Easy Agile

Amaar Iftikhar, Product Manager at Easy Agile is joined by Jon Kern, Co-author of the Agile Manifesto for Software Development and a senior transformation consultant at Adaptavist.

Amaar and Jon took some time to speak about the Agile Manifesto. Covering everything from the early days, ideation, process, and first reactions, right through to what it means for the world of agile working today.

They touch on the ideal state of an agile team, and what the manifesto means for distributed, hybrid and co-located teams. 

We hope you enjoy the episode! 

About Easy Agile 

At Easy Agile, we believe great Agile tools should be simple, intuitive, and accessible to teams of all sizes. Founded in 2016, we build Jira-integrated apps that help teams—from startups to scale-ups to enterprises—plan, collaborate, and deliver value more effectively. 

More than 160,000 Agile practitioners use our solutions every month to streamline workflows, improve team alignment, and stay focused on customer needs. Whether you're managing a growing product team or coordinating cross-functional Agile programs, our apps make Agile work easier. 

🔹 Explore our Atlassian Marketplace apps: 

Easy Agile Programs – Scaled Agile planning & cross-team collaboration 

Easy Agile TeamRhythm – Sprint planning, user story mapping & retrospectives 

🚀 Try our apps for free → https://www.easyagile.com/products 

Stay connected with us: 

🌐 Website: https://www.easyagile.com 

📖 Blog: https://www.easyagile.com/blog 

🔗 LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/company/easyagile 

Chloe Hall- Marketing Coordinator at Easy Agile is joined by Renae Craven - Agile Coach, Agile Trainer, Scrum Master Coach and QLD Chapter Local Leader at Women in Agile. 

Join Renae Craven and Chloe Hall as they discuss:

• Renae’s journey to becoming an Agile Coach and Agile Trainer 
• Taking a leap out of your comfort zone 
• The importance of taking time to gather feedback and reflect 
• Building a team environment where everyone feels safe to contribute
• Aligning team behaviour and how prioritising learning impacts team delivery
• Why sitting all day is bad for you and how to bring movement into your work routine 
• + so much more 

Mentioned article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-pilates-can-help-office-worker-renae-craven/?trackingId=cT0qddaeRU%2BsSn1JYuKsDg%3D%3D

About Easy Agile 

At Easy Agile, we believe great Agile tools should be simple, intuitive, and accessible to teams of all sizes. Founded in 2016, we build Jira-integrated apps that help teams—from startups to scale-ups to enterprises—plan, collaborate, and deliver value more effectively. 

More than 160,000 Agile practitioners use our solutions every month to streamline workflows, improve team alignment, and stay focused on customer needs. Whether you're managing a growing product team or coordinating cross-functional Agile programs, our apps make Agile work easier. 

🔹 Explore our Atlassian Marketplace apps: 

Easy Agile Programs – Scaled Agile planning & cross-team collaboration 

Easy Agile TeamRhythm – Sprint planning, user story mapping & retrospectives 

🚀 Try our apps for free → https://www.easyagile.com/products 

Stay connected with us: 

🌐 Website: https://www.easyagile.com 

📖 Blog: https://www.easyagile.com/blog 

🔗 LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/company/easyagile 

Join Greg Warner and Chloe Hall as they discuss the cloud migration journey:

• The mental shift to cloud migration and how to think beyond the technical side
• How to navigate the journey without a roadmap to follow 
• The four pillars to success for your cloud migration journey 
• Finding the right time to migrate
• Thinking about future opportunities beyond your migration
• The unexpected value that can come from a cloud migration 

About Easy Agile 

At Easy Agile, we believe great Agile tools should be simple, intuitive, and accessible to teams of all sizes. Founded in 2016, we build Jira-integrated apps that help teams—from startups to scale-ups to enterprises—plan, collaborate, and deliver value more effectively. 

More than 160,000 Agile practitioners use our solutions every month to streamline workflows, improve team alignment, and stay focused on customer needs. Whether you're managing a growing product team or coordinating cross-functional Agile programs, our apps make Agile work easier. 

