Lean On Agile (& Elevate Change) Show
29 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago -Lean On Agile (& Elevate Change) Show is a Webinar + Podcast about Agile & Beyond. We share stories of success, learning, and conversations with thought leaders. The topics include but not limited to Agile Software Development, Agile Methodologies, Transformation, and related topics.
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Episodes
Systems Thinking, Leadership Habits, and Organizational Change with Don Gray
March 22, 2024 03:48 - 56 minutes - 38.7 MBIn this episode, Don joined Shahin to talk about Systems Thinking, Leadership Habits, and Organizational Change. The following have been topics of our conversation: Transitioning from technical skills to people management. The importance of people in software development, highlighting their creative force and impact on success and well-being. The importance of trusting and empowering knowledge workers, who are closer to the work than managers. Jerry Weinberg (author) highlighted the shi...
How to Have Effective Daily Meetings (Standups)?
February 22, 2024 21:20 - 12 minutes - 11.4 MBStandup Meeting in Agile Teams - Standup meetings are short daily meetings held in agile teams to discuss progress and challenges. - They are typically held at the start of the day and should be kept to 15 minutes or less. - Standups can be helpful for identifying and resolving issues early on. Managing Lengthy Team Meetings - Discussing the issue of lengthy team meetings that exceed 15 or even 30 minutes. - Exploring strategies for addressing this problem and ensuring efficient use of time d...
Decision Making as Change Agents!
February 13, 2024 02:33 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MBHybrid Work Environment: Encouraging Team Collaboration Decision Making in Change Management - Discussing the role of change agents and initiators in decision-making. - Exploring the concept of shared decision-making versus individual decision-making. - Considering the complexities of decision-making in change management using a hypothetical scenario. Levels of Decision-Making - Different levels of decision-making exist, each requiring varying levels of preparation and time investment. - Mak...
Burnout, NLP, Self-care and Personal Growth with Anna Romanovska
January 11, 2024 20:05 - 39 minutes - 26.8 MBIn this episode, Anna joined Shahin to talk about Burnout, Technology, and Personal Growth. The following have been topics of our conversation: Burnout, stress, and self-care. NLP and its role in communication. NLP and its effectiveness in personal growth. NLP and coaching with a focus on organizational change. Work-life balance and self-validation. Feedback, burnout, and mental health. Follow us Visit us at http://www.leanonagile.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/Elevate_Change Lin...
Kanban Ninja, Leadership Retreat and New Open Space
November 21, 2023 21:18 - 18 minutes - 12.5 MBIn this episode, Shahin talks about Kanban Ninja, KLR and New Open Space. The following have been topics of our conversation: Insights from attending Kanban Leadership Retreat in San Diego Customized open space format for efficient topic selection and discussion. "Kanban ninjas" session in KLR23 to teach techniques for using Kanban method without telling people, focusing on efficiency and effectiveness Techniques to smooth burndown chart in scrum fashion, including "look right, look u...
Embracing Failure, Coaching, and Clear Goals with Fahd Khan
July 25, 2023 04:26 - 52 minutes - 36 MBIn this episode, Fahd joined Shahin to talk about Embracing Failure, Coaching, and Clear Goals. The following have been topics of our conversation: The following have been topics of our conversation: Breaking down a large program into smaller teams. Letting things play out and not being afraid of coaching. The importance of welcoming failure and pauses. Recommendation for people starting their journey. Iterative development and iterative development. The importance of being a service...
Kanban, Collaboration, and Culture with Horia Balog
June 05, 2023 17:07 - 40 minutes - 28 MBIn this episode, Horia joined Shahin to talk about Kanban and Various Aspects of Coaching & Consulting, as part of the Kanban Clinic series. The following have been topics of our conversation: Collaboration is the main mechanism to untangle the system. One of our responsibilities is to manage our own workload. What is your self-care as a coach & How to avoid burnout in your career? How do you deal with changes? Basic steps for listeners to get to a trustful environment. Collaboration,...
