047: Communicating Across Boundaries with Declan Whelan




Greater Than Code show

Summary: <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Panelists:</b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/janellekz"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Janelle Klein</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="https://twitter.com/geeksam"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sam Livingston-Gray</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="https://twitter.com/jessitron"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jessica Kerr</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="http://twitter.com/CoralineAda"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Coraline Ada Ehmke</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Guest Starring:</b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Declan Whelan: </span><a href="https://twitter.com/dwhelan"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@dwhelan</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="http://leanintuit.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Leanintuit</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Show Notes:</b></p> <p><b>00:16 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Welcome to “I Rolled a Natural 20 For My Agility Check” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”</span></p> <p><b>01:31</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Background and Superpower; Empathy</span></p> <p><b>09:08 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Cross-Cultural Communication Dynamics</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.agilealliance.org/women-in-agile-2017/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Women in Agile</span></a></p> <p><b>15:48 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Biases, Understanding Dynamics, and Facilitating as an Ally</span></p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">“To have biases is to be human.<br> It’s not a bad thing.” <a href="https://twitter.com/dwhelan">@dwhelan</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/greaterthancode">@greaterthancode</a></p> <p>— Jessica Kerr (@jessitron) <a href="https://twitter.com/jessitron/status/902935755533807616">August 30, 2017</a></p> </blockquote> <p></p> <p><b>21:02 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Being Authentic</span></p> <p><b>25:31 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Is Agile something that you are or something that you do?</span></p> <p><b>35:37 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Adopting Practices Across Teams</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“</span></i><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Ralph Waldo Emerson</span></p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">People love consistency. Ask, what are the benefits? then<br> strive for common outcomes, not common practices. <a href="https://twitter.com/dwhelan">@dwhelan</a><a href="https://twitter.com/greaterthancode">@greaterthancode</a></p> <p>— Jessica Kerr (@jessitron) <a href="https://twitter.com/jessitron/status/902949956889313280">August 30, 2017</a></p> </blockquote> <p></p> <p><b>41:57 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Technical Debt and Technical Health: How do we amplify what we want?</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://codeclimate.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Code Climate</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Reflections:</b></p> <p><b>Jessica: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Strive for common outcomes; not common practices.</span></p> <p><b>Coraline:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Some situations should be taken as a promise for a conversation.</span></p> <p><b>Janelle: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ask for permission.</span></p> <p><b>Sam: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Identifying and clarifying outcomes that we want.</span></p> <p><b>Declan:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span></p>