In this episode we hear from Paolo Simmicheli author of Scrum for Hardware and Scrum in AI on how and why businesses in these industries are increasingly applying empiricism and lean principles to reduce production complexity and improve time to market without compromising on quality.

Paolo is a Business Coach, specialized in Scrum, Scrum@Scale, Kanban, Design Thinking, and Lean Startup, he's helping international companies uncover better ways of building products.

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Tune in and listen to Jim Ewel author of The Six Disciplines of Agile Marketing talks about the importance of bringing agility into the marketing organization, how working with marketers benefit your product development process and how agile marketers think and work differently.

Jim Ewel is one of the leading voices on Agile marketing. He co-organized the first meeting of Agile marketers and co-authored the Agile Marketing Manifesto. Since 2010, he has helped over 70 organizations adopt Agile to their marketing practice using the approach in his best-selling book, The Six Disciplines of Agile Marketing. Today, his blog is one of the most trusted sources on Agile. Ewel runs an Agile marketing consultancy, where he helps organizations adopt Agile marketing.

Many HR departments started using Agile practices to reflect and support the transition to Agile as it happens inside their companies, areas such as performance review, hiring processes and compensation approach have seen a drastic change as a result of the adoption of HR Agile. 

On this episode we get to hear from Anna Tavis a clinical associate professor and academic director of the Human Capital Management Department at New York University School of Professional Studies, senior fellow with the Conference Board, and the academic in residence with Executive Networks.

She was the head of Motorola’s EMEA Organization Development Function based in London, Nokia’s global head of talent management based in Helsinki, chief learning officer with United Technologies Corp, among other previous roles

She was on Thinkers50 Radar in 2020 for her work and ideas on the Reinvention of HR for the agile age. 

And she's also the author of the book Humans at Work: The Art and Practice of Creating The Hybrid Workplace and co-authored the 2018 key paper on Harverd Business Review titled HR Goes Agile. 

Agile organisations require a fundamentally different kind of leadership. Leadership and how leaders shape the culture are the biggest barriers to—and the biggest enablers of—successful agile transformations.

Organizations must therefore begin by both extending and transcending the competencies that made their leaders successful in the past. I sit down with captain David Marquet author of Turn the Ship Around and Leadership Is Language to discuss some of the qualities that make up true leaders and what is expected of them in agile organisations. 

David Marquet is best known for the incredible work he’s’ done with the USS Santa Fe in the US Navy, where he took that nuclear powered submarine from worst to first and ended up generating some of the best leaders that the navy have ever seen.

When Stephen R.Covey spent time aboard the Santa Fe, he referred to it as the most empowering organization he’d ever seen. He wrote about Captain Marquet’s leadership practices in his book, The 8th Habit.

Captain Marquet retired from the Navy in 2009 and is now the author of Turn the Ship Around! A True Story of Turning Followers Into Leaders. Fortune magazine called the book the “best how-to manual anywhere for managers on delegating, training, and driving flawless execution.” Captain Marquet’s Intent-Based Leadership model is turning around all types of organizations—from big manufacturers to start-ups and sport teams to government

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What’s driving the adoption of Agile outside the IT industry? And is Agile relevant to your finance and HR departments? Does the application of Agile require a cultural change? We answer these questions and more on this new episode with Gil Broza the author of three acclaimed books: The Agile Mind-Set, The Human Side of Agile, and Agile for Non-Software Teams.

Gil helps organizations turn their software development teams into engaged, productive, and trusted Agile delivery partners. He also supports their non-software colleagues in creating real business agility in their teams. He has helped close to 100 organizations make Agile work well in their unique contexts by using his Right-Fit Agile system, which focuses on what really matters for Agile: mindset, culture, and leadership. Companies also invite Gil for specialized support, such as strategic assessments, facilitation of large collaborative events, and keynotes for internal conferences.

On the first episode of Agility Avenue I speak with Francesco Federico the Chief Marketing Officer at JLL UK&I about the role of the marketing organisation in business agility. We reflect on their role in breaking organisational silos, how they can bring new insights into product development and more. You'll hear stories on how JLL navigated the uncertainty of Covid-19 and how the pendamic made future trends today's reality. 

How can the Marketing organisation work with product development teams to achieve business agility? What is one thing not to do when it comes to cultural change? And who is the Marketing Owner? You're about to get a new perspective on Agile. 

Music: What's The Angle? by Shane Ivers. 

Listen to the podcast trailer for a sneak peek into my interview with Francesco Federico, Chief Marketing Officer at JLL UK&I on the role of the marketing organisation in product development and subscribe to the podcast so you stay alerted when future episodes are out!