Unlocking Agile

Agile isn’t something you do, it’s a way of being.  And when we have enabling environments that support this vision,  true change can happen.  In this episode of Unlocking Agile, Bobby talks with Saraounia Mboka-Boyer on the importance of creating an agile ecosystem at the enterprise level at the very beginning of any transformation.  

What do you get when you steep a competitive dance teacher with a strong lean agile mentality? You get Roslyn Martin, the Directory of Innovation Strategy at the Strategy Group. In this episode of Unlocking Agile, Bobby talks with Roslyn about her decade long effort to bring physical activity, celebration, human centered design, and organizational alignment to leadership and teams in companies all over the world.

Is ‘Psychological Safety’ too squishy of a subject to fully get your head around? Want more science and less emotion, more data, more empiricism?

In this episode of Unlocking Agile, Bobby talks with Nashville-based Agile Thought-Leader Tommy Norman, Chief Agility Officer at Acklen Avenue, about how he uses real data to add meaning and structure in order to create a psychologically safe organization.

We all know that 60 - 70% of Change Management Initiatives fail to meet expected outcomes. But did you know that despite the low chances of success, the average organization plans to engage in five new Change Management strategies over the next three years?(Gartner, 2020). Find out how to increase your chances of successful change management and evolve from a "change-responsive" organization to a "change-capable" organization. If your organization mastered the art of change and built flexibility into its operating model than doomed sporadic change management initiatives would become a thing of the past.. 

Jessica Crowley

Organizational Agility is what every C-Suite in the world is hoping to achieve. They want to respond to change faster,  make decisions faster, remove blockers faster and provide world-class solutions for their customers while doing it. In this episode of Unlocking Agile, Bobby sits down with Evan Leybourn, founder of the Business Agility Institute, and talks about the latest in the Business Agility space including the recently released 5 domains of Business Agility.

Think that all there is to estimation is throwing a number out and moving on? Want to find other ways to get value from this hotly debated technique? In this episode of Unlocking Agile, Bobby sits down with George Dinwiddie in Nashville at Agile 2022 and talks about how situational awareness can enhance the use of estimation and provide better overall outcomes.

Customer collaboration and determining needs is at the heart of Agile outcomes. But, are there things that are equally important which the customers aren't telling us? How do we get that information? Unlocking Agile host Bobby Woods sits down at Agile2022 in Nashville to talk with Cucumber co-founder Seb Rose about Behavioral Driven Development and the art of finding the value unspoken.

Leaders, Managers, Scrum Masters and Team Leads, do you fully understand the impact of the power dynamics to organizational agility? In this session with Tricia Broderick from the Agile 2022 conference in Nashville, Tricia walks the audience through the importance of not only understanding the impact of Power Dynamics but knowing how to use the concept to the advantage of great outcomes!

Psychological safety can often be seen as a buzzword and a "nice-to-have" option in an organization. Some may feel it's hard to create real actions to support the concept. Tara Scott sits down with Unlocking Agile host Bobby Woods to address actionable Psychological Safety and the real impacts in can have on organizational culture.

We know that Agile impacts organizations and the lives of the people we develop solutions for. But, did you know that Agile is having an impact on the planet? Agile Consultant, speaker and author, Jutta Eckstein, sits down with host Bobby Woods at XP2022 in Copenhagen, Denmark to talk about exactly how that is happening and the impact Agile is creating for worldwide sustainability.