Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations

In addition to both being professional Scrum trainers with Scrum.org, Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller also co-author the new book "Fixing Your Scrum: Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems." While the book has scrum masters as its primary audience, the authors know that anybody working on or with the scrum team can get value out of it. They share their stories, failures, and successes over their combined 40 years of experience. The duo agrees that some of the worst Scrum anti-patterns arise when the scrum master fails to act as an effective servant leader. Gems: - Todd Miller on meaningful business metrics: "During sprint planning, the idea isn't just to fill up a plate of work and then everybody disappear and do it, and then if you did all the work, you're successful." - Ryan Ripley on the three aspects of an effective scrum master: "The scrum master has to love their team… want[s] them to be wildly successfully… and finally [has] to have zero tolerance for anything that gets in the way of [the team] being successful." Leslie Morse hosts. The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media!Instagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/solutionsiq/Twitter: twitter.com/AgileAmped

Agile Transformation is a journey that requires more than implementing a few new meetings into the work week. It's a continuous learning journey that is built on a desire to deliver real value to customers. However, many efforts to implement Agile within organizations end up being superficial, because they don't make room for the necessary mindset change. According to Simon Chesney, the goal of an Agile Transformation needs to be focused on creating a "self-sustaining lean/product development culture". Chesney is a Lean Enterprise Agile coach currently working on a transformation at one of the world's largest infrastructure companies, Western Digital. Chesney believes that authentic change occurs when a learning culture is embodied and empowered by the leadership of the organization. He states that you can observe sustainable change in the care taken throughout the organization to relentlessly improve. Chesney also talks about the transactional competencies, consequential environments and insights needed to sustain Agile cultures. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts from the 2019 Global SAFe Summit in San Diego. The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agileamped/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/solutionsiq/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AgileAmped

How much of your core and legacy systems are keeping your organization from seizing market opportunities and differentiating their business? Director of Pivotal Labs Sydney, David Julia, offers advice on how companies can deprecate, modernize and get more value out of monolithic legacy systems that are often where the heart of each business beats. One way is the strangler approach where you iteratively decommission legacy apps and start "to cut bits of your monolithic application off and gracefully retire that." Julia also recounts the real-life story of how one team successfully rewrote a legacy health insurance system so complex that a tiny mistake could put millions of dollars at risk. His advice for businesses looking to modernize their legacy systems is "Start small. Build quality into your system. Evolve your systems over time." Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Adam Asch hosts at Agile Australia in Sydney. The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agileamped/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/solutionsiq/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AgileAmped

Rob Pinna is a 30-year high-tech veteran who is the Chief Product Officer at IronCore Labs. His passion is protecting the privacy of data stored in the cloud. Pinna says we shouldn't build software and then make it secure. Instead, you want to bake privacy and security into the technical platform. That way the system is designed so that developers automatically just do the right thing. The conversation covers how complex it is to both provide security and privacy early and often, as well as deliver at a large enterprise. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts at Southern Fried Agile in Charlotte, NC. The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agileamped/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/solutionsiq/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AgileAmped

Stacey Ackerman, founder of Agilify Coaching & Training, got her start in marketing and is now blending the two. Like so many, marketers used to think of agile as "a software thing" and lived in a world where, as Ackerman puts it, "everything was an emergency" and there was no prioritization. This is what she calls "hair-on-fire marketing." Today, marketers and marketing teams can take small yet purposeful steps toward agility. Ackerman offers traditional antipatterns – blasting all users, sticking to the plan – as well as some enticing marketing takes on agile classics, including: – Minimally viable persona "to understand our customers in a faster way so this doesn't become a stage gate and hold up our marketing efforts." – Brief briefs – Customer stories, instead of user stories – And (above all) prioritization – "if there was anything I would recommend, it would be just that." Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts. Resources: – Martech Today (blogs by Ackerman on agile marketing available) – "The Agile Marketing Experience" podcast with Alan Annis – "The Agile Marketer" by Roland Smart The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agileamped/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/solutionsiq/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AgileAmped

Mark Richards has worked with numerous enterprise customers across most industries in Australia and across the globe. A SAFe Fellow since 2017, Richards is also the author of the blog "The Art of SAFe" and working on a book of the same name. In this episode, Richards poses the question: How do we raise intentionality and reclaim control through our objectives? He discusses the process of setting Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and how they can have a positive influence on business strategy by encouraging reflection and learning. Mark recommends the following reads on getting started with OKRs: Radical Focus by Christina Wodtke Measure What Matters by Doerr Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts from the 2019 Global SAFe Summit in San Diego. The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agileamped/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/solutionsiq/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AgileAmped

