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The Agilistocrats!
The Agilistocrats is a podcast created by Richard Cheng, Dhaval Panchal, and Dave Prior. The primary subjects center around Agile and Agile transformation. Sometimes we have guests.
We don't do family acts.
The Agilistocrats hold their 2016 Retrospective! Maria Matarelli, Richard Cheng, Dhaval Panchal and Dave Prior reflect on the year by and sharing their answers to a few questions about 2016:
- What is the most valuable thing you learned this year?
- What area of Agile are you most curious about or hopeful for in 2017?
- What are you going to do differently in 2017?
- What advice do you have for others as we head towards the new year?
Here are some links from the podcast Growing Agile… Not Scaling - the article that Dhaval and Andrea Tomasini co-authored for InfoQ https://www.infoq.com/articles/growing-agile Greek Hoplites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoplite Agile Certified Leadership Training in Chicago http://agileleadershipchicago.com Lyft https://www.lyft.com/ Uber https://www.uber.com
If you’d like to get in touch with any of the Agilistocrats, you can find them with the information below.
Richard Cheng LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/richardcheng Twitter: twitter.com/richardkcheng Work: Excella www.excella.com
Maria Matarelli LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariamatarelli Twitter: https://twitter.com/mariamatarelli Work: Formula Ink http://www.formulaink.com
Dhaval Panchal LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhavalpanchal Twitter: https://twitter.com/dhavalpanchal Work: Agile42 http://www.agile42.com
Dave Prior LInkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo Blog: drunkenpm.blogspot.com Twitter: twitter.com/mrsungo Work: LeadingAgile www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/
Have an amazing New Year!!
Saving Christmas with Scrum
Christmas is just around the corner and that means that Kim Brainard is VERY busy. In addition to her day job, her volunteer work as the co-chair of the upcoming 2017 Scrum Gathering, Kim is the founder of an organization that brings Christmas to seniors who might otherwise not have any way of participating in the holidays. Santa Pays it Forward is a non-profit Kim founded to provide seasonal cards, meals, holiday parties and other ways of celebrating the Christmas season to senior citizens who are living in group residences that do not have the financial support needed to provide it on their own. AND she’s using Scrum to make it all happen.
Normally, there would be show notes… but this is one you should just listen to all the way though. It’s an important story about how Agile practices are bringing about social change.
If you’d like to get involved with Santa Pays it Forward, they are looking for volunteers, they’d be happy to accept donations and the NEED someone to help build them a website. You can find more information on the org on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/Santa-Pays-It-Forward-733748293320814/
Or you can email Santa directly at: santapaysitforward@gmail.com
And if you’d like to get in touch with Kim, Richard or Dave, their contact info is...
Kim Brainard LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/kim-brainard-73a33479 Twitter: https://twitter.com/agilebrain1
Richard Cheng LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardcheng Twitter: https://twitter.com/richardkcheng Work: Excella https://www.excella.com
Dave Prior Blog: https://drunkenpm.blogspot.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrsungo Work: http://www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/
An update from the 2016 Scrum Gathering in Munich featuring Maria Matarelli, Richard Cheng and Karim Harbott (with special guest Howard Sublett)
The Agilistocrats on Agile 2016! If you are attending for the first time or aren't sure what sessions to attend, we've got you covered. Maria Matarelli, Richard Cheng, Dhaval Panchal and Dave Prior share their pics for which sessions to check out and how to survive the week in Atlanta at Agile 2016.
The Agilistocrats! Share picks and tips for folks attending Agile 2015 in Washington D.C on August 3-7.
There are parts of the PM community that actually "get" Agile, other parts... not so much.
The Agilisocrats! talk about the things they've seen when "experts" who don't get it give presentations to rooms full of Agile hungry PMs, why this happens and what you can do to help stop the madness.
A final podcast to wrap things up at the 2015 Global Scrum Gathering in Phoenix. The Agilistocrats are joined by special guests: Chris Li, Kelly Harris, Peter Beck, Peter Stevens, Andreas Schliep, Steve Holyer, Jessica Small and Jill Paul
The Agilistocrats! on Day 1 at the 2015 Global Scrum Gathering in Phoenix. Dhaval Panchal, Richard Cheng, Dave Prior, Maria Matarelli, Tom Perry and Daniel Gullo on the best sessions of Day 1 and their picks for Day 2 of the Gathering.
