If you are new to Epidemic Sound or Ecamm Live, or both of them, then stick around because I'm gonna show you how these two can work together in this video. Hello, welcome to Take One Tech, my name's Alec. And in this video, I'm gonna show you basically how you integrate Epidemic Sound with Ecamm Live or rather the process you go through for getting music from Epidemic Sound into Ecamm and the various options you have once you've actually got it in there. I suppose first of all, I should back up a little bit and say exactly what is Epidemic Sound. Well, if you are going to be creating content for YouTube or Facebook or wherever you're gonna be posting it, then you do have to make sure that any music you are using, you do hold a license to so that you don't get into any trouble for copyright breaches. Well, that is where Epidemic Sound comes in. Epidemic Sound is a source for a huge quantity of music and sound effects and you can pay one single monthly fee for access to the entire catalog and you can get access to it and a free trial from it or for it rather by going to takeonetech.io slash epidemic. And once you're in there, you'll be able to browse all of the music that is available and incorporate it into your productions. They've got a few different sort of membership levels. So go in, have a look and see which ones you think. Personally, I'm on the lowest level and it's around about $144 for a year at the time that I purchased my license. So that's around about $12 a month and it just gives you peace of mind that you're not going to get into any trouble with YouTube or anyone else and having copyright strikes against your content. So it's a great way to work, just add a little bit of interest to your videos. So with that bit said, let's go in and actually talk about the process for getting the music from Epidemic into eCAM Live and then what you can do with it once it's there. So if I come over to my screen sharing and I'm actually in my Epidemic account now and the first thing it's going to actually tell you is you're going to have to link this to your accounts and the way that it works is you can basically whitelist one particular account from each of the social platforms. So if I come over to my account here and then I'll look at my account one second and you'll see that it's got, there we go. That is the active billing $144 a year. The price has changed sometimes. I think that might've been on a special offer in June. I might be wrong about that or you can pay monthly as well.  That isn't what I want to do. I want to come down still on the subscriptions page. I've got this bit zoomed in. I didn't notice it there at the bottom. This is where you specify your channels. So you can actually specify one for YouTube, one for Facebook, one for Instagram, one for an RSS feed, so like a blog and then one for Twitch as well. So you simply go into each of these and if there's one hasn't been selected that yet then you just click in there and add in the details. So you'd add in your channels for example and that is how you would add it. So to be to the white list. So it is important to remember that it can only be used for one channel on each of those platforms. If you want to use it on multiple different platforms or multiple different channels rather, if you've got more than one YouTube channel you would need a license for each one but there are different licenses available where you can actually do that. So that is how you link it basically to the YouTube channels or Facebook pages that you're gonna be posting to or Instagram or whatever. And then up at the top here we've now got either music or sound effects. If I come onto the music section basically you can search by genre, by mood or by specific albums if you know the artist and you can also just click on the little search arrow up here. But if I come into genres then you can see we've got a whole selection of different genres down here. They sort of highlight some at the top, some featured ones but then you have also got this big long list down this side as well. Sound effects, you've also got a range of different sound effects that you can add into your productions. I'm not heavy on the sound effects in my YouTube channel but I make no judgements about those who use them. And if I come back into the music this is kind of like the landing page if you like when you actually log into your account and what you'll find is it will have some suggestions for your channel. So it's based on whatever music that you have on your channel but then it's also got more of what you like which is based on basically anything that you've browsed and played from there in the past however long. I don't know exactly but recently. And then it's also got some categories of music down below so featured categories and things like that that you can search. Now if you want to, oh and then some stuff picks as well. Now once you have picked a piece of music that you would like, so let me show you just quickly how you play them. You just press the play button. So if I click on play here, there we go, it plays. I'm not quite sure about that one myself. Let me try this one. I'm not entirely sure about that one kicking off but anyway we'll just choose one of these at random and I'll show you the process because once you've found a particular track that you like you can either save it or you can download it. So if you click this plus button it will add it to a list. If you want this one with the little link next to it it'll find basically similar tracks to that or if you want to share it with somebody you can click on that share and it will send the information so you can email that and do whatever to somebody. But let's say that we decided we want this one. I haven't even listened to it yet but let's just say. There we go, it's that one. Sounds fine to me. So let's just click on the download button here. So once I click on that you've got an option to either download All Stems or download Full Mix. So you can actually download the track where you can basically use parts of the track so that's where you download All Stems. But if you just want to add the music into your production as it is then just download the Full Mix. So that's what I normally do. And then that will now as you see it says Downloading and in Safari you see it's downloaded and what that's done now is it's popped it into, here we go, in my Downloads folder on my Mac. So that is where it has gone. Once you've downloaded it from Epidemic it's gone into the Downloads folder of your Mac. Now for Ecam Live what I would recommend is that you have somewhere where you have a root folder that you basically store all of the things related to Ecam Live in. It will make it much easier to find them later and it will also make it much easier if ever you need to transfer over to a new computer or something like that where you need all of these different things. So what I've done is I've got a folder on my Mac basically in my home folder. So it's called Ecam Live Assets. And then within the Assets folder we've basically got all the different things that are related to Ecam Live that I might want to use. So I've got a folder for audio. I've got a folder for green screen backgrounds, a folder for images, a folder for overlays and a folder for videos. So that is just the way that I've organized it. You can obviously organize this how you want but at least then I know if I want to find a video that I'm using in Ecam Live I'll always know where it is and also I'll always know where to go looking for it within Ecam Live if I want to find it again. So what I would do personally is I would take this folder, this file rather and I would just drag this over into my audio. So I'm gonna drag this over into my audio and then it is somewhere in here. So now we've dragged it in and what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna show you how we would go into Ecam Live to actually add this in. Now there is a quick way to do this. Let me just find it one second. I'll tell you a little, let you into a little secret. Normally I have an automation that does all this for me and it actually renames the files I mentioned that on a previous video all about Hazel. So I'll leave a link to that up in the top corner for anybody who might be interested. And then what I'm gonna show you now is how we're gonna basically add this in to Ecam Live. Okay, so now I'm in demo mode in Ecam Live and I just had to find the file. I pressed pause for a moment there, well I found it. It's there. This is the file that we've just downloaded from the, copied into this folder from downloads from Epidemic and what we're gonna do now is we're gonna actually add this into our Ecam Live. Now you can actually just drag it. First of all, we need to have the sound effects panel open on Ecam Live. So if you're not sure where that is it's basically just up in the top corner here. So you've got this one is for overlays then you've got this one for audio levels and then you've got this one here with a little note symbol and the list. Then this one is for the sound levels panel. Sorry for the sound effects. So that is basically this panel over here. So if I toggle that one on and off you can see that this one appears and disappears. And that is basically where we store all of our sound effects. And as I mentioned, this one up at the top is where we toggle on and off our sound levels. So you can see as I'm speaking my microphone is playing and then we've also got sound levels movie sound effects and system audio and interview levels. So these are where we set the audio levels for those particular things. But we're looking at specifically at this sound effects panel. By the way, if you want another way to actually activate this you can also get to it from the window menu at the top and then you'll come down here and you can see at the bottom we've got sound effects and sound levels. So those are those two that we've just looked at. If you want the keyboard shortcut while we're here you can always get that from over here. So you can see these are the keyboard shortcuts for those two panels. But these are the panels that we are interested in. Now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take this file that we've got here and I can either just drag it straight into the panel like this and just drop it in. Or what you can also do is if you come over to the plus symbol over here you can click on the plus and then you can add a particular file as you want. If I come over to my e-cam live assets into my audio and then it was this one. So that is how you can actually navigate to it. And what you can see is that has now added the track in here. Now you can play it from within the panel. So if you have the sound effects panel open you can just click on play and you can see it will start playing. Down here you've got the sound effects and you can put the volume up or put the volume down and control that. You can also group sound effects as well. So if you want to create a folder with all of your background music you could add a little plus here and type background music or whatever you wanted to call it and then simply drag this into this folder. And now that is in the background music folder. You've also got a couple of other things here. So you could add a hockey. If you wanted to be able to start this music at will by pressing a hotkey you could create a hotkey for it there. So let me just press something. Make sure I've got that many hotkeys. It's not always obvious that I'm not gonna get one that I've already used before. I'll just use that for now. So now if I use this hotkey, there we go. The music just fades out and when I want to start it again I press my hotkey and it starts playing again. And you can see that we have got the hotkey has been denoted next to it. So you can always see what you've set as the hotkey. As a default it's just gonna play through and then stop but you can also click on here and you can have it to set it to loop as well. So if you set it on there then you'll see that it does loop. You can also set the volume of individual tracks separately. So you might want to have your overall sound effects set to one thing for the general sound effects but then any music that's playing you might want that playing lower in the background and not want that to be affected by changing the overall sound effects if you see what I mean. So that is how you can change that. Now another thing that you may want to do with your music is you may want it to play only in a specific scene. So you can see down the left hand side here I've got my main scene. I've got a screen sharing. Actually got a copy of a screen sharing scene there and some various different scenes. So if I just come down to this scene now. So here is that scene that you've just seen with me sharing my screen. And then I've got this one. So I'm flicking between these scenes. Well you may want it to be that your music only plays at a certain time. So what you can do is if you've got a particular scene like my screen sharing perhaps I only want this music to play in that particular scene. Well what I can do is I can just drag