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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.

business management

All Episodes

27:24

Modernization Case Study at CSG

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2020/01/09

Scott Prugh is Chief Architect & SVP of Software Development at CSG. He recounts the story of the technical evolution at his organization and the multi-year strides to modernize their application stack as well as mainframe technology. “One of the things we found was that when you start taking these crazy, really heavy platforms and you start to modernize them, it starts to free up capacity.” Accenture’s Mirco Hering hosts at the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2019 in Las Vegas. The Agile Amped

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27:36

The US Government is not a Unicorn

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2020/01/01

The US government is notorious for being a slow-moving bureaucracy that is crazy about controlling every minor detail. Internally, there are often musings that agile will never work within the public sector because the government is a unicorn incompatible with agile principles and values. But if you get down to it, the government struggles with many of the same issues that private corporations do. This includes things like obtaining leadership buy-in, acquiring funding in a big batch project

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40:23

Testing Business Ideas with David Bland

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2019/12/26

David J. Bland is a co-author of the newly published “Testing Business Ideas,” and founder of Precoil where he helps companies find product-market fit using lean startup, design thinking and business model innovation practices. Bland walks us through the book which is a field guide for rapid experimentation in order to reduce risk and increase the likelihood of success for any new venture or business project. In addition to experimentation, the publication also tackles team design from three

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34:25

Pivot to the Future with Paul Nunes

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2019/12/12

Paul Nunes is the Global Managing Director of Thought Leadership at Accenture with 33 years working with the consultancy under his belt. He discusses the findings in the book he co-authored with Larry Downes and Omar Abbosh: “Pivot to the Future: Discovering Value and Creating Growth in a Disrupted World”. Nunes says the big idea in the book is that companies can no longer afford to change through large-scale business transformation, rather we need a new way of creating change within the

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26:33

Technical Debt: A Force for Good or Evil?

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2019/12/05

Technical debt can be an emotionally charged topic of discussion between the debt-adverse and the debt-tolerant. Is it an evil that must be eradicated or an unavoidable occurrence that can be leveraged for good? How to handle technical debt can become a point of contention within a team or even across an entire organization. According to David Brown, an agilist within the innovation center for a 100+-year-old American electric power company, people use the term “technical debt” when they start

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31:37

Open Source Code Security and Your Enterprise

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2019/11/28

The average enterprise is relying upon about 3,500 open source projects to support faster software development. Unfortunately, external suppliers of the code are often chosen based on popularity or familiarity rather than code quality. Vice President at Sonatype and the co-founder of All Day DevOpsDerek Weeks sat down with us to discuss open source as well as the main findings in the 2019 State of the Software Supply Chain Report. The report details the following: Where open source components are

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33:19

The Truth About Burnout with Dr. Christina Maslach

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2019/11/21

Dr. Christina Maslach is a Professor of Psychology and a researcher at the Healthy Workplaces Center at the University of California, Berkeley. She is one of the pioneering researchers on job burnout and is the author of “The Truth About Burnout”. In this episode, you'll learn the difference between being merely stressed out and the symptoms of burnout: exhaustion, cynicism, and a negative sense of oneself. Dr. Maslach also walks us through the core psychological needs that promote worker

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27:48

Innovation is Everyone’s Responsibility

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2019/11/14

Katherine Radeka is the founder and executive director of the Rapid Learning Cycles Institute and author of the new book “High Velocity Innovation: How to Get Your Best Ideas to Market Faster”. Radeka shares with us some highlights from her book, like organizations need to create “a path of least resistance to innovation” and that innovation is everyone’s responsibility. Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Jeff Steinberg hosts. The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by

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23:44

Team Topologies: Organizing Teams for Flow of Value

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2019/11/07

Co-authors Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais just released their new book “Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow”. Skelton and Pais define four types of teams and they help achieve flow of change and reduce cognitive load for the team members. Stream-aligned: More traditionally considered “product teams” Enabling: Experts in a specific area Complicated-subsystem: Deep skills such as Ph.D. level expertise or years of experience in a niche technology

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42:12

Dirty Truths of Scaling

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2019/10/31

As CEO and Product Owner of Scrum.org, Dave West has collected some awesome stories and he regales us with a few in this episode of Agile Amped. Too often companies attempt to scale agility without a clear purpose and fail both to see true agility and to inspire employees with a compelling purpose. And, West reminds us, “purpose is actionable,” not just something in the mission statement or plastered on the office wall. The conversations covers frameworks, the American education system, and even

