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04.19.2021

Colleen Kirtland is on a learning journey, and in this episode, she shares her passion for and commitment to learning as much as possible from nature. Pointing to many resources and examples of biomimicry, economics, and above all systems thinking, ...

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04.19.2021 Learning to Create Thriving Systems from Nature Colleen Kirtland is on a learning journey, and in this episode, she shares her passion for and commitment to learning as much as possible from nature. Pointing to many resources and examples of biomimicry, economics, and above all systems thinking, ...
04.05.2021 Cloud Breaks Barriers to Agility Adam Burden is Accenture’s Chief Software Engineer and a senior managing director leading Technology services for Accenture in North America. In this episode, Burden shares how Cloud helps break barriers to agility. One barrier is legacy systems. While package solutions ...
03.22.2021 FirstRoot: Growing Next Gen of Impact Investors What happens if you put $1 billion dollars in the hands of students to invest collaboratively? Luke Hohmann is Founder and CEO of FirstRoot, which wants “to get $1,000 into a million schools so that children are in control of ...
03.08.2021 Riot Games Makes it Better to be a Player What does it mean to put customers at the center of everything you do? For Riot Games, the brand behind League of Legends, it means “making it better to be a player.” Our guest Michael Robillard is the Principal of ...
02.22.2021 Modern Management Made Easy Johanna Rothman, a.k.a. the Pragmatic Manager, is author of 18 books and frequent blogger on the topic of product management and more. Rothman shares with us insights about her latest three-book bundle on “Modern Management Made Easy.” These books are ...
02.08.2021 Diversifying Equity with Agile for Humanity Diversifying Equity with Agile for Humanity Self-defined Soul Craftswoman April Jefferson applies her experience in coaching, crafting experiences, and conference speaking to help “bring up new voices.” Jefferson shares her story of striving to increase equity of the Black, indigenous, ...
01.25.2021 You Can’t Iterate Your Way to Game-Changing Innovation Rajesh Nerlikar is chief product advisor at Prodify and the co-author of the book “Build What Matters: Delivering Key Outcomes with Vision-Led Product Management” with Ben Foster. Nerlikar highlights a few of the ten dysfunctions that the co-authors had seen ...
01.11.2021 Leadership Agility in the New World of Work \| Business Agility Series Nick Horney is an organizational psychologist and founder of Agility Consulting. He spent 23 years in Special Operations in the U.S. Navy, before building a career in the agile space. Horney joins us to discuss his ideas and experience in ...
12.14.2020 Building in Accountability Through Coaching Alicia McLain is a small-business owner, executive leadership coach, public speaker and co-founder of the Agile Coaching Exchange North America. McLain shares her experience speaking on the topic of “Coaching, the Secret Sauce to a Culture of Accountability.” Building on ...
12.07.2020 Your Big Agile Adoption Probably Isn’t a Transformation Michael Spayd is the co-founder of The Collective Edge, which seeks to “transform the transformers.” In this episode, Spayd shares some of his thinking behind his new book “Agile Transformation” and reminds us of the difference between organizational transformation and ...
11.29.2020 The Six Disciplines of Agile Marketing \| Business Agility Series Jim Ewel is one of the earliest advocates for Agile Marketing and is one of the authors of the Agile Marketing Manifesto. His new book “The Six Disciplines of Agile Marketing” provides a framework for applying Agile principles and practices ...
11.23.2020 Value Streams and Human Centered Design Corey Post is a Lean-Agile transformation management consultant with 20+ years of leadership experience developing large solutions, new products, and complex systems. Recently he authored two talks for the Agile2020 conference: · Use Product Value Streams to Rapidly Deliver Customer ...
11.16.2020 Practical Techniques for Change with Esther Derby Esther Derby has four decades of experience with organizational change and she’s a well-known author and thought leader in the agile space. Derby chats with us about her latest book: “7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change: Micro Shifts, Macro Results” ...
11.10.2020 Why Do Efforts to Change Organizations Often Fail? Mik Kersten, author of “Projects to Products” and CEO of Tasktop, has seen a reoccurring theme. We go to conferences; we hear about all these fantastic things that can happen when we incorporate lean practices, continuous flow, and feedback. We ...
11.09.2020 From Chasing Empty Goals to a Life of Fulfillment In a former life, Marc Siles was a senior executive chasing a corporate career – until he had a near burnout experience. Originally from Spain, Siles has been living in Finland for the last 18 years, where he dedicates his ...
11.02.2020 How to Be Forever Employable Jeff Gothelf helps organizations build better products and executives build the cultures that build better products. He is the co-author of the award-winning book “Lean UX”, “Sense & Respond”, and his latest, “Forever Employable: How to Stop Looking Work and ...
10.08.2020 A Venture Capital Model for Innovation \| Business Agility Series How important is transformative innovation to your company and are you willing to invest in it? John Carter, a product development expert and inventor, shares his advice for how to nurture innovation within an organization. He believes a governance structure ...
10.01.2020 9 Things Wildly Successful Agile Coaches Do Alicia McLain is the co-founder of Agile Coaching Exchange (ACE) in North America, an organization with an intent to bring coaches together around the mission of building competency and community. She joined us to share more about ACE, as well ...
09.24.2020 2020 Business Agility Report Key Insights Evan Leybourn is the founder and CEO of the Business Agility Institute, an international membership body to both champion and support the next generation of organizations. He joins us to discuss the key findings from this year’s Business Agility Report, ...
09.17.2020 Emerging From Crisis By Putting People Above Profits \| Business Agility Series Bruce Nix is the Director of Business Agility at Vaco Memphis, a talent and solutions firm. He shares with us a wonderful example of agility: pairing up people impacted by the pandemic with non-profits in need of their talent. Listen ...
