Agile Conversations

Transform Your Conversations, Transform Your Culture

By: Douglas Squirrel, Jeffrey Fredrick

Narrated by: Ron Butler

A successful digital transformation must start with a conversational transformation.

Today, software organizations are transforming the way work gets done through practices like Agile, Lean, and DevOps. But as commonly implemented as these methods are, many transformations still fail, largely because the organization misses a critical step: transforming their culture and the way people communicate.

Agile Conversations brings a practical, step-by-step guide to using the human power of conversation to build effective, high-performing teams to achieve truly agile results. Consultants Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick show listeners how to utilize the five conversations to help teams build trust, alleviate fear, answer the “whys,” define commitments, and hold everyone accountable.

These five conversations give teams everything they need to reach peak performance, and they are exactly what’s missing from too many teams today.

Stop focusing on processes and practices that leave your organization stuck with culture-less rituals. Instead, unleash the unique human power of conversation.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2020 Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick (P)2020 Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick

Life changing book

I enjoyed this book. It's very practical with real examples how to work. It aligns nicely with other books related to servant leadership. you can use it as a workbook,but buy also paper form

Great book!

Learned a lot about how to better approach genuine conversations individually and with my teammates
as a leader.

crucial tools for better communication

Great perspective on good and bad communications patterns. Really liked how accessible this is for developers with TDD for people.

Second half is good

The first half of the book seemed a bit forced, and while the ideas are good some examples were out has worked in practice would be necessary to convince me.
The second half stuck better with me, i think there are some good points on trust and mutual understanding/clarification. E.g. what does it mean "when a project should be done" for different people in the org.
The examples for trust-conversions weren't that clear in how they were about trust to me.
Not sure I'd recommend, but I haven't seen other good resources on the topic except one of the chapters in "12 rules for life", i.e. "Tell the truth - or, at least, don't lie"