Ep. 29 From Hierarchy to Empowerment: Agile Leadership Paradigms

In this episode Caitlin Mackie is joined by Lieschen Gargano Sr, Release Train Engineer at Scaled Agile. They delve into the role of the Release Train Engineer, sharing tips and tricks, FLOW activities, lessons learned and how to get started in the role. With SAFe Summit 2023 just around the corner, Lieschen also takes some time to talk about what she’s most excited about for the event and shared some advice for first time attendees. If Lieschen's expertise and passion have piqued your interest, be sure to explore the Scaled Agile RTE course. It provides comprehensive training, equipping you with the necessary skills and knowledge to excel as an RTE. (https://scaledagile.com/training/safe-release-train-engineer/) We hope you enjoy the episode! Share your thoughts and questions on Twitter using the #easyagilepodcast and make sure to tag @EasyAgile.  About Easy Agile At Easy Agile, we believe great Agile tools should be simple, intuitive, and accessible to teams of all sizes. Founded in 2016, we build Jira-integrated apps that help teams—from startups to scale-ups to enterprises—plan, collaborate, and deliver value more effectively. More than 160,000 Agile practitioners use our solutions every month to streamline workflows, improve team alignment, and stay focused on customer needs. Whether you're managing a growing product team or coordinating cross-functional Agile programs, our apps make Agile work easier.  🔹 Explore our Atlassian Marketplace apps: Easy Agile Programs – Scaled Agile planning & cross-team collaboration Easy Agile TeamRhythm – Sprint planning, user story mapping & retrospectives  🚀 Try our apps for free → https://www.easyagile.com/products  Stay connected with us: 🌐 Website: https://www.easyagile.com 📖 Blog: https://www.easyagile.com/blog 🔗 LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/company/easyagile 

In this episode Hayley Rodd - Head of Partnerships at Easy Agile is joined by Tony Camacho - Technical Director Enterprise Agilityat Adaptavist. They are delving into the highly discussed subject of team alignment, discussing what it means to have synchronized goals, cross-functional collaboration, and a shared agile mindset.  They also cover the fundamental building blocks to get right on your journey to team alignment, like the power of listening and embracing mistakes as learning opportunities, stressing the importance of following through on retrospective action items + so much more. We hope you enjoy the episode! Share your thoughts and questions on Twitter using the #easyagilepodcast and make sure to tag @EasyAgile.  About Easy Agile At Easy Agile, we believe great Agile tools should be simple, intuitive, and accessible to teams of all sizes. Founded in 2016, we build Jira-integrated apps that help teams—from startups to scale-ups to enterprises—plan, collaborate, and deliver value more effectively. More than 160,000 Agile practitioners use our solutions every month to streamline workflows, improve team alignment, and stay focused on customer needs. Whether you're managing a growing product team or coordinating cross-functional Agile programs, our apps make Agile work easier.  🔹 Explore our Atlassian Marketplace apps: Easy Agile Programs – Scaled Agile planning & cross-team collaboration Easy Agile TeamRhythm – Sprint planning, user story mapping & retrospectives  🚀 Try our apps for free → https://www.easyagile.com/products  Stay connected with us: 🌐 Website: https://www.easyagile.com 📖 Blog: https://www.easyagile.com/blog 🔗 LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/company/easyagile 

Nick Muldoon, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Easy Agile, is joined by Dave West, CEO, and Eric Naiburg, COO, from Scrum.org. In this episode, Nick, Dave, and Eric unpack the current agile landscape, discussing the role of the agile native and emphasizing the importance of building connected teams by flipping the hierarchy and putting leaders in supporting roles.They emphasize the importance of empowering the people closest to the problem to make the call, and ultimately create an environment for success to happen. We hope you enjoy the episode! Share your thoughts and questions on Twitter using the #easyagilepodcast and make sure to tag @EasyAgile.  About Easy Agile At Easy Agile, we believe great Agile tools should be simple, intuitive, and accessible to teams of all sizes. Founded in 2016, we build Jira-integrated apps that help teams—from startups to scale-ups to enterprises—plan, collaborate, and deliver value more effectively. More than 160,000 Agile practitioners use our solutions every month to streamline workflows, improve team alignment, and stay focused on customer needs. Whether you're managing a growing product team or coordinating cross-functional Agile programs, our apps make Agile work easier.  🔹 Explore our Atlassian Marketplace apps: Easy Agile Programs – Scaled Agile planning & cross-team collaboration Easy Agile TeamRhythm – Sprint planning, user story mapping & retrospectives  🚀 Try our apps for free → https://www.easyagile.com/products  Stay connected with us: 🌐 Website: https://www.easyagile.com 📖 Blog: https://www.easyagile.com/blog 🔗 LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/company/easyagile 

