This Agile Life

Lean Principle – Amplify Learning: what is it? How do I do it?

Team Cohesion Forming, storming, norming, performing Leading from the back of the room Shared vision Pairing on story writing

Diana Larsen, co-author of “Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great” visited St. Louis and held an opening gathering at a local agile meetup group.  Some of our regular hosts from ThisAgileLife attended this event and took note of the following questions to discuss on a podcast episode to pass along some of the insights Diana shared and also to perhaps add a few of their own.

Released Sunday, January 17, 2016 Hosts: Amos King, Craig Buchek and John Sextro Discussion  Too reactive to requests 7 Righteous fights Picks Amos Glenmorangie – The Quinta Ruban – 12 year single malt scotch finished in a port barrel New programming jargon from Coding Horror John 4 Hands – Absence of Light beer Bill Gates Reading List Craig Not drinking alcohol or soda The Scrum Guide Coding Horror Recommended Reading List for Developers  Neil deGrasse Tyson Reading List

Things we’re thankful for about agile

Playing the feedback game

Technical Debt  Quote “Software is never finished” Phases of a project Race to market MVP MMF Growth

Yay! We made it to 100!!!! The hosts sit down to share their first experiences with agile.

How to deal with negativity on a team Good naked and bad naked, Seinfeld reference

Craig Buchek and Jason Tice both attended the August 2015 St. Louis Agile LINC user group meeting

Jason Tice and Natalie Simonsen Discussion Now that the Agile2015 conference has concluded, join Natalie Simonsen and Jason Tice for a round-robin discussion of their key take-aways and themes from the week

Stephen Vance shares highlights from the multi-team agile framework he has put in place at his organization with Natalie and Renee.

ThisAgileLife celebrated a “winning” episode recorded immediately after guest Dan Parker and Jason Tice won prizes at the Agile2015 “Night at the Museums” vendor raffle event.  Jason and Dan were joined by Melanie Hopwood and Charles Elsner (also attending the conference) to discuss sessions they attended on Wednesday, August 5, 2015.

Natalie and Jason were joined by Agile2015 conference attendees including Renee Troughton, Rich Rose Hemlock and Joe Naumann to reflect on the second day of the conference and share a few learnings from the sessions they attended.

Natalie and Jason were joined by Agile2015 conference attendees Rose Hemlock and Joe Naumann to reflect on the first day of the conference and share a few learnings from the sessions they attended

Agile 2015 Kickoff

“Lean Coffee” discussion with several regular ThisAgileLife hosts

Our annual tradition of providing insights and commentary based upon the 9th annual state of agile survey

Join Natalie, Nate and Jason for a discussion about “Wishful planning”

Wes Higbee (Full City Tech) author of Commitment To Value: How to make technical projects worthwhile.