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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. 

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. 

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. 

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! 

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! 

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. 

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! 

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

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 

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! 

This bonus episode was recorded LIVE at Agile2022 in Nashville! The Easy Agile team got to speak with so many amazing people in the agile community, reflecting on conference highlights, key learnings, agile ceremonies + more! Thanks to everyone who stopped by the booth to say G'Day and enjoyed a Tim Tam or two ;) 

Chloe Hall - Marketing Coordinator at Easy Agile is joined by Caitlin Mackie - Content Marketing Coordinator at Easy Agile. In this episode, Caitlin and Chloe discuss the Team Retrospective agile ceremony: Looking at the team retrospective as a tool for risk mitigation rather than just another agile ceremonyThe importance of doing the retrospective on a regular cycleWhy you should celebrate the wins?Taking the action items from your team retrospective to your team sprint planning Timeboxing the retrospective Creating a psychological safe environment for your team retrospective

Robert O'Farrell - Engineering Manager at Easy Agile is joined by Leandro Barreto - Lead Software Engineer at Miro. Leandro is responsible for helping engineering and product teams to be more productive through metrics and KPIs with a focus on increasing their operational efficiency. Before moving to Europe, Leandro worked for an Atlassian partner company in Brazil as Head of Technical Sales.  In this episode Robert and Leandro are talking aboutIkigai - what is it and how do you achieve it?The benefits of OKRsHow can we combine agile, Ikigai and OKRs?How Ikigai can help agile teams achieve great results and stay motivated

Sean Blake - Head of Marketing at Easy Agile, is joined by Alana Mai Mitchell- Results coach, author, podcast host and senior product development manager at one of Australia's largest banks. In this episode, Sean and Alana are talking about communication styles within Agile teams, the importance of putting your hand up and telling your leader you want to be challenged, the qualities of a servant leader, and overcoming mental illness. Resources mentioned in the episode:To find out about Alana's story head to https://www.alanamaimitchell.com/Purchase Alana's book here: https://www.amazon.com.au/Being-Brave-Alana-Mai-Mitchell-ebook/dp/B08B7XQRB7/ref=sr_1_1?_encoding=UTF8&dchild=1&keywords=Being+Brave%3A+From+trauma+to+joy&qid=1594025052&s=digital-text&sr=1-1Alana's article on the Spotify model and what's next? : https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/beyond-spotify-9-things-i-know-sure-coming-alana-mai-mitchell/

Jerome Salimao - Product Manager at Easy Agile, is joined by Sherif Mansour - Distinguished Product Manager at Atlassian. In this episode, Jerome and Sherif are talking about styles of product management and the traits that make a great product manager. They explore the idea of a shared brain and the role of a product engineer.Sherif has been in software development for over 15 years. During his time at Atlassian, he was responsible for Confluence, a popular content collaboration tool for teams. Most recently, Sherif spends most of his days trying to solve problems across all of Atlassian's cloud products. Sherif also played a key role in developing new products at Atlassian such as Stride, Team Calendars and Confluence Questions. Sherif thinks building simple products is hard and so is writing a simple, short bio.Resources mentioned in the episode:https://sherifmansour.medium.com/product-engineers-f424da766871https://youtu.be/OCP_HEhvIqM

Angad, software developer at Easy Agile, is joined by Riz Hasan and William Rojas from Adaptavist.Riz is a Consulting Team Lead at Adaptavist. Riz works with agile teams and enterprise organizations to strategize, design,  and ultimately deliver on complex change management projects around technology and process. Riz believes the right attitude and approach to adopting new technology and continuous process improvement and learning is the key to organizational success and productivity. Most importantly, a positive and supportive work culture for teams.  William is a Principal Re-sales Consultant at Adaptavist with a proven track record of leading and defining transformation initiatives across all ALM areas during the past 20 years. He has coached numerous teams through the people/process/tools challenges inherent in business transformations aiming to ‘go lean agile'. William has helped organizations launch agile adoption initiatives, starting at team level Scrum adoption through agile at scale frameworkssuch as SAFe and DaD. Angad, Riz and William are sharing their thoughts and opinions on what you need to be doing  to enable a high performing agile team to thrive in our new world of hybrid working. 

Join us for another round table style conversation, talking about the role of business in supporting sustainability initiatives. Rebecca and Caitlin from Easy Agile are joined by Ida and Ulrika from TietoEVRY.TietoEVRY is a leading digital services and software company, Headquartered in Finland, serving thousands of enterprise and public sector customers in more than 90 countries. Working to create digital advantages for businesses and society.Ida is the head of sustainability and Ulrika is a Senior Sustainability Manager at TietoEVRY. Known for their focus on sustainability and their robust approach detailed in their 2023 sustainability game plan. TietoEVRY works to tackle some of the biggest issues facing our society today.We are extremely excited to be sharing this episode with you all, in hope that it will offer perspective for areas you can improve in your business, as Ida and Ulrika share their expertise. Be sure to check out Easy Agile's firsts Sustainability, Community & Inclusion report. As well as TietoEVRY's Sustainability report.

