The opposite of Agile used to be Waterfall - those days are long past. What is next and why? Please join Steve Tendon, Al Shalloway, and Joshua Barnes for a discussion lead by Clarke Ching where he will “take us off the beaten track, looking for truffles!”.

Clarke is the author of The Bottleneck Rule, Rolling Rocks Downhill and Corkscrew Solutions. He’s a computer scientist with an MBA, has been powered by the Theory of Constraints (ToC) and Lean for over 25 years and Agile since 2003.

Please join Al Shalloway, Steve Tendon and Joshua Barnes for a discussion lead by  Peter Maddison of the Flow Collective. Peter will discuss how Flow Engineering creates clarity and alignment around how your organization works together to deliver value to customers.

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Please join Steve Tendon, Al Shalloway, and Joshua Barnes for a discussion lead by Tom Gilb, where he will bring his insights in Agile Engineering or “quantified value(s) agile.”  

A few of the focus points include: 

- Systems Thinking: even for programs, you need to integrate people, data, legal, hardware, cloudware, and more.

- Stakeholder Engineering: not merely “customer and user” – Stakeholder Stores, Stakeholder Xperience (SX not UX)  

Tom has been practicing incremental value-delivery since 1960 and has written many books on his experience.  He is still trying to get people to understand Value Engineering and quantified thinking.

This week’s Un-Common Sense episode discusses  what concepts Agile Teams need to know (and what they need to NOT know). What skills / knowledge / concepts are needed by the AGILE TEAM? Join the discussion with Steve Tendon, Al Shalloway, and Joshua Barnes.

This episode of Un-Common Sense will discuss what concepts Agile Coaches need to know.  Does the agile coach supporting your team or organization understand concepts that keep improving the flow of value with today’s complex environments?  Do you know what concepts you should look for when hiring/engaging an Agile Coach?  Join the discussion with Joshua Barnes, Steve Tendon and Al Shalloway and bring your thoughts and questions.

Please join Steve Tendon and Joshua Barnes for a discussion lead by Ian Heptinstall, where he will explore his idea of two constituent parts that Agile Project Management as a “method” has.  

Ian is not an Agile Project Management specialist, nor software or IT guy.  His project experience comes from the world of capital projects (buildings, factories, construction, infrastructure), where he has worked both for project owners such as chemical and pharmaceutical companies and in the supply chain supporting other people’s projects.  He is the author of “The Executive Guide to Breakthrough Project Management.”

Un-Common Sense Episode 8
Where  Agile Transformations Typically Start, Could Start, and Options 

Why do agile transformations start with and continue to focus on delivery teams?  This approach is commonplace.  But is this the only way?  Is this the best way?  Should we expand our thinking and look at other options we have?  

Joshua Barnes, Al Shalloway, and Steve Tendon discuss transformation strategy options and how you and your organization can benefit.

Ever wondered why the performance of agile teams using Scrum tends to plateau? Albert Einstein is widely credited with saying, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.”  Have you asked how Non-Software teams may use agile or how Scrum being a purposely incomplete framework impacts novice teams?
 
Jon Ward will lead a discussion along with Al Shalloway, Steve Tendon and Joshua Barnes on a new approach, Agile Lineout. An alternative to Scrum.  This alternative uses Systems Theory, Lean and Behavioral Science to encourage team learning and the culture of continuous improvement in software and non-software teams.