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447 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsThe 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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The Keys to AT&T’s SAFe Transformation
October 18, 2018 11:00 - 22 minutes - 31.2 MBCandace Kelley is the Director of Enterprise Agile Transformation at AT&T. She has been influencing the adoption of SAFe and Agile practices at AT&T for the last 5 years. Kelley shares her path to becoming an Agile leader within her organization and the keys to scaling Agile. One of the key factors that has allowed the adoption of Agile at scale has been leadership engagement in the process. When embarking on a new program or portfolio, Kelley brings in the executives for a full day immers...
The Journey to Agility at American Express
October 11, 2018 11:00 - 23 minutes - 32.6 MBDanielle Crop is the VP of Application Experience and Platforms at American Express. She shares her journey helping the 168-year-old financial services giant transition into an Agile organization. Amex is fundamentally a digital company – they’ve never had brick-and-mortar branches – and have always been customer-centric. Today the challenge they face are the new ways of working within the organization. Some teams, such as marketing, that have traditionally used project management within t...
SAFe 4.6 with Dean Leffingwell
October 04, 2018 14:06 - 22 minutes - 30.6 MBDean Leffingwell is just a "geek on a mission". Recognized as the one of the world’s foremost authorities on Lean-Agile best practices, his passion has always been improving the craft of software development. With the release of SAFe 4.6, he hopes to do just that. Leffingwell shares some of the most important updates to the framework including how to address the challenge of moving from a traditional to a Lean|Agile mindset, more guidance on XP, TDD and BDD, and how to scale a scaling fram...
Mentoring a New Agile Coach
September 27, 2018 11:00 - 38 minutes - 52.8 MBAllison Pollard and Noreen Emanuel sat down for a chat with us about their mentor-mentee relationship. As an external Agile coach Pollard was able to act as a “super coach,” and through this symbiotic relationship Emanuel has now become a coach herself at her place of work. Pollard sees the relationship as a partnership: “For me it’s like I have a new colleague. I have a new person that has different ideas, their brain works differently, and they have all these great skills, so how do we t...
Alternative to Top Down Control | Esther Derby
September 20, 2018 11:00 - 30 minutes - 42 MBEsther Derby has spent the last twenty-five years helping companies design their environment, culture, and human dynamics for optimum success. She sat down with us to talk about an alternative to top down control: clarity, conditions, and constraints. Her approach is a response to organizations saying that they want their teams to step into responsibility and to be empowered, but yet the management structure gets in the way of that. She doesn’t advocate just throwing away all the direction...
Why Agile is a Philosophy, Not a Compliance Regime
September 13, 2018 11:00 - 34 minutes - 47.6 MBHead of R&D and Work Futurist at Atlassian, Dom Price sees an unsettling trend: a celebration of Agile teams who do all the right things but don’t get any of the value. While Price sees Agile as “a philosophy, a spirit,” he argues that too many large organizations use it as a means to achieve compliance, managers going around with their checklists, saying “We do x, we do y, therefore we’re Agile tech.” But Agile is a means to real value - faster time to market, more innovative teams, more ...
Building an Agile Culture with Howard Sublett
September 06, 2018 11:00 - 33 minutes - 45.6 MBA very familiar voice for the Agile Amped podcast listeners is our special guest for this episode. Howard Sublett, the Director of Community Development at Accenture | SolutionsIQ is moving on to become the Chief Product Owner for the Scrum Alliance. Hear about Sublett’s journey in the Agile industry and learn how he helped build the culture we all here at SolutionsIQ cherish. Sublett offers examples of the kinds of activities and tools we’ve implemented to keep our community engaged. ...
What’s the Story with Agile Data?
August 30, 2018 11:00 - 31 minutes - 43.5 MBTroy Magennis is a consultant to major companies on Agile implementation and portfolio planning, and a seasoned conference speaker. He was a keynote speaker at Agile2018 on the topic of data, which for the first time was approved as a track by the Agile Alliance this year. Magennis says part of being a good Agile coach is understanding data, although data can be inconvenient because it doesn’t always show what we want it to show. He walks us through the metrics that you really need to capt...
“Personal Kanban” Author Jim Benson on the Agile Manifesto
August 23, 2018 11:00 - 35 minutes - 48.9 MBJim Benson is the author of the global bestseller "Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life" and self-identified "Agile heretic." A strong proponent for the values and principles, collaboration, and teamwork, Benson nonetheless is vocal on social media about ways Agile can approve. An example is when Agile teams don't do any documentation, pointing at the Agile Manifesto: "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools." Benson contends that people mistakenly turn this into a...
