#0015 - Agile Military ideas with Ben Ford

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11/16/21 • 37 min

Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with former Royal Marine Commando Ben Ford about how agile practices mirror modern military practices in the field. We discuss John Boyd's OODA loop and the value of an accurate model of one's environment for good decision making. And we discuss mission command and the value of leadership training to develop an effective approach for orders, planning, delegation, and review. We hope this episode provides food for thought on how you can utilise some of these military leadership principles to enhance your agile practices in the software product development world.

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Connect with Ben on LinkedIn or over at https://commando.dev

Contact Murray via email or Shane on LinkedIn shagility.

You can read the podcast transcript at:
https://agiledata.io/podcast/no-nonsense-agile-podcast/agile-military-ideas-with-ben-ford/#read

The No Nonsense Agile podcast is sponsored by:

Simply Magical Data

Listen to the podcast on your favourite podcast app:

Connect with Ben on LinkedIn or over at https://commando.dev

Contact Murray via email or Shane on LinkedIn shagility.

You can read the podcast transcript at:
https://agiledata.io/podcast/no-nonsense-agile-podcast/agile-military-ideas-with-ben-ford/#read

The No Nonsense Agile podcast is sponsored by:

Simply Magical Data

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#0014 - Agile Product Development

Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation about Agile product development. discuss what a product is and what a product manager does. We talk about the value of customer feedback and the need to test your hypotheses. We define minimum viable products and discuss technical debt, scaling and co-designing products with customers. And we talk about how you can move from a project to a product mentality and the value of applying an iterative approach to your marketing and sales. All this and more, stay tuned.

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Contact Murray via email or Shane on LinkedIn shagility.

You can read the podcast transcript at:

https://agiledata.io/podcast/no-nonsense-agile-podcast/agile-product-development/#read

The No Nonsense Agile podcast is sponsored by:

Simply Magical Data

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#016 - Sam McAfee - digital product development

Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Sam McAfee about leading digital product development. Building a great product team. Working remotely. Real agile vs fake agile. Factory model vs product model. Empowering teams. Building influence and trust. Bringing marketing, design and engineering into one cross functional product team. From functional silos to capability building. Product managers vs Product owners. What a great product manager does. Holistic product leaders. Lean startup and fast feedback. Long term vs short term thinking. The Product canvas and hypothesis testing. Scaling product teams. Change requires leadership.

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