KnolShare with Dr. Dave

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We would like to thank our sponsor KnolShare for the continued support for this

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achieve your awesomeness through agile coaching and training, digital transformation

strategy, agile organization development, lean business startup, and diversity

and inclusion training.

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time, money, and knowledge.

Checkout Dr. Dave’s latest book Elastic Minds: What are you thinking? On

Amazon.com.  You will also find his book Transforming

your leadership Character: The lean thinking and agility way on Amazon.com.

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This podcast and interview produced by Dr. Dave Cornelius

Until next time, find your awesomeness.  

Copyright 2020 KnolShare.

Sponsors & Summary

We would like to thank our sponsor KnolShare for the continued support for this

podcast.  Visit KnolShare.org to

achieve your awesomeness through agile coaching and training, digital transformation

strategy, agile organization development, lean business startup, and diversity

and inclusion training.

We support lean thinking and agile life skills education

through the 5 Saturdays program.

 Visit 5Saturdays.org to donate your

time, money, and knowledge.

Checkout Dr. Dave’s latest book Elastic Minds: What are you thinking? On

Amazon.com.  You will also find his book Transforming

your leadership Character: The lean thinking and agility way on Amazon.com.

Look for the KnolShare with Dr. Dave podcast on

iTunes, Spotify, and Google Play.

The KnolShare with Dr. Dave Podcast is Streamed on

GrokShare.com.

If you have any questions for Dr. Dave reach out on twitter

@DrCorneliusInfo or @KnolShare.

This podcast and interview produced by Dr. Dave Cornelius

Until next time, find your awesomeness.  

Copyright 2020 KnolShare.

Sponsors & Summary

We would like to thank our sponsor KnolShare for the continued support for this

podcast.  Visit KnolShare.org to

achieve your awesomeness through agile coaching and training, digital transformation

strategy, agile organization development, lean business startup, and diversity

and inclusion training.

We support lean thinking and agile life skills education

through the 5 Saturdays program.

 Visit 5Saturdays.org to donate your

time, money, and knowledge.

Checkout Dr. Dave’s latest book Elastic Minds: What are you thinking? On

Amazon.com.  You will also find his book Transforming

your leadership Character: The lean thinking and agility way on Amazon.com.

Look for the KnolShare with Dr. Dave podcast on

iTunes, Spotify, and Google Play.

The KnolShare with Dr. Dave Podcast is Streamed on

GrokShare.com.

If you have any questions for Dr. Dave reach out on twitter

@DrCorneliusInfo or @KnolShare.

This podcast and interview produced by Dr. Dave Cornelius

Until next time, find your awesomeness.  

Copyright 2020 KnolShare.

ABSTRACT:As large organizations are embracing agility as a core competency for their organization, many are discovering the advantages of using agile as an enterprise competitive advantage. Business agility can be translated to the Lean principle that prescribes the action to “Optimize the Whole”. As Business Agility is embodied by the organization, the goal is for 1) happy contributing people, 2), Satisfied customers, and 3) thriving business.If you plan to apply business agility to the business entities of the enterprise, a portfolio practice is needed to help deal with selecting the highest business value among the competing interest to receive investment dollars. This is connecting strategies to the portfolio, which connects to value delivery execution.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:Dr. Dave Cornelius is a Servant Leader at KnolShare.org. He is an entrepreneur, coach and trainer, and serves his community. His mantra is Helping People Achieve Awesomeness. Dave has helped Fortune 500 to Fortune 50 companies deliver over one billion dollars in customer value throughout his career using software and technology platforms. He is also an advisor at Tech Launch Arizona, a University of Arizona initiative focused on commercializing UA-created technologies and innovations. Dr. Cornelius is the founder of 5 Saturdays Agile Education, a program that enables high-school students to pursue a career in technology and business.He is the author of the books: 1) Elastic Minds: What are you thinking?, 2) Transforming your leadership character: The lean thinking and agility way, 3) Prayers to my Abba Father God, and 4) Deliver Value. You may listen to his podcast “KnolShare with Dr. Dave” on iTunes, Google Play, and Spotify as well as on GrokShare.com (https://GrokShare.com).

Sponsors & Summary

We would like to thank our sponsor KnolShare for the continued support for this

podcast.  Visit KnolShare.org to

achieve your awesomeness through agile coaching and training, digital transformation

strategy, agile organization development, lean business startup, and diversity

and inclusion training.

We support lean thinking and agile life skills education

through the 5 Saturdays program.

 Visit 5Saturdays.org to donate your

time, money, and knowledge.

