Agile Coaches' Corner
327 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsAgile Coaches' Corner shares practical concepts in an approachable way. It is for agile practitioners and business leaders seeking expert advice on improving the way they work to achieve their desired outcomes.
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Scrum Cling-ons and Culture Shift with Chris Pipito
October 08, 2021 12:00 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MBThis week, Dan Neumann is joined by Chris Pipito, Agile Coach, to talk about Scrum cling-ons and culture shift. In this episode, Dan and Chris are talking about the aspects that cling to the Scrum framework and really impede organizations’ ability to shift cultures from where they were to a point where there are more Agile stands using the Scrum structure. Dan and Chris dive deep into the roles of Scrum, the struggles faced when trying to achieve a culture shift, the real purpose of sp...
Diversity in Teams with Andrea Floyd and Buyi Kalala
October 01, 2021 12:00 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBThis week, Dan Neumann is joined by two AgileThought colleagues, Andrea Floyd and Buyi Kalala, to explore the topic of diversity in teams. In this episode, Dan, Andrea, and Buyi talk about some of the challenges they have encountered in regards to diversity, sharing their observations, and experiences in regards to how diversity can enhance the work of a team but also highlighting the real challenges that come with it. Key Takeaways Diversity: benefits, challenges, and how to pr...
Exploring Psychological Safety and Danger with Ola Tunde
September 24, 2021 12:00 - 31 minutes - 29 MBThis week, Dan Neumann is joined by Ola Tunde, who is a principal consultant in AgileThought Company. In today’s episode, Ola and Dan discuss the topic of psychological safety and psychological danger; they dive deep into the meaning of these two concepts, providing valuable and practical examples. Psychological safety needs to be promoted by leaders to foster innovation and to create a better atmosphere where employees can express themselves in an authentic way without fearing failure...
Finding the Rock Star Team with Quincy Jordan
September 17, 2021 12:00 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MBThis week, Dan Neumann is joined by Quincy Jordan, who is a Director, Innovate-executive advisor, and a recurrent contributor to the Agile Coaches’ Corner. Today Dan and Quincy are exploring a very interesting topic often brought up by organizations: Which team is the Rock Star Team? In this episode, you will hear about how to identify the best team, avoiding common mistakes such as measuring teams on their velocity or delivery rates, and also, how to understand what an organization re...
Team Building: Have Fun at Work with Mike Dionne
September 10, 2021 12:00 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBThis week, Dan Neumann is joined by a guest from outside of the Agile Coaches’ Corner, Mike Dionne, who is a Scrum Master and Coach, to explore some of the valuable work he has done with teams from a coaching standpoint. In this episode, Mike shares how to make work fun and attractive so people would hate Fridays and love Mondays. Mike dives deep into the crucial importance of participation, collaboration, creating a safe environment that fosters vulnerability, and how to promote self-...
Agile Metrics That Make Your Ears Prick Up with Quincy Jordan
September 03, 2021 12:00 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBThis week, Dan Neumann is joined by Quincy Jordan, Director of the Innovative Line of Service at AgileThought. In this episode, Dan and Quincy dive deep into the topic of metrics, especially in the aspects that should be taken under special consideration while running an Agile Team. These Agile experts go through different areas in which metrics can be applied such as: Velocity and why leaders tend to be interested in it, Number of stories, testing, and how much ahead is healthy for a t...
Taylorism Today: How F. W. Taylor’s Theory Impacts Modern Management with Sam Falco and M.C. Moore
August 27, 2021 12:00 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBThis week, Dan Neumann is joined by two Agile colleagues, Sam Falco and M.C. Moore. In today’s episode, they are taking a little trip back in time to explore the impact Frederick Winslow Taylor had on modern work. Taylor has been called the father of Scientific Management and his thinking pervades the way teams work today. In this episode, the book The Principles of Scientific Management and its principles are explored in comparison to the Agile modern ways. You will hear about effecti...
How Culture Impacts Agility with Carlos Romero, Justin Thatil, and Mariano Oliveti
August 20, 2021 12:00 - 36 minutes - 34.3 MBThis week, Dan Neumann is joined by three of his AgileThought colleagues, Carlos Romero, Justin Thatil, and Mariano Oliveti to talk about different cultures and how they impact agility. In today’s episode, you will hear about the concept of power distance and how it differs in different cultures with real examples of how organizations work in several countries around the globe. These three experts also share their knowledge regarding the diverse levels of uncertainty avoidance in diffe...
