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Tony Richards on tools to use Retrospectives as a Systems Thinking tool

Tony shares with us a huge toolbox and many tips on how to use Retrospectives as a tool to understand the system conditions that affect the teams we work with. Listen how these tools helped one team member understand the negative consequences his success had in other teams.

About Tony Richards

Tony is an Agile coach working with a global insurer wanting to become more Agile. Starting his career as a software developer working with Toyota he has a background in Lean and came across Agile in 2010 as part of a test and learn initiative. He is keen to help leaders understand their role in creating an environment where Agile can flourish. To support this he has been working on a game inspired by the research of Michael Spayd and Lyssa Adkins to support this journey.

You can link with Tony Richards on LinkedIn, and see Tony Richards’ posts on Front Row Agile.

Tony Richards on how he discovered the power of trust

Tony quotes Basketball legend on trust: “good teams become great ones when members trust each other to surrender the me to the we”. Tony also shares how he chooses to work with teams, and it is not what most of us do today.

About Tony Richards
Tony is an Agile coach working with a global insurer wanting to become more Agile. Starting his career as a software developer working with Toyota he has a background in Lean and came across Agile in 2010 as part of a test and learn initiative. He is keen to help leaders understand their role in creating an environment where Agile can flourish. To support this he has been working on a game inspired by the research of Michael Spayd and Lyssa Adkins to support this journey.

You can link with Tony Richards on LinkedIn, and see Tony Richards’ posts on Front Row Agile.

Tony Richards on why big changes require a leap of faith

How would you go, as a CEO, from asking people to report their vacation to allowing them to take as much vacation as they want, whenever they want? With a leap of faith! Listen in as Tony describes how one CEO did just that and what happened next.

About Tony Richards

Tony is an Agile coach working with a global insurer wanting to become more Agile. Starting his career as a software developer working with Toyota he has a background in Lean and came across Agile in 2010 as part of a test and learn initiative. He is keen to help leaders understand their role in creating an environment where Agile can flourish. To support this he has been working on a game inspired by the research of Michael Spayd and Lyssa Adkins to support this journey.

You can link with Tony Richards on LinkedIn, and see Tony Richards’ posts on Front Row Agile.

Tony Richards on one of the most common failure modes in Scrum

There are many ways to fail, but there are some ways that are just way too common. Tony shares what is probably the most common way to fail at Scrum. In this episode we also share 7 other tools and tips for Scrum Masters.

In the episode we also mention Samantha and Karen and their work in the Scrum community. We refer to the Moving Motivators game in Management 3.0 and quote Lyssa Adkins: “you need to be one half step ahead of your team!”

About Tony Richards

You can link with Tony Richards on LinkedIn, and see Tony Richards’ posts on Front Row Agile.

Tony Richards explains why you can’t explain Lean, you have to FEEL lean

Tony shares a great story about how to get people to enter the Agile/Lean mindset, and a story about how we, as Scrum Masters can easily forget the capital rule of Scrum: involve the team.

About Tony Richards

You can link with Tony Richards on LinkedIn, and see Tony Richards’ posts on Front Row Agile.