Badass Unscripted – Ego
Stop caring about who likes you Stop caring about who wins Stop caring about outcomes Stop caring about your ego
Jan 24, 2019•5 min
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Episode 84 – The Different Types of Fear You’ll Meet
While we seek to understand patterns of Agile success and failure, we often overlook the impact of human emotion – specifically fear – on adoption and acceptance. This upcoming series kicks off the new year with a multi-part examination of how fears shows up in the workplace – on teams and in management – to effectively create Agile Resistance. The first episode begins with a hypothesis and by asking…what are the different types of fear that hinder Agile adoption?
Jan 21, 2019•15 min
Badass Unscripted – Favourite Podcasts – Agile Chuckwagon
Now and then I’ll draw your attention to the best of the best – the great online shows that can really help take your practice to the next level. Check out Chuck Durfee and the Agile Chuckwagon – one of my favourite Agile Podcasts – at Agilechuckwagon.com!!
Jan 21, 2019•6 min
What Is Agile?
An introduction to the core principles of agile and scrum.
Jan 17, 2019•24 min
Badass Unscripted – All 1-Hour Meetings Must Die
One of the biggest productivity stealers in modern business is the 1-Hour Meeting. In large organizations, long meetings can often comprise the entire day, and mask a lack of productivity and decisiveness…leaving precious little working day to make meaningful progress on goals. Learn how to hack your way around this well entrenched but ominous black hole!!
Jan 16, 2019•6 min
Episode 83 – The Source Of All Leadership
Thinking about leadership, there’s a lot of information – of varying degrees of quality and helpfulness – about becoming an effective leader. The information overload doesn’t really help remove the fog. Perhaps leadership, much like ‘intuition’ or ‘thinking’ can’t exactly be taught. The source of all leadership is a more natural, authentic place…your humble desire to serve and improve. Rather than trying to improve your skill by memorizing patterns and words and gestures, let your acts flow natu...
Jan 14, 2019•8 min
Episode 82 – Agile Takes Time
With any other skill, we understand that it takes time to learn the fundamentals, practice them, and gain experience. So why would agile be any different?
Jan 07, 2019•13 min
Badass Unscripted – Focus Styles
Remember to “work your fives” Figure out-“what your style?”. Working as a team? Then build working sessions and have a trigger word. You might like routine. You might like novelty. If you like solitude, be online, or have office hours. Minimize distractions
Dec 31, 2018•7 min
Episode 81 – Planning For The Next 365
Another year is wrapping up. Let’s talk about maximizing the next 365 days to truly up your game.
Dec 31, 2018•8 min
Episode 80 – On Getting Butt Hurt
Getting Butt Hurt Actually Costs you Money and Results. Let’s think about why. • Inability to have frank discussions about improvement areas means that we stay blind to blind spots • Only when we learn to view feedback as an opportunity to improve can we truly serve our customers Happy Holidays to all of you loyal badass listeners! Please stay safe – I’ll look forward to seeing you in the new year! I’ll continue to publish episodes every Sunday night through the end of December and beginning of ...
Dec 24, 2018•14 min
Episode 79 – What Service Buys You
If you want to know the secret sauce to leadership and success in anything, I believe this is central – service. It’s time to visit this crucial concept so you can re-integrate it into your ongoing development. • Everyone talks vision, but few talk service • Service is shorthand for connecting with your customer’s value. Get in their shoes, and figure out what they need and want. • Most importantly, take your focus off of yourself. • The benefits that accrue include trust, reputation, increased ...
Dec 17, 2018•8 min
Badass Unscripted – Agile or Not?
How do you choose ‘when’ to use Agile? I say ‘willing minds and fitting objectives’ but you actually can evaluate Agile fit on a case-by-case basis….but it’s not what you might think. It’s less about a standardized checklist and more about about appetite for adventure, uncertainty, risk, and discovery.
Dec 17, 2018•5 min
Badass Unscripted – Expanding Your Edges
Staying steady and comfortable is easy. Are you pushing your edges? Growth depends not on a singular moment of glory, but on consistent, repeated action to gently stretch your capabilities and impact. This skill is so important for you and your teams if you are trying to spread agile and deepen your practice.
Dec 11, 2018•4 min
Episode 78 – The Real Value of Done Things
What is The Real Value of working in ‘Done Things?’ It’s too easy to let ourselves off the hook if we work to vague objectives. It’s even easier to let ourselves off the hook if we don’t have measurable targets at the micro level. We can just say ‘workin’ on it’ When something is Done, it is largely self reporting because it is obvious if something is complete or not. Partial states make it very hard to spot trouble early Done things are also ready to use – ready to ship to the customer or anoth...
Dec 10, 2018•9 min
Episode 77 – Order Versus Overhead
Have you stopped to look at the things you do, and questioned the value they add – or subtract – to your ability to achieve? Process is neither good nor bad, but process almost never concerns itself with performance; rather, order, certainty and safety All process has some overhead, and the overhead is more costly when the activity being modelled is simple. For the most part, processes have to be engineered to be scalable. Agile is in many ways the antithesis of process, so be especially wary of...
Dec 03, 2018•11 min
Badass Unscripted – Total Accountability
Think and act like an owner. The world changes when you act as though you are accountable. Accountable can mean ‘on the hook for’ or ‘in charge of’, but it truly means feeling empowered to enact change or bring about an outcome – and to accept and work around the times you can’t.
