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WARNING: NSFW! Recorded deep in the J-curve of the coronavirus lockdown, the panel attempts to define the term "business value." We're not sure if it was the cabin fever, the alcohol, or something in the water, but we had a helluva time trying to define it. We're surprising everyone with a mid-week release as we think everyone can use a laugh right about now! Join inadvertent host Chris Murman with the panel of Andrew Leff, Colleen Johnson, Brad Stokes, and our "irregular-regular" Jonathan Schneider as they attempt to unpack this. Enjoy!
On this episode of the agile uprising podcast, Troy Lightfoot discuss what does a successful business agility transformation with SVP or Product Management at Gogo, Blane Boynton.
Blane chronicles his company's journey, successes and challenges in a multi year agile, SAFe, and business agility transformation.
Join Coalition members Claudia Orozco-Gomez and Carter Leffen as they sit down to discuss the ICA Agile Coaches Certification Course. Both Carter and Claudia are fresh out of the course, and they shared their learning, insights, and suggestions about who would most benefit by the experience. Enjoy!
This is the first in a series of conversations that explore effective leadership from a number of different viewpoints. Panelists for this Women and Leadership episode are:
- Lyssa Adkins: an internationally-acclaimed, inspiring coach and teacher. Her current focus is on improving the performance of top leadership teams through insightful facilitation and organization systems coaching.
- Carolyn Dragon: an engaging and highly talented coach, facilitator, and presenter. Visionary, enthusiastic, and grounded in results, Carolyn is a leader in learning, growing, and inspiring women’s personal and professional leadership development.
Lyssa and Carolyn co-lead TENWOMENSTRONG - a group that brings together circles of dynamic and inspiring women leaders to live their life on purpose.
Link to the "Allow" poem shared by Carolyn.
The show was recorded with live audience participation.
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Contact Information
- Andy Cleff: @justsitthere @andycleff - https://www.linkedin.com/in/andycleff/
- Lyssa Adkins @lyssaadkins - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lyssaadkins/
- Carolyn Dragon @tenwomenstrong - https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolynadragon/
- Kerri Sutey @KerriSutey https://www.linkedin.com/in/kerrisutey/
- Agile Uprising @agileuprising https://www.linkedin.com/company/agile-uprising/
- Agile Velocity @agilevelocity https://www.linkedin.com/company/agile-velocity/
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In this week's episode we are joined by Fabian Schwartz, author of the book "Your Scrum Playbook." We discuss why the poker analogy is better than chess, how to implement scrum in your organization, "hippie scrum", and much much more! Enjoy!
In this week's chat Chris Murman, Andrew Leff, and Jay Hrcsko sit down to discuss the book Zone To Win by Geoffrey Moore...how do concepts like zone management play into our experiences in agile transformations? Take a listen and find out!
In our newest episode of "Business Agility" Creator of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Dean Leffingwell joins Chris Murman, Troy Lightfoot, and Andrew Leff to discuss Business Agility, SAFe 5.0, and address some of the criticisms in various Forbes, Medium, and online articles of SAFe.
In our newest episode of "Should I Take This?" agile practitioner Lynn Winterboer joins Jay Hrcsko, Troy Lightfoot, and Andrew Leff to discuss the Scaled Agile Release Train Engineer course...who knew it was more coaching than project management?!?! Enjoy!!!
Audit and Compliance...two of the scariest departments to engage in an agile transformation...but should they be? Guest Jon Schneider joins Andrew Leff, James Gifford, and Jay Hrcsko to talk about how to have positive interactions with your audit and compliance folks while you transform, as well as how to build strong relationships with this department going forward. Enjoy!
We've already talked about the concept of colors and memes in the space of Spiral Dynamics...but what can we take from the material in regards to helping us with an organizational change? Coalition member Jon Schneider joins James Gifford and Jay Hrcsko as they walk through some snippets of the book and discuss these concepts as applied to an agile transformation. Enjoy!
Time and time again, we hear managers and executives say "Coaches are expensive." In this episode Coalition members Rudiger Wolf and Joel Stone join Andrew Leff and Jay Hrcsko to talk about how to demonstrate the value of a coach, as well as ways to circumvent the entire discussion. Enjoy!
Well, we started out intending to talk about effective remote coaching, but we took a turn and discussed how to be effective as a colleague with this "new normal" in the post-COVID world. We got a bit loose but this is one of our most "real" episodes. Coalition members Jon Schneider and Mike Caddell joined Colleen Johnson, Chris Murman, James Gifford, and Jay Hrcsko for a conversation that includes screaming kids, profanity, and honest feelings about how to try and be productive when life gets in the way. Enjoy!
Earlier this week we convened a panel of dislocated/distributed/remote work experts to discuss the impacts of the Coronavirus on the world of work, and to offer up some tips, tricks, and hints for those who are new to remote work. Join Lisette Sutherland, Mark Kilby, and Johanna Rothman as they sat down with Jay Hrcsko to have a fun and insightful conversation about this new paradigm, and maybe pick up some ideas along the way!
Lisette Sutherland
Collaboration Superpowers Website
Work Together Anywhere: A Handbook on Working Remotely
Mark Kilby
From Chaos to Distributed Agile Teams: Collaborate to Deliver
Johanna Rothman
Dina Gofman, the author of Forgetting the Money, talks to Brad Stokes about Project Accounting and how applying another lense understanding your projects.