The Digital Revolution in an Agile Way with Brian Pivar
August 13, 2021 12:00 - 39 minutes - 36.8 MBThis week, Dan Neumann is joined by Brian Pivar, Senior Director of Data and Analytics at The Kraft Heinz Company. There is a lot of Agile in the software community and Kraft Heinz is one of the companies practicing the Agile way. In this episode, Brian shares extensively about his career at Kraft and how he started the digital revolution in the organization, promoting a culture change and encouraging different ways of functioning through Agile. Brian dives deep into his approach rega...
How Long Should A Sprint Be with Dan Neumann and Sam Falco
August 06, 2021 12:00 - 39 minutes - 36.5 MBThis week, Dan Neumann and Sam Falco are together to talk about sprint duration. A common question is “How long should my sprint be?” followed by the classic consultant answer… “It depends.” Today, Dan and Sam are sharing the definition of sprint and how you can decide the right length of a sprint for your team. They explore different sprint durations, from less than a week up to a month, and how to pick the one that benefits everyone on the team. Key Takeaways What is Sprint in...
Technical Excellence Enhancing Agility with Seth Jacobs
July 30, 2021 12:00 - 26 minutes - 24.5 MBThis week, Dan Neumann is joined by a first-time guest on the podcast, Seth Jacobs. He is a Sr. Director of Experience Design at AgileThought. In this episode, Seth talks about technical excellence, from a design language and design system pattern to help the audience understand how these systems and patterns can be started and used, as well as the implications of evolving them over time. Key Takeaways What is a Director of an Experience Practice? The role of an experienced pr...
Diversity in the Tech World with Nicole Scheffler
July 23, 2021 12:00 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBThis week, Dan Neumann is joined by Nicole Scheffler who is an Engineering Leader from VMware. Nicole has some passion projects around the Tech Diva Success collection, including podcasts, books, and courses, all with diversity as their main component. Tech is a field that is not particularly diverse and that is the reason why in today’s episode, Nicole is sharing the meaning of diversity, inclusion, and equity and what that might look like in the workplace from an organization to an ...
Aligning Strategy with Execution with Adam Ulery
July 18, 2021 21:00 - 28 minutes - 26 MBThis week, Dan Neumann is joined by a recurrent guest, Adam Ulery, to talk about the importance of aligning strategy with execution as a necessary step to reach the top-level vision at an organization. The lack of alignment between strategy and execution is often seen among leadership teams and portfolio management teams and is manifested in program and delivery teams as well. This deficiency is mostly perceived as a symptom, not realizing that is the root cause. In this episode, Dan a...
User Stories and Story Points: Common Misuses and How to Leverage Them
July 09, 2021 12:00 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MBRecently, Sam and Dan discussed velocity; an important metric to agile teams, and what it looks like when used correctly vs. incorrectly. In keeping with this theme, they’re exploring two other important metrics that are also often misused and misunderstood: story points and user stories. Story points and user stories are all-too-commonly misused. In this episode, Sam and Dan debunk some of the common misunderstandings, share how both concepts are often misused, personal experiences in...
Strategic vs. Tactical Decisions and Actions with Adam Ulery
July 02, 2021 12:00 - 28 minutes - 26 MBThis week, Dan Neumann is joined by return guest, and Senior Consultant in AgileThought’s Innovate line of service, Adam Ulery! Adam is a perpetually curious, continuous learner who is always willing to encourage others to try new things (as he very often does himself). He is very focused on helping organizations clarify and meet their business outcomes, and he loves to help companies become resilient and rediscover their curiosity. In this episode, they are exploring the topic of stra...
How to Increase Employee Engagement with Michael Guiler
June 25, 2021 12:00 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBIn this episode, Dan Neumann is joined by a return guest and AgileThought colleague, Michael Guiler. Mike has been an agile coach for over 15 years and has experience helping geographically dispersed organizations (in both the business and technology fields) to transform and better achieve their goals. For the last year and a half, Mike has been with AgileThought as an Agile Consultant. Together, Dan and Mike are discussing employee engagement and what organizations and leadership can ...
