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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Deep Dive on Scrum Values with Sam Falco
May 24, 2019 12:00 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MBThis week, Dan Neumann is joined by AgileThought colleague and return guest, Sam Falco! Sam is an Agile Coach and Certified Scrum Professional with an extensive background leading Agile development teams. A few episodes ago they discussed Scrum and empirical process control and today they’ll be doing a deep dive on Scrum values! One of the problems many people tend to face with Scrum is that it can feel very mechanical. But luckily, there is a solution to that. There’s a statemen...
How an Effective Leader Coaches, with Joseph Carella
May 17, 2019 12:00 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MBThis week, Dan Neumann is joined by Joseph Carella — a Senior Instructor and Executive Coach of the Eckerd College Leadership Development Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida. Joseph is also a practicing psychologist and Consulting Psychologist for the Orlando Magic NBA Team and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, as well as the Senior Consultant for AvoLead, and the Principal Owner for Carella & Associates. In this episode, Dan and Joseph discuss the ways that an effective leader coaches. Josep...
Talking Feedback with Christy Erbeck
May 10, 2019 12:00 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBIn this episode, your host, Dan Neumann, is joined by a colleague at AgileThought, Christy Erbeck! Christy is a Principal Transformation Consultant at AgileThought with over 25 years of experience in domestic and international consulting, training, and coaching, working in both software development and non-product-focused environments, including manufacturing (discrete and process), distribution, and sales and marketing. Today, they’re going to be talking about the topic of feedback. T...
Agile Assessments: A Helpful Remedy or Harmful Toxin?
May 03, 2019 12:00 - 18 minutes - 42.9 MBThis week, your host, Dan Neumann, is going solo! He’s going to be talking about Agile assessments, and — using medical terminology — discuss whether it’s a helpful remedy or harmful toxin. If someone is receiving the right medication for the right ailment, it can be absolutely lifesaving. But if you take that same medication and apply it to the wrong circumstance, it can be incredibly detrimental — such as a toxin, poisoning your system. Dan views Agile assessments in a similar way. T...
Scrum and Empirical Process Control with Sam Falco
April 26, 2019 12:00 - 36 minutes - 33 MBIn today’s episode, Dan Neumann is joined by Sam Falco once again! Sam is Dan’s colleague at AgileThought and is an Agile Coach and Certified Scrum Professional with an extensive background leading Agile development teams. In a previous episode, Sam and Dan discussed games and why Scrum works for people from a gaming-standpoint and helps drive engagement. In this episode, they’re discussing empirical process control and how it makes Scrum work from a getting-things-done standpoint! ...
The Role of Managers in Agile Organizations with Esther Derby
April 19, 2019 12:00 - 27 minutes - 25.6 MBThis week, Esther Derby joins the podcast! Esther is an Agile expert and the President of Esther Derby Associates, Inc. Esther started her professional career as a programmer. She realized fairly early that work environments had a huge impact on whether or not someone could be successful. And that even though she was a coder, her real work was in changing the way people worked and supporting them through that process. In 1997, she founded Esther Derby Associates, Inc. and has spe...
Why Are Games Important to Agile? With Sam Falco
April 12, 2019 12:00 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MBThis week, Dan Neumann is joined by co-collaborator, Sam Falco! Sam is an agile coach and Certified Scrum Professional with an extensive background in leading agile development teams. Today, they’re going to be talking all about games and why they are an important part of agile. Sam illustrates why games are not just time-wasters, but are actually powerful learning tools that help teams come together and solve problems. Sam and Dan discuss what constitutes a game, why they’re imp...
Dr. Jeff Thompson on Values-Based Leadership
April 05, 2019 12:00 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MBThis week, Dan Neumann is joined by Dr. Jeff Thompson. Jeff is the Executive Advisor and Chief Executive Officer Emeritus at Gundersen Health System as well as a pediatrician, author, and speaker on values-based leadership. His experience in leadership is extensive — with his role as CEO at Gundersen Health System for 14 years being especially remarkable. During his tenure at Gundersen Health System, they had been recognized across the country for their high-quality patient care. In hi...
Eric Landes on Kanban Metrics in the Scrum Framework
March 29, 2019 12:00 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MBJoining Dan Neumann on today’s episode of the Agile Coaches’ Corner podcast is return guest and fellow AgileThought colleague, Eric Landes. Eric comes from a DevOps background, originally starting out as a developer. Currently, he serves as a Senior DevOps Consultant, ALM Director and Solutions Architect. In his roles, he helps clients deliver value to customers in their software delivery pipeline, and has tons of experience leading organizations in adopting agile and Lean frameworks, ...
