14: Experimentation, Innovation, Managing Risk - Part 3 - Chuck Durfee

Agile and Beyond

In the final episode of a 3 part conversation with Chuck Durfee, Scrum Master, and Agile Denver Board Member Emeritus, recent MBA graduate, recovering developer, and friend of neon tapirs everywhere, we discuss the following.

• Why he got his MBA.
• How he moved from a fascination with computers and software to process and people.
• Leadership Styles.
• Agile, ethics and the making of morally just decisions.
• Power distribution in Agile organizations.
• Incurring technical debt ethically.
• Political correctness, and the stunting of healthy conversations with the other.
• Lowering thresholds of pain and sensitivity.
• How the Political Correctness movement went to far.
• Avoiding Cargo Cult Agile, and why the process needs the mindset.
• The failure to teach Millennials good skills for handling conflict.
• The creative process, and the need to explore failure.
• The way Agile is transforming the world of work.
• The problems with matrix management.
• Allowing Agile to flourish, by eliminating constraints around teams.
• Chuck's workplace Nirvana, the kind of organization Chuck would like to build, his Dream Team, and his role.
• How diverse ideas and even conflict help a team to make a better product or service.
• NANO WRIMO (National Novel Writing Month), and his often humorous experiences in writing fiction... including a romantic drama.
• How early design choices shape the final product.

And now welcome to the final episode of a 3 part conversation with Chuck Durfee.

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