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This week, I am joined by the authors of "The Flow System Playbook" authors John Turner and Nigel Thurlow, to discuss what inspired the book and how to get the best value out of it. We covered: The background of the book and those which it is in memory of Clarifying the problem and ill-defined problems, getting clarity on your objectives What inspired the book? Business agility vs product agility How to get started with value streaming The 9 Cs of teamwork Context, culture and composition, management helping shape the right environment The Customer Deductive, inductive and abductive reasoning What is sense-making? What are nudges? Constraints and flow Prototyping The OODA Loop Scrum: The Toyota Way vs Scrum in the Scrum Guide Distributed leadership The concept of Obeya vs miro and mural boards Situational awareness Red teaming Value Stream Mapping Multi-team systems About John Turner John R. Turner, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the University of North Texas for the Department of Learning Technologies in the College of Information. He currently serves as the Editor–in–Chief for Performance Improvement Quarterly (PIQ) journal. His research interests are in team science, team cognition, leadership, performance improvement, knowledge management, theory building, complexity theory, multilevel models, and meta-analysis techniques. He is the co-creator of The Flow System(TM) and the co-author of the book, The Flow System, and has published articles in Advances in Developing Human Resources; Human Resource Development Review; European Journal of Training & Development; International Journal of Technology, Knowledge, & Society; Journal of Information and Knowledge Management; Journal of Manufacturing Technology & Management; Journal of Knowledge Management; Performance Improvement; and Performance Improvement Quarterly. Connect with John Turner: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-turner-3helix/ About Nigel Thurlow As a leading expert on Lean and Agile approaches, Nigel advises companies on successful transformation strategies and how to achieve effective and lasting change. Nigel designs organizations that are highly optimized and customer value focussed. As a problem solver, Nigel helps executive leaders transform their operations. He creates disruptors and transforms the disrupted. Connect with Nigel Thurlow: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nigelthurlow/https://www.linkedin.com/in/nigelthurlow/ The Flow System Playbook: https://www.getflowtrained.com/playbook/ Enjoyed this episode? Let's connect: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/johncolemanagilitychef/⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/johncolemanxagility ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠- social and podcast links  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linkpop.com/orderlydisruption⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠- order training from right here

The author of Extraordinarily Badass Agile Coaching: The Journey from Beginner to Mastery and Beyond joins me on this week's episode of the Xagility podcast to discuss: How Bob got into Agile Coaching What does Bob mean by “Badass”? Serving your clients The new stances on the wheel of competency Different types of leadership The coaching act Meta skills Taking coaching too seriously The post-arc reflection Striving for effectiveness Systemic coaching ORSC coaching Internal vs external coaching You don’t have to be strong across all competencies in the wheel of competency The future of agile coaching About Bob: Agile leader, coach, author, speaker, and community builder. For ~20 years, Bob has been focused on leveraging agile methods as the best way to deliver software value. While not being a silver bullet, they simply work better than anything he has tried. Specialties: Bob has unique agile coaching skills & experience in the following areas: agile leadership & culture development, scaling the agile enterprise, distributed agile, and agile testing & DevOps in larger-scale contexts.Bob is a Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC) providing agile team coaching & training with a focus on Scrum+XP, Lean and Kanban practices. Join his mailing list there as well for a monthly newsletter and free "agile stuff" - http://eepurl.com/IAxTD Connect with Bob on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobgalen/https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobgalen/ Bob's websites: https://rgalen.com/ https://www.agile-moose.com/the-moose-as-coach Enjoyed this episode? Let's connect: ⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/johncolemanagilitychef/ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/johncolemanxagility ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠- social and podcast links  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linkpop.com/orderlydisruption⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠- order training from right here If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-leadership-training/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. If you value coaching and would like to work with a deeply experienced agile and executive coaching specialist, visit our coaching page on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-coaching/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ If you are looking for an agile consultant that can help your leadership team identify an appropriate roadmap to organizational agility and take the most effective course of action in your agile transformation, visit our consulting page on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-consulting/⁠ #scrum #executiveagility #agile