this audio clip and drag it into the scene and you'll see that the little plus symbol appears next to it. And if I just drop it in there the music starts playing and also you'll notice that it does appear up in this top corner of the preview window. So now if I go back to my main scene there's no music playing but when I go back to the screen sharing then the music will start playing again. If you want to remove the piece of music from any scene then you just simply go over to where the music title is in the scene and just delete it like that. Now another thing that you can do is if you do have multiple pieces of music so in here I've got a few different pieces of background music that I use actually for some of my TikTok videos like this. What you can actually do is you can as well as having it so that the music loops on an individual basis if you've got those grouped together in a folder you can also have it so that the whole folder group loops so you could press play on this particular folder and then it will basically loop through all of these tracks and then if I set it to that it will just loop through all of them and then come back to the beginning again. So that is a few of the ways that you can use music in your videos and specifically from Epidemic and don't forget if you want to get a free trial head over to takeonetech.io slash epidemic and there you will be able to get yourself a free trial and try it out for yourself but it really is the easiest way I think to get some good quality music. I'm not saying that what I'm using is good quality but it's better than I'd be able to find anywhere else. It's all down to personal taste really but they have got a huge variety there and so I can highly recommend you give it a go. I hope that that has sort of answered a few questions about how you may be able to use this and by the way, I should say once you've got the tracks downloaded you can obviously then use them in anything that you're doing on any of those platforms where you have whitelisted it. So for example, in your blog, on your Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and also in YouTube as well of course. So you can use them in your live streams. If you're gonna do video editing you can obviously use the clips in there as well. So that is really a summary of Epidemic Sound and specifically using it with Ecum Live. I hope you found that useful. If you have found it useful then don't forget to go and like and subscribe and share this with anyone else who you think might need to up their audio game on their YouTube channels. And for now, I will leave it there but don't go anywhere because there is plenty more videos coming up next. I'll leave a link to my Ecum Live playlist over on the bottom right. Have a great day.


Hi everyone, my name is Steph, this is Little Bookish Teacher, and today we are going to be talking about the final shortlisted category for the Children's Book Council Awards for 2023, and that is the New Illustrator category. So this award's purpose is to recognise and acknowledge and encourage new talent in the field of Australian children's book illustration. And books in this category can be for children from 0 to 18 years, and are usually just stunning because it is a celebration of illustrations. So while I will talk about how much I enjoy the illustrations in these books, I will also still be talking about the books as a whole and what stood out for me and what might be useful in a classroom. So I have most of the books here, one book I wasn't able to get hold of but I have been able to read, and so I will be able to talk about that at the end. The first book is Tiny Wonders by Sally Solhahn, so she's the writer and the illustrator of this book. The blurb says, So this is really a story that is about hope and patience. The beauty of flowers, the ability for community to really forge a connection with one another and for taking action because April does take action in this story. It has beautiful bright colours that transition from that dull grey world that April was seeing to something that is more bright and colourful. So it does bring that element of hope and joy and love as the colours become more prominent. It's a great story to talk about children taking action and taking control of things for projects that they can manage and there are plenty of opportunities for those. The endpapers at the back of the book are amazing because it does feature a variety of flowers as well as what they mean. So this is a great way for people to learn about the language of flowers. And overall it is just a very, very beautiful book. There is also We Are Australians written by Duncan Smith and Nicole Godwin and illustrated with paintings by Jandamara Kadd. This book is just so vibrant and beautiful. I am very drawn to colour and bold colour in particular so this book always stands out to me. And at the back of the book it just says what does it mean to be a citizen of Australia and that is what this book explores. This is not a text heavy book. It is really posing the question of what does it mean to be Australian and how do we connect to the culture that existed here for thousands and thousands of years before White Set Liz even came here. And what does that mean for us in the present day? Jandamara Kadd's artwork is just absolutely stunning to look at. It is a very beautiful visual book and it has a really great message that is great to unpack. You could use this with multiple age groups. You might need it to support younger readers a little bit more through it if you're using it in the classroom. But it is a really, truly beautiful book to look at. And then we have Australia from Dusk to Dawn by Brentos. And this book is another visually stunning book in a completely different style. I absolutely love this illustrative style. I don't see it very often. I love the beautiful pastel colour palette. The sun says it's a new day in Australia. Let's follow the sun. Wake up with Wombats on Aroquel Country in Bahrain Bay. Bask with Wombats in Cradle Mountain. Watch Black and Red Cockatoos flying over Anungu Country, which is Uluru. Scratch the Daintree rainforest floor with casseraries on Kuku Yalanji Country. And go to sleep as quokkas wake up on Wajaknunga Country in Watness Island. So welcome to Australia as you've never seen it before. It's an extremely pastel-popping road to significant places and animals on the land which we call home from emerging artist Brentos. So this is a trip around Australia. Each page has a location and it has the traditional place name as well as what you might see there. And these gorgeous, very stylistic illustrations. It is a truly beautiful book to explore. It will be great to have a map of Australia out and just start pinpointing the different locations that are explored in here. There is a map at the back of the book that does highlight where all of the animals that we meet are but to create a class version of it would be great. And the other thing that I really love about this book and the illustrations in here is you have the endpapers. So the book is called From Dawn to Dusk. So you have dawn to dusk. And it's just a beautiful thread the whole way through the book. So it is a very simple text. This is perfect for younger readers. Great jumping off point if you want to learn more about Australian animals and where they're from. You know, you get one or two tiny little facts about them. So it's very digestible, but very much a gorgeous visual book to look at. Then there is Natureopolis by Deborah Frankel and Ingrid. Art Kowauk, I think. Apologize if I mispronounced that. This is a gorgeous book. The back says look closer, look with care, and you may find a forest. Among the steel and stone canyons of the city, nature flourishes in tiny tenacious ways. Follow our tiny friend to discover, celebrate and connect with the urban flora and fauna hiding in plain sight. So this book is all about nature that is hiding in plain sight. So you might have a location, and then you start looking closer and you might see the native animals and where they live. So this one in this case is a tiny ant.  Things like meadows of flowers, those weeds that we never really look at, but are actually the plant life and the forest life that live in urban areas. It's a great reminder for people in urban areas to actually notice that there is a life and it may not look the same as what we envision of parks and forests and rainforests, but it is its own kind of ecosystem. This book has beautiful tier two language like cumbersome, meadow, wilderness, drifted, centred, sociable, spoils, trickster, great, great powerful words to pull out and unpack and talk about in the context of the book but also the other meanings and the other ways that you could use it. And because this is also a fictional non-fiction story where the narrative is enhanced by the information, like I love those stories because it makes it very easy to absorb the information and be inspired to find out more. And then there is the best hiding place by Jane Godwin and illustrated by Sylvia Morris. This one is a really gorgeous narrative story. It is about a group of, I don't know if they're siblings or they're friends playing hide and seek in a house. The blurb says Archie has found the best hiding place, but after a while it feels too quiet. Is the game still on? Has Archie been forgotten? And the way that this is told, Jane Godwin is also a really fantastic storyteller. The first part of the book has very simple, very short sentences as the game begins and as the person who is it begins to search for the people who are hiding. And then as we begin to see where Archie is hiding, Archie has found a really fantastic hiding spot and so he's in there and he starts thinking about the space that is in, what he hears, what he smells, what he sees and builds these beautiful descriptive passages. The illustrations in this are beautiful and detailed as the characters explore the house, but also as we begin to zoom in on where Archie is as well, we begin to see how all of that fits together. It has great use of questions through the text, a great mentor text to use with students to highlight how you can use questions to further a story and to highlight how someone is feeling because as the blurb says, Archie begins to feel like he's forgotten, but simply it's because he's chosen a really great hiding place and it also is a beautiful book about the friendship of all of these characters because they clearly love playing with one another. And then the final book in this category is There's No Such Book. This one is written by Jessica Detman and illustrated by Jack A. Minton, and this is a gorgeous story about Book Week and the blurb says, it's the night before the book parade and Ellie needs a costume. She and Mum raid their home, but all Mum's suggestions fall flat. Ellie heads to bed with only Mum's promise that she'll find something somehow. And sometimes finding the right costume it means creating a whole new book and this is a book that celebrates being creative and I mean, if you just look at the illustrations, it's a really gorgeous, fun book. You can tell that it's going to be entertaining. Mum tries to come up with all of these suggestions based on what they already have at home and Ellie is frustrated because she doesn't have a book like that and so Mum writes her a book that features all of these things so that she can choose what costume she decides to go as. I think it's a really great way of saying that we are all capable of telling stories and those stories are valid. I love that it has links to a real event activity so the book awards coincides with book week in Australia and most schools and kinders will do something like a book parade where the kids get to get dressed up as a favourite book character so there's lots of links that can be made and this is a great mentor text for a language experience like that but it can also be used as a jumping off point and a mentor text for talking about well, you can write your own stories. We write books all the time in our junior years classrooms and this is another great text that highlights that yeah, that is valid and when you write you are a writer. So I really enjoyed writing this one. I think it's a really fun story. So those are our shortlisted books for the new illustrator category. I will leave links to the official CBCA website as well as links to all of these books so you can find out more information if you wouldn't like to. In the comments I would love to know if you've read any of these picture books or if you're planning on picking them up or feel free to share your favourite children's picture book illustrator down below. I'm always interested in finding books with really unique, interesting illustrations because that's the point of a picture book is to have the illustrations enhance exactly what is happening within the text. If you want to let me know that you're here but you don't want to leave a comment feel free to leave a rocket emoji down below. Otherwise I hope that we're on the world just staying safe and healthy and I will see you next time. Bye everyone.


