Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations

Jason Gaulden is the Vice President of Partnerships at America Succeeds and co-author of the groundbreaking report, "The Age of Agility: Education Pathways for the Future of Work." In his work, Gaulden strives to embed agility into the learning process, both in terms of the technical skillset and the lifelong learning mindset that students need "to succeed in the global economy but contribute to their local community." The need for this paradigm shift in education is epitomized in the rapid decline of the value of a college degree, which used to serve as a good proxy for proving that you had the knowledge to get ahead. Going forward, we need to address three major obstacles: Students do not enter the workforce of today with all of the technical skillsets and Agile mindset they need to succeed. Teachers cannot "relay knowledge they don't have themselves." The education system needs to be more customized to different learning paths and learning journeys. These problems are reflected in America Succeeds' three tenets – Agile students, Agile teachers and Agile education systems. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts at the Business Agility Conference in New York City. Learn More: Download "The Age of Agility" report (free) About America Succeeds One Stone School 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/

Sally Elatta is the president of Agile Transformation, Inc., and founder of AgilityHealth. Elatta shares her story of the growth of her company, what they have on their "culture wall" and the current state of business agility, as well as a taste of the future. The 2018 Business Agility Report revealed that, while team agility and what Elatta calls "team-of-teams agility," companies are doing really well. But in terms of business agility – particularly as applies to culture, leadership and support functions like HR, finance, marketing and others – the respondents of the 166 organizations who participated in the report collectively rated themselves at the crawl-walk stage. Elatta sees this as a tremendous opportunity for enterprises to strive for more than just Agile transformation, but to reach for business agility. One area that she thinks will see huge shifts and positive changes in the next two or three years? HR. Some of our favorite quotes from this podcast:- "Be bold, be real, and lead with love."- "Iʻm allergic to negativity."- "[As a] young girl from Sudan in Africa, [I] couldn't have made it in this country if I didn't believe in the art of the possible."- "Gone are the days that large companies are eating small. Today, fast companies are eating slow." Accenture | SolutionsIQʻs Skip Angel hosts. Learn more: - Read the 2018 Business Agility Report - Take the 2019 Business Agility Survey 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/

Peter Merel has an impressive résumé: XP pioneer, author of the original Wikipedia wiki-engine, and founder of XSCALE Alliance. XSCALE Alliance follows de-scaling practices and values, where the goal is, among other things, to "enable [self-organizing teams] to self-manage and self-direct." Merel takes us on a thought-provoking stroll through topics like: Frameworks as pattern languages A "damning statistic" that may have been overlooked in a recent VersionOne's State of Agile Survey Throughput accounting YAGNI – "You aren't going to need it" And – most interestingly to us – descaling in a business agility context "How can we achieve alignment between lots of these little autonomous teams to be able to build something like a self-organizing value stream, or a self-directing portfolio? That's really our challenge." Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Adam Mattis hosts. To find out more about XSCALE Alliance, visit:xscalealliance.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: facebook.com/agileamped Instagram: instagram.com/agileamped

In honor of International Women's Day 2019 and Women's History Month, today's episode features a female leader we're proud to call our own. Neville Poole is a woman of color, wife, mother, and a managing director at Accenture | SolutionsIQ. She remembers a time when, while working as a bank teller, people would stand in line to wait for her white, male colleague to attend to them. One customer even told her manager, "I'm not comfortable sharing my financials with the black girl." Neville took it in stride, determined not to let anyone stop her from achieving her dreams. She says that being a woman of color in the male-dominated industry of finance and technology has not always been easy. "Some people just can't get past their own prejudices," she says, "and I can't change that." Hear her advice to other women on how to own your space, develop and share your uniqueness with the world. And her advice to men: Be aware that different dynamics apply for women than men, and when you notice it, have a conversation about it. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Roxi Ozolins hosts. Accenture, a global firm with more than 450,000 employees, is striving to achieve a gender balanced workforce by 2025 – and by 2020, women will account for 25 percent of managing directors worldwide. Learn more about how we're #GettingToEqual here: https://www.accenture.com/us-en/about/inclusion-diversity/gender-equality 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/

Sandy Mamoli is an Agile consultant and coach with a focus on organizational culture and leadership. She is also a former Olympian, an international keynote speaker and author of "Creating Great Teams – How Self-Selection Lets People Excel". Sandy sat down to explain holacracy, which is a way to create a truly self-organizing organization, and shares examples of the method in action. This episode of Agile Amped is part of a series in partnership with the Business Agility Institute. businessagility.institute/ Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Ryn Melberg hosts. Reach our guest: Email: [email protected] Twitter: @smamol LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/sandymamoli/ 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/

