Easy Agile
33 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThere's always a better way to work. Join the Easy Agile Podcast as we interview guests from leading companies to find out how their teams work better together.
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Ep. 31 Exploring the Role of the Release Train Engineer + SAFe Summit 23
August 07, 2023 23:00 - 20 minutes - 19.2 MBIn this episode Caitlin Mackie is joined by Lieschen Gargano Sr, Release Train Engineer at Scaled Agile. They delve into the role of the Release Train Engineer, sharing tips and tricks, FLOW activities, lessons learned and how to get started in the role. With SAFe Summit 2023 just around the corner, Lieschen also takes some time to talk about what she’s most excited about for the event and shared some advice for first time attendees. If Lieschen's expertise and passion have piqued your i...
Ep. 30 Aligned and thriving: The power of team alignment
July 19, 2023 23:00 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MBIn this episode Hayley Rodd - Head of Partnerships at Easy Agile is joined by Tony Camacho - Technical Director Enterprise Agilityat Adaptavist. They are delving into the highly discussed subject of team alignment, discussing what it means to have synchronized goals, cross-functional collaboration, and a shared agile mindset. They also cover the fundamental building blocks to get right on your journey to team alignment, like the power of listening and embracing mistakes as learning op...
Ep. 29 From Hierarchy to Empowerment: Agile Leadership Paradigms
June 07, 2023 23:00 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBNick Muldoon, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Easy Agile, is joined by Dave West, CEO, and Eric Naiburg, COO, from Scrum.org. In this episode, Nick, Dave, and Eric unpack the current agile landscape, discussing the role of the agile native and emphasizing the importance of building connected teams by flipping the hierarchy and putting leaders in supporting roles. They emphasize the importance of empowering the people closest to the problem to make the call, and ultimately create an environment for...
Ep. 28 Atlassian Team23 and the world of work
April 10, 2023 23:00 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MBDave Elkan, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Easy Agile is joined by Jean-Philippe Comeau Principal Customer Success Advocate at Adaptavist. JP is passionate about teamwork, meeting new people, presentations of all kinds - loves a microphone and a captive audience, new technologies and most of all problem-solving. In this episode, JP and Dave are talking about one of the most anticipated events in the tech calendar - Atlassian’s Team23! They’re talking about what to expect, tips for first timer...
Ep. 27 Inclusive leadership: Enabling people and teams
February 08, 2023 22:00 - 39 minutes - 36.6 MBMat Lawrence, Chief Operating Officer at Easy Agile is joined by Ray Arell. Ray currently works as the Director of Agile Transformations at Dell Technologies, is the host of the ACN Podcast, and the President Of The Board Of Directors for the nonprofit Forest Grove Foundation Inc. Ray is passionate about collaborative and inclusive leadership, and loves to inspire and motivate others to achieve their full potential. This is exactly what Mat and Ray dive into in this episode. Ray and...
Ep. 26 Challenging the status quo: women in engineering
December 12, 2022 21:00 - 27 minutes - 24.9 MBJoin Nick Muldoon, Co-founder and Co-CEO of Easy Agile as he chats with Maysa Safadi, Engineering Manager at Easy Agile. As a woman, growing up in the middle east and being passionate about pursuing a career in the world of tech, don’t exactly go hand in hand. Navigating her way through a very patriarchal society, Maysa talks about her career journey and how she got to where she is today. Having the odds stacked against her, Maysa talks about challenging the status quo, the constant...
Ep. 25 The Agile Manifesto with Jon Kern
November 30, 2022 22:17 - 43 minutes - 39.7 MBAmaar Iftikhar, Product Manager at Easy Agile is joined by Jon Kern, Co-author of the Agile Manifesto for Software Development and a senior transformation consultant at Adaptavist. Amaar and Jon took some time to speak about the Agile Manifesto. Covering everything from the early days, ideation, process, and first reactions, right through to what it means for the world of agile working today. They touch on the ideal state of an agile team, and what the manifesto means for distributed...
