Category Archives: meetups

Vic (@AgileCoffee) hopped on Zoom with Paul Tevis (@PTevis) and had a nice chat back in mid-March… a couple weeks after the world turned upside down. We talked about Paul’s workshops on remote facilitation and techniques for making the most with meetings in general. Find more about Paul’s services – including his upcoming FREE workshops – at https://www.vigemus.com/ Stay safe, and enjoy your coffee with geographically distant friends 🙂

Recorded in September 2018, Vic (@AgileCoffee) was joined by several participants of Agile Open SoCal 2018, including Colleen Kirtland (@PurposeCreator), Ben Rodilitz (@BenRodilitz), Larry Lawhead (@LarryLawhead), Harold Shinsato (@hajush) and Dan Brown (@dsbrown) where we reflect back on two days of Agile Open goodness on the campus of UCI in Irvine, CA . Upcoming events:Agile Open SoCal – September 9 & 10, 2019 – Irvine, CA – more info Looking for Agile/Scrum/Kanban training in Southern California? Rocket Nine has got you covered. Visit RocketNineSolutions.com today.

Ahh, the joys of Agile Opens. Meeting and mingling with fellow practitioners while learning new ideas and sharing experiences. For this episode, Vic (@AgileCoffee) traveled to Seattle for the Agile Open Northwest before bopping down to San Diego to visit Agile Open San Diego. Both multi-day events were held in February. In Seattle, Vic was joined by David Snook, Joel Bancroft-Connors (@JBC_GC), Dain Charbonneau (@Dainpc) and Harold Shinsato (@hajush). In San Diego, Vic sat with Rich Clingman, Jason Kerney (@JasonKerney) and Sarah Wiezel. Topics from this episode include: Agile Ethics Happy does not equal Healthy What does Agile look like when we…

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In memory of Jean Tabaka. Recorded at the Scrum Alliance’s Global Scrum Gathering in Orlando, FL, this episode features nine voices. Vic (@AgileCoffee) was joined by eight fellow participants (all working with Agile/Scrum teams) to discuss some highlights of the gathering. Guests list: Stuart Young (@Stuartliveart) Laura Powers (@poweredbyteams) Kim Brainard (@agilebrain1) Stuart Fish (@fishstua) Jamie Crews (@jamie_crews) Anderson Hummel (@anderson_hummel) Scott Dunn (@sdunnrocket9) David Gardner Karaoke pics: coming soon Vic rocks the karaoke stage?

A very special guest introduces episode 37, and you can see her on video at Kickstarter. On this episode Vic is joined by Curtis Gilbert, Larry Lawhead (@LarryLawhead) & Brett Palmer (@brett_palmer) to discuss topics from volume II of the Agile Coffee Conversation Starters. We dove into: Personal Kanban in Daily Life Thomas Leonard’s The Nine Environments of You Trello (online kanban tool) Can PMs be Good SMs? How does Agile Change People? Liftoff by Diana Larsen and Ainsley Nies Power of the SM Our Professional Development books on audio / book summaries: Audible, Safari, Scribd, Blinkest What are these Agile Coffee decks? We’ve…

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UPDATE: They’re done! More info here. – – – – I’ve been talking up my Lean Coffee Conversation Starters since the early part of this year, mostly in face-to-face discussions. The decks I have been envisioning would each contain the best and most popular topics from my over three years of hosting local meetups, as well as a number of sessions up and down the West coast and throughout the Midwest. Once summer hit, I poured much of my time into producing these decks: cultivating the right questions, getting the design and layout right, and running tests with printers and…

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In addition to our regular podcasts, I host a couple lean coffee meetups every month where we get people dropping in who are less experienced yet very curious about Agile methodologies and lean principles. One common theme at these in-person sessions centers around the role of a ScrumMaster, and it’s a topic that engages us old-timers just as much. Many of us have been serving as ScrumMaster of our teams, but the job description changes for every workplace and every team. For this reason, I trust the responses from my peers; still, we’re often left with more questions than “correct” answers.…

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Theme: Agile Community Events Dr. Dave (@DrCorneliusInfo) joins Vic (@AgileCoffee) for a beautiful morning on Huntington Beach discussing all manner of Agile community events: Agile Opens (and other open space uses), coaching retreats and camps, lean coffees, hackathons. Dave talks about the 5Saturdays model, and we tell how to find, get involved and host these activities. This is one of my favorite episodes. In addition to the excellent scenery and the superb company, I very much enjoy talking about community events. Not only do I believe that community is important and fulfilling, but I have a penchant for organizing these…

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Recently I was asked about using Lean Coffee (LC) in the workplace, something I’ve been doing for the past few years. While I’m a strong advocate for LC’s workplace applications, I’d like to start with my view of the broader picture. (I’ve written about my experiences with LC before, but this post has more experiences to back it up.) I’d originally heard about Lean Coffee three years ago when I met Jim Benson at SFAgile2012. I immediately fell in love with the framework, so much so that I switched my twitter handle to @AgileCoffee.  Once I returned from the conference, I started a bi-weekly…

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Vic is joined by returning guest Dale Ellis (@theDigitalDale) and newcomer Alberto Hernandez for a fresh brew of Agile topics: “Death March” Scrum and Kanban – Dale bases this question on Edward Yourdon’s “Death March“ How can ERP implementations be sped up using Agile methodologies? – Alberto has much experience with ERP rollouts but wants to know how they can improve Internal Hackathons – Vic talks about running a four-day coding event inside his company Announcing Agile Coach Camp US West. For the first time on the US west coast (and only the sixth time in the USA), Agile Coach Camp is…

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