KnolShare with Dr. Dave

Greetings and welcome to KnolShare with Dr. Dave.  KnolShare with Dr. Dave is hosted on GrokShare.com and available on iTunes and Google Play.  You are listening to episode #35 with Dr. Gail Ferreira as Dr. Dave Cornelius elicit new knowledge about the concept of deconstruction.  Deconstruction is taking things a part and finding common themes to eliminate wastes.  The discussion lands on baking a three-layer cake using Julia Child’s elaborate cake making from scratch to the “Barefoot Contessa” for a 12-minute cake that has the same quality.

 

About Dr. Gail Ferreira

Gail Ferreira is an enterprise agile leader and agile thought leader. Gail is an Enterprise Coaching Manager for Accenture Technology, based in San Francisco, leading and directing activities for the Innovation Center of Excellence. Gail likes to employ creative and novel lean agile methods, models and techniques to engage individuals and organizations through agile transformations. Gail is particularly passionate about creating agile learning organizations that embrace continuous learning and change management using a blend of lean and agile methodologies

Gail regularly speaks at international agile conferences and professional groups related to agile project management, strategy and technology management. She has published peer reviewed journals and articles in award winning publications such as Agile Connection, Proquest Digital Dissertations, Refractive Thinker, IEEE, and Techwell. Gail also likes to lead and direct events including local meetups, professional development days for the Project Management Institute, and academic awards. She has started a meetup for Lean Agilists in the San Francisco Bay area that specializes in topics that combine lean thinking with agile principles and practices.

Gail is an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley Extension Agile Project Management program, Capella University PhD in Technology and Project Management, and Walden University Doctoral Technology Management program where she mentors aspiring doctoral candidates with their dissertation publications in the field of technology and project management.

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drgail.ferreira

Education, PhD – Organizational Leadership, M.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science

Certifications: SAFe-SPC, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, CSP, CSM, CSPO, PMP

Appointments: VP of Professional Development – Project Management Institute – 2016

 

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“Agile innovation methods have revolutionized information technology. Over the past 25 to 30 years success rates in software development improved quality, speed to market, and boosted motivation and productivity of IT teams” – Darrell K. Rigby,Jeff Sutherland, and Hirotaka Takeuchi 2016, Harvard Business Review.

Business leaders should pay attention to the trending maturity of agile innovation. The iterative nature of agile engagements and the practice to deliver on demand should make it easier to identify value. When teams deliver frequent vertical slices throughout the engagement, the economic value is realized and understood often.

 

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Watch and listen to the April 20, 2017 Webinar:

In my experience I have worked in several places where people in leadership and execution roles expressed the desire to go back to a plan-based and staged gate process.  To my dismay, they felt tired of agile and sometimes thought that going back to a waterfall or stage gate model would be easier. Momentarily, I had a flashback to the days of long planning and frustrated people and I said no, no, I won’t go.  What would possess a reasonable mind to ever want those experiences again?  I am not sure, so I decided to create a webinar aimed at telling a story to stay where you are if you are in an agile adoption or transformation.  Don’t even think about retreating!  Stay the course!

People often forget from where they came and lack the vision to see where they are going.

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Word of the Day: Relevant – directly connected to a solution or problem

Quote of the Day: “Quality, relevant content can’t be spotted by an algorithm. You can’t subscribe to it. You need people – actual human beings – to create or curate it.” ― Kristina Halvorson, Content Strategy for the Web

The agile practice promises a factor of 4 or more outcomes and benefits than traditional project management techniques.  This webinar explores the actions needed to achieve the 4x more phenomena with engaged teams.  The agile practice also removes silos and truly accomplishes stronger cross-functional team engagement.

The economic value goes beyond financial measures and includes such phenomena as happiness index, job satisfaction, engagement, collaboration, innovation, and more.  I am currently experimenting with a peer-2-peer recognition program with my teams and they are genuinely excited about telling others that they are awesome and appreciated.  What is the economic value of people feeling happy and satisfied with their job?  I opine innovation is the answer, which leads to the financials that is the fiduciary responsibility of business leaders.

Agile innovation methods have revolutionized information technology. Over the past 25 to 30 years success rates in software development improved quality, speed to market, and boosted motivation and productivity of IT teams – Darrell K. Rigby,Jeff Sutherland, and Hirotaka Takeuchi 2016 – Harvard Business Review.

