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Jason Tice and Natalie Simonsen Discussion Now that the Agile2015 conference has concluded, join Natalie Simonsen and Jason Tice for a round-robin discussion of their key take-aways and themes from the week

Stephen Vance shares highlights from the multi-team agile framework he has put in place at his organization with Natalie and Renee.

ThisAgileLife celebrated a “winning” episode recorded immediately after guest Dan Parker and Jason Tice won prizes at the Agile2015 “Night at the Museums” vendor raffle event. Jason and Dan were joined by Melanie Hopwood and Charles Elsner (also attending the conference) to discuss sessions they attended on Wednesday, August 5, 2015.

Natalie and Jason were joined by Agile2015 conference attendees including Renee Troughton, Rich Rose Hemlock and Joe Naumann to reflect on the second day of the conference and share a few learnings from the sessions they attended.

Natalie and Jason were joined by Agile2015 conference attendees Rose Hemlock and Joe Naumann to reflect on the first day of the conference and share a few learnings from the sessions they attended

Agile 2015 Kickoff

“Lean Coffee” discussion with several regular ThisAgileLife hosts

Our annual tradition of providing insights and commentary based upon the 9th annual state of agile survey

Join Natalie, Nate and Jason for a discussion about “Wishful planning”

Wes Higbee (Full City Tech) author of Commitment To Value: How to make technical projects worthwhile.

Lee, Craig and Jason for a discussion on John Kotter’s ideas about “Change Leadership”

Central teams consisting of coaches as a barrier to organizational learning

Agile Games 2015 Recap and Review

Product Owners and their product vision, or lack there of

When should we do TDD?

Special guest Renee Troughton

2015 Agile Indy conference entitled “The Scrum Master IS The Impediment”

Times when you shouldn’t test your code.

Celebrate as a Team

Round Robin Discussion

Hardware The intersection between software and hardware on agile teams

No Estimates with Woody Zuill (https://twitter.com/woodyzuill)

Managing Up

Working the Board

We don’t need Scrum Masters and Business Analysts In the future agile teams will optimize around 2 roles, PO and Engineer

How much time is considered healthy for an agile team to spend improving themselves?

Driving teams to small stories Cards “Twitter sized” stories

Open Floor Plan Offices

Raising our Podcast Assurance

Let’s talk about collaboration in a large group, and what happens to a group’s ability to build / maintain a mental model as it becomes larger

The holy practice of measuring code coverage

Effective standups Purpose all about communication and commitment not about status updates

College/University what they should teach? Code Reviews Do you need to do code reviews when pairing? How much time should you spend on a code review?

Why Scrum Should Basically Just Die in a Fire

Demystifying Servant Leadership

When agility starts to fail

Bullying in the workplace

Capturing Retro Notes

Writing great stories

The importance of slicing stories

How do Product Owners Fit on a Team

How do Product Owners Fit on a Team

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Is the “whole team approach” attainable?

Agile…Good to Great John’s Recommendation

Agile Practices

Agile Games 2014 Jason summarizing the games session by Chris Simms and Laura Powers

Adopting Agile

A self-facilitated retrospective on what we have learned doing the last 50 episodes of ThisAgileLife.

Feature Prioritization