James Couball and Ashley Wolf share their experience with a massive Continuous Delivery initiative at Oath Inc. - a division of Verizon composed of Yahoo, AOL, and HuffPost. Thousands of systems not doing CD were involved, which was a great forcing function for implementing best practices for technical excellence. Over the years of using an open source approach and mindset to development, they stumbled on inner source (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_source), which applies source principles of code (collaboration, sharing, transparency, etc.) to business practices. Says Wolf, "We didn't try to make inner source, we tried to make better engineering," and inner source helped greatly with that. Couball provides example practices and stories from the trenches, both championing the importance of culture. Greg Bledsoe hosts at the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2018 in Las Vegas. Reach our guests: James Couball on Twitter @jcouball Ashley Wolf on LinkedIn 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/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

For Chief Technology Officer at Datical Robert Reeves, databases (and its administrators) have traditionally been a challenge for DevOps. That needs to change. Reeves shares how cultural, technical, and personal biases have stymied innovation on the database. In his experience, when organizations get to the hard issues like the database, they get disillusioned with DevOps and are tempted to stop on their journey. His advice: Now is the time to tackle these hard problems, don't wait to be disrupted. Greg Bledsoe hosts at the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2018 in Las Vegas. Reach our guest: Website: Datical.com Twitter: @RobertReeves @Datical 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/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Jorgen Hesselberg, cofounder of Comparative Agility, and Steven Wolff, partner in Group Emotional Intelligence Partners, sat down with us to talk about their Agile2018 presentation on "Emotional Intelligence as a Performance Multiplier." Emotional intelligence has a profound affect not just on team dynamics but also on organizational culture. In his research Hesselberg has found that culture is often on the list of factors for team performance - but what is culture? Says Wolff, "When you can affect the rules of behavior - the norms - you can change the patterns of behavior that you see and feel - which is the culture." Howard Sublett hosts at Agile2018 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! Twitter: twitter.com/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Our guests Lyssa Adkins and Natalie Warnert sat down to talk about two organizations that are on a mission to give women a voice: Women in Agile and TENWOMENSTRONG. Women in Agile has grown from its grassroots origins to a non-profit organization with a number of different events and local groups. Their mission is to provide support for more women to build more inclusive conference experiences and provide opportunities to grow in a supportive environment. Read more about our partnership here. TENWOMENSTRONG aims to bring whole-person development and enrichment programs to the Women In Agile community and to encourage women to lead their life with a purpose. On the assumption that the Agile community is inclusive, Warnert notes: "It comes from your place of privilege: You don't have to think about the fact that someone is excluded because you're automatically included." Howard Sublett hosts at Agile2018 in San Diego. How to get involved: Women in Agile Twitter: @NatalieWarnert @womeninagileorgwww.Nataliewarnert.com www.Womeninagile.org #womeninagile Ten Women Strong www.Tenwomenstrong.net/agile www.lyssaadkins.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/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

With the right mindset and practices in place, your organization could be "faster than Facebook." But what does that mean? Furthermore, why do most companies fall short of the real promise of business agility? Stas Zvinyatskovsky, a Managing Director for Accenture and DevOps thought leader, believes the problem is that most organizations are unwilling to make the necessary organizational changes to achieve business agility - they are not willing to pay the true cost of business agility transformation. Zvinyatskovsky shares some insights on why organizations struggle with business agility, the five transformation types that he has identified, what the true cost of business agility transformation is and how the theory of constraints applies to organizations that only transform IT. Greg Bledsoe hosts at the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2018 in Las Vegas. Reach out to our guest on Twitter - @staszv 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/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Joe Vallone, a senior consultant at Scaled Agile and an experienced Agile Coach and Trainer, sits down with us to talk innovation accounting. "All companies want to be innovative, but nobody wants to pay for it." The cost, he reminds us, is steep and measured in time not money. After comparing innovations and heavy investments from the past (Post-WWII and the SR21 Blackbird) and the present (Tesla and self-driving cars), Vallone touches on how innovation accounting fits into SAFe 4.6 and emphasizes the importance of leading indicators over traditional lagging indicators like net-present value, which were invented in a time of homogenous systems where variability was predictable. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Adam Mattis hosts at SAFe Summit 2018 in Washington, D.C. Reach our guest:Email [email protected] twitter.com/joejv 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/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Transformation in the Federal Government is often thought of as slow and daunting. However, Chris Palmisano and Greg Pfister have noticed a real push from leadership to adopt Agile principles and it's showing up in an unlikely place: contracts. "If that contract is not structured in a way that shows clear alignment on Agile principles with the right support from leadership… it becomes very difficult to correct course and really promote those ideas and principles". Like most large organizations, the Federal Government struggles with leadership buy-in. But with an aging workforce being replaced by college graduates who are not trained in non-object-oriented programing languages and are not versed, nor care about, "plan-driven models"– things are on the verge of change. Adam Mattis hosts at the SAFe Summit 2018 in Washington, D.C. Reach our guests:Greg Pfister LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/pfisterville/Chris Palmisano LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/chris-palmisano-1a73a01/ Reach our host:Twitter twitter.com/adammattis13 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/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

