The Backlog | Inspiring conversations by ADAPTOVATE

In this episode we feature TRIBE. The sister company to ADAPTOVATE, TRIBE is a community of independent Agile industry experts assembled to respond to global talent demand. TRIBE's community manager sits down with the new managing director of TRIBE D Ray Freeman and the outgoing MD Sean Woon to discuss the agile industry and the increasing demand for quality talent.

Show notes:

Visit TRIBE at www.tribeagile.com and join the community.

Visit ADAPTOVATE at www.adaptovate.com

Hosted by Ray Freeman

As part of our partnership with Pledge 1%, our Senior Consultant in Los Angeles, Ray Freeman sits down in conversation with the inspiring team from Brittany's Backpack Ministry. Listen to their story of how this incredible non-profit came about and what they are up to in the future.

www.pledge1percent.org

You can follow Brittany's Backpack Ministry on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

Hosted by USA ADAPTOVATE

Hosted by Priscilla Koukoui, Senior consultant ADAPTOVATE

Priscilla Koukoui sits down with four Human Centred Design specialists to discuss their thinking on latest trends in this field. A fascinating episode with insights from:

Serena Lee - Isobar

Aviram Vijh - Telstra

Vida Asrina - Endeavour / Cartology

Bronwyn van der Merwe - Fjord

Show Notes:

Serena recommendations:

Prof G Show with Scott Galloway https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/the-prof-g-show-with-scott-galloway

Business Breakdown https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/business-breakdowns/id1559120677

Avi Recommendations:

Brene Brown Dare to Lead - https://open.spotify.com/show/3oEPsPKDhPVoNNL7pH5db6?si=7Pqlk0uvQ1iRj1hCQ8uZwg&dl_branch=1

Vida Recommendations:

This is HCD https://www.thisishcd.com/

Brownyn Recommendations:

Masters of Scale https://mastersofscale.com/

Power of Ten https://www.polaine.com/podcasts

In this guest episode of The Backlog, we feature The Agency Spark podcast with an interview with our senior consultant Chris MacLeod.

"In this episode of the Agency Spark Podcast, Sara interviews Chris MacLeod. Chris is a Senior Consultant and coach with ADAPTOVATE, a global management consulting firm, based in Sydney Australia, specializing in Agile at Scale business model transformations. As Design Thinking and human-centred-design evangelist, Chris works with large, publicly traded companies to embed Agile ways of working that support sustainable innovation and customer value delivery. Chris is also a long-time member of the Duct Tape Marketing Consulting Network and acts as the International Leader, helping grow the brand outside North America."

Links:

https://sparklabconsulting.com/blog/ - Sara Nay is found of Spark Lab Consulting

https://www.adaptovate.com - The ADAPTOVATE website - Contact us!

Webinar conversation - Prefer to watch? - visit our Youtube Channel

ADAPTOVATE Webinar : How not to blow a billion dollars in capital intensive projects.

Guest Speakers include :

Jon LeBlanc,

Head of Planning & Project Services - Enterprise Improvement

BHP,

Polly Mahapatra,

Systems Completion Engineer - Gorgon Stage 2

Chevron,

Oirat Azbergenov

Decision Making CoE Team Lead

Tengizchevroil,

Jump Ahead

Charles Tan introduces Business Agility 01:57,

What is Different About Agile? 4 different dimensions 04:06,

1. Business Value 04:11,

2. Risk 05:02,

3. Visibility 05:55,

4. Adaptability 06:39,

Chelsea Bates delivers Iterative Delivery 08:01,

What does Business Agility mean in Capital Projects - overview 11:07,

Business Agility with Business Functions overview 11:54,

Greg Skinner - Introduction to panellists 13:01,

What does Business Agility mean to you - Polly 14:45,

What does Business Agility mean to you - Jon 15:32,

What does Business Agility mean to you - Oirat 17:04,

Impact of Business Agility - Jon 18:15,

Impact of Business Agility - Oirat 20:44,

Impact of Business Agility - Polly 24:30,

The switch between styles - Kanban and Scrum - Jon at BHP 25:51,

Be Agile to Deploy Agile - Polly 28:53,

Kanban vs Agile- - Oirat 30:34,

What were the surprises you found - Oirat 31:31,

What surprised you - Polly 32:22,

What surprised you - Jon 33:13,

What were the key reasons your organization started on Agile Journey -Jon 37:07,

What were the key reasons your organization started on Agile Journey - Oirat 39:27

What were the key reasons your organization started on Agile Journey - Polly 40:25

Beyond Covid - how do you sustain - Jon 41:09

What are the key benefits you've seen - Polly 43:10

Key Benefits - Oirat 43:57

Key Benefits - Jon 45:39

Charles -Agile allows you to say no 48:29

Q & A - what does agility look like on a mine site? 49:56

What does agility look like on a mine site - Polly 51:17

What does agility look like on a mine site - Oirat 51:51

Examples - polly 53:11

Examples - Oirat 54:26

Examples - Jon 55:06

ADAPTOVATE.com

Trends in SME

In this episode of The Backlog we feature a guest episode of Efma's newest podcast, SME at a glance: Expert views on the news. Efma's SME expert Lukas Dzuroska interviews Slawomir Koziol. Slawomir is a Project Lead at ADAPTOVATE & Agile Consultant at Boston Consulting Group (BCG). The two take a look at the most recent news in the world of #smebanking and Slawomir provides his expert POV on the major trends in the industry. #smallbusinessbanking

Notes:

www.adaptovate.com

www.efma.com

Special presentation for International Women's Day 2021

Laura Piccardi, speaker, author, founder of Uppy visited ADAPTOVATE to talk to us all about stress. Why it happens, how we can identify it, and what we can do to allieviate it. Laura joined us for a International Women's Day event. This is her talk.

http://www.uppy.com.au

Women for STEM

In this episode of The Backlog, our senior consultant in Canada, Karen Chan sits down with Susan McGovern. Susan is the Vice President of External Relations and Advancement at Ontario Tech University.

Karen is a mentor for their programme Women for Stem, and is on the Women for Stem council.

Ontario Tech is one of the newest universities in Canada, starting in 2003. It specializes science technology engineering and math.

In the last 4 years Susan has been involved in developing the programme Women for STEM, to encourage girls and women to consider a career in STEM and study at Ontario Tech.

The Women For Stem programme has three pillars, Scholarship, Mentorship, Celebrate.

Video links:

Ontario Tech University 01:15​

Women for STEM programme 03:10​

Why was Women for STEM created 05:31​

What legacy will the programme have 11:40​

The first cohort for STEM will be graduating in 2022/2023.

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To learn more:

Women for STEM

https://giving.ontariotechu.ca/ways-t...​

Women for STEM council

https://giving.ontariotechu.ca/ways-t...​

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You can also watch this podcast over at ADAPTOVATE You Tube Channel. Just search ADAPTOVATE.

Black History Month 2021

This episode of The Backog was recorded in February 2021 to celebrate Black History Month. Two of our ADAPTOVATE team in LA sat down to discuss what their lives have been like and who their influences have been. Thank you to Ray and Saytina for sharing their stories with us.

You can watch this conversation on our YouTube Channel. Search for ADAPTOVATE.