LeadingAgile SoundNotes: an Agile Podcast

Interview Start 1:48 A little about Dan 2:28 Five Characteristics of Sustainable Agility 4:04 Pattern 1 - Measuring Economic Progress (Leading Indicators) 5:04 Pattern 2 - Proactively Experiment for Improvement 8:45 Pattern 3 - Limit Work in Process 10:31 Clarification on Limiting Work in Process for the Five Characteristics of Sustainable Agility 11:30 Pattern 4 - Collective Responsibility 24:31 Pattern 5 - Solve Systemic Problems 28:49 Want more: Dan’s profile on LeadingAgile: http://www.leadingagile.com/guides/dan-greening/ Dan’s blog on SenexRex http://senexrex.com/blog Dan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/greening Dan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/greening Dan’s email: Dan.Greening@leadingagile.com

In this episode, we are joined by Enterprise Transformation Consultant, Russ Pena to talk about how to understand value at the portfolio level, and how an organization can establish a decisioning stack to help them make cut, kill, continue decisions. From there, we discuss how to use capability mapping to move past making “gut” based decisions and prioritize projects using a more scientific method. We closed our show sharing the need for organizations to develop an understanding of how much change they can have in process at once. If you’d like to reach Russ, you can contact him at russ.pena@leadingagile.com or via twitter at @russpena Show Notes: Welcome 2:00 Background on Russ and his work helping organizations build our product and portfolio teams 2:40 How an organization determines what value is, and how they make choices that align it with strategic goals 3:25 Determining Cut, Kill, Continue at the Portfolio Level 5:40 Leveraging Test Driven Development with Creating New Products 7:55 Time Constraints for New Product Experiments 8:50 Shifting the Perception of Success and Spoiling the Bed 9:55 Protecting Yourself from Bad Experiments by Assigning a “Watcher" 10:48 The importance of a Murder Board 12:28 The cultural impact of accountability 15:25 Clarity, Accountability and Showing Measurable Progress 17:16 Finding Evidence Evidence 18:27 The Hard Part of the Power of “No" 20:00 Building in the Decisioning Mechanism 20:34 Capability Mapping 23:34 Getting Past the Culture of Overly Optimistic Management 25:50 The Criticality of Trust, Understanding Capacity and Capability 28:10 The importance of a scientific approach to prioritization 32:00 Developing Innovation Within an Enterprise 34:08 Bringing Capability Mapping to Innovation 40:02 WIP limits for Organizational Change 43:44 Contacting Russ 46:39

In this version of our Sound Notes podcast, we sat down with LeadingAgile CEO, Mike Cottmeyer to talk about the focus of Agile in 2016. We discuss why organizations are still struggling to successfully adopt agile, how the systems of many large organizations are still broken, and how the popular scaling methods are only a part of the solution to successful enterprise agile adoption. From there, Mike and Dave Prior use a couple of metaphors to describe the past, present and future of agile along with the difficult change management aspects of agile transformation.

In this version of Sound Notes, we sat down with Enterprise Agile Coach, Jann Thomas and asked here the question: Is the ScrumMaster role a full-time position?

VP of Enterprise Engagements, Derek Huether sat down to share how he created, organized and hosted the inaugural Agile Baltimore Unconference. This past October, Derek led the one-day unconference which featured over 100 paid attendees, all with a common passion for agile and lean development methodologies. Unlike traditional conferences which rely on heavy upfront planning and coordination, Derek shares how he used agile practices to organize and run an entire event.

In this version of our Sound Notes with Dave Prior, we speak with LeadingAgile CEO, Mike Cottmeyer on the rise of Bimodal IT Enterprises and how it is impacting modern businesses. Based on new research coming out of Gartner, we explore where Bimodal IT found it's roots and how it is being applied today. From there, Mike and Dave discuss the differences between mode 1 and 2, as well as how organizations can make the journey from a more traditional form of delivery with mode 1, to a more exploratory and nonlinear model with mode 2. Lastly, we'll explore how mode 1 and mode 2 relate to LeadingAgile's Compass for Enterprise Transformation, the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and what it takes to make the shift from mode 1 to mode 2.

LeadingAgile Coach Tim Wise shares some of the work he has been doing with our clients to enable them to gain a deeper understanding of Organizational Health through Portfolio Telemetry and Optimization. Tim is helping these organizations establish ways to proactively monitor leading (and lagging) indicators and establish KPI's that will provide them with the insight needed to create optimizations at scale across the portfolio and the organization.

In this version of Sound Notes, we sit down to talk with Enterprise Transformation Consultant, Russ Peńa ahead of his talk at the 2015 Building Business Capability Conference in Las Vegas. Pulling from this background with IIBA and his role as the former Chief Methodologist of a Fortune 500 Bank, Russ discusses the differences between Business Analysts and Business Architects and how Business Analysts can grow themselves professionally to become Business Architects. From there, Russ and Dave discuss how Business Analysts can hone their chops to think strategically, the growth of IIBA and the crucial partnership between Business Analysts and Business Architects.

In order for Agile to work we have to have three things in place: clarity, accountability and measurable progress. This podcast explores the different ways an organization can measure the progress of their transformation and how to tie their progress to their key business drivers. Ahead of his talk at the Building Business Capability Conference in Las Vegas, Enterprise Transformation Consultant, Isaac Hogue shares how an organization can use a transformation scorecard to see where they are today, where they want to be tomorrow and how they can measure progress along their transformation journey.

In this version of our Sound Notes podcast, CST, Dave Prior talks shop with Enterprise Agile Coach, Tim Wise about his experience with DevOps in product development. Listen in as they start their conversation around the buy-in of a pull system, reducing cycle time and the importance of shared purpose and intent in DevOps. From there, they dive in to how an organization can strive for continuous improvement and use a number of different practices, including DevOps and Lean Startup to find their product/market fit faster.

In this edition of Sound Notes, we sit down with two members of our Enterprise Agile Coaching team to answer real questions from students of our last Certified Scrum Training Course in Atlanta. Listen in as Agile Coaches, Robert Sfeir and Adrian Wible speak with Certified Scrum Trainer, Dave Prior to answer questions on cross-functional teams, navigating large-scale migration and experiences in dealing with architects and role changes in agile.

In this podcast, Enterprise Agile Coach, Andrew Fuqua sits down to speak with Certified Scrum Trainer, Dave Prior about the benefits of using ATDD, BDD and more to produce software. Andrew is set to deliver two presentations this year around the topic at both STAC (Software Testing Atlanta Conference) and Southern Fried Agile.

In this follow up podcast to a previous blog post, LeadingAgile CEO, Mike Cottmeyer describes how no one wants to tell the emperor, or in this case the organization, he has no clothes. Listen in as we discuss self-organization of teams, creating a system of accountability and the role of leadership with Agile.

In our 3rd podcast with Enterprise Innovation Coach, Chris Spagnuolo, we dig deeper into the topic of innovation and explore how organizations can setup system design for innovation hubs in large enterprises.

In this interview with Enterprise Agile Coach Tim Wise, we discuss the variety of tracks and topics present at the Agile2015 Conference while sharing a few tips for making the most of your experience.