Agile In The Wild

Hosted by Shane Tanzymore

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Oct 2024

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Agile In The Wild looks to explore the different ways that Agile is really embedded in our everyday lives. No experts, just expertise and a curiosity about uncovering new ways to see and to be Agile. Even before Darwin, adaptive complex systems have existed in the struggle against volatility, uncertainty and confusion. The show aims to look at Agile in different ways to help support the perspective that the world has been Agile for a long time and we are just catching up! From recovering from great tragedy to how we play video games or even in the stories we are told, Agile has been a measure for how things around us evolve. Anything and everything can be a topic to relate to how to see and be Agile. As it says in the Manifesto, we are uncovering better ways and part of what we want to do is shift fixed mindsets on what Agile is to what it can be.

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October 5, 2024Episode 443 min

The Marvel Of Agile #2: Our Avengers As A Team

Send a textThe Marvel Of Agile is a series of discussions using heroes and antagonist from media and talking about different concepts and topics that Agile touches on. In the first The Marvel Of Agile, we explored some roles on a typical software development team using Scrum to imagine who might best fit the roles. The idea there was to explore the personality types we each thought were important to success in that role. In this episode, we explore a little bit about how those people in those roles might become a team. Some HBR articles I read along my way to this episodeThe Discipline Of TeamsManaging OutcomesEmbracing Complexity

July 7, 2024Episode 345 min

The Marvel Of Agile #1: Our Avengers Assemble

Send a textIn one of the ways that Agile is all around us, we take the streets of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to discuss team dynamics where forming a new team. In some cases, the individual talents can be overshadowed by the dynamics of team interactions and as the world of available talent broadens, so must we broaden our ability to navigate and influence those interactions to create opportunity for high functioning teams. This discussion will come in two parts. This episode focuses on choosing a team from the characters within the MCU based on a standard cross functional digital team working in Scrum. We pick characters for 4 roles on this type of team and discuss who has a long way to go in being a general manager and drafting people. Here is the article that started it all: The Marvel Of Agile

April 12, 2024Episode 237 min

The HOW Of Your Agile: Does it matter how you learned about Agile?

Send a textA thought exercise with Patrick Norton, we discuss whether it matters HOW the people who are charged with mentoring and coaching an Agile mindset come into Agile. Over the course of a few decades, we have met many people who have been hired to support Agile as a way of working. My belief is that it is a multi dimensional way to approach work, and this, takes someone with experience to really move the ball beyond doing Scrum et al. As with anything, people have different stories on how they came upon it and why they chose this path. I have often wondered how important that is for what they are trying to accomplish with teams and organizations.

April 11, 2024Episode 135 min

The Bruce Lee and the Agile Mindset

Send a textBruce Lee has been often lauded for his movies, beliefs and physical agility. Often regarded as the greatest martial artist, we explore how Bruce embodied an Agile mindset to consistently improve himself and the environment around him to attain such lofty heights. Along with Marcus Penny and Pat Norton, we discuss what we can learn from Bruce Lee in adopting an Agile mindset. We will explore some of his life and his 'style' and our own understanding of what it is to be Agile.