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Meaningful Metrics are Simpler than You Think Jul 02, 2020

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How do you know that you're achieving the goals of your change? How do you know that large dashboard of OKRs and metrics will show you what you need to see? It's not easy. Many organizations tend to measure the results of a long process, rather than the levers that drive the results.

John Carter, product development expert, inventor, and founder and principal of TCGen Inc. shares his predictive metrics expertise using the example of agile at scale. Whether you're about to begin a big change initiative, or you have one in progress, John Carter will inspire you to take a fresh look at your metrics.

Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Alalia Lundy hosts.

Reach our guest: https://www.tcgen.com/our-team

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SAFe in a Virtual World May 21, 2020

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How will agile at scale change in an increasingly virtual world? SAFe Fellow Scott Frost and SPCT Shawn Lowe – both business agility consultants at Accenture | SolutionsIQ - discuss the best approaches and mindset for success in a virtual setting.

While the world has been working virtually for some time, 2020 has pushed us into a new frontier that can be uncomfortable for large-scale transformation and training work. While it's not business as usual, you can still make sustainable change within your organization. As Frost puts it: "When things change radically, we can survive. We are more adaptable than we thought we were."

Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Alalia Lundy hosts.

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Your Board of Directors Needs Agile | Business Agility Series May 14, 2020

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Sandra Davey is founder of and product coach at Product Space in Australia. She also serves on the board of several Australian companies, including CHOICE. She shares her experience as the board chair for a consumer rights organization that she helped take through an agile transformation:

"The business plan that the board was signing off was full of operational tactical details of when's and how's rather than why's and what's."

Listen to this episode to get a great perspective into agility from a board of directors' standpoint. You'll learn why more agilists should join boards and how to encourage other board members to adopt an agile mindset.

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.

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Bringing Agile to Non-Software Teams May 06, 2020

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Gil Broza is the author of three acclaimed books including his latest "Agile for Non-Software Teams." It was written to be practical and applicable for the roles "we always forget in transformation," like marketing and HR.

Each chapter is a step along a personal agile journey and ends with "Here's what needs to be true until you move on." Further, rather than prescribing an off-the-shelf agile framework, Broza wants to provide guidance so teams can design their own process, measure progress, and inspect and adapt – an agile approach to an agile journey.

Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Alalia Lundy hosts.

Buy the book: Agilefornonsoftwareteams.com

Keep Listening: https://www.solutionsiq.com/resource/agile-amped-podcast/the-agile-mindset-with-gil-broza/

Learn More: 3pvantage.com

Adult Developmental Stages and Leadership Apr 30, 2020

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William Rowden is an executive coach and consultant here at Accenture | SolutionsIQ. His journey to leading transformation initiatives has piqued his curiosity in org development and adult developmental psychology. For the past few years he has been researching how these two inform each other – and how the focus of an organization's leaders provides a good indicator for the success or failure of business agility transformation.

He walks us through the different focuses that leaders – and indeed everyone – have: self-centric, group-centric, skill-centric and beyond. Drawing from the work of Robert Keegan, Chris Argyris, Bill Joiner, and more, Rowden provides useful information for agilists for dealing with leaders of many types – do they shoot the messenger or install feedback loops? Do they see agile as a process or a means to an end?

Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Bryan Stallings hosts.

Listen to Rowden's previous episode:

Adult Cognitive Development and the Agile Mindset

References:

- Bill Joiner and Stephen Josephs, Leadership Agility (2007)

- Susanne R. Cook-Greuter, "Making the case for a developmental perspective," in Industrial and Commercial Training (2004)

- The MAP Institute, "The Leadership Maturity Framework."

- DevOps Research and Assessment, "DevOps Culture: Westrum Organizational Culture"

- Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey, An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization (2016)

- William R. Torbert and Steven S. Taylor, "Action Inquiry: Interweaving Multiple Qualities of Attention for Timely Action"

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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Setting Up an Internal Coaching Office Apr 23, 2020

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Tony Bonfante is an agile coach who shares his recent experience setting up an internal coaching office at a Fortune 50 corporation. The first step in the process is to fill the roles of coaches with individuals who are called to serve others.

Next, Bonfante teaches the coaches how to really listen to others because "you can't change someone's mind if you don't know what's in them." The five levels of listening he walks everyone through are:

Ignoring – making the conscious choice to either ignore or not ignore others.
Pretending to listen – using listening signs like nodding and sounds while focusing on something else.
Selective listening – paying attention to cues such as your name to refocus.
Comparative listening – filtering what you hear by what matters to you.
Empathetic listening – truly paying attention and wanting to learn the other's worldview.

This episode is chock-full of practical guidance, including what kind of coaching stand to take in each domain of the Cynefin framework and more.

Leslie Morse hosts.

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Dojo Goes Remote Apr 16, 2020

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Jessica Guistolise is an experienced leader, consultant and coach at Accenture SolutionsIQ. For the past few years, Guistolise was part of a dedicated Dojo team at a major US-based insurance company, where she learned how to scale dojo experiences and even virtualize them.

From a few remote teams operating as one to bringing Dojo to a completely distributed team in the Philippines, Guistolise is learning that the benefits of Dojo can still be achieved. It just takes more time. Further, as working from home becomes more normalized, people will see into others' lives, and that opens the door to build trust even faster.

And a new working agreement structure – and humanity - can help. "It takes practice to not apologize for those very human things" like eating and taking breaks. "It's a lot easier to shut out life when we're in the walls of an office."

Favorite take-aways: Smartest person in the room (SPITR) and "stand up and wiggle."

Accenture SolutionsIQ's Ryan Keawekane hosts.

Check out our other podcast on "How to Dojo" also with Jessica Guistolise.

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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Once Upon an Agile Organization | Business Agility Series Apr 09, 2020

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Melissa Boggs and Howard Sublett, the Chief Scrum Master and Chief Product Owner respectively at the Scrum Alliance, return to tell us about their own organizational transformation. Throughout 2019, the pair completely restructured the organization into cross-functional and community-centric teams that are empowered to deliver on the needs of their specific community.

Hear practical examples of how these changes were implemented, as well as success stories that are emerging as a result of the ongoing transformation.

Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Emilia Breton 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.

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The Spotify "Model": Don't Simply Copy-Paste Apr 02, 2020

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This is a special episode. After our blog (with the same title as this podcast) blew up on LinkedIn, the post's author Evan Campbell was featured on a webinar Q&A hosted by Gene Gendel, organizational design specialist, agile/lean coach and trainer, and consultant. This episode is the audio from that webinar.

Watch the video recording, or read the blog that started it all.

Remote Agile Coaching Mar 26, 2020

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In this episode, Agile coach Joe Fecarotta hosts, interviewing Caro Paduch who is currently leading the agile transformation for Learning & Leadership Development at Accenture. Fecarotta has been coaching Paduch for the last 18 months in a remote setting, as Paduch is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Over the course of such a long relationship at a distance, the pair and the wider team have learned some valuable lessons about remote collaboration and agile coaching, including:

Patience and flexibility are important.
Virtual is real too, although because you don't overlap in person, you may have to force people to open up a little about who they are, their families, and hobbies.
When people don't put their video on in a video call, it can be a sign of lack of trust, comfort, and transparency.

And as Paduch puts it, "When [you] start to trust, that's when the magic happens." "Personal connection at a distance is so critical," says Fecarotta.

Accenture SolutionsIQ's Joe Fecarotta 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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