Jason Hobbs and Skylar Watson share their experiences with mobbing and pair programming from the perspectives of an organizational leader and a practitioner. Their goal is to get leadership more comfortable with the idea of mob programming and reducing work in progress (WIP) to one task. The common misconception about pairing, according to Hobbs and Watson, is that "people think it's just two guys with one shovel". The pair shares their journey of mob-programming being an uncomfortable idea to having leadership support. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts at Southern Fried Agile 2019 in Charlotte, NC. The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agileamped/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/solutionsiq/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AgileAmped

Sarah Traynor is a transformation lead at one of the largest banks in Australia, which has followed the lead of ING in executing a big bang Agile transformation. The scaling effort – involving 9,000 people – was staggered, but the vision and leadership have been clear from the very beginning. Traynor says "engaging people in the story from the onset and being transparent" is very important. Another major shift for the bank was ensuring everyone was aligned and shared the same values around what it means to lead from where they are in the organization. The bank set 5 new behavioral expectations about leading people: Be curious Create shared clarity Empower others Develop people selflessly Connect with empathy Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Adam Asch hosts at Agile Australia in Sydney. The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agileamped/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/solutionsiq/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AgileAmped

The struggle to limit work in progress is not a new one. It's a constant balance between our desire to get more done and avoiding employee burnout. It happens at all levels of the organization. Often strategic initiatives stem from a good place - leadership wants to do the right thing – but, as our guest Eric Willeke puts it, "A single piece of strategic WIP equals hundreds to thousands of pieces of individual WIP." As the Founder and a Principal at Elevate.to, he knows how hard it is to be an effective leader who limits his WIP. As a consultant and someone who cares about humanity, he wants to relieve the strain and stress that people suffer from as a result of their work. Willeke offers three strategies for reducing WIP across an organization and three tactics for getting started. You'll love the first tactic: "Destroy your backlog." Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts at Agile2019 in Washington, D.C. The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agileamped/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/solutionsiq/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AgileAmped

Ross Clanton has built his career reshaping architecture and technology strategies for Fortune 50 companies, driving leadership and culture changes necessary to empower transformation. Clanton discusses his recently published report, The Project to Product Transformation, and some of the lessons he's learned from enterprise transformations. He goes into detail on the three stages of enterprises (incubate, scale, and optimize), the 4 leadership constraints many organizations commonly deal with, as well as the concept of Dojos that he helped start in his time at Target. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Stas Zvinyatskovsky hosts at the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2019 in Las Vegas. The Project to Product Transformation The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agileamped/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/solutionsiq/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AgileAmped

Scott Prugh is Chief Architect & SVP of Software Development at CSG. He recounts the story of the technical evolution at his organization and the multi-year strides to modernize their application stack as well as mainframe technology. "One of the things we found was that when you start taking these crazy, really heavy platforms and you start to modernize them, it starts to free up capacity." Accenture's Mirco Hering hosts at the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2019 in Las Vegas. The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agileamped/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/solutionsiq/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AgileAmped

The US government is notorious for being a slow-moving bureaucracy that is crazy about controlling every minor detail. Internally, there are often musings that agile will never work within the public sector because the government is a unicorn incompatible with agile principles and values. But if you get down to it, the government struggles with many of the same issues that private corporations do. This includes things like obtaining leadership buy-in, acquiring funding in a big batch project mindset, maintaining low WIP. Sound familiar? Ron MacKenzie, an agile coach for the USDA, talks to us about his own journey to agile, how he's brought his own personal learnings to his teams and leadership and how, ultimately, the government is not that different after all. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts at SAFe Summit in San Diego, CA The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agileamped/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/solutionsiq/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AgileAmped

David J. Bland is a co-author of the newly published "Testing Business Ideas," and founder of Precoil where he helps companies find product-market fit using lean startup, design thinking and business model innovation practices. Bland walks us through the book which is a field guide for rapid experimentation in order to reduce risk and increase the likelihood of success for any new venture or business project. In addition to experimentation, the publication also tackles team design from three different angles: Configuration of cross-functional teams Team behaviors such as questioning assumptions and entrepreneurial spirit Environment the leaders need to provide for teams to live within Bland also makes his prediction for where the separate disciplines of Agile, Lean Startup, Design Thinking, Business Model, Lean UX and others: "This is all part of a system and we need to figure out how it all relates instead of adopting it all in isolation within an org. I still think systems thinking is eventually going to come back in a more consumable way." Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts. The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agileamped/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/solutionsiq/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AgileAmped