Checkout Dr. Dave’s latest book Elastic Minds: What are you thinking? On

Amazon.com.  You will also find his book Transforming

your leadership Character: The lean thinking and agility way on Amazon.com.

Look for the KnolShare with Dr. Dave podcast on

iTunes, Spotify, and Google Play.

The KnolShare with Dr. Dave Podcast is Streamed on

GrokShare.com.

If you have any questions for Dr. Dave reach out on twitter

@DrCorneliusInfo or @KnolShare.

This podcast and interview produced by Dr. Dave Cornelius

Until next time, find your awesomeness.  

Copyright 2020 KnolShare.

Dr.

Dave:

So

I sent you a few questions today. Let’s just begin. Let’s start talking

about, tell us about your role in Agile Fluency, and the Agile Fluency model.

What is, yeah.

 

Diana:

Well,

so I’m a co-creator, co-developer of the model. James Shore and I a number of

years ago were noticing that it seemed like our experience of agile with our

clients was not the same as what other people were experiencing. There was an

awful lot of conversation about, “You’re agile or you’re not”. It

was very binary. Very black and white.

 

Diana:

That

just wasn’t the way we were working with clients, and it wasn’t what we were

seeing, in terms of outcomes. Successful outcomes with clients. It needed to

be much more nuanced than that. We also were noticing that clients in

different industries, different domains, had different needs. So we started

working on defining those, and iterated on that by taking it to our local

Agile Open Conference year after year. Going away and doing some work on it,

and asking for reviews from some other folks that, we respected their

perspective and thought they could give us good feedback.

 

Diana:

After

about three or four years, we had the model, and our thinking about the

model, to a place. Where when we talked about it to people, they said,

“Yeah”. That that fit for them too. That that’s what they were

experiencing.

 

Diana:

Then

we took some time and wrote it up into an article, and sent that around to a

bunch of folks. We did a lot of research and iterating on this. Sent that out

to a bunch of folks. One of the folks that we sent it to was Martin Fowler.

We asked for feedback. Did how we had written about it still describe what we

had told them it was before?

 

Diana:

Then

also, if they thought it was … Did they think it was ready for publishing?

If they did, where should we think about finding a place to publish it?

Martin Fowler came back to us and said, “Well, I think it’s ready, and

I’d like to publish it”. So we did not feel like turning that down. That

seemed like a pretty good opportunity to us. He has a broad readership on his

online presence.

 

Diana:

We

worked with him to get it up in time for the 2012 Agile Conference. Then we

thought we were done with it, pretty much. But we started, after several

months we started hearing about some stories, about how people were using the

model. Then we also started getting some questions about, “Well this is

great, and this model makes a lot of sense. But how do we operationalize it?

How do we actually use it to help improve our companies, and so on?”.

 

Diana:

Then

we started creating some additional materials, to go with the model. To help

people answer those questions. After a couple of years, it became clear that

what we needed to do was form an organization around it. So we formed the

Agile Fluency Project as a startup business, basically.

 

Diana:

Then

because we had been hearing from so many people, and using it as our own

thought process when we went into clients, a little more than a year ago,

Dr.

Dave:                      00:17                Yeah,

I think so. So we’re going to talk about Alchemy Code Lab. Where did Alchemy

Code Lab come from?

Marty:                          00:25                Well

it really was a bit of serendipity. I’ve been in software development for a

little over two decades now. Most of it as either a developer or a leader

within a development organization. I left a company. I was working remotely for

about six, seven years and September of 2013 they wanted either me to move to

San Diego or we were going to go separate ways. I had family, kids here and I

was like, thanks no thanks. Good amicable break. I had one of those moments

when you have a bit of a pause where you’re like, huh, what’s next? I had as a

developer had gotten really into JavaScript and this was really about 2000,

2013 is really the current ibex or the modern era of technology that we’re in.

Cloud based services and HTML5 and web apps are taking off.

Marty:                          01:19                I

decided to try startup stuff. I’d always been in midsize companies or

enterprise environments. So I did some dumb consulting freelance, find some

entrepreneurs, help them out and was doing that. One of those moments, I think

we have in our life where I saw someone posted something about teaching and it

was just like, you get that draw ever, you’re like I got to go check that out.

You don’t know why, but you’re just interested. There’s a code school out of

Seattle called Code Fellows. They were the first code school in Seattle in

2013. There’s like 19 or 20 now.

Dr.

Dave:                      01:54                Really?

Marty:                          01:54            &nbs...

Alicia McLain & Dr. Dave Cornelius at the University of Arizona

Alicia McLain visits the Agile for Humanity Tucson Meetup at the University of Arizona during the TENWEST Festival Women Hackathon.

