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A release of one of our favorites from about this time 5 years ago… just as relevant today! Chris Murman and Colleen Johnson sit down with Esther Derby to discuss Esther's book 7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change.  (With a special guest appearance by Izzie, the french bulldog.) Topics include: Getting unstuck… gaining fresh perspectives… embracing change… addressing "fatigue".. seeing the system Enjoy! About the Agile Uprising If you enjoyed this episode, please give us a review, a rating, or leave comments on iTunes, Stitcher or your podcasting platform of choice. It really helps others find us.  Much thanks to the artist  from  who provided us our outro music free-of-charge!  If you like what you heard,     to find more music you might enjoy! If you'd like to join the discussion and share your stories,  please jump into the fray at our  We at the Agile Uprising are committed to being totally free.  However, if you'd like to contribute and help us defray hosting and production costs we do have a .  Who knows, you might even get some surprises in the mail!  

Summary In this conversation, Dave Prior and Colleen Johnson discuss the concept of cumulative flow diagrams (CFDs) and their practical application in Agile methodologies. They explore the significance of CFDs in understanding work in progress, cycle time, and throughput. Colleen provides insights into the interpretation of CFDs and the implications for team performance and workflow management. The conversation delves into Little's Law, airport analogies, and the visualization of CFDs to identify patterns and bottlenecks in the workflow. The conversation covers the use of Cumulative Flow Diagrams (CFDs) as a tool for visualizing work in progress and identifying workflow issues. It also delves into the concept of accelerating product value and the importance of learning quickly in product development. The discussion emphasizes the need for small bets and fast feedback to drive product improvement. Additionally, it highlights the challenges of defining and predicting value in product development. If you would like to watch the original video interview, you can find it here. https://tinyurl.com/55r86tah Takeaways - Understanding the practical application of cumulative flow diagrams (CFDs) in Agile methodologies - Interpreting CFDs to identify patterns an bottlenecks in the workflow - The significance of Little's Law and airport analogies in understanding CFDs - Visualizing CFDs to gain insights into work in progress, cycle time, and throughput - Implications of CFDs for team performance and workflow management CFDs provide a visual representation of work in progress and can be used to identify workflow issues. - Accelerating product value involves making small bets, learning quickly, and responding to feedback to drive product improvement. - Defining and predicting value in product development can be challenging, and the focus should be on shipping fast, learning quickly, and enabling rapid response to feedback. - The conversation also touches on the importance of understanding customer behavior and the need to pivot quickly based on feedback. Chapters 00:00 Introduction to the Podcast 03:16 Introduction to ProKanban 06:46 Understanding CFDs 09:37 Little's Law and Airport Analogies 04:14:24 Work in Progress and Work Item Age 16:53 Interpreting CFDs and Workflow Insights 27:46 Accelerating Product Value through Small Bets and Fast Feedback 40:48 Challenges of Defining and Predicting Value in Product Development Contacting Colleen ProKanban: https://www.prokanban.org LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/colleen-johnson Email: colleen@scatterspoke.com Additional Links The Art of War for Collaboration: https://modusinstitute.com/course/art-of-war-collaboration Agile Alliance LinkedIn: https://www.agilealliance.org

This is such a SPECIAL conversation. Colleen Johnson has been a mom who works, a SAHM mom, a single mom, a step mom, and every other iteration along the way. This episode will speak to you at a peace-giving, inspiring level, and I am so honored by her vulnerability and openness. Sincerely a gift! To reach out to Colleen, you can find her on Instagram @CCamp1974. If you have any questions, please email us at stories@momwhoworks.com.

“Kanban is a strategy for optimizing the flow of value to your customers by focusing on three main goals: efficiency, effectiveness, and predictability." Colleen Johnson is the CEO of ProKanban, and in this episode, we delve into the fundamentals of Kanban and how you can use it to optimize your workflow. We start by defining Kanban and exploring its core principles. You'll learn why work item age is the single most important aspect you should track in Kanban. Colleen then explains the concept of Service Level Expectation (SLE) and how it can improve predictability and client satisfaction. We also discuss the importance of smaller batch sizes, defining workflow policies, handling blockers, and the benefits of completing already started work items to optimize flow. We also touch on scaling Kanban beyond an individual team and discuss why Kanban is suitable for navigating unpredictable situations like the current economic climate. Towards the end, Colleen shares Women in Kanban, a community and scholarship programme to empower women to excel in Kanban.   Listen out for: Career Journey - [00:01:18] Kanban - [00:04:24] Work Item Age - [00:04:59] Calculating Work Item Age - [00:10:20] Small Batch Size - [00:13:08] Service Level Expectation (SLE) - [00:16:54] Managing Blockers - [00:21:05] Stop Pulling More, Finish Open Work Items - [00:24:46] Optimizing Flow - [00:28:14] Scaling Kanban Beyond a Team - [00:30:17] Kanban in the Current Tough Time - [00:34:37] Tools to Get Started - [00:37:21] Women in Kanban - [00:39:33] Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:41:45] _____ Colleen Johnson's BioColleen is the CEO of ProKanban.org, an inclusive Kanban learning community. She is also co-founder of ScatterSpoke, a proud Atlassian Ventures Portfolio company driving actionable improvements through retrospective data. She has presented and taught agile to audiences around the world. As a coach, she has worked across a range of industries with clients like Wells Fargo, eTrade, Home Depot, Tanium, Gemini, and more. Colleen helps organizations apply a systems thinking approach to aligning agile methodologies end-to-end. She has served as a board member for Agile Denver, the Agile Uprising, and chair of the Mile High Agile Conference. She is happiest in the woods, camping with her three kids and very patient husband. Follow Colleen: LinkedIn – linkedin.com/in/colleen-johnson/ Twitter – @scrumhive Threads – @colleenrae.j ProKanban – prokanban.org Women in Kanban – https://prokanban.org/women-in-kanban/ _____ Our Sponsors Manning Publications is a premier publisher of technical books on computer and software development topics for both experienced developers and new learners alike. Manning prides itself on being independently owned and operated, and for paving the way for innovative initiatives, such as early access book content and protection-free PDF formats that are now industry standard.Get a 45% discount for Tech Lead Journal listeners by using the code techlead45 for all products in all formats. Like this episode? Show notes & transcript: techleadjournal.dev/episodes/166. Follow @techleadjournal on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram. Buy me a coffee or become a patron.