Compassion in Tech and Business | Women in Agile
August 16, 2018 11:00 - 23 minutes - 32.9 MBSan Diego based April Wensel is the founder of Compassionate Coding. After a decade in software, she noticed that there was a lot of suffering in the industry. Rather than just assuming that that can't be changed, Wensel decided compassion was the answer. In this podcast, Wensel shares her experiences helping businesses to be more compassionate in not just business matters but also in their own interpersonal conduct. She also gives a useful definition of what compassion is (recognizing suffe...
UX in Space
August 09, 2018 11:00 - 30 minutes - 41.2 MBKrys Blackwood is a Senior Lead UX Designer at NASA Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California. With her design team, she is creating a cultural change in an 80-year-old organization that's used to shipping things in a very waterfall way, "which makes sense when you're working with a billion dollar space craft." Blackwood has even gone so far as to travel to places like Spain and Australia to physically sit and work with the engineers who control space craft far out in space, to get a bett...
Organizational Change in an Agile Context
August 02, 2018 11:00 - 36 minutes - 50.5 MBJason Little is an international speaker, Agile management consultant, and the author of Lean Change Management. He spoke with us about approaching organizational change based on Agile principles; how to sense and respond to change rather than to think of “transformation” as a linear path with an end date; and how to think outside the prescriptive box of frameworks. "Today we have everything from Agile digital strategy development to Agile marketing to Agile testing ...and it's completely ...
Alexa and Google Home: Agile for Voice Technology
July 26, 2018 11:00 - 29 minutes - 40.4 MBNowadays you can’t go anywhere without hearing about or interacting with voice recognition technology. Kari Ostevik of the Toronto-based Tribal Scale knows: she helped with the voice technology powering both Amazon Echo (i.e., “Alexa”) and Google Home. She provides 5 lessons for working in emerging technology: Humility – nobody knows yet so everybody needs to be curious and patient. Power of the Pair – Pair programming makes knowledge dissemination fast and seamless. Ruthless Prioritiza...
Behind the Scenes of an Acquisition: SolutionsIQ at Accenture
July 19, 2018 11:00 - 31 minutes - 43.5 MBOne year ago, Accenture acquired SolutionsIQ, the leading pure-play Agile consultancy in North America. We invited two key players from each side of the acquisition – SolutionsIQ’s CEO John Rudd and Accenture Technology’s practice lead Jeff Emerson – to give a rare behind-the-scenes peek into the process of an acquisition while using Agile practices and embodying an Agile mindset and culture. "How does a little company that is based on Agile values move into a very large organization, in a...
Empathy and Emotional Intelligence in Organizational Transformation
July 12, 2018 11:00 - 23 minutes - 32.1 MBAlicia McLain is an Organizational Transformation | Executive Coach with a keen eye for organizational systems. Her session at Keep Austin Agile 2018, called “Confidence vs. Ego – The Role Empathy Plays in Organizational Transformation,” highlights the differences between acting “in confidence” and acting “in ego.” Confidence is about responding rather than reacting, being outward-focused and being comfortable in your own skin, whereas ego tends to be self-focused, self-centered. McLain pa...
Agile Leadership: What You Don’t Know Might Hurt You
July 05, 2018 11:00 - 33 minutes - 45.4 MBPete Behrens is a Leadership Agility Coach, Certified Enterprise Coach, and a CST. He sat down with us to shed light on the Certified Agile Leadership Program by the Scrum Alliance which, according to Behrens, was the number one requested education that wasn’t being provided by the community.“The purpose of this program is not to make leaders experts at Scrum, but to help them adapt an Agile mindset. Being a Certified Agile Leader is not the point coming out of a two-day class, but to introd...
The Agile Mindset | Gil Broza
June 28, 2018 11:00 - 38 minutes - 53.1 MBMindset is the gray matter between why we do our work and how we get it done. Gil Broza, a much sought-after speaker, Agile coach, and author of The Human Side of Agile and The Agile Mind-Set, sat down with us for a deep dive into the Agile mindset. According to Broza, the Agile mindset is made up for 3 things:• Values: What we care about.• Beliefs: What we assume or hold to be true.• Principles: The standards that guide how we act. He goes on to explain why Agile transformations fail wh...
Leaning into Sustainable Pace with Women in Agile
June 21, 2018 11:00 - 27 minutes - 38.3 MBAgile 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 phon...
To TDD or Not to TDD, That is the Question
June 14, 2018 11:00 - 27 minutes - 38 MBFirst 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 exa...
Preparing the Next Generation for the New Agile World
June 07, 2018 11:00 - 25 minutes - 34.5 MBAre 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 ...