Many organizations have become successful, over decades, by following tried and tested #management and #projectmanagement rules. Rules and regulations that are deeply embedded in the culture of the organization. As we encounter increasing degrees of complexity, the business case for #agile has been proven time and again, especially in the world of #productdevelopment and #agileleadership. So, how do you convince the board to run a trial? How do you persuade other senior executives and #leadership teams to explore the opportunity of #agile? About John Coleman John Coleman has deep experience and expertise working with executives, #leadership teams and product development teams to achieve increased #organizationalagility and create environments where creativity and collaboration produce high-performance teams. https://linktr.ee/johncolemanxagility - social and podcast links https://linkpop.com/orderlydisruption - order training from right here If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-leadership-training/. If you value coaching and would like to work with a deeply experienced agile and executive coaching specialist, visit our coaching page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-coaching/ If you are looking for an agile consultant that can help your leadership team identify an appropriate roadmap to organizational agility and take the most effective course of action in your agile transformation, visit our consulting page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-consulting/ #agile #leadership #agileleadership #certifiedagileleadership #professionalagileleadership #scrum #scrumorg #xagility #executiveagility #xagility #execagility #executiveagile #kanplexity

This week I am joined by Quinton Quartel to discuss the Fluid agile Scaling Technology (FaST) - both a method and a framework. What did we discuss? Quinton’s road to the beginning of FAST and the history of FAST How does open space work with 800 people? The power of open space What other ingredients do you need to help your teams work together more effectively? Quinton’s journey in getting support for the FAST approach and the factors behind its momentum Describing the FAST diagram Diving into the core method of FAST The core cycle: the meeting Does each team get its own product backlog? The product map The roles IN FAST:  Product Manager, Transient roles: Team Steward of the cycle, Feature Steward (optional) Small and large FAST How big can the collective be? Explaining the management innovation hexagon Ways to visualise work Managing expectations with FAST Improvement and mastery with FAST What was taken out/simplified in the latest version of FAST? Product Management Dealing with the Feature Factory Mode Mobbing and using FAST Check out FaST: fastagile.io Connect with Quinton: https://www.linkedin.com/in/qrq/ About Quinton Quartel: His passion is to make the world a better place by co-creating healthy workplaces as growth environments for humans to flourish - while helping businesses be more effective, adaptable, and innovative. Quinton's background is in software, and he still describes himself as a dev. Over twenty years in software exposed him to many years and many flavours of agile. Those experiences and his passion for better ways of working inspired him to start experimenting and have resulted in some exciting results. Enjoyed this episode? Let's connect: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/johncolemanagilitychef/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/johncolemanxagility ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠- social and podcast links  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linkpop.com/orderlydisruption⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠- order training from right here If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-leadership-training/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. If you value coaching and would like to work with a deeply experienced agile and executive coaching specialist, visit our coaching page on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-coaching/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ If you are looking for an agile consultant that can help your leadership team identify an appropriate roadmap to organizational agility and take the most effective course of action in your agile transformation, visit our consulting page on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-consulting/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ #fast #agile #productmanagement

How do you manage your energy when trying to foster/cultivate change? Here are a few helpful tips to manage the energy you bring to a situation. Enjoyed this episode? Let's connect: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/johncolemanagilitychef/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/johncolemanxagility ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠- social and podcast links  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linkpop.com/orderlydisruption⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠- order training from right here If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-leadership-training/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. If you value coaching and would like to work with a deeply experienced agile and executive coaching specialist, visit our coaching page on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-coaching/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ If you are looking for an agile consultant that can help your leadership team identify an appropriate roadmap to organizational agility and take the most effective course of action in your agile transformation, visit our consulting page on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-consulting/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ #scrum #agile

This week I am joined by the amazing Allan Kelly to discuss his book: Succeeding with OKRs in Agile: How to create & deliver objectives & key results for teams. In this episode: 1. Allan’s journey into OKR 2. How do we implement OKRs in a healthy and helpful way? 3. 1975 vs 2023 OKRs 4. Strategy, mission and purpose 5. You want to do OKRs: where do you start? 6. The notion of commitment & aspirational OKRs 7. Psychological safety 8. Test-driven development & test-driven OKRs 9. Operational OKRs 10. Can you park business as usual and let your team do the shiny new stuff? 11. OKR 0 12. OKR roadmap 13. The rule of thumb: 3 OKRs 14. Queuing theory 15. Balancing your business as usual, your continuous improvement of business as usual and investment initiatives 16. The difference between Allan’s 1st edition and 2nd edition of his book About Allan: Allan helps companies create environments were digital professional can thrive and do great work to enhance digital agility and create competitive advantage. In agile, Allan found a set of ideas, techniques and people which matched his own thinking and to which he could contribute. That desire to change the world has led Allan to write seven books - his latest is "Succeeding with OKRs in Agile". The ones Allan is most proud of are "Business Patterns for Software Developers" and "Continuous Digital." In addition Allan has pioneered techniques such as Value Poker, Time-Value Profiles and Retrospective Dialogue Sheets. Allan is always open for discussion, engage through consultancy (part or full time), training and discussion. Allan's website: https://www.allankelly.net/ Allan's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allankellynet Allan's email: [email protected] Allan's books: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Allan-Kelly/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3AAllan+Kelly Enjoyed this episode? Let's connect: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johncolemanagilitychef/ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/johncolemanxagility ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠- social and podcast links  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linkpop.com/orderlydisruption⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - order training from right here If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-leadership-training/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. If you value coaching and would like to work with a deeply experienced agile and executive coaching specialist, visit our coaching page on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-coaching/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ If you are looking for an agile consultant that can help your leadership team identify an appropriate roadmap to organizational agility and take the most effective course of action in your agile transformation, visit our consulting page on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-consulting/⁠⁠⁠⁠ #scrum #okrs #agile