Paul Nunes is the Global Managing Director of Thought Leadership at Accenture with 33 years working with the consultancy under his belt. He discusses the findings in the book he co-authored with Larry Downes and Omar Abbosh: "Pivot to the Future: Discovering Value and Creating Growth in a Disrupted World". Nunes says the big idea in the book is that companies can no longer afford to change through large-scale business transformation, rather we need a new way of creating change within the organization that enables success. He walks us through some fantastic examples and explains how businesses can simultaneously succeed with all three lifecycle stages of a business: the old, the now, and the new. "The excitement of getting to the new can lead a lot of companies to prematurely abandon the old." Accenture's Keith Pleas hosts at the Boston Innovation Hub. The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agileamped/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/solutionsiq/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AgileAmped

Technical debt can be an emotionally charged topic of discussion between the debt-adverse and the debt-tolerant. Is it an evil that must be eradicated or an unavoidable occurrence that can be leveraged for good? How to handle technical debt can become a point of contention within a team or even across an entire organization. According to David Brown, an agilist within the innovation center for a 100+-year-old American electric power company, people use the term "technical debt" when they start experiencing bugs or can't push to production, but by then it's already too late. Brown suggests that the business and IT come together and create a shared understanding of technical debt - then the teams can ask themselves "what do we consider healthy?" and create the protocols for dealing with technical debt. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse Hosts. The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agileamped/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/solutionsiq/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AgileAmped

The average enterprise is relying upon about 3,500 open source projects to support faster software development. Unfortunately, external suppliers of the code are often chosen based on popularity or familiarity rather than code quality. Vice President at Sonatype and the co-founder of All Day DevOpsDerek Weeks sat down with us to discuss open source as well as the main findings in the 2019 State of the Software Supply Chain Report. The report details the following: Where open source components are used in software development and how many of them What percentage of components have known security vulnerabilities The policies and regulations on a national and international level that may affect how software isdeveloped Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Stephan Lange hosts at the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2019 in Las Vegas. Download the 2019 State of the Software Supply Chain Report here: https://www.sonatype.com/en-us/2019ssc The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agileamped/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/solutionsiq/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AgileAmped

Dr. Christina Maslach is a Professor of Psychology and a researcher at the Healthy Workplaces Center at the University of California, Berkeley. She is one of the pioneering researchers on job burnout and is the author of "The Truth About Burnout". In this episode, you'll learn the difference between being merely stressed out and the symptoms of burnout: exhaustion, cynicism, and a negative sense of oneself. Dr. Maslach also walks us through the core psychological needs that promote worker motivation and psychological well-being. You'll also hear how closely they correlate to an Agile workplace. "It's a lot about the environment, the job situation you're in, it's the other people, it's the policies, it's the way the work is structured and whether you have control over it." Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Hanna Gnann hosts at DevOps Enterprise Summit 2019 in Las Vegas. The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agileamped/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/solutionsiq/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AgileAmped

Katherine Radeka is the founder and executive director of the Rapid Learning Cycles Institute and author of the new book "High Velocity Innovation: How to Get Your Best Ideas to Market Faster". Radeka shares with us some highlights from her book, like organizations need to create "a path of least resistance to innovation" and that innovation is everyone's responsibility. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Jeff Steinberg hosts. The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agileamped/ LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/company/solutionsiq/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AgileAmped

Co-authors Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais just released their new book "Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow". Skelton and Pais define four types of teams and they help achieve flow of change and reduce cognitive load for the team members. Stream-aligned: More traditionally considered "product teams" Enabling: Experts in a specific area Complicated-subsystem: Deep skills such as Ph.D. level expertise or years of experience in a niche technology Platform: Aiming to build the "thinnest viable platform" using Agile software practices "We're not just talking about shapes of the teams and composition, and the structure of the organization, we're talking about the social dynamics." Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Stas Zvinyatskovsky hosts at DevOps Enterprise Summit 2019 in Las Vegas. The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agileamped/ LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/company/solutionsiq/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AgileAmped

As CEO and Product Owner of Scrum.org, Dave West has collected some awesome stories and he regales us with a few in this episode of Agile Amped. Too often companies attempt to scale agility without a clear purpose and fail both to see true agility and to inspire employees with a compelling purpose. And, West reminds us, "purpose is actionable," not just something in the mission statement or plastered on the office wall. The conversations covers frameworks, the American education system, and even conscious capitalism. "At the heart of everything we're doing is trying to untap the potential of humanity to deliver amazing value and solve problems – and I think that's super exciting." Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts from 2019 Southern Fried Agile. The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agileamped/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/solutionsiq/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AgileAmped

David Marquet, Inc. Magazine's Top 100 leadership speaker and the bestselling author of "Turn the Ship Around", discusses his keynote topic at this year's Southern Fried Agile conference: "Move Your People Up the Ladder of Leadership". Marquet emphasizes a "lean back" approach to leadership – giving people the room to lean in and make more decisions on their own. "What we want to do is push the authority for making decisions out to the people who have the information. You get a much more resilient, adaptive, agile organization." He gives recommendations for how to hone our leadership skills in everyday life by practicing how to invite feedback and creating a safe environment for receiving it. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts at Southern Fried Agile in Charlotte, NC. The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agileamped/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/solutionsiq/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AgileAmped