Colleen Johnson visits Nisha, Dan, and Prateek to discuss what is coming up for ProKanban.org. They talk about the various roles like Scrum Mastesr, managers, and team leads who can be better equipped to help teams succeed. As Agile roles keep getting put on the chopping block, how can learning more about kanban and flow help you stand out?

From meeting her husband on the Fiddler on the Roof national tour to starting their family together and having two amazing boys, Colleen discusses her journey through Autism and Down Syndrome diagnoses. We talk about the feeling of being blindsided by multiple health issues with her sons Eli and Luke.  Colleen walks us through their journey and discusses all that she's learning, including the seemingly difficult skill of learning to be okay with asking for help.  You can find Colleen on Instagram at @ourlifewithluke Moms Talk Autism Website MTA Merch Shop

In this @agileuprising panel episode, Prateek Singh @singhpr, Andy Cleff @justsitthere, Ben Rodilitz BenRodilitz, and Colleen Johnson @scrumhive chat about applying #agile thinking to earned value management. #EVM, a project management technique used in measuring performance, progress, and risk, relies on calculations based on detailed and accurate upfront planning. The coexistence of Agile (which is dynamic by design) and EVM requires a tailored approach. Could abandoning deterministic #estimates combined with #probabilistic #forecasting - think Monte Carlo Simulations - be the key to success? If you'd like to see a video version: Links About the Agile Uprising If you enjoyed this episode, please give us a review, a rating, or leave comments on iTunes, Stitcher or your podcasting platform of choice. It really helps others find us.  If you'd like to join the discussion and share your stories,  please jump into the fray at our  We at the Agile Uprising are committed to being totally free.  However, if you'd like to contribute and help us defray hosting and production costs we do have a .  Who knows, you might even get some surprises in the mail!  

This week Co-hosts Troy Lightfoot and Chris Murman sit down with special guest Colleen Johnson, CEO of ProKanban.org, and discuss an interesting topic, "Death of the Product Roadmap." Colleen makes a case for moving away from traditional roadmaps to utilizing portfolio Kanban at scale to achieve agility at all levels of an organization.  TLDL: The idea of a roadmap is not bad, but the most common forms and uses of roadmaps are speculative, deterministic, and prescriptive. All things that are not suited for a world full of unknowns.  BOOKS: ProKanban.org Optimal Operating Capacity (WIP Limits???) Colleen's Product Owner Summit Keynote on Product Roadmaps Scaling with Portfolio Kanban Free Resources

Colleen Johnson's book 'Finding Home' takes a unique approach to the idea of soul care by comparing it to the concept of home. When we allow Jesus to do transformational work in our souls to give us the feeling of home; loved, secure, nourished, accepted and healing every day. When we make it a practice to cultivate Jesus' presence within us, we will feel at home in our inner being instead of being spiritually and emotionally “homeless”. When we cultivate the presence of Jesus and work through key soul care principles and develop a rhythm of practices that incorporate the spiritual disciplines of feeding on God's Word, worship and thanksgiving, listening to prayer, praying scripture, and times of fasting and solitude it leads our soul home. These practices create an atmosphere that God uses to fill us with more of Himself and His ways. The more of God we have, the more He guides us to tear down walls of self-protection, find the truth of who we are in Christ, and defeat the attacks of our enemy, Satan, so that we start walking more as Jesus walked. This process brings our soul to the home where it belongs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode I got the chance to chat with Colleen Johnson. Colleen is an ex tour guide at the infamous Lizzie Borden House. The house is where the brutal ax murders of Andrew and Abby Borden took place. The daughter of Andrew, Lizzie Borden, was blamed and later acquitted for the crime. This was a very fun talk and I think you'll enjoy.If you've had an encounter with something odd and would like to share it on an episode, shoot me an email to wayne@paranormalworldproductions.com Check Out The Shows Sponsor Vitalis Sleephttps://vitalissleep.comUse Promo Code ODYSSEY20 at check out for 20% Off Your Entire Order!https://youtube.com/@Paranormalodysseyhttps://paranormalworldproductions.com/https://www.tiktok.com/@paranormalodyssey?_t=8Xw7sebNdjK&_r=1https://instagram.com/paranormalodyssey?igshid=Nzg3NjI1NGI=