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Hello and welcome to KnolShare with Dr. Dave, hosted on GrokShare.com and available on iTunes and Google Play.

You are listening to Episode #31.  A fun discussion with Heidi Helfand about the 5 Saturdays program and the origin of Micro teams.  5 Saturdays is a program designed to empower students through agility and innovation by opening a door to technology and business via learning experiences facilitated by industry professionals.

I invite you to take the time to learn more about the 5 Saturdays program by visiting 5Saturdays.org

To learn more about Heidi, visit her website at www. HeidiHelfand.com and Google her book “Dynamic Reteaming: The Art and Wisdom of Changing Teams” published on Lean Pub.  Tweet with Heidi @HeidiHelfand on Twitter.

Learn more about the 5 Saturdays program by visiting https://5Saturdays.org.

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Hello and welcome to KnolShare with Dr. Dave, hosted on GrokShare.com and available on iTunes and Google Play.  Welcome to 2017, I hope you have identified a few new year’s evolution goals.  As I would like to see more people working toward evolving into new opportunities in life, versus establishing resolutions that are hard to achieve without an incremental approach.  I wish you a prosperous journey toward your 2017 new year’s evolution.

You are listening to Episode #30, a deep dive discussion with Heidi Helfand about Micro teams and the value of going with smaller teams during the agile adoption and transformation experiences.

Usually, I am on the interviewing side of my podcasts but in Episode #30, Heidi interviewed me for her book titled “Dynamic Reteaming: The Art and Wisdom of Changing Teams” published on Lean Pub.

Micro teams have tradeoffs and benefits, but for me, smaller is bigger and the happiness indicator for teams are greater.

To learn more about Heidi, visit her website at www. HeidiHelfand.com and Google her book “Dynamic Reteaming: The Art and Wisdom of Changing Teams” published on Lean Pub.  Tweet with Heidi @HeidiHelfand on Twitter.

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Retrospectives serve as a practice of continual learning and team growth. Teams identify behaviors to improve by sharing 1) what worked, 2) what did not work, and 3) what can be improved. NVC is a powerful conflict resolution tool for effective communications and empathy with individuals or teams. Key NVC components include 1) observations, 2) feelings, 3) needs, and 4) requests. The application of NVC during a retrospective session will help people communicate effectively with limited judgements and experience a breakthrough in continual learning.  This webinar introduces the blend of two great techniques to develop teams to achieve greater productivity and collaboration.

Learning Objectives:

* Learn the power of using retrospectives to continually learn

* Demonstrate empathy through the practice of NVC

* Use compassionate language to resolve conflict

* Identify areas to build stronger and stable teams

* Help teams learn how to self-organize and resolve conflicts

Watch the Project Insight Webinar:

 

Retrospectives serve as a practice of continual learning and team growth. Teams identify behaviors to improve by sharing 1) what worked, 2) what did not work, and 3) what can be improved. NVC is a powerful conflict resolution tool for effective communications and empathy with individuals or teams. Key NVC components include 1) observations, 2) feelings, 3) needs, and 4) requests. The application of NVC during a retrospective session will help people communicate effectively with limited judgements and experience a breakthrough in continual learning.  This webinar introduces the blend of two great techniques to develop teams to achieve greater productivity and collaboration.

Learning Objectives:

* Learn the power of using retrospectives to continually learn

* Demonstrate empathy through the practice of NVC

* Use compassionate language to resolve conflict

* Identify areas to build stronger and stable teams

* Help teams learn how to self-organize and resolve conflicts

Watch the Project Insight Webinar:

 

Globally distributed agile teams is a norm due to the globalization and the availability of technical resources globally.  What would happen if we treated globally distributed teams in the same manner as the Internet of Things (IoT) and MicroServices?

Learning Objectives:

* Develop a strategy to setup self-organizing global teams

* Create practices to improve communications

* Maximize throughput with micro-agile teams

Watch the Webinar from Project Insight

Copyright 2016 KnolShare.  Produced and create by Dr. Dave Cornelius.

Globally distributed agile teams is a norm due to the globalization and the availability of technical resources globally.  What would happen if we treated globally distributed teams in the same manner as the Internet of Things (IoT) and MicroServices?

Learning Objectives:

* Develop a strategy to setup self-organizing global teams

* Create practices to improve communications

* Maximize throughput with micro-agile teams

Watch the Webinar from Project Insight

Copyright 2016 KnolShare.  Produced and create by Dr. Dave Cornelius.