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Andrea Tomasini of Agile 42 on influencing change in complex environments Mar 18, 2020

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In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Andrea Tomasini on organisational change, sense-making, leadership and organic agility Why listen to this podcast: • Organic Agility is a way to help make organisations more resilient by making culture explicit and visible • You can’t design culture, you can only influence it • Interviews and questionnaires give a limited a biased view of culture – you need other tools to make sense and truly understand organisation culture • Organisations need to be seen as complex systems and analysed from that perspective, not through mechanistic view • You influence culture by making the stories visible and letting people move in the direction that makes the stories more positive More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2QsqMCf You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq Subscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq Like InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ Follow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq Check the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/2QsqMCf

Howard Sublett on current and future state of the Scrum Alliance Mar 09, 2020

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This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Howard Sublett about the current and future state of the Scrum Alliance. Why listen to this podcast: • When organisations and teams adopt Scrum effectively the difference in atmosphere and attitude to work is palpable • There is still a lot of faux-agile/scrum where practices are adopted without the mindset shift • The Scrum Alliance have appointed Howard as the Chief Product Owner, responsible for defining the what and the why of the organisation, and Melissa Bloggs as the Chief Scrum Master responsible for the how of implementation • The Scrum Alliance has moved to a self-selected, cross-functional team model based around customer segments • With7 billion people working in the world today, even with 1.2 million people certified in Scrum, there’s still a huge amount of work to be done to improve the world of work for the majority of people More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2TUCTcf You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq Subscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq Like InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ Follow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq Check the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/2TUCTcf

Diana Larsen on the Origins of Agility and Agile Fluency Feb 24, 2020

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In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Diana Larsen about the origins of what became agile development, where business agility is header and the agile fluency project . Why listen to this podcast: • There is a deep history of business improvement initiatives that predates the agile manifesto • It was a part of a cultural movement that was moving more toward more humane workplaces that could deliver more value • When you give people a good environment and good support to do their work, you get better work and better products • The ideas of business agility predate the work in agile development – engaging support structures in organisations to enable change • You can't change one part of a system without it having effects on other parts of the system • The Agile Fluency Model is a tool to help teams diagnose themselves and to expose the system to leadership More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/3acIJwf You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq Subscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq Like InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ Follow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq Check the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/3acIJwf

Steve Milligan on Agile Finance and Finding Synergies Feb 18, 2020

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In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Steve Milligan about his work in Agile Finance and bringing the back-office along on the agile transformation journey. Why listen to this podcast: • The funding of agile initiatives has been largely left outside of the scope of transformation efforts, which results in dysfunction and cross purpose • Agile finance introduces structure so that financial aspects (target setting, budgeting, expenditure and reporting) become synergistic and add to the positive impact of transformation • Attitude changes need to start with the agile coaching and transformation change agents – they self-constrain and are biased against working with finance groups • The need to move from static budgets to activity-based budgets and investigate ideas like Beyond Budgeting • The authoritative bodies (SEC, AICPA) have issued guidance for the accounting profession regarding investigating and determining the applicability of concepts like Beyond Budgeting More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2SYlOOd You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq Subscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq Like InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ Follow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq Check the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/2SYlOOd

Dave West on Agile Beyond Software, Organisational Alignment and Product Ownership is Hard Feb 10, 2020

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In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Dave West, CEO of scrum.org about agile beyond software, the need for organisational alignment and how product ownership is a major inhibitor for many organisations because it is not done well. Why listen to this podcast: • Agile ideas are taking root beyond software development, in business areas and in complex engineering environments • The scope of agility is more than just delivering great product – it is delivering great product, getting great feedback, experimentation and learning • The large consulting firms have the relationships at the most senior levels to enable top-down change in organisations • Most software teams today are delivering relatively well, however there is misalignment between the delivery teams and the wider organisation’s ability to accept and release product to the market effectively • Good product ownership is incredibly hard and most organisations do product ownership very badly More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/3bvC9lY You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq Subscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq Like InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ Follow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq Check the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/3bvC9lY

Caitlin Walker on Clean Language, Anti-Fragility and Inclusiveness Feb 03, 2020

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This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Caitlin Walker about clean language, anti-fragility and inclusiveness. Why listen to this podcast: • Clean Language is a way of communicating that helps reduce bias and influence in order to help bring clarity to a situation • Clean language questions can be used anywhere where gathering high quality information without biasing the answer will be useful • The questions expose diversity in thinking and attitudes and enable greater connections and empathy between people • An antifragile system is one that when you apply stress to it, it grows stronger • Clean language applied to teams helps them create the conditions for antifragility More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2OiMjwb You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq Subscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq Like InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ Follow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq Check the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/2OiMjwb

Steve Persch on Open Source Communities and Tough Challenges in Technical Leadership Jan 27, 2020

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In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Steve Persch of Panthion about supporting open source communities and leading technical teams Why listen to this podcast: • Communities need to be nurtured and supported • The open source community is based around the idea that you can build on the knowledge of others • Leadership technical teams can be challenging and there are some simple (but not easy) things that can be dome to be better at it • The goal should never be to follow a brand or methodology slavishly – it should always be about solving customer problems and delivering business value • Successful projects happen as a result of the people who work together, not the technology used More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/30Xi6rq You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq Subscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq Like InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ Follow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq Check the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/30Xi6rq

David McAllister on Building Communities Jan 20, 2020

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In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to David McAllister about building technical communities. Why listen to this podcast: • A community comes together around a common shared interest of some sort • Communities need to be actively nurtured in a similar way to open source projects • Communities require constant tuning, and this means you need to figure out ways to measure them • Different types of content work for different members of the community and in different contexts – ensure your content matches the intent • “Collecting data is only the first step towards wisdom, sharing data is the first step towards community” More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/3asqUtV You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq Subscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq Like InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ Follow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq Check the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/3asqUtV

Kevin Callahan on Positive Organisational Design and Complex Systems Jan 13, 2020

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This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Kevin Callahan about positive organisational design and organisations as complex systems Why listen to this podcast: • Positive organisation development starts with areas where you are strong and builds on those, rather than focusing on weaknesses and negative areas • Involving people to open up “what could be” which starts a change effort that makes it possible to achieve • Start by trusting that people want to do amazing work • Organisations are complex systems and need to be treated as such • In complex systems the balance of pressures is necessary, and in many organisations one or other area becomes predominant (eg revenue or cost saving pressure) and this causes the system to become brittle More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/36Qj5fk You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq Subscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq Like InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ Follow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq Check the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/36Qj5fk

Arie van Bennekum on the Liquid Manifesto Jan 06, 2020

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In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Arie van Bennekum about Liquid Manifesto, a transformation framework to help organisations shift from old paradigms to new ones. Why listen to this podcast: • The Liquid Manifesto is a transformation framework to help organisations shift from old paradigms to new ones • Changing paradigms is the most difficult thing to do because bringing in new paradigms takes time and old paradigms define reflexes under stress • Your organisation has the have the capability to respond to change, if not you die • A Liquid organisation has people and teams who can work independently while remaining coherent, flowing together towards a common goal • A liquid organisation has a common cause, you know why you are there, you are connected while being very self-organising and you look for continuous improvement More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2sIBCeV You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq Subscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq Like InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ Follow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq Check the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/2sIBCeV

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