David Marquet describes his experiences as captain aboard the nuclear submarine USS Santa Fe. When he took command, the ship was, how shall we say… “underperforming” - and after two years it was the highest performing ship in the Navy.

Captain Marquet shares the framework he developed to build highly effective communities based on personal responsibility and trust.

Leadership is not for the select few at the top. In highly effective organizations, there are leaders at every level.

Daniel Vacanti, one of the instrumental founders what we know of as the Kanban Method of software development, chats with hosts Colleen Johnson and Andy Cleff about agile metrics, Little's Law, the one metric that matters most, and the one that doesn't matter at all. (Spoiler Alert: It's Size)

In this week's episode hosts Jay Hrcsko and James Gifford are joined by Johanna Rothman to discuss her newest book, Create Your Successful Agile Project!  They discuss such topics as agile project managers, technical excellence, status reports, and middle managers in agile!

 

Johanna's book:  http://amzn.to/2CLE1cp

This Is Lean (other book referenced):  http://amzn.to/2lXfOET

Johanna's Twitter:  https://twitter.com/johannarothman

Jay's Twitter:  https://twitter.com/BackdoorAgile

James's Twitter: https://twitter.com/scrummando

Lyssa Adkins joins us for a wonderful discussion about agile and mindfulness. We explore how the combination contributes to a practice of building meaningful human relationships and liberating organizational potential.

Yep, it can be a tall order to provide service of meaning and purpose; and showing up in the here and now is integral to our success as coaches, practitioners, and partners in change (and in marriage as Lyssa shares...)

Agility Scales is a platform powered by gamification and behavioral economics, which helps change agents find and use proven, context-rich practices within their teams and organizations.

Ultimately, help organizations achieve agility at scale – with measurable evidence of organizational transformation.

Solve problems at work, improve team performance, grow organizational fitness, and achieve agility at scale…through fun and games!

This week, our guests are Carmen Medina and Lois Kelly.

Together they have started a movement: Rebels at Work - which has the goal of empowering people to create change and find more meaning in work.

We discuss the curse of organization silence. An observation that people in all kinds of jobs at all kinds of workplaces reach a point where they want to say, 'Enough.' They have the same uncomfortable realization: 'I should do something about this.' Yet many remain silent and don’t bring ideas forward

Join our hosts Troy Lightfoot, Paul Elia, James Gifford, and Jay Hrcsko as they discuss the 2017 update to the Scrum Guide.  We've got some strong feelings being shared on this episode, this isn't one you want to miss out on!

Join us as we celebrate the Agile Uprising’s 1-year anniversary.

Host Jay Hrcsko walks us through our past year and we talk about:

* Surprises

* Disappointments

* And what we are looking forward to in 2018

Self selection, the fastest and most efficient way to form stable teams, is based on a belief that people are at their happiest and most productive if they can choose what they work on and who they work with.

Self selection is a radical idea to some: Trust people to know best and let them decide which team they should work in.

Agile Upriser James Gifford presents 5 Metrics to Create Safety and High Performing Teams at Agile DC 2017