Agile Disrupted

How can we be inherently done, if we didn't understand what readiness was in the first place? At what point does the obsession over output, efficiency, predictability, and misguided deadlines overpower our actualization of readiness to begin with? 

When we fail, will our conviction and drive lead us to try again?

Find out with newest guest speakers, Oscar Rodriquez and James Schneider, as we uncover what it takes to make more informed decisions to help us become: ready. 🔥

Is the pursuit of mastery really a linear destination we hope to reach one day or a beacon in the night sky telling us where north is?

What happens when a social media app goes viral and suddenly hours of your day have disappeared?

What happens when a virus hits an entire species and you find yourself getting acclimated to regular video calls in your home?

What will happen to us when we figure out our future residence in outer space?

Our lives will fundamentally change. One person's vision impacting the masses. The psychology behind radical products is not foreign to us and demands to be recognized.

Tune into the Season 2 premiere with our newest guest speaker Kaelin Burns and the return of guest speaker Jake Tyndall, to find out. 🔥

What happens when you go through eight powerful episodes with different speakers on controversial topics that often get overlooked in the Agile space? Well, what you don’t do is wait for opportunities to manifest on their own. You create your own opportunities for meaningful change when and where you see them. 

Agile Disrupted brings back major speakers from Season 1 for one last showdown called #ChangeMyMind on these seven (7) topics:

Tune into the Season 1 Finale with speakers Kaitlin Zarcone, John Augustin, Joshua Mauldin, Matt Miller, Emmanuel Wiggins, and find out how the disrupters assembled. 🔥

How would you describe your typical work day? Honestly. Is the work that you do each day actually meaningful? Or is your current role sucking the life out of you? Have you become complacent & unmotivated? Do you feel underutilized? Do you feel unappreciated?

If so, was it always like this? No, of course not. Your first day at any organization is the glorious day where your inner battery of hope, excitement, and curiosity is at full capacity because everything is new and exciting. You’re about begin a new era full of possibilities.

But does the organization feel that way, too? Does your hiring manager share the same sentiment that the future is bright & full of possibilities? Or were you hired for a temporary gap that needs filling? When an organization envisions a future that’s full of hope, so does its people and the people they hire to bring along with them. 

But are most organizations looking into the future or obsessing over the present? Are organizations treating people as resources or beacons for a better tomorrow?

Tune into this week's newest episode with the return of speaker John Augustin, founder of Agileburn.com, and find out.

What if I told you that tomorrow is going to be a day of radical & tragic change?

Tomorrow is the day you experience a horrible stroke, and are now navigating through a wheel chair, while you undergo intense physical therapy to regain your sense of mobility again. You'd feel profoundly devastated.

The same set of stairs that you climbed a countless number of times now gives you feelings of helplessness and anger. But are you angry at the stairs or at the problem? The stairs are intently designed for humans with mobility. The elevator behind the stairs now holds new meaning and a space for gratitude that you didn't have before.

As humans, are we physically & emotionally designed for such radical change? Maybe. Are there humans out there who's very passion is dedicated around human centered design? Yes. It's called User Experience (UX). We are all humans surrounded by products that we specifically chose because they were specifically designed for a customer persona that we identify with.

People create products to serve the people, but is it designed in a way for them to use it?

Tune into this week's newest episode with guest speaker, Joshua Mauldin and find out.

How do we come up with ideas?

Think about your last memory of experiencing recognition, or even ridicule, from someone about your particular idea. Was it a fleeting thought or the result of a perfectly packaged set of circumstances?

The very definition of an “idea” has countless interpretations. When you hear the opening question for a remarkable Founder, “What you’ve created is ground breaking, how did you come up with the idea?” A long winded story begins, but the same question remains: How do we really come up with ideas?

We imagine them.

Our ideas are born in our imagination, and unless we do something about them, they live there, too. The evolution of an idea, or even a belief, turning into a successful Product always circles back to its origin story: Minimum Viable Product.

When an idea is born, it commands a hypothesis to drive an experiment. But what exactly requires that hypothesis to become a viable Product vs. something that has “Minimum Viable Potential?”

What is an experiment without its scientist plagued by a hypothesis that commands an answer?

Where is our conviction of the problems we sign up to solve?

Tune into this week’s newest episode with the return of speakers Matt Miller & Jake Tyndall, and find out.

As professionals in the Agile realm, how do you explain your role to your friends and family?

When you share your official title as "Scrum Master, Product Owner, Developer, Agile Consultant, etc.,” people who don’t currently work in an Agile space won’t understand what you're talking about. So, we pause for a brief moment, to gather ourselves and figure out a way to explain what our role is in a way that is meaningful. One way or another, you find yourself explaining the Product or the business you support and that's the kicker.

We all have a role to play when it comes to the multi-dimensional realm that is Product Management.

Every single human being on this earth serves a role in Product, whether you're a founder, a builder, or a customer. Perhaps, not everyone in this world has experienced what it takes to be a founder and/or builder.

But there isn't a fortunate soul on this earth that hasn't been a customer to an existing or former Product.

So, when does that customer obsession begin for the Products we design in a market that competes for the same cause: Products designed by people to serve a need for the people.

Tune into this week’s newest episode with special guest, Jake Tyndall, and find out.

If I had to ask you how many times you’ve been betrayed? Could you come up with a number? What’s the first memory that comes to your mind? That leap of faith you took in trusting someone, and ended up feeling foolish in the end. Did you recover? Did that relationship recover?

And isn’t that the irony of trust? The only way to know if you can trust someone is by trusting them. It’s the beginning of every relationship you’ve ever had in your life.

Flip that. What about when someone starts trusting you? That transition period of being someone’s after thought to being someone’s priority. It’s scary. It’s a big moment that doesn’t get the attention that it deserves...until it’s too late.

Now amplify the magnitude of such a responsibility of individuals to teams, specifically, Agile teams. How often are we braving through connection? When trust falls apart, what do you do? When trust is salvaged, what happens?

Tune into this week's special 1-hour episode and find out with guest speakers, Kaitlin Zarcone from "Our Breakroom" Podcast, and John Augustin, Founder of Agileburn.com