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Teodora Bozheva, creator of the Kanban Maturity Model (a brilliant tool for teaching people what customer centric really means) coaches, agile and product alike). Teodora loves helping companies improve. I loved having her on the show!
Teodora has a proven track record in helping organizations achieve improved levels of adaptability and delivery of products that customers love.
In this 1st episode, Teodora shares all about the model and its positive impact on organizations. I recommend getting a pen and paper ready, as Teofora will share some golden insights!
The Highlights
Guest Bio
Teodora (https://bit.ly/TeoBzaLD) is the co-creator of the Kanban Maturity Model (the other person being David J. Anderson,) a model that helps organisations that want to take an evolutionary approach to improve their culture &management so that they can adapt quickly to customer needs.
Host Bio
Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.
Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱!
Ben Maynard
🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/
🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard
💻 https://sheev.co.uk/
Product Agility Podcast
🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/
💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/
🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility
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Denis Salnikov is a Head of Agile Practice at PandaDoc. He and Ben explored just what this role means in a company that is successfully using LeSS Huge - https://less.works/less/less-huge.
What themes did we explore?
Here are some of the highlights
Guest Bios
Denis Salnikov is a certified Scrum Master, Kanban Coach & Agile Coach who has been consulting, coaching, mentoring, and teaching cross-functional development teams, management, and organisations since 2014.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dsalnikov23/
Host Bio
Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.
Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱!
Ben Maynard
🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/
🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard
💻 https://sheev.co.uk/
Product Agility Podcast
🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/
💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/
🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility
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Evgeniy and Denis are both Heads of Agile Practice at PandaDoc. They joined Ben to share their top tips for making remote working and learning really work.
What themes did we explore?
Here are some of the highlights
Guest Bios
Denis Salnikov is a certified Scrum Master, Kanban Coach & Agile Coach who has been consulting, coaching, mentoring, and teaching cross-functional development teams, management, and organisations since 2014.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dsalnikov23/
Evgeniy Labunski has over a decade of experience in Agile within Product Development, Enterprise & Startups. He is a strategic thinker, a skilled resolver of conflict and lives and breaths flexibility and adaptability.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/labunskiy/
Host Bio
Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.
Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱!
Ben Maynard
🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/
🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard
💻 https://sheev.co.uk/
Product Agility Podcast
🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/
💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/
🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility
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Evgeniy and Denis are both Heads of Agile Practice at PandaDoc. They joined Ben to share trials faced during the Global pandemic and when growing to five times their original size (whilst still getting their product to market). They also share how they started with Large Scale Scrum, LeSS, to achieve their dreams of Feature Teams.
The big questions for me were
Here are some of the highlights
Guest Bios
Denis Salnikov is a certified Scrum Master, Kanban Coach & Agile Coach who has been consulting, coaching, mentoring, and teaching cross-functional development teams, management, and organisations since 2014.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dsalnikov23/
Evgeniy Labunski has over a decade of experience in Agile within Product Development, Enterprise & Startups. He is a strategic thinker, a skilled resolver of conflict and lives and breaths flexibility and adaptability.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/labunskiy/
Host Bio
Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.
Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱!
Ben Maynard
🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/
🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard
💻 https://sheev.co.uk/
Product Agility Podcast
🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/
💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/
🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility
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Cliff Hazell, ex-Spotify and Co-Founder of Flight Levels with Kalus Leopold is an expert on organisational change, systems, agile and Kanban. In this practical and somewhat philosophical episode, Cliff and I explore some meaty topics that Agile Coaches, Product People, Scrum Masters, damned pretty much anyone with interest in organisational change will love.
This is the third of three episodes that Cliff and I recorded
In this one, we speak about ...
And all this!
Useful Links
Cliff Hazel - https://www.linkedin.com/in/cliffhazell/
Flight Levels Academy - https://www.flightlevels.io/
Ahmad Fahmy - https://www.ahmadfahmy.com/
Host Bio
Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.
Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱!
Ben Maynard
🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/
🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard
💻 https://sheev.co.uk/
Product Agility Podcast
🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/
💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/
🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility
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Cliff Hazell, ex-Spotify and Co-Founder of Flight Levels with Kalus Leopold is an expert on organisational change, systems, agile and Kanban. In this practical and somewhat philosophical episode, Cliff and I explore some meaty topics that Agile Coaches, Product People, Scrum Masters, damned pretty much anyone with interest in organisational change will love.
This is the second of 3 episodes that Cliff and I recorded on various topics.