Kanban, Coaching & Consulting with Craeg Strong
May 15, 2023 11:30 - 52 minutes - 36 MBIn this episode, Craeg joined Shahin to talk about Kanban and Various Aspects of Coaching & Consulting, as part of the Kanban Clinic series. The following have been topics of our conversation: From extreme programming to Kanban. The differences between implementing kanban at the organizational level vs. the team level. The importance of having a beginner mindset. Other branches of kanban, exploring different aspects. Differentiating and differentiating from cheap knockoff kanban. Taki...
Product and Innovation with Carlos Oliveira
March 13, 2023 01:59 - 40 minutes - 27.8 MBIn this episode, Carlos joined Shahin to talk about the product and innovation. The following have been topics of our conversation: The secret sauce of becoming a successful learner and being able to apply that. Identifying where to start in the customer journey. Don’t be afraid to fail. The two ways to look at innovation: solving problems and improving the overall experience. The two ways to look at innovation: incremental or breakthrough. The challenge of getting a shared understand...
Dependencies and Scalability in Kanban with Andreas Rein
October 17, 2022 11:00 - 48 minutes - 33.5 MBIn this episode, Andreas joined Shahin to talk about Dependencies and Scalability in Kanban, as part of Kanban Clinic series. The following has been topics of our conversation: Dependency management in Kanban vs waterfall. Kanban management of dependencies vs Scrum. How to implement business agility in your organization. Kanban, simple or complicated? Kanban v.s. Scrum The easiest way to understand Kanban fully. Follow us Visit us at http://www.leanonagile.com Twitter: http://twitt...
Lean Change, Modern Change and Agile Change with Jason Little
July 25, 2022 05:35 - 42 minutes - 28.9 MBIn this episode, Jason joined Shahin to talk about Lean Change, Modern Change and Agile Change and much more. The following has been topics of our conversation: Lean Change Management Modern Change Management Agile in Startup and Large Orgs, and in Different Pockets Lean Startup Machine Enterprise Aware Exceptional Change Who is Responsible for Change? That Change Show The followings we have referenced: Becoming a Change Artist - Jerry Weinberg Are your lights on? The secrets of...
Kanban, Leadership, Games and more with Mike Burrows
May 01, 2022 04:01 - 1 hour - 43.1 MBIn this episode, Mike joined Shahin to talk about Kanban, Leadership, Strategy, Games and non prescriptive Agile and much more Quotes from this session: Leadership is about providing just the right amount of space. Don’t give them so much space that they lose heart, control, or their grip on what they are trying to do. If Agile is something that happens to you, it’s pretty awful. Rolling things out is a recipe for pain, not for success! There is no way a leader can control anybody! T...
Practical Agile with Ricardo Lee
January 12, 2022 19:56 - 42 minutes - 28.9 MBIn this episode, Ricardo joined Shahin to talk about Practical Agile; and indulge in an in-depth conversation on Agile through time from trenches to executives, and much more. Coach please come on in, help us with this. That's the dream scenario. Never hire Agile Coaches that are gonna tell you what they are going to do to make things better. The one thing I recommend is never to be a hero! Hiring for Leader: I am hiring you for how you think. I can teach you what you do not know. But I ...
Kanban Clinic with Dave White
October 28, 2021 00:54 - 56 minutes - 38.7 MBIn this episode, Dave joined Shahin to talk about Kanban; and indulge in an in-depth conversation on Kanban going main stream, Consulting, Kanban vs Others, Training, and much more. The following has been topics of our conversation: Kanban Facts Kanban’s take on Estimation Kanban Spread to Whole Company What really does Kanban do? Misconceptions of Kanban Kanban offers a long-term solution rather a short-term achievements One reason that the Kanban Method was created, was to make li...
