AgileNEXT

This week we have a very special episode insofar as we have five guests and it is the first episode that Daniel and Stephen recorded live (so please pardon some of the acoustics.)

Our guests are the founding team of the Indian technology company e-Zest. We recorded it in June 2016 at their Technology Innovation Center in Pune, India during a 24 hackathon that was going on.

They talk to us about how they built e-Zest as a startup (and all five of them sharing a studio apartment in Bombay), how they embraced Agile, how they implemented Agile in an offshore environment, and lastly how they scaled Agile.

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

Agile at Scale

Agile Transformations & The Agile Organization

Startup ecosystems

What is next for Agile

What the heck a Chief Innovation Officer does

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

What the heck is a Live Illustrator and why is it so cool

Agile at Scale

The state of the community

What is next for Agile

In this episode of AgileNEXT, Bill Joiner joins Daniel and Stephen to discuss his experiences leading organizational change for the past 35 years. Some topics include:

Agile Leadership

Corporate Culture

And of course his book, Leadership Agility

In this episode of AgileNEXT, Tanya Maslach joins Daniel and Stephen to discuss her experiences building products at a super fast paced Silicon Valley startup. Some topics include:

Software development best practices

Using Agile in Startups

Women in Tech

In this episode of AgileNEXT, Steve Smith joins Daniel and Stephen to discuss his thoughts on his experiences as a consultant and entrepreneur and his experiences with Agile over the past decade and a half . Some topics include:

Software development best practices

Scaling Agile

Using Agile with remote teams

Agile lessons learned from being in the Military

In this episode of AgileNEXT, Peter Green joins Daniel and Stephen to discuss his thoughts on his experiences as going through an Agile transformation, being a consultant, ISV, and now being part of Agile for All.

In this episode of AgileNEXT, Steve Porter joins Daniel and Stephen to discuss his thoughts on his experiences as a consultant, ISV, and now being part of Scrum.org. Some topics include:

Scaling

The human side of Agile

Cadences

Agile outside of IT

Star Wars and Agile

In this episode of AgileNEXT, Aaron Bjork joins Daniel and Stephen to discuss his thoughts on the agile transformation he lived through at Microsoft, software development, corporate culture, and where Agile is headed NEXT. Some topics include:

Agile transformations

An Agile organization

Agile outside of IT

Bio:

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

Aaron Bjork is a Principal Group Program Manager working on Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Online. He is responsible for work item tracking, reporting, collaboration, and all agile experiences. Prior to joining Team Foundation Server in 2008, Aaron worked as a software engineer and development lead in Visual Studio. Aaron is passionate about Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions and has a strong desire to see teams improve their software engineering practices. Aaron holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Washington. Aaron is an avid golfer, a hobby farmer, and loves spending time with his wife and three kids.

In this episode of AgileNEXT, Zach Supalla joins Daniel and Stephen to discuss his thoughts on agile for hardware, small batch manufacturing, corporate culture, and where Agile is headed NEXT.

Some topics include:

Using Agile to build hardware

Agile hiring technicques

Small batch manafacturing

Silicon Valley Startups