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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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27:51

Leaning into Sustainable Pace with Women in Agile

Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations ·

2018/06/21

Agile Amped producer Hanna Gnann attended the Women in Agile Lunch & Learn at Keep Austin Agile 2018, where the topic was sustainable pace. She was impacted by the speaker Tamara Nation, so we invited her to chat with us about sustainability, how to measure it and ultimately how to achieve it. Nation shares her tips, with Gnann providing color commentary, including: - Balance and boundaries - making intentional choices about what thing you do not do. (Nation has stopped looking at her phone first

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27:40

To TDD or Not to TDD, That is the Question

Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations ·

2018/06/14

First off, Mark Waite is a test-driven development (TDD) proponent. But - and hear him out - TDD may not actually be needed every single time you write code. Waite shares his discovery that the developers of Git - the leading version control system today - didn't use any tests during the first year or so of development. But why? Waite argues that testing is a quality assurance measure - and sometimes you don't care about things like longevity, breaking the code, or even shoddy value. For example,

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25:06

Preparing the Next Generation for the New Agile World

Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations ·

2018/06/07

Are educators doing all they can to prepare students for the real world? High school teacher and CSM Bret Thayer feels we could be doing better to give today's students - digital natives - the soft skills that modern businesses need. These include critical thinking, problem-solving, creativity, innovation, collaboration, adaptability. Thayer is all too familiar with the struggle of getting smartphone-obsessed teenagers to acknowledge, let alone learn from, other people - teachers as well as other

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29:34

4 Steps to Change with the ITC Map

Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations ·

2018/05/31

Drawing from the work of Lisa Lahey and Robert Kegan, Henry Dittmer shares his experience using the Immunity to Change (ITC) map to help participants of his session identify what is keeping them from achieving a desired change. Dittmer used the four-step ITC map to demonstrate why - paradoxically - he doesn't like presenting at conferences. The four steps are: 1. What One Big Thing do you want to commit to changing? 2. What are you doing or not doing that's keeping you from doing this thing? 3. What

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27:16

Round Table Roulette - Keep Austin Agile 2018

Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations ·

2018/05/25

Round Table Roulette time! Daniel M. Lynn, Candase Hokanson, and Audrey Scheere are our "victims" today. The questions coming out of the hat were: What was your favorite conference keynote/session ever? Mile High Agile (Uncle Bob) - We're gonna get screwed into oblivion if we don't do engineering better. Agile2016 - 5 Dysfunctions of an Improv Group Scaling Agile: A Guide for the Perplexed What's the worst thing you've seen that people thought was Agile?People saying they bought/use an Agile tool,

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34:33

Teams of Heroic Learners | Diana Larsen

Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations ·

2018/05/22

Diana Larsen is the Chief Relationship Builder at the Agile Fluency Project and she has a simple compelling message: software development is learning work. Knowledge work is what everyone is talking about - but Larsen argues that learning is really what we need to be doing today. She talks about "heroic learners" - people who have the courage, compassion and confidence to learn everywhere and all the time, because as Larsen puts it, "We have to get good and learning - or we get left behind." And

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30:12

Hacking Agile for Digital Agencies | Dave Prior

Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations ·

2018/05/17

Dave Prior is a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) with Leading Agile, a Project Management Professional (PMP), and a podcast host. He got his start in project management at digital agencies. The problem he saw with the agencies was that they were willing to bend over backwards for the client, which made it difficult to stay profitable. The key to making digital agencies Agile, according to Prior, is to “get everyone trained together, make sure sales is part of that, figure out how to rewrite your

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24:13

Round Table Roulette - Agile in 10 years and more!

Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations ·

2018/05/15

Where will the Agile space be in ten years? This great question kicks off this edition of Round Table Roulette with our guests Aidee Fischer, Corey Post and Steve Kovach, three experienced Agile coaches here at SolutionsIQ. On the topic of the future of Agile, our guests are unanimous: "Agile will be everywhere." Other questions and conversation topics that host Howard Sublett guides our guests through include: Can Agile work at any scale? If no, at what size does it break down? (Fischer: "Depends

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32:34

Distributed Agile Teams: Collaboration over...

Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations ·

2018/05/10

Neil Smith and Chuck Copello from Red Hat sat down with us to discuss how an Agile mindset can overcome the 6th principle of the Agile Manifesto: “The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.” Red Hat is a large open source software company with 11,000 employees globally, 2,000 of whom work from home. Both Chuck and Neil have team members across different continents, and they provide practical advice for how to be a

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25:39

The Four R’s: A Model to Transition to Lean Thinking

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2018/05/03

When Agile coaches Nidhi Sharma and Michael Callahan are looking at changing someone’s mindset and changing the way that they behave and work, they want to start with a purpose. The pair tied it all together in their Four R’s model for transitioning to Lean thinking: - Why are we doing this work? (Right Reasons)- What work would fit that purpose? (Right Work)- Who needs to be in the room to have those conversations? (Right People)- What is the last responsible moment for doing the work? (Right Time)

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23:08

4 Steps toward Agility at Ableton | Business Agility...

Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations ·

2018/04/26

Agile coach Ashok Mohan and IT Product Owner Burkhard Lustig sit down with Agile Amped to share their stories working at Ableton, a business focused on making software and hardware for music makers. In particular, the duo discuss an pivotal learning experience with a difficult trade-in program. Although Product teams had already been leveraging Agile development and practices for 10 years, this was not the case for the Business. When the trade-in program revealed gaps in organizational capability,

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26:09

Limitations & Opportunities of Neurophysiology |...

Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations ·

2018/04/19

Marsha Shenk, coach, consultant and founder of The BestWork People, takes us on a whirlwind tour of how the brain affects everyday interactions. Shenk believes that people fundamentally want to contribute - to be part of meaningful interactions, which is what life - including business - is made up of. Our favorite quote: "Business agility is not for the faint hearted." More nuggets of wisdom Shenk offers:- "People get dumbed down by having imperatives imposed on them."- "Fear shuts down the

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29:48

Transforming GE into a Lean Startup | Business...

Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations ·

2018/04/12

Lars Bruns and Sudhir Nelvagal started working together in GE Healthcare 13 years ago. In this episode, they share their experience helping GE with their Agile transformation. GE, being a long-standing business giant with its fingerprints in virtually every infrastructure domain and every industry, is still traditional in many ways, but it is transforming itself to become a lean startup. Bruns and Nelvagal share their experiences applying innovative Agile and Lean techniques across GE’s traditional

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25:02

Driving Social Change in Agile & Business | Business...

Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations ·

2018/04/05

Natalie Warnert is an independent consultant and the founder of Women in Agile, which started five years ago and has spread far and wide. Since then, Warnert has written her theses about why women are less involved in the Agile community. In her research, she has uncovered interesting biases that men and women have about themselves and each other. She briefly touches on current social movements that show how views on equality, inclusivity and diversity are converging. She's also excited about the

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29:31

Beyond Budgeting 101 | Business Agility Series

Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations ·

2018/03/29

“Everybody knows going into the budget process that people make up the numbers because they know they’re going to get cut, they’re going to get manipulated, they’re negotiating for their bonuses, so it’s already a bad document to begin with,” says Nevine White. White and Mike De Luca from Beyond Budgeting Round Table of North America sat down with us for a deep dive into Beyond Budgeting, including a definition of what it is and some history. They also walk us through two real-world examples of

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20:15

Modernizing Business Analysis with AI & Experiments |...

Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations ·

2018/03/22

Angela Wick is the founder of BA-Squared and in this episode she talks about how business analysis is shifting drastically and how leaders are championing the charge. Wick discusses how important it is for business analysts to collaborate with Product Owners to focus on building the right products: "Agile can't happen without analysis... If you're building the wrong thing, it doesn't matter how fast you are." But what is really exciting to Wick is how much the world and her field is changing as a

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27:46

Agile Contracting and Procurement in the Federal...

Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations ·

2018/03/15

Joshua Seckel is an Agile coach and also Sevatec’s Chief Solution Architect for Agile and DevOps. Joshua drives the the adoption of business, technical, and management agility both internally and at client sites. His presentation at Business Agility Conference 2018 is called "Agile Contracting in the Federal Government" and in this podcast he shares his experience helping USCIS not only contract Agile teams but also to evolve the procurement process to be more Agile. With a focus on enabling

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29:00

Agile HR: Bringing Humanity into Human Resources

Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations ·

2018/03/08

Allison Flaten is an HR practitioner (and one of our favorite people) with over a decade of experience in working with and leading HR departments in variety of industries, five of which she has spent in an Agile organization. She walks us through the differences between traditional HR departments where the focus tends to be on risk mitigation, compliance, and policy-driven communication, and Agile HR that focuses on how to make the organization the best place for its employees. Flaten’s advice

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36:29

Job Interview Techniques for Agile Teams | Business...

Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations ·

2018/03/01

Why should a job interview for a role on an Agile team follow the traditional interview format with high anxiety and low level of psychological safety? How do you find people who are natural collaborators? Jason Tice, VP of business innovation at Worldwide Technology, spoke with Agile Amped about using collaborative activities, or games, during job interviews to gather feedback and assess necessary skills. Tice says creating a safe space where candidates are willing to be vulnerable is a game

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37:00

Foundational Engineering Practices for Agile

Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations ·

2018/02/22

We chat with SolutionsIQ's Dave Wylie, a seasoned consultant, manager and developer with 35 years of experience. Wylie wants to make sure that, while Agile has expanded beyond IT, people especially in IT remember that good engineering practices are foundational for a successful Agile transformation. Agile software development approaches, techniques and mindsets are drivers for business value and make it possible for Product Owners to ship when they're ready to ship. Dave argues that foundational

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