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Here"s This Agile Thing

Let"s figure this thing out, more or less. It"s about complexity. And process control. Except for the part that"s about feelings and stuff.

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59:15

Scatter-Gather with Tim Ottinger

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2025/03/11

Summary: In most organizations, the traditional path of systems and software development falls into what Tim Ottinger describes as Scatter-Gather. Examined carefully and objectively, it is an exceedingly inefficient approach for development, and yet it crops up everywhere. This episode, we get to talk to Tim Ottinger about why this Scatter-Gather pattern has predominated, how to expose the inefficiencies and what are more productive approaches instead. A genuinely insightful discussion that

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57:45

Dysfunction Mapping

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2025/03/04

Summary: Dysfunction Mapping is a practical method developed by Michael Lloyd to help organizations spot and fix hidden problems that slow them down. It systematically identifies areas where communication breaks down, processes aren’t working, or team dynamics are strained. The goal isn’t just to point out flaws but to create a clear path toward smoother operations and a healthier workplace culture. This week we are joined by our friends (and colleagues) Rick Waters and Marcelo Lopez Jr

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47:01

Walking the Talk with Chandresh Patel

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2025/02/25

Summary: What might a successful organization look like (and function like) if launched from day 1 adhering to agile values and principles? This week we are joined by Chandresh Patel, Founder and CEO of Bacancy Groups, a visionary entrepreneur who is passionate about innovation, leadership, and building people-centric organizations. Chandresh shares insight into the foundations upon which he built Bacancy with thoughtful, intentional and sustainable growth. Adaptability and growing

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28:32

Navigating the Forest

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2025/02/18

Summary: Here's a proposition - that the application of Agile has not delivered to desired organizational outcomes. What has been the ROI of the implementation of agile concepts and principles? Matt proposes that TOC addresses the gap. Once again we open "The Goal" to interpret the practical use of Thinking Process Tools (some are trees, some are clouds) introduced in the book. How can we leverage the tools in TOC to deliver organizational effectiveness and measurable outcomes? Let us help

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47:43

Goal Tending

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2025/02/13

Summary: Time for a book deep dive. This episode we dig into the Theory of Constraints as explained in the management novel "The Goal" by late Eli Goldratt (Goldratt and Cox) in 1984. Some deep (and sometimes vociferous) debate on dissecting the language, the context of the 80's (when the book was published) and what in fact should be a worthy goal for an organization. Questions we consider are: is it as simplistic as "to make more money"? Or is the goal to provide quality, valuable

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48:34

All That Glitters (is not Goal)

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2025/02/11

Summary: Today's episode, we analyze and debate a recent posting that seemingly pits Systems versus Goals. This takes us down an interesting journey with respect to systems, system's thinking and the importance for leaders to view their organizations as a system or system of systems. Next we turn our attention to the critical value of goals with an acute awareness of the potential pitfalls of targets in order to minimize the unintended consequences of hyper focus on meeting those targets

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47:57

Project to Product

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2025/02/04

Summary: This episode we explore the notion of moving from Project to Product, as inspired by the Mik Kersten tome of the same name. We dig into why project to product, is it an either/or, can it be both and does it depend? As such, we debate the points in the context of Cynefin. To support the debate, we attempt to understand the nature of projects particularly in the complex and complicated spaces as well as understanding products and their lifecycle. Though we don't arrive at final answers -

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43:24

PMI + Agile Alliance: Joining Forces

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2025/01/28

Summary: In light of the recent partnership between PMI and the Agile Alliance, our hosts share their perspectives on this development, scratch the surface on the respective histories of each organization and generally ponder what the longer term impacts (hopefully positive) may spring from this super alliance.

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42:26

Retrospective

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2025/01/21

Summary: It's a new year and in this episode, our three headed monster (hosts MM&J), decide to retrospect on the previous year (2024) of HTAT episodes. What did we like, dislike, learn and how to shape the coming year ahead. All in an effort to be more appealing to our target audience and guide the path forward in 2025. Are we eating our own cooking (or "dogfood" if you will)? Ultimately, we all grow through retrospective (and feedback).