This week I had the pleasure of having Cliff Hazell talk about his time at Spotify, his journey into Flight Levels and what can you do when you need to deliver technical expertise when the capacity is already full? On the agenda: 1. Cliff’s History 2. The usefulness of talking to people taking the calls every day 3. Helping leaders of scale-ups to grow 4. Lessons from Spotify 5. What can you do when you need to deliver technical expertise when the capacity is already full? 6. Teaching each other to do jobs is not FREE 7. Big bets 8. Challenges over autonomy and alignment 9. Survivorship Bias 10. Lessons on perseverance: red work and blue work 11. How do executives avoid going into execution bias? 12. Getting the company able to articulate the goals in terms of an outcome that we want to measure 13. Cliff’s journey into flight levels 14. Find leverage, create focus, build habits 15. Product roasts 16. Lessons from Cliff’s time in call centers 17. Successful/unsuccessful organizations 18. Are there any dark sides to transparency? 19. Dealing with burnout About Cliff Hazell: As a Founder, Manager, and Coach, Cliff has seen what works and what doesn't. Cliff uses this knowledge to help you avoid common mistakes and learn from tested experiences. Through his Leadership experience across large and small organizations, from Tech, Product, Finance, and Marketing, Cliff has seen the benefit of integrating everything you do, not just fixing one part. More than guidance and theory, Cliff will teach you how to do it so you can continue to fly without me. Check out his website: https://www.cliffhazell.com/ Connect with Cliff on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cliffhazell/ Enjoyed this episode? Let's connect: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/johncolemanxagility ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠- social and podcast links  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linkpop.com/orderlydisruption⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - order training from right here If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-leadership-training/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. If you value coaching and would like to work with a deeply experienced agile and executive coaching specialist, visit our coaching page on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-coaching/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ If you are looking for an agile consultant who can help your leadership team identify an appropriate roadmap to organizational agility and take the most effective course of action in your agile transformation, visit our consulting page on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-consulting/⁠⁠⁠⁠ #scrum #productowner #agile

Tom Gilb joins this week's episode of the Xagility podcast to tell us all about impact estimation tables, decomposing to deliver value and the laws of project success. In this episode: 1. Impact Estimation Tables 2. Simple symbols to indicate relationships 3. Strategies carry the cost 4. Value divided by effort and cost 5. How do we know we are halfway to the goal? 6. Rating the source of the evidence in terms of credibility 7. Estimating and delivering incrementally with corrections 8. The problem with balance scorecards 9. The laws of project success 10. Disciplined engineering approach for reaching success and keeping it 11. The Laws of Stratospheric Success 12. Eliciting stakeholder critical requirements 13. Stop outsourcing everything to people who steal your corporate knowledge 14. How do you quantify success? 15. Psychological safety 16. Failure borders and success levels 17. Dividing and conquering: small increments 18. Decomposing to deliver value streams 19. Value success principles 20. Summary of Success Book Access Tom's books here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Tom-Gilb/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3ATom+Gilb About Tom Gilb: see www.gilb.com for extensive detail and samples. https://linktr.ee/TomGilb For my selected windows into various works. See Leanpub.com/u/tomgilb for bio and recent ebook collection. Connect with Tom on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomgilb/ Enjoyed this episode? Let's connect: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/johncolemanxagility ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠- social and podcast links  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linkpop.com/orderlydisruption⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - order training from right here If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-leadership-training/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. If you value coaching and would like to work with a deeply experienced agile and executive coaching specialist, visit our coaching page on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-coaching/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ If you are looking for an agile consultant that can help your leadership team identify an appropriate roadmap to organizational agility and take the most effective course of action in your agile transformation, visit our consulting page on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-consulting/⁠⁠⁠⁠ #scrum #agile #projectmanagement #management #managementconsulting