Matt Badgley and John Krewson sat down to unpack their presentations at Agile2019: "Live From D.C., It's Saturday Night: The Agility of SNL" and "Let's Just Skip High-Performing and Go Straight to Badass!" Badgley and Krewson derive comparisons between sketch comedy and agility and take us backstage to the process of producing a show from concept to cash within a week. The duo also dives into the topics of the real meanings of high-performing teams, failing fast and leadership. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Chris Murman hosts at Agile2019 in Washington, D.C. The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Twitter: https://twitter.com/AgileAmped Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/agileamped Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Debbie Brey has worked at Boeing for 35 years, where she is an internal SPCT and Enterprise Transformation Leader. She is currently leading an enterprise-wide initiative to incorporate an Agile way of working into the Boeing culture. Brey takes us behind the scenes on the massive undertaking of bringing digital transformation to the century-old enterprise. Her program, a subset of a 4,000-5,000 employee IT organization, consists of 234 Agile teams organized into 20 Agile Release Trains and two Solution Trains with a "Super Solution Train" around it. Hear some great insights into the company's Agile journey as well as some predictions for the future. "In 5 years, will we be talking about SAFe and Agile? I hope not. I hope it's just the way we work at Boeing." Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts at the Global SAFe Summit 2019 in San Diego. The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/solutionsiq/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AgileAmped Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Coaches Jessica Guistolise and Greg Adams-Woodford have been running Dojos at their client successfully for a few years. They explain the purpose and basics of a Dojo and share their experiences from the trenches. Dojo is a place where teams practice - a new physical space where they break down what they've done in the past and rebuilding their habits over a six-week period. Additionally, Dojo uses 2.5-day "hyper sprints" that enable teams to deliver real business value more quickly and understand where they're failing without losing days or weeks. At its heart, Dojo is about building business capabilities and high-functioning teams. And it is not limited to software development: our guests touch on leadership and portfolio Dojos, and tips for success and pitfalls to avoid. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts. The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/solutionsiq/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AgileAmped Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Pete Young played a key role in leading the transformation of Australia Post's digital consumer experience. The journey to transformation at this 210-year-old institution began when they focused on fixing one specific problem: 15% of the customer base consistently missing first time delivery of a parcel. Young also shares how, in two years, focus a single metric resulted in a 7% increase in successful first-time deliveries – a significant impact for an organization with 5 million digital customer accounts. Learn how his team shifted focus from measuring outcomes instead of outputs, the importance of leadership support, and how Young works with the not-so-Agile parts of the enterprise. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Adam Asch hosts at Agile Australia 2019 in Sydney. The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Twitter: https://twitter.com/AgileAmped Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/agileamped Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Chris Philipsen understands that "playbook" and "Agile" don't necessarily go together but the title of his Agile2019 talk "A Playbook for an Agile Manager" was chosen on purpose. A consultant at Insight, Philipsen speaks the language of traditional managers who expect a "playbook" for how to effectively manage in an Agile organization as well as the language of Agile. He and our host, Agile coach Chris Murman at Accenture | SolutionsIQ, vibe on the differences between managing styles as well as personal and interpersonal coaching techniques. Philipsen invokes the McCarthy protocol of requesting to provide feedback and radiating intention – for which he provides many examples. Ultimately, he is more productive, happier and a better agilist for radiating intent for what he hopes to accomplish in a meeting, in a day and in life. Accenture | SolutionsIQ Chris Murman hosts at Agile2019 in Washington, D.C. The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Twitter: twitter.com/AgileAmped Facebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Dan Scalfaro, a key stakeholder at a major healthcare provider, teamed up with Agile coach, Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Emilia Breton, to guide his organization through their transformation. They sat down to give us insights about the process and the major challenges they encountered. According to Scalfaro, "I thought the DevOps stuff was going to be my challenge. It wasn't. It was the change management and the people." Breton and Scalfaro put the focus on the customer ahead of anything else when improving the process of onboarding new providers, changing "one heart and mind at a time." Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts at Agile2019 in Washington, D.C. The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Twitter: https://twitter.com/AgileAmped Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/agileamped Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Even government agencies experience FOMO. It took the turnaround from an 80-million-dollar big bang failure into an initiation of a couple successful, smaller pilot agile programs within the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) for other federal programs to realize that they were missing out. Richard Cheng has been working on helping the US Government understand and implement the value of Agile. In the many years of working with the government, he's noticed that the conversation has gone past the point of if Agile is right for government and is on to how do they do Agile better to create more value. He shares his experience and insights with OPM and UCIS and the rest of the federal government. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts at Agile2019 in Washington, D.C. The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Twitter: https://twitter.com/AgileAmped Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/agileamped Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Have you ever regretted sending an email while angry? Lorraine Aguilar is a certified trainer in Non-Violent Communication (NVC) who teaches us emotional self-management and radical leadership through empathy for yourself and others. "Empathy so that the best ideas rise to the surface and not the strong and dominating personalities." Aguilar walks us through her 4 steps of the empathy dojo and uses poignant stories from her own life as examples of applying "radical acts of kindness" to demonstrate leadership. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts at Agile2019 in Washington, D.C. The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility.Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Twitter: twitter.com/AgileAmped Facebook: facebook.com/agileamped Instagram: instagram.com/agileamped

