Best Coach On Call Agile Helpdesk Podcasts (2025)

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#ExpressoTechSips - Maturity and Growth Empowerment, Metrics, Accountability 15:00

2+ y ago15:00

15:00

It's time to grow up, if you've been doing agile the same way since you started - That's a problem. Using a 5 tier model to measure your continuous improvement: Level 1 - Ad hoc Agile (Individual/Team) Level 2 - Doing Agile (Team) (Mindset Shift) Level 3 - Being Agile (Team/Program) (Basic Metrics/Empowered Teams) Level 4 - Think Agile, High Perfor…

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The Great Agile Debate - Prove Your Agile Coach Wrong! 11:00

2+ y ago11:00

11:00

Often time people want the Agile Coach to "pick a side", who's right or who's wrong: Should all agile teams be smaller than 9 people? Do we have to have daily stand-ups every day? Do we have to have a daily stand-up on the day we have retrospectives? Can we combine the demo and the retrospective? Can we extend our sprint a week if we want? Can we c…

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#ExpressTechSip - Having a Group versus Team Mindset Toward Agile 17:00

2+ y ago17:00

17:00

After listening to this podcast, try to take an honest look at your current environment and company culture and see if you have created Groups of Individual Contributors that work together (and may get along GREAT but don't actually collaborate) or have you created a TEAMs of people. Listen and make a list of questions related to your (1) Goals (2)…

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#ExpressoTechSip - How To Bring Life & Energy to Ceremonies 18:00

2+ y ago18:00

18:00

I will be the first to admit Agile Ceremonies can get stale and mundane. It's important that you don't go the 'lazy' route and just cancel these ceremonies. Take the time and effort to energize them. You get out of it, what you put into it. Put a little thought, planning, creativity, and inspiration into these ceremonies. Make it a priority and be …

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#ExpressoTechSip - One Slide At A Time - How To Avoid Hiring an Agile Coach 17:00

2+ y ago17:00

17:00

I'm 100% serious. The hiring of Agile Coaches is on the rise but why spend the money and bring people from outside your organization when you can have someone inside your organization take an Agile class or two? Even though I'm a very seasoned Agile Coach, I'm not going to tell you that it's not impossible but I do want to give you a little heads-u…

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#ExpressoTechSips - One Slide At A Time - Can You Scrum With A Remote Team? 15:00

2+ y ago15:00

15:00

Those who have been practicing Agile / Scrum before and during the COVID pandemic have had to face a real dilemma of whether you can properly execute Agile especially Scrum with a remote team. If you can't do it properly then the next question is should you abandon scrum altogether? Is a half attempt at Scrum done remotely better than no attempt? W…

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One Slide At A Time Episode #43 - 4 Must Have Tools Every Agile Toolbox Needs 8:00

4y ago8:00

8:00

Jacqueline Sanders-Blackman shares insights on the pitfalls, anti-patterns, and missteps of being/doing/going Agile. Check Out The Agile Angst Newsletter - https://conta.cc/3kdc9RxBy Agile IT Coach OnCall Helpdesk

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One Slide At A Time Episode #42 - How long does it take to convert to Agile? 12:00

4y ago12:00

12:00

Jacqueline Sanders-Blackman share insights on How long does it take realistically to convert from Waterfall to Agile? Also check out our Agile Angst - Ask the Agile Coach On Call - https://conta.cc/3kdc9RxBy Agile IT Coach OnCall Helpdesk

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One Slide At A Time Episode #41 - Is the Gherkin Approach a Replacement ... 14:00

4y ago14:00

14:00

Gherkin approach is a great way to test acceptance criteria and a pre-cursor to the acceptance test and automated test scripts but not a replacement for acceptance criteria. About the host: Jacqueline Sanders-Blackman https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacqueline007/By Agile IT Coach OnCall Helpdesk

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One Slide At A Time Episode #40 - Team Backlog Work Items 15:00

4y ago15:00

15:00

This episode @jacqueline007 Jacqueline Sanders-Blackman talks about other Backlog Work Items, besides just user stories. Also Check out our Agile Angst - Ask the Agile Coach On Call Newsletter - https://conta.cc/3kdc9RxBy Agile IT Coach OnCall Helpdesk

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One Slide At A Time Episode #39 - Focusing on Scrum 17:00

4y ago17:00

17:00

This episode covers Scrum; the roles, the artifacts, ceremonies, and rules.By Agile IT Coach OnCall Helpdesk

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One Slide At A Time Episode #38 - The Hidden Scrum Ceremonies Revealed 17:00