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Let us pray. God our Father, we come before you this day with thankful hearts for the many graces and blessings that you have bestowed upon us. We're thankful for all of our current City Council members and our mayor for their hard labor and endeavors made for the good of our beloved city that we call home. As our newly elected City Council member Peter Brown assumes his duties to help lead and guide our city, we ask that you empower him to bear his responsibilities with the utmost integrity, courage, and humility. May he be inspired with courage, wisdom, and compassion so that he may stand in solidarity with the needy and the poor and defeat prejudice, injustice, and intolerance so as you unify our city. May he be guided to know and to do what is right, good, and true to challenge and defy anything that would diminish justice in our city, in our country, and in the world. May we always see in him a humble dedication to the service he's been called to, and may he see in us a willingness to give him our full support and continued prayers. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen. To this very special occasion for the City of Columbia, we are so thankful for the presence of all Columbia citizens in person and hopefully those also watching from our streaming platforms. Thank you to today's program participants, the Reverend Monsignor Richard D. Harris, the City of Columbia Honor Guard members, Judge Casey Manning, and Mayor Daniel Rickerman as we officially welcome Councilman Allet, Peter M. Brown to the City of Columbia family. I've been doing this a little while and I want to forget anybody, so bear with me, members of our community who may be in attendance, members of the clergy, neighborhood, and business leaders elected and appointed officials. I see many of our officials from the Britschland County. Thank you for being here with us. Any presidents, representatives of higher education institutions, state agency heads, or members of the judiciary to including any of our municipal court judges that may be here. Because I work so closely with each council member, I recognize the sacrifices that they and their families make to serve our community every single day. Councilman Allet Brown and Mrs. Brown, thank you in advance for your willingness to serve and all the sacrifices you will make for Columbia and her citizens. The city staff and I are here to help you and we look forward to getting to know you both and your daughters Ashley, McCain, Cecilia, and Mary Rutledge who's here with us today. At this time, we will proceed with the oath of office to be administered by the honorable L. Casey Manning, retired circuit court judge of South Carolina. Judge Manning, Mr. Brown, Mrs. Brown, Mary Rutledge, come forward. Can you hear me? Good. One of the privileges that you have as a retired circuit court judge is get an opportunity to speak before you administer the oath. Now I will tell you all briefly that I've known Peter for over approximately a quarter of a century. I remember when they moved into the house right across the street from me before you were born. And when I got a phone call, I was surprised, but not totally surprised, but very present, pleasantly surprised to have been asked to participate in this very important event for the citizens of not only the city of Columbia, but of this great state. I can't think of a better person to be here at this time at this moment than a Joy Taylor's looking down smiling because he knows that Peter Brown can fill his shoes and no enjoy Taylor. He would tell you to buy a size a little bit larger than the ones he wore in anticipation of what you will run into in this job. I will use three, four letter words to describe my feelings about Peter Brown. First of all, he's a good man. He's a fair man. And therefore, he's a just man. And as a result of those three, four letter words, you'll find out that he is an honest man. And I can't thank you for anyone better to come in at this time and to this great city to be a member of city council. It's very special once again for me to be able to participate in this event. Now, with that having been said, Bible, I've done this many times before folks. Raise your right hand. You are Peter and Brown. Peter Brown as a council member of the municipality of the city of Columbia. I will equally barely and partially to the best of my ability and skill, exercise the trust, repose the name and I will use my best endeavors to preserve the peace and carry into effect according to the law, the purposes for which I have been elected. So help me God, I do solemnly swear that I am duly qualified according to the constitution of this state to exercise the duties of the office to which I have been elected. And then I will to the best of my ability to discharge the duties thereof and preserve and protect and defend the constitution of this state and of the United States. So help me God. Lovely wife. I have the privilege to present myself and introduce the other the next city councilman for the great city of Columbia. Thanks, Judge Manning. I just want to thank everybody for being here today. Obviously, I want to thank my wife Pam and my daughter Mary Relage. We call we call the three of us the core family of the Browns. The older daughters are not here today. So I would also like to thank Ashley McCain and Cecilia for all of their support and and and what makes us a wonderful family. So but first of all, the most important thing is that I thank the city of Columbia. I'm here because the voters believed in our messaging. It was always the same. Columbia is a great place to live. It's a great place to raise a family and it's a great place to run a business but we can do better. And that's really what I'm here for is is hopefully to bring a little different perspective to this great institution and and really just kind of help carry on what Joe Taylor did for and Joe and I have known each other for a long time and obviously, I feel blessed to be in this position and honored that I'll be filling his position. So thank you once again for everything and I look forward to getting to know everyone here. I'm really excited and can't wait to get to business tomorrow. Thank you. Well, I too would like to thank everybody for being here. It's a great day. Pam, thank you for let him do it. It's important for the city. It's important for us and Peter's joining a family of folks, our council that's here who truly believes that that Columbia is the place to be and that it should be the number one city. Now, we debate and we argue but at the end of the day, we do everything because we care about this city and Peter's going to fill the void. He's going to be part of that and we're very excited that he's here. I want to thank our folks from Richland County for being here, Mr. Chairman, Miss Newton, Mr. Brannum, Patrick and Leonardo. I really appreciate you all being here. That means a lot because I think over the last 14 months, we've tried to create relationships and collaboration and I think you're going to continue to see that with Peter filling a void that we've had over the last several months. Also, we'll do a little housekeeping or remind everybody that there is some refreshments downstairs, opportunity to talk and meet with Peter and we hope you all will join us. But this is a great day and it will continue to move forward. We've had an incredible run. The city is moving forward. There's more excitement than we've ever seen and it's because we're all working together. So thank you. Let us pray. Loving God, as we conclude this swearing in ceremony and go forth from this place, may we cultivate the capacity to see humanity and dignity of those whose lives touch ours and whose lives we touch so that we treat everyone with respect and reverence. May we recognize that our lives are to be measured not by the titles we carry, but by the number of hearts we heal and lies that we transform. May we walk away from this gathering determined to find ways to live an inspired life to absorb the inspiration of others and become an inspiration ourselves to those around us. Give us Lord the peace the world cannot give and your protection and safety as we go our separate ways. And now may the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord make his face to shine upon you. May the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and may Almighty God be with us all. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Let us go in peace.


