What happens when deeply experienced agilists get together and share a virtual coffee each week? Find out here! The Coffee Club explores the many edges of agility, the mindsets of successful agile organizations, and the personal connections change agents need to have to their work. This show is different than our others. It's where we let go of structure, focus on meaning, and explore whatever is of interest to us in the moment. Anchored by SAFe Fellows Mark Richards, Eric Willeke, and Rebecca Davis, this show also features a rotating cast of characters drawn from our favorite coaches and leaders.
Shaping Agility Coffee Club
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What happens when deeply experienced agilists get together and share a virtual coffee each week? Find out here! The Coffee Club explores the many edges of agility, the mindsets of successful agile organizations, and the personal connections change agents need to have to their work. This show is different than our others. It's where we let go of structure, focus on meaning, and explore whatever is of interest to us in the moment. Anchored by SAFe Fellows Mark Richards, Eric Willeke, and Rebecca Davis, this show also features a rotating cast of characters drawn from our favorite coaches and leaders.
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April 28, 2024
Building Community and Sharing Anticipation for the Berlin SAFe Summit (#7)
<p><b><em>"I love the people; I love my community. But it’s hearing new problems and understanding where they fit in the landscape of how people are trying to advance agility in their company. For me, that’s always the best part of the summit!" - </em></b><b>Eric Willeke</b></p><p>The Berlin SAFe Summit brought most of the Shaping Agility community together in one place for the first time since we formed. We seized the opportunity to record a face-to-face podcast, which was, more truthfully, the beer club than the coffee club.</p><p>Eric started the conversation by asking Ali, Saahil, and Mark what we were most looking forward to about the Summit. Somehow, that detoured into the backstory of how Shaping Agility began and the journey we’d been on together for the last year.</p><p>A joke about how we’d emerged from ‘early access’ kicked us down the gaming path. We found ourselves discussing vintage pinball machines and using mame emulators to record ancient video games so young students would understand our metaphors.</p><p>It was truly a joy to sit around a table in an Airbnb with rugs draped on the walls to reduce the echo and podcast-in-person!<br/><br/><b>Cast:</b></p><p><a href='http://linkedin.com/in/ericwilleke'>Eric Willeke</a></p><p><a href='https://www.linkedin.com/in/amarkrichards/'>Mark Richards</a></p><p><a href='https://www.linkedin.com/in/saahilpanikar?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base_contact_details%3B2W1EXffsR%2BWH4v81zYQJyA%3D%3D'>Saahil Panikar</a></p><p><a href='https://www.linkedin.com/in/alihajou/'>Ali Hajou</a></p>
April 18, 2024
BDD, Joy, and Helping People with Problems rather than Inflicting Practices
<p><b><em>“What’s the moment when you can help people understand the cause of some pain they’re in and offer them something that’s going to help with the pain?” - </em></b><b>Mark Richards</b></p><p> Rebecca’s back from Disneyworld! Mark’s discussion with two of his children about BDD triggers a fun exploration of our experiences with introducing it. We detour through Mark observing some people trying out Eric’s new PI Objective toolkit before life gets a little contentious. </p><p>Somehow, a chat about introducing tools and concepts ‘when people need them’ rather than ‘because you should’ triggers an exploration of motivation. Rebecca never strays too far from joy, Mark gets accused of being anti-joy, and Eric believes you don’t have to find joy in the workplace to be a great employee!</p><p><b>Cast:</b></p><p><a href='http://linkedin.com/in/ericwilleke'>Eric Willeke</a></p><p><a href='https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-davis-safe/'>Rebecca Davis</a> </p><p><a href='https://www.linkedin.com/in/amarkrichards/'>Mark Richards</a></p><p><b>Book References:</b></p><ul><li><a href='https://amzn.asia/d/dOsw7xX'>The Cucumber Book</a> – Mat Wynne, Aslak Hellesoy, Steve Tooke</li><li><a href='https://amzn.asia/d/7kxy30S'>Specification by Example</a> – Gojko Adzic</li></ul>
March 25, 2024
Exploring the power of cohort based training (#4)
<p><em>"I deeply love curiosity-driven learning. Go figure" - </em>Eric Willeke</p><p>Rebecca leaves Eric and Mark unsupervised this week, and the conversation winds up revolving around Mark's highlight of the week, which is his excitement as he experiences the power of cohort-based training.</p><p>The exploration begins by comparing our mental models of what a training course is and the realization that although it's Mark's favorite new toy, Eric is no stranger to it. After a chat about how COVID forced us to learn to facilitate engaging virtual collaboration, we can't resist a trip down memory lane to reminisce on our early training experiences (a scary 30 years ago for Mark).</p><p>Moving on, we reflect on how often we jam too much information into people's heads in a multi-day course. Eric shares his love of the Kirkpatrick model for evaluating training effectiveness, which prompted a long discussion about the importance of making sure you're using the right training at the right time rather than just sprinkling it around.</p><p>A fun chat about the pros and cons of world-building to provide a useful 'created' context for training exercises versus using a series of exercises to establish a local 'in-house' context follows. After exploring the differentiation between a 'workshop which includes training' and 'experiential training,' we wrap up by chatting about some of the logistical trade-offs between multi-day and cohort-based.</p><p><b>Cast:</b></p><p><a href='http://linkedin.com/in/ericwilleke'>Eric Willeke</a></p><p><a href='https://www.linkedin.com/in/amarkrichards/'>Mark Richards</a><br/><br/><a href='https://www.shapingagility.com/blog/coffee-club-e4'>Show Notes</a></p><p><b>References:</b></p><p><a href='https://www.kirkpatrickpartners.com/the-kirkpatrick-model/'>The Kirkpatrick training model</a></p>
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