4y ago17:00

17:00

The 4 Ceremonies You Always hear about - Daily Stand Up - Sprint Review - Sprint Planning - Sprint Retrospective Are reinforced by 2 Additional Ceremonies - Backlog Refinement (Taking Raw stories and doing the prework and research to get them ready for your planning ceremony) - Scrum of Scrum (Cross Team Coordination of Shared Services) Seeing thes…

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One Slide At A Time Episode #37 - Going back to the Agile Manifesto 26:00

4y ago26:00

26:00

This episode covers the Agile Manifesto and is a review of it to keep us fresh on its terms and ideas.By Agile IT Coach OnCall Helpdesk

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One Slide At A Time Episode #36 - Agile More Than Just A Software Methodology 19:00

4y ago19:00

19:00

Agile = Agility + Flexibility + Predictability. Our world is forcing every industry, every business (small and large) to be more agile, flexible and to be able to pivot often. In some cases, business and teams have to look at their capacity on a day-by-day basis to determine their goals for the day. In the IT industry, we've seen the rate of change…

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One Slide At A Time Episode #35 - How to Run a User Story Workshop 22:00

4y ago22:00

22:00

This episode covers how to run a story run workshop.By Agile IT Coach OnCall Helpdesk

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One Slide At A Time Episode #34 - Story Writing the Team Approach 14:00

4y ago14:00

14:00

This episode covers who's wring the user story or who should be wring it.By Agile IT Coach OnCall Helpdesk

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One Slide At A Time Episode #33 - Creating Stronger "So That" Statements 12:00

4y ago12:00

12:00

This episode covers "So That" Statements or Purpose Statements or the Why. The question that should be asked is so what if we don't do this story what will we be lacking.By Agile IT Coach OnCall Helpdesk

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One Slide At A Time Episode #32 - Business Value Management 16:00

4y ago16:00

16:00

Using Business Value Points (BVP) for User Stories to help define scope, help prioritize and make planning smoother. BVP can use the same framework as Story Points (i.e. a modified Fibonacci Sequence). For example: BVP 13 - Will provide a definite and significant tangible ROI (increase revenue, transactions, generate repeat customers) or is a Compl…

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One Slide At A Time Episode #31 - Acceptance Criteria Demystified 15:00

4y ago15:00

15:00

Learn the purpose and intent of Acceptance Criteria. Get tips on how to separate and keep your Acceptance Criteria from being: (a) a list of tasks (b) too technical (c) a test script And find out if the Gherkin Method (Given, When, Then) is right for your teams.By Agile IT Coach OnCall Helpdesk

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One Slide At A Time Episode #30 - Quick Intro of Jacqueline Sanders-Blackman 10:00

4y ago10:00

10:00

Hear about my journey for the last 30 years and my quest to understand the best way to healthy, sustainable approaches to software development. And how I help empower each of my clients to create a relentless, continuous improvement strategy. Also connect with me on Linkedin. I would love to know if you've listened to one of our episodes and if it'…

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One Slide At A Time Episode #29 - Why Debt is Bad for Agility 15:00

4y ago15:00

15:00

The team, along with the product owner and scrum master, needs to make sure you are keeping all forms of debt at bay. Technical debt is only one type of debt that you can accumulate as a part of product, service or software delivery but there are others that you need to keep your eye on including: documentation debt, compliance debt, code debt, inf…

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One Slide At A Time Episode #28 - How to Payoff and Avoid Technical Debt! 14:00

4y ago14:00

14:00

Technical Debt is the accumulation of what is known as enabler and technical stories. It's when you've built the features and not the backend processing, business rules, data and non-functional mechanics that make a story or MVP potentially shippable. Technical debt can be intentional but you can jeopardize your agility when you unintentionally del…

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One Slide At A Time Episode #27 - Rainbow and Circular Backlogs 12:00

4y ago12:00

12:00

Understand why your backlog should be Colorful (colored stickies), Circular (Later, Next, Now) , Prioritized, Balanced and Include Administrative Work Items (i.e. training, documentation, refactoring).By Agile IT Coach OnCall Helpdesk

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One Slide At A Time Episode #26 - INVESTing in Technical Stories 15:00

4y ago15:00

15:00

A technical story is one where the main stakeholders are the engineering/infrastructure team/leadership. The end-user benefits only indirectly from such a story. Technical stories often are non-functional requirements. Non-functional requirements include security, performance, maintainability, usability, refactoring, infrastructure,accessibility, c…

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One Slide At A Time Episode #25 -Are Acceptance Criteria & Requirements the same 24:00

4y ago24:00

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This episode explores Acceptance Criteria which are not exactly the same as traditional requirements, but the more you know about traditional requirements the more you can use some of the same techniques for reconciling what's missing. Traditional Requirements are lengthy word documents vs Agile Requirements which are informal conversations and whi…

