Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations

Mike Cohn is the Global Scrum Gathering 2015 Keynote, his topic "Let Go of Knowing: How Holding onto Views May Be Holding You Back" exposes ways that biases may be preventing you from questioning your assumptions, why being open to new views is hard but vital, and why beginners so often think they know it all.Let go of knowing, and open yourself up to learning. Podcasts are brought to you by SolutionsIQ and the Scrum Alliance

Steve Denning, is the author of over 600 Forbes articles and eight books, including the award winning book - Leader's Guide to Radical Management (2010). Steve is heavily involved with the Scrum Alliance's Learning Consortium. This podcast is brought to you by SolutionsIQ and Scrum Alliance.

Jim McCarthy is the closing keynote at the Global Scrum Gathering Phoenix. His session "Freedom, Culture Design and Our PossibleDestiny" is focused on the idea of 'Culture hacks'. A culture is the set of shared attributes, values, goals, and practices that both describes and shapes a group.Our era is increasingly characterized by an emergent "software culture." Not only is software itself creating much of our global wealth, but the unique challenges of creating out software have demanded wholly new types of engineered corporate culture from us. Various high tech development disciplines have been articulated and "packaged up." In response to the demands of software, we have created several seminalmanagement "movements" (such as Agile, Scrum, XP, etc.). These movements represent the birth of culture design. Culture hacking is a distinct kind of culture design. Culture hacks express a particular hacker ethos, an ethos originating in freedom and the world of software hacking. Good culture hacking will tend to promotefreedom, extend openness, and embody rationality and design elegance. As our culture becomes increasingly and fruitfully hacked, we will grow in effectiveness and ambition and will bring more and more problems into scope. This could trigger an unprecedented Golden Era, an age of unparalleled magnificence.Podcasts are brought to you by SolutionsIQ and the Scrum Alliance

JJ Sutherland was an Executive Producer at NPR specializing in startups and building teams to tackle the most difficult stories of a generation from 9/11 to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. JJ takes us on a journey through his experience implementing Scrum practices while on the ground in some of the most dangerous places in the world. It doesn't get much better than this. Podcasts are brought to you by SolutionsIQ and the Scrum Alliance

Join us as we sit down with Peter Green at the Global Scrum Gathering Phoenix and discuss the changing world of work. Peter describes how Lean, agile, and lean startup are evolutions of the same mindset, and how with an aligned message, we might just change the world of work as we know it. Stay tuned for more podcasts from the Global Scrum Gathering Phoenix this week! Podcasts are brought to you by SolutionsIQ.

Wrap up the Global Scrum Gathering Phoenix with the new CEO Manny Gonzalez.

Daniel and Stephen discuss the blood, sweat and tears that went in to planning the Global Scrum Gathering Phoenix 2015!

Luke discusses a new approach to conducting enterpriseretrospectives that overcomes the limitations of traditional models.

Joe discusses Scrum for full-scaling manufacturing: a groundbreaking agile discipline that combines Scrum with modular architecture and Lean/XP practices.

Chet and Ron discuss hot topics, current trends and future directions of XP, Scrum and the industry in general.

Harvey Wheaton, Chairman of the Board for the Scrum Alliance, discusses the new Scrum Alliance offices in Colorado, current trends in scrum, certifications, and Agile as an industry.

Hope High School faculty & students share how they use Scrum to pivot the lives of some of the most disadvantaged students in Phoenix. We sit down with John Miller and Mark French to discuss how this idea was born, what it took to make it a reality, and the results that were produced. Krissyn Miller the principle of Hope High School and one of the teachers involved in the transformation Chris BuehnerKemper, share their experiences from within - including stories from their students, the passion of the hard working teachers and the power of change and that inspired this school and its community to change the way they worked. Videos are brought to you by SolutionsIQ and Scrum Alliance

With an eclectic background ranging from experience working with zoo's, theme parks, hospitality and more - Manny Gonzalez could not be more excited to take on his new adventure as the Scrum Alliance's first ever CEO. Get to know Manny, his plans for the Scrum Alliance and his new passion for Scrum! Stay tuned this week for more podcasts on the ground at the Global Scrum Gathering Phoenix Brought to you by SolutionsIQ and the Scrum Alliance.

Agile2014 Keynote speaker Diana Larsen reminds us of how to reclaim our goal of reaching for and achieving what she calls "the best job ever" by focusing on the three aims: finding work you love, working with purpose, and caring for your tribe.

The awesome David Bland stops by the BigVisible un-booth at Agile2014. Topic for discussion: Innovative Accounting will land you in prison, but Innovation Accounting will land you a product that matters. David covers the basics of Innovation Accounting and dives into Pirate Metrics, Lean Analytics Phases and the Passionate User Model.

Carol McEwan, Managing Director at the Scrum Alliance, highlights the organization's growth strategy and evolution over the past few years.

Creator of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Dean Leffingwell, stops by the BigVisible booth to talk about recent updates. The latest version of SAFe features extensive refinements to many elements of the methodology infrastructure, as well as new content and guidance that helps enterprises better organize around value delivery, and improve coordination of large value streams.