Joining an Agile Journey in the Middle with Sam Falco and Adam Ulery
June 18, 2021 12:00 - 36 minutes - 33.9 MBMost literature around starting an agile (or scrum) team makes the assumption that you will be starting from scratch. But oftentimes, you’re joining an organization with teams that are in the middle of a half-built or fully-built product. As an agile coach being brought into an organization, you usually have to work with pre-existing teams that are in the middle of their product life cycle with pre-existing behaviors and norms. In this episode, Dan and Sam are exploring what it is ac...
Exploring Velocity: What Is it? How Do We Measure It? How Can We Leverage It?
June 11, 2021 12:00 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBThis week, Dan and Sam are discussing an important metric to Agile teams: velocity. If used correctly, velocity can be an incredibly helpful tool for teams to leverage to forecast future sprints and understand what it is that they can accomplish in a given amount of time. If used incorrectly, however, it can wreak havoc on a team’s ability to work together and deliver value incrementally. In this Scrum-centric discussion, Sam and Dan take a look at what velocity is; how to measure it, ...
The Positive (and Negative) Side Effects of Going Agile
June 04, 2021 12:00 - 20 minutes - 18.9 MBToday, Dan and Sam are joined once again to discuss agility — more specifically, the side effects of being agile! The side effects of agility are often not the reasons why you should start an agile transformation, but they are still very valuable and helpful to know about. In this episode, Dan and Sam discuss the positive side effects that organizations might want out of agility, the indirect effects (both positive and negative) of putting certain agile practices in place (or not putt...
Delivering Value Using Scrum with Andrea Floyd
May 28, 2021 12:00 - 34 minutes - 31.1 MBThis week, Dan is joined by fellow AgileThought colleague and return guest, Andrea Floyd! Andrea is an enterprise agile transformation consultant at AgileThought with over 25 years of experience in software development and management. She is an innovator who has led multiple organization-wide scaled agile implementations, and she has also architected innovative solution strategies and roadmaps across many frameworks (including Scrum, Kanban, and the Scaled Agile Framework). In their co...
Waterfall to Scrum: How to Measure the Value of Agility with Sam Falco
May 21, 2021 12:00 - 27 minutes - 24.7 MBThis week, Dan and Sam are answering another fascinating listener question. This listener wrote in, “We are in an organization that has been going through an Agile transformation. Our leaders have been asking for metrics to compare Waterfall vs. Scrum. They want to know if we are delivering more with Scrum. How do we measure this?” Navigating how to measure values when transitioning from Waterfall to Scrum can be a difficult challenge. How do you measure whether something is a successf...
How Do You Maintain an Agile Transformation? with Quincy Jordan
May 14, 2021 12:00 - 37 minutes - 34 MBThis week on the podcast, Dan Neumann is joined by frequent guest of the show, Quincy Jordan, a Director in AgileThought’s Innovate Line of Service. The last time Quincy was on the show, they spoke about the excursions you take along an Agile journey and what those look like. Today, they’re taking this discussion one step further and exploring how to maintain the work that has been done along an Agile journey. On the “other side” of an Agile transformation, we want the work that ...
Can a Scrum Master Handle Multiple Teams?
May 07, 2021 12:00 - 31 minutes - 29 MBIn this episode, Sam and Dan take a deep dive into a fantastic listener question, “What happens in a scaling environment with the Scrum Master?” What happens when you have one Scrum Master with many teams or many teams and multiple Scrum Masters? With the Scrum Guide not explicitly providing guidance on this topic, Dan and Sam explore the realities of focusing on multiple teams as a Scrum Master, whether or not a Scrum Master can or should handle multiple teams, and real-world examples...
Excursions Along the Agile Journey with Quincy Jordan
April 30, 2021 12:00 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MBOftentimes, when organizations bring on Agile Coaches, they want to be (or expect to be) taken on a linear path with Agility (AKA point A to point B). However, there is a lot that happens along an Agile transformation journey that interrupts this path of “point A to point B.” Today’s guest, Quincy — a Director in AgileThought’s Innovate Line of Service — refers to these as “excursions.” In an Agile transformation journey, it is crucial to explore these excursions and understand all of ...
The Three Key Changes to the Scrum Guide That Organizations Need to Pay Attention to
April 23, 2021 12:00 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBThis week on the Agile Coaches’ Corner Dan and Sam are switching things up with a new episode format. In this episode, they’re looking back on Sam’s three-part Trainer Talk series on the key changes that were made in the new Scrum Guide that was released in November 2020. This episode compiles all three of Sam’s Trainer Talks that focus on the three key changes that were made to the Scrum Guide around the product goal, the sprint goal, and self-organizing teams. Sam shares his thoughts...