David Bland, founder of Precoil, helps both startup founders and enterprise leaders rapidly find product market fit. He sat down to talk about using Lean experiments with Agile teams, and how to fold in design thinking as a new way to look at your backlog. When considering what to work on, teams should look at: - Desirability – Do people want this? - Viability – Should we be working on this? - Feasibility – Can we do this? However, most teams focus on "Can we do this?" and not enough on "Do we want this?" or "Should we work on this?" Bland walks us through what a discovery engine for a team looks like, how to include the customer in your feedback loop, and how to run Lean experiments to reduce uncertainty in your backlog. Howard Sublett hosts at Agile2018 in San Diego. Reach our guest:Email [email protected] precoil.com/Twitter twitter.com/davidjbland 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/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

"Pragmatic Manager" and author Johanna Rothman sits down to discuss her packed Agile2018 session "Agile and Lean Roadmapping: Incorporating Change at Every Level of Product Planning." Businesses tend to want to follow a plan even when new information is available. Rothman advises using Minimum Viable Experiments to validate a business hypothesis and letting the results influence plans. To do so, she advocates for delivering on tiny stories (daily, if possible) and using rolling wave planning. She adds, "Resource efficiency is the greatest threat to knowledge work… I really like flow efficiency, where the entire team works together to produce the product." Howard Sublett hosts at Agile2018 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! Twitter: twitter.com/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Author of "DevOps for the Modern Enterprise" Mirco Hering is a Managing Director at Accenture leading the Agile & DevOps practice in the APAC region. Hering shares with us the two topics that he didn't find in other books on DevOps, which motivated him to write his own. He also highlights for us why it's so important to love learning. "The world will continue to change and we need to continue to evolve… If you go to uni these days, it's not a matter of getting that degree and continuing working in that space for the rest of your life; it's you learn how to learn and now you need to do that for the rest of your career to continue to evolve." Hering covers the areas of knowledge necessary for success in IT today, but advises that you don't need to be an expert in all of them. You need a little bit of knowledge in a lot of areas, and specialization in one. Accenture's Keith Pleas hosts at DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas. Reach out to our guest:[email protected] Purchase "DevOps for the Modern Enterprise": https://itrevolution.com/book/devops_modern_enterprise/ 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/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Bryan and Dana Finster share their experiences helping deploy Continuous Delivery pipelines at Walmart, drawing inspiration from CALMS. "One of the challenges [with things like DevSecOps]," Bryan points out, "is people not understanding what they're trying to do with CD. If they understand that, then security and quality is natural, because the CD pipeline is for delivering fixes to production really fast." Dana also shares, "You can't just tell people about the culture... The phrase I use is 'use the culture to teach the culture'." And she and Bryan both share ideas of how to do just that. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Greg Bledsoe hosts at the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2018 in Las Vegas. Reach our guest:Bryan Finster Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/bryan-finster/ 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/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Josh Atwell considers himself somewhat of an "IT therapist" in his role as a technology advocate at Splunk. He informs and enables leaders and practitioners in the techniques and strategies needed for today's quickly evolving IT landscape. Atwell believes that, in order to implement change, organizations must change the way people are measured. Leaders need to set clear expectations and proper examples from the get go. For example, their style might be to send emails all hours of the night, but they must communicate that they don't expect the same behavior from their employees. Greg Bledsoe hosts at DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas. Reach out to our guest: - Twitter @josh_atwell 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/

What makes for an impactful customer experience? How does your brand differentiate itself? If you're a large enterprise like Oracle, you have people like Roland Smart, author of "The Agile Marketer: Turning Customer Experience Into Your Competitive Advantage" on staff architecting customer journeys using Agile methods and mindsets. "It's my strong belief that Agile will become a competitive advantage for marketers," says Smart, who is also the VP of Corporate Marketing at Oracle. "It acknowledges the reality that we're living in an environment today where things are moving too quickly to predict the future. So, no amount of analysis is going to lead to in a one-year marketing plan that is going to be recognizable in six months." Your best bet is combining Agile, innovative marketing and the "peak-end rule": customers tend to average out their feeling about a brand based on their all-time best experience ("peak") and their last experience ("end"). Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Adam Mattis hosts. This episode of Agile Amped is part of a series in partnership with the Business Agility Institute. businessagility.institute/ Mentioned in this podcast: - Oracle Next podcast - blogs.oracle.com/oraclenext-podcast-v2 - Peak-end rule en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak%E2%80%93end_rule - Buy The Agile Marketer - www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Agile+Ma…ge-p-9781119223009

