Episode 138: A Responsibility Deep Dive with Christopher Avery

Christopher AveryIn this episode of the Agile Revolution, Renee Troughton and Peter Lightbody join Christopher Avery again as entertains and educates Australia on The Responsibility Process and The Leadership Gift.

Whilst we looked at The Responsibility Process in Episode 114 of The Agile Revolution, this episode does a deeper dive and looks at:

  • Christopher’s talk at Scrum Australia on how Agile Leader’s improve results with The Responsibility Process. You can check out the LinkedIn article Christopher refers to here
  • Self leadership and self management
  • WL Gore and Associates core values and how it relates to The Responsibility Process.
  • The four minute overview of The Responsibility Process including denial, lay blame, justify, shame, obligation and responsibility.
  • How The Responsibility Process is a self-use tool
  • How to work with others (individuals or groups) using The Responsibility Process
  • The subtlety in the word of “responsibility” over others like “accountability”
  • Overcoming catastrophic events using the responsibility process
  • How The Responsibility Process aligns with other similar fields of thought such as Byron Katie’s “The Work” and Samuel Arthur’s vocal coaching
  • How responsibility is different from “being good”
  • Taking responsibility is about being at choice
  • What organisations can do to make an active practice of responsibility through “wins” using Intention and positive psychology
  • Walking through an example of the responsibility process in action
  • The difference between Quit and choosing not to act
  • Don’t try these with the Responsibility Process…
  • The Leadership Gift Program
  • The Responsibility Process Book

You can ask Christopher Avery for more information through his main website at ChristopherAvery.com.

TheAgileRevolution-138 (50 minutes)

Episode 137: The State of JIRA with Jake Brereton

Craig sits down with Jake Brereton from Atlassian who is the Senior Product Marketing Manager of JIRA while roaming the product halls at Agile 2016 in Atlanta.

  • JIRA is no longer just JIRA, now people outside of software are using it – now JIRA Software (that includes JIRA Agile), JIRA Core (lightweight version of JIRA) and JIRA Service Desk
  • Over 70% of users were using JIRA Agile
  • JIRA has over 1,000 addons in the Atlassian Marketplace, some exciting work being done around analytics and data
  • Many organisations are starting to question whether they need to adhere to all of the practices and overheads – find the way that is most efficient and productive that works for you
  • The double-edged sword of how configurable and customisable JIRA is – improved onoboarding experience, test instance with demo data and an active online presence
  • Acquisition of Status Page
  • Launched JIRA Software Mobile and BitBucket integration

TheAgileRevolution-137 (23 minutes)