Kanban Clinic with Joey Spooner
September 13, 2021 19:51 - 56 minutes - 38.6 MBIn this episode, Joey joined Shahin to talk about Kanban; and indulge in in-depth conversation with select audiences. Kanban as a Method vs a Tool Upstream and Delivery Stream Stealth Kanban KLR - Kanban Week Q&A with JoeyScrum and/vs Kanban in large organizations Kanban in Transformation world Chaos being hidden as Expedie The following books we have referenced: Upstream Kanban Kanban essential guide Kanban Blue Book Agile Management Book Fit For Purpose We mentioned the fol...
All Things Kanban with David Anderson
March 30, 2021 04:18 - 58 minutes - 40.1 MBIn this episode, David joined Shahin to talk about all things Kanban; KMM, the new Kanban Guide, and more. Kanban Resources: To learn more about The Kanban Guide, please visit https://resources.kanban.university/kanban-guide/ To learn more about the Kanban Maturity Model please visit https://kmm.plus/en/ Kanban Maturity Model Book Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3fbl30M Amazon CA: https://amzn.to/3cYZ8Hu Kanban Blue Book Amazon US: https://amzn.to/2P64Cbl Amazon CA: https://amzn.to/31dRy...
Open Space with April Jefferson
December 31, 2020 06:14 - 33 minutes - 23 MBIn this episode, April joined Shahin to talk about Open Space. Topics Penguin Role in Open Space Groundhog Role in Open Space Art of Holding Space Organizational Open Space Mindcamp Books Open Space Technology (Amazon US | Amazon Canada)
Value, Stream, Mapping or All! with Steve Pereira
August 22, 2020 02:37 - 51 minutes - 35.2 MBIn this episode, Steve joined Shahin to talk about Value Stream Mapping. For the first time, we had a live audience recording the episode. Peter, Ali, and Nasima from the audience asked questions from Steve by the end of the show. Topics We conversed about and around the following topics: Value Streams let you see the big picture and your biggest bottlenecks, risks, and opportunities. A value stream captures a view beyond common Agile and DevOps visibility to how we create and deliver va...
Agile is Over (Or Not) with Allen Holub
July 21, 2020 04:25 - 50 minutes - 34.9 MBIn this episode, Allen joined Shahin to talk about what truly Agile is in today’s world of Software Development. Topics We conversed about and around the following topics: Agile or Not Agile is nothing more than Better Software Better What is Real Agile Thinking? Reasons to Avoid Agile Fake Agile, Dark Agile (Foe Agile) Trust is the heart of agile SAFE v.s. Scrum; Kanban Board Assumes Linear Process Agile in The Time of Corona Scrum’s Response to Corona Remote Working Went Bad – M...
Disruption & Learning with Jamie Good
June 11, 2020 05:30 - 57 minutes - 39.7 MBIn this episode, Jamie joined Shahin to talk about the recent disruption all of us are experiencing. We conversed about and around the following topics: Cognitive overload, learning tips, and personal disruptions Disruptions in our professional lives and the following: Instagram Influencers, Lonely Planet, etc. Responding to Change and Agile transformation at the time of covid19 Creative ways of teaching then and now: SMS based learning Psychic Entropy: a state of mind where your thoug...
Agile & the Fluency of It Talk With Diana Larsen
May 04, 2020 04:47 - 57 minutes - 39.2 MBIn this Episode, Diana joined Shahin to talk about Agile Fluency and other related topics. We conversed about and around the following topics: Agile Fluency® Model (Resources, Community & Game); and it's reference Language Fluency Group coaching compared to Individual coaching Retrospective Facilitator Gathering & Open Space Technology Continuous Learning & Continuous Improvement; Advice and Tools for newer people to Agile Coaching in the Zones & Improvement Kata We referred to and/o...