Challenges Around Alignment and Autonomy, with Chris Spagnuolo
March 22, 2019 12:00 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MBIn today’s episode of the Agile Coaches’ Corner podcast, your host, Dan Neumann, is joined by repeat guest, Chris Spagnuolo. Chris is a product specialist at AgileThought, serving as the Principal Consultant of Product Management and Innovation. He has a deep background in product strategy and development, and is incredibly passionate about all things related to design thinking, Lean Startup and agile. Today, Dan and Chris will be looking at some of the challenges around alignment and ...
Embedding DevOps in Large Organizations, with Barry Matheney
March 15, 2019 12:00 - 30 minutes - 28 MBRepeat guest Barry Matheney joins Dan Neumann for this week’s episode of the Agile Coaches’ Corner podcast! Barry is an agile thinker, an expert in the DevOps space, and a colleague of Dan’s at AgileThought — serving as a Senior DevOps Consultant. Prior to his role at AgileThought, he was the Director of Enterprise Applications at Kforce Inc. Last time Barry was on the podcast, they discussed embedding DevOps into Scrum teams with Eric Landes. This week, they’re taking it up a no...
Challenges with Large-Scale Software Delivery, with AgileThought Colleagues
March 08, 2019 13:00 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MBIn this week’s episode of Agile Coaches’ Corner, Dan Neumann is joined by two of his colleagues at AgileThought — the Vice President of Build Practice, Taylor Howard; and the Vice President of Transform Practice, Steven Granese. Taylor’s work with Build Practice involves supporting the absolute best practitioners in the business — including Data Scientists, Architects, Delivery Leaders, Engineers, and Analysts with multiple technical competencies and domain experience. Taylor and his t...
Quincy Jordan on Cultural Debt
March 01, 2019 13:00 - 36 minutes - 33 MBIn this week’s episode of Agile Coaches’ Corner, Dan Neumann welcomes back a return guest — Quincy Jordan! Quincy is a Principal Transformation Consultant and has been with AgileThought for about one year now. Previous to that, he has served as a Principal Consultant and Agile Coach at SCRUMstudy.com for over six years. Quincy’s mission is to help companies and people who are ineffective in their own mission by assisting them in transforming from what they are to what they desire to be. ...
Chris Spagnuolo on Design Thinking
February 22, 2019 13:00 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBIn this week’s episode of Agile Coaches’ Corner, Dan Neumann brings on a colleague of his at AgileThought to explore the topic of design thinking — Chris Spagnuolo. Chris is one of the Product Specialists at AgileThought, serving as Principal Consultant of Product Management and Innovation. He has a deep background in a lot of things from a products standpoint and is incredibly passionate about all things related to design thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile. Dan and Chris give their ins...
Foundational Elements of Ethical Negotiating with Mike Cooper
February 15, 2019 13:00 - 32 minutes - 29.3 MBDan Neumann is excited to bring you another fantastic colleague of his on today’s show — Mike Cooper! Mike has an extensive background in negotiation and experience with restructuring bank deals, brokerages, negotiating property sales, and managing a bunch of sales folks. After a long and successful career leading software organizations, Mike now focuses entirely on technology consulting and is a Senior Cloud Technical Architect at AgileThought. In this episode, Mike takes Dan through ...
The Importance of Embedding a DevOps Skillset into Your Team, with Eric Landes and Barry Matheney
February 08, 2019 13:00 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBYour host, Dan Neumann, is excited to bring you two guests for this week’s episode — repeat guest, Eric Landes, and Barry Matheney. Eric and Barry are both Agile thinkers, experts in the DevOps space, and colleagues of Dan at AgileThought. Eric Landes is a Scrum.org certified professional Scrum trainer and currently serves as a Senior DevOps Consultant, ALM Director, and Solutions Architect. Barry also is a Senior DevOps Consultant. Previously to his role at AgileThought, he served as ...
#WomenWhoCode: Betty’s Tips for Breaking into a Male-Dominated Industry
February 01, 2019 13:00 - 31 minutes - 29.3 MBToday’s guest is Betty Pierce, a Senior UI/UX Developer at AgileThought. Betty has extensive skills in various front-end frameworks and libraries including React Native, React, and AngularJS. She is also the Director of Women Who Code Tampa and Trainer for GDI Tampa Bay. Her main passion is building front-end architectures for enterprise apps. In this episode, Betty gives her perspective on the coding groups for women; the women’s groups she is a part of; how she, as an organizer, make...
Exploring the DevOps Movement with Sean Davis
January 25, 2019 13:00 - 33 minutes - 31.1 MBToday on the Agile Coaches’ Corner, your host, Dan Neumann invites on Sean Davis to explore the DevOps movement. Sean is one of Dan’s colleagues at AgileThought and is a DevOps expert and frequent conference speaker. He has been a Business Transformation Consultant at AgileThought for nearly two years now and previously was a Technical Advisor at InterContinental Hotel Groups. In this episode, Dan and Sean explore the background and history behind DevOps, where they believe it is heade...
