Dr. Dave  00:07

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Dr. Dave 

Hello, and welcome to the Dr. Dave. I am document familiar with your hosts. We are continuing the series resiliently you to discover what makes people resilient to build resilient organization and sense belonging and healing. My guest today is Allison Pollard is one a good friend, someone that I enjoy speaking with. And she's on this new journey. And I can't wait wait to learn more. So welcome, Allison.

Allison  01:12

Yeah. Thank you.

 

Dr. Dave  01:15

Yeah, that's it. Nothing more.

 

Allison  01:21

I still don't remember exactly when we met. I want to say it was the Agile gathering West. Many years ago. That was probably like the first place that we we came together, but I could be wrong on that.

 

Dr. Dave  01:35

No, you're completely right. We were at that camp in Southern California. Old Boy Scout camp. Right. And we had this agile. Yeah, yes. That's where we met. Yes, it's been a long time ago.

 

Allison  01:54

Yeah. Nothing like an open space event with a bunch of analysts at a Boy Scout camp.

 

Dr. Dave  02:03

Yeah, remember the times we were you know, we would go outside and around the bonfire and marshmallows and s'mores and yeah, yeah. That was us. For sure, for sure. So I want an elevator pitch about your journey as a leader in the Agile community. You know, give me what give us one adult so my people could know who you are. Our people?

 

Allison  02:30

Yeah, I know, right? Well, I'm Alison Pollard. I'm a coach, consultant, and trainer, working with helping improve. I'm actually their newest business partner. I'm one of three co owners. So I'm very excited about that. My agile journey, I just fell in love with agile, I had come from project management, I love technology, I was always looking at how could I make things better? For our customers? How can I make things better for the developers? How could I make things better for myself, and agile seemed like a way of really being able to live into that, you know, learning about these different practices, you know, learning about Lean after that, and some of the principles there. Just getting exposed to a larger community, I think was such a big impact in my career, of how can I then, like, make use of that and then continue to pay it forward. We're all on a journey. We're all looking at how we can make things better. And I think by being in relationships with one another and sharing ideas and challenging each other, we can come up with ways to make things better than we could individually by ourselves.

 

Dr. Dave  03:52

Well said, so now you're under a new adventure, you know, after working for many years, but the same company, everyone, you, Alison, because she works for improving, worked for improved in the past. Tell us about this new plan journey.

 

Allison  04:09

Yeah, yeah, this is. This is yeah, you're right. Like, I'm like, oh, yeah, a long time, like I was with improving for about 11 years. 11 years is unheard of. I think in our industry, no one stays at companies for nearly that long. And it was, it was such an incredible year, you know,