The major security breach at Equifax in 2017 should have been a wakeup call for many – but how much have dev and security practices changed since to ensure it doesn't happen again? How vulnerable are the open source components you are using? How quickly can you identify and deploy security fixes? This was the topic of our discussion with Derek Weeks, the Vice President at Sonatype, to talk about why security should be included in DevOps, the difficultly of compliance for open source usage and what may be in store for organizations that don't take security seriously. "If you don't think you're consuming a lot of open source, you really have to look at the reality of how software is built today… There are only six million JavaScript developers on the planet and they're downloading 6 billion components a week." Weeks offers small changes that developers– pressed for time – can make to make software products safer. Greg Bledsoe hosts at the DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas. Reach out to our guest: - Twitter @weekstweets - Linkedin www.linkedin.com/in/derekeweeks/ - All Day DevOps: www.alldaydevops.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/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Clare Sudbery left the IT industry years ago because she was bored and unmotivated. Fast forward, and now she's back at it, this time as a passionate lead consultant developer at ThoughtWorks. Why the change? In her time away, Sudbery learned something during her stint teaching math: much like people divide themselves and others into good or bad at math, she says the IT industry is doing the same to employees and new hires. They'll say, "Can you believe that so-and-so didn't know anything about X?" Considering the complexity in the world, Sudbery says, "Yes, I can believe it." That's why she champions curiosity and learning today, and leads by example by showing it's okay to ask questions when she doesn't know the answer. "When you meet people who don't know things that you do know, don't judge them about it, don't laugh at them; get excited because that means you get to teach them the thing and you both win." Listen to this honest and thought-provoking conversation recorded at Agile 2018 in San Diego with host, Chris Murman. Reach out to Clare Sudbery - Twitter twitter.com/ClareSudbery- Blog: insimpleterms.blog - Medium: medium.com/a-woman-in-technology 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/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Alex Miller is the General Manager for Stack Overflow, a website which has solved more than 10 billion problems for software developers over the last decade. Miller believes it is critical for IT leaders to empower developers to solve technical problems at the source, because they tend to have the best idea of how to solve it. From the shift in types of questions that Stack Overflow answers, Miller can see that the role of software developers is changing, which reflects the need for IT leaders to also evolve. "What we see in the data is a reflection of what we see in the industry: The entire concept of what it means to be a software developer is changing." Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Greg Bledsoe hosts at the DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas. For more information, visit:stackoverflow.com/stackoverflow.blog/ 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/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Sam Guckenheimer is the author of "Software Engineering with Visual Studio" and the Product Owner of Microsoft Visual Studio Cloud Services. He paints a picture of how much Microsoft has changed in the last 15 years or more: where once patent processing was seen as a critical skill for junior engineers, now open source, Agile and DevOps are the foundational to the company culture. Guckenheimer points out that "now Microsoft is the largest contributor to open source on Github," with Google coming in second. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Greg Bledsoe hosts at the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2018 in Las Vegas. Mentioned in this podcast:- Software Engineering with Visual Studio www.amazon.com/Agile-Software-En…dio/dp/0321685857 - Open Innovation Network www.openinventionnetwork.com/- Microsoft DevOps Resource Center docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/ 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/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

We were excited to sit down with Gene Kim, CTO of IT Revolution and co-author of The Phoenix Project, The DevOps Handbook, and most recently Accelerate. We got to ask Kim some juicy questions including: What role do you play in the DevOps ecosystem? If you could go back in time and do it all over again, what would you do differently and why? How close are we to achieving all of the benefit of DevOps? And (drum roll) what is the functional definition of DevOps? Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Greg Bledsoe hosts at the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2018 in Las Vegas. Reach Gene Kim on Twitter at https://twitter.com/RealGeneKim Find the books mentioned: The Phoenix Project itrevolution.com/book/the-phoenix-project/ DevOps for the Modern Enterprise itrevolution.com/book/devops_modern_enterprise/Accelerate by itrevolution.com/book/accelerate/And more on IT Revolution website itrevolution.com/devops-books/ 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/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Candace Kelley is the Director of Enterprise Agile Transformation at AT&T. She has been influencing the adoption of SAFe and Agile practices at AT&T for the last 5 years. Kelley shares her path to becoming an Agile leader within her organization and the keys to scaling Agile. One of the key factors that has allowed the adoption of Agile at scale has been leadership engagement in the process. When embarking on a new program or portfolio, Kelley brings in the executives for a full day immersion. "The reality is when you start a conversation with 'We can deliver products and services faster, cheaper and at a higher quality, are you interested?' they're going to say yes. They are willing to come in. They're setting the example to their team, they're showing it's important." Adam Mattis hosts at SAFe Summit 2018 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/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Danielle Crop is the VP of Application Experience and Platforms at American Express. She shares her journey helping the 168-year-old financial services giant transition into an Agile organization. Amex is fundamentally a digital company – they've never had brick-and-mortar branches – and have always been customer-centric. Today the challenge they face are the new ways of working within the organization. Some teams, such as marketing, that have traditionally used project management within their own silo, now have visibility into and are dependent on product teams to drive value. Learn how Amex approaches scaling agility through a center of excellence with deep product understanding and expertise that works closely with both the technology teams and the business. Crop also touches on some of the emerging technology American Express is using such as machine learning and AI. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Adam Mattis hosts at SAFe Summit 2018 in Washington, D.C. Reach our guest: LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/danielle-crop-b3565b17/ Reach our host: Twitter twitter.com/adammattis13 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/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Dean Leffingwell is just a "geek on a mission". Recognized as the one of the world's foremost authorities on Lean-Agile best practices, his passion has always been improving the craft of software development. With the release of SAFe 4.6, he hopes to do just that. Leffingwell shares some of the most important updates to the framework including how to address the challenge of moving from a traditional to a Lean|Agile mindset, more guidance on XP, TDD and BDD, and how to scale a scaling framework—think 1000+ PI Planning participants. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Adam Mattis hosts at SAFe Summit 2018 in Washington D.C. To find out more about SAFe 4.6, visit www.scaledagileframework.com/ and follow Scaled Agile on Twitter twitter.com/ScaledAgile Reach our host: twitter.com/adammattis13 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/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Allison Pollard and Noreen Emanuel sat down for a chat with us about their mentor-mentee relationship. As an external Agile coach Pollard was able to act as a "super coach," and through this symbiotic relationship Emanuel has now become a coach herself at her place of work. Pollard sees the relationship as a partnership: "For me it's like I have a new colleague. I have a new person that has different ideas, their brain works differently, and they have all these great skills, so how do we tap into that together?" Hear concrete examples of how these two found common ground and recommendations for how coaches themselves can hone their skills. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Chris Murman hosts at Agile2018. Reach our guests: Allison Pollard @allison_pollard ‏twitter.com/allison_pollard Noreen Emmanuel @sweetnor twitter.com/sweetnor 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/