🔹 Explore our Atlassian Marketplace apps: 

Easy Agile Programs – Scaled Agile planning & cross-team collaboration 

Easy Agile TeamRhythm – Sprint planning, user story mapping & retrospectives 

🚀 Try our apps for free → https://www.easyagile.com/products 

Stay connected with us: 

🌐 Website: https://www.easyagile.com 

📖 Blog: https://www.easyagile.com/blog 

🔗 LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/company/easyagile 

Jasmin Iordanidis - Product Marketing Manager at Easy Agile is joined by Rebecca Davis - SAFe Fellow, SPCT, Principal Consultant and member of the Scaled Agile Framework Team.  

Rebecca is passionate about teamwork, integrity, communication, and dedication to quality. I coach organizations on building competitive, market changing products at scale, while bringing joy to the work, for what is work without joy?  

In this episode, Rebecca and Jasmin discuss  

● The value of the Scaled Agile Framework, who it’s for & who would benefit  

● The Importance of having a common language for organisations to scale effectively  

● When to connect the Scaled Agile Framework with your agile transformation

● Where and how to start  

● The Scaled Agile Framework as a tool for enabling change leadership

● Challenges & red flags of agile transformations and the Scaled Agile Framework  

● Is there ever really an end state?

● + so much more!

About Easy Agile 

At Easy Agile, we believe great Agile tools should be simple, intuitive, and accessible to teams of all sizes. Founded in 2016, we build Jira-integrated apps that help teams—from startups to scale-ups to enterprises—plan, collaborate, and deliver value more effectively. 

More than 160,000 Agile practitioners use our solutions every month to streamline workflows, improve team alignment, and stay focused on customer needs. Whether you're managing a growing product team or coordinating cross-functional Agile programs, our apps make Agile work easier. 

🔹 Explore our Atlassian Marketplace apps: 

Easy Agile Programs – Scaled Agile planning & cross-team collaboration 

Easy Agile TeamRhythm – Sprint planning, user story mapping & retrospectives 

🚀 Try our apps for free → https://www.easyagile.com/products 

Stay connected with us: 

🌐 Website: https://www.easyagile.com 

📖 Blog: https://www.easyagile.com/blog 

🔗 LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/company/easyagile 

This bonus episode was recorded LIVE at Agile2022 in Nashville! The Easy Agile team got to speak with so many amazing people in the agile community, reflecting on conference highlights, key learnings, agile ceremonies + more! 

Thanks to everyone who stopped by the booth to say G’Day and enjoyed a Tim Tam or two ;) 

About Easy Agile 

At Easy Agile, we believe great Agile tools should be simple, intuitive, and accessible to teams of all sizes. Founded in 2016, we build Jira-integrated apps that help teams—from startups to scale-ups to enterprises—plan, collaborate, and deliver value more effectively. 

More than 160,000 Agile practitioners use our solutions every month to streamline workflows, improve team alignment, and stay focused on customer needs. Whether you're managing a growing product team or coordinating cross-functional Agile programs, our apps make Agile work easier. 

🔹 Explore our Atlassian Marketplace apps: 

Easy Agile Programs – Scaled Agile planning & cross-team collaboration 

Easy Agile TeamRhythm – Sprint planning, user story mapping & retrospectives 

🚀 Try our apps for free → https://www.easyagile.com/products 

Stay connected with us: 

🌐 Website: https://www.easyagile.com 

📖 Blog: https://www.easyagile.com/blog 

🔗 LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/company/easyagile 

Chloe Hall - Marketing Coordinator at Easy Agile is joined by Caitlin Mackie - Content Marketing Coordinator at Easy Agile.

In this episode, Caitlin and Chloe discuss the Team Retrospective agile ceremony: 

• Looking at the team retrospective as a tool for risk mitigation rather than just another agile ceremony
• The importance of doing the retrospective on a regular cycle
• Why you should celebrate the wins?
• Taking the action items from your team retrospective to your team sprint planning 
• Timeboxing the retrospective 
• Creating a psychological safe environment for your team retrospective

About Easy Agile 

At Easy Agile, we believe great Agile tools should be simple, intuitive, and accessible to teams of all sizes. Founded in 2016, we build Jira-integrated apps that help teams—from startups to scale-ups to enterprises—plan, collaborate, and deliver value more effectively. 

