Today's episode is a launch party for my guests' new book: "Human Centered Agile: A Unified Approach For Better Outcomes." The book is a guide on how to apply Human-Centered Design (HCD) practices to an Agile product development model that is used widely throughout industry and government, where it is applied primarily to software and technology development efforts. This has been an ongoing industry challenge due to the fact that HCD prioritizes time spent understanding the problems to be solved (time spent in the problem space), while Agile prioritizes a fast hypothesize-and-deliver model (time spent in the solution space).

Mike is an highly experienced Agile Coach, Delivery Manager, SAFe Agilist, and Certified Scrum Master responsible for coordinating multiple concurrent development and delivery efforts throughout their full lifecycle in the public and private sectors. In his private life, Mike is also an elite gymnastics coach! Listen to hear the very relevant parallels!

Today's episode is a launch party for my guests' new book: "Human Centered Agile: A Unified Approach For Better Outcomes." The book is a guide on how to apply Human-Centered Design (HCD) practices to an Agile product development model that is used widely throughout industry and government, where it is applied primarily to software and technology development efforts. This has been an ongoing industry challenge due to the fact that HCD prioritizes time spent understanding the problems to be solved (time spent in the problem space), while Agile prioritizes a fast hypothesize-and-deliver model (time spent in the solution space).

Paloma Martinez comes from a strong background in Events Management. But when she took an Agile PRINCE Project Management course in London, discovered a match between her personal values and agile values - respect for people, collaboration, and more. She decided she wanted to learn more. Here she shares her journey on how she found her volunteer position, balancing with her paid work, and giving back to the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jQ0mrNTgeE&list=PLmIAzAuN9az3oChIUyDq6dESOg7NA9war&index=11

Check out this true life success story from one of my awesome clients, Shirin Ali. She shares how after she took a bunch of agile and scrum asked her trainings, she still felt she had a gap in her skill level needed to actually get the working scrum asked her job.

Find out the creative way she solved it starting right in her own community!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVerxIobEBI&list=PLmIAzAuN9az3oChIUyDq6dESOg7NA9war&index=10&t=2s

Human-centered interview on the uses of psychology in agile.

I thought I knew one or two things about Agile, but in only five minutes of hearing Mark's true stories about his role as a Navy aviator collaborating with the Navy SEALs, I realized he had something highly valuable and concrete to teach the Agile community - how to make it real, in practice, on the ground!

A great conversation with Sue Bramhall, agile coach and personal coach, on bringing these two fields together.

Using cognitive psychology in agile transformation - a conversation with GaganBir Palta