Ep. 24 Renae Craven, Agile Coach on team alignment and taking a leap out of your comfort zone
November 02, 2022 21:00 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBChloe Hall- Marketing Coordinator at Easy Agile is joined by Renae Craven - Agile Coach, Agile Trainer, Scrum Master Coach and QLD Chapter Local Leader at Women in Agile. Join Renae Craven and Chloe Hall as they discuss: Renae’s journey to becoming an Agile Coach and Agile Trainer Taking a leap out of your comfort zone The importance of taking time to gather feedback and reflect Building a team environment where everyone feels safe to contribute Aligning team behaviour and how p...
Ep. 23 How to navigate your cloud migration journey
September 27, 2022 22:00 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MBJoin Greg Warner and Chloe Hall as they discuss the cloud migration journey: The mental shift to cloud migration and how to think beyond the technical side How to navigate the journey without a roadmap to follow The four pillars to success for your cloud migration journey Finding the right time to migrate Thinking about future opportunities beyond your migration The unexpected value that can come from a cloud migration
Ep. 22 - The Scaled Agile Framework Challenges and Opportunities
August 09, 2022 00:04 - 40 minutes - 37.6 MBJasmin Iordanidis - Product Marketing Manager at Easy Agile is joined by Rebecca Davis - SAFe Fellow, SPCT, Principal Consultant and member of the Scaled Agile Framework Team. Rebecca is passionate about teamwork, integrity, communication, and dedication to quality. I coach organizations on building competitive, market changing products at scale, while bringing joy to the work, for what is work without joy? In this episode, Rebecca and Jasmin discuss ● The value of the Scaled ...
Ep. 21 - Live from Agile 2022! *Bonus episode*
July 27, 2022 22:00 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MBThis bonus episode was recorded LIVE at Agile2022 in Nashville! The Easy Agile team got to speak with so many amazing people in the agile community, reflecting on conference highlights, key learnings, agile ceremonies + more! Thanks to everyone who stopped by the booth to say G’Day and enjoyed a Tim Tam or two ;)
Ep. 20 - The Importance of the Team Retrospective
July 12, 2022 22:00 - 21 minutes - 20 MBChloe Hall - Marketing Coordinator at Easy Agile is joined by Caitlin Mackie - Content Marketing Coordinator at Easy Agile. In this episode, Caitlin and Chloe discuss the Team Retrospective agile ceremony: Looking at the team retrospective as a tool for risk mitigation rather than just another agile ceremony The importance of doing the retrospective on a regular cycle Why you should celebrate the wins? Taking the action items from your team retrospective to your team sprint planning...
Ep. 19 - Combining Ikigai and OKRs to help agile teams achieve great results
June 21, 2022 22:00 - 1 hour - 59.2 MBRobert O’Farrell - Engineering Manager at Easy Agile is joined by Leandro Barreto - Lead Software Engineer at Miro. Leandro is responsible for helping engineering and product teams to be more productive through metrics and KPIs with a focus on increasing their operational efficiency. Before moving to Europe, Leandro worked for an Atlassian partner company in Brazil as Head of Technical Sales. In this episode Robert and Leandro are talking about Ikigai - what is it and how do you achi...
Ep. 18 - Top qualities of an agile leader and team
April 27, 2022 22:00 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MBSean Blake - Head of Marketing at Easy Agile, is joined by Alana Mai Mitchell- Results coach, author, podcast host and senior product development manager at one of Australia’s largest banks. In this episode, Sean and Alana are talking about communication styles within Agile teams, the importance of putting your hand up and telling your leader you want to be challenged, the qualities of a servant leader, and overcoming mental illness. Resources mentioned in the episode: To find out a...
Ep. 17 - Defining a product manager: The idea of a shared brain
March 27, 2022 21:30 - 44 minutes - 41.2 MBJerome Salimao - Product Manager at Easy Agile, is joined by Sherif Mansour - Distinguished Product Manager at Atlassian. In this episode, Jerome and Sherif are talking about styles of product management and the traits that make a great product manager. They explore the idea of a shared brain and the role of a product engineer. Sherif has been in software development for over 15 years. During his time at Atlassian, he was responsible for Confluence, a popular content collaboration tool fo...