Author Kristina Podnar helps businesses get smarter, better and faster at creating digital policies and practices that unlock opportunity, liberate employees and increase the bottom line. While many people are intimidated by the word "policy," Podnar encourages us to think of them as guardrails – "short statements that reflects the organization's values … so we can create freedom, innovation and creativity." Her book "The Power of Digital Policy" is actually a handbook that provides specific ways for people and businesses to balance risk with opportunity. And the best thing is it doesn't have to be a long and grueling process. With her Agile approach, you can go from zero to done in 5 days. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts at Agile2019 in Washington, D.C. Learn more at ThePowerOfDigitalPolicy.com The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility.Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Twitter: twitter.com/AgileAmped Facebook: www.facebook.com/agileamped Instagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Robert Woods, Founder of MindOverProcess, has found that one of the places we should start when bringing Agile change to the entire organization is revising corporate hiring practices. Woods shares insights about how to improve hiring strategies to onboard the right people who are engaged and more likely to stay. He warns that if you do not have a good onboarding process, "within the first 45 days you could lose up to 20% of your new hires." This has a large impact on building the persistent high-preforming teams needed to implement lasting change. Woods also believes that we can experience larger cultural change by starting with "small conscientious adjustments over time" and to be prepared for the long-haul: "like a lifestyle change, cultural changes often take 3-5 years within a company… we don't want to get into the position where we think a few structural changes are going to make everything all better." Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Chris Murman hosts at Agile2019 in Washington, D.C. The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Twitter: twitter.com/AgileAmped Facebook: facebook.com/agileamped Instagram: instagram.com/agileamped/

Self-described productivity geek Chris Bailey is the author of "Hyperfocus: How to Be More Productive in a World of Distraction", and his passion and research into productivity resonates with agilists: we are all working to improve how we work and live. Bailey's message – bolstered by many statistics – is simple and profound: "The state of our attention reflects the state of our lives." He offers practical advice for improving productivity at work while also invoking the deeper yearning that each of us feels to get more out of life in our relationships with others and with ourselves. Mindfulness and meditation are in the mix because, as Bailey puts it, "For every minute you meditate, you get ten minutes back, because you notice that your mind has veered off track." Favorite quotes:* "On average, we only work on one thing for 40 seconds before we switch to doing something else."* "We can do almost anything for a minute besides focus… Your mind will resist even that one minute…"* "We're the most creative when we have the least energy, because our minds are less inhibited." Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts at Agile2019 in Washington, D.C. Find the book:https://alifeofproductivity.com/hyperfocus/ The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Twitter: twitter.com/AgileAmped Facebook: facebook.com/agileamped Instagram: instagram.com/agileamped/