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58:31

Cold, Calculating, and Hungry for Power

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2025/01/14

Summary: This week, to follow up our previous conversation on AI, we take another excursion down "Augmented Intelligence" lane in an effort to help Matt justify purchasing a new high powered machine to help him experiment locally with few LLM's (e.g. Llama vs. Perplexity) for analyzing project data and seeing where the current boundaries lie in their ability to augment planning. What might we discover if we give an LLM a conceivable plan with parameters, and ask it to evaluate potential

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56:58

AI for Sales with Chad Burmeister

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2025/01/09

Summary: In this super fun episode we pick the brains of Chad Burmeister, lifetime sales geek, original founder of bdr.ai, and now host of podcast AI for Sales, and explore how Chad applied AI and LLM bots to aid in business development (AI powered BDRs). Chad shares his perspectives and cites a number of current tools that "listen" for market signals, leading to more efficient and effective business development efforts. We delve into the ethical realm and the impacts / implications of the

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57:30

Skin in the Game

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2025/01/07

Summary: This episode, our three host crew banter about a number of items: Having a growth mindset (versus a fixed one), eating our own dog food - or at least modeling the behaviors we espouse, exploring new job opportunities to apply lean and agile principles by doing (versus merely teaching / coaching), and debate whether consultants/coaches have any skin in the game. All in all a smorgasbord of topics to chew on. Bon appétit

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52:31

The Consultan-ing-a-ning

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2024/12/27

Summary: This week, we kick around what it means to be a consultant that is focused on delivering true value to customers. We examine mindsets, behaviors and desired outcomes when we are at our best. We ponder questions like: Are we setting good examples and modeling the behaviors we espouse to our clients? What is in a good consultant's repertoire? Is it just about a bunch of tools? We also dig into the nature of curiosity and the apparent lack of it in the average corporate environment

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55:07

A Seat at the Table

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2024/12/13

Summary: This week's episode we follow up the discussion from an earlier episode we recorded with Scott Ambler where he shared his view of why/how the Agile Industrial Complex went off the rails. As hosts, we felt a follow up was imperative, so we discuss the general tone of the session with Scott and try to address the obvious issues with not having a seat at the management table and the critical need for it. We also kick around what the agile road ahead might look like going forward and

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55:03

Agile Meetups Are Dying with Rick Waters

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2024/11/29

Summary: Are you seeing what we're seeing? A barrage of Meetup death notifications. Today's episode we're joined by good friend, colleague and progenitor of this podcast, Rick Waters. This is a fun discussion as we delve into what appears to be an agile Meetup extinction event. But is it more than that? Is it even unique to the agile space or something bigger, more fundamental and applicable across numerous interests? We kick around some interesting ideas and perspectives in an attempt

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59:35

Flow Engineering with Steve Periera

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2024/11/25

Summary: Our guest this episode is Steve Periera, co-author of Flow Engineering, who in a genuinely insightful session shares with us the background and experiences leading him from value stream mapping to effective approaches that help improve flow efficiency. Steve identifies the problems that flow engineering solves (more done in less time, with less effort, better quality, improved throughput and maximizing ROI). We get into the details of Steve's book where he discusses his approach to

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01:02:28

Assess Me, Robot

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2024/11/20

Summary: This episode, hosts Matt, Mike and Jeff, revisit the creation of an assessment without reliance on Agile vernacular. But with an additional twist - testing the "assistance" of an LLM/Robot. They ran some criteria by the LLM (Perplexity) and asked it to create an assessment unencumbered by Agile terminology to see what kind of first draft it could turn out. The robot Perplexity provided a foundation of dimensions to which Mike added areas rounding it out to 10 and added five

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57:33

Agile Shite with Scott Ambler

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2024/10/31

Summary: In this conversation, Scott Ambler discusses his extensive background in the Agile community, the current state of Agile practices, and the need for a shift in focus from process to value. He emphasizes the importance of understanding the role of executives in Agile transformations and the necessity of governance. The discussion also touches on the challenges of measuring ROI and the potential impact of AI on Agile methodologies. Ambler advocates for a future where Agile practices evolve

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01:00:24

The Value of Getting Stuff Done

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2024/10/23

Summary: This week our hosts are all over the place covering a potpourri of items like the merits of Zero Based Budgeting, the Professional Managerial Class, Change Management, Venture Capital, prioritization between mission and profit - all within the orbit of Getting Stuff Done. Matt and Mike share experiences of their initiation into the world of agile. They debate their theories about how the Agile Industrial Complex got into its current state (predicament) and at what point did the

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01:01:11

The Flow System Playbook with Nigel Thurlow

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2024/10/15

Summary: This episode we talk to Nigel Thurlow, co-author of The Flow System Playbook. A super interesting session where Nigel does a deep dive sharing his experience on Flow concepts as he was embedded at Toyota (as well as other organizations). "The Flow System is not a framework" Nigel explains and that the key to all the "competing" approaches is not an either/or but an amalgam of concepts. The magic occurs in the interconnection of Lean and Agile methods, approaches and frameworks.

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