Ep. 16 - Enabling high performing agile teams with Adaptavist
February 25, 2022 08:26 - 32 minutes - 30.2 MBAngad, software developer at Easy Agile, is joined by Riz Hasan and William Rojas from Adaptavist. Riz is a Consulting Team Lead at Adaptavist. Riz works with agile teams and enterprise organizations to strategize, design, and ultimately deliver on complex change management projects around technology and process. Riz believes the right attitude and approach to adopting new technology and continuous process improvement and learning is the key to organizational success and productivity. Most...
Ep. 15 - The role of business in supporting sustainability initiatives with TietoEVRY
January 11, 2022 21:30 - 33 minutes - 31.9 MBJoin us for another round table style conversation, talking about the role of business in supporting sustainability initiatives. Rebecca and Caitlin from Easy Agile are joined by Ida and Ulrika from TietoEVRY. TietoEVRY is a leading digital services and software company, Headquartered in Finland, serving thousands of enterprise and public sector customers in more than 90 countries. Working to create digital advantages for businesses and society. Ida is the head of sustainability and Ulrika...
Ep. 14 - Rocking the Docs with K15t
December 01, 2021 22:00 - 53 minutes - 48.8 MBJoin Henri Seymour - Developer at Easy Agile, and Matt Reiner - Customer Advocate at K15t for the latest episode of the Easy Agile Podcast talking all things technical documentation (we promise it’s more fun than it sounds!) Matt is an experienced Content Strategist with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. Henri & Matt talk about technical documentation as a product, the value of well written documentation, why you should be digitally decluttering often and ...
Ep. 13 - Rethinking Agile ways of working with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the core.
November 02, 2021 22:00 - 48 minutes - 44.1 MBJoin Terlya Hunt - Head of People and Culture at Easy Agile and Caitlin Mackie - Marketing Coordinator at Easy Agile. As they talk with Jazmin Chamizo and Rakesh Singh - principal contributors of the recently published report “Reimagining Agility with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.” In this episode, we explore the intersection of agile and DE&I. What led to writing the report? Where the misalignments lie and what we can be doing differently as individuals and business leaders. This is a g...
Ep. 12 - Observations on observability
October 10, 2021 22:00 - 38 minutes - 35 MBJoin Jared Kells (Senior Developer at Easy Agile), Angad Sethi (Developer at Easy Agile), Jess Belliveau (Staff Infrastructure Engineer at Apptio) and Jordan Simonovski (Observability Engineer at Atlassian). In this roundtable style conversation, we let the developers take over. Sharing their insights and experience working with observability, leaving you with some key takeaways and some quick wins. Links mentioned in the episode below https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiDqrqa34Ls&t=279s htt...
Ep. 11 Dave Elkan and Nick Muldoon on building Easy Agile.
September 19, 2021 23:00 - 46 minutes - 42.6 MBJoin Dave Elkan and Nick Muldoon for a conversation on building Easy Agile and the journey to date. Reflecting on key milestones, new experiences and learnings along the way. Nick and Dave share the significance of slowing down to have meaningful conversations and enjoy a lamington or two in the process. This episode is a great insight into the culture that has been created at Easy Agile. Interested in a career at Easy Agile? Check out our careers page https://bit.ly/3nkgRQk
Ep. 10 - Kate Brodie, Director of Digital AI and CCAI Program at Optus
August 05, 2021 23:00 - 24 minutes - 22 MBHayley Rodd talks with Kate Brodie, Director of Digital AI and CCAI Program at Optus. Kate shares her experience of an agile transformation at Optus and the incredible impact it has had on the company. Delivering faster & enabling a sense of ownership & accountability amongst teams. Kate also shares some great advice from embracing hybrid roles throughout her career, a gentle reminder to never put limits on yourself and adopting a “no risk no return” mentality.
Ep. 9 - Kit Friend, Agile Coach & Atlassian Partnership Lead EMEA, Accenture.