William Ammerman's background as an advertising executive, coupled with his post-graduate work in artificial intelligence, gives him a unique perspective on the subject of marketing in the age of AI. He is the author of "The Invisible Brand: Marketing in the Age of Automation, Big Data, and Machine Learning". Ammerman wants to make people aware of the potential consequences of our constant connectivity and the emotional relationships we are now beginning to form with machines, and their influence over us. "An AI agent programmed with the science of persuasion, armed with the details of our personality and behavior profiles, and equipped with mass customization, will be able to learn how to sway our decisions and actions." Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Hanna Gnann hosts. The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Twitter: twitter.com/AgileAmped Facebook: www.facebook.com/agileamped Instagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Michael Stump, SAFe fellow and VP of Global Partner Programs at Scaled Agile, advises that agile implementations are not a one-size-fits-all approach. It involves some thinking, and not a copy-paste system. He advocates for experiential learning, making mistakes and using that wisdom as guidance to do better, learning how to apply agile to different situations. He says, "Creating alignment, creating transparency and having those tough discussions and session points…is really powerful". Stump subscribes to the belief that you can run the whole company using SAFe as the operating model. He discusses the effect of change management and using that as a platform to learn. "Organizations are not aligned on the goal", he says. Then how do you achieve the goal? Getting buy-in from management, together with support and the commitment to be successful. Mistakes are happening either way, to get to the other side, you have to go through it. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Scott Frost hosts at the European SAFe Summit in The Hague, Netherlands. The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Twitter: twitter.com/AgileAmped Facebook: www.facebook.com/agileamped Instagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Businesses have the long-established expectations of how people should work in development teams, but few know how to hire the right people. This is even more difficult when hiring new leadership to helm an Agile business. Geof Ellingham, Chair of the Agile Business Consortium, speaks with us about a refined, more collaborative approach to hiring business leaders. According to Ellingham, a change is required when hiring a CEO and implementing a co-creative process, removing the antiquated power dynamic, and introducing recruitment that is more genuine. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts at the 2019 Business Agility Conference in New York City. The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Twitter: twitter.com/AgileAmped Facebook: www.facebook.com/agileamped Instagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Imagine a world where the same approaches that successful startups follow also worked for Fortune 500 companies. With the right organizational structures, it can be a dream come true. However, IT organizations tend to think that innovation is one install away and the path is littered with failed agile transformations. Changing from a project- to a product-centric approach may address some the major obstacles preventing the nimble startup-like success larger enterprises crave. Join us as we speak with Dr. Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop and author of "Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework", as he talks with us about a critical disconnect between business leaders and technologists and how enabling a shift from project to product can make all the difference. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Skip Angel Hosts Find Skip's infograph on Twitter. The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Twitter: twitter.com/AgileAmped Facebook: www.facebook.com/agileamped Instagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Shane Harrison, business focused change agent specializing in enterprise-level digital Lean Agile transformations, takes PI planning to the next level. Harrison offers tips and tricks on how to execute with a higher success rate. He advocates for aligning PI objectives with solid plans; socialization is only successful when the teams understand the context and vision of the plan. He says, "I'm always looking for the teams to get into a state of flow…any interruption to the team disrupts the flow." For leadership guests at PI planning, Harrison recommends an "eyes open, ears open, mouth shut" approach – an observation exercise rather than interaction with the teams. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Scott Frost hosts at the European SAFe Summit: The Hague, Netherlands.

Brendon Hernandez remembers clearly when he realized his privilege of being a male, of being treated preferentially over the strong and capable women in his life. An Agile coach in business agility transformations today at Accenture | SolutionsIQ, Hernandez is a passionate ally for diversity and inclusion because of his personal experience. "As a gay male, I rely on heterosexual women to be an ally in the LGBT space, and in return I am an ally to women, because I have the privilege of being male." In this episode, our own Leslie Morse guides the discussion through hard topics like privilege and guilt as well as diversity, inclusion and allyship. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts. The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Twitter: twitter.com/AgileAmped Facebook: www.facebook.com/agileamped Instagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

In a world of fake news, where automation is threatening jobs, Josh Kampel remains a techno-optimist. In this episode, the CEO of Techonomy Media shares his views on how organizations can get more value out of technological innovations and disruptions by taking time to understand deeply what they stand for as a company, and what value they provide to their customers and the world at large. Because legacy technological baggage isn't the only thing keeping big organizations from reaping the benefits of new tech: "It's [also] culture, people, it's real estate, it's infrastructure…" Kampel shares his views on the successes, struggles, failures and opportunities that companies face today and compare them to what other companies have experienced in the past. Kampel insists that CEOs cannot be the only ones leading the charge to transform organizations: the board needs to get involved, as well as the people who work in the organization and are the living breathing representations of that company's culture. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Global Managing Director of Innovation Max Furmanov hosts. The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Twitter: twitter.com/AgileAmped Facebook: www.facebook.com/agileamped Instagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Agile Transformation is a collective effort requiring much work and dedication from all levels of the business. It's no wonder that some people become very attached to it, whether it's a VP, a coach, a manager, or team member. Carlo Bucciarelli, senior manager at Accenture, reminds us that "this transformation is not your baby." Further, he says leaders fall into the trap of forcing top-down changes on their reports, which can create resentment in individuals and team. Because the transformation belongs to everyone in the organization – as well as the trainers, coaches, and consultants providing guidance along the way – empathy, inclusion, a powerful guiding coalition, and tons of humility are all necessary on the path to success. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Henrik Gruber hosts at the Business Agility Conference in Vienna, Austria. The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Twitter: twitter.com/AgileAmped Facebook: www.facebook.com/agileamped Instagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Identifying the biggest pain points in your team can make all the difference in your organization. Janelle Klein, author of "Idea Flow," discusses how to measure friction to connect managers and engineers using what she calls "the ultimate metric": the frequency and duration of WTFs. Klein speaks about the importance of understanding and predictability to create alignment, taking into consideration the human factors in software development. "The hard part really isn't solving the problems," she reminds, "it's identifying the right problems to solve." This enables managers and engineers to translate the friction experienced during development into explicit risk models for more effective decision-making. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Stas Zvinyatskovsky hosts at Deliver Agile Conference, Nashville The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Twitter: twitter.com/AgileAmped Facebook: www.facebook.com/agileamped Instagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Clarity of purpose, control without controlling, and designing for flow – these are three capabilities that are essential for Agile leaders to possess, according to Agile trainer and coach, Phil Abernathy. "Empowered teams are more dangerous if there is no clarity…[and are] nothing more than powerful horses pulling in different directions," says Abernathy. The difference between good companies and great companies is discipline – they are not chaotic. Complex structures will always result in complex processes and inefficient controls because leaders believe in the biggest lie – that multitasking is efficient and effective. The idea is to work on one or two things at the same time, maximum. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Henrik Gruber hosts at the Business Agility Conference in Vienna, Austria. The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Twitter: twitter.com/AgileAmped Facebook: www.facebook.com/agileamped Instagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

