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Vickie Gray - The Core Protocols
Vickie Gray, author of the book Creating Time, shares her insights on the Core Protocols and how they can be used to solve many of the common problems that plague teams. The Core Protocols provide a common API on which the team can operate when performing Agile processes like Scrum or Kanban, and according to Vickie, we need this common API because humans are much more complicated than code.
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Eric Steven Raymond on the Hacking Culture and Agile
Eric Steven Raymond, in an interview at the Agile Culture Conference, talks about the hacking culture and some of the lessons the Agile community could learn from open source development.
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Hendrik Esser on Leadership in a Large Scale Agile Transition
Hendrik Esser discusses the leadership challenges and changes in Ericsson's large scale Agile transition. He describes how trust and transparency have been achieved across all levels of the organization, and the cultural changes that have resulted.
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Adam Weisbart on Agile Antipatterns and Tools to Make Agile Fun
Adam Weisbart discusses making Agile fun, through the use of resources he has developed such as "Build Your Own Scrum", "Retrospective Cookies", "Update The Card Wall" and "Agile Antipatterns", all of which can be found at http://weisbart.com/.
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The Core Protocols
In this interview, Jim and Michele McCarthy, co-founders of McCarthy Technologies, Inc. and authors of the book Software for Your Head, share their insights on the Core Protocols and the Core Commitments on which they’re based. These tools provide a set of structured interactions between people on a team, and when coupled with safety, freedom, and radical democracy, can lead a team to greatness.
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Mike Cottmyer on Enterprise Level Agile Transformation
Mike Cottmyer talks about the three aspects needed for enterprise-wide agile adoption: structure, practice & culture and how they need to be incrementally changed to ensure agile transformation sticks. He discusses the importance of program and portfolio level changes and how organisational transformation needs a "guitar mummy" approach to embed the new ways of working.
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Liz Keogh Discusses Behaviour Driven Development and Cynefin
Independent Lean and Agile Coach Liz Keogh talks to InfoQ about how Behaviour Driven Development isn't really about testing and how knowing where you are in the Cynefin framework can help you choose more appropriate practices for your project.
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Traci Fenton on Freedom at Work
Traci Fenton shares some tips for creating greater freedom and teamwork including the "power question", "happiness buckets", "church of fail", and more. This interview was recorded at CultureCon 2012 organized by Agile Boston and is intended primarily for a business audience but has lots of inspiring tips for the rest of us.
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Linda Cook on Management Debt and Diversity in the Workplace
Linda Cook is a board member of the Agile Alliance. She talks about the impact of Management Debt on the ability of teams to be fully successful, diversity in the workplace and the impact of women leaving technical fields and the international role of the Agile Alliance.
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Beyond Fearless Change: New Patterns and the Agile Mindset
In this interview Linda Rising describes what she has learned since writing Fearless Change and introduces 12 new patterns. Linda describes how she realized that some patterns are bigger, wider, and deeper than she originally imagined and offers the Piggyback pattern as an example. Linda also presents research into the fixed versus Agile mindset and renders her own conclusions.
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Stanley Pollack on Moving Beyond Icebreakers
In his book “Moving Beyond Icebreakers” Stanley Pollack includes over 300 interactives. In this interview he talks about how to use them to achieve group goals, build teams, address difficult issues and engage communities. He discusses a number of them and how a structured approach to facilitation can result in better outcomes.
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Dave Logan on Core Values and Tribal Leadership
Dave Logan, in an interview at the Agile Culture Conference, talks about the importance of core values and how to identify then as well as the five stages of tribal leadership.
