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Trust and Test Driven-Development for People

July 30, 2020 by Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick Leave a Comment

This post was adapted from Episode 122 of the Troubleshooting Agile Podcast. This is number three in our series as we go through our new book, Agile Conversations. We’re up to Chapter Three and this chapter’s all about trust. One of the things we were having a challenge with was finding something new to say about trust, because we’ve said so much about it. You can listen and read to some of our past thoughts on trust here:  The First Thing to Build is Trust Be Predictable to Build … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Agile Conversations Tagged With: agile, agile conversations, conversations, devops, douglas squirrel, jeffrey fredrick, ladder of inference, tdd, test drive development, trust

Conversations: How to Improve and Why You Won’t

July 22, 2020 by Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick Leave a Comment

This post was adapted from Episode 121 of the Troubleshooting Agile Podcast. Continuing our tour of our new book Agile Conversations, we come to our chapter on the foundational method for conversational analysis, the Four Rs. We briefly explain the value of conversational analysis, and share our observation that even highly motivated people who know how much it can help their agile teams find it hard to actually pull out a piece of paper and do an analysis. The reasons for this are very … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Agile Conversations Tagged With: agile, agile conversations, continual learning, conversations, devops, douglas squirrel, jeffrey fredrick, learning

You Need More Conflict, Not Less

May 20, 2020 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

By Agile Conversations authors Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick. When teams first adopt Agile, Lean, or DevOps practices, they often think that they’ll have less conflict with the new methodology. “We’ll stop fighting over deadlines because we’ll estimate the work first,” they say, or “Work in Progress limits will mean we don’t get overloaded.” Surprise! The estimates and limits and tests usually lead to more clashes, not fewer—and this is a good thing, because the conflicts give us … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Agile Conversations, Books Tagged With: agile conversations, conflict, continual learning, conversations, douglas squirrel, jeffrey fredrick, workplace drama

Strengthen Your Conversations Skills with Remote Work

May 18, 2020 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

BY AGILE CONVERSATIONS AUTHORS DOUGLAS SQUIRREL AND JEFFREY FREDRICK Collaboration is built on skills, and you can build those skills through deliberate practice. This growth mindset view is particularly useful in our world of suddenly enforced remote working. Remote collaboration is more demanding and unfamiliar to a lot of people who are experiencing it for the first time. Responding to these new challenges with a fixed mindset, taking the view that remote working … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Agile Conversations, Books, Uncategorized Tagged With: agile conversations, conversations, douglas squirrel, improve converstions, jeffrey fredrick, remote work

Take The Slow Lane To Build Trust

May 13, 2020 by IT Revolution Leave a Comment

By Agile Conversations authors Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick Congratulations—you’ve decided to improve trust with someone at work. It could be the project manager who sets deadlines without consulting you, or that customer who’s complaining endlessly that you don’t deliver sufficient quality, or the star salesperson who sells features the company can’t deliver. Whoever it is and whatever the symptoms of the lack of trust, the first rule is—SLOW DOWN. When we talk to clients about … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Agile Conversations, Books Tagged With: agile conversations, conversations, devops, douglas squirrel, jeffrey fredrick, ladder of inference, trust building

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