the way that I deal with the many projects and tasks in my business is a method called Capture, Categorize, and Calendar. I've written about this before and I'll link to the blog post about Capture, Categorize, Calendar in the notes of this video but today I want to talk to you about what happens when I sit down and work on my business for a particular category of items and I have just so many things in that category to do. Maybe I have just lots of marketing tasks I need to do or I need to follow up with lots of clients or whatever it may be. How do I deal with a long list of tasks in other words? Well, I have a method to share with you. It's called Time it, Trim it, Transform it. TTT. And here's what I mean by that. I first time it meaning I look at how much time I have to work on this category of tasks. How much time do I have to work my marketing right now? Maybe I only have 2 to 4 p.m. to work on my marketing. Great. All right. That's what I'm going to do and that's how much time I have. Two hours. The next one is Trim it. Trim it means to trim the list of possible marketing tasks that I could do in this time period of 2 to 4 p.m. What must I get done in this time period? Okay. So I trim the list until I find just the few items that I definitely want to get done. So I trim it. And then finally transform it. Now as I do the tasks, I try to do it from a place. I try to remember the deeper meaning behind all of work, which for me is to bring more virtue to the moment, to bring more wisdom, to bring more love, maybe to bring more gracefulness or beauty, courage, humility, whatever may be that I'm focusing on in terms of virtues. Transform it. Bring that intentionality to it. So it's not just about getting things done, but it's about transforming yourself as you do the work. So with the long list of tasks, time how much time it? Trim it. Transform it. Time how much time you have to do things? Trim it until you are doing just the most important things in that time that you have and then transform the work so that it's of deeper meaning than just getting things done. Time to trim it and transform it. Try it out and let me know how it goes for you.


Allow me to explain why the Netherlands has decided to join the pledge to advance indigenous people and local community forest tenure rights. The starting point of the Netherlands national and international policy on forest is sustainable forest management, through an integrated approach that gives equal attention to the ecological, economic and social aspects. Forest ecosystems and the services they provide to different people and at different scales should be looked at comprehensively. Essentials to this are the 1.5 billion people who rely directly to greater or lesser extent on the products and services that forests provide. Two and a half million of them are even heavily dependent on forests, including many indigenous communities and local communities. At the same time IPLCs can play a vital role in countering the negative effects of deforestation, forest degradation, climate change and conserving forests by diversity. With their in-depth understanding of forests and livelihoods intimately linked to forests, IPLC forest governance plays a key role in preventing deforestation and forest degradation. And offers failure opportunities as well to adapt to climate change and safeguard their livelihoods. In areas of deforestation however, conflict with local communities is common, as IPLCs land and research rights are often violated. Environmental and human rights defendants, who are also often indigenous people, are increasingly being intimidated, harassed and threatened, which limits them in their capacity to safeguard forests and preserve vital ecosystem services. The Netherlands sees the formal recognition of the rights of IPLCs to forest territories and their role in the decision-making processes concerning forest resources, therefore as a crucial condition to halt deforestation and achieve sustainable forest management. Joining the pledge to advance indigenous people and local community forest tenure rights has reaffirmed our commitment to recognise and strengthen the key role IPLCs play in protecting forest and nature. The political and financial commitments of the donors help to broaden the recognition that IPLCs are at the heart of protecting forests, where tenure rights is an important condition to achieve sustainable forest management. The pledge offers us a collective basis for cooperation and action to further advance IPLC tenure rights and monitor its impact. The pledge however also expressed that a great deal of work is still needed to secure the tenure rights of IPLCs throughout the world, which can only be achieved in a collective manner. We therefore call on under donors as well to significantly increase their support to achieve this important agenda.


Welcome back to our lecture series Math 1220, Calculus II for students at Southern Utah University. As usual, I'm your professor today, Dr. Andrew Misseldine. In lecture 16 in our series, we're going to take an official speed bump in our curriculum here, particularly in section 7.5 of Stuart's Calculus. We want to review the different techniques of integration that we've learned about. In Calculus I, we learned about the substitution method, particularly how it pertains to u-substitution. We've also learned an adaptation, a modification of the u-substitution technique, which we call trigonometric substitution. We've learned about that in section 7.3, excuse me. 7.2 helped us with trigonometric integrals, which are necessary to do trig subs. Also in this lecture, we're going to learn about something called a rationalizing substitution or a ratio sub. We'll see that a little bit later. It's a third variant of this substitution method. Also in chapter 7, we've learned about integration by parts, which is a very useful technique. It helps us undo the product rule, much in the same way that u-substitution helps us undo the chain rule. We saw some variations of integration by parts, our integration by cycles, our integration by hope. Then we also saw that algebra itself can be helpful to help us with trigonometric, sorry, just for integration, right? Like that in 7.4, we learned about partial fraction decompositions, which are purely algebraic techniques to help us integrate. We've seen how completely the square can help us do a trig substitution. And just basic factoring and simplifying algebraic expressions is essential to help us rewrite an integral in a way that is much easier to use, that is to compute the anti-derivative. So in section 7.5, which we'll call street-fighting integrals, I use this name here because I borrowed this actually from a textbook, from a book that's entitled Street-Fighting Mathematics. The idea is when one does real mathematics outside of a classroom, there's no one there to tell you what the rules are. It's like, I can tell you, you must complete the square, or you must use partial fraction decomposition. That may work well in a test, where it's like you have to do it this way, but in real life, no one's telling you. There's no rules, the only rule is if you can do it, you can do it, right? Is it wrong to scratch someone's eyes out or kick them in the foot, or whatever, if you bring a gun to a knife fight, guess what, you get to use a gun, right?  And so it behooves us to determine what technique is best to use. And so I wanna look at a few examples to illustrate this type of principle here, right? So if you look at this integral right here, the integral of cosine of x times one plus sine, sine squared x dx, how does one calculate the antiderrid of such a thing, right? Well, there's basically three things we wanna use. We either wanna use algebraic identities, integration by parts, or use substitution. Some are some variation of these things right here. And so my first inclination is, well, if I have a cosine, I should distribute it. And if you distribute it, you're gonna get the integral of cosine x dx plus the integral of sine squared x cosine x dx. And we spent a long time talking about antiderivatives of trig functions in 7.2. Antiderivative of cosine is pretty nice. It's just gonna be sine of x. For the second one, a U substitution is appropriate here. Take U to be sine of x, and then take du to be cosine of x dx. This then would look like U squared du for which the antiderivative should then be one third sine cubed x plus a constant. So the key on this one was just distribute it, right? If you distribute it, you're good to go. And that's really what we wanna do in this situation here. Cause we kinda treat the two things differently. And you could actually done a U substitution from the very beginning. You could have taken U to be sine of x du to be cosine x dx. In which case this will look like then one plus U squared times du as your form. And so you could have handled that as well. So there's more than one way one could approach these things. For the second one, B, which also involves some trigometric functions. Again, I would try to use some algebra with our basic trig identities to help us out here. Take sine of x over tangent dx, and then take secant x over tangent x. So some things to note here that tangent is the same thing as sine over cosine. So if you are dividing by tangent, that means you're timesing by cosine and you're dividing by sine. So the first one actually becomes cosine of x dx. The second one you end up with, let's see here, this one I'll have to try a little bit harder on.  So this is just a cosecant dx. In which case you find the antiderivative of cosine. That's a sine, we've seen that already. Look up the antiderivative of cosecant if you don't remember it, and then go from there. This one right here, it's not about solving them. This is about just getting started, knowing what the right technique to use. On this one, number C here, x plus one over x squared minus four, x minus five. This is a rational function. It makes me think maybe I need to do some type of partial fraction decomposition. If I'm gonna do that at the first factor, the denominator, which factors of negative five that out to negative four, you're gonna get x minus five and x plus one. So I want you to stop there immediately, right? Notice x plus one shows up in top and bottom. You can simplify the fraction. This would then just become the integral of dx over x minus five, for which the antiderivative is just a standard logarithm you get from the U substitution. The natural logarithm value of x minus five plus a constant. So don't underestimate the ability of algebra, right? Algebra and other type of trigonometric identities can be useful as we try to simplify these things because sometimes simplifying it dramatically changes what we have to do. Because we recognize the cancellation of the x plus one here, we didn't have to do a partial fraction decomposition, even though that's how we were getting started with it. Let's take a look at another example here, right? Let's take tangent cubed over cosine cubed. I'll go through this one a little bit slower. We want to use algebraic simplifications to help us out here, right? If you have cosine cubed on the bottom, tangent and cosine don't work really well together, but I could churn the cosines cubed on the bottom into tangent cubes like so, in which case we get a tangent cubed x times a secant cubed x dx. So tangent and secant get along very nicely here. And since we have a tangent cubed and a secant cubed, what I wanna do is I'm gonna actually pull aside a tangent x and a secant x dx. I wanna set this aside because this is gonna be my du right here for a substitution. That leaves behind a tangent squared x and a secant squared x. Now secant is what I want to be my u because it's derivative is tangent secant. In which case if you're gonna do that, you don't want a tangent squared. Instead, you wanna replace tangent squared with secant squared minus one. Or in terms of u substitution, this would look like u squared minus one.  