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Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations

Accenture | SolutionsIQ

The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility.

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29:53

Embedding Agility into Education | Business Agility...

Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations ·

2019/03/28

Jason Gaulden is the Vice President of Partnerships at America Succeeds and co-author of the groundbreaking report, “The Age of Agility: Education Pathways for the Future of Work.” In his work, Gaulden strives to embed agility into the learning process, both in terms of the technical skillset and the lifelong learning mindset that students need “to succeed in the global economy but contribute to their local community.” The need for this paradigm shift in education is epitomized in the rapid decline

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33:54

Measuring Business Agility Outcomes

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2019/03/21

Sally Elatta is the president of Agile Transformation, Inc., and founder of AgilityHealth. Elatta shares her story of the growth of her company, what they have on their “culture wall” and the current state of business agility, as well as a taste of the future. The 2018 Business Agility Report revealed that, while team agility and what Elatta calls “team-of-teams agility,” companies are doing really well. But in terms of business agility – particularly as applies to culture, leadership and support

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33:03

Beyond Scaling and Onto Descaling with XSCALE |...

Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations ·

2019/03/14

Peter Merel has an impressive résumé: XP pioneer, author of the original Wikipedia wiki-engine, and founder of XSCALE Alliance. XSCALE Alliance follows de-scaling practices and values, where the goal is, among other things, to “enable [self-organizing teams] to self-manage and self-direct.” Merel takes us on a thought-provoking stroll through topics like: Frameworks as pattern languages A “damning statistic” that may have been overlooked in a recent VersionOne’s State of Agile Survey Throughput

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39:58

Getting to Equal: Gender Parity in the Workplace |...

Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations ·

2019/03/07

In honor of International Women’s Day 2019 and Women’s History Month, today’s episode features a female leader we’re proud to call our own. Neville Poole is a woman of color, wife, mother, and a managing director at Accenture | SolutionsIQ. She remembers a time when, while working as a bank teller, people would stand in line to wait for her white, male colleague to attend to them. One customer even told her manager, “I'm not comfortable sharing my financials with the black girl.” Neville took it in

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23:21

Holacracy: A Complete System for Self-Organization |...

Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations ·

2019/02/28

Sandy Mamoli is an Agile consultant and coach with a focus on organizational culture and leadership. She is also a former Olympian, an international keynote speaker and author of “Creating Great Teams – How Self-Selection Lets People Excel”. Sandy sat down to explain holacracy, which is a way to create a truly self-organizing organization, and shares examples of the method in action. This episode of Agile Amped is part of a series in partnership with the Business Agility

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32:01

Continuous Delivery at Oath

Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations ·

2019/02/21

James Couball and Ashley Wolf share their experience with a massive Continuous Delivery initiative at Oath Inc. - a division of Verizon composed of Yahoo, AOL, and HuffPost. Thousands of systems not doing CD were involved, which was a great forcing function for implementing best practices for technical excellence. Over the years of using an open source approach and mindset to development, they stumbled on inner source (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_source), which applies source principles of code

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36:59

The Need for Database Innovation

Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations ·

2019/02/14

For Chief Technology Officer at Datical Robert Reeves, databases (and its administrators) have traditionally been a challenge for DevOps. That needs to change. Reeves shares how cultural, technical, and personal biases have stymied innovation on the database. In his experience, when organizations get to the hard issues like the database, they get disillusioned with DevOps and are tempted to stop on their journey. His advice: Now is the time to tackle these hard problems, don’t wait to be disrupted

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32:28

Change the Norms to Change the Culture

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2019/02/07

Jorgen Hesselberg, cofounder of Comparative Agility, and Steven Wolff, partner in Group Emotional Intelligence Partners, sat down with us to talk about their Agile2018 presentation on "Emotional Intelligence as a Performance Multiplier." Emotional intelligence has a profound affect not just on team dynamics but also on organizational culture. In his research Hesselberg has found that culture is often on the list of factors for team performance - but what is culture? Says Wolff, "When you can affect

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32:54

The World Needs a More Feminine Approach | Women in...

Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations ·

2019/01/31

Our guests Lyssa Adkins and Natalie Warnert sat down to talk about two organizations that are on a mission to give women a voice: Women in Agile and TENWOMENSTRONG. Women in Agile has grown from its grassroots origins to a non-profit organization with a number of different events and local groups. Their mission is to provide support for more women to build more inclusive conference experiences and provide opportunities to grow in a supportive environment. Read more about our partnership here.

