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Practicing Leadership Skills with David Marquet Oct 24, 2019

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David Marquet, Inc. Magazine's Top 100 leadership speaker and the bestselling author of "Turn the Ship Around", discusses his keynote topic at this year's Southern Fried Agile conference: "Move Your People Up the Ladder of Leadership".

Marquet emphasizes a "lean back" approach to leadership – giving people the room to lean in and make more decisions on their own. "What we want to do is push the authority for making decisions out to the people who have the information. You get a much more resilient, adaptive, agile organization."

He gives recommendations for how to hone our leadership skills in everyday life by practicing how to invite feedback and creating a safe environment for receiving it.

Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts at Southern Fried Agile in Charlotte, NC.

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All Jokes Aside: How SNL Takes Agile Seriously Oct 17, 2019

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Matt Badgley and John Krewson sat down to unpack their presentations at Agile2019: "Live From D.C., It's Saturday Night: The Agility of SNL" and "Let's Just Skip High-Performing and Go Straight to Badass!" Badgley and Krewson derive comparisons between sketch comedy and agility and take us backstage to the process of producing a show from concept to cash within a week.

The duo also dives into the topics of the real meanings of high-performing teams, failing fast and leadership.

Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Chris Murman hosts at Agile2019 in Washington, D.C.

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Supersizing SAFe at Boeing Oct 10, 2019

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Debbie Brey has worked at Boeing for 35 years, where she is an internal SPCT and Enterprise Transformation Leader. She is currently leading an enterprise-wide initiative to incorporate an Agile way of working into the Boeing culture.

Brey takes us behind the scenes on the massive undertaking of bringing digital transformation to the century-old enterprise. Her program, a subset of a 4,000-5,000 employee IT organization, consists of 234 Agile teams organized into 20 Agile Release Trains and two Solution Trains with a "Super Solution Train" around it. Hear some great insights into the company's Agile journey as well as some predictions for the future.

"In 5 years, will we be talking about SAFe and Agile? I hope not. I hope it's just the way we work at Boeing." Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts at the Global SAFe Summit 2019 in San Diego.

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How to Dojo Oct 03, 2019

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Coaches Jessica Guistolise and Greg Adams-Woodford have been running Dojos at their client successfully for a few years. They explain the purpose and basics of a Dojo and share their experiences from the trenches.

Dojo is a place where teams practice - a new physical space where they break down what they've done in the past and rebuilding their habits over a six-week period. Additionally, Dojo uses 2.5-day "hyper sprints" that enable teams to deliver real business value more quickly and understand where they're failing without losing days or weeks.

At its heart, Dojo is about building business capabilities and high-functioning teams. And it is not limited to software development: our guests touch on leadership and portfolio Dojos, and tips for success and pitfalls to avoid.

Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts.

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Transforming the Digital Experience at Australia Post Sep 26, 2019

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Pete Young played a key role in leading the transformation of Australia Post's digital consumer experience. The journey to transformation at this 210-year-old institution began when they focused on fixing one specific problem: 15% of the customer base consistently missing first time delivery of a parcel.

Young also shares how, in two years, focus a single metric resulted in a 7% increase in successful first-time deliveries – a significant impact for an organization with 5 million digital customer accounts. Learn how his team shifted focus from measuring outcomes instead of outputs, the importance of leadership support, and how Young works with the not-so-Agile parts of the enterprise.

Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Adam Asch hosts at Agile Australia 2019 in Sydney.

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Bridging the Gap Between Traditional and Agile Management Sep 19, 2019

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Chris Philipsen understands that "playbook" and "Agile" don't necessarily go together but the title of his Agile2019 talk "A Playbook for an Agile Manager" was chosen on purpose. A consultant at Insight, Philipsen speaks the language of traditional managers who expect a "playbook" for how to effectively manage in an Agile organization as well as the language of Agile.

He and our host, Agile coach Chris Murman at Accenture | SolutionsIQ, vibe on the differences between managing styles as well as personal and interpersonal coaching techniques. Philipsen invokes the McCarthy protocol of requesting to provide feedback and radiating intention – for which he provides many examples. Ultimately, he is more productive, happier and a better agilist for radiating intent for what he hopes to accomplish in a meeting, in a day and in life.

Accenture | SolutionsIQ Chris Murman hosts at Agile2019 in Washington, D.C.

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Transforming Healthcare with Business Agility Sep 12, 2019

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Dan Scalfaro, a key stakeholder at a major healthcare provider, teamed up with Agile coach, Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Emilia Breton, to guide his organization through their transformation. They sat down to give us insights about the process and the major challenges they encountered.

According to Scalfaro, "I thought the DevOps stuff was going to be my challenge. It wasn't. It was the change management and the people."

Breton and Scalfaro put the focus on the customer ahead of anything else when improving the process of onboarding new providers, changing "one heart and mind at a time."

Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts at Agile2019 in Washington, D.C.

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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FOMO in the Federal Government Sep 05, 2019

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Even government agencies experience FOMO. It took the turnaround from an 80-million-dollar big bang failure into an initiation of a couple successful, smaller pilot agile programs within the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) for other federal programs to realize that they were missing out.

Richard Cheng has been working on helping the US Government understand and implement the value of Agile. In the many years of working with the government, he's noticed that the conversation has gone past the point of if Agile is right for government and is on to how do they do Agile better to create more value. He shares his experience and insights with OPM and UCIS and the rest of the federal government.

Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts at Agile2019 in Washington, D.C.

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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Emotional Self-Management for Leaders Aug 29, 2019

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Have you ever regretted sending an email while angry? Lorraine Aguilar is a certified trainer in Non-Violent Communication (NVC) who teaches us emotional self-management and radical leadership through empathy for yourself and others. "Empathy so that the best ideas rise to the surface and not the strong and dominating personalities."

Aguilar walks us through her 4 steps of the empathy dojo and uses poignant stories from her own life as examples of applying "radical acts of kindness" to demonstrate leadership.

Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts at Agile2019 in Washington, D.C.

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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The Power of Agile Digital Policy Aug 22, 2019

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Author Kristina Podnar helps businesses get smarter, better and faster at creating digital policies and practices that unlock opportunity, liberate employees and increase the bottom line. While many people are intimidated by the word "policy," Podnar encourages us to think of them as guardrails – "short statements that reflects the organization's values … so we can create freedom, innovation and creativity."

Her book "The Power of Digital Policy" is actually a handbook that provides specific ways for people and businesses to balance risk with opportunity. And the best thing is it doesn't have to be a long and grueling process. With her Agile approach, you can go from zero to done in 5 days.

Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Leslie Morse hosts at Agile2019 in Washington, D.C.

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