"In this Agile space," says a familiar voice, "we've been talking for years about pair programming and pair coaching; basically, this is pair leadership." The voice belongs to former long-time host of Agile Amped, Howard Sublett, who left his position as Community Lead at Accenture | SolutionsIQ to become the first ever Chief Product Owner of the Scrum Alliance. In this episode, Sublett talks about his experience sharing the responsibility of leading the Scrum Alliance with Chief Scrum Master Melissa Boggs. "We have a shared responsibility to lead the organization. Neither can be successful without the other." Sublett and Boggs are "legally co-CEOs" for the non-profit organization so familiar to agilists around the world. The pair is out to experiment and lead in ways never before seen. "Yes, we're going to make some mistakes but by God we don't want to make brand new mistakes; we want to make mistakes that no one else have ever made before, because we had the courage to try." Howard shares his perspective of the future for the Scrum Gathering, including the many global events they are sponsoring. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Roxi Ozolins reprises her role as host on this special episode, after recording "Building an Agile Culture" with Sublett at the beginning of his tenure at the Scrum Alliance. Learn more:1. Scrum Alliance (www.scrumalliance.org)2. Scrum Gathering Austin (events.scrumalliance.org/austin-2019)

Technical debt can cause critical issues for organizations. Every year an organization does not address these issues brings them closer to ruin. Some businesses even have to shut their doors due to irreconcilable technical debt that conventional solutions alone cannot address. Arlo Belshee, full-stack Agile developer and technical coach, shares insightful knowledge on building better software, specifically as it pertains to what he calls safeguarding: "a simple, 22-minute practice that allows you to find, fund, and then execute real changes to your process and product." One of the things that makes fixing technical debt so difficult is that "there is no one problem of technical debt." Belshee advocates for empowering teams to own problems, to know what's going on in their part of the system and to work quickly to address these problems. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Stas Zvinyatskovsky hosts at the Deliver: Agile Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Twitter: twitter.com/AgileAmped Facebook: www.facebook.com/agileamped Instagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

One of our most requested topics to cover recently has been Agile Portfolio Management. We invited Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Brent Barton and Ryn Melberg to explain what is portfolio management and how to use it in an Agile organization. Traditional portfolio management assumes an infinite supply of knowledge worker's capacity. It also plans for 100% utilization (which is impossible) using full time equivalents, and part time people introduce a lot of context switching. These are two big problems. Instead, Barton recommends building teams of people as enduring corporate assets, and then focus on maximizing the return on those assets – what we call return on team. Portfolio management in a traditional sense has the tendency to break up teams, which in turn crushes Agile. Melberg likens this to the cost of infrastructure for tearing down an office building each time a new project is started, yet companies do this to their people all the time. Tune in to learn how to do portfolio management in today's rapidly changing marketplace. Reach Brent Barton at [email protected] or @brentbarton on Twitter. The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Twitter: twitter.com/AgileAmped Facebook: www.facebook.com/agileamped Instagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

