Nevarda Smith

William Parish and Nevarda Smith bounce around with topics from Ideas are nothing Execution is Everything to the Big Chicken and other Marietta land marks. We talk about the eclipse and the plans to catch a plane to the next one. Sorry the sound quality is off on this one. Will fix it on the next one. Flat earth? No Really?

Today we are talking with Ashley Anderson an Atlanta Actress who is currently lead in Ana And The Memory Engine at the Essential Theater in Atlanta. She is a true character actress who incorporates movement into everything she does. A true pleasure to speak with her today.

The Play: Last shows book quickly.

http://www.essentialtheatre.com/play/ada-and-the-memory-engine/

Books she is reading:

Viewpoints by Anne Bogart http://amzn.to/2w8XrRY

Meyerhold, Eisenstein and Bio mechanics: Actor training in Revolutionary Russia http://amzn.to/2iuZ35h

Follow her on Instagram: lotta_little

The eclipse live from Atlanta GA. Please subscribe to my channel to learn how to create an Information Technology Culture of Innovation and unlock the secretes of speed to market products with customer value.

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There, the total solar eclipse will begin at 2:35 p.m. EST and last for 2 minutes and 40 seconds.

The eclipse has started from the bottom right 45% angle. It will continue to the upper right of the screen at the 45% angle. Enjoy the eclipse my Australian Friends.

Open talk on changing your culture to one that allows for Agile development and moving features quickly to development. We talk to Sean Hirst an expert in the DevOps field on the benefits of Test Driven Development, Security pushed to the left, and other DevOps topics. Join us to learn more about DevOps in the real world.

Today we talk about the Innovation Funnel Concept to manage your organizations innovation processes. In addition, we review the 3 workshops that can allow your organization to move to one of an Innovation Culture. The results are saving money, reducing risk and driving everything you create with a focus on Customer Value.

People ask how do I work on so many things at one time. Today I do a straight talk to the camera about how I manage my day. My day today started at 5AM where I grabbed a coffee and jumped on the treadmill to read 2 chapters of a process improvement text book. By 6:30 I was out the door for my first meeting with a potential client to share my 3 formats of the Innovation Workshops. At 8:30 I was on a call with my offshore development team working on an innovation project (can't wait to share the release of this one). At 9AM I was meeting with my intern to make changes to a prototype for another innovation and by 11AM I was in with the executive team sharing the updates and demoing the new feature set. At 12 noon I was with the Marketing PM to document a customer journey of the new product so we can build out the press release (more to come on that one). The rest of the afternoon was spent working on the Patent Application. On the drive home I talked with my start-up about some features and funding meetings that were being held during the day. Finally, I did the Anchor podcast with Sean Hirst and then straight into the Straight Talk Innovating a Game Changer Podcast (This one). I'll bring you more tomorrow. If you like this format please comment below.

In order to innovate we need to move product to the customer quickly with the best quality possible. Application Security Vulnerability testing is critical to stop security breaches, but our security teams are often overwhelmed, understaffed, and overworked. The result is lags in security scans and higher costs in retrofitting the fixes. We fix this by moving the application security testing into the DevOps space by automating the scans at developer checkin time. We will take a quick look at a white paper by Checkmarx on the ROI of Shifting Left.

Design Sprint Outcomes. Today we look at the outcomes of this weeks design sprint. What we learnt over the week. I am joined by my Intern William Parish again who was integral in the design sprint process and helped drive solutions for some really innovative ideas.

Today we hosted a livestream with Josh and William 2 millennials who joined with me in the intern program. We talked about a number of things, including how to rapid prototype, next generation technologies, security, Kennesaw state university, internships, software development, and a host of other topics. Let's make this an ongoing set of livestreams as I really enjoyed the discussion.

Today we look at the PDCA cycle and the cone of uncertainty from the scaled agile framework body of knowledge. In this podcast we show you these methods and how to make sure you are delivering customer value to the market. We will look at integrating and full working integrated demos to stay online to build the optimal product. We look at principles 4 and 5 of SAFe. These two are the most important principles in the scaled agile framework.