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Innovation Accounting Jan 17, 2019

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Joe Vallone, a senior consultant at Scaled Agile and an experienced Agile Coach and Trainer, sits down with us to talk innovation accounting. "All companies want to be innovative, but nobody wants to pay for it." The cost, he reminds us, is steep and measured in time not money. After comparing innovations and heavy investments from the past (Post-WWII and the SR21 Blackbird) and the present (Tesla and self-driving cars), Vallone touches on how innovation accounting fits into SAFe 4.6 and emphasizes the importance of leading indicators over traditional lagging indicators like net-present value, which were invented in a time of homogenous systems where variability was predictable.

Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Adam Mattis hosts at SAFe Summit 2018 in Washington, D.C.

Reach our guest:Email joe.vallone@scaledagile.comTwitter twitter.com/joejv

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Transformation in the Federal Government Starts with Contracts Jan 10, 2019

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Transformation in the Federal Government is often thought of as slow and daunting. However, Chris Palmisano and Greg Pfister have noticed a real push from leadership to adopt Agile principles and it's showing up in an unlikely place: contracts.

"If that contract is not structured in a way that shows clear alignment on Agile principles with the right support from leadership… it becomes very difficult to correct course and really promote those ideas and principles".

Like most large organizations, the Federal Government struggles with leadership buy-in. But with an aging workforce being replaced by college graduates who are not trained in non-object-oriented programing languages and are not versed, nor care about, "plan-driven models"– things are on the verge of change.

Adam Mattis hosts at the SAFe Summit 2018 in Washington, D.C.

Reach our guests:Greg Pfister LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/pfisterville/Chris Palmisano LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/chris-palmisano-1a73a01/

Reach our host:Twitter twitter.com/adammattis13

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Lean Experiments and Design Thinking for Your Backlog Jan 03, 2019

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David Bland, founder of Precoil, helps both startup founders and enterprise leaders rapidly find product market fit. He sat down to talk about using Lean experiments with Agile teams, and how to fold in design thinking as a new way to look at your backlog.

When considering what to work on, teams should look at: - Desirability – Do people want this? - Viability – Should we be working on this? - Feasibility – Can we do this?

However, most teams focus on "Can we do this?" and not enough on "Do we want this?" or "Should we work on this?" Bland walks us through what a discovery engine for a team looks like, how to include the customer in your feedback loop, and how to run Lean experiments to reduce uncertainty in your backlog.

Howard Sublett hosts at Agile2018 in San Diego.

Reach our guest:Email david@precoil.comWebsite precoil.com/Twitter twitter.com/davidjbland

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Making Roadmaps More Agile Dec 27, 2018

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"Pragmatic Manager" and author Johanna Rothman sits down to discuss her packed Agile2018 session "Agile and Lean Roadmapping: Incorporating Change at Every Level of Product Planning." Businesses tend to want to follow a plan even when new information is available. Rothman advises using Minimum Viable Experiments to validate a business hypothesis and letting the results influence plans. To do so, she advocates for delivering on tiny stories (daily, if possible) and using rolling wave planning. She adds, "Resource efficiency is the greatest threat to knowledge work… I really like flow efficiency, where the entire team works together to produce the product."

Howard Sublett hosts at Agile2018 in San Diego.

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"DevOps for the Modern Enterprise" Author Micro Hering Dec 20, 2018

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Author of "DevOps for the Modern Enterprise" Mirco Hering is a Managing Director at Accenture leading the Agile & DevOps practice in the APAC region. Hering shares with us the two topics that he didn't find in other books on DevOps, which motivated him to write his own. He also highlights for us why it's so important to love learning.

"The world will continue to change and we need to continue to evolve… If you go to uni these days, it's not a matter of getting that degree and continuing working in that space for the rest of your life; it's you learn how to learn and now you need to do that for the rest of your career to continue to evolve."

Hering covers the areas of knowledge necessary for success in IT today, but advises that you don't need to be an expert in all of them. You need a little bit of knowledge in a lot of areas, and specialization in one.

Accenture's Keith Pleas hosts at DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas.

Reach out to our guest:mirco.hering@accenture.com

Purchase "DevOps for the Modern Enterprise": https://itrevolution.com/book/devops_modern_enterprise/

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Scaling Continuous Delivery at Walmart Dec 13, 2018

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Bryan and Dana Finster share their experiences helping deploy Continuous Delivery pipelines at Walmart, drawing inspiration from CALMS.

