In this previously lost and unreleased podcast from 2012 (we found it on a SD card that was thought to be lost forever), Craig catches up with Sandy Mamoli at Agile 2012 in Dallas, Texas and chat about Personal Kanban and how everything is bigger in Texas. It’s amazing how much hasn’t changed in this time!

• Agile 2012 talk “The Evils of Multi-tasking and how Personal Kanban Can Help You“
• Personal Kanban helps solves personal multi-tasking through giving you permission to single task
• The Kanbanfor1 board limits work in progress by limiting the amount of space you can place a sticky note in the work in progress column
• Jim Benson “Personal Kanban” book
• It’s easy to get started and requires no permission to do and is a sandbox for Kanban
• Coaches Clinic topics – testing in Agile, product ownership
• Jeff Patton talk “The Product Owner…

Craig and Tony are at YOW! Conference in Brisbane and chat with Sandy Mamoli, Agile Advisor and Coach at Nomad8 and co-author of “Creating Great Teams” and they chat about:

• Nomad8 is a managerless agile coaching collective in New Zealand, based on the Crisp model
• The lost podcast
• Kanbanfor1 (and Jim Benson – Personal Kanban)
• “Creating Great Teams” book with David Mole – based on the journey at Trade Me, if people can organise themselves for a Ship It day it should work for everyday work
• You do not need to change reporting structures to make self selection work nor does the size of the organisation matter
• Original paper on Self Selection
• Larger companies should probably split to tribes of no larger than 150-200 people
• Heidi Helfand – “Dynamic Reteaming” book and podcast
• Should do self selections again every 6-9 months
• Team structures…