Archive - Agile State of Mind

Platform Engineering Series | #2 Why Platforms and Who They Are For

Platforms help product teams deliver value to the business, faster and safer.

Jun 30 •

Platform Engineering Series | #1 From DevOps to Platform Teams

DevOps got us far. But it also got overwhelming.

Jun 25 •

From DevOps to Platform Engineering | And All The Things In Between Explained by João Alves

Listen now | DevOps, SRE, SLOs, Platform Engineering explained in natural language

Jun 23 •

37:59

Collaboration Debt with Marcin Aks Grochowina

Listen now | The Hidden Debt Killing Your Team's Collaboration

Jun 11 •

28:59

An Alternative to Estimations: Planning Your Sprints and Projects with Monte Carlo Simulation

Listen now (55 mins) | Planning isn’t about predicting the future. It’s about preparing for it

Jun 5 •

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Benjamin Huser-Berta

54:32

Why Your AI Emails Sound Robotic (And How to Fix It)

A tech leader's practical comparison of AI models for email writing - from warm team communications to formal stakeholder updates

Jun 3 •

May 2025

Why We’re Still Estimating and Why It’s Wasting Everyone’s Time - Chat with Vasco Duarte

Listen now (54 mins) | Are Estimates The Comfort Blanket of The Corporate World? Chat with Vasco Duarte

May 6 •

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April 2025

'Be Glue, Agile Leader.' There’s a Disconnect in Agile. Loud in its Silence.

How Agile leaders and practitioners experience agile methodologies is strikingly different

Apr 22 •

We Estimate Effort, Not Time! The Lie Teams Tell Themselves About Their Estimations

Story Points vs Reality - Let's See What Data Tells Us

Apr 13 •

Visualizing Flow Metrics in Kanban: Breaking Free From Estimation Chaos with Benji Huser-Berta

Cycle time scatterplot, throughput run chart - how to make sense of what we see!

Apr 8 •

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Benjamin Huser-Berta

48:37

Flow Metrics Stages of Grief: From Denial to Acceptance with Colleen Johnson

Flow Metrics - The Unsung Heros of Kanban

Apr 1 •

March 2025

Estimation is a Waste of Time | The Power of Flow Metrics with Colleen Johnson

Breaking Free from the Estimation Trap: How Flow Metrics Drive Better Decisions

Mar 25 •

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