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Welcome to The Agile Skills Library — a practical, human-centred podcast for anyone who wants to get better at agile beyond the framework.Created and curated by Geoff Watts and Paul Goddard, this podcast draws on over 50 years of combined experience working with teams,…
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EP21: Using Benjamin Franklin’s 13 Virtues to Build Team Norms and Continuous Improvement (opens the original)
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Geoff and Paul discuss Benjamin Franklin’s “13 virtues” as a practical framework for self-improvement and, more importantly, for developing team norms, shared standards, and a culture of continuous improvement in agile teams. They explain how Franklin created virtues to address his own frustration with not meeting his standards, and how he focused on one virtue at a time in four-week cycles so all 13 were covered over 52 weeks. They propose a team activity where members first brainstorm virtues
EP20: Kano Analysis: Prioritising Features by Customer Satisfaction (and Building Minimum Lovable Products) (opens the original)
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Geoff and Paul welcome listeners back to the Agile Skills Library and introduce Kano analysis, a customer satisfaction model from the 1980s by Noriaki Kano, used to support data-driven prioritisation via surveys comparing how customers feel when a feature exists versus when it doesn’t. They explain the five feature categories—threshold/must-have, linear/one-dimensional, delighted/excited, indifferent, and reverse—and use hotel-room examples (toilets and beds as threshold; bed size, Wi‑Fi speed,
EP19: A Retrospective From the Future - Using Future Perspective to Create Positive Change (opens the original)
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Geoff and Paul open by celebrating Paul’s birthday and discussing mixed feelings about ageing and birthdays, then pivot to a coaching technique: a “future perspective” or “retrospective from the future.” Geoff explains imagining a future time (e.g., 6-12 months or five years) where things are going well, describing what’s true, then looking back to identify the decisions and actions that made it happen; he notes it can be analytical or visualisation-based and more strategic than typical retrospe
EP18: Commit/Expect: Building Working Agreements Between Product Owners and Teams (opens the original)
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In this Agile Skills Library episode, Geoff and Paul introduce a workshop technique called “Commit and Expect,” used to clarify responsibilities and improve relationships within agile teams. They describe how a product owner and a development team (and optionally a scrum master) each create two lists: what they will commit to and what they expect from the other party, then compare lists to identify agreements and disagreements and turn shared items into working agreements. The discussion emphasi
EP17: DECIDE - A Technique For Collaborative Decision Making (opens the original)
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In this episode of the Agile Skills Library, hosts Geoff Watts and Paul Goddard discuss the DECIDE technique, a structured approach to collaborative decision making. They explain the importance of inclusive decision making in agile environments and introduce a deck of seven cards, each representing different stances like deny, inquire, concede, iterate, defend, and endorse. They highlight how this technique can help teams make more democratic and effective decisions, and share their experiences
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