4 Steps to Change with the ITC Map
May 31, 2018 11:00 - 29 minutes - 40.6 MBDrawing 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 th...
Round Table Roulette - Keep Austin Agile 2018
May 25, 2018 10:59 - 27 minutes - 37.5 MBRound 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...
Teams of Heroic Learners | Diana Larsen
May 22, 2018 11:13 - 34 minutes - 47.5 MBDiana 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."...
Hacking Agile for Digital Agencies | Dave Prior
May 17, 2018 11:00 - 30 minutes - 41.5 MBDave 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 you...
Round Table Roulette - Agile in 10 years and more!
May 15, 2018 10:49 - 24 minutes - 33.3 MBWhere 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:...
Distributed Agile Teams: Collaboration over Collocation at Red Hat
May 10, 2018 12:44 - 32 minutes - 44.7 MBNeil 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 h...
The Four R’s: A Model to Transition to Lean Thinking
May 03, 2018 11:00 - 25 minutes - 35.2 MBWhen 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? (R...
4 Steps toward Agility at Ableton | Business Agility Series
April 26, 2018 11:00 - 23 minutes - 31.8 MBAgile 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 capab...
Limitations & Opportunities of Neurophysiology | Business Agility Series
April 19, 2018 11:00 - 26 minutes - 35.9 MBMarsha 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 ...
Transforming GE into a Lean Startup | Business Agility Series
April 12, 2018 11:00 - 29 minutes - 40.9 MBLars 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 trad...
Driving Social Change in Agile & Business | Business Agility Series
April 05, 2018 11:00 - 25 minutes - 34.4 MBNatalie 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 abou...
Beyond Budgeting 101 | Business Agility Series
March 29, 2018 11:00 - 29 minutes - 40.5 MB“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...
Modernizing Business Analysis with AI & Experiments | Business Agility Series
March 22, 2018 11:00 - 20 minutes - 27.8 MBAngela 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...
Agile Contracting and Procurement in the Federal Government | Business Agility Series
March 15, 2018 11:00 - 27 minutes - 38.1 MBJoshua 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...
Agile HR: Bringing Humanity into Human Resources
March 08, 2018 11:00 - 29 minutes - 39.8 MBAllison 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 ad...
Job Interview Techniques for Agile Teams | Business Agility Series
March 01, 2018 11:00 - 36 minutes - 50.1 MBWhy 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 gam...
Foundational Engineering Practices for Agile
February 22, 2018 11:00 - 37 minutes - 50.8 MBWe 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 founda...
Ghosts of Company Past and Future | Business Agility Series
February 15, 2018 15:09 - 30 minutes - 41.9 MBOnce upon a time, Melissa Boggs worked for a company where their mission was central to everything they did. This podcast is a story about using mission, vision and values as a beacon for Agile transformation. Boggs is an agility culture and leadership coach with Agile42. As a Certified Enterprise Coach, she is fascinated with company cultures and how they inspire, or conversely demotivate, individuals to become amazing. In this episode, Boggs walks us through concrete steps for how to not...
Lynn Winterboer Talks Test Automation for Data Warehousing Teams at Mile High Agile 2016
February 12, 2018 14:30 - 8 minutes - 15 MBMany of the data warehousing problems of the world have been tackled and solved--yet data warehousing and business intelligence teams in Agile settings still struggle with technical practices that better enable Agile. One example is test automation. Lynn Winterboer discusses with Agile Amped at Mile High Agile 2016 in Denver, Colorado, her conference presentation and why she thinks it's hard for such teams to do test automation and how the industry's vendor focus contributes to the problem. ...
Becoming an Agile Leader with ICAgile
February 08, 2018 11:00 - 32 minutes - 44.4 MBThe International Consortium of Agile (ICAgile) is a certification and accreditation body with presence in more than 100 countries, with close to 70,000 people holding credentials thus far. Recently Agile Amped spoke with ICAgile leaders, Managing Director Shannon Ewan and Director of Learning Programs Shane Hastie about their new Agile Leadership track. Ewan shared with us that fundamentally ICAgile enables “becoming an Agile leader, as opposed to teaching Agile for Leaders. If you’re not...
Company-Wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy | Business Agility Series
February 01, 2018 11:00 - 26 minutes - 36.5 MBWhat do the Brazilian dance Bossa Nova and company-wide agility have in common? According to Jutta Eckstein and John Buck, both are created from a combination of different elements. While the dance is a synthesis of samba and jazz, company-wide agility can be created using the following elements: Beyond Budgeting, Open Space, Sociocracy and Agile - BOSSA nova for short. Jutta is a coach, consultant and trainer with a M.A. in Business Coaching and Change Management. John Buck is a Certified...
