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Stack Overflow: "Technology is the Competitive Differentiator Now" Nov 08, 2018

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Alex Miller is the General Manager for Stack Overflow, a website which has solved more than 10 billion problems for software developers over the last decade. Miller believes it is critical for IT leaders to empower developers to solve technical problems at the source, because they tend to have the best idea of how to solve it.

From the shift in types of questions that Stack Overflow answers, Miller can see that the role of software developers is changing, which reflects the need for IT leaders to also evolve.

"What we see in the data is a reflection of what we see in the industry: The entire concept of what it means to be a software developer is changing."

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

For more information, visit:stackoverflow.com/stackoverflow.blog/

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Open Source and Agility at Microsoft Nov 01, 2018

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Sam Guckenheimer is the author of "Software Engineering with Visual Studio" and the Product Owner of Microsoft Visual Studio Cloud Services. He paints a picture of how much Microsoft has changed in the last 15 years or more: where once patent processing was seen as a critical skill for junior engineers, now open source, Agile and DevOps are the foundational to the company culture. Guckenheimer points out that "now Microsoft is the largest contributor to open source on Github," with Google coming in second.

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

Mentioned in this podcast:- Software Engineering with Visual Studio www.amazon.com/Agile-Software-En…dio/dp/0321685857 - Open Innovation Network www.openinventionnetwork.com/- Microsoft DevOps Resource Center docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/

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Q&A with The Phoenix Project Author Gene Kim Oct 25, 2018

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We were excited to sit down with Gene Kim, CTO of IT Revolution and co-author of The Phoenix Project, The DevOps Handbook, and most recently Accelerate. We got to ask Kim some juicy questions including:

What role do you play in the DevOps ecosystem?
If you could go back in time and do it all over again, what would you do differently and why?
How close are we to achieving all of the benefit of DevOps?
And (drum roll) what is the functional definition of DevOps?

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

Reach Gene Kim on Twitter at https://twitter.com/RealGeneKim

Find the books mentioned:

The Phoenix Project itrevolution.com/book/the-phoenix-project/ DevOps for the Modern Enterprise itrevolution.com/book/devops_modern_enterprise/Accelerate by itrevolution.com/book/accelerate/And more on IT Revolution website itrevolution.com/devops-books/

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The Keys to AT&T's SAFe Transformation Oct 18, 2018

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Candace Kelley is the Director of Enterprise Agile Transformation at AT&T. She has been influencing the adoption of SAFe and Agile practices at AT&T for the last 5 years. Kelley shares her path to becoming an Agile leader within her organization and the keys to scaling Agile.

One of the key factors that has allowed the adoption of Agile at scale has been leadership engagement in the process. When embarking on a new program or portfolio, Kelley brings in the executives for a full day immersion.

"The reality is when you start a conversation with 'We can deliver products and services faster, cheaper and at a higher quality, are you interested?' they're going to say yes. They are willing to come in. They're setting the example to their team, they're showing it's important."

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

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The Journey to Agility at American Express Oct 11, 2018

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Danielle Crop is the VP of Application Experience and Platforms at American Express. She shares her journey helping the 168-year-old financial services giant transition into an Agile organization.

Amex is fundamentally a digital company – they've never had brick-and-mortar branches – and have always been customer-centric. Today the challenge they face are the new ways of working within the organization. Some teams, such as marketing, that have traditionally used project management within their own silo, now have visibility into and are dependent on product teams to drive value.

Learn how Amex approaches scaling agility through a center of excellence with deep product understanding and expertise that works closely with both the technology teams and the business. Crop also touches on some of the emerging technology American Express is using such as machine learning and AI.

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

Reach our guest: LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/danielle-crop-b3565b17/

Reach our host: Twitter twitter.com/adammattis13

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SAFe 4.6 with Dean Leffingwell Oct 04, 2018

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Dean Leffingwell is just a "geek on a mission". Recognized as the one of the world's foremost authorities on Lean-Agile best practices, his passion has always been improving the craft of software development.

With the release of SAFe 4.6, he hopes to do just that. Leffingwell shares some of the most important updates to the framework including how to address the challenge of moving from a traditional to a Lean|Agile mindset, more guidance on XP, TDD and BDD, and how to scale a scaling framework—think 1000+ PI Planning participants.

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

To find out more about SAFe 4.6, visit www.scaledagileframework.com/ and follow Scaled Agile on Twitter twitter.com/ScaledAgile

Reach our host: twitter.com/adammattis13

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Mentoring a New Agile Coach Sep 27, 2018

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Allison Pollard and Noreen Emanuel sat down for a chat with us about their mentor-mentee relationship. As an external Agile coach Pollard was able to act as a "super coach," and through this symbiotic relationship Emanuel has now become a coach herself at her place of work.

Pollard sees the relationship as a partnership: "For me it's like I have a new colleague. I have a new person that has different ideas, their brain works differently, and they have all these great skills, so how do we tap into that together?" Hear concrete examples of how these two found common ground and recommendations for how coaches themselves can hone their skills.

Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Chris Murman hosts at Agile2018.

Reach our guests: Allison Pollard @allison_pollard ‏twitter.com/allison_pollard Noreen Emmanuel @sweetnor twitter.com/sweetnor

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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Alternative to Top Down Control | Esther Derby Sep 20, 2018

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Esther Derby has spent the last twenty-five years helping companies design their environment, culture, and human dynamics for optimum success. She sat down with us to talk about an alternative to top down control: clarity, conditions, and constraints.

Her approach is a response to organizations saying that they want their teams to step into responsibility and to be empowered, but yet the management structure gets in the way of that. She doesn't advocate just throwing away all the direction, but that we're going to make a direction by making a compelling goal and attractor, rather than by telling individuals what to do on a day to day basis.

"You give smart people a problem to solve and some constraints so they don't have to figure out on every single day whether they should use this tool or that tool, and they'll come up with some really great solutions."

Howard Sublett hosts at Agile2018 in San Diego.

Reach our guest:esther@estherderby.com

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Why Agile is a Philosophy, Not a Compliance Regime Sep 13, 2018

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Head of R&D and Work Futurist at Atlassian, Dom Price sees an unsettling trend: a celebration of Agile teams who do all the right things but don't get any of the value. While Price sees Agile as "a philosophy, a spirit," he argues that too many large organizations use it as a means to achieve compliance, managers going around with their checklists, saying "We do x, we do y, therefore we're Agile tech."

But Agile is a means to real value - faster time to market, more innovative teams, more engaged teams, which are the true signposts for business agility. Price shares his experiences helping Atlassian with their scaling transformation and a challenge for agilists: "It's ironic for me that people who are Agile practitioners, ones who are saying Agile is all about evolution, aren't evolving as people. They're static. They're using things they learned 17 years ago and they're deploying it in the exact same way."

Howard Sublett hosts at Agile2018 in San Diego.

Access the Team Playbook: https://www.atlassian.com/team-playbook?utm_source=teamtour

Reach our guest:Twitter @domprice twitter.com/domprice

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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Building an Agile Culture with Howard Sublett Sep 06, 2018

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A very familiar voice for the Agile Amped podcast listeners is our special guest for this episode. Howard Sublett, the Director of Community Development at Accenture | SolutionsIQ is moving on to become the Chief Product Owner for the Scrum Alliance.

Hear about Sublett's journey in the Agile industry and learn how he helped build the culture we all here at SolutionsIQ cherish. Sublett offers examples of the kinds of activities and tools we've implemented to keep our community engaged.

Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Roxi Ozolins hosts.

To reach our guest:

Twitter @howardsublett https://twitter.com/howardsublett

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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