Dave Elkan, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Easy Agile is joined by Jean-Philippe Comeau Principal Customer Success Advocate at Adaptavist. JP is passionate about teamwork, meeting new people, presentations of all kinds - loves a microphone and a captive audience, new technologies and most of all problem-solving.In this episode, JP and Dave are talking about one of the most anticipated events in the tech calendar - Atlassian’s Team23! They’re talking about what to expect, tips for first timers and what they’re hoping to take away from the event.They also dive into the future of work and the significance of coming together as a team.We hope you enjoy the episode!  About Easy Agile At Easy Agile, we believe great Agile tools should be simple, intuitive, and accessible to teams of all sizes. Founded in 2016, we build Jira-integrated apps that help teams—from startups to scale-ups to enterprises—plan, collaborate, and deliver value more effectively. More than 160,000 Agile practitioners use our solutions every month to streamline workflows, improve team alignment, and stay focused on customer needs. Whether you're managing a growing product team or coordinating cross-functional Agile programs, our apps make Agile work easier.  🔹 Explore our Atlassian Marketplace apps: Easy Agile Programs – Scaled Agile planning & cross-team collaboration Easy Agile TeamRhythm – Sprint planning, user story mapping & retrospectives  🚀 Try our apps for free → https://www.easyagile.com/products  Stay connected with us: 🌐 Website: https://www.easyagile.com 📖 Blog: https://www.easyagile.com/blog 🔗 LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/company/easyagile 

Mat Lawrence, Chief Operating Officer at Easy Agile is joined by Ray Arell. Ray currently works as the Director of Agile Transformations at Dell Technologies, is the host of the ACN Podcast, and the President Of The Board Of Directors for the nonprofit Forest Grove Foundation Inc. Ray is passionate about collaborative and inclusive leadership, and loves to inspire and motivate others to achieve their full potential. This is exactly what Mat and Ray dive into in this episode.  Ray and Mat explore the concepts such as inclusive and situational leadership and the connection to agile ways of working, empowering the organisational brain, and fostering authenticity within teams. This is a fantastic episode for aspiring, emerging and existing leaders! Lots of great tips and advice to share with colleagues and friends and understand the ways we can be empowering and enabling one another.  We hope you enjoy the episode!  About Easy Agile At Easy Agile, we believe great Agile tools should be simple, intuitive, and accessible to teams of all sizes. Founded in 2016, we build Jira-integrated apps that help teams—from startups to scale-ups to enterprises—plan, collaborate, and deliver value more effectively. More than 160,000 Agile practitioners use our solutions every month to streamline workflows, improve team alignment, and stay focused on customer needs. Whether you're managing a growing product team or coordinating cross-functional Agile programs, our apps make Agile work easier.  🔹 Explore our Atlassian Marketplace apps: Easy Agile Programs – Scaled Agile planning & cross-team collaboration Easy Agile TeamRhythm – Sprint planning, user story mapping & retrospectives  🚀 Try our apps for free → https://www.easyagile.com/products  Stay connected with us: 🌐 Website: https://www.easyagile.com 📖 Blog: https://www.easyagile.com/blog 🔗 LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/company/easyagile 

Join Nick Muldoon, Co-founder and Co-CEO of Easy Agile as he chats with Maysa Safadi, Engineering Manager at Easy Agile.  As a woman, growing up in the middle east and being passionate about pursuing a career in the world of tech, don’t exactly go hand in hand. Navigating her way through a very patriarchal society, Maysa talks about her career journey and how she got to where she is today. Having the odds stacked against her, Maysa talks about challenging the status quo, the constant pressure to prove herself in a male-dominated industry, the importance of charting your own course and her hopes for the future of women in tech.  This is such an inspiring episode, we hope you enjoy it as much as we did.  About Easy Agile At Easy Agile, we believe great Agile tools should be simple, intuitive, and accessible to teams of all sizes. Founded in 2016, we build Jira-integrated apps that help teams—from startups to scale-ups to enterprises—plan, collaborate, and deliver value more effectively. More than 160,000 Agile practitioners use our solutions every month to streamline workflows, improve team alignment, and stay focused on customer needs. Whether you're managing a growing product team or coordinating cross-functional Agile programs, our apps make Agile work easier.  🔹 Explore our Atlassian Marketplace apps: Easy Agile Programs – Scaled Agile planning & cross-team collaboration Easy Agile TeamRhythm – Sprint planning, user story mapping & retrospectives  🚀 Try our apps for free → https://www.easyagile.com/products  Stay connected with us: 🌐 Website: https://www.easyagile.com 📖 Blog: https://www.easyagile.com/blog 🔗 LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/company/easyagile 

Amaar Iftikhar, Product Manager at Easy Agile is joined by Jon Kern, Co-author of the Agile Manifesto for Software Development and a senior transformation consultant at Adaptavist. Amaar and Jon took some time to speak about the Agile Manifesto. Covering everything from the early days, ideation, process, and first reactions, right through to what it means for the world of agile working today. They touch on the ideal state of an agile team, and what the manifesto means for distributed, hybrid and co-located teams.  We hope you enjoy the episode!  About Easy Agile At Easy Agile, we believe great Agile tools should be simple, intuitive, and accessible to teams of all sizes. Founded in 2016, we build Jira-integrated apps that help teams—from startups to scale-ups to enterprises—plan, collaborate, and deliver value more effectively. More than 160,000 Agile practitioners use our solutions every month to streamline workflows, improve team alignment, and stay focused on customer needs. Whether you're managing a growing product team or coordinating cross-functional Agile programs, our apps make Agile work easier.  🔹 Explore our Atlassian Marketplace apps: Easy Agile Programs – Scaled Agile planning & cross-team collaboration Easy Agile TeamRhythm – Sprint planning, user story mapping & retrospectives  🚀 Try our apps for free → https://www.easyagile.com/products  Stay connected with us: 🌐 Website: https://www.easyagile.com 📖 Blog: https://www.easyagile.com/blog 🔗 LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/company/easyagile 

