Walking Their Talk, Sustainability, Inspiration
Robert Galen
Sustainability

I saw this wonderfully courageous and informative post by Sabine Canditt the other day where she wrote about Sustainable Scrum. 

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sustainable-scrum-responsible-choice-sabine-canditt-x0gef

After just completing a The Week program facilitated by the amazing Ann-Marie Kong, it touched my heart.

That said, I wanted to highlight one comment reaction/interaction between Sabine and Erich Bühler 

Erich said—

Thank you for bringing this approach into the world! Scrum does provide an iterative approach for teams to create value, but its scope is limited to the product level and struggles with dynamics across the whole organization for several reasons.
Without updating the underlying business and financial model at a strategic level, Scrum alone cannot transform organization-wide sustainability.

Sustainability
Short-takes, Inspiration
Robert Galen
Sandy’s Take
Sandy’s Take
Short-takes, Personal Thoughts
Robert Galen
The Human Aspects of Agile Coaching
The Human Aspects of Agile Coaching
Coaching, ACGW, Personal Thoughts
Robert Galen
Keys to Building your Coaching Relationships

I talk a lot about the first step in coaching any client (individual, system, team, etc.) is to build a relationship, gain empathy and understanding, and then gain an idea of where/how to help initially. So, do NOT start to coach until you’ve done some relationship-building. 

But what does a coaching relationship, or a professional relationship in general, look like? What are aspects of that? Here are a few things that come to my mind—

  • Making + taking the time.

  • Explaining what you do—what is Agile Coaching.

  • Building some empathy; walking in their shoes; understanding where they are coming from.

  • Meeting them where they are.

  • Listening; reflective listening; building metaphors together.

  • Connecting with their language, not yours.

Keys to Building your Coaching Relationships
Personal Thoughts, Short-takes
Robert Galen
Privilege Awareness

I recently replied to a LinkedIn post by David Pereira. It was a wonderful post, and I applaud David’s boldness and courage in sharing it. 

Here’s a post comment from Stefan Wolpers—

While I agree fully with your personal stance regarding professionalism, David Pereira, some people will shy away, given the current economic climate. Some of the previously aggravated people may seek an opportunity to settle scores.

And here’s my comment—

I love the clarity (No BS) here. Clarity for David and clarity for those who want to work with and who don't want to work with him.
That said, David has the unique privilege that allows him to adopt this clarity. Many don't.

This post is not about David per se. Instead, he inspired me to write it.

Privilege Awareness

Help

Looking for Production Help with our Meta-cast

Josh Anderson and I have been doing the Meta-cast for 10+ years. And it’s been a labor of love for the two of us to “give back” to our agile community. Most (all) of the production effort has fallen to Josh, which Bob realizes is totally unfair. And it’s time-consuming.

Josh and I have often talked about taking the Meta-cast “up a level” in a variety of ways, but we both lack the time. But the other day we had an epiphany. Why not ask folks for help? So, here we are…we need your help.

Tactical Help

  • Help with the editing of new episodes

  • Posting new episodes with related links and content

  • Transcribing new episodes

And…

Strategic Help

  • Helping us figure out how to better activate our Agile Podcast Network

  • Increase our Patreon funding

  • Help us with monetizing our content

    • Transcriptions, English and others

    • Capturing themes & bundling

    • Reordering content

    • Re-edit / improve content

    • Marketing the value

  • Helping us on the Diversity & Inclusion front

What’s in it for you?

Frankly, we’re not quite sure. But we think…

  • Getting the chance to work with us in crafting the go-forward nature of the Meta-cast

  • Getting a chance to work with 2 (arguably fun) agile experts—learning and growing

  • If we generate sufficient revenue, we’ll come up with some sort of sharing model

Wrapping Up

We’re looking for serious help. Please don’t reply if you don’t have the time to commit and the passion to be a part of something that can be BIGGER than it is now. Please reach out to Bob Galen and/or Josh Anderson with your interest and any questions… 

Come be a part of…The Meta-cast!

Josh & Bob