Lean On Agile (& Elevate Change) Show

Lean On Agile (& Elevate Change) Show

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Lean On Agile (& Elevate Change) Show episodes

  • Embracing Failure, Coaching, and Clear Goals with Fahd Khan

    In this episode, Fahd joined Shahin to talk about Embracing Failure, Coaching, and Clear Goals.

    The following have been topics of our conversation:

    • The following have been topics of our conversation:
    • Breaking down a large program into smaller teams.
    • Letting things play out and not being afraid of coaching.
    • The importance of welcoming failure and pauses.
    • Recommendation for people starting their journey.
    • Iterative development and iterative development.
    • The importance of being a service leader.
    • Assume positive intent keeps a healthy atmosphere in the team.
    • The challenge of having clear goals.
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      • 53 min
      • Kanban, Collaboration, and Culture with Horia Balog

        In this episode, Horia joined Shahin to talk about Kanban and Various Aspects of Coaching & Consulting, as part of the Kanban Clinic series.

        The following have been topics of our conversation:

        • Collaboration is the main mechanism to untangle the system.
        • One of our responsibilities is to manage our own workload.
        • What is your self-care as a coach & How to avoid burnout in your career?
        • How do you deal with changes?
        • Basic steps for listeners to get to a trustful environment.
        • Collaboration, alignment and teamwork.
        • Hacking the culture of agile & the evolution of agile at each level.
        • Correlation between agile practices and culture.
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          • 41 min
          • Kanban, Coaching & Consulting with Craeg Strong

            In this episode, Craeg joined Shahin to talk about Kanban and Various Aspects of Coaching & Consulting, as part of the Kanban Clinic series.

            The following have been topics of our conversation:

            • From extreme programming to Kanban.
            • The differences between implementing kanban at the organizational level vs. the team level.
            • The importance of having a beginner mindset.
            • Other branches of kanban, exploring different aspects.
            • Differentiating and differentiating from cheap knockoff kanban.
            • Taking kanban beyond teams and groups to enterprise level.
            • Portfolio kanban and strategy level kanban.
            • How kanban helps with visualization and leadership.
            • Finding opportunities to use kanban tools.
            • Note: It is the speaker’s intent to add that Nimble, formerly known as Swif, does not suffer from the limitation implied.

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              • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ElevateChange
              • 53 min
              • Product and Innovation with Carlos Oliveira

                In this episode, Carlos joined Shahin to talk about the product and innovation.

                The following have been topics of our conversation:

                • The secret sauce of becoming a successful learner and being able to apply that.
                • Identifying where to start in the customer journey.
                • Don’t be afraid to fail.
                • The two ways to look at innovation: solving problems and improving the overall experience.
                • The two ways to look at innovation: incremental or breakthrough.
                • The challenge of getting a shared understanding in the room.
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                  • Twitter: http://twitter.com/Elevate_Change
                  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ElevateChange
                  • 41 min
                  • Dependencies and Scalability in Kanban with Andreas Rein

                    In this episode, Andreas joined Shahin to talk about Dependencies and Scalability in Kanban, as part of Kanban Clinic series.

                    The following has been topics of our conversation:

                    • Dependency management in Kanban vs waterfall.
                    • Kanban management of dependencies vs Scrum.
                    • How to implement business agility in your organization.
                    • Kanban, simple or complicated?
                    • Kanban v.s. Scrum
                    • The easiest way to understand Kanban fully.
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                      • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ElevateChange

                      • 49 min
                      • Lean Change, Modern Change and Agile Change with Jason Little

                        In this episode, Jason joined Shahin to talk about Lean Change, Modern Change and Agile Change and much more.

                        The following has been topics of our conversation:

                        • Lean Change Management
                        • Modern Change Management
                        • Agile in Startup and Large Orgs, and in Different Pockets
                        • Lean Startup Machine
                        • Enterprise Aware
                        • Exceptional Change
                        • Who is Responsible for Change?
                        • That Change Show
                        • The followings we have referenced:

                          • Becoming a Change Artist - Jerry Weinberg
                          • Are your lights on?
                          • The secrets of consulting
                          • The psychology of computer programming
                          • Virginia Satir Ecosystem
                          • MIT's Leading Organization Change
                          • 43 min
                          • Kanban, Leadership, Games and more with Mike Burrows

                            In this episode, Mike joined Shahin to talk about Kanban, Leadership, Strategy, Games and non prescriptive Agile and much more

                            Quotes from this session:

                            • Leadership is about providing just the right amount of space.  Don’t give them so much space that they lose heart, control, or their  grip on what they are trying to do.
                            • If Agile is something that happens to you, it’s pretty awful.
                            • Rolling things out is a recipe for pain, not for success!
                            • There is no way a leader can control anybody!
                            • The world would be very very dull if we are only allowed one framework.
                            • Agile can be done in investment banking.
                            • The following has been topics of our conversation:

                              • Kanban Through Its Values
                              • Kanban From The Inside
                              • non prescriptive agile and change
                              • 3 layers of leadership
                              • Servant leadership, Host leadership, Leader leadership, Clear leadership
                              • Mindset of integration
                              • Descriptive vs. prescriptive models and designs
                              • Clean language
                              • Leader is not a therapist
                              • Generative question and conversations
                              • Games:

                                • Featureban
                                • Changeban
                                • 15 minutes photo
                                • Celebration 5W
                                • The following books we have referenced:

                                  • Clear leadership – Gervase Bushe
                                  • Turn the ship around
                                  • Where you can find more about Mike and his work

                                    • academy.agendashift.com
                                    • agendashift.com/mike
                                    • agendashift.com/books
                                    • agendashift.com/resources
                                    • agendashift.com/slack
                                    • 1 hr 3 min
                                    • Practical Agile with Ricardo Lee

                                      In this episode, Ricardo joined Shahin to talk about Practical Agile; and indulge in an in-depth conversation on Agile through time from trenches to executives, and much more.

                                      • Coach please come on in, help us with this. That's the dream scenario.
                                      • Never hire Agile Coaches that are gonna tell you what they are going to do to make things better.
                                      • The one thing I recommend is never to be a hero!
                                      • Hiring for Leader: I am hiring you for how you think. I can teach you what you do not know. But I can't teach you how to think.
                                      • The following has been topics of our conversation:

                                        • Scrum Fit and/or Kanban Fit
                                        • CSP through times - Scrum Alliance
                                        • Coaching & Consulting Stories
                                        • 10 years of Agile
                                        • How to start Agile
                                        • Don’t stop at Scrum
                                        • The following books we have referenced:

                                          • Agile Samurai (Amazon Canada)
                                          • Doing Agile Right (Amazon Canada)
                                          • We mentioned the following people:

                                            • Mary Poppendieck
                                            • Ester Derby 
                                            • Diana Larsen
                                            • Jason little
                                            • Contact Information:

                                              • https://www.linkedin.com/in/riclee3/
                                              • 43 min
                                              • Kanban Clinic with Dave White

                                                In this episode, Dave joined Shahin to talk about Kanban; and indulge in an in-depth conversation on Kanban going main stream, Consulting, Kanban vs Others, Training, and much more. 

                                                The following has been topics of our conversation:

                                                Kanban Facts

                                                • Kanban’s take on Estimation
                                                • Kanban Spread to Whole Company
                                                • What really does Kanban do?
                                                • Misconceptions of Kanban
                                                • Kanban offers a long-term solution rather a short-term achievements
                                                • One reason that the Kanban Method was created, was to make life better for people.
                                                • Kanban;  it’s just a way to see your problems, describe solutions, put them in a  place that everybody understands, and to bring all of your people  together to solve these problems.
                                                • Scrum, SAFe, XP Barrier on evolving change in any organization
                                                • Kanban Going Mainstream

                                                  • Draft letter of the start of Kanban University – Soestduinen, Netherlands 2012
                                                  • AKC – AKT – KCP – KMP programs
                                                  • Kanban Conference – Kanban Week – Kanban Leadership Retreat
                                                  • Kanban University YouTube
                                                  • Dave White Session in Europe LKUK 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9vLfEz4aqY
                                                  • Lean Software Society Boston 2012

                                                    High-Performing Team vs High-Performing Organization

                                                    The following books we have referenced:

                                                    • Kanban From Inside
                                                    • Kanban essential guide
                                                    • Kanban Blue Book
                                                    • We mentioned the following people:

                                                      • Mike Burrows (Also)
                                                      • Klaus Leopold
                                                      • Alexei Zheglov
                                                      • Katrin Dietze
                                                      • Patrick Steyaert
                                                      • Mathis Skarin
                                                      • David Anderson
                                                      • JaniceLinden-Reed
                                                      • Dave White
                                                      • Masa k Maeda
                                                      • Jasper Boeg
                                                      • James Newkirk (nunit)
                                                      • Contact Dave:

                                                        • @AgileRamblings
                                                        • 57 min
                                                        • Kanban Clinic with Joey Spooner

                                                          In this episode, Joey joined Shahin to talk about Kanban; and indulge in in-depth conversation with select audiences.

                                                          • Kanban as a Method vs a Tool
                                                          • Upstream and Delivery Stream
                                                          • Stealth Kanban
                                                          • KLR - Kanban Week
                                                          • Q&A with JoeyScrum and/vs Kanban in large organizations 
                                                          • Kanban in Transformation world 
                                                          • Chaos being hidden as Expedie
                                                          • The following books we have referenced:

                                                            • Upstream Kanban
                                                            • Kanban essential guide
                                                            • Kanban Blue Book
                                                            • Agile Management Book
                                                            • Fit For Purpose
                                                            • We mentioned the following people:

                                                              • Mike Burrows (Also)
                                                              • Klaus Leopold
                                                              • Alexei Zheglov
                                                              • 57 min

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                                                              Lean On Agile (& Elevate Change) Show is a Webinar + Podcast about Agile & Beyond. We share stories of success, learning, and conversations with thought leaders. The topics include but not…