Esther Derby has spent the last twenty-five years helping companies design their environment, culture, and human dynamics for optimum success. She sat down with us to talk about an alternative to top down control: clarity, conditions, and constraints. Her approach is a response to organizations saying that they want their teams to step into responsibility and to be empowered, but yet the management structure gets in the way of that. She doesn't advocate just throwing away all the direction, but that we're going to make a direction by making a compelling goal and attractor, rather than by telling individuals what to do on a day to day basis. "You give smart people a problem to solve and some constraints so they don't have to figure out on every single day whether they should use this tool or that tool, and they'll come up with some really great solutions." Howard Sublett hosts at Agile2018 in San Diego. Reach our guest:[email protected] 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/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Head of R&D and Work Futurist at Atlassian, Dom Price sees an unsettling trend: a celebration of Agile teams who do all the right things but don't get any of the value. While Price sees Agile as "a philosophy, a spirit," he argues that too many large organizations use it as a means to achieve compliance, managers going around with their checklists, saying "We do x, we do y, therefore we're Agile tech." But Agile is a means to real value - faster time to market, more innovative teams, more engaged teams, which are the true signposts for business agility. Price shares his experiences helping Atlassian with their scaling transformation and a challenge for agilists: "It's ironic for me that people who are Agile practitioners, ones who are saying Agile is all about evolution, aren't evolving as people. They're static. They're using things they learned 17 years ago and they're deploying it in the exact same way." Howard Sublett hosts at Agile2018 in San Diego. Access the Team Playbook: https://www.atlassian.com/team-playbook?utm_source=teamtour Reach our guest:Twitter @domprice twitter.com/domprice 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/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

A very familiar voice for the Agile Amped podcast listeners is our special guest for this episode. Howard Sublett, the Director of Community Development at Accenture | SolutionsIQ is moving on to become the Chief Product Owner for the Scrum Alliance. Hear about Sublett's journey in the Agile industry and learn how he helped build the culture we all here at SolutionsIQ cherish. Sublett offers examples of the kinds of activities and tools we've implemented to keep our community engaged. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Roxi Ozolins hosts. To reach our guest: Twitter @howardsublett https://twitter.com/howardsublett 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/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Troy Magennis is a consultant to major companies on Agile implementation and portfolio planning, and a seasoned conference speaker. He was a keynote speaker at Agile2018 on the topic of data, which for the first time was approved as a track by the Agile Alliance this year. Magennis says part of being a good Agile coach is understanding data, although data can be inconvenient because it doesn't always show what we want it to show. He walks us through the metrics that you really need to capture and why. "If it doesn't help you with a decision, or it doesn't help you observe that something's going off the rails earlier, it's a vanity metric." Howard Sublett hosts at Agile2018 in San Diego. Reach our guest:Twitter: @t_magennis twitter.com/t_magennis Email: [email protected] 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/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Jim Benson is the author of the global bestseller "Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life" and self-identified "Agile heretic." A strong proponent for the values and principles, collaboration, and teamwork, Benson nonetheless is vocal on social media about ways Agile can approve. An example is when Agile teams don't do any documentation, pointing at the Agile Manifesto: "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools." Benson contends that people mistakenly turn this into a false dichotomy where the former is good and the latter is bad. But, he says, "You can't have interactions between individuals without process, and our process is facilitated by tools... The process is our social contract about how we are going to interact." He agrees that the Manifesto is good but it was written by "a bunch of guys going skiing" and a few relatively minor tweaks could make it more impactful. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett hosts at Agile2018 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! Twitter: twitter.com/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