Are Scrum Masters the CEOs of the Future? with Vasco Duarte
April 16, 2021 12:00 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBThis week, Dan Neumann is joined by a very special guest, Vasco Duarte, the host of the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast — a daily podcast for Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches. Vasco interviews guests from all over the world to give his listeners actionable advice and daily doses of inspiring conversations to help improve their craft! Vasco himself is a Certified Scrum Master, an Agile Coach, and a Business Consultant. He was also one of the leaders and catalysts of Agile methods and Agile cultur...
Why You Should Try Lean Inception with Gabriela Corrêa
April 02, 2021 12:00 - 31 minutes - 28.4 MBThis week, Dan is joined by Gabriela Corrêa! For the last three years, Gabriela Corrêa has served as an Agile Coach and Project Manager at BRQ Digital Solutions. Most recently, she has transitioned into the new role of Digital Solutions Specialist within BRQ. Together, they’re talking all about Lean inception. Gabriela shares about the challenges that teams traditionally face when they’re kicking off a project, how to address these early challenges, the activities that are involv...
What Is Agile?
April 02, 2021 12:00 - 28 minutes - 25.7 MBDan and Sam have covered a lot of ground in previous episodes about agility but never the full scope of what exactly is considered agility. Many people have their own unique definitions of what agile is and what it looks like…but when you really dig in, these are often ways that do not seem to be in alignment with the Agile Manifesto or principles. So, in this week’s episode, Dan and Sam are diving into another fantastic listener question to address this topic! Chris on Twitter asked, ...
Spotify, Schmotify: Do Your Own Agile Thinking
March 26, 2021 12:00 - 26 minutes - 23.9 MBThis week, Dan Neumann is joined by his co-host, Sam Falco, principal trainer and professional scrum trainer at AgileThought. Together, they’re exploring a question that was sent in by a listener. They asked Dan and Sam to share their take on “the Spotify Model.” The popularized model was first introduced in 2012 by the whitepaper, “Scaling Agile @ Spotify” and described a “people-driven, autonomous approach for scaling agile that emphasizes the importance of culture and network.” ...
How to Master Remote Facilitation with Kristen Belcher
March 19, 2021 12:00 - 35 minutes - 33.2 MBToday, Dan Neumann is joined by Kristen Belcher, an Agile Coach who is saving the world, one retrospective at a time! Kristen’s focus is all around developing genuine human connections and relentlessly pursuing improvement. She enjoys working with technical people to solve business problems and thrives on helping people find ways to make their jobs — and lives — easier and more fulfilling via better communication and technology. And more than anyone else, Kristen knows that facilitatio...
Remote Facilitation 101 with Kristen Belcher
March 19, 2021 12:00 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MBToday, Dan Neumann is joined by Kristen Belcher, an Agile Coach who is saving the world, one retrospective at a time! Kristen’s focus is all around developing genuine human connections and relentlessly pursuing improvement. She enjoys working with technical people to solve business problems and thrives on helping people find ways to make their jobs — and lives — easier and more fulfilling via better communication and technology. And more than anyone else, Kristen knows that facilitatio...
The Journey of an Agile Transformation with Quincy Jordan
March 12, 2021 13:00 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MBThis week on the podcast, Dan Neumann is exploring the journey of an agile transformation with Quincy Jordan, a Director in AgileThought’s Innovate Line of Service. Agile is no longer the new kid on the block. However, when a new organization decides that they want to benefit from adopting an agile practice, they are sometimes not aware that agility is a journey — not something where you install agile and walk away. This sometimes leads them to run into problems early on. In this conve...
Self-Managing vs. Self-Organizing with Michael Guiler
March 05, 2021 13:00 - 34 minutes - 31.4 MBIn the new Scrum guide update, one of the key but subtle changes has been on the phrasing that teams must be “self-organizing” to now saying that they must be “self-managing.” So what might leaders do to help teams move forward in a direction of becoming more self-managing? Joining Dan to discuss this topic and share his insights is return guest and AgileThought colleague, Michael Guiler. Mike is an agile consultant at AgileThought. He has been an agile coach for over 13 years and has ...
