Agile Community Network
Do you need assistance with your Agile adoption? Or would you like to share what worked or didn’t work during your adoption process in your own company? If so, we invite you to participate in the Agile Community Network. The ACN Podcast is recorded monthly at our live events. If you want to join that event, please visit acnpodcast.org to register. Help support the show by becoming an ACN supporting member or sponsor today!
- Update frequency
- every 28 days
- Average duration
- 48 minutes
- Episodes
- 94
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Learning Spike: Abandoning the Agile Brand
During the Agile 2023 event, I couldn't help but notice a significant number of individuals I met had chosen to remove the term "Agile" from their job titles. This observation prompte…
The Agile Industrial Complex
This episode explores the often-discussed unhealthy relationship between adopting organizations, consultancies, certificate providers, and framework and tool vendors, commonly called …
Agile Risk Mitigation and Tips for a New Team Coach
This episode delves into Agile methodology and its potent role in mitigating risks. We also explore the art of persuading and enlisting others in adopting these approaches for effecti…
What about the people!!!
In this episode, we explore how companies prioritizing processes over nurturing their workforce's skills and executing Agile with an outdated command and control mindset can lead to a…
Has Agile Jumped the Shark?
In this episode, we delve into the question of whether Agile has "jumped the shark." We examine the current state of Agile and whether it still provides value to organizations in toda…
ACN Learning Spike: the Cynefin Framework
Welcome to the ACN Learning Spike! Our short, informative episodes are designed to provide insights on various topics that can enhance your coaching or organizational agility.
In our …
Balancing the "how" and "why" in product delivery
In today's fast-paced world, we often prioritize the "how" of building things - the methods, tools, and resources we use to deliver results. However, in our eagerness to achieve our g…
Communities of Practice the Benefits and Challenges
In this episode, we discuss the benefits and challenges of communities of practice.
Join Shawna Cullinan, Jörg Pietruszka, Diana Larsen, Sheila Eckert, Sheila McGrath, Hendrik Esser…
Laid Off in the Age of AI
In this episode, we talk about recent layoffs and ways to maneuver your career in the age of AI.
Join Shawna Cullinan, Jörg Pietruszka, Diana Larsen, Hendrik Esser, Ray Arell, and a…
Focus! How do we help people find it?
This episode explores how we help teams to achieve focus, especially with remote work. Also, with this being our end-of-the-year podcast, we ask what we need to celebrate this year.
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When Coaching is no Longer Coaching
This episode explores how sometimes coaching becomes merely an expert leader using coaching language to drive a narrow self-serving agenda. We talk about this anti-pattern and look f…
Agile Transformation Strategies
This episode explores people's go-to strategies for an Agile transition within a company. We also examine what works well with those strategies, and we work to understand the key gaps…
Teal Organization and its fit inside Agile. Plus, Agile metrics
In this episode, we explore how Teal organization theory fits inside Agile. Is this a model that more companies should use along with Agile? Also, by popular demand, we are talking ag…
Impediments
This episode explores impediments and what we can do about them.
Join Hendrik Esser, Shawna Cullinan, Jörg Pietruszka, Diana Larsen, Ray Arell, and all the callers to the monthly liv…
What would you have done differently?
In this episode, we explore with what you know today what you would have done differently in your Agile Coaching. Would you have put a strong infancies on culture or perhaps a given …
Ways to Coach and Foster Innovation
Creating a competitive advantage means more than Agile building efficiencies in delivery--it is also about innovative solutions. So how in Agile do we do that? This episode explores h…
The Agile Manager
The managers often have trouble adapting to an Agile way of work, but the problem of why this is an issue twenty years after the manifesto may be on us--the Agile coaches. So let's ex…
Too busy to improve!
Every Agile coach is faced with a team that says they are too busy to improve. You’re frustrated. You see the improvements you want and know the team is capable of more. But when it c…
How and what are we learning this year?
As we perhaps get past Covid, how and what will we learn this year? Are you planning to attend in-person events? What about online events and e-learning? In this episode, we explo…
How can we help Agile teams to thrive?
How can so many teams not be thriving with Agile, when there are so many people certified as scrum masters, product owners, and coaches? In this episode, we explore some of the reason…