Tag: Series
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Episode 147: Prioritize Which Changes They Should Focus On
The last iteration in our Change Management series discusses change fatigue. Amy, Brent, Dustin, Erin, and Michal cover how real change fatigue is to teams, individuals, and leaders. Topics include how to prioritize the changes and recognizing that change is everywhere, not just on a given team.
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Episode 146: Be Seen Supportive Of The Change
In the sixth iteration of our Change Management series, we cover the impact of change management from the perspective of individual contributors. In this conversation, Amy, Brent, Erin, and Michal discuss feedback loops, how multiple layers of leaders play a role in making a change be positive for teams, and why honesty is the best…
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Episode 145: The Feedback Loop Is Super Important
The fifth iteration of our Change Management series discusses the intentionality of Change Management. In this conversation Amy, Brent, Erin, and Michal go over topics such as how change management is not just doing a plan, what change management is like on a sprint cadence, and the return on investment of change.
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Episode 144: Being Intentional With Those Tasks Are Very Important
The fourth iteration in our Change Management series covers the cost of doing or not doing Change Management In this conversation Amy, Brent, Erin, and Michal cover the rumor mill, the telephone game, as well as how to create the capacity to do Change Management.
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Episode 143: Want To Be Part Of Something
In the third iteration of our Change Management series, we have a conversation about those who are advocates of change. Amy, Brent, Erin, and Michal discuss the individual contributors who help drive organizational change but aren’t part of the original decision.
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Episode 142: You Have To React Immediately
We continue our series on Change Management with a conversation on well-run and poorly-run change. Amy, Brent, Erin, Dustin, and Michal cover topics about how change can pivot from bad to well run and where leadership can play a role in pivoting change.
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Episode 141: Change In Their Everyday Life
We start the fifth season with a series on Change Management. Amy, Brent, Dustin, Erin, and Michal start the series with a conversation covering a variety of topics, such as why people are important in Change Management.
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Episode 140: It’s A Monumental Challenge
In our season four finale and our last repeat episode, we build off of the last episode and discuss change management with Amy, Brent, Jesse, Robin, and Teresa.
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Episode 139: Focus Continues On The Why
As we continue to revisit prior episodes, we bring back a Parking Lot episode on organizational change and leadership from last season with Amy, Brent, Jesse, Robin, and Teresa.
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Episode 138: When You Do The Fundamentals, It’s Easy
Our third trip in the time machine is another combination of two episodes into a parking lot-sized one from Season 2 where Brent, Patrick, and Sunny cover two opposing myths about time and Agile (mostly discussing Scrum as “Agile”): that Agile doesn’t have deadlines or takes too much time.
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Episode 132: Recognize What They Can Do Better Next Time
In the last iteration of the Cloud Mindset series, Brent and Markus have a parking lot-sized conversation about failure and how it relates to Empowerment and Delegation. They discuss the three types of failure from Amy Edmondson, how failure works in an agile environment, and how teams can improve from experimentation.
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Episode 131: Two Sides Of The Same Thing
In the next iteration of the Cloud Mindset series, Brent and Markus discuss the principle of Empowerment and Delegation. They cover Decision Poker, Delegation Poker, the agile value of courage, and how multipliers are used in an agile setting.
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Episode 130: Far Superior To The Fibonacci Sequence
In this parking lot (but regular length) iteration as part of the Cloud Mindset series, Brent, Michael, and Ryan discuss story points in a data-driven process. The conversation includes gamification of estimation, how teams need to buy into whatever process is used, metaphors for teams, venting egos, as well as physics.
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Episode 129: So Now You Got Happy Workers, Happy Boss
In this next iteration in the Cloud Mindset series, Brent, Michael, and Ryan discuss the principle of Data-Driven Decision Making. There is also some conversation about how teams rebalance resources, why and how teams would do a story point recalibration, along with rules for games on the playground, and drawing toast.
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Episode 128: Look For Your Crazy Teammate And Join Them
Join Brent, Dale, and Jesse in this first for this podcast “live” session. Recorded from Cloud Culture Day and reposted with permission from the Product Engineering team hosting the session, they discuss a wide range of topics while answering questions from the audience: DevOps as a verb, where psychological safety is important, and how sometimes…
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Episode 127: Complexities That Need To Be Unearthed
In this parking lot edition, Brent, Dirk, and Jesse continue the conversation on the Cloud Mindset principle of End to End Ownership and Collaboration. They discuss the parts of a value stream map, how software development contrasts with other ways of manufacturing, why people skills are important in software develop, what the title of the…
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Episode 126: This Is How I See That Thing Works
In this iteration of the Cloud Culture Mindset, Brent, Dirk, and Jesse discuss the principle of End to End Ownership and Collaboration. The conversation covers what the principle is about and how teams benefit from strong team-based decision-making and workflows.
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Episode 125: The Right Decision At The Right Time
In this iteration, Brent is joined by Agnieszka and Jesse as they discuss another Cloud Culture principle: Ruthless Prioritization. The conversation covers focusing on value, how great Product Owners can create innovative products, and what’s important in the balancing act between customer wants or needs and technical debt.
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Episode 124: Opportunities Where Learning Is A Good Thing
Brent, Jesse, Klaus, and Mike talk about “Continual Learning and Relentless Improvement,” which is a Cloud Culture Principle. Our experts define what this idea means and why it’s important. They talk about psychological and technological safety, the ability to grow and adapt, and having a common language. They answer the question how does earning your…
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Episode 123: That’s A Bottom Line Issue
In anticipation of Cloud Culture Day on May 24; Brent is joined by Agnieszka and Mike on one of the most important principles of Cloud Culture, which is to “Earn Your Customer Every Day.” Our experts define who the customer is, how the steps are now a bit different than they had been, and what…
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Episode 122: Spoiler – It’s All About The Customer
In anticipation of Cloud Culture Day at SAP on May 24, Brent has a conversation with friends of the podcast Agnieszka, Markus, Dirk, and Robin. In anticipation of Cloud Culture Day at SAP on May 24, Brent has a conversation with friends of the podcast (or sooner to be friends) Agnieszka, Markus, Dirk, and Robin.…
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Episode 121: Behavior And Mindset Changes Are More Important
In this eighth iteration in this series of DevOps fundamentals, Sunny, Jessie, and Dominik wrap up the series talking about CALMS, TOIL, and how DevOps is the trend the world is moving towards. They offer advice to new people starting out and some characteristics that managers and independent contributors should have. They also reflect on…
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Episode 120: They Just Focus On Their Customer
In the seventh discussion in the DevOps fundamentals series, Sunny, Jesse, and Dominik have a parking lot conversation about outcomes and metrics. Our experts discuss a quick timeline of DevOps history, and then share that the successes of the companies who used DevOps. They look at some things to measure and affect change, some of…
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Episode 119: How To Start A Learning Culture
The DevOps Fundamentals series continues with iteration six and a discussion on a having “learning culture.” Until this point, we discussed optimizing the performance of a system from end to end, and then giving time to learn by amplifying feedback loops. Now comes the culture of continual experimentation and learning to take advantage of the…
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Episode 118: Making Sure You Have Good Code Quality
This discussion could not be contained to 15 min or less, so here’s the parking lot on feedback loops, from the last iteration with Sunny, Jesse, and Dominik joined by Brent. They introduce the topic of feedback loops with a discussion about musical instruments and buying unbroken eggs from the store. Our experts discuss several…