058 Fred Fowler Scrum Is for Figuring It Out

06/26/19 • 69 min

Fred Fowler changed the way I think about agile. And specifically how I think about scrum. He helped me realize that scrum is for projects that require you to figure it out. That's why scrum works so well for software projects because the speed and frequency at which software needs to be shipped, we are always figuring it out. Waterfall methods of work are for work that you've already figured out. You may use scrum to figure out how to build a house. When you are ready to take that house and build 50 of them, you wouldn't use scrum anymore. Software projects aren't the only type of work that requires a continuous process of figuring it out.

Fred Fowler is scrum certified. He has is Profession Scrum Masters (PSM I and PSM II). He is also only one of 50 people or show with his PSM III. He also offers enterprise coaching services and training classes to help people become PSM certified. Fred is also author of, "Navigating Hybrid Scrum Environments: Understanding the Essentials, Avoiding the Pitfalls." To say that Fred is an agile coach is understating his career in a big way. He has had an extensive career in the public sector serving on the city council for the city of Sunnyvale in the heart of Silicon Valley and is the former mayor of Sunnyvale. Fred is currently working on a project in East Palo Alto, CA called Project WeHope, helping people become healthy, employed, and housed.

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057 Keith Mattes "Unsiloed" Jira and Salesforce

Keith Mattes, senior program manager / Gainsight administrator at Pearson, joins Nice Work to talk about how reduce support case resolution connecting Jira and Salesforce. Along the way, he also broke down silos by connecting development teams with customer support teams. He did this in the face of organizational resistance. As in most organizations, there are barriers to trying new things, especially connecting systems and integrating data across them. On the journey to overcome this resistance, Keith asked a lot of questions, questioned the status quo (politely, we might add), and got Jira and Salesforce connected. There is a lesson here in challenging the status quo with questions...it helped that Keith was new to the teach and could ask the "Huh" and "Why" questions that most people, who have been on a team a long time, can be afraid to ask. But this is how change is done.

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059 Becky Flint Responsive PPM Keeps Product Managers Sane in an Insane World

Becky Flint, co-founder and CEO of Dragonboat.io, joins Nice Work to talk about how to bring strategy and execution together in the product development lifecycle using a process called Responsive Portfolio Program Management (Responsive PPM). Dragonboat has a tight integration with Jira, and if Jira represents the execution cycle, Dragonboat represents the strategic cycle. We dive deep into Responsive PPM and how it can help product teams deal with the onslaught of competing priorities that they deal with every day... and keep their sanity.

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