Build Better Teams with Sam Falco
February 26, 2021 13:00 - 33 minutes - 31 MBToday, Dan Neumann and Sam Falco are exploring the topic of teams — and not just Scrum teams, but all teams. As a leader, it can be difficult to manage many lines of communication — especially in larger teams. In Dan and Sam’s conversation, they discuss The Tuckman Model as a thinking framework on how to nurture high-performing teams. From forming to storming to norming and performing, The Tuckman Model lays out the manner in which a leader should engage with teams to become more effec...
Entering a New Organization as a Scrum Master with Sam Falco & MC Moore
February 19, 2021 13:00 - 34 minutes - 31.4 MBThis week, Dan Neumann is joined by two fellow AgileThought colleagues — Sam Falco, a Principal Trainer, and M.C. Moore, a Team Agile Coach. Together, they explore the topic of Scrum mastery — specifically, being a Scrum Master new into an organization. There’s a lot of excitement — but also many potential pitfalls — that come with entering a new group as a Scrum Master. And as someone who joined AgileThought just six months ago, M.C. Moore, in particular, has a lot of experience in this ar...
Big Room Planning 101 with Andrea Floyd
February 12, 2021 11:00 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MBToday Dan Neumann is joined by fellow AgileThought colleague and return guest, Andrea Floyd! Andrea is an enterprise agile transformation consultant at AgileThought with over 25 years of experience in software development and management. She is an innovator who has led multiple organization-wide scaled agile implementations, and she has also architected innovative solution strategies and roadmaps across many frameworks (including Scrum, Kanban, and the Scaled Agile Framework). In this ...
Don’t Get Your Agile Shorts in a Knot
February 05, 2021 13:00 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBOftentimes, those who practice agility will turn their nose up at teams or companies that are not doing agile perfectly. And though the agile practices are important and are great pathways to success, many teams and companies often find ways that work for them that are not perfect agile. In this conversation, Dan and Sam highlight some of the ways in which companies and teams find what works for them, why perfect practicing agility isn’t the end-all-be-all, share the key characteristics for ...
Why Has Self-Organizing Changed to Self-Managing in the New Scrum Guide?
February 02, 2021 05:01 - 11 minutes - 11.3 MBIn this episode, part three of a three part series on the new Scrum Guide, Professional Scrum Trainer Sam Falco answers the question: "Why has self-organizing changed to self-managing in the new Scrum Guide”? From Self-Organizing to Self-Managing In this final episode about the major changes in the new Scrum Guide, I’m going to talk about what may be the most significant change in the Scrum Guide update. And that is the change from saying that teams must be “self-organizing” to saying th...
Modern Management Made Easy with Johanna Rothman
January 29, 2021 13:00 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MBThis week, Dan Neumann is excited to be joined by Johanna Rothman — also known as the Pragmatic Manager. Johanna is a management consultant for managers and leaders. She helps leaders identify their problems and seize the opportunities that they know exist — but just can’t find yet. She also provides assessments, workshops and training, coaching, speaking, and facilitation. Additionally, Johanna is also an author of some incredible books on the topics of amplifying your effectiveness, hiring...
How Has the Sprint Goal Changed with the New Scrum Guide?
January 26, 2021 05:01 - 9 minutes - 9.48 MBIn this episode, part two of a three part series on the new Scrum Guide, Professional Scrum Trainer Sam Falco helps you improve Sprint Planning by answering the question: "How has the Sprint Goal changed with the new Scrum Guide”? The Sprint Goal and the Sprint Planning In my last episode I talked about introduction of the Product Goal and how that changes the way we see the Product Backlog. The Product Goal is the commitment associated with the Product Backlog. In this episode, we’re ta...
Scrum Mastership: Patterns and Practices vs. Principles
January 22, 2021 13:00 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MBIn this episode, co-hosts Dan Neumann and Sam Falco discuss the topic of filling the role of a Scrum Master. In particular, whether you should follow Scrum practices and patterns as opposed to using the Scrum principles, or vice-versa. They talk about what they see most Scrum Masters doing, some of the common mistakes they may make, how to take an effective approach as Scrum Master, and share some of the lessons they have learned throughout their careers as Scrum Masters themselves. Ke...
How Has the Product Goal Changed with the New Scrum Guide?
