AgileCast

In this episode, we get an insight on a Project and Task Management Tool named Jira. This podcast also highlights how Agile and DevOps team can use Jira for better Transparency, Inspection and Adaptation in their daily work. Addition to this it also gives an overview of Core Components of Jira and who can use Jira as performance and task management. 

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Xebia is a Global IT Consulting, Services & Product company, specializing in Agile Consulting & Transformation, Continuous Delivery & DevOps, Full Stack Agile Software Development (Java, .NET, Scala, GoLang, Angular, Node, ReactJS, RoR, etc.), Big Data/Data Science, Mobile (React Native, Flutter, Xamarin, Native apps), CloudConsulting, RPA, AI/ML and Remote Application Support. We have our offices spread across the globe in the Netherlands (HQ), the UK, India, Middle-East, and the USA.  You can visit us at www.xebia.com

Sprint Retrospective – an important element of the Scrum framework which is tightly tied with the concept of empiricism. In this podcast, we discuss why retrospectives are important and how we can ensure that retrospectives are fruitful. Towards the end of the podcast, we talk about a few tools which can be used for effective retrospectives in for distributed teams working remotely – as in the current situation where all of us are impacted by the Covid 19 Pandemic.

Be sure to listen to it!

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Xebia is a Global IT Consulting, Services & Product company, specializing in Agile Consulting & Transformation, Continuous Delivery & DevOps, Full Stack Agile Software Development (Java, .NET, Scala, GoLang, Angular, Node, ReactJS, RoR, etc.), Big Data/Data Science, Mobile (React Native, Flutter, Xamarin, Native apps), CloudConsulting, RPA, AI/ML and Remote Application Support. We have our offices spread across the globe in the Netherlands (HQ), the UK, India, Middle-East, and the USA.  You can visit us at www.xebia.com

In this episode, Ashish talks about the basics of value stream mapping, how to facilitate one, who is it for and its benefits. From Lean manufacturing to software development, it is a must-have tool in the organization to identify and removes wastes. Be sure to listen to it!

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Xebia is a Global IT Consulting, Services & Product company, specializing in Agile Consulting & Transformation, Continuous Delivery & DevOps, Full Stack Agile Software Development (Java, .NET, Scala, GoLang, Angular, Node, ReactJS, RoR, etc.), Big Data/Data Science, Mobile (React Native, Flutter, Xamarin, Native apps), CloudConsulting, RPA, AI/ML and Remote Application Support. We have our offices spread across the globe in the Netherlands (HQ), the UK, India, Middle-East, and the USA.  You can visit us at www.xebia.com

In this episode, Vinaya discusses how the formation of Winning Teams is often left to chance by organizations. At best what they do is to get the best guys as per the skills, knowledge and education. But what they forget is, all this amounts to nothing without synergising teams based on behaviours and talent. This podcast is a take on why behaviours, talent matter and how it can be leveraged by organizations to design high-performance teams. Vinaya brings with him about 20 years of experience working in various fields and sectors. He has worked with MNCs, start-ups, NGO before embarking on his own venture - The Predictive Strategy Group. Vinaya is an Industrial Engineer from Thapar University - Patiala and MBA from SIBM-Pune. He is a Certified PI Behavioural Trainer. He has trained hundreds of senior folks, HR heads and CXOs in the organization both in the science and art of understanding behaviours of people for building winning organizations. Vinaya consults organizations to help them formulate People Strategy aligned with their Business Strategy. Vinaya also is a certified Life Coach and EQ trainer. He conducts leadership workshops based on Emotional intelligence for corporates and helps them improve their emotional well-being to become better leaders. --- Xebia is a Global IT Consulting, Services & Product company, specializing in Agile Consulting & Transformation, Continuous Delivery & DevOps, Full Stack Agile Software Development (Java, .NET, Scala, GoLang, Angular, Node, ReactJS, RoR, etc.), Big Data/Data Science, Mobile (React Native, Flutter, Xamarin, Native apps), CloudConsulting, RPA, AI/ML and Remote Application Support. We have our offices spread across the globe in the Netherlands (HQ), the UK, India, Middle-East, and the USA.  You can visit us at www.xebia.com

In this episode, Vinaya discusses how the formation of Winning Teams is often left to chance by organizations. At best what they do is to get the best guys as per the skills, knowledge and education. But what they forget is, all this amounts to nothing without synergising teams based on behaviours and talent. This podcast is a take on why behaviours, talent matter and how it can be leveraged by organizations to design high-performance teams.

Vinaya brings with him about 20 years of experience working in various fields and sectors. He has worked with MNCs, start-ups, NGO before embarking on his own venture - The Predictive Strategy Group. Vinaya is an Industrial Engineer from Thapar University - Patiala and MBA from SIBM-Pune. He is a Certified PI Behavioural Trainer. He has trained hundreds of senior folks, HR heads and CXOs in the organization both in the science and art of understanding behaviours of people for building winning organizations. Vinaya consults organizations to help them formulate People Strategy aligned with their Business Strategy. Vinaya also is a certified Life Coach and EQ trainer. He conducts leadership workshops based on Emotional intelligence for corporates and helps them improve their emotional well-being to become better leaders.