This week, Luca Minudel joins the Xagility podcast to discuss his book "Living Complexity Practical applications of Human Complexity in software and digital products development" as well as dot voting and assessing complexity. On the agenda: Luca’s journey with complexity Luca’s experience with F1 & making changes during the race Lessons learned from working with great teams  Human complexity: what is it? Identity, intentionality, intelligence, and diversity Non-human complexity Control knobs: turning complexity up and down? Flow Model: the challenge level and the skill level When does a team lose the ability to change and renew itself? How can we assess the complexity that is in front of us? Sensing complexity and delivery initiative complexity assessment Sharing experiences with dot voting Practices for dealing with complexity: C2 approach Luca’s twist on the cone of uncertainty Red teaming: what must we do to create psychological safety? Co-creation and co-evolution No scaling and organic growth Luca's Book: https://leanpub.com/livingcomplexity/ About Luca Minudel Luca is a great fit for clients looking for a very experienced Agile professional with a strong track record, pragmatic and framework-agnostic.Luca contributed to the adoption of lean and agile in Ferrari F1 Racing Team while winning three World Championship titles. For the Agile pioneer ThoughtWorks, he delivered training, coaching, assessments and organisational transformations in top-tier organisations in Europe and the United States. He has also worked as Head of Agility, Lean-Agile practice lead and as Transformation Lead. Enjoyed this episode? Let's connect: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/johncolemanxagility ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠- social and podcast links  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linkpop.com/orderlydisruption⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - order training from right here If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-leadership-training/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. If you value coaching and would like to work with a deeply experienced agile and executive coaching specialist, visit our coaching page on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-coaching/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ If you are looking for an agile consultant that can help your leadership team identify an appropriate roadmap to organizational agility and take the most effective course of action in your agile transformation, visit our consulting page on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-consulting/⁠⁠⁠⁠ #scrum #agile #complexity #management # #lucaminudel

On this week’s episode of the Xagility Podcast, Matthew Skelton tells all about his books: Team Topologies: organising business and technology teams for fast flow and Remote Team Interactions Workbook. On the agenda:  Obstacles to fast flow Is team topologies optimised for fast flow? Sociotechnical systems How to get value to customers on an ongoing basis? Collaboration and finding good boundaries for flow Team interaction modes Team topologies and systems thinking Team topologies and cybernetics The influence of DevOps tooling for software teams Conway’s Law: What is it and why it matters? & The Reverse Conway Manoeuvre The implied architecture of flow & good software architecture Interaction modes Enabling teams & measuring their success Streamlined teams What kind of incentives do we need to put in place for the experts in the enabling teams? Tracking dependencies Team APIs Tangible benefits software engineers can expect from implementing team topologies/ what do you tell employees/executives who ask how soon can we expect these results? How important is training? Cognitive load Matthew’s attitude to keeping people busy About Matthew:  Matthew Skelton is co-author of Team Topologies: organizing business and technology teams for fast flow. Head of Consulting at Conflux (confluxhq.com), he specializes in Continuous Delivery, operability and organization dynamics for software in manufacturing, ecommerce, and online services, including cloud, IoT, and embedded software. Recognized by TechBeacon in 2018, 2019, and 2020 as one of the top 100 people to follow in DevOps, Matthew curates the well-known DevOps team topologies patterns at devopstopologies.com and is co-author of the books Team Topologies (IT Revolution Press, 2019), Team Guide to Software Operability (Skelton Thatcher Publications, 2016), and Continuous Delivery with Windows and .NET (O’Reilly, 2016), along with several key reports on SRE.  Matthew founded Conflux in 2017 to offer training and consulting to organizations building and running software systems. Matthew’s Website: https://blog.matthewskelton.net/ Team Topologies Website: https://teamtopologies.com/ Connect with Matthew on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewskelton/ Enjoyed this episode? Let's connect: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/johncolemanxagility ⁠⁠⁠⁠- social and podcast links  ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linkpop.com/orderlydisruption⁠⁠⁠⁠ - order training from right here If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-leadership-training/⁠⁠⁠⁠. If you value coaching and would like to work with a deeply experienced agile and executive coaching specialist, visit our coaching page on ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-coaching/⁠⁠⁠⁠ If you are looking for an agile consultant that can help your leadership team identify an appropriate roadmap to organizational agility and take the most effective course of action in your agile transformation, visit our consulting page on ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-consulting/⁠⁠⁠ #scrum #agile #productowner #management #teamtopologies #matthewskelton