Intents & Ideas Podcast

Episode 7: Top 20 Agile Books

Dustin Johnson and Lemont Chambliss take turns sharing their top 10 agile books with brief descriptions or reasons why. This one first in a series of short 10min podcasts, We hope you enjoy listening and hopefully adding some books to your to read list.

Episode 6: How can a backlog stifle innovation

In this episode we invite Product Owner and Scrum Master Sarah Kurjanovs to join as and discuss what it means to manage a backlog and how ever growing backlogs can lead to stifling innovation. You'll also get to learn two great ways to pronounce Sarah's last name. Curry + (On/Off) or Curry+ (Stroganoff-Strog)

Episode 4: Story Points, the good bad and ungly

In this episode we discuss story points and earn some important uses like triggering conversations, understanding capacity but also that you must set clear expectations when adopting story points. These include knowing your assumptions and understanding factors like maturity, time, and purpose. This conversation was longer than normal so this is part one and for alternatives to using story points look for our part two follow up.

Episode 5: Alternatives to Story Points, aka Lemont's World

In this episode welcome to Lemont's World, Lemont's World... where we continue the conversation on story points but dive into alternatives for measuring capacity and forecasting without story points. We discuss measures like story counts, cycle and lead time, throughput, and monte carlo  forecasting.

Episode 3: Commitment

In this episode Lemont & Dustin discuss what commitment means and how it affects agility. Listen to two agile gurus pretend to be experts on marriage come up with idea: Alignment and shared understanding lead to commitments but, commitments without sacrifice are unprioritized.