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In this special episode, we offer a broad overview of portfolio management that uses lean and agile thinking and approaches. Our guides are Evan Campbell and Kat Conner, who together have 50 years of experience in portfolio, budgeting and funding.
“Agile portfolio management is matching limited supply to unlimited demand to maximize business outcomes,” say Campbell and Conner.
You’ll hear five parts:
- Introduction to agile portfolio management
- The supply side
- The demand side
- Matching and governance
- Funding and budgeting
This is a deep dive into the topic and it’s the full-length story behind our Agile Portfolio Management video series. Watch and share these 5-minute educational videos with your customers and colleagues and watch the recorded webinar to hear real-world examples from clients and coaches in the trenches at solutionsiq.com/apm.
Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Alalia Lundy hosts.
The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility.
Podcast library: www.agileamped.com
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This week is all about Earned Value and Justin Polk is back, spending time with Dave discussing how Earned Value tools can be applied in an Agile Transformation. They explore what types of work you might want to consider using it for, how it can help, and what types of people might find the path to Agile just a little more possible when you show them how Earned Value metrics can be applied on an Agile Team.
Links
If you are new to Earned Value, here are a few links to help you get started:
- Agile and Earned Value Management: A Program Manager’s Desk Guide
- Agile and Earned Value (APM)
- Measuring Integrated Progress on Agile Software Development Projects
- Beyond backlogs and burndowns–complementing “agile” methods with EVM for improved project performance
Contacting Justin Polk
- LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/justin-polk/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-polk/
- Email: [email protected]
Contacting Dave Prior
If you’d like to contact Dave you can reach him at:
- LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrsungo
- Email: [email protected]
If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to [email protected]
And if you’re interested in taking one of our upcoming Certified ScrumMaster or Certified Scrum Product Owner classes, you can find all the details at https://www.leadingagile.com/our-gear/training/
Vic (@AgileCoffee) was joined by Martin Salias (@MartinSalias), Savannah Rayat (@SavannahRayat), Timon Fiddike (@TimonFiddike), and Raj Kasturi (@RajKasturi / @agileRaj) to discuss topics related to becoming a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST).
Sites and resources mentioned in this episode:
- Björn Jensen’s Trainer – Kata
- CST® Journey – Facebook group for aspiring CSTs
- Retromat.org – a wonderful tool for your Retrospectives; co-created by Timon
- Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST®) Certification Overview – posted on the Scrum Alliance’s website (6/2020)
Looking for Scrum/Kanban training in Southern California or Nashville, TN? Rocket Nine has got you covered. Visit RocketNineSolutions.com today.
Listen in as @AgileAtelier Rahul Bhattacharya chats with Colleen Johnson @scrumhive and Andy Cleff @justsitthere on the topic of Product Discovery – a flexible period during which you and your team focus on building the right thing as opposed to building the thing right (Product Delivery)
Rahul Bhattacharya is an independent Lean/Agility coach, speaker, and trainer who is currently living in Berlin, Germany.
More about the Dual Track Single Flow model
Contact Information
- www.rahul-bhattacharya.com
- LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul1727/
- https://twitter.com/AgileAtelier
- www.agile-atelier.com
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Steve was hired to help the teams go “faster”. However, when he started to see the Prodcut Owners throw their teams under the bus at Sprint Demos he understood that something else was going on. It wasn’t only about helping teams be faster anymore. As he started to dig deeper, he found a culture of fear in the organization and many other anti-patterns that he shares with us. A great story, with lots of warnings for us to keep an eye out for.
Featured Book of the Week: The #NoEstimates Book by Vasco Duarte
In The #NoEstimates Book by Vasco Duarte, Steve found a book that helped him understand what empirical process control is about, and put some things in place on how he approaches teams and their process.
In this segment, we also refer to The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team, Drive!, Coaching Agile Teams, Agile Game Development with Scrum, and Suzuki’s Zen Mind.
About Steve Jaccaud
Steve is an Enterprise Agile Coach, Volunteer, Speaker, and Musician in Boston, Massachusetts. When he’s not leading workshops with creative software organizations, he’s probably working on an album or deep in meditation!
You can link with Steve Jaccaud on LinkedIn and connect with Steve Jaccaud on Twitter.
Last year I spoke with Jurgen Appelo at LitheSpeeds annual Lean + Agile DC conference. He delivered a great Keynote on his book Startup, Scaleup, Screwup.
Just a quick announcement to inform everyone that The PM Podcast will be going on a break until about August 15, 2020
Cornelius’s brother passed away earlyer this month and he’s taking time off to deal with the situation.
Items necessary for "Minimum Viable Airlines" and your "Minimum Viable Project". These are the items that we agreed we would need before embarking on a project together. Do you have all of these before you begin a project?