So we do a nice substitution right there in which case then distribute the u squared.  Anti-derivative is pretty nice. We get u to the fifth over five minus u cubed over three plus a constant right here. And then replacing u with secant, we get the final answer is one fifth secant to the fifth x minus one third secant cubed x plus a constant. So in terms of a trigonometric identity, a trigonometric integral, it's fairly standard form, nothing too complicated there. The key thing was really, you had cosine and tangent interacting, use the identity to switch cosine to secant and it becomes much more natural what to do. All right, let me give you one more example to emphasize how awesome algebra can be here. And so this one right here, let's find the integral of e to the x plus e to the x. And now I'm gonna give you a challenge. Pause the video and try to do this one on your own. Try to do that and see how well it goes for you. Now, some of you might be able to see it pretty quickly, but many will struggle with this one. And so now if the video is on pause, hopefully you gave it the old college try on this one. This one sounds really hard when you look at it in this present form, but if you take e to the x plus e to the x squared, remember when you add x once together, that means multiplication. Adding x once would be the same thing as e to the x times e to the e to the x. And then of course, if we rewrite that, you get the integral of e to the e to the x times e to the x dx. If we were to do a u substitution where u equals e to the x, then du is itself e to the x dx. You have your du right here, you have your u right here. This thing looks like the integral of e to the u du, which we know that one, that's just e to the u plus a constant. And then so substituting back in x, you end up with e to the e to the x plus a constant. And that's all there is to it. Super simple, super slick, but it only is super easy when you see this, algebra. This algebraic identity about exponents is what saves us here. And that's what we need in order to help us with this one. So by all means, use integration by parts, use substitution to help you with these integrals, but don't underestimate how useful algebra could be. It could be that the reason you don't see the anti-derivatives, because you're looking at the wrong form. You might need to do some type of simplification or modification of the integral to make the substitution or the integration by parts much more obvious on what to do. And also be patient with yourself. With these ones, practice, try, try again. If you make a guess, go with it. If it doesn't work, try something else. This section is all about practice, practice and practice. You'll never get good at this until you practice. And you have to also be willing to make mistakes. If you get something wrong, that's okay. We learn more from our mistakes than we learn from our triumphs. If you get stuck, don't be afraid to ask questions. The hardest part of calculus is not actually the mathematics itself. It is fear. If you're afraid to try, if you're afraid to make a mistake, you will fail. If you're afraid to ask questions, you're gonna be stuck for a long time and be wasting a lot of time. Get the help that you need. Work with your study groups or whatever you have. You can do this. I really know you can. Just be patient with yourself.


Thank you for coming after lunch, right? So I will try to I know how it is going to a presentation right after lunch So I will try to be as energetic as possible, right? So you have come to something called exploit core agile practices at the program level And so what we're going to do is talk about how you can very quickly and very simply use some of the basic fundamental agile practices that you've learned how to do on teams and Quickly extend that so you're working on multiple teams sometimes up to 20 or 30 and delivering stuff across the whole program Alrighty, and you'll have to excuse the visuals my partner Chris Wagner created this thing in an application called Prezi Which is awesome. It looks really cool things swirl or swirl around, but it doesn't it doesn't behave well with that projector So maybe look kind of fuzzy if I'm gonna be able looking for your reaction because if you look confused or something Doesn't appear right up there. Just give me the secret signal and and right and we'll just keep going on All right, my name is Jeff Lopez site. I work for solutions IQ Which is an agile consultancy actually now the world's biggest agile consultancy. We're based in Redmond, Washington The USA we have a sizable local presence in India that based here in Bangalore So you might see a few of my colleagues From solutions IQ, there's at least one of you in the room that there We'd love to meet you and share everything we know about agile Let me I'll tell you a little bit here's a little about my partner my partner Chris Wagner Who's up who is I actually we both works for solutions IQ now? But at the time we invented this practice together neither one we were both working We were actually consulting at a global nonprofit called world vision Which is has their US their US headquarters based near a home in home near Seattle We worked on what you're gonna. I'm gonna present to you today at world vision And then we went off and did our separate gigs for a while and then we rejoined About a year and a half after that and worked together For for about a year and a half at General Motors Corporation in Detroit where we really honed a lot of these practices And I'll show you a couple pictures of those things at work a little bit more about me I I have actually had the great blessing of working in India for most of the last year here in Bangalore And have traveled all around. I absolutely love working agile in India I think the future of agile is actually here in India It's been one of the great blessing of my life to work here the zest for learning the comfort with chaos and ambiguity and in the traffic and You know if you've ever been in line You're like if you've ever been in a big crowd going to a temple You know how things just adapt like crazy people get to what they need to do And they move on and that that that actually bleeds off into people's work.  I am wearing this because I love them, right? If I see Diana in the back Diana is and I both come from the same part of the United States in the Pacific Northwest Average temperatures 11 if it gets much above 27 we get angry and cranky So days like today when it's probably going to be what 32 33 or something like that. This is like perfect I wish people should wear these everywhere all the time.  You just have to be awesome. All right Alrighty Okay, let's go past there. All right So what's before we get into this before you get into this? Let me talk about a little bit about what we talk about when I say a program So a lot of you work on you've been if you've worked agile before you get working on a team and You work and maybe you're completing a project or you're building a few features But then we have this concept follow-up program and you know after a while you've been working agile Other teams are going to be doing stuff too along the same lines and maybe some of those teams are not going to be agile Maybe some of you're doing waterfall. Maybe some of them are pure infrastructure support teams They could be all over the map. They could be marketing. They could be sales. They could be Manufacturing customer support if you're doing if you're delivering a whole massive suite of a whole product Let's say if you were if you were building a whole new product line I've been involved in things where they're actually building a new car Right. That's a whole program has multiple teams And that's what we mean when I'm talking about program management things that might include as little as three or four Maybe 20 30 teams or more So and whenever we we start working across programs Even if you've you've you've done things and you've got this great agile team working You feel great all of a sudden you you start bumping into things other teams. You have dependency on right? Other people creating requirements for you that you don't know about that all of a sudden you get surprised because your product owner Didn't even know So one of the one of the rationales that that that traditional waterfall Approaches to delivering says is well the way the way we know everything because we need to know all these dependencies We have to know all these things and the way we need to know about it is to plan them all and plan them all up front And if something goes wrong and we missed a dependency or there's a requirement that didn't know didn't pop up Well, then then we did insufficient planning. We didn't plan enough, right? So that's that's that's what was a typical approach and that's how we get all these things You know we we didn't we didn't do good on our work breakdown structure and blah blah blah and all that stuff When we went to change somebody changes their mind or comes up with a great idea All of a sudden we have to do a change request and see how that bleeds through the plan The other thing and you've been in this thing where all of a sudden the late arriving issues some big surprise Comes up and all of a sudden it's like oh We got to deliver late or we have to death March right for a month and to be able to finish it things like that It also just is first for what we carry into Agilist that way of working Puts the focus on the project manager as them as like the filter of information, right? And so I've been in a lot of situations where there's all of a sudden If I'm a project manager and they're looking to me like I'm the one that's actually delivering all the software I start gaming the information. Maybe I'm not going to reveal this stuff or maybe I'm not gonna I'm gonna silently hate this other guy that That has a dependency and again make him look bad later All right So there's a lot of this stuff that is just natural because people want to be successful on their own stuff so The other thing because we do all this plans and we got those frameworks and we'll show you over We don't have a simple way or there's no simple way in the past We know of how do you talk about a system of 20 or 30 teams working together to deliver something? We don't have any simple way of doing that and we'll try to explore that the traditional ways Well, we have you know I've been on so many projects where the first thing the project manager does is they announce a weekly issues meeting