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The Top 3 Reasons Why Big Tech Layoffs Does NOT Mean That Agile is Dead... It is Refocused! Behold... Agile is STILL NOT DEAD!! Join AgileDad for what he promises WILL be the MOST VIRAL episode of 2024 as he tells you the REAL reason organizations are doing layoffs and what you can do to be protected. You can listen to this Daily Standup as well as many other AgileDad episodes of The Daily Standup where ever you listen to your favorite podcasts. #agiledad #agile

Study Finds 268% Higher Failure Rates for Agile Software Projects - DEBUNKED This study is deeply rooted and focused SOLELY on Agile Delivery. After reading the study of 600 participants... And digging deep into what smelled about the report, I came up with a few things that led me to believe that the creator of the study was merely trying to sell a competing product. You can listen to this Daily Standup as well as many other AgileDad episodes of The Daily Standup where ever you listen to your favorite podcasts. #agiledad #agile

3 Questions to Help Overcome Your Biggest Fear Question #1 Why do you even care? Question #2 What is your fear like? Question #3 What are you willing to feel? You can listen to this Daily Standup as well as many other AgileDad episodes of The Daily Standup where ever you listen to your favorite podcasts. #agiledad #faceyourfear

Making Remote Work Work.. - Is The Honeymoon Over? I will never take an in-office job again”, words I and most of my team live by now that we’ve gotten to work on a team that gets how to do remote work right. Our team has always been remote. My boss is located on the east coast and we have team members on both coasts of the United States. I’ve been leading 100% remote teams for over ten years now and while most people on my teams have sworn off in-office jobs for life, building and maintaining a remote team has some unique challenges. We’ve wrestled with these challenges ourselves and today I want to walk you through how we’ve solved for them in the hopes it can help your team build a better working life and group culture. You can listen to this Daily Standup as well as many other AgileDad episodes of The Daily Standup where ever you listen to your favorite podcasts. #agiledad #remotework

How ScrumMasters Go Astray by Committing to Plans - I Don't Think So... Imagine your success gets measured on your ability to predict the unpredictable. Sounds ridiculous, huh? Yet, this is how many default to measuring Scrum Masters and their team’s performance. It’s the rampant, default behavior in organizations today. You can listen to this Daily Standup as well as many other AgileDad episodes of The Daily Standup where ever you listen to your favorite podcasts. #agiledad #scrummaster

Go-To-Market Strategies For New Products and Services In short, a GTM is a comprehensive plan for introducing a new product or service to the market. A GTM differs from a marketing strategy which is a long-term strategy (could ideally be years in the future) that outlines a business’s overall marketing objectives. A GTM is aimed at a specific shorter-term timeframe and asset (product or service). Businesses prepare GTM strategies to optimize potential success and minimize risk when introducing a new product or service to market. You can listen to this Daily Standup as well as many other AgileDad episodes of The Daily Standup where ever you listen to your favorite podcasts. #agiledad

Sage Advice For My Son Justin on His Wedding Day This is a rather personal episode... But I did it in hopes that at least one of you can also benefit from this advice. You can listen to this Daily Standup as well as many other AgileDad episodes of The Daily Standup where ever you listen to your favorite podcasts. #agiledad

Being Too Precise Hurts Your Plans - Mike Cohn I need a new backup drive. I don’t need a 40 TB drive but the site I buy from listed one available. I thought I might as well click on it to see the price. The price seemed reasonable for that much storage, but what caught my attention is that the drive ships in 205 days. Seriously, what are they thinking? How can they possibly know the drive will ship in 205 days, not 204 or 206? This website fell into what I call the precision trap, which is applying a false level of precision to some estimate or plan. We often fall into the precision trap because of the math involved in planning. Let me clarify this with an example. Suppose a team has estimated that it needs to deliver 100 story points of work to achieve some objective. They’ve already calculated their velocity to be 15. Someone on the team does the simple math of 100 divided by 15 and gets 6.66. Team members then proclaim that they will be done in 6.66 sprints. Or hopefully someone decides to round that up and say it will take 7 sprints. But math like this leads to the precision trap. You can see from this how the website decided the drive would ship in 205 days.The precision trap persists because we seem wired to like precision. It feels good to say we’ll be done in 6.66 sprints. We must be really smart to know that. But we need to favor being accurate over being precise. Accuracy is about being right. The easiest way to be right is to be less precise. For example, that website could have told me the drive would ship in “about 7 or 8 months.” That would have been enough precision for me to decide whether to buy it. When math tells a team they can deliver in 6.66 sprints, that is very precise. But it’s probably not very accurate. Just like the ship date of the hard drive, that estimate should be conveyed as a range. Instead of 6.66 sprints, maybe it’s 6 to 9 sprints or even 7 to 10 sprints. Avoid falling into the precision trap if you want to succeed with agile! You can listen to this Daily Standup as well as many other AgileDad episodes of The Daily Standup where ever you listen to your favorite podcasts. #agiledad

Are You a CT-NO? A CEO once told me it felt like the CTO misheard and thought his title was CT- N O. “Can we do that? No. Is that feasible? No.” After wiping myself from having spilled my coffee laughing, I realized that’s such a common stance tech executives take that I’m surprised I hadn’t heard the term earlier. Let’s discuss why so many people have this issue and how you can become a force-multiplying CTO instead of a backlog gatekeeper. You can listen to this Daily Standup as well as many other AgileDad episodes of The Daily Standup where ever you listen to your favorite podcasts. #agiledad

What happens POST Agile Coaching? In future, the agile coach becomes a delivery leader, moving from cheering at the sidelines to playing an active role in execution, with delivery accountability. The idea that a Scrum team can be self-organizing and act in a silo is long-dead. The World is too complex for that. No single team knows everything about the business, the customer, the regulatory environment and the technology environment in which they work. It’s why we have all the departments we do in organizations. The best teams know how to navigate necessary complexity and produce results together. This ability to navigate is where the future of the agile coach lies. You can listen to this Daily Standup as well as many other AgileDad episodes of The Daily Standup where ever you listen to your favorite podcasts. #agiledad #agilecoaching