In episode 1 of a 3 part conversation with Chuck Durfee, Scrum Master, Agile Denver Board Member Emeritus, recent MBA graduate, recovering developer, and friend of neon tapirs everywhere, we discuss the following.
- His 6 year history with Agile Denver, and the evolution of the Mile High Agile conference.
- His experience as a Scrum Master, and his first experiment with Agile Scrum.
- His early revelations with Agile.
- Startup like experiences and the evolutionary path of backlog refinement.
- War Rooms, Kanban style boards, tracking, and flow optimization.
- The invaluable practice of asking questions.
- Grassroots idea generation and dispersion.
- His intuitive way of uncovering motivations.
- Enticing people to apply their interests in new ways.
- Developing cross-functional teams and organizations.
- Leveraging transferrable skill sets, and cross-training.
- Enhancing empathy by getting developers to think from a customer's point of view.
- Developing a vocabulary from patterns, and how doing things empirically makes it difficult to name what you are doing.
- Collaboration, Paul Raynor, and the need to develop a ubiquitous (shared) language.
- Design Thinking. Domain Driven Design.
- Cross-training, and the development of multidisciplinary teams and organizations.
- Experimentation, Innovation, Managing Risk.
And now welcome to the first episode of a 3 part conversation with Chuck Durfee.