In this presentation you will learn:

1) What is (professional) coaching?2) Why is it an important skill to have for Agile coaches?3) Coaching demo4) Tips & Resources you can use to start right away

Topic Category(ies): Professional Coaching, Leadership

Alicia McLain at the Agile For Humanity Meetup. TENWEST festival at the University of Arizona Women Hackathon.

SPEAKER BIO:

Alicia is a Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Professional with over 15 years of organizational transformation experience. She is a Project Management Professional with a Master’s in Organizational Leadership so the lens through which she sees the Agile transformation may be different than her peers. Alicia’s passion is using Agile practices to build high performing teams and having designed, developed and led multiple Agile transformations she has seen this unfold in a variety of organizations. Alicia is an independent Lean Agile Transformation | Executive Coach with most of her clients here in San Diego. She is also an adjunct professor at UCSDX. When she’s not working, Alicia is happy spending time with family, crafting, reading, wine tasting or traveling.

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Sponsors & Summary

We would like to thank our sponsor KnolShare for the continued support for this

podcast.  Visit KnolShare.org to

achieve your awesomeness through agile coaching and training, digital transformation

strategy, agile organization development, lean business startup, and diversity

and inclusion training.

We support lean thinking and agile life skills education

through the 5 Saturdays program.

 Visit 5Saturdays.org to donate your

time, money, and knowledge.

Checkout Dr. Dave’s latest book Elastic Minds: What are you thinking? On

Amazon.com.  You will also find his book Transforming

your leadership Character: The lean thinking and agility way on Amazon.com.

Look for the KnolShare with Dr. Dave podcast on

iTunes, Spotify, and Google Play.

The KnolShare with Dr. Dave Podcast is Streamed on

GrokShare.com.

If you have any questions for Dr. Dave reach out on twitter

@DrCorneliusInfo or @KnolShare.

This podcast and interview produced by Dr. Dave Cornelius

Until next time, find your awesomeness.  

Copyright 2019 KnolShare.

Dr. Dave and Zach Yentzer – Creative City

Zach: 5 Saturdays is a summer workshop that provides

high school students with learning experiences in entrepreneurship, agile

software development, job readiness, and agile life skills.  This is an important program for workforce

readiness.  I am excited about talking

about our 13 to 19-year high school student population in Tucson, AZ to enable

workforce readiness.  I saw some pictures

and you had the crème de la crème of Tucson entrepreneur community attending

the 5 Saturdays Award Saturday event at the University of Arizona.

Dr. Dave: 22 students registered for the 5 Saturdays

STEAM 2019 program in Tucson.  We were

running the program in three (3) locations, which included Costa Mesa and

Whittier CA, and Tucson AZ.  We actually

finished with 15 students.  There were

seven (7) learning facilitators from Tucson, AZ responsible for leading the

STEAM workshops, which included the following individuals:

Learning Facilitators

* Bernadine Cannon* Carmen Cornelius* Marilyn Johnson* Dr. Charles Collingwood* Raymond Mack* Michael Tucker* Marianna Eubanks

We were also very lucky to attract industry leaders to participate

in the entrepreneur shark tank and mock job interviews.  The leaders included the following people:

Panelists

* Ashley La Russa, Owner, Roux Events LLC* Ed Cruz, Founder and CEO, Go For Vertical Incubator* Eric Smith, Executive Director University of Arizona Center for Innovation * Jeff Sales, Executive Director, Southern Arizona Technology Council* Aaron Eden, CEO, Moves the Needle* Stephanie Bermudez, Founder, Startup Unidos* Mayra Chimienti, VP of Operations Services – Mister Car Wash* Gina Catalano, Co-Founder at Foundry & Co

About Dr. Dave

Dr. Dave Cornelius is an

entrepreneur, coach and trainer, and serves his community.  His mantra is Helping

People Achieve Awesomeness.  Dr. Cornelius is the founder of 5 Saturdays

Agile Education, a

program that enables high school students to pursue a career in technology and

business.

Dave has helped Fortune 500 to

Fortune 50 companies deliver over one billion dollars in customer value

throughout his career using software and technology platforms. He is also a

volunteer advisor at Tech Launch Arizona, a University of Arizona initiative

focused on commercializing University of Arizona -created technologies and

innovations. 

Sponsors & Summary

We would like to thank our sponsor KnolShare for the continued support for this

podcast.  Visit KnolShare.org to

achieve your awesomeness through agile coaching and training, digital transformation

strategy, agile organization development, lean business startup, and diversity

and inclusion training.

We support lean thinking and agile life skills education

through the 5 Saturdays program.

 Visit 5Saturdays.org to donate your

time, money, and knowledge.

