This week in SoundNotes Lance Kind joins Dave to talk about Scaled Agile Tech Coaching. In this episode, Lance and Dave explore how technical coaching can be used to supplement the process coaching that is typically offered during an agile transformation. He also shares his approach to introduce technical coaching in a way that can scale across the enterprise.
Lance is an experienced Senior level software developer as well as an Agile coach. He’s also an author and produces podcasts in both English and Mandarin Chinese. He’ll be joining Dave in hosting our podcasts going forward so that we can offer more podcasts and also ones that focus on deeper technical topics.
Contacting Lance:
LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/lance-kind/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lancer-kind/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LancerKind
Email: lance.kind@Leadingagile.com
Personal Web Site: (for links to Lance’s publications and other podcasts: http://lancerkind.com

Scaled Agile Technical Coaching

LeadingAgile's resident Scrum trainer Dave Prior, hosts a weekly podcast that covers all sorts of topics about Agile, Scrum, Organizational Transformation and Leadership. No matter if you're new to Agile development or an Agile veteran, Dave and his guest are sure to make you think about Agile in a whole new way! Alexa knows us as Leading Agile Sound Notes.

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A big part of becoming a truly product-driven organization is getting better at understanding the needs of your customers, and improving your products to meet their needs. In this video, Mary, Dave, and Lance take on the topic of customer journey mapping and show you how this tool can help you align around the needs of your customer. They’ll explain how this technique can identify the customer experience and put specific actions in place to court correct and wee out any of the negative experiences customers are having with your product.
Contacting Mary Lloyd
If you’d like to contact Mary, you can reach her at:
LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/mary-lloyd/LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mary-lawson-lloyd/Email: mary.lloyd@leadingagile.com
Contacting Lance Kind
If you'd like to contact Lance, you can reach him at:
LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/lance-kind/LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/lancer-kind/X: x.com/LancerKindEmail: lance.kind@leadingagile.com
Contacting Dave Prior
If you’d like to contact Dave, you can reach him at:
LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungoX: x.com/mrsungoEmail: dave.prior@leadingagile.com
If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to dave.prior@leadingagile.com
Interested in CSM or CSPO Training?
You can find all the details at www.leadingagile.com/scrum-training/

How to Align Your Product-Driven Organization to the Customer Experience

We’re back with an all-new episode of SoundNotes where we discuss the nature of products. What are they? How are they different from services and experiences? And does it really even matter? Watch this week’s spirited conversation to see how we’re thinking about and defining products, and discover how your organization might be spinning its wheels by even having the debate.
Contacting Mary Lloyd
If you’d like to contact Mary, you can reach her at:
LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/mary-lloyd/LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mary-lawson-lloyd/Email: mary.lloyd@leadingagile.com
Contacting Andrew Young
If you'd like to contact Andrew, you can reach him at:
LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/andrew-young/LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/atyoung/Twitter: x.com/exclamation101Email: andrew.young@leadingagile.com
Contacting Dave Prior
If you’d like to contact Dave, you can reach him at:
LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungoX: x.com/mrsungoEmail: dave.prior@leadingagile.com
If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to dave.prior@leadingagile.com
Interested in CSM or CSPO Training?
You can find all the details at www.leadingagile.com/scrum-training/

Product Development: Using Systems Thinking to Achieve Better Business Outcomes

In this third installment of our value stream mapping series, Mary shows Lance and Dave how to apply the technique of value stream mapping to your business architecture and capabilities so that you can make more informed, intentional, data-driven decisions to improve your business.
Contacting Mary Lloyd
If you’d like to contact Mary, you can reach her at:
LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/mary-lloyd/LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mary-lawson-lloyd/Email: mary.lloyd@leadingagile.com
Contacting Lance Kind
If you'd like to contact Lance, you can reach him at:
LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/lance-kind/LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/lancer-kind/X: x.com/LancerKindEmail: lance.kind@leadingagile.com
Contacting Dave Prior
If you’d like to contact Dave, you can reach him at:
LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungoX: x.com/mrsungoEmail: dave.prior@leadingagile.com
If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to dave.prior@leadingagile.com
Interested in CSM or CSPO Training?
You can find all the details at www.leadingagile.com/scrum-training/

Using Value Stream Maps to Identify Improvement Opportunities

Dave Prior is back again with Lance Kind and Mary Lloyd to talk about value stream mapping. In the last installment of this miniseries, the team gave a high-level introduction into what a value stream map is and why they’re important. On today’s episode of SoundNotes, they discuss how use value stream mapping to demonstrate the economic benefit of reducing waste in the system.
Contacting Mary Lloyd
If you’d like to contact Mary, you can reach her at:
LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/mary-lloyd/LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mary-lawson-lloyd/Email: mary.lloyd@leadingagile.com
Contacting Lance Kind
If you'd like to contact Lance, you can reach him at:
LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/lance-kind/LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/lancer-kind/X: x.com/LancerKindEmail: lance.kind@leadingagile.com
Contacting Dave Prior
If you’d like to contact Dave, you can reach him at:
LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungoX: x.com/mrsungoEmail: dave.prior@leadingagile.com
If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to dave.prior@leadingagile.com
Interested in CSM or CSPO Training?
You can find all the details at www.leadingagile.com/scrum-training/

Quantifying Waste Reduction Using Value Stream Maps

Dave Prior sits down with LeadingAgile consultants Mary Lloyd and Lance Kind to discuss value stream mapping. What is it?  Why use it at all? And when should you use this technique? Together, they answer these questions, dig into an example of value stream mapping, and explore some use cases for the technique.
Contacting Mary Lloyd 
If you’d like to contact Mary, you can reach her at:
LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/mary-lloyd/LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mary-lawson-lloyd/Email: mary.lloyd@leadingagile.com
Contacting Lance Kind
If you'd like to contact Lance, you can reach him at: 
LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/lance-kind/LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/lancer-kind/X: x.com/LancerKindEmail: lance.kind@leadingagile.com
Contacting Dave Prior
If you’d like to contact Dave, you can reach him at:
LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungoX: x.com/mrsungoEmail: dave.prior@leadingagile.com
If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to dave.prior@leadingagile.com
Interested in CSM or CSPO Training?
You can find all the details at www.leadingagile.com/scrum-training/

Scaled Agile Technical Coaching

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