We always talk about agile in the software development space...but what about Finance? What about HR? How does one go about "transforming" departments that typically are not exposed to agile as a practice? Join us as we sit down to discuss this topic with the guy who literally wrote the book on this topic, agile practitioner/author/coach Gil Broza. Enjoy!
We always talk about agile in the software development space...but what about Finance? What about HR? How does one go about "transforming" departments that typically are not exposed to agile as a practice? Join us as we sit down to discuss this topic with the guy who literally wrote the book on this topic, agile practitioner/author/coach Gil Broza. Enjoy!
THEY'RE HEEERE...It's 2021 and we're back! In our first episode this year we assembled a cast of characters to have an unscripted conversation around: What is the future of agile coaching? HOT TAKES INCOMING! Enjoy!
Thank you to all our guests, thank you to all our listeners, and thank you to everyone who's helped make the Agile Uprising the group it has become. Have a happy holiday and a great new year, and we'll see you in 2021!
"Design for redesign." Join us this week as we sit down with Jardena London to discuss her white paper "Structural Agility: Using structure to enable the flow of value." We touch on why structure change is paramount to successful change, how important continuous design is, and we discuss the types of tensions present in an organization and how they can be leveraged to "unlock" agility. We even touch briefly on her new book Cultivating Transformations. Enjoy!
"Structural Agility: Using structure to enable the flow of value" white paper
Cultivating Transformations book
ORSC Lab Series: Episode 4. Join host Leslie Morse and Billie Schuttpelz as they sit down with coach Paul Tevis to discuss his coaching experience. Enjoy!
This week's episode is another in the "Should I Take This?" series: Colleen Johnson, Andrew Leff, and guest Tim Guay from Agile Velocity talk about the Path to Agility Facilitator's course with host Jay Hrcsko. Who should take this? What will they get out of it? Do tactile teaching tools help? Listen in and find out...enjoy!
In this newest entry into our ORSC Lab Series, host Leslie Morse sits down with Billie Schuttpelz to spotlight her story with agile, ORSC, and her career in coaching. Enjoy!
In the second episode of our ORSC Lab, the panel of Leslie Morse, Billie Schuttpelz, and Andrew Leff sit down with guest Kat Conner to discuss their coaching journey. Enjoy!
Today we're launching a new series titled the ORSC Lab; this series is a discussion around the Organizational and Relationship Systems Coaching course and practices, and we're going to be involving various members of both the coaching and agile community. Our first episode in this series is an introductory conversation between Leslie Morse, Billie Schuttpelz, and Andrew Leff. Enjoy!
"Leading with outcomes"...sounds like common sense, doesn't it? Then why don't most companies/organizations? Is it maybe because they can't even figure out how to start? Join Mike Caddell and Jay Hrcsko as they discuss the two-day workshop they attended on this topic, taught by Agendashift's Mike Burrows. Enjoy!
In this episode, host Andy Cleff chats with Molood Ceccarelli, author, and host of the Remote Forever Summit - now in its 4th year of bringing remote work to the agile world.
On 11-17 November 2020, world-class experts in agile, leadership, and remote work share their stories of strategies and techniques for remote working in agile. They are all here to empower you to sharpen your agile coaching skills, become a better leader, and get equipped to improve your remote team and distributed organizations.
Learn More:
Yada:
In the newest entry of our "Should I Take This?" series Chris Wistrom, Ben AuYeung, Mike Caddell and Jay Hrcsko discuss the Business Agility course offered by Peter Merel and the XSCALE Alliance. They share what they got out of the course, what resonated with them, and why Peter Merel thinks humans will NOT turn out to be intergalactic cockroaches. Enjoy!
https://xscalealliance.org/xlots/
Digital. Lean. Agile. These words come loaded with so much baggage, how do you as a leader even begin to comprehend, let alone deliver a "transformation"? In this week's episode we sit down with Mike Burrows, author of the book Right to Left: The digital leader's guide to Lean and Agile (and a few others :)) to discuss his views on agility, how to get leadership in on the journey, and they touch on Agendashift, Mike's work in the Kanban space, and various other topics. Enjoy!
We often talk about the top-down aspects of a transformation...so does leadership experience with agile define whether you'll be successful or not? Most leaders rose through the ranks via Tayloristic behavior...does that bode poorly for your transformation? Join host Jonathan Schneider as he convenes a panel comprised of Mike Caddell, Andrew Leff, and Jay Hrckso to discuss. Enjoy!
In this episode, Chris Murman and Andy Cleff chat with Heidi Helfand about Dynamic Reteaming and the value of embracing change. How the ever-evolving landscape of 2020 impacts leadership, our concepts of “Team,” our need to build resilience and to take retrospectives to all levels - individual, team, system, and organization.
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In this week's episode Frans Alkemade, Brad Stokes, and Jay Hrcsko sit down with Dr. Lambda himself, Christian Clausen to discuss his book Five Lines of Code. Just because you're not a software engineer doesn't mean you can't understand the importance of refactoring. Enjoy!
Christian's Links:
Christian's book, Five Lines of Code
Dr. Lambda on Medium
Christian on Twitch
Christian on Twitter
Christian on Github
"My boss has his orders, and I'm just following mine..." Have you heard this line? How do you coach around it? Join Amy Neil, Chris Wistrom, Mike Caddell, Todd Thrash, Chris Murman, Andrew Leff, and Jay Hrcsko as they unpack this most-painful of responses to the question of "Why are we doing this?"
In this episode, host Andy Cleff chats with Kim Davis, Agile enthusiast, coach, consultant, and educator, about Agile in Government.
Upcoming Events
Kim will be speaking at Agile and DevOps East in November.
Her session will cover DevOps culture and transformational components for rapid value delivery in the government.
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Staying sane during Covid? Kinda over-rated.
It's been over 5 months of lockdown for all of us and dealing with situations we never ever considered we'd have to live thru.
In this episode, we chat about maintaining at least a facade of doing ok - as extroverts and introverts.
Self-care strategies to get through each and every day, like Jay's roller skates.
Might be NSFW due to adult language.
Yada Yada
In this episode we chat with Bill Joiner to explore the challenges of leadership in today’s world.
Bill is a sought-after international thought leader and author of Leadership Agility.
He focuses on the mind-sets and skill-sets that leaders need for a business environment that is buffeted by accelerating change and mounting complexity.
Bill Joiner’s book:
Liberate the elephant in the room! Host Andy Cleff chats with Jessica Katz, a trainer, mentor, and coach on a range of leadership topics including
The not so fine print...
Why are people the way they are? How much of our behavior is nature? Or is it nurture? And why do we act certain ways in groups? Join Coalition members Frans Alkemade and Joel Stone as they discuss how the concepts portrayed in the book bump up against their experiences in agile transformations, software development, and leading change overall. Enjoy!
The Lucifer Principle on Amazon
Jay's The Lucifer Principle summary
Listen in as @AgileAtelier Rahul Bhattacharya chats with Colleen Johnson @scrumhive and Andy Cleff @justsitthere on the topic of Product Discovery - a flexible period during which you and your team focus on building the right thing as opposed to building the thing right (Product Delivery)
Rahul Bhattacharya is an independent Lean/Agility coach, speaker, and trainer who is currently living in Berlin, Germany.
More about the Dual Track Single Flow model
Yadayada:
"Teal"? What does that even mean? Join Jonathan Schneider, Andy Cleff, and Jay Hrcsko as they discuss the book that every agilist references and yet nobody seems to have read, Frederic Laloux's Reinventing Organizations. Is it worth the read? Listen and find out!
Reinventing Organizations Website