Join Henri Seymour - Developer at Easy Agile, and Matt Reiner - Customer Advocate at K15t for the latest episode of the Easy Agile Podcast talking all things technical documentation (we promise it's more fun than it sounds!)Matt is an experienced Content Strategist with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. Henri & Matt talk about technical documentation as a product, the value of well written documentation, why you should be digitally decluttering often and information architecture. So many golden nuggets in this episode! Be sure to check out K15t's library of video resources on their youtube channel.

Join Terlya Hunt - Head of People and Culture at Easy Agile and Caitlin Mackie - Marketing Coordinator at Easy Agile. As they talk with Jazmin Chamizo and Rakesh Singh - principal contributors of the recently published report “Reimagining Agility with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.” In this episode, we explore the intersection of agile and DE&I. What led to writing the report? Where the misalignments lie and what we can be doing differently as individuals and business leaders.This is a great episode! Jam packed with recommendations and amazing insight into the future of agile with diversity, equity and inclusion at the core. Full Report Here - https://businessagility.institute/learn/reimagining-agility-with-diversity-equity-and-inclusion/591 

Join Jared Kells (Senior Developer at Easy Agile), Angad Sethi (Developer at Easy Agile), Jess Belliveau (Staff Infrastructure Engineer at Apptio) and Jordan Simonovski (Observability Engineer at Atlassian). In this roundtable style conversation, we let the developers take over. Sharing their insights and experience working with observability, leaving you with some key takeaways and some quick wins. Links mentioned in the episode belowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiDqrqa34Ls&t=279shttps://docs.honeycomb.io/getting-started/learning-about-observability/https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/service_level_objectives/

Join Dave Elkan and Nick Muldoon for a conversation on building Easy Agile and the journey to date. Reflecting on key milestones, new experiences and learnings along the way. Nick and Dave share the significance of slowing down to have meaningful conversations and enjoy a lamington or two in the process. This episode is a great insight into the culture that has been created at Easy Agile. Interested in a career at Easy Agile? Check out our careers page https://bit.ly/3nkgRQk 

Hayley Rodd talks with Kate Brodie, Director of Digital AI and CCAI Program at Optus. Kate shares her experience of an agile transformation at Optus and the incredible impact it has had on the company. Delivering faster & enabling a sense of ownership & accountability amongst teams. Kate also shares some great advice from embracing hybrid roles throughout her career, a gentle reminder to never put limits on yourself and adopting a “no risk no return” mentality.

Nick Muldoon talks with Kit Friend, Agile Coach & Atlassian Partnership Lead EMEA at Accenture. Kit talks to agile methodology beyond the usual use case, like working with geologists & restaurant owners to apply scrum. Kit also highlights the need to focus on a bottom-up approach, providing a safe space for leaders to learn & ask questions, and whether neurodiverse teams are key to effectiveness.

Sean Blake talks with Gerald Cadden, Strategic Advisor and SAFe Program Consultant at Scaled Agile Inc. Gerald shares that companies often face the same challenges over & over again when it comes to implementing agile, but the real challenge and most crucial is overcoming a fixed mindset. Gerald also highlights the difference between consultants & coaches, and the value of having good mentors.

Caitlin Mackie talks with Sarah Hajipour. Sarah is an agile coach, business transformation leader, a project/program manager and more recently a podcast host and author. Caitlin and Sarah talk about goal setting, the agile mindset beyond IT & development teams, and in celebration of international women’s day talk about the future of women in agile, and supporting one another towards an inclusive & enabling environment.

Sean Blake talks with Chris Stone, The Virtual Agile Coach about the importance of sharing & de-stigmatising failure, looking after your own mental health, why you should spend time in self-reflection, asking ‘how did it feel?’ when working as a team and why work shouldn’t be stale.

Tegan Harbridge talks with Andrew Malak, Chief Product Officer at Spaceship about …. Integrating agile techniques into professional and personal life, why we should stop using the term agile transformation and start calling it an agile evolution and tips on how to achieve a culture of accountability.

Nick Muldoon talks with Em Campbell-Pretty, CEO & Managing Director at Pretty Agile about scaling agile, being a SAFe fellow, discipline, the traits of effective leaders and how to trust your people.

Sean Blake speaks with Melissa Reeve, VP of Marketing, Scaled Agile about Agile Marketing and how non-software teams are adoptng a new way of working.

Sean Blake chats with John Turley, Digital Transformation Consultant at Adaptavist about how to give and receive feedback, why cross-functional teams are so important and what the latest psychology research says about how we can work better together.

In the very first episode of the Easy Agile podcast, Nick Muldoon chats with Dominic Price, Work Futurist at Atlassian about the impact of remote working, the power of OKRs, how to prioritise your time and common mistakes leaders make.

Podcast trailer for the newest pod on the block - Easy Agile Podcast.The Easy Agile Podcast will be hosted by team members at Easy Agile, an Atlassian Marketplace Partner in Australia.We believe there's always a better way to work. And we want to find those people who have found a better way.We're going to feature guests from some of the most innovative companies on the planet and ask them the secrets to successful teams.If you’d like to join us on this journey, please hit subscribe in your podcast app to receive the latest episodes.Thank you and talk soon