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This week, I am joined by the authors of "The Flow System Playbook" authors John Turner and Nigel Thurlow, to discuss what inspired the book and how to get the best value out of it.
We covered:
About John Turner
John R. Turner, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the University of North Texas for the Department of Learning Technologies in the College of Information. He currently serves as the Editor–in–Chief for Performance Improvement Quarterly (PIQ) journal. His research interests are in team science, team cognition, leadership, performance improvement, knowledge management, theory building, complexity theory, multilevel models, and meta-analysis techniques. He is the co-creator of The Flow System(TM) and the co-author of the book, The Flow System, and has published articles in Advances in Developing Human Resources; Human Resource Development Review; European Journal of Training & Development; International Journal of Technology, Knowledge, & Society; Journal of Information and Knowledge Management; Journal of Manufacturing Technology & Management; Journal of Knowledge Management; Performance Improvement; and Performance Improvement Quarterly.
Connect with John Turner: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-turner-3helix/
About Nigel Thurlow
As a leading expert on Lean and Agile approaches, Nigel advises companies on successful transformation strategies and how to achieve effective and lasting change.
Nigel designs organizations that are highly optimized and customer value focussed. As a problem solver, Nigel helps executive leaders transform their operations. He creates disruptors and transforms the disrupted.
Connect with Nigel Thurlow: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nigelthurlow/https://www.linkedin.com/in/nigelthurlow/
The Flow System Playbook: https://www.getflowtrained.com/playbook/
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The author of Extraordinarily Badass Agile Coaching: The Journey from Beginner to Mastery and Beyond joins me on this week's episode of the Xagility podcast to discuss:
About Bob:
Agile leader, coach, author, speaker, and community builder.
For ~20 years, Bob has been focused on leveraging agile methods as the best way to deliver software value. While not being a silver bullet, they simply work better than anything he has tried.
Specialties: Bob has unique agile coaching skills & experience in the following areas: agile leadership & culture development, scaling the agile enterprise, distributed agile, and agile testing & DevOps in larger-scale contexts.
Bob is a Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC) providing agile team coaching & training with a focus on Scrum+XP, Lean and Kanban practices.
Join his mailing list there as well for a monthly newsletter and free "agile stuff" - http://eepurl.com/IAxTD
Connect with Bob on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobgalen/https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobgalen/
Bob's websites:
https://rgalen.com/
https://www.agile-moose.com/the-moose-as-coach
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This week I am joined by Quinton Quartel to discuss the Fluid agile Scaling Technology (FaST) - both a method and a framework.
What did we discuss?
Check out FaST: fastagile.io
Connect with Quinton: https://www.linkedin.com/in/qrq/
About Quinton Quartel:
His passion is to make the world a better place by co-creating healthy workplaces as growth environments for humans to flourish - while helping businesses be more effective, adaptable, and innovative. Quinton's background is in software, and he still describes himself as a dev. Over twenty years in software exposed him to many years and many flavours of agile. Those experiences and his passion for better ways of working inspired him to start experimenting and have resulted in some exciting results.
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How do you manage your energy when trying to foster/cultivate change?
This week I am joined by the amazing Allan Kelly to discuss his book: Succeeding with OKRs in Agile: How to create & deliver objectives & key results for teams.
This week I had the pleasure of having Cliff Hazell talk about his time at Spotify, his journey into Flight Levels and what can you do when you need to deliver technical expertise when the capacity is already full?
On the agenda:
2. The usefulness of talking to people taking the calls every day
3. Helping leaders of scale-ups to grow
4. Lessons from Spotify
5. What can you do when you need to deliver technical expertise when the capacity is already full?
6. Teaching each other to do jobs is not FREE
7. Big bets
8. Challenges over autonomy and alignment
9. Survivorship Bias
10. Lessons on perseverance: red work and blue work
11. How do executives avoid going into execution bias?
12. Getting the company able to articulate the goals in terms of an outcome that we want to measure
13. Cliff’s journey into flight levels
14. Find leverage, create focus, build habits
15. Product roasts
16. Lessons from Cliff’s time in call centers
17. Successful/unsuccessful organizations
18. Are there any dark sides to transparency?
19. Dealing with burnout
About Cliff Hazell:
As a Founder, Manager, and Coach, Cliff has seen what works and what doesn't. Cliff uses this knowledge to help you avoid common mistakes and learn from tested experiences.
Through his Leadership experience across large and small organizations, from Tech, Product, Finance, and Marketing, Cliff has seen the benefit of integrating everything you do, not just fixing one part.
More than guidance and theory, Cliff will teach you how to do it so you can continue to fly without me.
Check out his website: https://www.cliffhazell.com/
Connect with Cliff on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cliffhazell/
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Tom Gilb joins this week's episode of the Xagility podcast to tell us all about impact estimation tables, decomposing to deliver value and the laws of project success.
Connect with Tom on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomgilb/
This week, Luca Minudel joins the Xagility podcast to discuss his book "Living Complexity Practical applications of Human Complexity in software and digital products development" as well as dot voting and assessing complexity.
On the agenda:
Luca's Book: https://leanpub.com/livingcomplexity/
About Luca Minudel
Luca is a great fit for clients looking for a very experienced Agile professional with a strong track record, pragmatic and framework-agnostic.
Luca contributed to the adoption of lean and agile in Ferrari F1 Racing Team while winning three World Championship titles. For the Agile pioneer ThoughtWorks, he delivered training, coaching, assessments and organisational transformations in top-tier organisations in Europe and the United States.
He has also worked as Head of Agility, Lean-Agile practice lead and as Transformation Lead.
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If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-leadership-training/.
If you value coaching and would like to work with a deeply experienced agile and executive coaching specialist, visit our coaching page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-coaching/
If you are looking for an agile consultant that can help your leadership team identify an appropriate roadmap to organizational agility and take the most effective course of action in your agile transformation, visit our consulting page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-consulting/
#scrum #agile #complexity #management # #lucaminudel
On this week’s episode of the Xagility Podcast, Matthew Skelton tells all about his books: Team Topologies: organising business and technology teams for fast flow and Remote Team Interactions Workbook.
On the agenda:
About Matthew:
Matthew Skelton is co-author of Team Topologies: organizing business and technology teams for fast flow. Head of Consulting at Conflux (confluxhq.com), he specializes in Continuous Delivery, operability and organization dynamics for software in manufacturing, ecommerce, and online services, including cloud, IoT, and embedded software.
Recognized by TechBeacon in 2018, 2019, and 2020 as one of the top 100 people to follow in DevOps, Matthew curates the well-known DevOps team topologies patterns at devopstopologies.com and is co-author of the books Team Topologies (IT Revolution Press, 2019), Team Guide to Software Operability (Skelton Thatcher Publications, 2016), and Continuous Delivery with Windows and .NET (O’Reilly, 2016), along with several key reports on SRE.
Matthew founded Conflux in 2017 to offer training and consulting to organizations building and running software systems.
Matthew’s Website: https://blog.matthewskelton.net/
Team Topologies Website: https://teamtopologies.com/
Connect with Matthew on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewskelton/
Enjoyed this episode? Let's connect:
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If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-leadership-training/.
If you value coaching and would like to work with a deeply experienced agile and executive coaching specialist, visit our coaching page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-coaching/
If you are looking for an agile consultant that can help your leadership team identify an appropriate roadmap to organizational agility and take the most effective course of action in your agile transformation, visit our consulting page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-consulting/
#scrum #agile #productowner #management #teamtopologies #matthewskelton
The podcast currently has 62 episodes available.