With our guests Pia-Maria Thorén and Shannon Ewan we dive into how HR – with strong support from leadership – need to be at the head of the change to business agility. Thorén is a thought leader in Agile HR and the author of "Agile People – A Radical Approach for HR and Managers (That Leads to Motivated Employees)". Ewan is an experienced leader, Agile coach, and currently serves as the Managing Director for the International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile). Says Thorén, "HR has a very crucial role when it comes to changing organizations: they work with the deep structures… like performance management, change management, organizational development. They choose the leadership programs that leaders go to… They have so much influence over the whole organization so that change is not possible if HR is not on board." The duo offer tips and insights into how people in HR and all across an organization can unlearn and retrain themselves about how people should be treated and should operate in a business agility context. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts at the 2019 Business Agility Conference in New York City. Learn more: - Agile People – A Radical Approach for HR and Managers (That Leads to Motivated Employees) - www.agilehrmanifesto.org/ - ICAgile Business Agility Learning Roadmap (icagile.com/Learning-Roadmap/Business-Agility) The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Twitter: twitter.com/AgileAmped Facebook: www.facebook.com/agileamped Instagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Stephen Parry is a business leader, strategist, change designer and author with a reputation for large-scale global business transformation. He sat down with us for a fascinating deep-dive into addressing transformation in organizations that are often already overburdened. According to Parry, during an org transformation, leadership tends to lose sight of the strategy, the org structures, and the investments in technology." Traditional leadership is just going down to the mid-management level and making sure they're hitting the local numbers and trying harder, leaving the top decks with no captain. " To resolve this problem, senior leaders have to trust the management at the mid level, and in turn middle managers must trust the staff below them. This enables leadership and middle management to perform the critical roles that cannot be done by those below them. Meanwhile, each manager's reports must strive to "make your managers fantastic", according to Parry. That calls for a trust strategy across the business. Parry calls this approach "power up" instead of "bottom up." Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts. Hear Stephen Parry speak live at the Business Agility Conference in Vienna, Austria May 20-21, 2019. Learn more about our guest at https://www.lloydparry.com/ The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Twitter: twitter.com/AgileAmped Facebook: www.facebook.com/agileamped Instagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Pioneer in Lean-Agile People Operations (formally known as "HR") and CEO of Just Leading Solutions LLC, Fabiola Eyholzer uses science and statistics to help level the playing field for women in the business world. The data is compelling and it supports overwhelmingly the truly human characteristics that agile leaders portray: collaboration, communication, transparency and more. In other words, Agile leadership qualities could be described in words that are generally considered "feminine" or things that women excel at. This isn't lost to Eyholzer, who believes that diversity of thought is what drives success, and the cross-functional team concept that is deeply ingrained in Agile is evidence. But there is still a long way to go to equality and thus greater diversity of thought, and job hiring practices are an area that needs attention: While women make 53% of the new hires overall, only 3% of the new hires for leadership positions are female. Eyholzer provides concrete tips for improving your hiring process – from job description to interviewing – so that it can be the gateway toward innovation and growth via diversity of thought. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts at the 2019 Business Agility Conference in New York City. Join us at the Women in Agile session at Agile 2019! Register here: https://www.agilealliance.org/events/women-in-agile-2019/ Be part of the Launching New Voices program. 3 mentors and proteges are chosen for the final conference. Sign up as a mentor or protege. Learn more about Women in Agile:womeninagile.org/ The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Twitter: twitter.com/AgileAmped Facebook: www.facebook.com/agileamped Instagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

CSG started out in cable billing and over time has transformed into a media company. With the industry moving so quickly, they couldn't wait 12-18 months to deliver value to the customers. They needed to ramp up their delivery agility. Jill Edmunson, Enterprise Portfolio Management leader at CSG, and her colleague Lesa Phillips, an Agile coach and RTE, sat down with Agile Amped to share some fascinating insights into this Agile journey. CSG's vision statement "make work visible, connect people to our strategy and driving engagement and excitement" is baked into everything they do. Edmunson and Phillips describe some unique forums they've implemented to connect strategy to execution in the form of Shark Tanks, Think Tanks and Do Tanks. You'll also learn more about engaging all levels of the organization through showcases at PI Planning, CSG Café used for agility training, and how to build connections and partnerships. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts at the Business Agility Conference in New York City. The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Twitter: twitter.com/AgileAmped Facebook: www.facebook.com/agileamped Instagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

When it comes to procurement in a Lean-Agile context, according to Mirko Kleiner, "It's not rocket science" – but it does deliver compelling business value. Kleiner wears many hats: a thought leader in Lean-Agile procurement, author, co-founder of Flowdays and the list goes on. Lean Agile Procurement, he says, has some simple tenants that any agilist would recognize: - Bring everyone together for alignment from legal to procurement to the supplier and the business users to form a cross-functional team.- Accept uncertainty.- Empower the team. The outcomes include a client with a better understanding of what it wants, less re-work or misunderstanding about requirements, and - get this - an average increase of 400% in time-to-market. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts at the 2019 Business Agility Conference in New York City. Learn more: - Lean Agile Procurement Alliance - https://www.lean-agile-procurement.com/ - Lean Procurement Canvas – available for free https://www.lean-agile-procurement.com/lean-agile-procurement-approach#lean-procurement-canvas The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Twitter: twitter.com/AgileAmped Facebook: www.facebook.com/agileamped Instagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/