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.

Jim Benson, author of personal Kanban, discusses how Kanban helps teams identify and resolve bottlenecks. He emphasizes the importance of providing people with information, safety, and purpose in organizations to improve decision-making. The podcast explores the benefits of Kanban boards, challenges in bureaucratic structures, and the shift towards empowerment and collaboration to enhance efficiency and innovation.

Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson as they chat about their experience with start ups and scale-ups venture capitalists and corporate innovation. We talk about manager's fear of innovation, innovation theatre, and some models that organisations could use to be far more innovative than they are now.   Listen to the podcast on your favourite podcast app: | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | iHeart Radio | PlayerFM | Amazon Music | Listen Notes | TuneIn | Audible | Podchaser |  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 mission command with Eric Lopez, a management consultant, CEO and retired US Army Colonel who commanded troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Eric explains how mission command allows leaders to decentralize tactical decisions so that people on the ground can take initiative to achieve the mission in a volatile and uncertain environment. Mission command helps leaders become much more agile in a rapidly changing 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 |  Connect with Eric on LinkedIn or at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlDNvnmQ05c 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 in a conversation with Teresa Torres, a product coach, speaker, and author of continuous discovery habits. She explains how product managers, designers, and software engineers can use continuous discovery to ensure that they're building the right product and continuously improving it over time. In this interview, you'll learn to balance action with research so that you can get started without being blindsided by what you don't get right. If you want to discover products that customers love that deliver valuable business results. Then this interview is for you.   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 Teressa on LinkedIn or at https://producttalk.org/ 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 in a conversation with Dan Olson, author of the lean product development playbook. A practical guide to building products that customers love. Most new products fail on most new features are rarely used. Dan describes a practical six step process to improve your chances of building successful products.   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 Dan on LinkedIn or at https://dan-olsen.com/ Contact Murray via email or Shane on LinkedIn shagility.   The No Nonsense Agile Podcast is sponsored by: Simply Magical Data