45: System Thinking and #NoEstimates with Chris Chapman

Chris Chapman (@derailleuragile) joined me (@RyanRipley) to discuss #NoEstimates, Lean, System Thinking, and Poutine.

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Chris is a #NoEstimates advocate, a lean thinker, a lover of Canadian craft beer. He is a coaching with leanintoit.com and seeks to bring agile thinking to all levels of an organization. Chris is a true veteran in our field having worked as a developer, team lead, and now – agile coach.

In this episode you’ll discover:

• How a #NoEstimates mindset brings value to a team
• What lean thinking can do for executives
• Coaching techniques for when you’re learning about a team
• Where we learned about lean and system thinking

Links from the show:

• How I Learned to Let My Workers Lead
• Toyota Kata by Mike Rother
• Lean Hospitals by Mark Graban

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Click here to purchase on Amazon.[/callout]

[reminder]What do you do when you don’t know what to do? Please share your ideas below.[/reminder]

Want to hear another podcast about the agile mindset? — Listen to my conversation with Zach Bonaker, Diane Zajac-Woodie, and Amitai Schlair on episode 39. We discuss growing an agile practice and how coaches help create the environments where agile ideas can flourish.

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This podcast is brought to you by Agile Dev East.

Techwell’s Agile Dev East is *the* premier event that covers the latest advances in the agile community. Agile for Humans listeners can use the code AFH16 to receive $200 off their conference registration fee.

Check out the entire program at adceast.techwell.com. You’ll notice that I’m speaking there this year. Attendees will have a chance to see my Business of Agile presentation, along with my half day session on advanced scrum topics called Scrum: Answering the Tough Questions.

I hope to see many Agile for Humans listeners in Orlando, Florida – November 13th – 18th for this great event.

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