More than 160,000 Agile practitioners use our solutions every month to streamline workflows, improve team alignment, and stay focused on customer needs. Whether you're managing a growing product team or coordinating cross-functional Agile programs, our apps make Agile work easier. 

🔹 Explore our Atlassian Marketplace apps: 

Easy Agile Programs – Scaled Agile planning & cross-team collaboration 

Easy Agile TeamRhythm – Sprint planning, user story mapping & retrospectives 

🚀 Try our apps for free → https://www.easyagile.com/products 

Stay connected with us: 

🌐 Website: https://www.easyagile.com 

📖 Blog: https://www.easyagile.com/blog 

🔗 LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/company/easyagile 

Robert O’Farrell - Engineering Manager at Easy Agile is joined by Leandro Barreto - Lead Software Engineer at Miro. 

Leandro is responsible for helping engineering and product teams to be more productive through metrics and KPIs with a focus on increasing their operational efficiency. Before moving to Europe, Leandro worked for an Atlassian partner company in Brazil as Head of Technical Sales. 

In this episode Robert and Leandro are talking about

• Ikigai - what is it and how do you achieve it?
• The benefits of OKRs
• How can we combine agile, Ikigai and OKRs?
• How Ikigai can help agile teams achieve great results and stay motivated

About Easy Agile 

At Easy Agile, we believe great Agile tools should be simple, intuitive, and accessible to teams of all sizes. Founded in 2016, we build Jira-integrated apps that help teams—from startups to scale-ups to enterprises—plan, collaborate, and deliver value more effectively. 

More than 160,000 Agile practitioners use our solutions every month to streamline workflows, improve team alignment, and stay focused on customer needs. Whether you're managing a growing product team or coordinating cross-functional Agile programs, our apps make Agile work easier. 

🔹 Explore our Atlassian Marketplace apps: 

Easy Agile Programs – Scaled Agile planning & cross-team collaboration 

Easy Agile TeamRhythm – Sprint planning, user story mapping & retrospectives 

🚀 Try our apps for free → https://www.easyagile.com/products 

Stay connected with us: 

🌐 Website: https://www.easyagile.com 

📖 Blog: https://www.easyagile.com/blog 

🔗 LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/company/easyagile 

Sean Blake - Head of Marketing at Easy Agile, is joined by Alana Mai Mitchell- Results coach, author, podcast host and senior product development manager at one of Australia’s largest banks.

In this episode, Sean and Alana are talking about communication styles within Agile teams, the importance of putting your hand up and telling your leader you want to be challenged, the qualities of a servant leader, and overcoming mental illness.

Resources mentioned in the episode:

To find out about Alana’s story head to https://www.alanamaimitchell.com/

Purchase Alana's book here: https://www.amazon.com.au/Being-Brave-Alana-Mai-Mitchell-ebook/dp/B08B7XQRB7/ref=sr_1_1?_encoding=UTF8&dchild=1&keywords=Being+Brave%3A+From+trauma+to+joy&qid=1594025052&s=digital-text&sr=1-1

Alana’s article on the Spotify model and what’s next? : https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/beyond-spotify-9-things-i-know-sure-coming-alana-mai-mitchell/

About Easy Agile 

At Easy Agile, we believe great Agile tools should be simple, intuitive, and accessible to teams of all sizes. Founded in 2016, we build Jira-integrated apps that help teams—from startups to scale-ups to enterprises—plan, collaborate, and deliver value more effectively. 

More than 160,000 Agile practitioners use our solutions every month to streamline workflows, improve team alignment, and stay focused on customer needs. Whether you're managing a growing product team or coordinating cross-functional Agile programs, our apps make Agile work easier. 

