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Jeff Patton led an Ask Me Almost Anything session at Agile 2018. And, Jeff has also authored a book called User Story Mapping Contact Info jpattonassociates.com / Twitter

Joe was at Agile 2018 facilitating a workshop on Business Agility with Innovation Accounting Contact Info:  Twitter  

At Agile 2018, Lyssa and Dave sat down to  talk about Lyssa's Inspire Me Deck, Integral Life Practice, and the concept of "shadow work." Contact Info agilecoachinginstitute.com https://twitter.com/CoachAgileTeams Lyssa on Twitter  

Our two favorite purple shirts, stopped by the booth to talk about what volunteering to be an Agile 2018 event coordinator looks like and how you can get involved in next year's conference. Contact Info:  Sarah Klarich on Twitter Pam Corbin on Twitter 

Erika and Michele's session at Agile 2018: Verbal Agility - Facilitation Tips and Techniques Contact Info Erika  Lenz:  erikalenz.com / Twitter Michele Sliger sligerconsulting.com / Twitter

LeadingAgile's very own CEO, Mike Cottmeyer, stopped by the booth to talk about his Agile 2018 speaker session entitled: Agile Transformation Explained . To download the white paper that corresponds to Mike's talk click the link below: Download the White Paper Contact Info Mike: leadingagile.com / Twitter 

Our very own CFO, Paul Argiry led a session at Agile 2018 entitled: Addressing Your CFO’s Concerns to an Enterprise-Wide Agile Transformation Contact Info Paul:   leadingagile.com / LinkedIn

Ron and Chet's Agile 2018 Session: Ask Us Almost Anything - Ron and Chet Experience Agile is taking place in Lisbon, Portugal on October 1-2 Contact Info: Ron Jeffries:  RonJeffries.com / Twitter Chet Hendrickson:  hendricksonxp.com / Twitter

Bob led a session at Agile 2018 entitled: Agile Road Trip: Lessons from a Coach at Toyota Contact Info Bob: zen-pm.blogspot.com / Twitter  

Diana's Sessions Ask me Almost Anything Going Beyond "Are we Doomed: to Sticky, Tricky and Icky?" Shining a Light on Sexism at Work  w/ Sharon Buckmaster Diana's Books Liftoff: Launching Agile Projects and Teams with Ainsley Nies Agile Retrospectives with Esther Derby Contact Info Diana: agilefluency.org / Twitter  

Linda's Agile 2018 Sessions Ask Me Almost Anything Thinking Fast and Slow - So What Can We Do About It Linda's books include The Pattern Almanac 2000 Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas More Fearless Change  Contact Info Linda: lindarising.org /  Twitter

Mark and Johanna Co-Presented a talk at Agile 2018 entitled:  You have to Say More There: Effective Communication in a Distributed Agile Team Their book is called From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teamsit can be purchased on LeanPub Johanna led another session at Agile 2018:  Agile and Lean Roadmapping Mark also led an additional session at Agile 2018:  Agile Distributed Teams—Oxymoron or...

Agile 2018 is almost here! Whether you’re attending for the very first time, or you’re a seasoned veteran, getting the most out of this Agile experience…all comes down to how you show up. In this episode of SoundNotes, Dave has recruited Rachel Howard and Tim Zack—our Chief Cultural Officer and Chief Marketing Officer, respectively. Together, these three will help you prepare for—and maximize your...

LeadingAgile's CFO, Paul Argiry, will be at Agile 2018 to lead a session on  Addressing Your CFO's Concerns To An Enterprise-Wide Agile Transformation . In this episode of LeadingAgile's SoundNotes, Paul offers a preview of the session he'll be leading in San Diego. During the interview, Paul and Dave discuss why it's so important to understand what your CFO's concerns are when it comes to making...

John Tanner is going to be at Agile 2018 delivering his talk entitled:  Agile Metrics - The GQM Approach . The session will take place on Wednesday, August 8 at 10:45 AM. If you're new to GQM, it stands for Goal - Question - Metrics—which has been John's key area of focus for quite some time. If you're working towards gaining clarity around what data to collect at the different levels of your orga...

Creating a Definition of Ready is one of the best ways to help your Team(s) make sure they're only committing to work they can actually get done. It's also one of the best ways for a Product Owner to make sure they're not going to waste valuable time in Sprint Planning by asking the Team to work on things that aren't in an actionable state. In this episode of SoundNotes, Rick Austin and Dave Prior...

In this episode of SoundNotes, Mike Cottmeyer and Dave Prior discuss how organizational Transformation continues to evolve. The conversation offers a brief preview of some of the things Mike will be covering at his Agile 2018session: “Agile Transformation Explained” http://sched.co/EUF1 During the interview, Mike and Dave discuss how the skill sets needed to lead and shepherd those Transformations...

This episode of SoundNotes focuses on Definition of Ready. A few weeks ago, Dave Nicolette created a post in Field Notes that was the result of a current debate in the Agile community about whether having a Definition of Ready helps, or harms our ability to deliver value for the customer. The episode begins with Dave Nicolette explaining Definition of Ready within the context of the LeadingAgile m...

If you are working at an organization that is applying Agile practices across the enterprise, chances are,  somewhere early on in the transformation a tool was selected to help the teams manage their work and hopefully provide management with some kind of visibility into the work being done. One of the unfortunate truths about the tools is that while they are capable of doing a lot of things, most...

In this episode of SoundNotes, Dean Stevens and Dave Prior dig into Capability Mapping, how it works and why it is such an important part of the transforming your organization. Capability Mapping is a technique that can be used to quickly gain greater awareness of how an organization does what it does, what processes it uses to do what it does, and where there are opportunities to remove waste and...

For any organization moving to Agile, the question of how to handle tracking and reporting is going to present challenges. If you are moving from a traditional environment, there may be an expectation (dependency) on traditional forms of reporting. If you are starting out with an electronic tool, there may be a wide range of reporting options. Just because you an create a report, does not mean you...

One of the most important things you can do to help your team be successful is to ensure they have a Definition of Done. Once you have it, you need to revisit in in each Retrospective meeting to make any updates and you need to explain it to the Stakeholders in every Sprint Review. A Definition of Done is more than just Acceptance Criteria. These are the conditions that must be met for your organi...

For Development Teams transitioning to Agile one common challenge is breaking the work down into small vertical slices that can go from a Post-It Note to shippable product in 2-3 days. Most of the time, (there are always exceptions) the issue is not that the work cannot be broken down, but that the Development Team is accustomed to looking at the work in a more traditional way and they are not abl...

One of the common misconceptions about Agile is that there's no documentation. This simply isn't true. The second line of the Agile Manifesto reads: “Working software over comprehensive documentation” This doesn’t mean that we don’t have documentation. It just means that the folks who created the manifesto did not see the value in delivering the documentation at the expense of delivering working,...

This week, at the 2018 North American Global Scrum Gathering, the Scrum Alliance and Scrum co-founder, Dr. Jeff Sutherland, announced the creation of a new joint venture to train, coach, and promote Scrum@Scale. Scrum@Scale is an extension of the Scrum Framework that is designed to deliver business Agility across an entire organization. Dave Prior had a chance to sit down with Jeff during the Scru...