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eff Patton talks about his book “User Story Mapping” and the background and approaches to the story mapping process as well as upcoming trends in relation to product management.
Source: Jeff Patton on User Story Mapping and Product Management
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Impact Feedback and Finding the Right Word
When attending the Coaching Agile Teams class with Lyssa Adkins and Michael Spayd earlier in the year, one of the new concepts (at least I don’t remember it from the previous class I did back in 2013) was the idea of “impact feedback”. Simply put, impact feedback is a mechanism to give feedback to someone with a focussing on how that action impacted you. It is also a great mechanism to ensure that your are not leading the person to the solution, rather helping them see the outcome from a different perspective.
The template for impact feedback is:
When you did / said ……… the impact on me was ………
However, one of the difficulties with this technique is often knowing the right word to say. One of my colleagues from my Agile Coaching Competence Cohort program, Jessica Katz, shared this great little tool for knowing the right word to say to describe your impact emotion.
It is called the Wheel of Words, it’s exact origin is not clear, although I found it in an article about emotional copywriting as well as an article about vocabularly expansion of English.
Obviously there are other uses for this tool in coaching conversations as well as discussions, presentations, training and general writing,
Episode 96: YOW! 2014 Brisbane Vox Pop
Clearing out the backlog, Craig and Tony roam the corridors at YOW! 2014 in Brisbane and talk to attendees and old friends and colleagues. Despite Tony’s fetish with pineapples and the fact it took 96 episodes to get a mention of ISO-9126 they talk to:
- Craig Aspinall on hosting the highly rated talk by Troy Hunt on “Hack Yourself First” and Peter Bell on “How to Undo Almost Anything with Git” and that listening to security talks is like watching horror movies, completely terrifying and entertaining at the same time!
- Jason Royals and Carlo Simbag on cheesecake and great talks by Troy Hunt, Jez Humble, Gojko Adzic and Gabrielle Benefield
- Andrew Newman on using Scala in the enterprise, keynotes from Martin Thompson and Todd Montgomery as well as Ed Kmett
- Sharon Robson on using Agile at Tatts Group, her favourite standard ISO-9126, Boehm’s Quality Tree, getting…
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Impact Map Cheat Sheet
I had to facilitate a couple of workshops in the last couple of days where impact mapping would potentially prove to be a good tool to drive the discussion (and for one of them it did). I have done a number of impact maps over the years but often in the heat of the moment I have a memory blank on what order the map goes in or how best to describe what each of the stages are. So today I knocked together a pocket cheat sheet for me to refer to if I needed it:
Depending on the workshop often depends whether I use the classic mind map style or just use a left to right grid using post-it notes.
Sanjiv Augustine on Scaling Agile, No-Management and Agile 2015 Executive Forum
Sanjiv Augustine talks about his new book “Scaling Agile: A Lean JumpStart”, reinventing organizations and the implementation of no-management at LitheSpeed and the Agile 2015 Executive Forum.
Source: Sanjiv Augustine on Scaling Agile, No-Management and Agile 2015 Executive Forum
Rebecca Parsons and Phil Brock on Agile 2015 and Agile Alliance Programs
The Agile 2015 conference was held in August 2015 in Washington, DC. Rebecca Parsons and Phil Brock talk about the conference and the other programs the Agile Alliance has underway.
Source: Rebecca Parsons and Phil Brock on Agile 2015 and Agile Alliance Programs
Episode 95: User Story Mapping (Something Something) with Jeff Patton
After chasing him across the east coast of Australia, Craig sits down with Jeff Patton at YOW! Conference in Sydney. Along the way they fail to remember the subtitle of Jeff’s “User Story Mapping” book and talk about:
- Art school dropout to software developer to early Extreme Programming
- “Extreme Programming Explained” by Kent Beck (and we agree the first edition was the better version!)
- One of the secrets to success is having a great relationship with customers
- Early Agile colleagues included Eric Evans (“Domain-Driven Design“), Joshua Kerievsky (“Refactoring to Patterns” and Industrial Logic), Rob Mee (Pivotal Labs)
- The product decisions on what to build matter most
- YOW! Talk “User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story“
- Story Mapping addressed the problem of losing sight of the big picture when building very small things
- Larry Constantine and Lucy Lockwood “Software…
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Episode 94: Agile 2015 Wrap Up
Craig and Renee catch up after the last session at Agile 2015 in Washington, DC and talk about the highlights of the conference. Sitting in the atrium near a waterfall, they discuss:
- Renee’s talk “Agile Passionfruits: Growing Agile Champion capability through a Learning Culture” received rave reviews
- Stalwart sessions at Agile 2015
- Day 3 keynote by Jessie Shternshus “Individuals, Interactions and Improvization”
- Esther Derby and Mike Lowery talk “Coaching Flow: Moving Past Resistance”
- Craig Larman and Bas Vodde talk “Introduction to Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS)”
- Dan Greening and Jeff Sutherland talk “Agile Leadership Patterns: The Agile Way of Doing”
- Joint podcast with “This Agile Life” – our second favourite Agile podcast!
- Skip Angel and Richard Watt talk “Outcome Driven Organizations (ODO): A new operating system for organizational change”
- Day 5 keynote by James Tamm “Want Better Collaboration? Don’t be so Defensive!” and some shocking numbers around effectiveness
- The conference hotel…
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Episode 93: I Like Big Boards
Craig and Renee are at Agile 2015 in Washington, DC and in the open jam area team up with Jason Tice and Natalie Simonsen from the “This Agile Life” podcast for a crossover episode. Joining in the roundtable conversation are Stephen Vance, Troy Tuttle, Jenny Tarwater, Abby Bangser and Serge Beaumont.
- Stephen Vance shares highlights from the multi-team agile framework he has put in place at his organization with Natalie and Renee.
- Abby Bangser and Jason Tice continue a discussion from Lean Coffee at Agile 2015 regarding the benefits of having a full lifecycle Kanban board (product envisioning thru development thru formal testing and acceptance by the customer).
- While discussing the benefits of “Big Boards” the excellent session that Lisa Crispin and Emma Armstrong presented on User Interface testing came up
- Next Jenny Tarwater gave props to John Krewson who did an awesome Improv workshop
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Episode 92: Agile 2015 Day 1
Craig and Renee visit Washington, DC for the Agile 2015 conference and debrief in the Agile Alliance Lounge after day 1:
- Luke Hohmann keynote “Awesome Superproblems” – Innovation Games and book, Every Voice Engaged – challenge to play 2 games in the next year that will change the world
- Lundy’s Law – “any team of programmers if given enough time will justify a total rewrite of the system”
- Paul Goddard talk “Improvisssssing With Agile” – some good examples for team starters, new book “Improv-ing Agile Teams“
- Will Evans talk “Learn Like A Scientist” – start with a problem, lots of good models and templates
- Lots of different scaling solutions and related certifications being discussed at the conference
- Larry Maccherone talk “Probalistic Forecasting for Math Mortals” – monte carlo forecasting is a useful tool for project planning (and superannuation!)
- Ellen Grove talk “Games for Talking about Conflict Resolution” – lots of…
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