🔹 Explore our Atlassian Marketplace apps: 

Easy Agile Programs – Scaled Agile planning & cross-team collaboration 

Easy Agile TeamRhythm – Sprint planning, user story mapping & retrospectives 

🚀 Try our apps for free → https://www.easyagile.com/products 

Stay connected with us: 

🌐 Website: https://www.easyagile.com 

📖 Blog: https://www.easyagile.com/blog 

🔗 LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/company/easyagile 

Jerome Salimao - Product Manager at Easy Agile, is joined by Sherif Mansour - Distinguished Product Manager at Atlassian. 

In this episode, Jerome and Sherif are talking about styles of product management and the traits that make a great product manager. They explore the idea of a shared brain and the role of a product engineer.

Sherif has been in software development for over 15 years. During his time at Atlassian, he was responsible for Confluence, a popular content collaboration tool for teams. Most recently, Sherif spends most of his days trying to solve problems across all of Atlassian’s cloud products. Sherif also played a key role in developing new products at Atlassian such as Stride, Team Calendars and Confluence Questions. Sherif thinks building simple products is hard and so is writing a simple, short bio.

Resources mentioned in the episode:

https://sherifmansour.medium.com/product-engineers-f424da766871

https://youtu.be/OCP_HEhvIqM

About Easy Agile 

At Easy Agile, we believe great Agile tools should be simple, intuitive, and accessible to teams of all sizes. Founded in 2016, we build Jira-integrated apps that help teams—from startups to scale-ups to enterprises—plan, collaborate, and deliver value more effectively. 

More than 160,000 Agile practitioners use our solutions every month to streamline workflows, improve team alignment, and stay focused on customer needs. Whether you're managing a growing product team or coordinating cross-functional Agile programs, our apps make Agile work easier. 

🔹 Explore our Atlassian Marketplace apps: 

Easy Agile Programs – Scaled Agile planning & cross-team collaboration 

Easy Agile TeamRhythm – Sprint planning, user story mapping & retrospectives 

🚀 Try our apps for free → https://www.easyagile.com/products 

Stay connected with us: 

🌐 Website: https://www.easyagile.com 

📖 Blog: https://www.easyagile.com/blog 

🔗 LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/company/easyagile 

Angad, software developer at Easy Agile, is joined by Riz Hasan and William Rojas from Adaptavist.

Riz is a Consulting Team Lead at Adaptavist. Riz works with agile teams and enterprise organizations to strategize, design,  and ultimately deliver on complex change management projects around technology and process. Riz believes the right attitude and approach to adopting new technology and continuous process improvement and learning is the key to organizational success and productivity. Most importantly, a positive and supportive work culture for teams. 

William is a Principal Re-sales Consultant at Adaptavist with a proven track record of leading 

and defining transformation initiatives across all ALM areas during the past 20 years. He has 

coached numerous teams through the people/process/tools challenges inherent in business 

transformations aiming to ‘go lean agile’. William has helped organizations launch agile 

adoption initiatives, starting at team level Scrum adoption through agile at scale frameworks

such as SAFe and DaD. 

Angad, Riz and William are sharing their thoughts and opinions on what you need to be doing  to enable a high performing agile team to thrive in our new world of hybrid working. 

About Easy Agile 

At Easy Agile, we believe great Agile tools should be simple, intuitive, and accessible to teams of all sizes. Founded in 2016, we build Jira-integrated apps that help teams—from startups to scale-ups to enterprises—plan, collaborate, and deliver value more effectively. 

More than 160,000 Agile practitioners use our solutions every month to streamline workflows, improve team alignment, and stay focused on customer needs. Whether you're managing a growing product team or coordinating cross-functional Agile programs, our apps make Agile work easier. 

🔹 Explore our Atlassian Marketplace apps: 

Easy Agile Programs – Scaled Agile planning & cross-team collaboration 

Easy Agile TeamRhythm – Sprint planning, user story mapping & retrospectives 

🚀 Try our apps for free → https://www.easyagile.com/products 

Stay connected with us: 

🌐 Website: https://www.easyagile.com 

📖 Blog: https://www.easyagile.com/blog 

🔗 LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/company/easyagile