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Modernization Case Study at CSG Jan 09, 2020

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Scott Prugh is Chief Architect & SVP of Software Development at CSG. He recounts the story of the technical evolution at his organization and the multi-year strides to modernize their application stack as well as mainframe technology.

"One of the things we found was that when you start taking these crazy, really heavy platforms and you start to modernize them, it starts to free up capacity."

Accenture's Mirco Hering hosts at the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2019 in Las Vegas.

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The US Government is not a Unicorn Jan 01, 2020

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The US government is notorious for being a slow-moving bureaucracy that is crazy about controlling every minor detail. Internally, there are often musings that agile will never work within the public sector because the government is a unicorn incompatible with agile principles and values.

But if you get down to it, the government struggles with many of the same issues that private corporations do. This includes things like obtaining leadership buy-in, acquiring funding in a big batch project mindset, maintaining low WIP. Sound familiar?

Ron MacKenzie, an agile coach for the USDA, talks to us about his own journey to agile, how he's brought his own personal learnings to his teams and leadership and how, ultimately, the government is not that different after all.

Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts at SAFe Summit in San Diego, CA

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Testing Business Ideas with David Bland Dec 26, 2019

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David J. Bland is a co-author of the newly published "Testing Business Ideas," and founder of Precoil where he helps companies find product-market fit using lean startup, design thinking and business model innovation practices.

Bland walks us through the book which is a field guide for rapid experimentation in order to reduce risk and increase the likelihood of success for any new venture or business project. In addition to experimentation, the publication also tackles team design from three different angles:

Configuration of cross-functional teams

Team behaviors such as questioning assumptions and entrepreneurial spirit

Environment the leaders need to provide for teams to live within

Bland also makes his prediction for where the separate disciplines of Agile, Lean Startup, Design Thinking, Business Model, Lean UX and others: "This is all part of a system and we need to figure out how it all relates instead of adopting it all in isolation within an org. I still think systems thinking is eventually going to come back in a more consumable way."

Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts.

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Pivot to the Future with Paul Nunes Dec 12, 2019

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Paul Nunes is the Global Managing Director of Thought Leadership at Accenture with 33 years working with the consultancy under his belt. He discusses the findings in the book he co-authored with Larry Downes and Omar Abbosh: "Pivot to the Future: Discovering Value and Creating Growth in a Disrupted World".

Nunes says the big idea in the book is that companies can no longer afford to change through large-scale business transformation, rather we need a new way of creating change within the organization that enables success. He walks us through some fantastic examples and explains how businesses can simultaneously succeed with all three lifecycle stages of a business: the old, the now, and the new.

"The excitement of getting to the new can lead a lot of companies to prematurely abandon the old."

Accenture's Keith Pleas hosts at the Boston Innovation Hub.

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Technical Debt: A Force for Good or Evil? Dec 05, 2019

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Technical debt can be an emotionally charged topic of discussion between the debt-adverse and the debt-tolerant. Is it an evil that must be eradicated or an unavoidable occurrence that can be leveraged for good? How to handle technical debt can become a point of contention within a team or even across an entire organization.

According to David Brown, an agilist within the innovation center for a 100+-year-old American electric power company, people use the term "technical debt" when they start experiencing bugs or can't push to production, but by then it's already too late. Brown suggests that the business and IT come together and create a shared understanding of technical debt - then the teams can ask themselves "what do we consider healthy?" and create the protocols for dealing with technical debt.

Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse Hosts.

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Open Source Code Security and Your Enterprise Nov 28, 2019

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The average enterprise is relying upon about 3,500 open source projects to support faster software development. Unfortunately, external suppliers of the code are often chosen based on popularity or familiarity rather than code quality. Vice President at Sonatype and the co-founder of All Day DevOpsDerek Weeks sat down with us to discuss open source as well as the main findings in the 2019 State of the Software Supply Chain Report. The report details the following:

Where open source components are used in software development and how many of them
What percentage of components have known security vulnerabilities
The policies and regulations on a national and international level that may affect how software isdeveloped

Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Stephan Lange hosts at the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2019 in Las Vegas.

Download the 2019 State of the Software Supply Chain Report here: https://www.sonatype.com/en-us/2019ssc

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The Truth About Burnout with Dr. Christina Maslach Nov 21, 2019

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Dr. Christina Maslach is a Professor of Psychology and a researcher at the Healthy Workplaces Center at the University of California, Berkeley. She is one of the pioneering researchers on job burnout and is the author of "The Truth About Burnout".

In this episode, you'll learn the difference between being merely stressed out and the symptoms of burnout: exhaustion, cynicism, and a negative sense of oneself. Dr. Maslach also walks us through the core psychological needs that promote worker motivation and psychological well-being. You'll also hear how closely they correlate to an Agile workplace.

"It's a lot about the environment, the job situation you're in, it's the other people, it's the policies, it's the way the work is structured and whether you have control over it."

Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Hanna Gnann hosts at DevOps Enterprise Summit 2019 in Las Vegas.

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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Innovation is Everyone's Responsibility Nov 14, 2019

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Katherine Radeka is the founder and executive director of the Rapid Learning Cycles Institute and author of the new book "High Velocity Innovation: How to Get Your Best Ideas to Market Faster". Radeka shares with us some highlights from her book, like organizations need to create "a path of least resistance to innovation" and that innovation is everyone's responsibility.

Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Jeff Steinberg 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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Team Topologies: Organizing Teams for Flow of Value Nov 07, 2019

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Co-authors Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais just released their new book "Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow". Skelton and Pais define four types of teams and they help achieve flow of change and reduce cognitive load for the team members.

Stream-aligned: More traditionally considered "product teams"

Enabling: Experts in a specific area

Complicated-subsystem: Deep skills such as Ph.D. level expertise or years of experience in a niche technology

Platform: Aiming to build the "thinnest viable platform" using Agile software practices

"We're not just talking about shapes of the teams and composition, and the structure of the organization, we're talking about the social dynamics."

Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Stas Zvinyatskovsky hosts at DevOps Enterprise Summit 2019 in Las Vegas.

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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Dirty Truths of Scaling Oct 31, 2019

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As CEO and Product Owner of Scrum.org, Dave West has collected some awesome stories and he regales us with a few in this episode of Agile Amped.

Too often companies attempt to scale agility without a clear purpose and fail both to see true agility and to inspire employees with a compelling purpose. And, West reminds us, "purpose is actionable," not just something in the mission statement or plastered on the office wall.

The conversations covers frameworks, the American education system, and even conscious capitalism.

"At the heart of everything we're doing is trying to untap the potential of humanity to deliver amazing value and solve problems – and I think that's super exciting."

Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts from 2019 Southern Fried Agile.

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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