Agile in Action with Bill Raymond

Josh Seiden is an acclaimed author in the lean and agile space, focusing on product design. Today, Josh shares how outcome-driven design can change human behavior, translating into improved customer value. Book LinkedIn Website Twitter

In today's podcast, Marsha Acker shares the art and science of facilitation. Marsha shares stories and ideas that will help you run more efficient, outcome-driven meetings. Book LinkedIn

Dan Ionita, a Researcher with a Ph. D. in risk assessment, shares a model for integrated security into modern agile software management teams. Dan shares case studies and practical guidance for assessing and prioritizing security needs in your organization's culture. More importantly, Dan shares why organizations must incorporate security into their culture.   LinkedIn Article

In today's podcast, Jeff Gothelf shares the importance of Objectives and Key Results (or OKRs). Jeff shares the proper way to define OKRs, sharing relatable stories that help you think through how to use them effectively. Website Books LinkedIn

In today's Agile in Action podcast, Bill Raymond talks with Sandy Mamoli and David Mole about helping people excel through the process of team self-selection. Creating Great Teams: How Self-Selection Lets People Excel Website

On today's podcast, Bill speaks with Jutta Eckstein, who shares her passion for sustainability and concerns that agile may increase our carbon footprint. Jutta shares how you can make a difference in your personal life and career using the three pillars of sustainability: People, Planet, and Profit.     Article: Leveraging the Agile Manifesto for More Sustainability Website Sustainability Twitter...

Do you feel your voice is not heard on important topics or meetings? As a leader, do you want to elicit your teams' best possible guidance and ideas?   Today, Dr. Becky Winkler, a corporate psychologist, covers both topics with unambiguous advice for leaders to make the space for their teams and how you can drive out your inner saboteur to show up and be a part of the conversation. This is a livel...

As you improve your products, so should the customer experience. Today, Jurgen Appelo and Bill Raymond talk about the need for customer experience leadership. SHIFTUP Website Startup, Scaleup, Screwup (book) Recommended reading: Team Topologies

In today's podcast, you will learn what a feature factory roadmap looks like and how to avoid them. Ryan Dawson, Principal Data Consultant at ThoughtWorks, shares the mindset and thought process you can take to build a roadmap that solves problems and focuses on outcomes. From Feature Factory to Empowered Team article LinkedIn Twitter  

Continuing our "Agile in..." series, we talk to Emily Disque and Laura Pike Seeley from the renowned design and architecture firm HKS, Inc. You will learn how their Global Knowledge Services (GKS) team drives knowledge strategy in support of HKS' values and priorities.   You'll learn how GKS collaborates with designers, researchers and technical staff to formalize knowledge surrounding essential t...

In today's podcast, Linda Parker Gates from the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University talks about organizational agility. Linda shares the importance of an execution-first mentality, setting a vision while being nimble enough to make course corrections, and the importance of data-driven decision making.   Contact the Software Engineering Institute via email: info(at)sei.cmu....

Today, Chris Jones, partner at Silicon Valley Product Group and co-author of the book Empowered joins us to talk about the shift to agility and a product-focused culture. Chris shares how too many times, we focus on delivering a project that we assume has a beginning, middle, and end when we should look at it differently. Successful organizations treat such efforts as a product where there is not...

In today's podcast, I speak with Glenn Gow, The CEO Therapist and a CEO Coach. If your organization is unclear about its intended objectives, you will not achieve alignment. That misalignment can have tangible costs, such as not meeting revenue targets, reduced customer value, or reduced employee satisfaction. Glenn shares how CEOs and senior leaders should define measurable Objectives and Key Res...

Some of us love swirling in the abyss of the unknown, while others need direction, clarity, and specificity. Ambiguity can lead to behaviors that drive an organization to falter, lose its competitive edge, or lose disillusioned employees.   In today's podcast, Linda Varrell shares how to identify and recognize ambiguity. Linda then shares the tools, techniques, and best practices to reduce ambigui...

Laura Pirro came to learn some agile concepts taking a course while at Ghent University. The course teacher said agile is primarily for software development and did not apply to R&D. Laura decided to learn more about agile and found that R&D projects could benefit from the ideas.   Without using the word "agile," Laura started implementing some of the modern ideas brought to us by organizations li...

Developing governmental policies can be a long and arduous task. At Citizens Advice, they streamline that process and use agile techniques to share ideas sooner, improve feedback loops, and focus on outputs. End State: 9 Ways Society is Broken - and how we can fix it Can you do agile policy work? LinkedIn @jamestplunkett

Very often, we refer to agile as supporting a product-focused operating model. So, what is that operating model and what might it look like? Blake Bassett defines an operating model and then shares how you can consider creating your own. Blake shares how to consider building a model by using the following topic areas:   Goals and measures of success Team principles Development process Workflow Act...

Agile teams often think differently than more traditional project planning efforts. Gone are months-long project schedules with tasks, milestones, and resource plans. In place of that are autonomous teams that define a value-driven backlog of work, and they schedule that work in short iterations (or sprints) over 1-4 weeks. Those teams will estimate the work and determine what can be done based on...

In today's lively conversation with Adam Jennison, Enterprise Agile Consultant, you will learn how agile teams estimate their work and track how well they performed based on the estimate. You will also learn how to implement these concepts in your team, no matter what type of work you do. If you come from a traditional project management background, you are likely familiar with the process of defi...

James Shore is the author of The Art of Agile Development. Today, he is announcing the generally availability of the book and shares what you will learn. In the text below, you will find the description of the book, including a link to get a copy for yourself.   Most companies developing software employ something they call "Agile." But there's widespread misunderstanding of what Agile is and how t...

Organizations that want to be more agile will often create small, autonomous teams that can deliver faster. The structure for those teams often looks similar to those defined by SCRUM. However, what happens when many SCRUM teams, maybe 20, 30, or more, need to work on coordinated release efforts? That is a problem the Scaled Agile Framework (or SAFe) may need to answer.   In today's podcast, I spe...

Do you have outdated or complex business flows that are hindering your ability to deliver more value to your customers at a faster pace? Today's podcast guest, Steve Pereira, "The Value Stream Guy" and creator of "Flow Engineering," will share how to "Marie Kondo" your processes.   Steve shares the following concepts while we talk about some real-world examples: Design your outcomes Measure your w...

Have you ever opened up an app that you love, just to be bothered by that one critical feature that hardly works, feels too slow, or is just frustrating to use? Chances are, the developers that wrote that code are all too aware of the problem. Maybe the code is too complex to fix without re-writing it, or perhaps their priorities shift to some other newer and shinier feature of the product. We cal...

Product Lifecycle Management, especially for large and complex products like automobiles, is ripe for re-invention. Organizations adopt agile techniques and focus on smaller, more focused teams to deliver more competitive and customer-centric solutions at near breakneck speeds. Imagine building a car, for example. Tracking all the parts from vendors around the world would be hard enough. Now, imag...