Weekly issues call and we're gonna call up when we discuss issues, right? Nobody knows what an issue is but what we meet every day and we call we talk about them, right? We have steering committees status reports, right? And and again the focus then on all these things is on the person that doing the reporting Not the people that actually have to deliver so this is like we're in this scheduled Reporting-focused way of working. It's not very simple that way. There's no there's no incentive for teams to collaborate together Okay, I'm just focused on my component, right? If my component is awesome I've done my job for the day, right? My component works this other guy. He didn't you know, he didn't read my spec, right? He didn't read my spec enough. So that's his problem. It's his fault Doesn't it is so so there's really no incentive out of the box to collaborate and then the thing We all love because there's no other reason to do agile, right? Is that we're improving? We're looking at always looking what we doesn't see now. How can we improve the way we're working? All right All right So we end up with this big thing and look at the street look at the street There's some event coming in here and I'm like, okay Well, I have to take a detour do I take the detour or there's there's you know VIP parking and team parking are pointing in the same direction and I got an ambulance in there And I actually didn't even notice this Until last night, right is that that way back here see this thing That's the starting line for whatever happens like and look at this morass of stuff I have to go through, you know, I don't even know what this means. It says front caravan So I got three things pointing in the same direction that's going over there. Oh lead vehicle I better be one of those if I even want to get to the start line So there's all this stuff and we have all this stuff that that just appears often out of the blue One of those signs could pop up like oh Security update on the system software. Wow Things could appear out of the blue and I don't have quick visibility into that as a big group of people if I follow traditional means of reporting and doing stuff All right, so let's look even in agile. We've developed some traditional ways of doing things Right, so a lot of you have heard if you've worked on agile teams and allow if Maybe we have three or four teams working together. Maybe we ought to do a scrum of scrumps, right? And a scrum of scrums now looks like a whole bunch of people getting together Once or twice a week and maybe they go through the standard questions I've actually been in scrum of scrums where people just get together and say what's on their mind All right, they don't they don't actually don't follow format and but that's this is one way It's it's one way that people do things out of the box One thing it does is it gives you face-to-face gets the people gets the people together But it works great as long as all these teams are scrum Right if they're all scrum teams now if I have to you have to have some other team that's doing waterfall And maybe they're in a different location those those people are gonna have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about when I invite them into this thing It also assumes that we're scrum teams. Oh, we're all great cross-functional teams, right? We don't have anybody focusing on a single component So now the thing is one of the thing is scrum of scrums is actually in the scrum cannon It doesn't exist It go look up in the scrum guide look at core scrum. There's nothing as to scrum a scrum So nobody there's really don't have any set practices. So we don't know. What is the scrum a crumb look like? What do we actually have to make visible? All right, what do we have to talk about? All right Another way we create visibility is these artifacts called a release burn up or a release burn down Looks wonderful I can show where I am delivering a release in a through a bunch of teams against a milestone and see where I'm gonna make it if you're a Pro if you're a product owner or an executive that wants to see going on It's really quick visibility into these things and it tells me whether whether given my work in progress You know what I've gotten done. Are we gonna make this thing? All right, the thing it doesn't make visible or what are all those those dependencies? What's gonna be a threat? Right if if if something happens right now, I might see a little I might I could see a little blip in the burn down But it's not gonna tell me what's going on or how it's how is a team of people we could work through that and it gets It actually is typically is supposed to be updated at the end of the sprint in my experience with a whole bunch of teams They don't even do that so you're always that you're if you're a scrum master in charge of the many things You're always beating people up trying to figure out what got done and then we go up to a different level There's a program dashboard things great right executives love this wow I can I can just click around and I can look at the release burn up for all my different teams and see what's going on And and I can get all kinds of metrics like how many bugs are they throwing how many new issues? They've come up Oh, excuse me and You're right and then I can see across a whole bunch of programs how I can get stuff done The other thing The thing with these things is it creates it creates a means well I can just sit in my office right and I can just click from team to team and see you see everything See everything that's going on. I don't you know, I don't have to go out and walk around I'll just sit here with my team so for the people actually working There's there's there's no face-to-face Which we know is the most effective way to communicate and these people start managing out each other with a dashboard instead of instead of talking to each other and Then we've got this all right. Here's this great nice package solution Right here. Here's just this is just one example. All right, they're scaled agile framework You have trouble coordinating across a whole bunch of different teams. There it is. There's your solution right there right so Right and so they've got they've got practices in there, you know the release train planning sessions They've got certain practices in there and it uses scrum of scrums. So it's built into safe The other thing is that there's there's no you know, again unless you're a scrum team. There's no prescribed There's no prescribed level of visibility other than scrum of scrums and there's no you know The handling emergent dependencies and things like that You're depending on scrum of scrums to do that but nobody really knows what that means right? We don't know we don't have a set of practice and What happens if you've got a dependency on something that sits outside of the release train? All right, somebody that has no clue safe. What's safe right and the other thing that's missing in here is the thing We said before is simplicity right like look at that picture. I don't want to harp on safe too much But right you have trouble you just forget forget you know anything about agile forget You know you know anything about scrum and I'm gonna walk up to you and say you having trouble with cross Team dependency and communication among 20 teams here do that Yeah, it's kind of scary Isn't it this big picture right all righty So our measures of effectiveness all right. We've seen these things before Potentially shipable software increasing value great. That's all wonderful, but I can measure those in the team level But when I'm looking across the program level, I got to look at other things that might be missing Can I see vision do I have a visual control across a whole lot of different teams? That can give me that could actually not only give me information But actually can create a means Create a medium for us to have a conversation very quickly about what's going on Our other teams one teams blocking another do I you're right here? Do I have a simple way of doing that? Do I have a lightweight means of communication? And do I have every ways of we can all be improving right? All right, everybody's been in a big program where all of a sudden somebody's doing a death march at the end All right, even I've been on ad is it's like agile teams It's like a That I'm working with at a client right now that are death marching because they didn't have these means of managing dependencies And so then people get unhappy right when they nobody wants to do do deal with this torturous stuff at the end Amazingly a lot of this is where it's team members taking these things on are really valuable And how you can show your executives the value the value of what of what you're doing with agile Horrible this is like the worst example I could think of I was at this big client great big huge multinational firm, right? and Why did we did a big program retrospective and the team members are like, you know, it was clear that That that they had a nine-month journey ahead of them and already everybody was like, oh my god I'm never gonna be able to go home, you know, and it's like we put up all this on the wall And I looked at the executives there and I said, you know, it looks to me like you're about to go on a nine-month death march All right, and they didn't know what a death march was. I'm like, oh my god We'd never do that to people and I said, okay A death march is pretty much everybody's gonna be working here nights and weekends for the next nine months And they looked around each other and go, yeah, that's pretty much it Okay, but that but that was their reality that they couldn't live any other way So what we want to do is introduce something really simple of what we know is our core agile practices For letting the doing something really simple to give Everybody an entree of how you can actually right in the middle of a program introduce some agile practices and get things going Well, all right, and here's how we're gonna start so this is The simplest form of What I call a program impediment board or we just call it a program board Okay Here's just two teams, right? Two two swim lanes here for one team one two and one line across the middle and we're gonna do a stand-up every day and We're gonna look at things on one and one line and what we're gonna listen for is I'm gonna listen to the stand-up. Is it in some is something somebody else gonna be doing potentially blocking me All right, or somebody else something's doing gonna block me today And we're just gonna make those in obstacles and impediments visible Potentially in blocking we're gonna put oh this this team is potentially gonna get blocked team number one We're gonna put a sticky right there. Wow, they're blocked right now on something Then I'm gonna because I can I know what's going on because I'm listening to what other people in the room are saying I can listen and I can know wow somewhere two three five Six weeks down the line somebody's gonna do something that's gonna break something of mine or it's gonna or it's gonna block me And I'm just gonna make that invisible Right here, and we'll show you how that pans out in a few examples So simple and then so and then we'll do this in the context of a stand-up a program stand-up that we might do We might do a two or three times a week sometimes you're getting closed. Maybe you do one every day Right, and we're just gonna answer. Oops. I keep clicking this thinking this works, and it doesn't all right We're gonna ask four questions And then they're very similar to stand-up questions, what's the team done since we were here last? What are they gonna do next but then we're gonna add a couple other questions. We're not just gonna say where you're blocked We'll say all right. Is there anything? Blocking this team now It's or anything putting something in this team's way And we're all gonna add one more question is are we about to put something in somebody else's way? So we dig out of those It's in as when you're sitting inside of this with a maybe 20 or 30 teams you're listening is different You're not just saying what's going on with me in your nice cozy little team. You really have to actively listen so what's What's our team done since we last met and if you're in the room you're really actively listening to wow Is this team doing something?  