Conversation 28: An educational conversation with the highly agile Jessica Katz

There were some connection issues that affected the quality of the recording but in typical Corporate Thought fashion, the episode is presented here with all the flaws so please bear with it as you learn about the impressive Jessica Katz

Jessica coaches businesses in Agile. She also talks about the subset Scrum. Here is an overview.

Jessica spoke about Gravity Payments and their CEO Dan Price and his decision to make a minimum salary of $70,000. Here is the full story.

I asked Jessica about the book Team of Teams which she knew well. It caused her to mention a company called Buurtzorgout of the Netherlands which is disrupting the nursing care industry by creating a teaming approach.

I told Jessica about Atomic Habits by James Clear which we featured on our social media posts recently.

For learning more about Agile and Scrum Jessica recommended Scrum Essentials by Ken Rubin. I think she meant Essential Scrum by the same author.

Jessica is currently reading (actually listening) to Paths of Alir by Melissa McPhail and next she is reading So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson

Jessica recommends that people really start with understanding their why and to state the culture of their company right at the beginning.

Jessica can be found at liberatedelephant.com