Exploring Expert Facilitation Tips with Adam Ulery
January 18, 2019 13:00 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MBJoining Dan Neumann today is returning guest, Adam Ulery, a colleague of his at AgileThought. Adam is a perpetually curious, continuous learner who is always willing to encourage others to try new things (as he very often does himself). As a Sr. Agile Coach and multifamily investor, he’s very focused on helping organizations clarify and meet their business outcomes and loves to help companies become resilient and rediscover their curiosity. This week, Dan and Adam explore some fa...
Creating Effective Retrospectives with Sam Falco
January 11, 2019 13:00 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBToday’s topic is all about retrospectives! A retrospective is a short meeting for project teams to reflect on the most recent stage of their project, analyze their processes, and identify issues or things they can do better, moving forward. Joining Dan Neumann today is return guest — and his colleague at AgileThought — Sam Falco. Sam is an Agile Coach and Certified Scrum Professional with an extensive background leading Agile development teams. Dan and Sam dive deep into discussing Agile...
Understanding Product Management with Ryan Dorrell
January 04, 2019 13:00 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MBToday on the Agile Coaches’ Corner, Dan Neumann is joined by Ryan Dorrell, the Chief Solutions Officer, and one of the co-founders of AgileThought. He leads the strategic design of their portfolio of offerings and services across their practice areas, focusing on understanding what the future looks like for their clients and how they can best serve them. In this episode, Dan and Ryan explore the topic of product management. Ryan explains what it is, the ideal skill set and thinking tha...
Quincy Jordan on Living Off the Agile Landscape
December 28, 2018 13:00 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBReturn guest, Quincy Jordan, is joining Dan Neumann once again! Quincy is a Principal Transformation Consultant and has been with AgileThought for about one year now. Previous to that, he has served as a Principal Consultant and Agile Coach at SCRUMstudy.com for over six years. Quincy’s mission is to help companies and people who are ineffective in their own mission by assisting them in transforming from what they are to what they desire to be. This week they’re getting their hands dirty a...
Exploring an Experimental Mindset with Adam Ulery
December 20, 2018 17:00 - 23 minutes - 21.5 MBIn today’s episode of the Agile Coaches’ Corner, your host, Dan Neumann, and his guest, Adam Ulery, will be exploring an experimental mindset. Adam is one of Dan’s colleagues at AgileThought. 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’s a Sr. Agile Coach and multifamily investor. He’s focused on helping organizations clarify and meet their business outcomes and loves to help companies bec...
Setting Up Working Agreements with Christy Erbeck
December 14, 2018 13:00 - 23 minutes - 21.1 MBIn this episode of Agile Coaches’ Corner, your host, Dan Neumann, is joined by his guest, Principal Transformation Consultant and fellow AgileThought colleague, Christy Erbeck. And today, they’re discussing working agreements. Christy Erbeck is a client-focused executive dedicated to leading strategic change. She has broad domestic and international experience in corporate strategy, change management, program management and leadership communications. As an Industrial & Organizational Psych...
Communities of Practice with Quincy Jordan
December 07, 2018 13:00 - 30 minutes - 70.3 MBJoining Dan Neumann today is one of his AgileThought colleagues, Quincy Jordan. Quincy is a Principal Transformation Consultant and has been with AgileThought for about one year now. Previous to that, he has served as a Principal Consultant and Agile Coach at SCRUMstudy.com for over six years. Quincy’s mission is to help companies and people who are ineffective in their own mission by assisting them in transforming from what they are to what they desire to be. In today’s episode,...
What is a Full Cycle Developer? with Eric Landes
November 30, 2018 13:00 - 26 minutes - 24.4 MBToday’s episode of Agile Coaches’ Corner is all about full cycle development. Joining your host is Eric Landes — a colleague of Dan’s and a Scrum.org certified professional Scrum trainer. Eric comes from a DevOps background, originally starting out as a developer. Currently, he serves as a Senior DevOps Consultant, ALM Director, and Solutions Architect. In his roles, he helps clients deliver value to customers in their software delivery pipeline, and has tons of experience leading orga...
Do Scrum Well Before Scaling!
November 23, 2018 14:42 - 25 minutes - 24 MBWelcome to the first episode of Agile Coaches’ Corner, by AgileThought — the podcast for practitioners and leaders seeking advice to refine the way they work and pave the path to better outcomes. Your host is Dan Neumann, agile coach and expert. This episode, Dan is joined by his fellow coach and colleague, Sam Falco, to explore the importance of doing Scrum well before scaling. They answer key questions in regards to scaling Scrum, address dysfunctions in Scrum that can derail a scali...