Women in Agile

In this 2021 conversation, our host Leslie Morse geeks out with friend and colleague Summer Lawrence as they dance through a variety of topics related to professional development, learning, experimentation and personal empiricism.  About the Featured Guest Summer Lawrence is an Agile Coach and Professional Scrum Trainer. Her passion is helping agilists with powerful ways to grow their skills and m...

Pragmatic Talk about Community, Agility, Teams and Organizations - Georgina Donahue | 2201 During this 2021 conversation, Georgina Donahue and Leslie Morse explore what community means, how community and Agile intersect, and the adjacency of Pragmatic Marketing, Product Management and agility. About the Featured Guest Georgina Donahue is an experienced community builder who has worked with compani...

This episode of the Women in Agile Podcast is the final installment of the “Coaching Agile Teams” Mini-Series. Lyssa Adkins and host, Leslie Morse, explore the opportunity agile practitioners and agile coaches have to impact society on a global level. The episode has a balance of serious reflection and inquiry sprinkled with laughter, appreciation, and deep dreaming for the future. You can learn m...

Nada Buhendi, former management consultant turned career coach, joins Women In Agile Podcast host Leslie Morse for a discussion where she shares her story and perspectives on career agility and what she sees impacting both job seekers and those looking to hire agile professionals. Nada does an exceptional job of being vulnerable about how she experienced the workplace and the factors that led her...

This episode of the Women in Agile Podcast is another from the “Coaching Agile Teams” Mini-Series. Our Host, Leslie Morse is joined by Lyssa Adkins and special guest Molood Ceccarelli as they explore the dynamics of remote working and serving agile teams while not physically co-located.  Featured Guest Molood Ceccarelli is a Remote work strategist & remote agile coach often referred to as the...

During this episode of the Women in Agile Podcast, host Leslie Morse is joined by Lisa Bradburn as they discuss the interplay of agile coaching and Gestalt Psychotherapy. Lisa shares her agile origin story and what led her to study Gestalt Psychotherapy.  Then they proceed to unpack the difference in coaching and psychotherapy, what Gestalt Psychotherapy is, and how underlying skills and tenets of...

This Episode of the Women in Agile Podcast is another from the “Coaching Agile Teams” Mini-Series. Our Host, Leslie Morse is joined by Lyssa Adkins and her mentor, Mike Vizdos. It is a special conversation filled with lightness, vulnerability, and true wisdom.  Leslie guides Lyssa and Mike through a series of stories and anecdotes that not only tell aspects of Lyssa’s origin story and evolution, b...

This episode of the “Coaching Agile Teams” Mini-Series on the Women in Agile Podcast brings you Part 2 of a discussion on the art and science of team coaching and group facilitation. During this episode, Lyssa Adkins and our host, Leslie Morse, focus on the topic of group facilitation before wrapping the overall discussion by circling back to team coaching as they touch on co-leadership and co-fac...

In this special release episode, Women in Agile Org is thrilled to feature our new sponsor for the Women in Agile Podcast, Scrum.org.  Listen in as Dave West, CEO of Scrum.org and Patricia Kong, Product Owner of Enterprise Solutions at Scrum.org, join our host Leslie Morse for a conversation on diversity, complexity, and social responsibility. They touch on some of the origins of Scrum, what compl...

The “Coaching Agile Teams” Mini-Series is more than half-way over, and during this episode, Women In Agile Podcast host, Leslie Morse, leads Lyssa Adkins through the first part of a discussion on the art and science of team coaching and group facilitation. During part one of this conversation, Lyssa and Leslie focus exclusively on the team coaching topic. During part 2 you’ll get the chance to hea...

The seventh topic of the “Coaching Agile Teams” Mini-Series on the Women in Agile Podcast brings you a content-heavy discussion with Lyssa Adkins and our host, Leslie Morse. During this episode they explore five categories of models useful when working with agile teams. Detecting and Seeing Problems Navigating Conflict High Performing Teams Team Development Product Management and Product Ownership...

President of Ascendle, Diana Bourns, joins our host Leslie Morse for a conversation on how Ascendle has leveraged discipline & empowerment as the underpinnings for creating a thriving agile organization. During this discussion Diana reveals that supporting organizational memory through co-created documentation as well as halving a relentless strive to improve are other keys for their success. One...

