Intents & Ideas Podcast: Recent Episodes
Dustin Johnson
Dustin Johnson & Lemont Chambliss are two agile gurus who just like to get together at least once a week for a virtual conversation on anything even remotely close to the topic of agility. We never know what the podcast is going to be about but when the conversation gets good we hit the record button. So if it sounds like you fell into a conversation without the backdrop, that's because you did. Dustin Johnson is an enterprise agility coach and his roles have spanned other departments implementing practices including DevOps, XP, CI/CD, ABDD & ATDD. He likes to stress failing fast and failing forward, using business value to drive priority, and approaching quality as a risk assessment. My soapboxes include the cone of uncertainty, a card is a promise for a conversation and the anti-pattern of mini-waterfall. My honed in agile strengths include agile metrics and agile capitalization.
Dustin Johnson and Lemont Chambliss take turns sharing their top 10 agile books with brief descriptions or reasons why. This one first in a series of short 10min podcasts, We hope you enjoy listening and hopefully adding some books to your to read list.
In this episode we invite Product Owner and Scrum Master Sarah Kurjanovs to join as and discuss what it means to manage a backlog and how ever growing backlogs can lead to stifling innovation. You'll also get to learn two great ways to pronounce Sarah's last name. Curry + (On/Off) or Curry+ (Stroganoff-Strog)
In this episode we discuss story points and earn some important uses like triggering conversations, understanding capacity but also that you must set clear expectations when adopting story points. These include knowing your assumptions and understanding factors like maturity, time, and purpose. This conversation was longer than normal so this is part one and for alternatives to using story points look for our part two follow up.
In this episode welcome to Lemont's World, Lemont's World... where we continue the conversation on story points but dive into alternatives for measuring capacity and forecasting without story points. We discuss measures like story counts, cycle and lead time, throughput, and monte carlo forecasting.
In this episode Lemont & Dustin discuss what commitment means and how it affects agility. Listen to two agile gurus pretend to be experts on marriage come up with idea: Alignment and shared understanding lead to commitments but, commitments without sacrifice are unprioritized.
In this episode, inspired by a conversation on diversity, equity, and inclusion that led to discussing unconscious bias, we discuss what empathy & courage mean to scrum teams aspiring to be high performing teams. It's an interesting segue from one topic to another that leads us to uncovering new ideas for scrum masters and leaders to push team towards higher performance through a deeper empathy and understanding of one another.