"One of the challenges [with things like DevSecOps]," Bryan points out, "is people not understanding what they're trying to do with CD. If they understand that, then security and quality is natural, because the CD pipeline is for delivering fixes to production really fast."

Dana also shares, "You can't just tell people about the culture... The phrase I use is 'use the culture to teach the culture'." And she and Bryan both share ideas of how to do just that.

Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Greg Bledsoe hosts at the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2018 in Las Vegas.

Reach our guest:Bryan Finster Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/bryan-finster/

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Incentivizing Change in Your Organization Dec 06, 2018

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Josh Atwell considers himself somewhat of an "IT therapist" in his role as a technology advocate at Splunk. He informs and enables leaders and practitioners in the techniques and strategies needed for today's quickly evolving IT landscape. Atwell believes that, in order to implement change, organizations must change the way people are measured. Leaders need to set clear expectations and proper examples from the get go. For example, their style might be to send emails all hours of the night, but they must communicate that they don't expect the same behavior from their employees.

Greg Bledsoe hosts at DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas.

Reach out to our guest: - Twitter @josh_atwell

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"The Agile Marketer" Author Roland Smart | Business Agility Series Nov 29, 2018

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What makes for an impactful customer experience? How does your brand differentiate itself? If you're a large enterprise like Oracle, you have people like Roland Smart, author of "The Agile Marketer: Turning Customer Experience Into Your Competitive Advantage" on staff architecting customer journeys using Agile methods and mindsets.

"It's my strong belief that Agile will become a competitive advantage for marketers," says Smart, who is also the VP of Corporate Marketing at Oracle. "It acknowledges the reality that we're living in an environment today where things are moving too quickly to predict the future. So, no amount of analysis is going to lead to in a one-year marketing plan that is going to be recognizable in six months."

Your best bet is combining Agile, innovative marketing and the "peak-end rule": customers tend to average out their feeling about a brand based on their all-time best experience ("peak") and their last experience ("end").

Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Adam Mattis hosts.

This episode of Agile Amped is part of a series in partnership with the Business Agility Institute. businessagility.institute/

Mentioned in this podcast: - Oracle Next podcast - blogs.oracle.com/oraclenext-podcast-v2 - Peak-end rule en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak%E2%80%93end_rule - Buy The Agile Marketer - www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Agile+Ma…ge-p-9781119223009

DevSecOps & Open Source Security Post-Equifax Breach Nov 22, 2018

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The major security breach at Equifax in 2017 should have been a wakeup call for many – but how much have dev and security practices changed since to ensure it doesn't happen again? How vulnerable are the open source components you are using? How quickly can you identify and deploy security fixes?

This was the topic of our discussion with Derek Weeks, the Vice President at Sonatype, to talk about why security should be included in DevOps, the difficultly of compliance for open source usage and what may be in store for organizations that don't take security seriously.

"If you don't think you're consuming a lot of open source, you really have to look at the reality of how software is built today… There are only six million JavaScript developers on the planet and they're downloading 6 billion components a week." Weeks offers small changes that developers– pressed for time – can make to make software products safer.

Greg Bledsoe hosts at the DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas.

Reach out to our guest: - Twitter @weekstweets - Linkedin www.linkedin.com/in/derekeweeks/ - All Day DevOps: www.alldaydevops.com/

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.

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Let's Stop Making People Feel Stupid Nov 15, 2018

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Clare Sudbery left the IT industry years ago because she was bored and unmotivated. Fast forward, and now she's back at it, this time as a passionate lead consultant developer at ThoughtWorks. Why the change?

In her time away, Sudbery learned something during her stint teaching math: much like people divide themselves and others into good or bad at math, she says the IT industry is doing the same to employees and new hires. They'll say, "Can you believe that so-and-so didn't know anything about X?" Considering the complexity in the world, Sudbery says, "Yes, I can believe it."

That's why she champions curiosity and learning today, and leads by example by showing it's okay to ask questions when she doesn't know the answer.

"When you meet people who don't know things that you do know, don't judge them about it, don't laugh at them; get excited because that means you get to teach them the thing and you both win."

Listen to this honest and thought-provoking conversation recorded at Agile 2018 in San Diego with host, Chris Murman.

Reach out to Clare Sudbery - Twitter twitter.com/ClareSudbery- Blog: insimpleterms.blog - Medium: medium.com/a-woman-in-technology

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.

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