The seventh episode of The Women in Agile Podcast’s Coaching Agile Teams Mini-Series brings you the second part of the conversation where Lyssa Adkins and Leslie Morse explore the pathway to Agile Coaching.  Part 1 of this discussion left off as Lyssa & Leslie were opening a discussion on coaching ethics and the intersection of agile coaching and professional coaching. There is specific focus...

Join us for reflections and appreciations as Natalie Warnert and Leslie Morse celebrate International Women’s Day 2021. During this episode of the Women in Agile Podcast, you’ll get insight on the accomplishments and impacts of Women in Agile Org from the President and Executive Director, Natalie Warnert.  The 2021 International Women’s Day theme #ChooseToChallenge is a key aspect of the discussio...

The sixth episode of the Women in Agile Podcast Coaching Agile Teams Mini-Series brings you the first part of a deep discussion between Lyssa Adkins and our host Leslie Morse where they unpack multiple dimensions of the pathway to becoming an Agile Coach.  During this discussion you’ll start collecting tips, tricks, and pointers for reflection as you consider forming your own agile coach journey....

The fifth episode of The Coaching Agile Teams Mini-Series features special guest Kory Stamper. The conversation with Lyssa Adkins, Kory Stamper and Leslie Morse twists and turns through a variety of topics all inspired by the ah-ha moment Lyssa had when listening to Kory’s Women in Agile 2020 keynote. It caused her to take a step back and really look at the words she used in the “Coaching Agile Te...

The fourth episode of the Coaching Agile Teams Mini-Series wrap-ups the foundation setting context of the series. During this conversation Lyssa Adkins and Leslie Morse do more than share information about the supplements for the Coaching Agile Teams audiobook that are available when you purchase from Audible. Hear them discuss tips and tricks for making book clubs successful as well as get a mini...

In this episode of the Women in Agile podcast, Jessica Katz joins Leslie Morse for a conversation about how to best accept accountability when you’ve done harm to someone. They dance through a variety of examples, point to blindspots, and provide tips for how you can become more aware of when you’re doing harm and how best to repair relationships where you’ve caused harm. She also shares parts of...

The third episode of The Coaching Agile Teams Mini-Series unpacks a side of Lyssa Adkins you may have never seen before. You hear Leslie Morse comment on the laughter and lightness of the discussion during her opening comments and that comes alive in a real way through the use of metaphors inspired by playground equipment. During this episode, Leslie and Lyssa unpack not only aspects of Lyssa’s jo...

The second episode of The Coaching Agile Teams Mini-Series was recorded by Lyssa Adkins and Leslie Morse in August of 2020. During this conversation they explore the inspiration and mission for the mini-series. It is very much an exploratory conversation with moments of laughter counterbalanced with deep and at times vulnerable discussion. Leslie and Lyssa open their hearts and minds in an invitat...

Lyssa Adkins, a predominant stalwart in the Agile community and author of the 2010 book “Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition” joins Women In Agile Podcast host Leslie Morse to kick-off the Coaching Agile Teams mini-series. This is the first in a series of episodes where Lyssa and Leslie explore ten topics related to the topic of Agi...

Brandi Olson works at the intersection between learning, organizational agility, and human-centered design. She says: “We put people in a position of having to choose between doing good work and their humanity, and in most cases that’s a false choice.”  Listen in as we explore how to recognize burnout in ourselves as well as in our organization, how it’s all about prioritization (whether proactive...

Whether coaching, facilitating or value-stream mapping, Lizzy Morris introduces innovative and pragmatic techniques for promoting team engagement and accountability. She believes it is women who will catalyze change in society.  We are living in another Civil Rights movement. During the 60’s, people who supported the movement saw their businesses burnt down and they lost customers. Although the en...

Erin Kaohelaulii-Brett wakes up every day ready to motivate others to be a catalyst for change. An agile coach in the healthcare insurance industry, she shares her unique story of going from super skeptical to change champion – all while finding ways to integrate lessons from Hawaiian language and culture into her daily work.   The agile transformation initiative at her employer started strong the...

Dana James-Edwards is an agilist through-and-through. She is leveraging her talent in this area as she transitions her career focus solely towards enabling companies to come to grips with what it takes to truly enable diversity and inclusion.   This kind of conversation is the reason we launched this podcast, to give voice to the stories of women who are still discriminated against in our agile co...