Comparative Agility

In this special episode, we bid farewell to Simon Hilton, who has expertly guided our podcast, and welcome Dee Rhoda as the new host.

With over 15 years in IT and a deep commitment to Agile practices, Dee brings a wealth of experience transforming teams and supporting Scrum frameworks.

As a certified ScrumMaster and Scrum Product Owner, she’s passionate about helping teams and organizations succeed through effective Scrum practices.

Join us for a reflective conversation on past episodes and an inspiring look at what’s next for the Comparative Agility Podcast.

Is this episode we speak with Steve Pereira about Value Stream Management. The most successful physical businesses have excelled at Value Stream Management (VSM) for decades, but its principles and practices are now powering the most successful digital transformations and high performing software delivery.

Steve Pereira is a board advisor to the VSM Consortium, CEO of Visible Value Stream Consulting, co-creator of the VSM Foundation Course, and an upcoming book on VSM.

In this episode we speak with Si Alhir about how Agility, Resilience, and Antifragility can be used to improve out comes for individuals, teams, enterprises, and ecosystems.

⁠Si Alhir⁠, with over four decades of working with start-ups and the Fortune 500, is an entrepreneur, author, enterprise business agility/resilience/antifragility and transformation leader, coach, consultant, and practitioner (catalyst/alchemist) who partners with individuals, teams, and enterprises in calibrating business, strategy, leadership, culture, execution, and technology to achieve business outcomes and growth in a turbulent world through transformation focused on advancing Ecosystems, Agility, Resilience, and Antifragility.

In this episode we speak with Andrea Goulet about Collaborative Empathy and how it is essential for any cross functional team. Empathy is the mechanism that enables individuals to collaborate in groups to solve complex problems. When teams understand the technical nuances of empathy, they can more easily identify specific practices they can leverage to improve levels of well-being, innovation, and achievement.Andrea Goulet

Andrea Goulet is on a mission to integrate empathy into the tech industry. As a sought-after keynote speaker, Andrea is best known for making empathy accessible to analytical skeptics. Her approach to empathy is pragmatic and practical, and she has a particular knack for providing concrete and relevant ways to use empathy for software system health and resilience.

In this episode we speak with Cliff Berg and Stephen Villaescusa about Agile2 and how Agile can be taken further using Culture, Knowledge and Behaviour.

In this episode we speak with Esther Derby The Managing Complexity capability that helps organizations assess their leadership approach in three critical domains.By understanding their team's performance in these domains, organizations can identify areas for improvement and adopt a more effective leadership style suited to today's complex business environment.

Esther Derby is one of the world's most respected thought leaders in agile ways of working. With four decades of experience in leading, observing, and experiencing organizational change, Esther Derby works with a diverse range of organizations, ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. Her approach, informed by both experience and research, prioritizes both the human element and a deep understanding of complex adaptive systems.

In this episode we speak with Claudia Melo, Jutta Eckstein and Steve Holyer about the Agile Sustainability capability and how it can help your teams create a better world. 

Jutta Eckstein (https://www.jeckstein.com/) works as an independent coach, consultant, and trainer. She is trained as a pollution control commissioner on ecological environmentalism. Jutta has helped many teams and organizations worldwide to make an a Agile transition. She has a unique experience in applying Agile processes within medium- sized to large distributed mission-critical projects.

Jutta has recently pair-written with John Buck a book entitled 'Company-wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy' (dubbed BOSSA nova). Besides that, she has published her experience in her books 'Agile Software Development in the Large', Agile Software Development with Distributed Teams', 'Retrospectives for Organizational Change', and together with Johanna Rothman 'Diving for Hidden Treasures: Uncovering the Cost of Delay in your Project Portfolio'.

Steve Holyer is an experienced trainer. coach, facilitator and consultant helping organizations unleash value and deliver results. He is also a frequent international speaker and a thought-leader on Scrum and Agile software development. He serves as advocate and mentor for companies, leaders and change agents looking for a better way of working using Agile practices in a productive, fulfilling, and fun way.

Steve learned his craft serving as a Scrum Master with multiple teams and organizations, so he knows how to change an organization from the inside. From international Swiss business to emerging markets in South Africa, Steve understands and shows how to apply Scrum and Agile principles in specific cultural contexts. Since 2000, he has been based in Zurich. Switzerland.

Claudia Melo is a technology leader building high-performing agile teams, taking big ideas and bringing them to life, and helping teams successfully navigate through change and innovation. She brings over twenty years of global experience in developing new digital solutions. digital transformation, consulting, technology/business strategy, evidence-based research & working with senior leadership executives. She was previously Director at Loft, Enterprise Agile Coach with the United Nations in Vienna. and Thought Works' CTO for Latin America, where she also played a Global Head of Tech Learning Development role. Since 2016, she has been working on ICT for Sustainability, aligned to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Claudia received her Ph.D. in Computer Science (Agile Team Productivity) from the University of São Paulo (USP), in collaboration with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). She is passionate about community building and impact, contributing through volunteering, public speaking, teaching, mentorship, research, books, and industry reports in Latin America, Europe, US, and Scandinavia. In 2015, she received the USP Outstanding Thesis Award and, in 2016, cited as "Mulheres Inspiradoras" by ThingOlga in Brazil. She is also an advisory board member in Computer Science for

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In this episode we talk with Brook Schoenfield and Dr. James Ransome about the Comparative Software Security capability and how it can help your teams build security into their product development practices. 

Brook S.E. Schoenfield is the author of Secrets Of A Cyber Security Architect (Auerbach, 2019) and Securing Systems: Applied Security Architecture and Threat Models (CRC Press, 2015). Building In Security At Agile Speed (with James Ransome, Auerbach, 2021), focuses on software security for continuous development practices and DevOps. Brook helps clients with their software security and secure design practices. He mentors technical leaders to effectively deliver security strategy. He is a technical leader and advisor to Resilient Software Security, LLC and True Positives, LLC. Previously, he technically led product security architecture at McAfee (Intel), Cisco Engineering, IT security architecture at Autodesk, and Web and Application security for Cisco Infosec. He is a founding member of IEEE’s Center for Secure Design and is a featured Security Architect at the Bletchley Park Museum of Computing. He is the originator of Baseline Application Vulnerability Assessment (BAVA), Just Good Enough Risk Rating (JGERR), Architecture, Threats, Attack Surfaces and Mitigations (ATASM) and developer-centric security. He contributed to Core Software Security (CRC Press, 2014), and co-authored The Threat Modeling Manifesto (2020), Avoiding the Top 10 Security Design Flaws (IEEE, 2014) and Tactical Threat Modeling (SAFECode, 2017).

Dr. James Ransome, PhD, CISSP, CISM is the Chief Scientist for CYBERPHOS, an early stage cybersecurity startup. Most recently, James was the Senior Director of Security Development Lifecycle Engineering for Intel’s Product Assurance and Security (IPAS). In that capacity, he led a team of SDL engineers, architects, and product security experts to drive and implement security practices across the company. Prior to that, James was the Senior Director of Product Security and PSIRT at Intel Security (formerly McAfee). James’s career includes leadership positions in the private and public sectors. He served in three chief information security officer (CISO) roles at Applied Materials, Autodesk, and Qwest Communications and four chief security officer (CSO) positions at Pilot Network Services, Exodus Communications, Exodus Communications—Cable and Wireless Company, and Cisco Collaborative Software Group. Before entering the corporate world, He worked in government service for 23 years supporting the U.S. intelligence community, federal law enforcement, and the Department of Defense.