanpichler.com Contact Murray via email or Shane on LinkedIn shagility.   The No Nonsense Agile Podcast is sponsored by: Simply Magical Data

 In this episode, we discuss the sad state of the agile industry with Michael Kusters and Brett Maytom. We talk about how the agile brand has been destroyed by con artists, life coaches and big management consulting firms. People who provide poor quality advice to clients because they've never been part of a good agile team. We talk about why clients and managers hire people who don't know what they're doing and the damage that two day certifications and the safe framework have done. We discuss the tremendous value that real agile brings and how few people are seeing these benefits today. And we discuss some solutions based on DOJO's and the craft guild system in Germany. And finally we put out a call for a new outcome focused approach that builds on the best parts of lean, agile XP and continuous delivery to help organisations develop high-value products and services. 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 Brett on LinkedIn or Michael on LinkedIn Contact Murray via email or Shane on LinkedIn shagility.   The No Nonsense Agile Podcast is sponsored by: Simply Magical Data

Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson as they talk with Howard Podeswa about agile business analysis. What do business analysts do? What's its value? Why are big requirements up front, a bad idea? And how do we do business analysis in an agile way? How do we do use cases and user story maps and how do we break them down into user stories? What's the relationship with the product owner? Business analysis is a critical skill that every development team needs to understand and prioritize their work. It's time to bring back business analysis. 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 Howard on LinkedIn or at https://www.nobleinc.ca/ Contact Murray via email or Shane on LinkedIn shagility.   The No Nonsense Agile Podcast is sponsored by: Simply Magical Data

Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson as they talk with veteran developer, Jonathan Crossland about Ammerse, a value based decision making guide for products and teams. Ammerse is a mnemonic for agile, minimal, maintainable, environmental, reachable and solvable. Jonathan walks us through how to use these ideas to understand what we value now and what we should place more value on based on our context. It will be easier to understand this podcast if you look at the diagrams on the ammerse.org website, while we're talking 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 Jonathan on LinkedIn or at https://www.ammerse.org/use-cases/ Contact Murray via email or Shane on LinkedIn shagility.   The No Nonsense Agile Podcast is sponsored by: Simply Magical Data

Rich Mironov discusses the problem with sales led development in B2B enterprise companies, the challenges it poses to product development and profitability. The podcast covers issues with sales-led product development, the importance of executive discipline, improving sales revenue and engineering costs, qualities of a good Chief Product Officer, importance of Agile and Lean Startup in product development, implications of a sales-led organization, and where to find the guest's extensive collection of free content.

Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson as they talk with Donna Spencer from Maker X about user experience design in empowered product teams. We discuss user research, information architecture, and visual design. And the problem with the way UX is often done in traditional teams and agile teams. We discuss the value of having a UX person embedded in a product team and the responsibility UX designers have to educate other members of the team in UX. And finally, we talk about UX design models. The problem with design sprints and the value of evolving your design over time by going broad and going narrow. 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 Donna on LinkedIn or at https://maadmob.com.au/ Contact Murray via email or Shane on LinkedIn shagility.   The No Nonsense Agile Podcast is sponsored by: Simply Magical Data

Al Shalloway discusses the shift back to pattern libraries for improving knowledge work, highlighting how lean and agile frameworks have become rigid. Pattern libraries free teams and enable them to see things they couldn't before, emphasizing the importance of continuous learning and community involvement in structured knowledge work.