June 10, 2021 23:00 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MBNick Muldoon talks with Kit Friend, Agile Coach & Atlassian Partnership Lead EMEA at Accenture. Kit talks to agile methodology beyond the usual use case, like working with geologists & restaurant owners to apply scrum. Kit also highlights the need to focus on a bottom-up approach, providing a safe space for leaders to learn & ask questions, and whether neurodiverse teams are key to effectiveness.
Ep. 8 - Gerald Cadden, Strategic Advisor and SAFe Program Consultant Trainer at Scaled Agile, Inc.
April 26, 2021 23:00 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBSean Blake talks with Gerald Cadden, Strategic Advisor and SAFe Program Consultant at Scaled Agile Inc. Gerald shares that companies often face the same challenges over & over again when it comes to implementing agile, but the real challenge and most crucial is overcoming a fixed mindset. Gerald also highlights the difference between consultants & coaches, and the value of having good mentors.
Ep. 7 - Sarah Hajipour, Agile Coach.
March 18, 2021 00:37 - 22 minutes - 20.4 MBCaitlin Mackie talks with Sarah Hajipour. Sarah is an agile coach, business transformation leader, a project/program manager and more recently a podcast host and author. Caitlin and Sarah talk about goal setting, the agile mindset beyond IT & development teams, and in celebration of international women’s day talk about the future of women in agile, and supporting one another towards an inclusive & enabling environment.
Ep. 6 - Chris Stone, The Virtual Agile Coach
December 20, 2020 22:00 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBSean Blake talks with Chris Stone, The Virtual Agile Coach about the importance of sharing & de-stigmatising failure, looking after your own mental health, why you should spend time in self-reflection, asking ‘how did it feel?’ when working as a team and why work shouldn’t be stale.
Ep. 5 - Andrew Malak, Chief Product Officer at Spaceship
December 06, 2020 22:00 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MBTegan Harbridge talks with Andrew Malak, Chief Product Officer at Spaceship about …. Integrating agile techniques into professional and personal life, why we should stop using the term agile transformation and start calling it an agile evolution and tips on how to achieve a culture of accountability.
Ep. 4 - Em Campbell-Pretty, CEO & Managing Director at Pretty Agile
October 27, 2020 04:55 - 46 minutes - 42.3 MBNick Muldoon talks with Em Campbell-Pretty, CEO & Managing Director at Pretty Agile about scaling agile, being a SAFe fellow, discipline, the traits of effective leaders and how to trust your people.
Ep. 4 - Em Campbell-Pretty, CEO & Managing Partner, Pretty Consulting
October 27, 2020 04:55 - 46 minutes - 42.3 MBNick Muldoon talks with Em Campbell-Pretty, CEO & Managing Partner, Pretty Consultng about scaling agile, being a SAFe fellow, discipline, the traits of effective leaders and how to trust your people.
Ep. 3 - Melissa Reeve, VP of Marketing, Scaled Agile
October 18, 2020 23:50 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MBSean Blake speaks with Melissa Reeve, VP of Marketing, Scaled Agile about Agile Marketing and how non-software teams are adoptng a new way of working.
Ep. 2 - John Turley, Digital Transformation Consultant, Adaptavist
September 27, 2020 04:40 - 50 minutes - 46.2 MBSean Blake chats with John Turley, Digital Transformation Consultant at Adaptavist about how to give and receive feedback, why cross-functional teams are so important and what the latest psychology research says about how we can work better together.
Ep. 1 - Dominic Price, Work Futurist at Atlassian
September 10, 2020 07:26 - 56 minutes - 51.6 MBIn the very first episode of the Easy Agile podcast, Nick Muldoon chats with Dominic Price, Work Futurist at Atlassian about the impact of remote working, the power of OKRs, how to prioritise your time and common mistakes leaders make.
Trailer
August 28, 2020 01:41 - 49 seconds - 767 KBPodcast trailer for the newest pod on the block - Easy Agile Podcast. The Easy Agile Podcast will be hosted by team members at Easy Agile, an Atlassian Marketplace Partner in Australia. We believe there's always a better way to work. And we want to find those people who have found a better way. We're going to feature guests from some of the most innovative companies on the planet and ask them the secrets to successful teams. If you’d like to join us on this journey, please hit subscrib...