- Destination – Project Vision
- Altitude – Depth of backlog
- Location – Progress (working software)
- Airspeed – Speed of delivery and speed constraints
- Fuel – Stories
- Captain or pilot – A leader
- Black box – Project data or metrics
- Landing gear – A clear and well worn path to prod
- Good flight procedures – Working agreements
- FAA flight time restrictions for pilots – Sustainable pace
- Logbook – Source control
- Emergency slide – Good enough or a safe way to end a project on short notice
Picks
Jason
- Podcasting Innovation – it’s amazing how much has changed in the last 7+ years, thanks to all the people & companies that have created
- Goats to Go – www.goatsonthego.com – you can poop out the back of the airplane
- The Red Rubber Ball at Work – by Kevin Carroll – a fun book on practical strategies and why you should inject more fun into the workplace – http://kevincarrollkatalyst.com/books
- TV shows you can watch that Jason likes:
- Why Planes Crash
- Airline Repo
John
- Uncle Bob, professionalism in software development and the future of programming, https://youtu.be/LmRl0D-RkPU
Craig
- Waverunners
- Vacation from your vacation
- China Airlines Flight 006, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Airlines_Flight_006
- Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accidents_and_incidents
Ty Crockett is a Director at Improving and a Professional Scrum Trainer with Scrum.org. Check out the full show notes at TheAgileWire.com
YouTube: https://youtu.be/HZrkzWbBwdE
Twitter: @AgileWire
Create an agile framework for your org—learn from David Bishop, technologist, consultant, entrepreneur, and author of a book on a novel concept called “Metagility”.
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Were you handed a guidebook or manual when you became a leader? Did someone pull you aside and give you some tips just before you first real tough discussion/moment as a leader?
I assume you’re like the rest of us and had to navigate a few challenging situations on your own. Today’s episode is meant to provide you with some real world, hard earned experiential advice. We’ll share a few patterns and anti-patterns we’ve seen in our travels in hopes of arming you with the confidence and knowledge needed to tackle some rough patches in your leadership journey.
What did we miss? Are here any situations you’d like us to dig in a bit deeper? Drop us a note on Twitter or email to let us know how we can help!
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The Liberators (Barry Overeem and Christiaan Verwijs) joined Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller for an episode of Craft Brewed Agile on YouTube. We discussed building a consulting business, focusing on the things that bring you joy, and how authenticity can make all the difference in your agile pursuits.
Support the show:
- Purchase our new book – Fixing Your Scrum: Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems.
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Special Guests: Barry Overeem and Christiaan Verwijs.
A lot of PO’s, teams, and organizations struggle with the principles of the agile manifesto. One in particular causes so many issues, that of simplicity. Adding instead of removing, more instead of less, trivial many over the essential few. In our products, systems, and structures you’ve seen the added parts that build more and more complexity and complications. Why do we collectively do that? What can you do to help simplify some of those items or start with a simple item to begin with. In this episode, there are some suggestions for how to engage your focus, some steps to work toward simplicity, and tips to keep it there. Feedback: twitter – @deliveritcast email – [email protected] Links: PO Coaching and Consulting – seek taiju Des Traynor – Product Strategy: Revisited Chris Davies – Simplicity — the least understood Agile Principle Ron Jeffries – YAGNI, yes. Skimping, no. Technical Debt? Not even. Cognitive edge – Cynefin framework introduction Christopher Laine – Advice to Product Owners from a Developer Gee Paw Hill – Re-Balancing Made, Making, and Makers
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Special guest Jessica Kerr asks: What if we could understand the words?
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- Sanctus – Benedictus – Osanna II
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The momentum for rich and impactful D&I conversation is gathering speed.
But most efforts seem to concentrate around gender & race.
The D&I conversation needs to expand to include different styles of thinking & perceiving. You need to ensure that you are leveraging abilities of those employees who can naturally help you thrive in the VUCA.
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.
In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Bas Vodde, one of the formulators of Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) about how LeSS is designed to descale an organisation rather than scaling up to cope with complexity
Why listen to this podcast:
• LeSS is based on the idea of de-scaling and reducing complexity rather than scaling to cope with complexity
• A characteristic of LeSS adoptions is that the concepts of projects and programs tend to completely disappear in favour of product-based working
• With LeSS, you have always one Product Owner for the entire product. Product owners per team are considered to be an exceptionally bad idea from a LeSS perspective
• LeSS is based on having largely stable, cross-functional teams working on customer centric functionality
• LeSS is based on a set of ten principles which guide the approach, and then imperical feedback based on experiments and constant learning
More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2WcEiwy
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In this series, we talk to customers about their field experiences with remote SAFe ceremonies and implementations. This episode with Scott Frost, SAFe Fellow, SPCT, and senior business agility transformation coach from Accenture, dives into a fully remote, distributed ART launch.
Jira Align Technical Account Manager Matt Magee provides insights on how traditional PPM style time tracking can still be critical in an agile world. Learn more at agilecraft.com/time.
Today on the podcast, Dan Neumann and Christy Erbeck are discussing how to lead in times of crisis and come out of it stronger than ever.
As a leader, it is critically important to take care of yourself during crises to be able to lead others through them, as well. In this episode, Christy shares her tips for leading through crisis, key strategies leaders can begin to implement, and how to cultivate a healthy work environment for everyone involved.