San Diego based April Wensel is the founder of Compassionate Coding. After a decade in software, she noticed that there was a lot of suffering in the industry. Rather than just assuming that that can't be changed, Wensel decided compassion was the answer. In this podcast, Wensel shares her experiences helping businesses to be more compassionate in not just business matters but also in their own interpersonal conduct. She also gives a useful definition of what compassion is (recognizing suffering and acting to end it) and is not (pity, or just faking niceness). And because all businesses are made up of people, anyone can get started being more compassionate. Individuals can get in touch with their core values and businesses can take a cultural retrospective. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts at Agile2018 in San Diego. Reach our guest:Twitter @aprilwenselcompassionatecoding.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/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Krys Blackwood is a Senior Lead UX Designer at NASA Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California. With her design team, she is creating a cultural change in an 80-year-old organization that's used to shipping things in a very waterfall way, "which makes sense when you're working with a billion dollar space craft." Blackwood has even gone so far as to travel to places like Spain and Australia to physically sit and work with the engineers who control space craft far out in space, to get a better understanding of their UX. "We are inserting a user-centered approach into robotic exploration of the solar system," she says. In her presentation at Agile2018, she shares case studies of work ranging from using AR/VR to drive rovers on Mars to making operations of the upcoming Europa Clipper mission simpler, faster and more pleasant for the human beings who have to do them. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett hosts at Agile2018 in San Diego. To reach our guest and learn more:Twitter @NASAJPL and @shodoshan hi.jpl.nasa.gov/ 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/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Jason Little is an international speaker, Agile management consultant, and the author of Lean Change Management. He spoke with us about approaching organizational change based on Agile principles; how to sense and respond to change rather than to think of "transformation" as a linear path with an end date; and how to think outside the prescriptive box of frameworks. "Today we have everything from Agile digital strategy development to Agile marketing to Agile testing ...and it's completely missing the point. We're not trying to make each individual function more Agile, we're trying to get rid of the individual functions and focus on the whole organization." Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett hosts. To reach our guest visitwww.leanchange.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/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Nowadays you can't go anywhere without hearing about or interacting with voice recognition technology. Kari Ostevik of the Toronto-based Tribal Scale knows: she helped with the voice technology powering both Amazon Echo (i.e., "Alexa") and Google Home. She provides 5 lessons for working in emerging technology: Humility – nobody knows yet so everybody needs to be curious and patient. Power of the Pair – Pair programming makes knowledge dissemination fast and seamless. Ruthless Prioritization – Tech is changing all the time, so you have to be clear about priorities. Test Late – In additional to testing early, with emerging tech, it's important to have enough of a product to get good feedback. Submit Early – Start time-consuming (legal/bureaucratic) processes earlier on. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett hosts at Mile High Agile in Denver, Colorado. Reach our guest: Twitter: @kariostevik Email: [email protected] 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/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

