The Agile Pubcast

Geoff and Paul get together in a lovely Olde English pub at the source of the River Thames in the Cotswolds to talk Product Ownership. Including a discussion and debate about different 3 letter acronyms, they moved on to discuss the different mindset and psychology behind the exploit and explore states of product development. Oh yeah - and they have merch now! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the sixth episode of our Prestigious Pints series, Geoff Watts and Paul Goddard get together (virtually in lockdown) with one of their heroes and inspirations Nana Bambara-Abban.  Nana is an agile coach and influencer that came onto a course with Geoff & Paul some years ago, and he has since become a big part of the Agile in Africa movement.  Nana explains how he became involved in agile and why the African people have grasped the agile principles with such passion and energy.  Hopefully this conversation will leave you feeling inspired and positive, as that is exactly the effect that Nana has on both Geoff & Paul too!!Next month we have the agile legend that is Lyssa Adkins Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oh what a special episode this is! The boys were back inside a real pub after a full day's fishing! So, to celebrate they had not just one drink but two while talking about what people look for from training and what they ultimately get. This led them on to self-discovery and then status - whether we have a bias for high or low status, whether certain roles are more high or low status and whether our job titles affect our perception of status. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the fifth episode of our Prestigious Pints series, Geoff Watts and Paul Goddard get together (virtually in lockdown) with a pair of agile inspirations Mary & Tom Poppendieck. They chat about how the COVID pandemic has forced companies to pivot into new and innovative ideas based on purpose and then responding to feedback.  The conversation also touched on quality and craftsmanship, and how the term "software engineer" isn't really the same as an "engineer" in many other industries.  As ever, Mary & Tom have a passion for lean and it's great to also hear what Mary thinks is the biggest understanding of Lean - even now.  We hope you enjoy!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You've probably noticed our new logo - whaddaya think?And in other amazing news we got back into a real live pub! Well...outside a real live pub but that's still pretty cool, especially as the sun was out! In episode 116 we talked about the challenge of people keeping their cameras off when on work video calls. We hope you enjoy it! Cheers! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is the summary episode of our Prestigious Pints chat with Esther Derby. In the fourth episode of our Prestigious Pints series, Geoff Watts and Paul Goddard got together (virtually in lockdown) with one of their heroes and inspirations Esther Derby. They chat about how Esther is most widely known for her work in retrospectives even though this is only a fraction of what she has done and continues to do before explaining how she got into that space. Be sure to check out the full video interview at https://www.patreon.com/theagilepubcast Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the fourth episode of our Prestigious Pints series, Geoff Watts and Paul Goddard get together (virtually in lockdown) with one of their heroes and inspirations Esther Derby. They chat about how Esther is most widely known for her work in retrospectives even though this is only a fraction of what she has done and continues to do before explaining how she got into that space.Esther explains how the fact we are not taught the history of management is one of bigger causes for the organisational dysfunctions we continue to see and why some people seem to resist the offer of autonomy.We discuss her inspirations, and beliefs as well as the disappointing reactions of some organisations during the pandemic. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is an "Ask The Landlord" episode where we covered a question from one of our patrons about the speed of decisions. This led us to talk about precrastinators (like Geoff) and procrastinators (like Paul) and unconscious heuristics (or good old intuition as Paul calls it) before looking at Cynefin, decision fatigue and Paul crumbling under pressure on TV gameshows. Enjoy!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From our homes, UK. In this episode, Geoff and Paul round-up their chat with another one of their agile heroes, Sandy Mamoli. In a new type of pubcast for 2021, Geoff and Paul will be chatting with some of their agile inspirations over a drink.If you are interested in seeing the full interview with Sandy, and getting all the new interviews as they drop, then check out our "Full Pints" membership: https://www.patreon.com/theagilepubcast Sandy is an awesome multi-lingual coach and all round individual who has blazed a trail over in New Zealand (and many other countries as well) for all things agile and it was great to finally catch up with her and chat about all things agile. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We were so excited to have a drink with the awesome Chris Williams of Badass Agile in Canada. Apart from the inevitable pandemic conversation, we discussed the concept of Mastery as a discipline. That, and how failure is still a stigma.Chris is a legend of agile podcasting, having recorded nearly 500 episodes and please do check out his website https://badassagile.com/ where you can find out about the podcast and his badass leadership program called The Forge.Chris also kindly donated some goodies just for our patrons so check out the patreon.com/theagilepubcast to see his exclusive 20 minute clip on the leader qualities of Navy SEALs and accompanying slide deck for you to re-use and enjoy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In our Prestigious Pints series, exclusively for our Patreon subscribers, we went (virtually of course) all the way to the other side of the world to chat with the most experienced agile coach in the Antipodes...Sandy Mamoli.Sandy is an awesome multi-lingual coach and all round individual who has blazed a trail over in New Zealand (and many other countries as well) for all things agile and it was great to finally catch up with her and chat about all things agile.We tried (but failed) to avoid talking about how the pandemic isn't affecting life in New Zealand as much as everywhere else in the world. Instead we talked about animals in the office, her journey as a coach including her time as an Olympian, the fear and value of self-selection and how words can mean significantly different things in different cultures. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From Our Homes, UK. In this episode, Geoff and Paul breakdown their chat with another one of their agile heroes, Roman Pichler. In a new type of pubcast for 2021, Geoff and Paul will be chatting with some of their agile heroes over a drink.If you are interested in seeing the full interview with Roman, and getting all the new interviews as they drop, then check out our "Full Pints" membership on patreon.com/theagilepubcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the second episode of our new Prestigious Pints series, we invite none other than "The Product Owner guy" Roman Pichler to our virtual pub! We've been proud to be able to call Roman a friend as well as work with him over the last 15 years and he's inspired us with his work as much as you.We talked about peer pressure, courage and empowerment as a Product Owner, whether PO's should attend retrospectives and why we shouldn't expect our users to innovate for us.We discuss how he has seen things change - over the last 20 years in general but also recently during the pandemic - and what he sees for the future.We also discuss whether he always wanted to be The Product Owner guy and how he feels being known as such. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From our homes, UK. Episode 110 is our first "proper" episode of 2021 and, after welcoming our four newest Patrons (Paul Lister, Francesco Bianchi, Erika Braverman and Lynn Olsen) we got to tackling a question from another of our Patrons in the "Ask The Landlord" feature. Andreas Wittler wanted our recommended games or exercises to re-energise a devastated team. As well as exploring that, we learned about the completion of Paul's latest Improv programme and how this week has been the best year of 2021 so far for Geoff...yes you read that correctly! Cheers everyone! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From Our Homes, UK. In this episode, Geoff and Paul breakdown their chat with agile legend Mike Cohn. In a new type of pubcast for 2021, Geoff and Paul will be chatting with some of their agile heroes over a drink.If you are interested in seeing the full interview with Mike, and getting all the new interviews as they drop, then check out our "Full Pints" membership on patreon.com/theagilepubcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hi and welcome to the first of our Prestigious Pints episodes, an experiment we are running where we invite some famous names on to have a chat with us. In this episode we talk to agile legend Mike Cohn about how he has adjusted to online training and how his natural introverted nature has been affected. We learn some random facts about him including his favourite batman and why he is encouraging people to break the rules of Scrum in lockdown.Given that February sees the 20th anniversary of the Agile Manifesto, he tells us why he thinks the manifesto would have been worse if he had been in the room for its creation. We also talk to him about his involvement in the setting up of both the Agile Alliance and the Scrum Alliance and why he argued against including sprint retrospectives in the first version of Scrum.It was a thoroughly enjoyable chat that moved on to what he would change if he could go back in time and how he hopes agile goes away in the future before getting an insight into how his Dad got him so interested in playing pranks on April Fools Day.Enjoy this episode and do let us know what you think… Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello listeners, Geoff and I would like to wish you, our beloved listeners, a very happy Christmas this year. It’s been what can only be described as a “shitty” year for almost everyone, but I’m certainly hoping that 2021 brings much more joy and happiness and plenty more of those vaccines too!We’d like to end this year by sharing with you our Christmas song. If you are new to the pubcast, Geoff & Paul murder a Christmas classic each year all in the name of charity. This year, our nominated charity is Reach - REACH is the leading charity providing support and information to parents and their children affected by upper limb difference. If you would like to make a donation, you can do so online athttps://www.paypal.com/gb/fundraiser/charity/3204381On behalf of both Geoff and myself, we hope you have a great Christmas and we will both be back with another pubcast in the new year!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From Our Homes, UK. Geoff and Paul share a pint and get all emotional!! In interesting discussion about how we find it difficult to access our emotions. And don't forget to check out our Christmas single this year!!https://youtu.be/eHOOYxGLUyg Happy Christmas!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From our homes...again. Boo!! The pubs are still closed. But in this episode, Geoff & Paul take a bit of time to catch up and reconnect after a long period of online working - which leads onto an interesting topic in itself... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Geoff and Paul are back in Lockdown and, from the comfort of their shed and home office respectively, discuss their mutual dislike of "Wrong Answers Only", getting more stupid as they get older, the iterative approach to the development and rollout of the vaccine(s) and making decisions at the last responsible moment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Many thanks to patrons Per, Gianni and Andreas for their questions in this pubcast special! We discussed how to move from compliance to engagement (zombie scrum) and how to look for improvements in already well-versed teams. Enjoy!