Dina has used Project Accounting for her own startups and helped others. Dina’s experience ranges across a multitude of projects and programs within a number of international organisations.
Dina has seen the pain caused when teams forget the money and how to account for the value they bring to the table.
Links:
http://projectaccounting.com.au
https://www.amazon.com.au/Forgetting-Money-Dina-Gofman/dp/0646996681
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What exactly is an agile coach? When should you hire one? Do you ever need to "refresh" your coaching contingent? And when do you cut them loose? Join our panel comprised of Coalition member Rob Legatie along with Andy Cleff, Chris Murman, James Gifford, and Jay Hrcsko as they discuss these questions and a ton more!
Be careful what you discuss with friends at a conference, or you may end up writing a book about it. That's what Ryan Ripley is learning now that the book he wrote with Todd Miller, Fixing Your Scrum: Practical Solutions to Common Sense Problems, is on shelves. After talking about some of the challenges he's seen helping Scrum teams inspect and adapt with friends, someone said, "that sounds like a book right there!"
Ripley and host Chris Murman discuss the writing process, why Scrum is just now hitting its stride, and why it's still the best solution to take a group of people and deliver effective solutions today.
The book is available on Amazon, and be sure to tell him Murman sent you.
In the latest episode of our "Should I Take This?" series, once again Troy Lightfoot and Jay Hrcsko sit down to discuss another Scaled Agile course, and this time it's Lean Portfolio Management. Check it out and let us know if you agree!
In this episode of our "Should I Take This?" series, Jay Hrcsko and Troy Lightfoot sit down to discuss the SAFe DevOps Practitioner course.
Hint: this course isn't for just for developers, and maybe the most rewarding course that you don't hear much about!
Enjoy!
In this Agile Uprising podcast, co-hosts Andy Cleff and Erik Cottrell chat with David Marquet about his latest book. The hypothesis behind “Leadership is Language” is that how we communicate at work has been programmed by Industrial Revolution thinking. However in today’s world of creative knowledge work, we no longer labor on old-fashioned assembly lines, so why should we use language that was designed for them?
Marquet provides six plays to change the way we show up, impact our organizational cultures, and ultimately transform our outcomes:
- Control the clock, don't obey the clock
- Collaborate, don't coerce
- Commit, don't comply
- Complete, don't continue
- Improve, don't prove
- Connect, don't conform
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Links
Contact Information
- https://twitter.com/ldavidmarquet
- https://www.facebook.com/ldavidmarquet
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmarquet/
Websites
Books
- Leadership is Language
- Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders
- The Turn The Ship Around! Workbook: Implement Intent-Based Leadership In Your Organization
- Start with Why
- Wisdom of Crowds
- Thinking Fast and Slow
Videos
- Turn the Ship Around by David Marquet
- Leadership Nudges by David Marquet
Articles
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What's the hardest department to transform? What's the one thing a transformation always gets wrong? We play a game of 20 questions with Colleen Johnson, Andrew Leff, Chris Murman, and Andy Cleff where we answer these an 18 more! Enjoy!
In this episode Jay Hrcsko, Andy Cleff and guest Chris Wistrom have a panel discussion reviewing their experience at Craig Larman’s three-day LeSS Masterclass. Topics include:
- The Problem with Local Optimization: How local optimization leads to suboptimization at the global level.
- Systems Thinking: Using causal loop diagrams to visualize complex relationships between variables and outcomes
- Why none one of us will come back from the LeSS class preaching “We have found the silver bullet!!!”
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Links
Contact Information
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/chriswistrom/
Websites
- More with LeSS
- Upcoming LeSS Courses
- Larman’s Laws of Organizational Behavior
- Lean and Agile fail because we teach Lean and Agile, Jim Benson
Books
- Books by Craig Larman
- Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure
- Out of the Crisis, Deming
- Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
- Beyond Budgeting
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In this week's exciting episode we sit down with Dana Pylayeva to talk about Liberating Structures...what are they? How do we use them? Can you "daisy-chain" them together for even better results? Join us and see!
Dana's Website: Agile Play Consulting
Free Liberating Structures resources:
Free App: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/liberating-structures/id1206361128?mt=8
Website: http://www.liberatingstructures.com/ls-menu
Meetup in NYC: https://www.meetup.com/NYC-Liberating-Structures/
Liberating Structures Events around the world: http://www.liberatingstructures.com/news-and-events/
Events in NYC:
NYC LS Meetup - Jan 16, 2020: https://www.meetup.com/NYC-Liberating-Structures/events/267573978/
LS Immersion Workshop - Feb 28, 2020 http://bit.ly/LSNYC_feb
Training from the Back of the Room April 2-3, 2020 : http://bit.ly/TBRNYC_april
DevOps Culture (with Lego and Chocolate game) April 4, 2020: http://bit.ly/DEVOPS_april
Books and games:
Liberating Structures by Henri Lipmanowicz
https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-DevOps-Chocolate-LEGO-Scrum/dp/1484225643
https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/devops-culture-role-cards
https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/fear-in-the-workplace
https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/safety-in-the-workplace
As we leave the "Decade of Agile", a bunch of us got together to discuss where we've been and where we've headed. Have we reached "peak agile"? What's coming around the corner? Tardigrades? Blue Blazers? Have a listen!