January 19, 2021 05:01 - 12 minutes - 12.3 MBIn this episode, part one of a three part series on the new Scrum Guide, Professional Scrum Trainer Sam Falco answers the question: "How Has the Product Goal Changed with the New Scrum Guide?" What’s New in the Scrum Guide? The more I think about the new edition of the Scrum Guide, the more excited I am about the changes. Scrum is still Scrum of course. Nothing changed about how Scrum works or the value it brings. But by stripping out prescriptive elements, Ken and Jeff have given us a...
Agility: Difficulties vs. Opportunities in Organizational Decision-Making
January 15, 2021 11:00 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MBThis week, Dan Neumann is joined by his regular guest/co-host, Sam Falco! Together, they’re exploring the topic of agility and some of the early decisions that either create difficulties or opportunities as organizations are moving towards agility. The decisions that you make early on with your organization can strain you in ways that are unforeseen. It’s one of the reasons why agile coaches and leaders often say: “Don’t make a lot of decisions about your product up-front until you get...
Clean Language with Andrea Chiou
January 08, 2021 13:00 - 29 minutes - 26.6 MBThis week, Sam Falco is joined by Andrea Chiou to discuss the topic of clean language! In their conversation, they discuss clean language; what it is, what it is not, where it originated from, its applications, and the barriers or challenges to using clean language (and how to address them). Andrea also outlines key clean language questions, how to know when and where to use them, and what you can do to further improve your clean language! Andrea Chiou’s past work includes many roles wit...
Making the Shift From Product to Platform with Scott Brinker
January 01, 2021 13:00 - 32 minutes - 29.3 MBIn this episode, Dan Neumann is joined by Scott Brinker! Scott is the VP of Platform Ecosystem at Hubspot, the author of the ChiefMartech blog, and the founding program chair of MarTech Conference. In their conversation today, they explore some topics around approaches with shifting from product to platform, organizational change with distributed agility, and exploring the Flywheel Model at Hubspot. Scott also shares his tips and advice around alignment, distributed authority, and prev...
The Role of the Agile Coach with Abiodun Osoba
December 25, 2020 13:00 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MBJoining the podcast today is Abiodun Osoba, the CEO and founder of The Agile Advisor Africa! Abiodun has over 20 years of experience in telecommunications, banking, retail, wholesale, technology, startups, and software industries, and over 16 years of experience working in Agile environments. She has provided executive Agile coaching in 10 countries; trained over 200 staff in Agile fundamentals, Scrum, and Kanban; and successfully led digital programs in six countries. Additionally, she is a...
Agile Marketing 101 with Jim Ewel
December 18, 2020 13:00 - 33 minutes - 31 MBThis week, Dan Neumann is joined by Jim Ewel, the President and founder of AgileMarketing.net. Jim has been involved with agile and marketing for over 10 years and is a leading proponent of using agile in the marketing space. He was one of the original co-authors of The Agile Marketing Manifesto as well as his recently published book, The Six Disciplines of Agile Marketing: Proven Practices for More Effective Marketing and Better Business Results. Additionally, he is also an agile mark...
Agile and the Importance of Connecting the “Whole” with Ola Berg
December 11, 2020 13:00 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBThis week, Dan Neumann is excited to be joined by Ola Berg who is joining virtually all the way from Sweden! Ola is a Change Strategist and Agile Guide for Nimbletribe with a vision that every workplace should be a safe and exciting environment where people look after each other and are super productive — and not because he believes we should be superhumans, but because of the great procedures, collaborations, and culture we can achieve through agility. In Dan and Ola’s conversation, t...
Does Agile Force Continuous Improvement?
December 04, 2020 13:00 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MBDan Neumann is joined by Senior Agile Coach at AgileThought, Adam Ulery, to discuss the concept of Agile forcing continuous improvement. Does agile “force” continuous improvement? What does this mean? Is this inherently negative or positive? How does agile implement continuous improvement as a natural consequence? Dan and Adam address these questions and share their tips on how to leverage agile to maximize your continuous improvement in all levels of your organization! Key Takea...
Evidence-Based Management 101 with Sam Falco
November 27, 2020 13:00 - 32 minutes - 60.1 MBIn this episode, Dan and Sam are exploring the topic of evidence-based management, which was first mentioned in Episode 101, “Are Scrum Masters Expendable?” In that conversation, they discussed some of the things that Scrum Masters could be doing beyond the team and one of them is in helping manage the product suite. Dan and Sam unpack the concept of evidence-based management and share how this model can be used alongside Scrum to help people and organizations improve the way they deli...