Posts filed under: Podcast

Work Intake Halloween, A Second Opinion, Essays and Conversations with Jeremy Berriault, SPaMCAST 836

SPaMCAST 836 celebrates Halloween. Over the years instead of just one night, people decorate their houses and celebrate for at least a month – we love a party. In celebration... Read More

Cake On Tuesday, A Conversation With Elizabeth Bieniek, SPaMCAST 835

SPaMCAST 835 features our conversation with  Elizabeth Bieniek. Elizabeth and I will discuss her new book, Cake on Tuesday, 25 Lessons to Unlock Corporate Innovation, and explore the basics of... Read More

Battling The Walls Of Denial, New Kids On The Block – Essays and Conversations with Jon. M Quigley, SPaMCAST 834

SPaMCAST 834 features our essay titled Battling The Walls Of Denial. The essay begins: One of the problems change agents face is promoting change when individuals, teams, and even organizations... Read More

Keeping Secrets Secret, A Conversation With Brian Vallelunga, SPaMCAST 833

SPaMCAST 833 features our interview with Brian Vallelunga, founder & CEO at Doppler. Brian and I discuss the importance of managing secrets. Brian states, “Secrets are the keys to the... Read More

Conway’s Law and Agile. Testers and Test Engineers, Essays and Conversations With Jeremy Berriault, SPaMCAST 832

SPaMCAST 832 is a later summer-early fall rerun!  In July 2019, SPaMCAST 550 premiered.  The cast included an essay titled, Intertwining Conway’s Law And Agile and an episode of the... Read More

Cracking Groupthink – Solutions When Balancing Urgency and Importance, SPaMCAST 831

SPaMCAST 831 features our essay, Cracking Groupthink – Solutions When Balancing Urgency and Importance. Issues occur when groupthink affects the balance between urgency and importance in decision-making. This leads to... Read More

Beyond The Framework, A Conversation With Jeremy Berriault, SPaMCAST 830

SPaMCAST 830 features a conversation with Jeremy Berriault. Jeremy has a new book, “Beyond The Framework: Cultivating Agile Growthhttps://amzn.to/4evrM18.” The back cover states, “Organizations that fail to embrace agility (small... Read More

Conforming to Mediocrity and Core Hours, Essays and Conversations with Susan Parente, SPaMCAST 829

In SPaMCAST 829 we will continue to expose the sometimes insidious impact of groupthink. Groupthink can lead a team to accept less challenging work, be misaligned with priorities, and poorly... Read More

HYPERID Ignites – Arash Parsania’s Breakthrough Methodology, A Conversation, SPaMCAST 828

The SPaMCast 828 spotlights Arash Parsania. We talk about his exciting new methodology, HYPERID. The method builds on and integrates pragmatic ideas from many disciplines to create something new. HYPERID... Read More

Cracking Groupthink In Prioritization, Scrum Master – Career or Avocation, Essays and Conversations with Keis Kostaqi, SPaMCAST 827

In the SPaMCast 827, we will begin cracking groupthink in prioritization with a discussion of urgency vs. importance Evaluating the interplay between urgency and importance is a powerful work intake... Read More