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Acceptance Test-Driven Development: A Quick Introduction Ken Pugh and Jim Trott talk about ATDD: who is involved and who leads the effort, what is involved in writing acceptance tests, how ATDD compares with regular "analysis" you have done in the past,

Bringing Your Internal Coaching to the Next Level Steve Thomas and Jim Trott talk about internal coaching in Lean-Agile transformations: why coaches are needed, what is involved, the difference between internal and external coaches, who makes good coache

Skills that Developers Need to Acquire to Achieve an Agile Transformation Amir Kolsky, Rob Neppel, and Jim Trott talk about eight essential skills that developers need to acquire to work in an Agile transformation. Some of these skills are certainly taug

Start Stronger, Get Better, and Do More: A Conversation with James Sutton and Marc Danziger James Sutton, Marc Danziger, and Jim Trott talk about transformation, systems thinking, the borders that Agile erects that can inhibit scaling, coaching, and why

The Net Objectives Guardrails System: A Conversation with Al Shalloway Al Shalloway and Jim Trott talk about the Guardrails System, a holistic system of six agreements that people in an organization make that work together to keep all roles across the va

Groupthink and Fear as Team Killers: A Conversation with Marc Danziger Marc Dangizer and Jim Trott talk about the problems teams often face when no one on the team is willing to acknowledge the challenge if others don’t (groupthink) or because they are a

Justifying TDD: A Conversation with Scott Bain Scott Bain and Jim Trott talk about overcoming the challenges people often have to adopting Test-Driven Development in their organization. A big part of doing TDD effectively is coming to an agreement as to

Lean-Agile Budgeting: A Conversation with Guy Beaver and Kelley Horton Guy Beaver, Kelley Horton, and Jim Trott discuss Lean-Agile Budgeting, a critical, though often an overlooked, topic in Lean-Agile Transformation. Budgets are powerful statements abou

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Middle Management and Lean-Agile: A Conversation with Dr. Tom Grant Dr. Tom Grant and Jim Trott discuss the implications of Lean and Agile software development for middle management. The role is changed, with different skills and behaviors required. Mana

Management and Trust: A Twibinar with Esther Derby and Alan Shalloway (audio of the webinar) On July 16, 2012, Alan Shalloway and Esther Derby held a twibinar conversation on Trust and Management. Talking with each other and with attendees who participa

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Product Portfolio Management: Why It Is Critical for Agile at Scale This is going to be the topic of a webinar on June 18, 2012. We frequently hear about organizations who have had good success with Agile at a team level - good productivity gains, highe

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A New Season and a New Webinar Series It is springtime in Seattle, a good time to start anew. Since the last season of Lean-Agile Straight Talk, we have been writing and consulting and coaching and working with many clients. We have greatly deepened our

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[** Notes from LeanSSC Atlanta 2010**](http://www.netobjectives.com/podcasts/last20100507_podcasts.mp3) In this show, Alan Shalloway shares his impressions from the inaugural conference of the [LeanSSC](http://www.leanssc.org) which was held in Atlanta, Georgia. LeanSSC stands for the _Lean Software and Systems Consortium_. This is a consortium of practitioners and experts from …

Notes from LeanSSC Atlanta 2010 In this show, Alan Shalloway shares his impressions from the inaugural conference of the LeanSSC which was held in Atlanta, Georgia. LeanSSC stands for the Lean Software and Systems Consortium. This is a consortium of pra

Notes from LeanSSC Atlanta 2010In this show, Alan Shalloway shares his impressions from the inaugural conference of the LeanSSC which was held in Atlanta, Georgia. LeanSSC stands for the Lean Software …