In this one, we speak about Organisational change pitfalls Agile Coaches and other change agents can avoid. The power of quitting in a Product environment (as well as in our personal lives). Putting the parts back together rather than being reductionist (through critiquing the words holistic and systemic and a whole lot more (see below).
Should you want to skip to a specific point, this is probably useful (if chapters are not your thing)
And all this!
🧔🏻SA to Sweden was a cultural change that affected cliff, it led to people thinking his behaviour was abnormal.
🧔🏻He found his understanding of the world to be incomplete as it was only through his lens
🧔🏻What are some of the challenges Cliff has found with bias training?
🧔🏻Doe's just knowing our biases mean we can overcome them?
🧔🏻What is the link between lions and whether we believe someone could be a great leader or software developer
🧔🏻Cultural norming, how does this make individual adaptation hard?
🧔🏻Can we say that biases or always good or bad?
🧔🏻People are quick to judge what people say, post, and infer - but what about their story?
🧔🏻What are the crusaders and the tradition bearers?
🧔🏻How can coaching people to develop counterarguments help make change happen?
🧔🏻How working through arguments on both sides allows us to approach Lions
🧔🏻Why the "Left Hand Column" technique is a solid gold technique for working through tense situations
🧔🏻Why and why do logic and reason fail in an argument?
🧔🏻How can seeing more of the whole help with our interpretation and, as a result, our behaviours?
🧔🏻How can humility help increase our systemic understanding?
🧔🏻Who should be involved in decisions about an organisational restructure?
Host Bio
Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.
Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱!
Ben Maynard
🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/
🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard
💻 https://sheev.co.uk/
Product Agility Podcast
🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/
💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/
🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility
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Cliff Hazell, ex-Spotify and Co-Founder of Flight Levels with Klaus Leopold is an expert on organisational change, systems, agile and Kanban. In this practical and somewhat philosophical episode, Cliff and I explore some meaty topics that Agile Coaches, Product People, Scrum Masters, damned pretty much anyone with an interest in organisational change will love.
This is the first of 3 episodes that Cliff and I recorded on various topics.
In this one, we speak about Organisational change pitfalls Agile Coaches and other change agents can avoid. The power of quitting in a Product environment (as well as in our personal lives). Putting the parts back together rather than being reductionist (through critiquing the words holistic and systemic and a whole lot more (see below).
Should you want to skip to a specific point, this is probably useful (if chapters are not your thing)
Useful Stuff
Sunk cost fallacy
Annie Duke - Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away
Host Bio
Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.
Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱!
Ben Maynard
🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/
🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard
💻 https://sheev.co.uk/
Product Agility Podcast
🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/
💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/
🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility
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As this year comes to an end, I thought it would be the perfect time to take a short hiatus on the podcast! In order to prepare for all of the new amazing things that are coming in January. Thank you to all of the LeSS Listeners, we hope you have a wonderful Christmas and a great New Year! Listen out for us in 2023!
Host Bio
Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.
Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱!
Ben Maynard
🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/
🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard
💻 https://sheev.co.uk/
Product Agility Podcast
🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/
💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/
🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility
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Ari has woven his thoughts on group dynamics by consolidating 70 years of research into something he believes are the team dynamics fundamentals that everyone Scrum Master should know how to leverage to help teams reach high performance
WHO IS ARI?
Ari provides coaching, training, and consultation for Agile Teams, Product Owners, Adoption Leaders, and executives. He has worked in the software business since 1990, including seven years of developing fault-tolerant embedded real-time systems.
✨This research was done in som elunlikley contexts, you will be amazed what we in the Product Agility world can learn from coal miners.
✨Were Coal miners the first Feature Teams?
✨What is the "third" relationship that we can find in a team that is not between each individual but between the individuals and something else
✨how can understanding thie extra entity help us to create teams whose performance sets them apart from the crowd?
✨What can we develop in ourselves that enables us to be aware of this and manage the power it holds over us and others?
✨We learn the first necessary step in team forming, that if missed could caause performacne improvement inertia
✨What is the role of the "situational leader" and how teams thrive because of it
✨✨And how this situational leadership can then lead the team to an untimely death
✨How can you tell if your team is in its Teenage years?
✨How the teams "internal questions" are the key to the next stages of team development
✨How long does it take for teams to reach distinguiable levels of performance
✨Why "Dreaming" is better than "Norming"
✨How can we turn this advice to communiities?
✨Team resiliacny, does it mean being hard so nothing effects your or soft so that they can dented and recover, becoming something new
USEFUL LINKS
The images Ari was showing during the episode (Team Life Cycle) - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1D_GnHqZtnp1RsSnl0PBb8aQZcsYP2JZ-?usp=sharing
Teamwork and Rewarding, a blog post by Ari - https://gosei.fi/blog/teamwork-and-rewarding/
More info on Ari's approach - https://gosei.fi/teamwork/
Host Bio
Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.
Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱!
Ben Maynard
🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/
🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard
💻 https://sheev.co.uk/
Product Agility Podcast
🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/
💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/
🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility
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Team performance has almost become a taboo topic in the agile world, which I believe is ridiculous. Scrum Masters and Agile Team Coaches are there specifically for that reason. You can guess how I felt when Ari Tikka - https://www.linkedin.com/in/aritikka/ wanted to talk about this. In a word, EXCITED.
WHO IS ARI?
Ari provides coaching, training, and consultation for Agile Teams, Product Owners, Adoption Leaders, and executives. He has worked in the software business since 1990, including seven years of developing fault-tolerant embedded real-time systems.
WHAT IS IN THE EPISODE
🎭How introducing a new vocabulary and knowledge of teamwork enables transformational team dialogue and performance
🎭What type of work is inherently inconsequential, and why this work stops team performance improvement in its tracks
🎭How do you resolve the big impediments? What two things are needed in a room to accelerate continuous improvement and the removal of BIG impediments? Ari shares a huge secret to his success
🎭 How Ari's work builds on top of Richard Hackman's work (standing on the shoulders of giants - diff thumb)
🎭What are the enabling conditions that enable teams to have great performances?
🎭Does Ari think that psychological proofing to choose team members works?
🎭Would you believe that coaching a team only contributes 10% towards their performance? We talk about the other 90 10% of the performance that can be influenced.
🎭According to Richard Hackman's research, how much of an effect can coaching a team have when compared to, let's say, getting the team set up in the first place
a coach, if coaching a team may be only influencing performance by 10%, Ari gives you some options
🎭What is the contract game, and why should you know about it!
USEFUL LINKS
The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/255127.The_Fifth_Discipline
MIT Beer Simulation Game - https://web.mit.edu/jsterman/www/SDG/beergame.html
Richard Hackman's books - https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/701345.J_Richard_Hackman
Teamwork and Rewarding, a blog post by Ari - https://gosei.fi/blog/teamwork-and-rewarding/
More info on Ari's approach - https://gosei.fi/teamwork/
Host Bio
Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.
Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱!
Ben Maynard
🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/
🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard
💻 https://sheev.co.uk/
Product Agility Podcast
🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/
💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/
🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility
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From the publisher's feed
Less Method. More Meaning.
The world of Product Discovery and Creation is becoming increasingly challenging due to mistakes and missed opportunities that are prevalent in agile…
The route of this for many is the need for more attention paid to the incredible advancements in Product Management driven by hordes of professional Product People who prove that making their customers happier is not a pipe dream but a hard and fast reality.
This podcast exists to explore all topics related to Product and Agility and Coaching.
How do you marry the agile principles with Product discovery?
Is it really possible to have hundreds of cross-functional teams (or Product Teams) all working from an effectively prioritised single Product Backlog and a dedicated Product Owner?
How can you embrace continuous improvement and empirical process control for your product, people and processes?
Ever wondered how to overcome the problems people face when trying to scale the Product Owner role and how it relates to Product Management and Product Teams?
Baffled by how to define a product in such a way that enables Feature Teams (aka Product Teams) and why doing wrong means you will only ever be stuck with technical teams?
Scrum Teams are not compatible with modern product management techniques.
Want to know what Product Focus means and how the right focus makes creating a shippable product less painful?
Need to get your head around how to blend modern product management techniques with Sprint Planning and Sprint Reviews to achieve Product Increments that cover the entire product?
This podcast's original focus was on Scaling Scrum vs Single-Team Scrum and how organisations can reap the benefits of Scrum when working on a larger product but still keeping a single product backlog. We found many Product People liked what we said, and then the penny dropped. This isn't a podcast about scaling Scrum or the limitations of single-team Scrum.
This podcast is for Product People & agile advocates who coach or get their hands dirty with Product creation.
We promise there is no Taboo topic that we will not explore on your behalf.
We aim to transcend the conversations about a single team, Daily Scrums, Scrum Masters and the double-diamond and bring everyone together into responsible teams dedicated to working on the entire product to make their customers happier and their lives more fulfilling.
Come and join us on our improvement towards perfection, and give us your feedback (we have a strong customer focus, too), and who knows, perhaps we will discover the magic wand that we can wave over all the broken agile and sudo-products to create a more resilient and adaptable future by bringing the worlds of Product, Agility and coaching together.
This podcast has the conversations and insights you need.