Nov 28, 2018•5 min
Episode 76 – Doing The Hard Things
How many people do you know that can cite the Agile principles and seem to know the ins and outs of Scrum, but can’t fully embrace the mindsets of minimizing planning, letting go of their need for certainty and safety, or inspecting their own game? Building up your leaders requires that you know how to inspire and ignite people to do the things they most dread. Here’s some thoughts on how.
Nov 27, 2018•20 min
Badass Unscripted – Agile Is What You Strip Away
Agile is not meant to be a building up – of process and complexity, or rules, or even ‘methodology’. It is meant to be a stripping away – down to the essential mindsets and practices that actually get things done.
Nov 23, 2018•4 min
Badass Unscripted – Fundamentals
Processes don’t make people better – right mindsets and the behaviours that flow out of them do.
Nov 23, 2018•6 min
Episode 75 – Learning From Conferences
Believe it or not, up until 2018, I had no exposure to the conferencing scene whatsoever. So what kept me from participating, and what did I learn once I started? 1. Just because its a conference, doesn’t mean it’s good. 2. Beware the sales pitch disguised as education. 3. Like any other information, you have to examine the sources. 4. There seems to be a trend toward over-complicating concepts in order to make them presentation-worthy. 5. Some of the best information at a conference happens in ...
Nov 19, 2018•10 min
Badass Unscripted – DONE Things, Not ING Things
If you actually want to get more predictable results in projects/product development, you have to work towards ‘Done’. Find out why words like ‘workING’, ‘meetING’, ‘plannING’ and other ING words mask true progress and blockers, and what you can do to change how we talk about progress.
Nov 17, 2018•6 min
Badass Unscripted – Finding Your Own Way
-People often ask “what’s the best way?”. -There is no best way. Your job as a leader is to help teams find their own way. -Creating doctrine is useless -Create habits instead. -Figure out the habits that work for you and your team.-This is true of everything… Definition of done, definition of ready, story content and structure, how to incorporate testing or user interface sprints, etc.
Nov 17, 2018•5 min
Badass Unscripted – Loving the Fight
Love the fight. I don’t think it’s true that all life is suffering, like to believe that almost the struggle. And if that’s the case, the sooner you get used to combat, get used to constantly having to deal with new and difficult challenges, the happier you’ll be. If you let the challenges overwhelm you, you start to see them as unfair. The moment you do that, you surrender.
Nov 08, 2018•5 min
Episode 74 – Business Agility
We hear the words Business Agility a lot now – to agilists it probably makes perfect sense but there seems to be a need for better understanding and education. I want to give you some information you can share with your teams and decision makers, and some real-world examples of how and when to apply Agile to Business. Remember that the Principles of Agility Apply equally to non-technical environments Almost any business domain – finance, legal, people, marketing, strategy, support/service – will...
Nov 05, 2018•9 min
Badass Unscripted – Haters, Consensus and People Pleasing
You will always have haters. Never seek approval. Never hate back. Most hatred comes from deep-seated fear. It’s okay to show compassion and empathy and make bridges. Your skill and power as a leader comes from your ability to stay true to your vision, and never mind what other people think. This skill takes practice, and the truth of this wisdom only becomes apparent with experience and a time. So revisit this episode often...
Nov 01, 2018•10 min
Badass Unscripted – Agile Podcasting
It’s important that leaders, especially in this tribe, get their voice out there. The practice doesn’t grow unless people are contributing opinions through blogs, articles, videos or podcasts. Speaking from experience, there are lots of excuses about why you can’t or shouldn’t start a podcast, but no good reasons. Overcome your beliefs – that there isn’t enough time, you don’t have any good content, and you don’t have the right equipment – so you can get started today.
Nov 01, 2018•5 min
Episode 73 – Get Badass (Revisited)
This episode revisits the concept of ‘Badass Agile’, and distills the badass keys further into a tidy bit of text that, if only some of the words rhymed, we could turn into a hymn… Don’t spend your time learning frameworks, pondering the complexities of agility…..be like Dirty Harry. Be Badass Get Visionary Get Focused Get Flexible (Get Humble) Get Gritty
Oct 29, 2018•12 min
Episode 72 – Shoot For The Moon
Does your team really shoot for the moon? Getting ‘scrummy’ isn’t enough. Teams need to find ways to set stretch goals to find out what they’re capable of Try some impossible goals every once in a while Also make a practice of incremental improvements Set competitive goals between teams Set goals OUTSIDE the team
Oct 22, 2018•11 min
Episode 71 – Creating The Future – Your Creative Habit
Does Creativity Matter in your Agile Leadership Journey. You bet it does. It is your key to shaping the future for your clients and the agile community. Ill go so far as to say its a secret weapon. Find out Why Think Two Major Areas of Your Agile Leadership – the ‘content’ (ideas, stories) that you create, and the innovation you inspire. Both require reliable creative habits Try the habits and techniques described in this episode to get consistent, frequent, reliable and high-quality creative ou...
Oct 16, 2018•15 min
Episode 70 – The Problem with Agile Leadership
Whether you identify with Agile, Lean or any philosophy of effective workplace design, we still need leaders. We need the qualities that only people of true impact can bring. But there are some prevailing attitudes that might actually hold you and your company back.
Oct 10, 2018•13 min
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