Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations
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.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 21 minutes
- Episodes
- 463
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2022
Tom Cooper's "4 Levels of Thinking as a Geek Leader" at Southern Fried Agile 2016
Tom Cooper has learned through the years that connecting with people is key to building the trust that makes a good working relationship. For years, Tom focused on improving his technical skills but …
00:12:32 |
Fri 02 Dec 2016
Sarah Scott on Cows as Impediments & Using SAFe to Implement SAFe
What do cows and trains have in common? They're both on the Kanban board that Sarah Scott uses to visualize the SAFe implementation at Northwestern Mutual. Sarah walks us through the visualization me…
00:08:16 |
Thu 01 Dec 2016
Dave Rush: Why Projects are Dead & Why Some Teams Have a Harder Time Collaborating
Dave Rush, Accenture Managing Consultant and Transformation Agent, is passionate about putting an end to projects, because as Dave puts is, "Projects are dead... because by their nature they have a s…
00:13:41 |
Wed 30 Nov 2016
Stuart Perron on the Performance Predictability Index & Not Losing Sight of Actual Business Value
Teams often lose sight of the business outcomes as they write stories and features in "technicalese", which external users may not be able to comprehend. SPC Stuart Perron thinks that PI objectives a…
00:10:26 |
Tue 29 Nov 2016
Joe Vallone to Leaders: Responsibility for Agile Success or Failure Cannot be Delegated
Joe Vallone has a powerful message for enterprise leaders -- that includes managers, directors, VPs and executives. When it comes to executives participating in the transformation, Joe says, "respons…
00:10:42 |
Mon 28 Nov 2016
Dwayne Stroman: Let's Talk About How Your Culture is Impeding Your Transformation
SPCT Dwayne Stroman has a simple but compelling message: Culture is at the foundation of your transformation success--or failure. According to Dwayne, SAFe is a spotlight will shed light on the dark …
00:10:56 |
Wed 23 Nov 2016
Michael Stump on Drafting Case Studies to Identify Enterprise Objectives & Pairing with Partners
Michael Stump is the Managing Director for the EMEA regions for Scaled Agile. He shares his experiences using a nifty group activity in value stream workshops to help attendees understand their true …
00:10:42 |
Tue 22 Nov 2016
Richard Knaster on Value Streams to Reduce Lead Time and Building Quality In
SAFe Fellow Richard Knaster is here at SAFe Summit with Agile Amped in Denver to talk about the power of Value Streams, which have their own new layer in SAFe 4.0. He says it's a common antipattern t…
00:11:10 |
Mon 21 Nov 2016
Vikas Kapila's Big Box of Analogies: Planning Vacations and Trains vs. Planes
What does BPUF and vacations have in common? According to Vikas Kapila, it's better to plan a little (for example, purchasing a plane ticket to Hawaii) then make incremental additions along the way, …
00:10:58 |
Fri 18 Nov 2016
Gillian Clark on Using "Essential SAFe" on Major Software Update at NZ Agritech Company
SPCT4 Gillian Clark shares an experience with Agile Amped about inadvertently discovering a way to distill SAFe down to the bare bones so that teams can focus solely on executing. This was particular…
00:11:58 |
Thu 17 Nov 2016
Steve Mayner - Agile Transformation in the Federal Government, Third Time's the Charm
Steve Mayner puts it well when he says that "just about everything in the federal government is very big". He discusses his work with implementing SAFe with the government as an Agile Practice Direct…
00:12:11 |
Wed 16 Nov 2016
Case Study: Pete Rim On Leading the Transformative Agile Journey at Cisco
Pete Rim, Continuous Delivery Agile Coach at Cisco, sits down with Agile Amped to share his recent successes with wider adoption of SAFe and Agile, including 90% improvement in speed (from developmen…
00:09:47 |
Tue 15 Nov 2016
Robert Mahler Sez Grassroots Transformations Without C-Level Buy-In Don't Work
Robert Mahler of Tata Consulting Services (TCS) shares with Agile Amped his thoughts on and experience with Agile transformations and SAFe. In his experience Robert has learned that grassroots transf…
00:07:38 |
Mon 14 Nov 2016
Case Study: Leading an Enterprise Agile Transformation, Starting From IT
SolutionsIQ's Evan Campbell and Howard Johnson discuss a recent enterprise Agile transformation that Howard led previously in order to improve the organization's time to market and accelerate change …
00:10:46 |
Fri 11 Nov 2016
Robert Mahler Sez Grassroots Transformations Without C-Level Buy-In Don't Work
Robert Mahler of Tata Consulting Services (TCS) shares with Agile Amped his thoughts on and experience with Agile transformations and SAFe. In his experience Robert has learned that grassroots transf…
00:07:38 |
Thu 10 Nov 2016
Sandra Johnson is Retooling Demo Experiences to be More Fun and Valuable
Sandra Johnson is a Release Train Engineer in the healthcare-IT industry. She started as a waterfall PM a few years and jumped at the opportunity to become a ScrumMaster in her company's SAFe impleme…
00:09:55 |
Wed 09 Nov 2016
Susan Farago Works to Create Certifications that Objectively Measure Human Behavior
Certification Program Manager Susan Farago is new to Scaled Agile, but she's been in the certification and credentialing industry for almost two decades. Susan works to create certification programs …
00:11:33 |
Tue 08 Nov 2016
Inbar Oren on 10 Essential Elements of SAFe, Scrum Mastery and Change Management
SAFe Fellow and principal consultant Inbar Oren is excited to announce the new SAFe ScrumMaster course and certification. Of importance for SAFe ScrumMasters to understand are the 10 Essential Elemen…
00:12:41 |
Mon 07 Nov 2016
CEO Fabiola Eyholzer Says Lean-Agile HR are Key to Enterprise Agility - at SAFe Summit 2016
"HR is the key to bringing Agility to an enterprise level. If we don't fix our HR approach, we cannot a truly Agile organization." That's what Fabiola Eyholzer, CEO of Just Leading Solutions, shares …
00:13:06 |
Fri 04 Nov 2016
Alex Yakyma, SAFe Summit Talks and SAFe 4.1 - "No Reason to Freak Out"
Alex Yakyma, SAFe Fellow and principal consultant, stops by Agile Amped to talk about his three talks at this year's SAFe Summit: 1. "Advances in DevOps with SAFe" 2. "Applying SAFe to Large and Comp…
00:11:27 |
Thu 03 Nov 2016
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