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Xebia is a Global IT Consulting, Services & Product company, specializing in Agile Consulting & Transformation, Continuous Delivery & DevOps, Full Stack Agile Software Development (Java, .NET, Scala, GoLang, Angular, Node, ReactJS, RoR, etc.), Big Data/Data Science, Mobile (React Native, Flutter, Xamarin, Native apps), CloudConsulting, RPA, AI/ML and Remote Application Support. We have our offices spread across the globe in the Netherlands (HQ), the UK, India, Middle-East, and the USA.  You can visit us at www.xebia.com

In this episode, we have Neha Sahyogi, Senior Consultant - XACT sharing her experience on How to run scrum events effectively in a remote working environment. She will be sharing her practical experience from various projects she has successfully implemented

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Xebia is a Global IT Consulting, Services & Product company, specializing in Agile Consulting & Transformation, Continuous Delivery & DevOps, Full Stack Agile Software Development (Java, .NET, Scala, GoLang, Angular, Node, ReactJS, RoR, etc.), Big Data/Data Science, Mobile (React Native, Flutter, Xamarin, Native apps), CloudConsulting, RPA, AI/ML and Remote Application Support. We have our offices spread across the globe in the Netherlands (HQ), the UK, India, Middle-East, and the USA.

You can visit us at www.xebia.com

In this episode, we have Sherry Wasandi (Principal Consultant at Xebia), elucidating upon the common dysfunctions or Anti-Patterns that tend to emerge in the role of a Scrum Master. In no other role is complacency more damaging than that of a change agent – because they hold such an extraordinarily pivotal position, that the impact of their actions is often magnified in the outcome produced by a team – whether positive, or negative. During the podcast, listeners will be led through a deconstruction of the four counterproductive behaviors that Scrum Master is particularly vulnerable to. Followed by a discussion of the likely impact and associated risks. And finally, we will move swiftly on to a dissemination of the tools to either pre-empt or address these problems in an expedient fashion.

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Xebia is a Global IT Consulting, Services & Product company, specializing in Agile Consulting & Transformation, Continuous Delivery & DevOps, Full Stack Agile Software Development (Java, .NET, Scala, GoLang, Angular, Node, ReactJS, RoR, etc.), Big Data/Data Science, Mobile (React Native, Flutter, Xamarin, Native apps), CloudConsulting, RPA, AI/ML and Remote Application Support. We have our offices spread across the globe in the Netherlands (HQ), the UK, India, Middle-East, and the USA.

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In this episode, we have Balachandhiran Sankaran Principal Consultant, (XACT- Agile Transformation Practices), talking about how Systems thinking emerges from the Human Dynamics in Scrum.   Most of the organizational wicked problems we face result from the difference between how we think organizations work and how they actually work. The first step in addressing this disconnect is to take an honest look at how we think, as individuals and as leaders. Systems Thinking often involves moving from observing events or data, to identifying patterns of behaviour over time, to surfacing the underlying structures and mental models that drive those events and patterns.   Scrum is one of the ways to provide those structure and mental models to create an environment for people to become skilful systems thinkers. If an organization sees the Scrum as only a process, it will be adopting Zombie kind of Scrum called Mechanical Scrum. But, if it sees Scrum as a dynamic Complex Adaptive Systems, Systems thinking emerges from the Human-dynamics of Scrum called Scrum Values and the real benefit of Scrum is unlocked...!!    The crux of a learning organization is about shared changes in mental models of individuals working there. So, the mental models should be nurtured by Scrum Values to bring alignment with the real world.

In today's episode, we have Anand Pandey, Principal Consultant, (XACT- Agile Transformation Practices) expounding on what goes on inside our brain and neural networks when trying to change our or the any other individual’s habits or ways of functioning and how it impacts the Agile way of working.

Anand is an Agile Coach and Consultant with 16 years of experience in Enterprise-wide scaling agile transition for large multinational clients with teams spanning across geography and vendors. He has diverse IT experience in various roles.

He applies his leadership experience in a lean-agile mindset and business/IT service management, complemented with people and organizational change management, to successfully drive strategic transformations toward better value delivery for its customers.

As an accomplished result-oriented servant-leader, he brings in with him an infectious culture of continual improvement.

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Xebia is a Global IT Consulting, Services & Product company, specializing in Agile Consulting & Transformation, Continuous Delivery & DevOps, Full Stack Agile Software Development (Java, .NET, Scala, GoLang, Angular, Node, ReactJS, RoR, etc.), Big Data/Data Science, Mobile (React Native, Flutter, Xamarin, Native apps), CloudConsulting, RPA, AI/ML and Remote Application Support. We have our offices spread across the globe in the Netherlands (HQ), the UK, India, Middle-East, and the USA.

You can visit us at www.xebia.com 

The Agile Alliance briefly defines the Kanban Method as “a means to design, manage, and improve flow systems for knowledge work”. Kanban allows organizations to start with their existing workflow and drive evolutionary change. This can be done by visualizing their flow of work, limiting work in progress and embrace the concept of “stop starting and start finishing”.

Kanban is a tool to achieve greater transparency while upholding the agile values and principles. Transparency being one of the pillars of Empiricism, coming up with different ways to visualize the progress of a team have become an inherent need for all Agile teams. This empowers teams to see and assess the current state & pushes to think on what needs to be improved – holding onto the other two pillars of empiricism - Inspection and Adaptation. This has largely benefitted teams in identifying issues and bottlenecks faster, resulting into early resolution of impediments helping into reducing the “Cost of Delay”. Scrum, being the most popular Agile Framework, upholds the pillar of transparency and empowers teams by providing many tools to use within its framework. However, not all teams can best fit into the Scrum ways of working. This podcast includes a case study of how moving away from Scrum and embracing Kanban, with the same spirit of empiricism can help a team in improving delivery and bring a sense of togetherness across dependent teams.