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From The House In The Tree, Cheltenham, UK. In this one, the topic is Paul's favourite subject... FOOD. We talk about the kitchen as an agile environment and the merits of a certain celebrity ScrumMaster!! Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From James And White, Boscombe, UK. In this episode, Geoff & Paul reflect on an exercise they ran during a CSP-SM class, using a structured debate to facilitate learning and empathy in their class attendees. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From The Prospect Inn, Exeter, UK. Lockdown may be tightening but we still managed to get together to grab a drink and have a chat. This time we were down in sunny Exeter at what turned out to be a haunted pub and somehow got talking about intuition - how to develop it, how it's useful and even a game you can experiment with on the subject.We then got on to talking about ghosts and a Netflix documentary about Tony Robbins before the conversation somehow looped back on itself. We hope you enjoy the episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From Chaplins, Boscombe, UK. In this episode, we took on some questions from our social media profiles and retold some of our favourite stories about "how we nearly got fired..." And Paul tried a new type or drink! Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From ???? We are back! We are refreshed after our summer break and raring to go! The question is - are the lads at home or in the pub... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From our homes, UK. In the last episode before a summer break, Geoff mentions that he has been playing Product Owner again which led to a discussion about the mindset, personalities and traits of effective product ownership. Listen through to the end to hear how you could get involved in episode 100! Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From our homes, UK. We have a Guest Ale! For the first time, one of our Patrons has volunteered to appear on the show so we welcome self-confessed geek Gareth Thomas to take Geoff and Paul a little out of their comfort zone to discuss all things technical. From different levels of testing, leading and lagging indicators, Gherkin and Selenium and even something to do with Japanese Steel and Tin Mills! Nice one Gareth! If you would like to appear as a guest on our pubcast, check out the "Guest Ale" benefit on our Patreon page. (The PST Gareth references in this episode is Alasdair Macleod) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From our homes. UK. What a whopper! This bumper episode covers finale of the Scrum Mastery Challenge 2020: Lockdown Edition. The final challenge is all about reflection so tune in to see what our contestants thought of the competition and who is judged to be the winner... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From our homes, UK. The pubs are open! A REAL Agile pubcast is coming very soon... we can feel it! As we approach the business end of the Scrum Mastery Challenge LOCKDOWN edition, our competitors were tasked with celebrating collaboratively with a team. This challenge required a little 'out-of-the-box' thinking but we had some great results to discuss! Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From our homes, UK. The Scrum Mastery Challenge continues!! Task 4 was all about starting an online conversation. Our global contestants were scored by which conversation added the greatest CONTRIBUTION. Listen on to hear how they got on!In you would like to check out the online conversations our contestants started, have a look here...Team USA - https://twitter.com/AgileFaye/status/1274341425602105347Greg - https://t.co/r2oi18yC7b?amp=1Stefan - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stefan-wertheimer_learning-learningneverstops-retrospective-activity-6681453302388936704-4WSdAnshul - https://medium.com/serious-scrum/scrum-values-are-life-values-902e6250501Vikas - https://medium.com/serious-scrum/weekly-status-reports-may-not-create-transparency-cef6fae5cd4cMike - https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6674753907975102464/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From our homes, UK. As lockdown continues so does the Scrum Mastery Challenge! In this task, our global contestants were charged with describing their most valuable "thing". Some interesting stories emerged from some "almost" everyday objects! Geoff & Paul debrief how the word "value" is highly subjective, multi-dimensional and how "pain" can be a good indicator of what to do next. Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From Our Homes, UK. Still in lockdown - still not allowed in a pub. And now I think that BOREDOM has really set in. Has the novelty factor of working remotely now worn off? Geoff & Paul discuss the drop in energy levels they have noticed from working remotely in recent days and weeks. And this led onto a discussion about how we can guarantee that we feel SAFE when working from home? An interesting thread emerges... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From our homes, UK. The Scrum Mastery Challenge: LOCKDOWN continues! In this episode, the contestants were tasked with telling a 60-second story, inspired by this image: With points being awarded for the most engaging stories. Geoff & Paul discuss the submissions and also share some thoughts on what they are looking for in a good stories, and what good storytelling looks like too! Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From our homes, UK. In this episode, Geoff & Paul debrief the first of the ScrumMastery Challenge: LOCKDOWN tasks. The global contestants were asked to record a 60 second video introducing themself to a new team. In the debrief, Geoff & Paul extract both positives and negatives from the submissions and also give some thoughts of their own on what makes a good introduction.You can see a full description of the task here! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From our homes, UK. Geoff & Paul share an evening drink after a warm spell of UK weather to discuss the subjects of FLOW and FEEDBACK. They reflect on how they changed over time with regards to giving and receiving feedback, and also share some theory on feedback and some tips on how to improve on feedback for yourself! Enjoy!Have you seen our new online trailer? Please give us a LIKE and why not share the pubcast with one of your agile colleagues today!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From our homes, UK. Geoff & Paul reflect on their online advanced scrum master training held this week, any some of the interesting questions they tackled during the class. We spend a lot of time convincing the organisation about self-organisation, but how do you convince the team themselves? Also, what emotions are in play for a team? And what fears both Geoff & Paul had to confront as a novice trainers and coaches.Check out the new pubcast trailer here:https://youtu.be/a5Orj4QllKIPlease LIKE the video and add a comment to let us know what you think!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From our homes, UK. Geoff & Paul were invited to speak at the first remote Lean Agile Brighton Meetup event, held on 6 May 2020. Geoff & Paul took a number of questions from the live audience such as: What does a remote ScrumMaster look like in the current lockdown? How can leadership create psychological safety at this time? And how has the life of a trainer and coach changed during lockdown? We hope you enjoy the episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From our homes, UK. Still in lockdown! In this episode, we discuss a question from one of our listeners about how we have been adapting sprint meetings during this lockdown period. We also get onto to the subject of WEREWOLVES! A game we played at The Social Distance Inn last week. It seems that a very simple game has a lot of agile learnings within it! Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From Cheltenham, BOA (UK), Madison, Milwaukee (USA). In this special episode, Geoff & Paul recorded a fun episode with Jeff Bubolz and Jeff Maleski of the The Agile Wire podcast.We talk about virtual icebreakers to use in online training courses, some norms about teaching online and some interested moral questions about online tranings too.All in all a very enjoyable episode to record. We hope you like it! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Florida! Geoff and Paul were invited to run a live episode of The Agile Pubcast at the Agile Online Meetup. The lockdown was of course one of the main topics of conversation and we took questions from the listeners about the future of office work, how optimism can spread like a virus, how doing less stuff is important and other interesting, unscripted topics.Check out https://bit.ly/SMTP_Community for more of Tom's chats with other agile people!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From Our Homes, UK. Geoff & Paul meet virtually during the third week of lockdown in the UK and start with a chat about what they miss about their work while stuck at home. They drift onto talking about how routine and being bored can be a problem but can provoke some creativity. And finally... Paul gets his instrument out for a blow! Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From Our Homes, UK. During lockdown you can expect a few more of these pubcasts while Geoff & Paul are stuck at home! In this episode, they discuss how the current COVID-19 might have converted some team members to a new way of working, a little on the locus of control, and a dissection of the movie "Moneyball" too! Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From Cheltenham & Bradford on Avon, UK. The COVID-19 lockdown in the UK is now in full force, and after one week of staying at home, Geoff & Paul reflect on how home and professional life has had to change. Also - they discuss the prospect of remote working could be here to stay and maybe some of the biases they had are being challenged. Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From Cheltenham, Bradford on Avon and Indiana!Recorded on 17th March so hot off the press, this is a "crossover" with another super popular agile podcast - Agile For Humans. Host Ryan Ripley joins us remotely from Indiana as we begin COVID-19 lockdown in the UK. Unsurprisingly we talk about the consequences of this for working patterns, leadership, mindset and general human nature. Not only is Ryan the host of the amazing Agile For Humans podcast but he has just co-written Fixing Your Scrum with Todd Miller. Check it out for a load of common anti-patterns undermining successful adoption of Scrum and simple fixes to them. Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From three different locations across the UK & Europe. A special guest episode! Geoff managed to secure some time to talk with Geordie Wardman, founder of One Stop Dev Shop and host of Big Break Software Podcast. We chatted about remote working for agile teams (which is now somewhat relevant given the COVID-19 outbreak!) and also what makes a great entrepreneur.You can find out more about Geordie and his work at:Geordie Wardman @geordiewardmanhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/geordiewardman/https://onestopdevshop.io/http://bigbreaksoftware.libsyn.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From The Black Friar, London, UK. Geoff & Paul brave the cold outside one of London's oldest pubs to discuss some questions from our listeners. Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From Graingers Cafe Bar, Dublin, Ireland. Geoff & Paul multi-stream this episode on all sorts of social media platforms, but here is the audio version. Several good questions from social media listeners too! Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From The Whole Hog, Malmesbury, UK. Geoff & Paul take on a question on coaching they received on Twitter, and discuss Paul's general well-being after an emotional return to the game he loves. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From The Bay Horse, Bristol, UK. Happy New Year! The boys are back in Bristol and recorded this one after a childish visit to an amusement arcade. Needless to say that started a conversation about agile! Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.