In this episode of AgileNEXT, Dean Leffingwell, joins Daniel and Stephen and talks to us about Scaling Agile and the SAFe methodology he founded. Some topics include:

Lean, Kanban, Scrum, FLOW, and the move toward unbranded Agility

The origins of and evolution of SAFe

Startups

Indiana Jones ride at Disney

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In this episode of AgileNEXT, Vinod Kumar joins Daniel and Stephen and talks to us about Agile, India, tech and the community. Some topics include:

Agile Teams

The role of tools

The Indian market

The Agile Community

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Bio:

vinodk

https://www.linkedin.com/in/vinodkumar6

Currently an Architect at Microsoft Technology Center, Bangalore.

Have been Application Developer, Database Administrator, R&D, Release cycles and Project Manager in a wide variety of SDLC.

I am interested in database technologies using Cloud, Big Data, MS-SQL Server, Oracle and others. Interesting in spreading the world of technology to the community and would like to talk the right usage of technology.

Also an community oriented person running the local SQL and .NET Group in Bangalore. Speaker at major conferences like TechEd, Author of books, Blogger and much more.

Specialties:

Competitive analysis with DB, SQL Server, BI, Reporting, ETL, Relational database features, .NET, Sharepoint, Office client Tools (Word, Outlook, PPT, Excel) etc.

Worked with various customers who come to MTC Lab for debugging, performance, security architecture, scalability, deployment, tuning and other performance issues.

Extensive experience in SQL Server optimization and fine-tuning.

Extensive experience in End-to-End architecture design and implementation.

Specialized in Big SQL Implementation, HA, DR, managing VLDB's

Extensive experience making methodology and helping customers to the latest OS, SQL Server, Big Data and Cloud based solutions.

Some of the areas I help customers are discussions around Consolidation of infrastructure, Application Tuning, Databases, BI, Productivity, Application Platform and Azure based Architecture designs.

In this episode of AgileNEXT, Natalie Warnert joins Daniel and Stephen and talks to us about Agile and the community. Some topics include:

Agile Transformation

Coaching

Women in Agile

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In this episode of AgileNEXT, Thomas Friend joins Daniel and Stephen and talks to us about Agile and the community. Some topics include:

Lessons learned serving in the military that translate to Agile

The Military’s use of Agile (using Agile to get the bad guys!)

The Agile Community

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In this episode of AgileNEXT, Jacob Creech joins Daniel and Stephen and talks to us about agile and scaling. Some topics include:

Scaling Agile

The Agile Community

Lean Startup

The Market for Agile overseas

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In this episode of AgileNEXT, Chris Guzikowski joins Daniel and Stephen and takes us inside the sausage factory: showing us how a book is made and how you can get published. Some topics include:

The Agile Book market and what the future looks like for publishing

How to get published

Career Development

The Agile Community

His time on the Scrum Alliance board

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In this episode of AgileNEXT, Pinal Dave joins Daniel and Stephen to discuss startups, the Indian market, and what is in store for agile NEXT. Some topics include:

Startups in India

CI

Corporate Culture

Remote working

Blogging

In this episode of AgileNEXT, Jean Russell joins Daniel and Stephen to discuss her thesis of Thrivabillity what is in store for agile NEXT. Some topics include:

What is Thrivabillity

Transforming corporate culture

Corporate Innovation

Agile Coaching

In this episode of AgileNEXT, Mitch Lacey joins Daniel and Stephen to discuss his work at Microsoft and what is in store for agile NEXT. Some topics include:

Parenting and Agile

How to get buy-in with teams by selling the value of practices

Coming clean with Agility and Organizational Development

Luke Skywalker for POTUS 2016

In this episode of AgileNEXT, Ian McFarland joins Daniel and Stephen to discuss his agile journey. Some topics include:

Agile in Startups/Silicon Valley

Agile in a regulated environment

Agile in the Government

Agile at Scale

What is next for Agile