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Creating the Conditions for Successful Agile Adoption w/ Mike Cottmeyer Sep 08, 2017

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LeadingAgile CEO and Founder, Mike Cottmeyer led two sessions at Agile 2017: Agile Transformations Explained and Faster Food and a Better Place to Sleep: Applying Agile Outside of Software. In this interview Mike and Dave discuss how an organization can get better at setting appropriate constraints, making iterative and incremental decisions that inform execution and creating feedback loops that will help drive a more successful adoption of agile across the organization.

If you’d like to learn more about Mike’s sessions at Agile 2017:
Agile Transformations Explained: sched.co/ATZ5
Faster Food and a Better Place to Sleep: Applying Agile Outside of Software: sched.co/ATa2

And if you would like to contact Mike, here is how you can reach him:
Web: leadingagile.com/guides/mike-cottmeyer/
Twitter: twitter.com/mcottmeyer
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/cottmeyer/

Agile 2017: Surviving Backdraft w/ Adam Weisbart Sep 07, 2017

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Adam Weisbart led a session at Agile 2017 called “Surviving Backdraft (or How to Not Die in a Hellish Explosion of Dysfunction)”. During his session, Adam shared some personal experiences with backdraft and introduced tools to help agile coaches and practitioners cope with the pushback that often accompanies organizational change and the dysfunction that impedes that change. In this interview Adam and Dave discuss his session and some mindful self-compassion techniques that will help you manage your internal and external response to the resistance that shows up when coaching an organization through transformation. If you’d like to contact Adam, here is where you can reach him: Web: https://weisbart.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/weisbart LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/weisbart/ Adam’s session at Agile 2017: http://sched.co/ATXD

LeSS without Scrum w/ YI LV Sep 06, 2017

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Yi Lv became the first Certified Scrum Trainer in China in 2008, and is currently an Agile coach at Odd-e. Yi is also an expert in Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) and in this interview, he talks about the session he led at Agile 2017, “LeSS without Scrum”. Yi’s presentation focused on explaining how you can implement the principles of Large Scale Scrum in an environment that does not have a proper Scrum implementation at the team level.

If you’d like to check out Yi’s experience report on the subject you can find it here:
https://www.agilealliance.org/resources/experience-reports/less-without-scrum/

If you’d like to contact Yi here is how you can reach him
Email: yi.lv@odd-e.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/yi_lv

Regulatory Compliance Meets Lean Agile Development w/ Doctor Harry Koehnemann Sep 05, 2017

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Dr. Harry Koehnemann is the Director of Technology at 321 Gang and a SAFe Fellow. Harry led a session at Agile 2017 conference entitled: When Worlds Collide: Regulatory Compliance Meets Lean Agile Development. During his talk, he discussed some common mistakes companies make when trying to scale Agile in the face of regulatory compliance. In this interview Harry and Dave discuss his talk at the conference and some of the ways in which compliance requirements can be incorporated into development using Scaled Agile Framework.

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If you’d like to learn more about Harry, you can find him at
Twitter: https://twitter.com/harrykoehnemann
Web: http://321gang.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harry-koehnemann-7a76191/

Four Characteristics of Good Goals w/ Christopher Avery Sep 05, 2017

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Christopher Avery kicked off this year’s leadership track at Agile2017 with his talk the on the Four Characteristics of Good Goals; an idea that stemmed from his book The Responsibility Process, which outlines a model that will help people overcome patterns that are hardwired in our brains from the day we’re born.

Find Christopher Avery Online

Twitter: twitter.com/christopheraver
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/christopheravery
Facebook: facebook.com/christophervery2
Web: christopheravery.com
Web: the.leadershipgift.com

Live from Agile 2017 w/ Michael J Tardiff Aug 31, 2017

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Michael J. Tardiff is a conference veteran with a lot to say about most things. Watch as Dave and Michael talk about topics such as: networking while at the conference, some of the latest mergers in the industry, the legitimacy of norms, and even the Mexican government. The topics are varied, but the message is consistent. The Agile world is changing but is that change for the better. Contacting Michael • Twitter: https://twitter.com/mjt • Web: https://feelingagile.wordpress.com • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeljtardiff/ For more Agile2017 LeadingAgile SoundNotes interviews check out http://www.periscope.tv/leadingagile

Live from Agile2017: The importance of neuro-diversity w/ Sallyann Freudenberg Aug 29, 2017

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At Agile 2017, Dr. Sallyann Freudenberg led a session called “Why the tech industry needs all kinds of minds and how to support them”. Along with her work coaching Agile organizations and teams, Sal is a champion of neuro-diversity in the workplace. In this video Sal chats with Dave about how neuro-diversity became a concern for her, why neuro-diversity is so important to Agile, her session at Agile 2017, and her book “Inclusive Collaboration Experiments”.

For more on Sallyann

Web: SallyannFreudenberg.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/salfreudenberg

Sallyann's Book

“Inclusive Collaboration Experiments”

https://leanpub.com/theinclusivecollaborationexperiments

Live from Agile 2017: Agile Uprising w/ Mike McCalla Aug 28, 2017

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Agile Uprising is one of the fastest growing networks in the Agile community, and Mike helped to create it and is an active board member. He’s also helped organize the Heart of Agile conference for the last two years and is one of the developers of the Lean Agile Intelligence tool which is a self-assessment model that Mike is helping to grow. In this short video, Dave and Mike discuss the what Agile Uprising is all about and the development of Lean Agile Intelligence. Agile Uprising:

Web: http://www.agileuprising.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/agileuprising?lang=en

Lean Agile Intelligence

Web: https://www.leanagileintelligence.com
The video of Troy Lightfoot giving Dave a walkthrough of LeanAgile Intelligence: https://vimeo.com/218602967

Mike McCalla

Twitter: https://twitter.com/msmccalla_1
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelsmccalla/

Agile 2017: The ART of Avoiding a Train Wreck w/ Em Campbell-Pretty Aug 25, 2017

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SAFe Fellow Em Campbell-Pretty led a session at Agile 2017 called “The ART of avoiding a Train Wreck”, which offered guidance on how to better plan Agile Release Trains in Scaled Agile Framework. She stopped by to chat with Dave about her session, and her new book “Tribal Unity: Getting from Teams to Tribes by Creating a One Team Culture”. Em’s book focuses on one of her main areas of passion — creating awesome Agile tribes. During the interview she also offers advice about how to handle cross team dependencies in Agile.

Leading Change in Your Organization and Managing Teams Without Top Down Control w/ Esther Derby Aug 24, 2017

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Esther Derby led two sessions at Agile 2017 - Creating an Environment for Successful Agile Teams and Change Artist Super Powers: Leading Change in an Agile Manner. In this interview Esther and Dave discuss her sessions at the conference, some of the abilities you can work to develop if you are trying to lead change in your organization, and how to manage teams without top down control. Esther also responds to a question from Dave on how to lead retrospectives with distributed teams. And, of course… they talk about kale.

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