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#Interview with Angie Doyle for the #video edition of Who is #agile (#WIa055)

We talked about
– Moving from #Johannesburg to #Hilversum / #Amsterdam
– Living near the media hub
– Paying for her own studies..
– How being #blamed for a bad system by a bad leader, influenced her #leadership style.
She argues very well.
– Reading the small letters in #contracts and finding errors.
– #Learning a new language is harder when people are older.
– Having a big #backlog.
– #SayingNo to things she is passionate about.
– Being in the board of directors of the Agile Alliance
– Being #ValueDriven.
– Not being afraid of having difficult #conversations.
– Making the agile #community more visible #divers.
– Privileges makes us take things for granted.
– #Empowering local communities
– Working in a board with different #timezones

– Taking the time for more exclusive words in a book.
– What is the one thing you wish you learned earlier.
– The difference between training, coaching #ORSCC
– New African voices
– Emerging economies initiative (from the AA)

We also talked about
Aanu Gopald
Bob Galen 🇺🇦
Angela (?)
Geike Hanoulle

Book:

Lead without Blame (Diana Larsen – Leadership Agility Advisor Larsen & Tricia Broderick – Leadership Advisor Broderick)

Angie invites

–Chardi Taylor
– Ricardo Abella – MBA, PMP, CSP
– Nono Donsa
– Bevan Williams
– Ellen Grove
– Apeksha Patel

#Interview with Matteo Vaccari for the #video edition of Who is #agile (#WIa054)

We talked about

– XpdaysBenelux is still the best agile #conference he went to.
– How he was inspired by Pascal Van Cauwenberghe & Vera Peeters
– Thoughtworks
– Workshop on #refactoring & #obfuscating code from Vera Peeters
(link on youtube)
– Susan Cain defintion on #introvert
– We always need to #learn
– Any company we work for is a bit a mysterie
– Getting feedback about what he does
– Underlying everything Matteo does is delivering excellence
– Delivering value beyond expectation is a #team sport
– Working on once self
– To unlock potential
– Everything we do is a compromise of a sort
– Fixed price, fixed stop is an agile work is possible.
(Great articles on the youtube video
– Sitting on the floor
– The range of movements we do when #camping is good for our health.
– Taking care of his back and staying healthy buy standing more…
– Our #furniture is created to avoid us making extreme movements
– We need #movement.
– Thinking beyond the basic qualities
– What are the qualities your product need?
– You need to optimise for the qualities your stakeholders care about
– Delivering the functional spec is the price to pay to stay into the game
– Being ahead of the qualities is what makes a #competitive product
– What if a single team is not enough to deliver to software
– Can we #collaborate less? ==> more async?
– No dashboard can give you the same advantage as #integrating software and seeing the software does more then last time…
– It’s not just how to organised the teams, it’s about how how you organise the companies

Personal Agility
Taking personal notes in a notebook, in a not digital way.
#GTD

Remote tip
Not sitting in a chair while working at home
Either standing or sitting on the ground.

Books we talked abut:
– Quiet (Susan Cain)
– Principles of Software Engineering Management (Tom Gilb)
(Picture of Joppe Hanoulle & Tom)

Matteo invites Rob Sollars

#Interview with Suwilo C. for the #video edition of Who is #agile (#WIa053)
She was invited by Bevan Williams

We talked about

– how she rolled into agile
– How although she considers herself an #introvert, in many cases she is the first person to speak in her team
– Cultural difference between her #culture and my western culture.
– A #scrummaster has a guiding role
– Being a new girl many times as a result of her family moving a lot.
– I am my worst critic
– Imposter syndrome
-In her extended original family, the culture is that the eldest take care of their younger siblings.
– Her first personal growth decisions, and what made it possible.
– Cultural difference between her culture and my western culture.
– It takes a village to raise a child.
– Being where she is now, is her biggest achievement
– Embrace #change
– Be ok to divorce from your #opinion
– So what?
– Remote working during #covid, gave me a flexibility that I did not know I wanted needed it.
– Humans adopt.
– #RemoteWork requires discipline, discipline to stop working.
– When she started working, she learned to work: I go to the office and then I come back.
– Know your enemy & your biggest enemy is yourself
– Not assuming her husband speaks for her, can be seen as disrespectful in some cultures

Book:
Survival guide for Women in IT (Anna Fiofilova)

Su invites Pendo Manjele

#Interview with Willem Larsen for the #video edition of Who is #agile (#WIa052)

We talked about
– Commodification of attention
– Leader of agile teams
– Learning a language can be fun
– Language hunter game
– Social learning
– Collaborative learning
– Ensemble/teaming/mobbing =) team learning
– The mob programming roleplaying game (URL in shownotes on youtube)
– How different the skills of social learning are from technical skills
– Working as a search and rescue volunteer
– Balancing out himself
– Looking at local native tribes
– #Languages that struggle to be past on to the next generation of speakers
– Having Danish speaking grandparents
– In globalising culture, we tend to think that we should all do the same and that is where succes is, where it’s actually the tension between how we sync up with each other and diversify, that is where all the creativity lies and where all the knowledge is locked up.

– Multilangualizems is where the real power is.
– It’s easy to think about if you give it a name.
– There is not one right way to use a word
– Dictionary are describing, not prescribing.
– Our culture is what we create and recreate every day.
– It’s easy yet takes work to let people take over his role.
– Allowing him to step away.
– Punching up
– #Leaders, #parents anyone holding space for .. have the single worst space for information
– If you want to know what happens in the wood, ask the mouse.
– Our job as leader is to bubble up the frustrations.
– Unless it’s useful to show it hurts, I don’t make it about me.
– How much can joy accomplice
– Pomodoro’s
– 1 minute retrospectives
– The most stable video and audio connection
– How many eye jumps do we make.
– Infants have a higher rate of eye jumps…
– Open spaces: expect to be surprised
– Children don’t get the time to be bored anymore.
– When in doubt about a track, come up with 50 questions about the track?
– Leave your phone
– Commodification of attention
– The device serves us.
– What is missing from agile leadership

Books:
– The Five Rules of Accelerated Learning
– Time and beauty (Adrian Bejan)

Conference:
– #Thermodynamics of #emotions symposium

Invited
April Jefferson “Soul Craftswoman”

Category: Agile

Angie Doyle talks about her work in the board of directors of the agile alliance

Companies we work for, are always a bit of a mystery according to Matteo Vaccari #WhoIsagile #WIa54

Suwilo Chanda sometimes has a split personality as a scrummaster…#Whoisagile #WIa053

Willems helps to preserve tribal languages #WhoIsagile #WIa52

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