09.10.2020 Structural Agility to Enable Flow \| Business Agility Series Jardena London’s mission is to help organizations become healthy, productive and fun. She is founder of [email protected], a movement to help bring soul back into the workplace. She explains to us the concept of Structural Agility and how it can ...
09.03.2020 Using a Trojan Horse to Introduce Agility Michael Hamman helps organizations grow their inner capacity for leadership agility. He joined us for this “geek fest” of an episode on the topic of agility and transformation. Hamman delves deep into a discussion on how people must shift their ...
07.23.2020 Introduction to Agile Portfolio Management In this special episode, we offer a broad overview of portfolio management that uses lean and agile thinking and approaches. Our guides are Evan Campbell and Kat Conner, who together have 50 years of experience in portfolio, budgeting and funding. ...
07.16.2020 Our Systems Are Failing! Resilience for the Rest of Us Complex systems are in a state of continuous failure. Resilience is the ability of the system to maintain its performance characteristics when failures occur. Benefits of resilience include high availability, quality, scalability, and improved business KPIs. But, high level of ...
07.09.2020 The Best Virtual Teams Do These 3 Things \| Business Agility Series The drive for virtual meetings that are efficient and goal-oriented can often cause us to lose sight of the fact that we are people, needing real connection. Without the visual and often unspoken cues that normally surround us, our virtual ...
07.02.2020 Meaningful Metrics are Simpler than You Think How do you know that you’re achieving the goals of your change? How do you know that large dashboard of OKRs and metrics will show you what you need to see? It’s not easy. Many organizations tend to measure the ...
05.21.2020 SAFe in a Virtual World How will agile at scale change in an increasingly virtual world? SAFe Fellow Scott Frost and SPCT Shawn Lowe – both business agility consultants at Accenture \| SolutionsIQ - discuss the best approaches and mindset for success in a virtual ...
05.14.2020 Your Board of Directors Needs Agile \| Business Agility Series Sandra Davey is founder of and product coach at Product Space in Australia. She also serves on the board of several Australian companies, including CHOICE. She shares her experience as the board chair for a consumer rights organization that she ...
05.06.2020 Bringing Agile to Non-Software Teams Gil Broza is the author of three acclaimed books including his latest “Agile for Non-Software Teams.” It was written to be practical and applicable for the roles “we always forget in transformation,” like marketing and HR. Each chapter is a ...
04.30.2020 Adult Developmental Stages and Leadership William Rowden is an executive coach and consultant here at Accenture \| SolutionsIQ. His journey to leading transformation initiatives has piqued his curiosity in org development and adult developmental psychology. For the past few years he has been researching how ...
04.23.2020 Setting Up an Internal Coaching Office Tony Bonfante is an agile coach who shares his recent experience setting up an internal coaching office at a Fortune 50 corporation. The first step in the process is to fill the roles of coaches with individuals who are called ...
04.16.2020 Dojo Goes Remote Jessica Guistolise is an experienced leader, consultant and coach at Accenture SolutionsIQ. For the past few years, Guistolise was part of a dedicated Dojo team at a major US-based insurance company, where she learned how to scale dojo experiences and ...
04.09.2020 Once Upon an Agile Organization \| Business Agility Series Melissa Boggs and Howard Sublett, the Chief Scrum Master and Chief Product Owner respectively at the Scrum Alliance, return to tell us about their own organizational transformation. Throughout 2019, the pair completely restructured the organization into cross-functional and community-centric teams ...
04.02.2020 The Spotify “Model”: Don’t Simply Copy-Paste This is a special episode. After our blog (with the same title as this podcast) blew up on LinkedIn, the post’s author Evan Campbell was featured on a webinar Q&A; hosted by Gene Gendel, organizational design specialist, agile/lean coach and ...
03.26.2020 Remote Agile Coaching In this episode, Agile coach Joe Fecarotta hosts, interviewing Caro Paduch who is currently leading the agile transformation for Learning & Leadership Development at Accenture. Fecarotta has been coaching Paduch for the last 18 months in a remote setting, as ...
03.19.2020 Taking the “You” out of Scrum Master 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 ...
03.12.2020 Leading Authentic Change at Western Digital 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 ...
03.05.2020 Strangling Monoliths: Modernizing Legacy Systems 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 ...
02.27.2020 Baking Privacy and Security into the Technical Architecture 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, ...
02.20.2020 Half the Fire Drills with Agile Marketing \| Business Agility Series 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 ...
02.13.2020 Influencing Business Strategy with OKRs 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 ...
02.06.2020 Mobbing for Business Value 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 ...
01.30.2020 Transformation Case Study of a Major Australian Bank 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 ...
01.23.2020 Too Much WIP? Destroy Your Backlog 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 ...
01.16.2020 Defining the Product-Focused Model 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 ...
01.09.2020 Modernization Case Study at CSG 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 ...
01.01.2020 The US Government is not a Unicorn 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 ...
12.26.2019 Testing Business Ideas with David Bland 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 ...
12.19.2019 Why Do Efforts to Change Organizations Often Fail? Mik Kersten, author of “Projects to Products” and CEO of Tasktop, has seen a reoccurring theme. We go to conferences; we hear about all these fantastic things that can happen when we incorporate lean practices, continuous flow, and feedback. We ...
12.12.2019 Pivot to the Future with Paul Nunes 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 ...