One year ago, Accenture acquired SolutionsIQ, the leading pure-play Agile consultancy in North America. We invited two key players from each side of the acquisition – SolutionsIQ's CEO John Rudd and Accenture Technology's practice lead Jeff Emerson – to give a rare behind-the-scenes peek into the process of an acquisition while using Agile practices and embodying an Agile mindset and culture. "How does a little company that is based on Agile values move into a very large organization, in a way that doesn't destroy the little company and the same time allows the acquiring company to get the value and the promises out of that acquisition?… And yet that's exactly what happened." – John Rudd "We didn't make an acquisition to have SolutionsIQ come and do more of what Accenture does. We did it to bring that special sauce, that special consulting and transformation expertise that SolutionsIQ has led in the market with. We want to help get that with our clients and with ourselves." – Jeff Emerson Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett hosts. To reach our guests:[email protected]@accenture.com To find out more about Accenture | SolutionsIQ, visit: www.accenture.com/agile To join our team, visit: https://www.solutionsiq.com/careers/ 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/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Alicia McLain is an Organizational Transformation | Executive Coach with a keen eye for organizational systems. Her session at Keep Austin Agile 2018, called "Confidence vs. Ego – The Role Empathy Plays in Organizational Transformation," highlights the differences between acting "in confidence" and acting "in ego." Confidence is about responding rather than reacting, being outward-focused and being comfortable in your own skin, whereas ego tends to be self-focused, self-centered. McLain pairs a Confidence-Ego Map with the Empathy Map to help people understand where others are coming from, why they behave the way they do, and what motivates that behavior. This is especially important today as emotional intelligence (EQ) is seen as perhaps even more valuable in organizational transformation than IQ. Accenture|SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett hosts at Keep Austin Agile in Austin, Texas. To reach our guest: Twitter: @AgileLeaderSD and @TheLDRSHIPCOACH LInkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aliciarmclain/ 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/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/ 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/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Pete Behrens is a Leadership Agility Coach, Certified Enterprise Coach, and a CST. He sat down with us to shed light on the Certified Agile Leadership Program by the Scrum Alliance which, according to Behrens, was the number one requested education that wasn't being provided by the community."The purpose of this program is not to make leaders experts at Scrum, but to help them adapt an Agile mindset. Being a Certified Agile Leader is not the point coming out of a two-day class, but to introduce them to a mindset they should be aware of." Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett hosts at the Scrum Gathering in Minneapolis, MN. Reach our guest:trailridgeconsulting.com/[email protected] To learn more about the Certified Agile Leadership (CAL) program by the Scrum Alliance, visit www.scrumalliance.org/get-certified/…-certification 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/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Mindset is the gray matter between why we do our work and how we get it done. Gil Broza, a much sought-after speaker, Agile coach, and author of The Human Side of Agile and The Agile Mind-Set, sat down with us for a deep dive into the Agile mindset. According to Broza, the Agile mindset is made up for 3 things:• Values: What we care about.• Beliefs: What we assume or hold to be true.• Principles: The standards that guide how we act. He goes on to explain why Agile transformations fail when we focus on behaviors without changing our mindset. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett hosts. To reach our guestVisit: 3pvantage.com/ Email: [email protected] 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/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Agile Amped producer Hanna Gnann attended the Women in Agile Lunch & Learn at Keep Austin Agile 2018, where the topic was sustainable pace. She was impacted by the speaker Tamara Nation, so we invited her to chat with us about sustainability, how to measure it and ultimately how to achieve it. Nation shares her tips, with Gnann providing color commentary, including: - Balance and boundaries - making intentional choices about what thing you do not do. (Nation has stopped looking at her phone first thing in the morning)- Connect with nature daily - simple as stepping outside and breathing deep- Stop and eat - actually making meals a time to care for yourself and build rapport with colleagues- Take stock of your feelings - track how you are feeling in intense moments; meditation and prayer can help bring you back to center- Take time off - 50% of Americans don't use their allotted vacation, so this can be as simple as actually using your vacation or taking the weekend to do nothing Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett hosts at Keep Austin Agile 2018 in Austin, Texas. To find out more about Women in Agile visit womeninagile.com/ Reach out to our guests:Tamara Nation: [email protected] Gnann: Twitter @hannagnann Read more about Nation's Women in Agile session: www.solutionsiq.com/resource/blog-p…stainable-pace/ 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/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

