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Catching up With Ron Jeffries and Chet Hendrickson at Agile 2015 - Men In Black Quotes Included. Aug 13, 2015

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Ron and Chet discuss their conference experience, thoughts on the best sessions so far, trends in the industry and so much more!Buckle up.

5 Steps For Creating High Performing Teams - Mark Levison at Agile 2015 Aug 13, 2015

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Drum Roll Please..... - Form Stable Teams - Value Cohesion - Coach the Team - Watch Where You Place the Water Cooler - Help the Team Set Specific and Challenging Performance Goals Bonus Step* - Listen to this podcast.

5 Steps For Creating High Performing Teams - Mark Levison at Agile 2015 Aug 13, 2015

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Keystone Habits Leading to Sustainable Enterprise Agility - Ahmed Sidky at Agile 2015 Aug 13, 2015

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Transforming an organization to become more agile requires more than just process change. Rather, it requires a complete culture shift. Sustainable, effective agile transformations affect all the elements of culture such as, leadership style, leadership values, work structures, reward systems, processes, and of course the work habits of people.

The Responsibility Process With Christopher Avery at Agile 2015 Aug 13, 2015

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The responsibility process consists of a number of levels of progressive awareness:blame: looking outward and pointing at others as the source of your problems: they didn't deliver their part of the project in time for me to complete my workjustification: finding reasons in your environment for why things are the way they are: my computer wasn't working well and it slowed me downshame: an inward laying of blame or guilt for the situation: why can't I work harder and get this done?obligation: the sense that you have no choice but to get something done: I have to get this done because people are expecting itresponsibility: the target state of owning up to the situation and actively engaging from a positive position of power: I will complete the project because it gives me the opportunity to master this skill and opens doors to new ideasThere are two associated states that you also need to be aware of:denial: you do not believe that a problem exists or choose to ignore its existence. this is an avoidance mechanism that only serves to delayquit: an means to avoid the pain of coping with the other states. this is a passive attempt to resolve the issue but still leaves the underlying problem unresolved and likely to repeat.Once you have gained awareness of this mental model of responsibility, there are three keys to engaging to successfully reach an empowered state of responsibility:intention: you must enter a mindset where you are willing to act from a position of responsibilityawareness: you must recognize the problem you are addressing and your mental state relative to the problemconfrontation: you must look inward to discover the facts of the problem so you can confront it and yourself to find ideas and solutions

The Responsibility Process With Christopher Avery at Agile 2015 Aug 13, 2015

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Tim Ottinger - Find Your Calm at Agile 2015 Aug 13, 2015

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Tim's journey towards the year of living shamelessly - and what that means for his every day life.

Stop, Collaborate & Listen Mark Kilby Talks Distributed Teams at Agile2015 Aug 12, 2015

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Can you mix distribute open source culture with agile and lean principles? Sonatype is a unique company of open source leaders that produces software development support tools for companies that are struggling to keep track of their usage and risks of open source software components. Mark discusses how this startup has successfully used Scrum with completely distributed teams spread across multiple time zones. Find out what pre-conditions exist, principles we're discovering, practices we use and continuing challenges we face as we coordinate the work of multiple teams across an open source product line with everyone working from a home-based office.

Jeff Patton - User Story Mapping: Don't Lose the Big Picture at Agile 2015 Aug 12, 2015

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A story map is a simple way to visualize your product idea from your users' perspective. Mapping your product's story uses the same approach scriptwriters use to think through a movie or TV story idea. It's fast, collaborative, and telling your product's story helps you spot the holes in your thinking. Once created, a map lets you think through options and alternative ideas that'll make your product better. It's easy to slice out what you think is a smallest viable product, and to identify the next experiment that'll help you validate your product concept.

Declan Whelan & Jason Little - Navigating the Complexity of Organizational Change at Agile 2015 Aug 12, 2015

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Einstein said "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them" yet many organizations that want to adopt Agile end up using existing organizational structures to make it happen. That is, they create a centralized team to roll Agile out, define metrics, create a dashboard, communication and training plan and finally a Sharepoint site to push the change outwards. The outcome ends up being another failed Agile transformation story because people either resisted change or they failed to change their organizational culture.This isn't an 'Agile' problem, it's a structure problem. The real issue is that organizational structures are designed to serve the internal purposes of the organization, not their customers or the value they create for their customers. Jason and Declan explore how real organizations are thriving by structuring in radically different ways.