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One Slide At A Time Episode #24 - User Story Splitting Declassified Part 2 23:00

4y ago23:00

23:00

Agreeing that story splitting is necessary when doing Agile is the topic of Episode #22. This episode, #24, is tips on the mechanics of story splitting. We start by focusing on the Acceptance Criteria and looking at what makes up the Acceptance Criteria and when the Acceptance Criteria make the story too big, then taking those elements and slicing …

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One Slide At A Time Episode #23 - User StorySplitting Real Examples - Part 1 20:00

4y ago20:00

20:00

Agreeing that story splitting is necessary when doing Agile is the topic of Episode #22. This episode, #23, is tips on the mechanics of story splitting. We start by focusing on the Acceptance Criteria and looking at what makes up the Acceptance Criteria and when the Acceptance Criteria make the story too big, then taking those elements and slicing …

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One Slide At A Time Episode #22 - User Story Splitting Vertical vs Horizontal 18:00

4y ago18:00

18:00

Topics Covered: The right and wrong way to split stories in order to make the story small and to build the solution in increments; How you split stories to take the team in a direction that creates silos and scrum waterfalls (also known as scrumfalls). The size of your stories is the root cause of endless carryover. Carryover undermines the credibi…

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One Slide At A Time Episode #21 - Deep Dive into the Fist of Five 15:00

4y ago15:00

15:00

The fist of five is a tool to Build ConsensusCan be used for all Agile CeremoniesMake Introverted Team Members ComfortableGives everyone equal voting rightsOpens up dialogueCan determine if a conversation needs to be brought to a voteFist of Five Rules 5 Fingers - Completely Agree/ I will Champion Things4 Fingers - Agree (Not Comfortable Championin…

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eXpressO Urself - Can you feel your brain evolving? 13:00

7+ y ago13:00

13:00

Evolve your brain your mind your thinking to keep up with how fadt the world us changing. The key to good decisions are the right mindset and a healthy environment for thinking free from stress.By Agile IT Coach OnCall Helpdesk

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eXpressO Urself - Ins and outs decision making challenge 17:00

7+ y ago17:00

17:00

Making Good Decision in todays fast pace word. Understanding how your brain works and how to keep an open mind and promote creative thinking before making emotional decisions. Contact us at: steam dream app. (855) 484-6837 text msg feedback (404) 478-7870,By Agile IT Coach OnCall Helpdesk

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eXpressO Urself - Reality is sometimes a delusion - Keeping it Real Is Hard 14:00

7+ y ago14:00

14:00

eXpressO Urself - Reality is sometimes a delusion - Keeping it Real Is Hard Contact us at: steam dream app. (855) 484-6837 text msg feedback (404) 478-7870By Agile IT Coach OnCall Helpdesk

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eXpressO Urself - Being right could be wrong 6:00

7+ y ago6:00

6:00

eXpressO Urself - Being right could be wrong. Contact us at: steam dream app. (855) 484-6837 text msg feedback (404) 478-7870,By Agile IT Coach OnCall Helpdesk

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eXpressO Urself - Are you a rule maker or a rule breaker? 11:00

7+ y ago11:00

11:00

eXpressO Urself - Are you a rule maker or a rule breaker? The downfall of Blockbuster.By Agile IT Coach OnCall Helpdesk

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eXpressO Urself - How to become a better Decision Maker - Part 1 22:00

7+ y ago22:00

22:00

The science of decsion making. How to become a better Decision Maker - Part 1 The Little Black Book of Decision Making: Making Complex Decisions with Confidence in a Fast-Moving World by Michael Nicholas Contact us at: steam dream app. (855) 484-6837 text msg feedback (404) 478-7870,By Agile IT Coach OnCall Helpdesk

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eXpressO Urself - Using your whole brain to make good decisions 20:00

7+ y ago20:00

20:00

Making Decisions with your whole brain The Little Black Book of Decision Making: Making Complex Decisions with Confidence in a Fast-Moving World by Michael Nicholas Contact us at: steam dream app. (855) 484-6837 text msg feedback (404) 478-7870,By Agile IT Coach OnCall Helpdesk

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eXpressO Urself - Cross Lateral Brain Exercises 15:00

7+ y ago15:00

15:00

Train your brain to make better decisions - Cross Lateral Brain Exercises It's been proven that when you work on cross training your mind, you'll find that you'll make even better decisions. What are some left brain and right activities you do on a weekly basis? Share your experience so we can share it with other podcast listeners. (reading exercis…

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eXpressO Urself - Using music to feed your brain 8:00