I'm building I'm gonna releasing this component happens all the time at my current client Wow, the team is thrilled. We're gonna release this new component right not knowing that they're gonna break something else Somebody else is gonna release so I'm listening for this stuff right and if I hear it. I make it visible If it comes in my hearing I make it visible. I put a sticky on the board. I'm pellet Hedgley gonna get blocked Very very simple no status reporting no Explanations I just make make the thing visible then we really actively get into this are we gonna put something in somebody else's way Okay, or somebody put something in our way right now, right? I might block something out by somebody something else is doing What who can who can guess what the most common thing common answer to that question you're on a team What's the most common way? Something gets put in your way Changing the web service. That's one. That's one. There's actually a much more common one Huh Right see the CI right what about the CI? Yeah, they could be one thing. I think there's one more one more simple one It's like the people everybody love to hate in their organization No, no, no, no, no, no You're thinking right we need a new server It right this piece of infrastructure or this thing blew up when you said see I I met me Lee meant see I is down Right, it's the most common thing that pops up on a lot of teams We can't move forward because we don't have this piece of infrastructure or it's not available So everything you mentioned is true in my experience. That's the most common one right? It's the one we and we don't mention it because the one we got we take for granted all the time All right, so let's keep going and then likewise. Are we gonna put something in somebody else's way? Do we know we're doing something? Right all righty So a couple warnings, so we're gonna we're actually gonna we're gonna do a stand-up like this in a minute We run this like a stand-up right just like any other stand-up you be there you be on time Stay focused on the three questions and this works all right. I've done Stand-ups with 20 teams where we get done in 15 minutes if people focus on those questions and just make their impediments visible Right, we don't try to solve all right This is because you're doing it across sometimes 20 or 30 teams that never had a visibility into their stuff before It's gonna create emotions and anger and panic right right and you're gonna have competing agendas The point of the doing this is to get that visible and to get it out in the open So here's an example. This is actually at World Vision the organization I worked at where we started working this and In this this example right we actually started out with only four teams here and in this example We put we put actually this didn't have a whole lot of current obstacles only one These are all potential obstacles But you could see because this turns into a game in the game I'm playing because they they put current impediments here Current blockers things that are not potentially blocking the game You're playing is to prevent the stickies from going over the line Right, I don't want that sticky if I can do anything to clear that impediment Like clear that dependency beforehand Then I'm winning the game and this they've almost won the game when I started working this at World Vision this Organization that was somebody you mentioned web services that was I started out with a web services team They had a whole bunch of different customers They also had it right where they get infrastructure from and this got so popular people started coming to this and saying Wow, I'm getting just by listening to this. I'm getting visibility into things I didn't have before on things potentially blocking me more teams started coming We didn't even have to invite them. They would just show up right so now now look at what we got for It looks like we got my mean nine or ten there right and then we expanded in there We had 12 at World Vision, right so that just this is it gets very viral if people see simple means they can get visibility Let's keep it simple people want to join You're not giving them a framework or anything like that. You're just saying come join in the conversation the way we're having it Okay, all right Here's an extreme example But this is let me tell you the story so this is at General Motors, right? And we went in and none of base none of the teams you see you can't even see them all There were there were at the end 23 teams Major program. All right. This is in the on-star division of General Motors. They've got they've got all these different components They're very very component based Then their approach none of what you're seeing up there are agile teams, right? They were just kind of starting to learn that stuff But we wanted to get going and this is we introduced at the program level and the program manager because they were they were The program manager for this whole initiative because they were actually at the time We joined him about two and a half three months Away from launching maybe a little longer, but not much longer. He said Everything is a potential obstacle at this point we're close and so what he did was he said all right I don't want to see potential everything is a potential obstacle now So he made all those all the all the project managers basically to make all their work visible like everything was a potential blocker And that's why you see all this stuff down here, right? And everything and here's all the work in progress remember that none of these people are agile So we're not enforcing whip, but we're just making it visible and having this conversation 23 teams we got through it in 20 minutes every morning people with the program managers would show up We were starting to do this every day. All right. It worked really there's to do Right work in progress. You see they've got a things few things literally blocked up here Okay, 20 plus teams 20 minutes or less And this really helped them so they this project delivered on time and this is in a division that was renowned for Not delivering anything of what they promised and in doing in doing it really late in the midst of people death marching for months And so this was this is we got this establishing this availability We got it on time and and that's because of the visual cues people had executives could walk in they could do they just walked in and looked Let's kind of skip over some of this stuff So here's one of these things at work people showed up here Nine o'clock every morning. There's a few people there, right? There's actually a VP, right? Actually found this so useful just to listen what was going on that she started showing up to this thing just 15 or 20 minutes every morning Here's the program manager. Here's one person on his staff or person a web team Somebody writing web services. There's all kinds of legacy stuff from other sites of GM and that's I could you Would have 23 people in this room doing the stand-up every morning plus 23 teams Interestingly enough we start working with this and try starting establishing a cop program a con bond a program level con bond Right, which worked pretty well, but they actually went You know, it was it got so complex They kept they even though they had this big program level con bond that would trace flow and try to Trace cycle time across 23 different teams. They always kept the impediment board going because it was such a useful little thing All right So let's try this ourselves Let's try it. All right, so let me give you a little instructions We are going to simulate all they have to get some volunteers and we're gonna simulate Something that requires a whole bunch of different teams and we are going to produce and operate a New Orleans Restaurant for a night from New Orleans in the USA, right? So I have to so when I when I say say let's come up I need 18 volunteers, right and you'll see across here, right? We have teams There's a team producing vegetables and you guys sitting near the wall. You're gonna want to move. That's we're gonna be over there Right, so so that we have a team produce their right vegetables now now New Orleans food is known for being extremely unhealthy good for your soul not good for your body, right? So so but but vegetables are such you wouldn't think about it But they have a thing called the trinity is like the holy trinity in Cajun food. So veggies are really important We have a meat team. All right. This is a definitely a non-veg cuisine Right seafood and and roux, which is a sauce. That's a base sauce of every almost every every Every New Orleans the piece of food and then we produce some finished products gumbo Jambalaya red beans and rice po goi sandwiches, right? Those are different other kinds of New Orleans food then we have to plate We're at a restaurant We have to create this gorgeous plate and people get done eating we're gonna Wash the dishes, right? So we're gonna simulate this thing. So what I've got and I'm gonna introduce Harish Harish is Harish is the sous chef Right. Yeah, the sous chef is you know the person that creates sauces and he's usually the second ranking person in here Now I have to teach you what are you I'm gonna have is we have for your volunteers I'll have an envelope right in the envelope. It gives there are two pieces of paper It gives you a summary of what your team is, right? And it gives you a script of what you're gonna report for your stand-up, right? There are every team has two members. So you'll see like for instance, there's a veg one and veg two If you read it, you will notice That that in the United States New Orleans in that part Especially people were this kind of food originated front have a very particular kind of dialect, right? They taught Cajun style for instance the if you have any word that's lens and t-i-o-n, right? Right. I it has a pay or just take an accent like for instance If we go through and on scrum team when we do a sprint we don't do an iteration We do an it tell right song Or if you read Diana's book, right and you do read Diana's Diana's book, right? And you're you're you at the end of the sprint. You're not you're doing a Electro spec song, right? If you're connecting the database to the back end, what are you doing? Connection. Oh, I didn't think a connection. I was thinking of integral. I saw right, right? All right, so you'll see there's there's I put a lot of this dialect Don't feel you have to try to pronounce it But if you want it it makes it fun and it makes it more meaningful it may puts you there all right I need 18 volunteers don't come up and help and there is Right. Oh, we didn't make one for me all right, so you will have get your envelope and Get your chef hat like that Okay, I think we got enough people. I think we might need more and Come on over and you might want to if you can't see come on over and we'll do this together Come on over now open up your envelope and look at what your team is and read your script Come on over and and if you're in the other side of the room. Yeah, come on over and stand We'll do this as one nice happy group, right? all right Open up your envelope look at what your team is Right everybody's kind of spread all around Come on come on closer.  