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Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations episodes:

Learning to Create Thriving Systems from Nature

Cloud Breaks Barriers to Agility

FirstRoot: Growing Next Gen of Impact Investors

Riot Games Makes it Better to be a Player

Modern Management Made Easy

Diversifying Equity with Agile for Humanity

You Can’t Iterate Your Way to Game-Changing Innovation

Leadership Agility in the New World of Work | Business Agility Series

Building in Accountability Through Coaching

Your Big Agile Adoption Probably Isn’t a Transformation

The Six Disciplines of Agile Marketing | Business Agility Series

Value Streams and Human Centered Design

Practical Techniques for Change with Esther Derby

Why Do Efforts to Change Organizations Often Fail?

From Chasing Empty Goals to a Life of Fulfillment

How to Be Forever Employable

A Venture Capital Model for Innovation | Business Agility Series

9 Things Wildly Successful Agile Coaches Do

2020 Business Agility Report Key Insights

Emerging From Crisis By Putting People Above Profits | Business Agility Series

Structural Agility to Enable Flow | Business Agility Series

Using a Trojan Horse to Introduce Agility

Introduction to Agile Portfolio Management

Our Systems Are Failing! Resilience for the Rest of Us

The Best Virtual Teams Do These 3 Things | Business Agility Series

Meaningful Metrics are Simpler than You Think

SAFe in a Virtual World

Your Board of Directors Needs Agile | Business Agility Series

Bringing Agile to Non-Software Teams

Adult Developmental Stages and Leadership

Setting Up an Internal Coaching Office

Dojo Goes Remote

Once Upon an Agile Organization | Business Agility Series

The Spotify “Model”: Don’t Simply Copy-Paste

Remote Agile Coaching

Taking the “You” out of Scrum Master

Leading Authentic Change at Western Digital

Strangling Monoliths: Modernizing Legacy Systems

Baking Privacy and Security into the Technical Architecture

Half the Fire Drills with Agile Marketing | Business Agility Series

Influencing Business Strategy with OKRs

Mobbing for Business Value

Transformation Case Study of a Major Australian Bank

Too Much WIP? Destroy Your Backlog

Defining the Product-Focused Model

Modernization Case Study at CSG

The US Government is not a Unicorn

Testing Business Ideas with David Bland

Why Do Efforts to Change Organizations Often Fail?

Pivot to the Future with Paul Nunes

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