7+ y ago8:00

8:00

eXpressO Urself - Using music to feed your brain. Contact us at: steam dream app. (855) 484-6837 text msg feedback (404) 478-7870,By Agile IT Coach OnCall Helpdesk

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eXpressO Urself - 2018 Rap Song with a Jazz Flava 4:00

7+ y ago4:00

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eXpressO Urself - 2018 Rap Song with a Jazz Flava Contact us at: steam dream app. (855) 484-6837 text msg feedback (404) 478-7870,By Agile IT Coach OnCall Helpdesk

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eXpressO Urself - Stop and exercise your brain 10:00

7+ y ago10:00

10:00

eXpressO Urself - Stop and exercise your brain. Contact us at: steam dream app. (855) 484-6837 text msg feedback (404) 478-7870,By Agile IT Coach OnCall Helpdesk

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6 things Martin Luther King Jr. learned through traveling 6:00

7+ y ago6:00

6:00

6 things Martin Luther King Jr. learned through traveling.By Agile IT Coach OnCall Helpdesk

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eXpressO Urself - A Global Conversation On STEM and Changing How We Educate .... 10:00

7+ y ago10:00

10:00

Contact us at: steam dream app. (855) 484-6837 text msg feedback (404) 478-7870By Agile IT Coach OnCall Helpdesk

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eXpressO Urself - Which is Better for Your Brain Coffee or Tea? 9:00

7+ y ago9:00

9:00

Which is Better for Your Brain Coffee or Tea? eXpressO Urself - Are Entrepreneurs Right or Left Brain. Join Our Week of Discussion on Right Brain and Left Brain Right Brain:Accurate, Analytical, Realistic, Strategic, Logical, Decision Maker Left Brain: Passionate, Vivid, Creative, Love Freedom, Imaginative, Visual, Feeling, Daydreamer Send a Messag…

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eXpressO Urself - Are Entrepreneurs Right or Left Brain 10:00

7+ y ago10:00

10:00

eXpressO Urself - Are Entrepreneurs Right or Left Brain. Join Our Week of Discussion on Right Brain and Left Brain Right Brain:Accurate, Analytical, Realistic, Strategic, Logical, Decision Maker Left Brain: Passionate, Vivid, Creative, Love Freedom, Imaginative, Visual, Feeling, Daydreamer Send a Message ([email protected]) and share if …

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eXpressO Urself - Learning Styles 7:00

7+ y ago7:00

7:00

Learning Styles. Join Our Week of Discussion on Right Brain and Left Brain Right Brain:Accurate, Analytical, Realistic, Strategic, Logical, Decision Maker Left Brain: Passionate, Vivid, Creative, Love Freedom, Imaginative, Visual, Feeling, Daydreamer Send a Message ([email protected]) and share if you are right brain and left brain domin…

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eXpressO Urself - Worst Foods For Your Brain 12:00

7+ y ago12:00

12:00

Worst Foods For Your Brain. Foods to avoid - guess which one is the worst? microwave popcorn sugar number alcohol fast food fried foods ice cream soy sauce tuna copper and iron processed foods Join Our Week of Discussion on Right Brain and Left Brain Right Brain:Accurate, Analytical, Realistic, Strategic, Logical, Decision Maker Left Brain: Passion…

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eXpressO Urself - Good foods to STEMulate your brain 8:00

7+ y ago8:00

8:00

Good foods to STEMulate your brain. Join Our Week of Discussion on Right Brain and Left Brain Right Brain:Accurate, Analytical, Realistic, Strategic, Logical, Decision Maker Left Brain: Passionate, Vivid, Creative, Love Freedom, Imaginative, Visual, Feeling, Daydreamer Send a Message ([email protected]) and share if you are right brain a…

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eXpressO Urself - Share: Are you Right Brain or Left Brain Dominate? 22:00

7+ y ago22:00

22:00

Exercises to determine if you are right brain or left brain According to the Alzheimer’s Association, keeping your brain active may help increase vitality and possibly generate new brain cells. They also suggest that a lack of mental stimulation may increase the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. Here are a few tips to keep your brain stimulat…

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eXpressO Urself -The 3 Word Theme Recap! 27:00

7+ y ago27:00

27:00

3 Word Theme Recap! Contact us at: [email protected] Agile IT Coach OnCall Helpdesk

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eXpressO Urself - Words that You will turn to action in 2018 13:00

7+ y ago13:00

13:00

2018 turning up - we are turning STEM talk into STEAM in Action. The A now stands for art plus action - how do you express your right and left brain? 2018 Program Preview - the Artification of STEM - think like an artist to create thought leaders, innovators and inventors! Art in Action - The Art of Agile Leadership - Recommended Reading MUST READ …

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