Oh Oh, Harish Harish Stickies and pens in my bag Bring bring my bag over No, no, no, no, no, there are two members two member Just two member two gumbo, right? Where's your other? Where's your team? Where's your teammate who's got who's got the other gumbo See there's your buddy Okay Root or if you want to say it if you want to say it right. It's lose It's all right Got stickies and here in the side. There's a bunch of pens. Sorry. All right. Let's just come out here All right, I'm gonna need some room here. I got to need some room here. All right Here's a bunch of pens and we'll use it. We'll have fine impediments. All right. Here we go Everybody know everybody's red Everybody is red Their thing whoops hats falling apart First impediment is that we don't have our hats aren't good enough, right?  I gotta fix my hat here. I've got to have my hat Alrighty here we go So here we go. We're ready to crack. We're ready to get cooking So let's we're doing our stand-up before we start. All right first veggie team Where's our first member of our veggie team? Where are you? All right, when you get what's up with get what's up? We give us your givings here share with your stand-up. Oh, we can't hear so we got a potential potential impediment there All right, so grab that Grab that you got a sticky Right. Yep, right down the impediment in it. I don't think that didn't sound like it was blocking you today Like you can still keep chalking. It's chopping. It's just slowing you down So let's let's put it let's put it above the line there. All right So it's potentially blacking. All right meat. Where's the meat first meat team? Go for it and do we yeah Ah whole lot of pull a I actually did it. I almost thought do I want to do this in India or not? Nothing's blacking you all right All right, great See food So what did we do yesterday? We iced five hundred pounds of oysters and in addition to shelling a whole lot of shrimp One shell is gonna be found on those babies carol tea Carol tea So what are we gonna do today? We're anticipating taking delivery of a new batch of the latest badges have all arrived with bad attitudes Oh Crawfish big pincers like big Grab you and stuff right that's gonna hurt right. All right, so that might go slow All right, anything blocking you nothing on our way. Are we putting anything on anyone else's way the chef? The chef make Bobby Here we go the Chef make Bobby the shape make a bobbin. He's he's upset Out has been too green lately lately Not so much for black and bust all right the green trout is looking kind of green right? It's not too good. It might be spoiling so we might be blacked there might not might not be able to produce black and trout All right, so there's a potential impediment. All right, so we're gonna write that down All right, who's next? I think all right great anything in your way All right, we got it you a lot of meanings right that doesn't sound like an impediment to me, so let's All right, who's next gumbo yum Who's where's our first gumbo iteration louder louder Try it again A lot of gumbo for the real kajun lowers. Yeah, the real Cajun lovers that love meat in their gumbo Second time this week that our team needs to guarantee That they can make the wrong All right Yeah, you're close Good all right, so now we got an impediment all right you're blacked you ran out of room So so we need one up here Right put one right up there. All right jambalaya. Yeah go for it Yeah, the hats are dangerous I Really I know all right all right, but you Sounds like Right so we got a potential impediment there you better breath it but ready to keep it down there. All right red beans and rice Not No, oh no you only do one iteration you did it right So traditionally red beans and rice takes all day to make and just sits there and simmers all day So back and people traditionally did their laundry in New Orleans on Monday So red beans and rice was great on Monday because you could just sit there and do the pot let the pot simmer while you were While you were doing your laundry So now traditionally you go to New Orleans you go to a restaurant red beans and rice on Monday That's like the red beans and rice day That's it. All right, so we're cool there po boys So what did we do yesterday? Those vegetarians kept us mighty busy with all their weird requests for veggie po boys They are nuts What would we do today back to we ended a better All right. Yep. Yeah, is anything blocking us Yes, where is the V&A debate? We don't have enough for beef po boys Not enough beef or po okay. Yeah No V&A debate no po boys for the plating team great. So let's do one right here plating. Where's plating? Okay, we're gonna we're gonna ramp it up here a bit Ah What do we do today? It's so cold and that means the team is very happy But yes, we are we could not get enough of po boys po boys Oh boy, there's a blacker there then all right go for it I know you better put that up. There's a blacker, right? All right Dishwashers for the dish. Where's the dishwashers? Where's my dishwasher? Dishwashing one nobody picked it right sous chef sous chef This is like This is this is servant leadership at work. The soups chef is gonna wash dishes today Good all right, there's our first iteration now. We're running a little behind so let's go through our second iteration real quick All right next vegetable What's up? What's up? It's slimy slimy okra. Yeah, nobody likes slimy okra Actually, I Alright, so oh oh by the way I'm the chef and I got you new knives so we can remove that blocker, right? But it sounds like we got to put a blocker up there because your okra is all icky and slimy It's funny. I've had okra in India and it's all perfect here You know, it's like really difficult to make in New Orleans, but here it's perfect. All right, all right All done next meat meat number two Oh man, right so you got all this meat that might spy or that expire because We weren't using it for gumbo for all those crazy vegetarian gumbo either eaters all right So there's a there's a there's a potential blocker there see food. Next Blackened the bass yum Trust me on that Anything in your way No boy, all right, I'll have to think about that one. All right, let's go next routine So you got an impediment More meetings All right, okay Fine fine fine fine all these meetings right all right, so well I'm gonna work on you with your meetings We're gonna figure out why you're having meetings see this yeah just a thing this comes up a lot when you go in programs And you could be somebody might be getting directly dragged into some Archa some architecture meetings, right or or or the salespeople need a quick estimate or something like that So this but this doesn't happen until you get everybody visible Yeah, right so this is why important So I'm like keep making fun of him because he's meetings, but this is something real he's experiencing So as a program manager, we're gonna help him figure that out. All right. I'll set Jumbalaya real quick. Oh All right That's oh man, okay, so put that up there. All right next red beans and rice Oh jambalaya sorry All right Love that jambalaya. That's actually my favorite. All right red beans and rice Oh Boys almost there All right, plating What will we do today All right All right, so one thing I'm gonna announce to get one of these blockers out is I am announcing because we're I'm so frustrated with this red beans And rice situation that we've decided to outsource the red beans and rice team to the United States All right, all right, so quick any questions I want you seen so far really quick way to visualize are we block already done and that's the thing with you multiple when you do multiple teams It's not getting into details Visualize the dependencies and and get people in conversation of them, but click keep this really clear, right questions Well, these are the lanes are the teams Right you just add number of teams this this is like this is low. Yeah, very important Blocked today like we got to get an action on block at today Potentially on block and remember the game you're playing is to prevent things from going from here to here Remember get the game If you prevent the potential blocker for becoming a real one you've won All right now How do you know when this is working in my experience start out with a few teams? You know, it's working when it grows more people will show up Other thing other people in the organization will just show up to experience this thing Listen to the conversation and they can get it in tune very simply and very quickly for what's really going on in a project No status reporting right no writing status reports. No steering committee meetings. No big fancy metrics on Utilization and blah blah blah real simple thing. Is there anything in the way of getting us done between the teams? All right. Oh No, it doesn't know it doesn't I get all right. Here's the thing. Don't let that get in your way There are You go and I didn't cover this intentionally because there are a lot of presentations out there on how to do global stand-ups This is no simple no different than that get yourself a simple visualization tool I can do a simple online whiteboard things like that get webcams going use that simple stuff We did this I've did this with 23 teams some of them in India when I was in Detroit Okay, don't let that get in your way. I know it's easy especially because Big companies love to spend a whole bunch of money on Tools to try to make you do stuff keep it simple if I can see you and I can see the board and have a Conversation then we can work together and get this out Okay Any other questions The people that can help clear the obstacles stick around and clear it I didn't jump to program manager because I don't necessarily they're not necessarily the ones Get the people involved and that's the thing across You know there could be hundreds of people on these teams, right? This gets real only visualize who can help who needs to help solve the problem and we get with them Keep it very lightweight that way. Don't hold big committee meeting hour-long meetings with 30 people Just get what you need. All right. We've got people waiting to get in here. So we should go Thank you for coming here today. The hats are yours Thank you