Chloe Hall- Marketing Coordinator at Easy Agile is joined by Renae Craven - Agile Coach, Agile Trainer, Scrum Master Coach and QLD Chapter Local Leader at Women in Agile.  Join Renae Craven and Chloe Hall as they discuss:Renae’s journey to becoming an Agile Coach and Agile Trainer Taking a leap out of your comfort zone The importance of taking time to gather feedback and reflect Building a team environment where everyone feels safe to contributeAligning team behaviour and how prioritising learning impacts team deliveryWhy sitting all day is bad for you and how to bring movement into your work routine + so much more  Mentioned article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-pilates-can-help-office-worker-renae-craven/?trackingId=cT0qddaeRU%2BsSn1JYuKsDg%3D%3D About Easy Agile At Easy Agile, we believe great Agile tools should be simple, intuitive, and accessible to teams of all sizes. Founded in 2016, we build Jira-integrated apps that help teams—from startups to scale-ups to enterprises—plan, collaborate, and deliver value more effectively. More than 160,000 Agile practitioners use our solutions every month to streamline workflows, improve team alignment, and stay focused on customer needs. Whether you're managing a growing product team or coordinating cross-functional Agile programs, our apps make Agile work easier.  🔹 Explore our Atlassian Marketplace apps: Easy Agile Programs – Scaled Agile planning & cross-team collaboration Easy Agile TeamRhythm – Sprint planning, user story mapping & retrospectives  🚀 Try our apps for free → https://www.easyagile.com/products  Stay connected with us: 🌐 Website: https://www.easyagile.com 📖 Blog: https://www.easyagile.com/blog 🔗 LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/company/easyagile 

Join Greg Warner and Chloe Hall as they discuss the cloud migration journey: The mental shift to cloud migration and how to think beyond the technical sideHow to navigate the journey without a roadmap to follow The four pillars to success for your cloud migration journey Finding the right time to migrateThinking about future opportunities beyond your migrationThe unexpected value that can come from a cloud migration  About Easy Agile At Easy Agile, we believe great Agile tools should be simple, intuitive, and accessible to teams of all sizes. Founded in 2016, we build Jira-integrated apps that help teams—from startups to scale-ups to enterprises—plan, collaborate, and deliver value more effectively. More than 160,000 Agile practitioners use our solutions every month to streamline workflows, improve team alignment, and stay focused on customer needs. Whether you're managing a growing product team or coordinating cross-functional Agile programs, our apps make Agile work easier.  🔹 Explore our Atlassian Marketplace apps: Easy Agile Programs – Scaled Agile planning & cross-team collaboration Easy Agile TeamRhythm – Sprint planning, user story mapping & retrospectives  🚀 Try our apps for free → https://www.easyagile.com/products  Stay connected with us: 🌐 Website: https://www.easyagile.com 📖 Blog: https://www.easyagile.com/blog 🔗 LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/company/easyagile 

Jasmin Iordanidis - Product Marketing Manager at Easy Agile is joined by Rebecca Davis - SAFe Fellow, SPCT, Principal Consultant and member of the Scaled Agile Framework Team.   Rebecca is passionate about teamwork, integrity, communication, and dedication to quality. I coach organizations on building competitive, market changing products at scale, while bringing joy to the work, for what is work without joy?   In this episode, Rebecca and Jasmin discuss  ● The value of the Scaled Agile Framework, who it’s for & who would benefit  ● The Importance of having a common language for organisations to scale effectively  ● When to connect the Scaled Agile Framework with your agile transformation● Where and how to start  ● The Scaled Agile Framework as a tool for enabling change leadership● Challenges & red flags of agile transformations and the Scaled Agile Framework  ● Is there ever really an end state?● + so much more!  About Easy Agile At Easy Agile, we believe great Agile tools should be simple, intuitive, and accessible to teams of all sizes. Founded in 2016, we build Jira-integrated apps that help teams—from startups to scale-ups to enterprises—plan, collaborate, and deliver value more effectively. More than 160,000 Agile practitioners use our solutions every month to streamline workflows, improve team alignment, and stay focused on customer needs. Whether you're managing a growing product team or coordinating cross-functional Agile programs, our apps make Agile work easier.  🔹 Explore our Atlassian Marketplace apps: Easy Agile Programs – Scaled Agile planning & cross-team collaboration Easy Agile TeamRhythm – Sprint planning, user story mapping & retrospectives  🚀 Try our apps for free → https://www.easyagile.com/products  Stay connected with us: 🌐 Website: https://www.easyagile.com 📖 Blog: https://www.easyagile.com/blog 🔗 LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/company/easyagile