Non Software Agile Talk with Gil Broza
April 11, 2020 18:23 - 50 minutes - 34.7 MBIn this Episode, Shahin and Gil talked about recent events, working from home, and Gil's new book of Agile for Non-Software Teams. We conversed about and around the following topics: Agility (small a Agile) Working remotely Designing your Agile Need for Agile in Marketing Agile for Non-Software Teams Lean and Agile Modern Agile We referred to and/or mentioned the following people: Jim Highsmith David Marquet We cited the following resources: Amazon Canada Amazon US Additional ...
Passion Talk with Bob Galen
March 09, 2020 14:24 - 48 minutes - 33 MBIn this episode, Shahin and Bob talked about Passion. We conversed about and around the following topics: Passion Work and/v.s. life Mentorship Community (Community-Driven-Change, Shahin and Shawn's talk in Agile 2018) Role models Inside out leadership Inside out passion Agile Ontario ORSC Training, CAL1 Training Leading and Coaching by Example (Modeling) Coachability Limit your WIP We referred to and/or mentioned the following people: Josh Anderson Johanna Rothman (Lean On ...
Agile Alliance Talk with Declan Whelan
February 18, 2020 19:05 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MBIn this episode, Shahin and Declan talked about Agile Alliance. Some of the topic covered are as follow: Agile Alliance history Best Job Ever, Agile 2014 (Diana Larsen Dance) Agile Alliance Certification Post Agile XP Conference (and other conferences) Agile India OnAgile Deliver Agile Conference Agile Coach Camp Worldwide Agile Alliance Initiative Lean Agile Network Agile Alliance Board of Directors Agile 2020 Agile Alliance Volunteering We mentioned the following people: Dia...
Fixing Your Scrum with Ryan Ripley
February 09, 2020 18:09 - 40 minutes - 27.5 MBIn this episode, Shahin and Ryan talked about the new book by Todd and Ryan's Fixing Your Scrum. Todd and Ryan wrote this book together and published it in Jan 2020. We talked about various topics, and mentioned some people including the following: Topics: Agile For Human Podcast 242 pages of fixing Scrum v.s. 15 pages of Scrum Guide Scrum meetings go overboard Decision Making Frameworks Data! Fixing Your Process, it's bigger than Scrum even! Who this book is useful for? Approache...
History behind Lean On Agile
February 04, 2020 03:25 - 3 minutes - 3.12 MBIn this short episode, Shahin will be talking about what the Lean On Agile Show is. How it started and what you can expect from it. We referred to the following podcasts: Agile in 3 Minutes by Amitai Meta-Cast by Bob Law of Raspberry Jam and Tea from Viktor and Esther. Bob's keynote at GOAT (Gatineau Ottawa Agile Tour) can be found here. You can also find a list of podcasts I recommend on Shahin's blog here. For more details please visit http://podcast.leanonagile.com. Twitter: twitt...
A Practical Guide to Speaking at Conferences, with Johanna Rothman
January 20, 2020 20:39 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MBFor the second episode, Shahin had the honor to talk with Johanna on the topic of Speaking at Conferences, tips and tricks on it and how to become a better one. She recently wrote the book "Write a Conference Proposal the Conference Wants and Accepts". We discussed the book as well. If you are thinking of starting your speaking journey, We recommend to listen to the show and highly recommend to read her book. Johanna Rothman, known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” provides frank advice for your ...
Episode 1 - Agile Certifications
December 31, 2019 01:12An episode to talk about some of the Agile Certifications out there.
Agile Certifications
December 31, 2019 01:12 - 22 minutes - 20.7 MBWelcome to Lean on Agile Podcast, a podcast about Agile & Beyound. I'm your host, Shahin. This is our first episode. The topics we are covering in this episode: How to Start in Agile Certifications? What is Certification? What are my thoughts about them? What does it show? From a beginner perspective From a recruiter perspective From a hiring manager perspective From a knowledge perspective Scrum bodies Scrum Alliance - Jeff Sutherland Scrum Org - Ken Schwaber Nexus Scrum@Scale...