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 […]
Author: Michael Marchi
Skin in the Game
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 […]
Flow’s Up, Scrum’s Down
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Cancel Culture and Agile Practices
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The Cost of Conflict
What is conflict on your teams really costing you? Is it possible to quantify it? What happens if you ignore it or fail to address it adequately?
Value Density and Cost of Delay
If you wait too long to do certain things, they’re less valuable once they’re finally delivered. Here we discuss ways of structuring your backlog to maximize value delivery using a Cost of Delay approach.
Theory of Constraints
A really broad overview of the Theory of Constraints created by Eliyahu Goldratt. https://www.tocinstitute.org
TameFlow
A really broad overview of the TameFlow approach created by Steve Tendon. https://tameflow.com
The 6 Types of Working Genius
A review of the book by Patrick Lencioni.
Flow Metrics for Scrum Teams
For complex work, we have to move past the mindset of deterministic predictions. Probabilistic forecasts are much more useful. Why? Because your inputs are random variables.