First off, Mark Waite is a test-driven development (TDD) proponent. But - and hear him out - TDD may not actually be needed every single time you write code. Waite shares his discovery that the developers of Git - the leading version control system today - didn't use any tests during the first year or so of development. But why? Waite argues that testing is a quality assurance measure - and sometimes you don't care about things like longevity, breaking the code, or even shoddy value. For example, "Sometimes I need a tool to do something once" and never again. He goes on to point out that TDD is most useful when there is significant risk, or you need to understand the code better, or when there is a benefit to intentional variation. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett hosts at Mile High Agile in Denver, Colorado. Reach our guest on Twitter: @MarkEWaite Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Twitter: twitter.com/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Are educators doing all they can to prepare students for the real world? High school teacher and CSM Bret Thayer feels we could be doing better to give today's students - digital natives - the soft skills that modern businesses need. These include critical thinking, problem-solving, creativity, innovation, collaboration, adaptability. Thayer is all too familiar with the struggle of getting smartphone-obsessed teenagers to acknowledge, let alone learn from, other people - teachers as well as other adults and peers. He uses Scrum and Agile technicals and mindsets to get students involved in their own education. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett hosts at Mile High Agile 2018 in Denver, Colorado. Reach our guest:Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/teacherswhoscrum/ Twitter: @bathayerWebsite: agileintheclassroom.com/ Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Twitter: twitter.com/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Drawing from the work of Lisa Lahey and Robert Kegan, Henry Dittmer shares his experience using the Immunity to Change (ITC) map to help participants of his session identify what is keeping them from achieving a desired change. Dittmer used the four-step ITC map to demonstrate why - paradoxically - he doesn't like presenting at conferences. The four steps are: 1. What One Big Thing do you want to commit to changing? 2. What are you doing or not doing that's keeping you from doing this thing? 3. What worries and fears (hidden competing commitments) arise when you think about doing this thing? 4. What assumptions make these commitments real for you? From here you can test assumptions: are they real, are they silly? Do you really believe them? Dittmer finds that some difficult assumptions can open the door to coaching, for individuals and teams and even organizations. "It's really most powerful when individual leaders are getting leadership coaching," and then after they arrive at their One Big Thing, the team can look at itself collectively and decide what is their One Big Thing, specifically in terms of the company they are leading. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett hosts at Mile High Agile in Denver, Colorado. Reach our guestTwitter: @hcdittmer ‏Email: [email protected]: agileforall.com/ Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Twitter: twitter.com/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Round Table Roulette time! Daniel M. Lynn, Candase Hokanson, and Audrey Scheere are our "victims" today. The questions coming out of the hat were: What was your favorite conference keynote/session ever? Mile High Agile (Uncle Bob) - We're gonna get screwed into oblivion if we don't do engineering better. Agile2016 - 5 Dysfunctions of an Improv Group Scaling Agile: A Guide for the Perplexed What's the worst thing you've seen that people thought was Agile?People saying they bought/use an Agile tool, so they're Agile What is beyond Agile? How do you know if someone is a good/great agile coach? If you could only give one piece of advice to a new ScrumMaster, what would it be? Know your stuff. Come in with a positive attitude. Talk less, listen more. How did you get started in Agile? Accenture|SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett hosts at Keep Austin Agile in Austin, Texas. Find our guests on Twitter: @rawrdrey @candasea2006 ‏ @Daniel_M_Lynn Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Twitter: twitter.com/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Diana Larsen is the Chief Relationship Builder at the Agile Fluency Project and she has a simple compelling message: software development is learning work. Knowledge work is what everyone is talking about - but Larsen argues that learning is really what we need to be doing today. She talks about "heroic learners" - people who have the courage, compassion and confidence to learn everywhere and all the time, because as Larsen puts it, "We have to get good and learning - or we get left behind." And this goes beyond just individuals - she discusses how teams need to learn together. Accenture|SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett hosts at Mile High Agile in Denver, Colorado. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Twitter: twitter.com/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Dave Prior is a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) with Leading Agile, a Project Management Professional (PMP), and a podcast host. He got his start in project management at digital agencies. The problem he saw with the agencies was that they were willing to bend over backwards for the client, which made it difficult to stay profitable. The key to making digital agencies Agile, according to Prior, is to "get everyone trained together, make sure sales is part of that, figure out how to rewrite your statements of work, figure out how your company is going to bear the cost of teaching your client [Agile]." Prior also addresses the question: Should I still get a PMP, does it have any value? Howard Sublett hosts. To reach our guest: Twitter: @mrsungowww.leadingagile.com/drunkenpm.blogspot.com/www.projectmanagement.com/blogs/264092…tant-Agilist Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Twitter: twitter.com/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Where will the Agile space be in ten years? This great question kicks off this edition of Round Table Roulette with our guests Aidee Fischer, Corey Post and Steve Kovach, three experienced Agile coaches here at SolutionsIQ. On the topic of the future of Agile, our guests are unanimous: "Agile will be everywhere." Other questions and conversation topics that host Howard Sublett guides our guests through include: Can Agile work at any scale? If no, at what size does it break down? (Fischer: "Depends on what we mean by Agile. If we're talking about the idea of delivery value quickly to customers, being more customer-centric... making our people or products the best that they can be, then I think that, yes: it could work at any scale.") What do you tell managers that want to compare Agile teams to each other? Is there a "Dunbar Number" for Agile? How do you know if someone is a good or great Agile coach? Share a story about Agile outside of software. (Kovach was moved last year by a session he attended at Mile High Agile by the teenaged Aaron Vadakkana who has been using Scrum at home for years. Listen here: Agileamped – Using-scrum-at-home-with-aaron-vadakkan) If you could only give one piece of advice to a new ScrumMaster, what would it be? Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Twitter: twitter.com/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Neil Smith and Chuck Copello from Red Hat sat down with us to discuss how an Agile mindset can overcome the 6th principle of the Agile Manifesto: "The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation." Red Hat is a large open source software company with 11,000 employees globally, 2,000 of whom work from home. Both Chuck and Neil have team members across different continents, and they provide practical advice for how to be a distributed Agile team and still feel united. They even shared with us tips for helping distributed teams collaborate more effectively. Howard Sublett hosts. Get in touch with our guests: [email protected]@redhat.com Access the Google Doc mentioned here: https://www.solutionsiq.com/resource/agile-amped-podcast/distributed-agile-teams-collaboration-over-collocation-at-red-hat/ Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Twitter: twitter.com/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

When Agile coaches Nidhi Sharma and Michael Callahan are looking at changing someone's mindset and changing the way that they behave and work, they want to start with a purpose. The pair tied it all together in their Four R's model for transitioning to Lean thinking: - Why are we doing this work? (Right Reasons)- What work would fit that purpose? (Right Work)- Who needs to be in the room to have those conversations? (Right People)- What is the last responsible moment for doing the work? (Right Time) Howard Sublett hosts. Get in touch with our guests: [email protected] and [email protected] And find our podcast host on Twitter: @howardsublett Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Twitter: twitter.com/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/