Jay Hrcsko

Agilist who swivel chairs as an Agent of Chaos. Founding Board Member Agile Uprising Coalition. I'd rather be doing FinTech.

[Jay Hrcsko @BackdoorAgile]

@snowded Thank you sir!

[Jay Hrcsko @BackdoorAgile]

@snowded if I want to understand more about Deleuze and his work on assemblies/assemblages, where do I start? Anti-Oedipus?

[Jay Hrcsko @BackdoorAgile]

@allenholub You are correct in that there's no formality to being called software engineer, you can just declare yourself one. Kindof like an agile coach.

[Jay Hrcsko @BackdoorAgile]

This week's episode started out as a discussion of the book Framers by Ken Cukier et al. but then we went off into all sorts of heuristics for approaches to creative problem solving, and we landed with Claude Shannon's hints for Creative Thinking. https://t.co/8gE4p7aDtc

[Jay Hrcsko @BackdoorAgile]

Every great movement a great antagonist; for "agile" that's attributed to Frederick Winslow Taylor and his book Scientific Management...but SHOULD it be? This week we host a discussion to answer the question: "Is the problem Taylorism, or how we're https://t.co/mKwwuGZrgi

[Jay Hrcsko @BackdoorAgile]

Join @TheDevelopmen10 @justsitthere on @agileuprising as they discuss Deliberately Developmental Organizations - ones that tolerate — even prefer — making one's failures, risks, and weaknesses public so that colleagues can support each other in the https://t.co/FDextbgkbh

[Jay Hrcsko @BackdoorAgile]

This week we sit down with Dan Doiron to discuss his new book, Seeing Money Clearly. We discuss the different types of capacities, why buying capacity should always be a last resort, and how common cause variation will be a software team's undoing.  https://t.co/CEMFnSJjCc

[Jay Hrcsko @BackdoorAgile]

Architecture...what do these people do? Have we replaced this need with advances in software engineering? This week we go all-in on this topic along with why engineers want to be architects, what the role REALLY entails, and how to use your Enterprise https://t.co/TcK3HqY316

[Jay Hrcsko @BackdoorAgile]

Hey @jposhaughnessy, question for you... If I want to dig into the works of Renee Girard, where do I start?

[Jay Hrcsko @BackdoorAgile]

One from the way back machine!

This Agile Uprising podcast was hosted in 2017 by @AgilePHL and @scrummando and featured Agile pioneer and Manifesto Author @jimhighsmith

We’re looking forward to his new book: Wild West to Agile https://t.co/OKGK8vNxdz

[Jay Hrcsko @BackdoorAgile]

It seems like EVERYONE is talking about ChatGPT and large language models, and it's going to replace everything...but will it really?  Join us this week as we sit down to discuss what potential impacts these tools will have on the agile industry and https://t.co/rSWrVPjpgK

[Jay Hrcsko @BackdoorAgile]

Are we humans at the mercy of hard-wired circuits buried deep in the animalistic parts of our brains or are we the architects of our own experience?

In this @AgileUprising episode, @JustSitThere shares research on the Triune Brain theory and some https://t.co/Rp72eb4s52

[Jay Hrcsko @BackdoorAgile]

What if businesses could eliminate meaningless, unproductive meetings? Listen to this @agileuprising pod as @justsitthere & Marc Story from @agile_velolcity chat w Evan Unger, a world-class fixer for the mess that are meetings, explore the missing sauce. https://t.co/ZmEKX5hBHV

[Jay Hrcsko @BackdoorAgile]

This week we sit down AGAIN with author @ThomasJeffrey to review the completed version of his book Organizing Toward Agility.  We discuss the importance of organizational design in trying to enact change in an organization, along with many other ideas from https://t.co/4VkYZoMZ7e

[Jay Hrcsko @BackdoorAgile]

Do you have a feeling that your team/system/organization is capable of much higher performance than you are currently experiencing? Could the solution be as simple as learning to do “no” better!? Listen in as @justsitthere explores the "No" repertoire https://t.co/A0EApYGYC8

[Jay Hrcsko @BackdoorAgile]

This week we get together to talk about...STUFF. Specifically, we discuss what are we reading/watching/listening to that have NOTHING to do with "the agile", and how they've impacted our behaviours, mindsets, and how we approach our work as https://t.co/pCBjD497PL

[Jay Hrcsko @BackdoorAgile]

The concept of flow is vital to adopting business agility and yet it is notoriously difficult to convey...there has to be an easier way.  What about a game? This week we discuss the Okaloa Flowlab simulation game with it's creators Arlette https://t.co/T0hur1Zhth

[Jay Hrcsko @BackdoorAgile]

In this episode, @agileuprising chats w @ryanripley about his latest controversial social media posts about story points and his new mantra, "Story points are trash" https://t.co/FFDBjkufKX

[Jay Hrcsko @BackdoorAgile]

This week we sit down with Cesario Ramos, co-author of Creating Agile Organizations: A Systemic Approach to discuss the importance of organizational design and how it directly impacts the odds of success when trying to perform any type of large-scale https://t.co/JLPmZ7Hz96

[Jay Hrcsko @BackdoorAgile]

In this podcast, @chrismurman @BackdoorAgile and @leanLeff discuss the topic of loneliness, the difference between loneliness and being alone, and some ways to turn loneliness into an opportunity to connect with others. https://t.co/hFeCIcHLHy