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31:39

The True Cost of Business Agility Transformation

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2019/01/24

With the right mindset and practices in place, your organization could be "faster than Facebook." But what does that mean? Furthermore, why do most companies fall short of the real promise of business agility? Stas Zvinyatskovsky, a Managing Director for Accenture and DevOps thought leader, believes the problem is that most organizations are unwilling to make the necessary organizational changes to achieve business agility - they are not willing to pay the true cost of business agility

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34:14

Innovation Accounting

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2019/01/17

Joe Vallone, a senior consultant at Scaled Agile and an experienced Agile Coach and Trainer, sits down with us to talk innovation accounting. "All companies want to be innovative, but nobody wants to pay for it." The cost, he reminds us, is steep and measured in time not money. After comparing innovations and heavy investments from the past (Post-WWII and the SR21 Blackbird) and the present (Tesla and self-driving cars), Vallone touches on how innovation accounting fits into SAFe 4.6 and emphasizes

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27:17

Transformation in the Federal Government Starts with...

Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations ·

2019/01/10

Transformation in the Federal Government is often thought of as slow and daunting. However, Chris Palmisano and Greg Pfister have noticed a real push from leadership to adopt Agile principles and it’s showing up in an unlikely place: contracts. “If that contract is not structured in a way that shows clear alignment on Agile principles with the right support from leadership… it becomes very difficult to correct course and really promote those ideas and principles”. Like most large organizations, the

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30:04

Lean Experiments and Design Thinking for Your Backlog

Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations ·

2019/01/03

David Bland, founder of Precoil, helps both startup founders and enterprise leaders rapidly find product market fit. He sat down to talk about using Lean experiments with Agile teams, and how to fold in design thinking as a new way to look at your backlog. When considering what to work on, teams should look at: - Desirability – Do people want this? - Viability – Should we be working on this? - Feasibility – Can we do this? However, most teams focus on “Can we do this?” and not enough on “Do we want

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33:47

Making Roadmaps More Agile

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2018/12/27

“Pragmatic Manager” and author Johanna Rothman sits down to discuss her packed Agile2018 session “Agile and Lean Roadmapping: Incorporating Change at Every Level of Product Planning.” Businesses tend to want to follow a plan even when new information is available. Rothman advises using Minimum Viable Experiments to validate a business hypothesis and letting the results influence plans. To do so, she advocates for delivering on tiny stories (daily, if possible) and using rolling wave planning. She

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25:29

“DevOps for the Modern Enterprise” Author Micro Hering

Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations ·

2018/12/20

Author of “DevOps for the Modern Enterprise” Mirco Hering is a Managing Director at Accenture leading the Agile & DevOps practice in the APAC region. Hering shares with us the two topics that he didn’t find in other books on DevOps, which motivated him to write his own. He also highlights for us why it’s so important to love learning. “The world will continue to change and we need to continue to evolve… If you go to uni these days, it’s not a matter of getting that degree and continuing working in

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29:37

Scaling Continuous Delivery at Walmart

Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations ·

2018/12/13

Bryan and Dana Finster share their experiences helping deploy Continuous Delivery pipelines at Walmart, drawing inspiration from CALMS. "One of the challenges [with things like DevSecOps]," Bryan points out, "is people not understanding what they're trying to do with CD. If they understand that, then security and quality is natural, because the CD pipeline is for delivering fixes to production really fast." Dana also shares, "You can't just tell people about the culture... The phrase I use is 'use

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28:44

Incentivizing Change in Your Organization

Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations ·

2018/12/06

Josh Atwell considers himself somewhat of an “IT therapist” in his role as a technology advocate at Splunk. He informs and enables leaders and practitioners in the techniques and strategies needed for today’s quickly evolving IT landscape. Atwell believes that, in order to implement change, organizations must change the way people are measured. Leaders need to set clear expectations and proper examples from the get go. For example, their style might be to send emails all hours of the night, but they

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24:51

“The Agile Marketer” Author Roland Smart | Business...

Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations ·

2018/11/29

What makes for an impactful customer experience? How does your brand differentiate itself? If you’re a large enterprise like Oracle, you have people like Roland Smart, author of “The Agile Marketer:  Turning Customer Experience Into Your Competitive Advantage” on staff architecting customer journeys using Agile methods and mindsets. “It’s my strong belief that Agile will become a competitive advantage for marketers,” says Smart, who is also the VP of Corporate Marketing at Oracle. “It acknowledges

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41:52

DevSecOps & Open Source Security Post-Equifax Breach

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2018/11/22

The major security breach at Equifax in 2017 should have been a wakeup call for many – but how much have dev and security practices changed since to ensure it doesn’t happen again? How vulnerable are the open source components you are using? How quickly can you identify and deploy security fixes? This was the topic of our discussion with Derek Weeks, the Vice President at Sonatype, to talk about why security should be included in DevOps, the difficultly of compliance for open source usage and what

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47:08

Let’s Stop Making People Feel Stupid

Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations ·

2018/11/15

Clare Sudbery left the IT industry years ago because she was bored and unmotivated. Fast forward, and now she’s back at it, this time as a passionate lead consultant developer at ThoughtWorks. Why the change? In her time away, Sudbery learned something during her stint teaching math: much like people divide themselves and others into good or bad at math, she says the IT industry is doing the same to employees and new hires. They’ll say, “Can you believe that so-and-so didn’t know anything about X?”

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