Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 168 | Diana Larsen - Living In Inquiry
Guest:
Diana Larsen talks with Dave Rael about heroines and heroes and heroic learners, learning as a lifestyle, family and joy, and resilience
Diana Larsen consults with leaders and their teams to create work environments where people flourish and push businesses to succeed. She is an international authority in Agile software development, team leadership, and Agile transitions. Diana co-authored Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great; Liftoff: Start and Sustain Successful Agile Teams; and The Five Rules of Accelerated Learning. In collaboration with James Shore, she developed the Agile Fluency™ Model. She is a past Chair and former board member (2007–2013) of the Agile Alliance Board of Directors. Diana is currently on the board of the Organization Design Forum and is an associate of the Human Systems Dynamics Institute.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Diana Larsen
- - The meaning of the term "heroic learners"
- - Heroes, the Hero's Journey, and a conversation about popular characters in fiction with heroic learning front and center
- - The virtue of confidence and contrasting it with arrogance
- - Knowledge workers vs learning workers
- - What it means to love learning and the folly of the typical setup of education
- - Diana's family and the successes of her children
- - The things that "light Diana up"
- - Becoming an authority on retrospectives and contributing to the state of the art
- - Diana's story of failure - inability to create lasting improvement, crisis of integrity with resolution via personal feedback
- - Exploration and resilience
- - How Diana stays current with what she needs to know
- - Diana's book recommendations
- - Diana's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Diana
Resources:
- Diana's Business with Partner Sharon Buckmaster
- Liftoff: Start and Sustain Successful Agile Teams - Diana Larsen
- Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great - Esther Derby, Diana Larsen
- The Five Rules of Accelerated Learning - Willem Larsen, Diana Larsen
- Diana on LinkedIn
- Diana's Fall 2016 Workshops
- Agile Fluency Model
- agilefluency.org
- The Hero's Journey
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell) - Joseph Campbell
- The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell) - Joseph Campbell
- Peter Drucker and Knowledge Workers
- Kathleen Dollard on Developer On Fire
- Willem Larsen on Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman
- Willem Larsen
- Ward Cunningham on Developer On Fire
- James Grenning on Developer On Fire
- Frederick Brooks: No Silver Bullet
- Manifesto for Agile Software Development
- Esther Derby on Developer On Fire
- Gitte Klitgaard
- Tim Ottinger on Developer On Fire
- Michael Feathers on Developer On Fire
- Doc Notron on Developer On Fire
Diana's book recommendation:
Diana's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Look for collaboration
- Live in inquiry
- Stay with the questions more than trying to sit with answers
