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
The overpowering scrum master, techniques to help traditional companies, product owner empowerment, small chunks of work, and long lived teams
In this episode, we talk about (01:04) the Agile Narrative Project story of the overpowering scrum master, (18:35) what coaching techniques do people use to gain leverage and traction…
David Hussman, building physiological safety, sprint planning, useful metrics, and best practices for release planning
In this episode we (01:07) A few words on the passing of David Hussman, (03:14) Agile Narrative Project: How do we build physiological safety in companies, (20:11) What is the benefit…
Influencing the business, knowing if your coaching is going the right direction, facilitating Agile principles and values, and realistic sprints goals
In this episode, we talk about (00:34) how an IT Agile coach can influence the business side of an organization, (15:23) how an Agile coach knows they are going in the right direction…
Engage upper and executive management, first line managers, measuring the Agile coach, and coach helping with budgets
This episode we talk about (00:36) tactics and strategies to engage upper and executive management in adopting business agility, (12:49) how can you bring the most value to line-manag…
Are all Agile transformations slow, backlog grooming in Kanban, Agile coach vs scrum master, and ignoring Agile values
In this episode, we talk about (00:55) are all Agile transformations extremely slow, (20:00) how to do backlog grooming in Kanban, (22:18) what are the deliverables of an Agile coach …
Ways to promote the value of Agile Coaching, and the limits to scaling the Agile adoption to large organizations
In this episode, we talk about (00:54) what are some ways to promote the value of Agile Coaching, and (25:46) we talk about what are the limits to scaling the Agile adoption to a larg…
Affecting culture in complex systems, and Agile adoption steps in classic organizations
In this episode, we talk about (00:36) is culture an emergent property of a complex system and how we can affect that culture, and (20:48) we talk about steps to adopt Agile in classi…
The risk of setting up a internal coaching group, setting a deadline for the Agile adoption, and how to coach when the manager is aggressive
In this episode we talk about the risk of setting up an internal coaching group, should we set a deadline for our Agile adoption to be done, and how do we coach a team with an over-ag…
Why scale frameworks feel like waterfall, talking to executives, and what is business agility
In this episode, we are talking about why scaled frameworks may feel like waterfall, how to talk to executives, and what the heck is this business agility.
Overcoming negative bias of a failed adoption, working with geographically dispersed teams, under trained Scrum masters, building credibility when you are a non-developer coach
In this episode we talk about how to overcome the negative bias from a previous failed Agile adoption, tips for working with geographically dispersed teams, what to do if your company…
How to motivate a team working on a old product, what makes a good agile coach, and must read/watch for Agile practitioners
This week we talk about how to motivate a team that is working on older products, what makes a good agile coach, and what resources are a must read/watch for Agile practitioners.
How to handle interrupts, using story points vs. hours, getting a vertical slice of functionally, how to integrate Agile in non-software teams, and when can you call yourself Agile
In this episode we talk about how do Agile teams handle interrupts, why teams should use story points vs. hours, getting a vertical slice of a user story, how do you integrate Agile i…
Unlimited power to guide Agile in large organizations, first step to agilize a team, and what is the criteria to call yourself a Agile Coach
This week we talk about what if we had "unlimited power” on how we would guide Agile adoption across a large heterogeneous organization, How we would start to agilize a team, and abou…
Team evolution, public vs private sector roll out of Agile, adopting Agile with legacy systems, and is Agile a means to an end or something more
This week we talk about how to break through a local maximum in team evolution, public vs private sector roll out of Agile, how to manage the challenges in adopting Agile for organiza…