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32:31

Practicing Leadership Skills with David Marquet

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2019/10/24

David Marquet, Inc. Magazine’s Top 100 leadership speaker and the bestselling author of “Turn the Ship Around”, discusses his keynote topic at this year’s Southern Fried Agile conference: “Move Your People Up the Ladder of Leadership”. Marquet emphasizes a “lean back” approach to leadership – giving people the room to lean in and make more decisions on their own. “What we want to do is push the authority for making decisions out to the people who have the information. You get a much more resilient,

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36:49

All Jokes Aside: How SNL Takes Agile Seriously

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2019/10/17

Matt Badgley and John Krewson sat down to unpack their presentations at Agile2019: “Live From D.C., It’s Saturday Night: The Agility of SNL” and “Let’s Just Skip High-Performing and Go Straight to Badass!” Badgley and Krewson derive comparisons between sketch comedy and agility and take us backstage to the process of producing a show from concept to cash within a week. The duo also dives into the topics of the real meanings of high-performing teams, failing fast and leadership. Accenture |

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27:38

Supersizing SAFe at Boeing

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2019/10/10

Debbie Brey has worked at Boeing for 35 years, where she is an internal SPCT and Enterprise Transformation Leader. She is currently leading an enterprise-wide initiative to incorporate an Agile way of working into the Boeing culture. Brey takes us behind the scenes on the massive undertaking of bringing digital transformation to the century-old enterprise. Her program, a subset of a 4,000-5,000 employee IT organization, consists of 234 Agile teams organized into 20 Agile Release Trains and two

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37:51

How to Dojo

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2019/10/03

Coaches Jessica Guistolise and Greg Adams-Woodford have been running Dojos at their client successfully for a few years. They explain the purpose and basics of a Dojo and share their experiences from the trenches. Dojo is a place where teams practice - a new physical space where they break down what they’ve done in the past and rebuilding their habits over a six-week period. Additionally, Dojo uses 2.5-day “hyper sprints” that enable teams to deliver real business value more quickly and understand

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23:16

Transforming the Digital Experience at Australia Post

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2019/09/26

Pete Young played a key role in leading the transformation of Australia Post’s digital consumer experience. The journey to transformation at this 210-year-old institution began when they focused on fixing one specific problem: 15% of the customer base consistently missing first time delivery of a parcel. Young also shares how, in two years, focus a single metric resulted in a 7% increase in successful first-time deliveries – a significant impact for an organization with 5 million digital customer

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39:36

Bridging the Gap Between Traditional and Agile...

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2019/09/19

Chris Philipsen understands that “playbook” and “Agile” don’t necessarily go together but the title of his Agile2019 talk “A Playbook for an Agile Manager” was chosen on purpose. A consultant at Insight, Philipsen speaks the language of traditional managers who expect a “playbook” for how to effectively manage in an Agile organization as well as the language of Agile. He and our host, Agile coach Chris Murman at Accenture | SolutionsIQ, vibe on the differences between managing styles as well as

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26:19

Transforming Healthcare with Business Agility

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2019/09/12

Dan Scalfaro, a key stakeholder at a major healthcare provider, teamed up with Agile coach, Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Emilia Breton, to guide his organization through their transformation. They sat down to give us insights about the process and the major challenges they encountered. According to Scalfaro, “I thought the DevOps stuff was going to be my challenge. It wasn’t. It was the change management and the people.” Breton and Scalfaro put the focus on the customer ahead of anything else when

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29:49

FOMO in the Federal Government

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2019/09/05

Even government agencies experience FOMO. It took the turnaround from an 80-million-dollar big bang failure into an initiation of a couple successful, smaller pilot agile programs within the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) for other federal programs to realize that they were missing out. Richard Cheng has been working on helping the US Government understand and implement the value of Agile. In the many years of working with the government, he’s noticed that the conversation has gone past

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33:43

Emotional Self-Management for Leaders

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2019/08/29

Have you ever regretted sending an email while angry? Lorraine Aguilar is a certified trainer in Non-Violent Communication (NVC) who teaches us emotional self-management and radical leadership through empathy for yourself and others. “Empathy so that the best ideas rise to the surface and not the strong and dominating personalities.” Aguilar walks us through her 4 steps of the empathy dojo and uses poignant stories from her own life as examples of applying “radical acts of kindness” to demonstrate

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24:58

The Power of Agile Digital Policy

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2019/08/22

Author Kristina Podnar helps businesses get smarter, better and faster at creating digital policies and practices that unlock opportunity, liberate employees and increase the bottom line. While many people are intimidated by the word “policy,” Podnar encourages us to think of them as guardrails – “short statements that reflects the organization’s values … so we can create freedom, innovation and creativity.” Her book “The Power of Digital Policy” is actually a handbook that provides specific ways

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