The Rise of Business Agility
January 25, 2018 11:00 - 30 minutes - 41.5 MBSolutionsIQ Business Agility Lead Kat Conner and CTO Evan Campbell discuss the rise of business agility, the challenges and opportunities before today's organizations, and some advanced topics like adaptive management, Agile portfolio management, and innovation as organizational capabilities. Notable quotes:"Annual budgeting is irritating and wasteful and not very efficient in the things that we use it for. The hard part is coming up with more effective substitutes for the various purposes...
Retrospectives | David Horowitz
January 18, 2018 11:00 - 33 minutes - 45.5 MBA retrospective is an opportunity for us as a team, as an organization, to ask ourselves what are we doing well, what are we not doing well, and how can we improve going forward. A retrospective is the catalyst for the continuous improvement that Agile promises. David Horowitz is a co-founder and CEO of Retrium, the world’s first and only enterprise-ready platform for Agile retrospectives. David shared these tips (and more) for having successful retrospectives:- When should or shouldn't th...
User Story Mapping over Backlogs | Mike Clement
January 11, 2018 11:00 - 30 minutes - 55.9 MBCo-founder and Principal Software Craftsman of Greater Sum, Mike Clement is passionate about raising the bar of technical excellence in the software development community. One way to do that is by using user story maps. While Clement doesn't advocate for getting rid of backlogs altogether, he believes that user story mapping helps bring the story and user journey out of disparate tasks. The problem is backlogs don't immediately show how different user stories work together, and prioritizatio...
The Human Side of Software | James Byars
December 21, 2017 11:00 - 23 minutes - 42.4 MBSenior Technical Consultant at SolutionsIQ James Byars has noticed that many teams undergoing Agile transformation only focus on the new frameworks and processes. This makes it difficult to focus on the type and quality of the work being done. Byars, who is presenting on the human side of software at Southern Fried Agile 2017, believes that this tendency contributes to the business thinking of software developers as resources instead of people. When teams focus on outputs, such as how much c...
ATDD & BDD - What's the Difference? Ken Pugh
December 14, 2017 11:00 - 29 minutes - 54.1 MBKen Pugh, author of "Lean-Agile Acceptance Test-Driven Development: Better Software Through Collaboration", gives us a lesson on Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD) and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD). And guess what? They aren't as different as you may think. It comes down to whether the tests are written based on acceptance criteria or on the behavior that a system must meet. Pugh reminds us that the important thing is getting the customer representative, the developers and the tes...
History of Southern Fried Agile | James Collins & Neville Poole
December 07, 2017 11:00 - 24 minutes - 45.6 MBThe Southern Fried Agile (SFA) conference has come a long way since its inception. James Collins, SFA chairperson and a technical leader at Wells Fargo, and Neville Poole, SFA chairperson and Agile Practice Lead for Products at SolutionsIQ, sit down with us to share their experiences going from a literal shoe-string budget to major conference venue. James and Neville touch on some horror stories and victories - and joy - that they have experienced in this fun and energizing conference which ...
Prototyping Smallsats at NASA | Thomas Friend
November 30, 2017 21:20 - 25 minutes - 47.1 MBHow is a cellphone like a satellite? Says Tom Friend, Agile consultant at Duke Energy who is blowing our minds with his work at NASA, "If you think about it, a cellphone is a micro satellite [without] stabilization [or] propulsion." Tom walked us through using Scrum and other Agile practices in a satellite mission simulation to create a roadmap and a backlog and to produce a paper prototype of a to-scale small satellite (smallsat), which Friend calls a cubesat. Of the experience, he says, "I...
Building Great Teams | Richard Kasperowski
November 16, 2017 11:00 - 30 minutes - 56.2 MBRichard Kasperowski is the author of "The Core Protocols: A Guide to Greatness", a book in which he describes how to use the Core protocols developed by Jim and Michele McCarthy, an Agile mindset and practices, and Open Space Technology to create high-performance teams. In this podcast, Kasperowski defines for us what he means by "high-performance teams" thus: "High-performance team is a team that gets objectively better results than other teams doing similar work. It's something you can obs...
Agile Metrics You Should Use But Don't | Cat Swetel
November 14, 2017 11:00 - 30 minutes - 56.7 MBEver asked your team, "How's our KPIs? Are we hitting our numbers?" Cat Swetel says that the answer you get may not be very useful for determining actual value delivery. In her Agile Arizona 2017 session "Agile Metrics You Should Use But Don't," Cat shared some metrics that everyone in Agile knows they should focus on, but for whatever reason get set aside. These include: Start date ("when a story crosses the line of commitment"), End date (when the acceptance criteria and definition of done...