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Student Q&A Dealing with Performance Issues and Stakeholder Expectations w/ Jessica Wolfe from LeadingAgile on Vimeo.

For this episode of SoundNotes, we’re back with more of the questions submitted by recent CSM and CSPO students.

In this week’s podcast, Jessica Wolfe and Dave Prior respond to the following questions:

Question 1:

What is the desired relationship interaction between the Scrum Master and Development Managers with regard to developers who are participating on a scrum team, and how does that impact performance management from an HR standpoint? In other words, if there are performance issues with a Developer, where does the responsibility fall for addressing & resolving those performance issues?

Question 2:

I work at a fairly large company on a product that has direct eyesight from the CEO, who constantly says things like, “Wouldn’t it be cool if our app did X?” with the expectation being that it doesn’t matter how cool X actually is, we can expect to be implementing it right frickin’ now. How, for the love of SCRUM can I deal with this within my framework?

Contacting Jessica

If you’d like to contact Jessica you can reach her at:

LeadingAgile: leadingagile.com/guides/jessica-wolfe/ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jessica-wolfe-ab025a36/ Twitter: twitter.com/thejessicawolfe Email: [email protected]

Contacting Dave

If you’d like to contact Dave you can reach him at:

LeadingAgile: leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/mrsungo Twitter: twitter.com/mrsungo Email: [email protected]

If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to [email protected]

And if you are interested in taking one of our upcoming Certified Scrum Master or Certified Scrum Product Owner classes, you can find all the details at leadingagile.com/our-gear/training/

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Estimation and Meeting Sprint Commitments from LeadingAgile on Vimeo.

In this episode of SoundNotes, Dave Prior and Derek Huether respond to a couple questions from students who have taken a LeadingAgile CSM and/or CSPO class over the past couple months. Here are the questions they will address in this short video podcast: Question 1: My team seems to have a problem with estimating and understanding the estimating concepts. The team members are accustomed to traditional waterfall projects and estimating everything in units of time. How can I help them understand estimating, but continue to complete the sprints with no pbis rolling over to the next sprint?

Question 2: I have a team lead who is skeptical of scrum, especially metrics related to the process. He doesn’t think carryover matters from sprint to sprint as long as we’re “creating value” and getting the program priorities completed. Any advice on how to convince him that metrics can be a tool for good, and that the sanctity of the sprint commitment matters?

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Derek Heuther - LeadingAgile Soundnotes from LeadingAgile on Vimeo.

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Tricia Broderick - Soundnotes Agile 2017 from LeadingAgile on Vimeo.

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David Bland Live from Agile2017 - LeadingAgile Soundnotes from LeadingAgile on Vimeo.

In this interview with David Bland, he and Dave Prior discuss definitions of lean startup and design thinking as well as his passion for building businesses that matter. David goes into detail about how he works with existing companies to create new lines of businesses using internal venture capital, as well as how the scientific method applies to business.

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Agile 2017 - Mike Cottmeyer from LeadingAgile on Vimeo.

LeadingAgile CEO and Founder, Mike Cottmeyer led two sessions at Agile 2017: Agile Transformations Explained and Faster Food and a Better Place to Sleep: Applying Agile Outside of Software. In this interview Mike and Dave discuss how an organization can get better at setting appropriate constraints, making iterative and incremental decisions that inform execution and creating feedback loops that will help drive a more successful adoption of agile across the organization.

If you’d like to learn more about Mike’s sessions at Agile 2017: Agile Transformations Explained: sched.co/ATZ5 Faster Food and a Better Place to Sleep: Applying Agile Outside of Software: sched.co/ATa2

And if you would like to contact Mike, here is how you can reach him: Web: leadingagile.com/guides/mike-cottmeyer/ Twitter: twitter.com/mcottmeyer LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/cottmeyer/

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Adam Weisbart Live from Agile2017 - LeadingAgile Soundnotes from LeadingAgile on Vimeo.

Adam Weisbart led a session at Agile 2017 called “Surviving Backdraft (or How to Not Die in a Hellish Explosion of Dysfunction)”. During his session, Adam shared some personal experiences with backdraft and introduced tools to help agile coaches and practitioners cope with the pushback that often accompanies organizational change and the dysfunction that impedes that change.

In this interview Adam and Dave discuss his session and some mindful self-compassion techniques that will help you manage your internal and external response to the resistance that shows up when coaching an organization through transformation.

If you’d like to contact Adam, here is where you can reach him:

Web: weisbart.com Twitter: twitter.com/weisbart LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/weisbart/

Adam’s session at Agile 2017: sched.co/ATXD

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YI LV Live from Agile2017-LeadingAgile SoundNotes from LeadingAgile on Vimeo.

Yi Lv is the first Certified Scrum Trainer from China since 2008, and is currently a coach at Odd-e. He is also an expert in Large Scale Scrum (LeSS). In this video, Yi talks about his Agile2017 talk, LeSS without Scrum in which he asserts that you can begin to implement the principles of LeSS without a true Scrum team in place.

Listen to more Agile2017 SoundNotes periscope.tv/leadingagile

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Em Cambell-Pretty Live from Agile2017 - LeadingAgile SoundNotes from LeadingAgile on Vimeo.

SAFe Fellow Em Campbell-Pretty led a session at Agile 2017 called “The ART of avoiding a Train Wreck”, which offered guidance on how to better plan Agile Release Trains in Scaled Agile Framework. She stopped by to chat with Dave about her session, and her new book “Tribal Unity: Getting from Teams to Tribes by Creating a One Team Culture”. Em’s book focuses on one of her main areas of passion - creating awesome Agile tribes. During the interview she also offers advice about how to handle cross team dependencies in Agile.

If you’d like to learn more about Em, check out prettyagile.com You can follow Em on Twitter here: twitter.com/PrettyAgile Her book is available on Amazon here: amzn.to/2w92Ic1 For a description of Em’s session at Agile 2017: http://bit.ly/2xhcg50

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David Marquet - Soundnotes Agile2017 from LeadingAgile on Vimeo.

One of Agile2017’s keynote speakers makes an appearance to talk about his time as a submarine commander and how it influenced his style of leadership. Being the loudest and clearest voice in the room and using swear words doesn’t necessarily mean you’re a great leader, nor does it foster independent thinking. However, redefining the definition of trust and inviting scrutiny might just get you the results you are looking for.

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Does Everything Have to Be a User Story? - Ron Jeffries and Chet Hendrickson at Agile 2017 from LeadingAgile on Vimeo.

Ron Jeffries and Chet Hendrickson respond to a question from LeadingAgile's Dave Prior during their SoundNotes interview at Agile 2017.

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Dean Leffingwell live from Agile 2017 - LeadingAgile Soundnotes from LeadingAgile on Vimeo.

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Troy Magennis Live From Agile2017 - LeadingAgile Soundnotes from LeadingAgile on Vimeo.

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Christopher Avery Live from Agile2017 - LeadingAgile SoundNotes from LeadingAgile on Vimeo.

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Bos Vodde Live from Agile2017 - LeadingAgile SoundNotes from LeadingAgile on Vimeo.

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Michael J. Tardiff Live from Agile2017 - LeadingAgile SoundNotes from LeadingAgile on Vimeo.

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Esther Derby Live from Agile2017 - LeadingAgile SoundNotes from LeadingAgile on Vimeo.