Checkout Dr. Dave’s latest book Elastic Minds: What are you thinking? On

Amazon.com.  You will also find his book

Barbara Anderson

Barbara Anderson, Agile Coach and Trainer

Agile Coach and Trainer Barbara Anderson discusses the pros and cons of two successful scaling frameworks, Scrum@Scale and SAFe at the Agile for Humanity Tucson Meetup Webinar series.

Want to expand agile success from the team level to an

entire organization? Discuss the pros and cons of two successful scaling

frameworks, Scrum@Scale and SAFe, and learn how to select what’s right for your

context.

Facilitator:  Barbara Anderson is an experienced Agile Coach and Trainer with hands-on experience as Lead Agilist on a large Defense Program for the Navy.  She has consistent Agile Transformation success from traditionally managed environments, helping teams discover how to innovate, adopt an agile mindset, and accelerate the delivery of value. She has experience coaching both teams and customers to collaborate using the Scrum Framework. She is gifted in coaching Scrum Masters and Product Owners in their journey as Servant/Leaders. In addition to being a certified Scrum@Scale Trainer, she is a Certified Scrum Professional-SM, and a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Program Consultant (SPC) with extensive experience as an effective change agent and communicator.

Comments from students:

* “Barbara

makes Agile exciting and infectious! She is a pleasure to be around and

extremely knowledgeable.” * “Clearly

has a lot of experience and is able to provide examples/best practices based on

personal experience.” * “Excellent

instruction. Very interactive, and answered questions well.”

“Clear, concise, knowledgeable.

Barbara was great”

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We would like to thank our sponsor KnolShare for the continued support for this

podcast.  Visit KnolShare.org to

achieve your awesomeness through agile coaching and training, digital transformation

strategy, agile organization development, lean business startup, and diversity

and inclusion training.

We support lean thinking and agile life skills education

through the 5 Saturdays program.

 Visit 5Saturdays.org to donate your

time, money, and knowledge.

Checkout Dr. Dave’s latest book Elastic Minds: What are you thinking? On

Amazon.com.  You will also find his book Transforming

your leadership Character: The lean thinking and agility way on Amazon.com.

Look for the KnolShare with Dr. Dave podcast on

iTunes, Spotify, and Google Play.

The KnolShare with Dr. Dave Podcast is Streamed on

GrokShare.com.

If you have any questions for Dr. Dave reach out on twitter

@DrCorneliusInfo or @KnolShare.

This podcast and interview produced by Dr. Dave Cornelius

Until next time, find your awesomeness.  

You are listening to episode #EAFH16, Aspirations of Agility and Truths of Transformation . In this presentation, Allison Pollard and Noreen Emanuel will share their experiences working with companies undergoing agile transformations and the challenges of focusing on the parts of Agile that matter most. There is no perfect Agile solution. Yet there is a best Agile solution for your teams. Come learn a model to understand the benefits possible from Agile teams and which investments must be made to achieve them.

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Abstract

It seems that Agile is the way of the world–but that popularity hasn’t been without its problems. Companies spend a lot of time and money on agile transformations, and leaders worry they’re not getting the results that they should. Why are investments in Agile not delivering the full benefits promised?

Noreen Emanuel

Noreen Emanuel

brings empathy to professional relationships and lights up a room with her

positive energy. She has worked at American Airlines for 20 years and changed

roles successfully many times; currently she is an agile coach within the

Customer Technology organization. An avid learner, Noreen embraces

new ideas and adapts to change; her servant leadership inspires those around

her to do the same.

Allison Pollard

Allison

Pollard helps people discover their agile instincts and develop their coaching

abilities. As an agile coach with Improving in Dallas, Allison enjoys mentoring

others to become great Scrum Masters and fostering communities that provide

sustainability for agile transformations. In her experience, applying agile

methods improves delivery, strengthens relationships, and builds trust between

business and IT. Allison is also a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach, a

foodie, and proud glasses wearer.

Sponsors & Summary

We would like to thank our sponsor KnolShare for the continued support for this

podcast.  Visit KnolShare.org to

achieve your awesomeness through agile coaching and training, digital transformation

strategy, agile organization development, lean business startup, and diversity

and inclusion training.

We support lean thinking and agile life skills education

through the 5 Saturdays program.

 Visit 5Saturdays.org to donate your

time, money, and knowledge.

Checkout Dr. Dave’s latest book Elastic Minds: What are you thinking? On

Amazon.com.  You will also find his book Transforming

your leadership Character: The lean thinking and agility way on Amazon.com.

Look for the KnolShare with Dr. Dave podcast on

iTunes, Spotify, and Google Play.