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Here's This Agile Thing

Mar 11, 2025

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In most organizations, the traditional path of systems and software development falls into what Tim Ottinger describes as Scatter-Gather. Examined carefully and objectively, it is an exceedingly inefficient approach for development, and yet it crops up everywhere.

 

This episode, we get to talk to Tim...


Mar 4, 2025

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Dysfunction Mapping is a practical method developed by Michael Lloyd to help organizations spot and fix hidden problems that slow them down. It systematically identifies areas where communication breaks down, processes aren’t working, or team dynamics are strained. The goal isn’t just to point out...


Feb 25, 2025

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What might a successful organization look like (and function like) if launched from day 1 adhering to agile values and principles?

This week we are joined by Chandresh Patel, Founder and CEO of Bacancy Groups, a visionary entrepreneur who is passionate about innovation, leadership, and building...


Feb 18, 2025

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Here's a proposition - that the application of Agile has not delivered to desired organizational outcomes. What has been the ROI of the implementation of agile concepts and principles? Matt proposes that TOC addresses the gap.

 

Once again we open "The Goal" to interpret the practical use of Thinking...


Feb 13, 2025

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Time for a book deep dive. This episode we dig into the Theory of Constraints as explained in the management novel "The Goal" by late Eli Goldratt (Goldratt and Cox) in 1984. Some deep (and sometimes vociferous) debate on dissecting the language, the context of the 80's (when the book was published)  and...