SPaMCAST 694 - The Team Lead Role In Agile, Time, Essays and Conversations

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Organizational design often collides with getting work done; generating friction that causes all manner of problems. No one goes out of their way to make things difficult, however poor operating metaphors and one size fits all solutions are never optimal. There is a way for agile and team leaders to coexist, but can you take that path?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Also this week, Jon M Quigley and his Alpha and Omega of Product Development column make time for the cast. In this installment, we talk about time (including a few time-related puns).</span></p> <p><strong>Re-Read Saturday News </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The accountability conversation is the fifth and last conversation addressed in our re-read of </span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3pI8EGC"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Agile Conversations by Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. In Chapter 7 the authors define accountability as “being obligated to render an account of what you have done and why.” Next week we will cover the conclusions and some final thoughts. Then we will have a quick interlude re-reading Jim Benson’s</span> <a href= "https://amzn.to/3tR0H2K"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why Limit WiP</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">while we run a poll to select the next books. </span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><a href="https://amzn.to/3vEjr55"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://amzn.to/3vEjr55</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Week 1:</span> <a href= "https://bit.ly/3EZspxT"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Logistics and Introduction</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">-</span> <a href= "https://bit.ly/3EZspxT"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://bit.ly/3EZspxT</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Week 2:</span> <a href= "https://bit.ly/3HIlivg"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Escapin