Here's This Agile Thing

Summary: In light of the recent partnership between PMI and the Agile Alliance, our hosts share their perspectives on this development, scratch the surface on the respective histories of each organization and generally ponder what the longer term impacts (hopefully positive) may spring from this super alliance.

Summary: It's a new year and in this episode, our three headed monster (hosts MM&J), decide to retrospect on the previous year (2024) of HTAT episodes. What did we like, dislike, learn and how to shape the coming year ahead. All in an effort to be more appealing to our target audience and guide the path forward in 2025. Are we eating our own cooking (or "dogfood" if you will)?

Summary: This week, to follow up our previous conversation on AI, we take another excursion down "Augmented Intelligence" lane in an effort to help Matt justify purchasing a new high powered machine to help him experiment locally with few LLM's (e.g. Llama vs. Perplexity) for analyzing project data and seeing where the current boundaries lie in their ability to augment plannin

Summary: In this super fun episode we pick the brains of Chad Burmeister, lifetime sales geek, original founder of bdr.ai, and now host of podcast AI for Sales, and explore how Chad applied AI and LLM bots to aid in business development (AI powered BDRs). Chad shares his perspectives and cites a number of current tools that "listen" for market signals, leading to more efficient

Summary: This episode, our three host crew banter about a number of items: Having a growth mindset (versus a fixed one), eating our own dog food - or at least modeling the behaviors we espouse, exploring new job opportunities to apply lean and agile principles by doing (versus merely teaching / coaching), and debate whether consultants/coaches have any skin in the game. All i

Summary: This week, we kick around what it means to be a consultant that is focused on delivering true value to customers. We examine mindsets, behaviors and desired outcomes when we are at our best. We ponder questions like: Are we setting good examples and modeling the behaviors we espouse to our clients? What is in a good consultant's repertoire? Is it just about a bunch of

Summary: This week's episode we follow up the discussion from an earlier episode we recorded with Scott Ambler where he shared his view of why/how the Agile Industrial Complex went off the rails. As hosts, we felt a follow up was imperative, so we discuss the general tone of the session with Scott and try to address the obvious issues with not having a seat at the management ta

Summary: Are you seeing what we're seeing? A barrage of Meetup death notifications. Today's episode we're joined by good friend, colleague and progenitor of this podcast, Rick Waters. This is a fun discussion as we delve into what appears to be an agile Meetup extinction event. But is it more than that? Is it even unique to the agile space or something bigger, more fundamen

Summary: Our guest this episode is Steve Periera, co-author of Flow Engineering, who in a genuinely insightful session shares with us the background and experiences leading him from value stream mapping to effective approaches that help improve flow efficiency. Steve identifies the problems that flow engineering solves (more done in less time, with less effort, better qualit

Summary: This episode, hosts Matt, Mike and Jeff, revisit the creation of an assessment without reliance on Agile vernacular. But with an additional twist - testing the "assistance" of an LLM/Robot. They ran some criteria by the LLM (Perplexity) and asked it to create an assessment unencumbered by Agile terminology to see what kind of first draft it could turn out. The robo