Key Takeaways
Christy’s tips for leaders, leading in a time of crisis:
Use it as a time to reflect on where you are now and where you want to be on the other side of it all
Take time to process your emotions and lead from a place of truth
Lead by example; take care of yourself and work at a sustainable pace while encouraging the rest of the team
Transparency is key — be transparent about where you are, as a team, as an organization, and in relation to the difficult decisions you’ve had to make to survive the crisis (transparency offers the opportunity for growth and building trust within the organization)
Understand your audience in your approach with being transparent; it is important to care for the person receiving the information
Going hand-in-hand with transparency, it is also critical to communicate (and the need for communication exponentially rises, the greater the crisis)
Meaningful, intentional communication and on-going dialogue between the employee and the leader (or the team and the team members) is critically important for minimizing the stories they may be telling themselves when there is a gap in communication or lack of communication
Connect in a meaningful way with your employees vs. walking away or being silent
Authenticity is critically important in leading through a crisis — it’s not about what you know; it’s about what you’re willing to learn
Do not defer taking action until the last possible moment
How to come out of a crisis stronger than ever with your team:
Delegate decision-making and allow other people to make decisions within a framework
Take pragmatic action
Ensure you are still meeting and talking about your longer-term strategy beyond COVID-19
Examine how to position your organization so that when you come out on the other side of COVID-19 you are attractive to the marketplace and your customers
Leverage OKRs
Apply an experimental mindset and conduct experiments (one way you could do this is to utilize Kanban boards)
Implement empirical process control
Cultivate a culture steeped in trust and forgiveness
Continual planning
Reach out to others as a leader so that you’re not making decisions in a vacuum and are leveraging other people’s expertise
Imagine what the leader that you most respect would do; how would they handle this situation? And how can you tap into this person’s expertise?
Make the time to reflect and gain perspective
Be courageous as a leader by being vulnerable
Mentioned in this Episode:
Agile Coaches’ Corner Ep. 5: “Exploring an Experimental Mindset with Adam Ulery”
Small Business Administration (SBA)
SCORE — Service Corps of Retired Executives
“Microsoft Analyzed Data on its Newly Remote Workforce,” Harvard Business Review
“Managing When the Future is Unclear,” Harvard Business Review
“Leadership in Times of Crisis,” American Psychological Association
“How to Survive a Recession and Thrive Afterward,” Harvard Business Review
“The Downside of Flex Time,” Harvard Business Review
“The Reopening Challenge: 5 Tips for Getting Back to Business,” Inc.
“COVID-19 is Reshaping Business: 6 Tips for Coming Back Even Stronger,” Forbes
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Squirrel describes a client of his that is “thrashing”—trying to do so many different things that they aren’t getting anything finished. We reflect on why this happens, including the idea that being busy feels good while increasing focus can mean disrupting comfortable routines. We suggest asking “why can’t we finish this today?” as a forcing mechanism for discovering bottlenecks and alternative approaches.
SHOW LINKS:
– Theory of Constraints: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_constraints
– Domenica DeGrandis, Making Work Visible: https://itrevolution.com/book/making-work-visible/
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“Starting work doesn’t generate value, starting work only costs money. Finishing work generates value.” – Klaus Leopold
First, there was personal productivity.
Then, everyone started talking about Agile teams.
Today, it’s time to take it even higher.
In this episode of the Lamp, we are talking about business alignment with Klaus Leopold. Klaus is an experienced computer scientist and a well-known Kanban pioneer – he was one of the first Lean Kanban trainers and coaches worldwide.
He is the author of books Practical Kanban, Kanban in IT and co-author of Kanban Change Leadership. Today on the podcast, Klaus is sharing with us his passion for establishing lean business agility that goes beyond teams.
Business alignment and coordination might be one of the biggest challenges any leader faces. In this episode, you’ll learn how to enable your teams and your whole organization to do the right work at the right time using the concept of Flight Levels.
Team performance vs Business Agility
We often think we need to have agile teams in our business so they would deliver projects faster. But that’s the wrong lever.
What should we optimize in business to speed up the overall delivery time?
How to take the right decisions on the right levels.
Individual performance vs Team performance vs Company performance
Understanding the difference between team Kanban and Portfolio Kanban
When you fly high, you don’t see much detail. When you fly low, you can’t see the bigger picture
How to ensure the right team is working on the right stuff at the right time
How to optimize cross-team collaboration for value delivery
The impact of levers you can use is greater at higher levels of your organization. But if the lever doesn’t solve your problem, it doesn’t matter how strong it is.
Business agility is not about the power of the lever. It’s not about the performance of individuals, not about team performance, not even about product performance. It’s all about company performance.
First, company, then products, then teams, then individuals. But it’s the company that has to improve.
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In this episode, we talk about how we deal with unconscious biases as a coach, and how do we detect and dampen them. Also, we talk about how to shift the team to an outcome mindset.
- (00:00) Introduction
- (00:46) Dealing with unconscious biases
- (31:54) Shifting to an outcome mindset
- (46:59) Wrap up
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