The Agilistocrats! are at the 2015 Global Scrum Gathering in Phoenix. We spent today the CST/CSC Retreat which is hosted by the Scrum Alliance for the trainers and coaches and was facilitated by Maria Matarelli. We’ll be here all week and we’ll be doing podcasts each day of the conference. The sessions kick off tomorrow (Monday, May 3, 2015) and one of the “good problems to have” is that the folks who selected the sessions for the Gathering did such a great job that the hardest part is actually choosing between the great sessions that are taking place.
If you are a First Timer at the Gathering or aren’t sure what session to hit, these ones are pretty much can’t miss. We’ve been to a bunch of these and know a lot of the presenters so we decided to do a podcast where we put together a list of the sessions we are most excited about for Day 1.
Some of the folks we mention during the podcast were interviewed about their session by Dave Prior for Projects at Work. If you’d like to get a taste of what they’ll be talking about on Monday, you can follow the links below next to the names.
We’ll be posting a podcast each day of the Gathering so keep checking back for more.
Dhaval Panchal’s Picks Estimating is NOT Planning (Dhaval Panchal) 10:45-11:30 An Experiment in self-organization at the Wikimedia Foundation (Kristen Lens) 11:45-12:30 Scrum at Scale (Alex Brown) 1:45-3:15
Richard Cheng’s Picks Estimating is NOT Planning (Dhaval Panchal) 10:45-11:30 The Agile Mindset for the Waterfall Guy and Gal (David Bulkin) 11:45-12:30 Agile Jesters, Magicians, and Clowns – Using the unexpected to move mountains and your team (Adam Weisbart) 1:45-3:15 The Role of a Coach starts with building Team Trust & Alignment (David Hawks, Doc List) 1:45-3:15 Freedom to Align: The Product Wall Release Planning Workshop (Alan Dayley) 3:30 – 5:00
Maria Matarelli’s Picks Boring Meeting’s Suck: Play Games to Improve Them & Your Teams (Wayde Stallmann) 10:45-11:30 Agile Jesters, Magicians, and Clowns – Using the unexpected to move mountains and your team (Adam Weisbart) 1:45-3:15 Birdie-Birdie: a thorny Scrum simulation (Alan Cyment, Diego Fontdevila) 3:30 – 5:00 Freedom to Align: The Product Wall Release Planning Workshop (Alan Dayley) 3:30 – 5:00
Tom Perry’s Picks Free-Range Chickens and Other Agile Habitats (Matt Phillips) 10:45-11:30 Unicorns, Krakens, Self-Organizing Teams and other mythological beasts (Angel Medinilla) 11:45-12:30 Birdie-Birdie: a thorny Scrum simulation (Alan Cyment, Diego Fontdevila) 3:30 – 5:00
Dave Prior’s Picks
Stories of Scrum at Hope School: The Freedom to Teach and Learn (John Miller, Krissyn Sumare, Mark French) 10:45-11:30 Agile Jesters, Magicians, and Clowns – Using the unexpected to move mountains and your team (Adam Weisbart) 1:45-3:15 Great Coaching Conversations (Martin Alaimo, Olaf Lewitz) 1:45-3:15 The Naked History of the Agile Transformation Industry (Skip Angel, Richard Watt) 3:30 – 5:00 Freedom to Align: The Product Wall Release Planning Workshop (Alan Dayley) 3:30 – 5:00
Interviews with Speakers: John Miller on Stories of Scrum at Hope High School http://www.projectsatwork.com/content/podCasts/294616.cfm Adam Weisbart on Agile Jesters, Magicians and Clowns http://www.projectsatwork.com/content/podCasts/294618.cfm Alex Brown on Scrum at Scale http://www.projectsatwork.com/content/PodCasts/294455.cfm Skip Angel and Richard Watt on the Naked History of Agile http://www.projectsatwork.com/content/podCasts/294622.cfm