Melissa Perri welcomes Colleen Johnson to the first episode of this four-part miniseries about companies that successfully made major pivots during the pandemic. Colleen is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of ScatterSpoke, a company that leverages AI to make the most out of retrospective feedback. Colleen tells Melissa how their company needed to pivot quickly to win against competitors, how she had to shift from being a subject matter expert to embracing uncertainty and curiosity, her version of a valuable MVP, and which retro data she finds to be the most valuable.  Here are some key points you'll hear Melissa and Colleen discuss:  Colleen talks about her professional background, what led her to found ScatterSpoke, and what services they provide. [4:31] During the pandemic, when Scatterspoke lost clients to major competitors, they had to determine what made them stand out from other companies who provided the same retrospective services – the answer was a large quantity of retro data. [6:11] Colleen advises listeners to approach change with an open mindset and to be a little bit more cautious. [8:56] A friendly invite via their in-person professional network or even a cold outreach on LinkedIn can help a product manager launch a new product, connect with engineer leaders to provide them with data, test products, and offer feedback. [12:01] In coaching teams and helping organizations adopt agile practices, most people tend to focus on delivery rather than breaking down the work. If you do not break down the work in a way that allows you to iterate and get feedback quickly, the whole pivot process has no benefit. [14:38] The most valuable part of presenting small chunks to engineer leaders and customers is what you learn from their responses, positive or negative. [16:12] To have a successful retro tool, the teams using it - rather than scrum masters and engineer managers - must see its value to their process. [19:46] Engineering managers and product leaders need to understand that retrospectives are important because they help pinpoint issues in the organization. [20:11] As a person working in product and product management, Colleen says that you have to “remove yourself from the subject matter expert seat”. You have to be curious and willing to learn and understand that you are venturing into waters beyond your scope of knowledge with this new transition. [26:45] Resources  Colleen Johnson | LinkedIn | Twitter ScatterSpoke | Twitter | Instagram

Melissa Perri welcomes Colleen Johnson to the first episode of this four-part miniseries about companies that successfully made major pivots during the pandemic. Colleen is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of ScatterSpoke, a company that leverages AI to make the most out of retrospective feedback. Colleen tells Melissa how their company needed to pivot quickly to win against competitors, how she had to shift from being a subject matter expert to embracing uncertainty and curiosity, her version of a valuable MVP, and which retro data she finds to be the most valuable.  Here are some key points you'll hear Melissa and Colleen discuss:  Colleen talks about her professional background, what led her to found ScatterSpoke, and what services they provide. [4:31] During the pandemic, when Scatterspoke lost clients to major competitors, they had to determine what made them stand out from other companies who provided the same retrospective services – the answer was a large quantity of retro data. [6:11] Colleen advises listeners to approach change with an open mindset and to be a little bit more cautious. [8:56] A friendly invite via their in-person professional network or even a cold outreach on LinkedIn can help a product manager launch a new product, connect with engineer leaders to provide them with data, test products, and offer feedback. [12:01] In coaching teams and helping organizations adopt agile practices, most people tend to focus on delivery rather than breaking down the work. If you do not break down the work in a way that allows you to iterate and get feedback quickly, the whole pivot process has no benefit. [14:38] The most valuable part of presenting small chunks to engineer leaders and customers is what you learn from their responses, positive or negative. [16:12] To have a successful retro tool, the teams using it - rather than scrum masters and engineer managers - must see its value to their process. [19:46] Engineering managers and product leaders need to understand that retrospectives are important because they help pinpoint issues in the organization. [20:11] As a person working in product and product management, Colleen says that you have to “remove yourself from the subject matter expert seat”. You have to be curious and willing to learn and understand that you are venturing into waters beyond your scope of knowledge with this new transition. [26:45] Resources  Colleen Johnson | LinkedIn | Twitter ScatterSpoke | Twitter | Instagram

This episode features Troy Lightfoot who is a Business Agility Coach and Consultant as well as a Professional Kanban Trainer. The interview starts with a discussion about the basic differences between Scrum and Kanban and then digs into four of the metrics recommended in the Kanban Guide. We cover WIP, Throughput, Work Item Age, and Cycle Time, talking through what each of these is, the value these metrics provide, why they are so much more valuable than simply looking at something like velocity, and what these metrics can do to help you develop a better level of predicting when work is likely to finish and how they can show you and your team ways to identify and address the things that are holding you back from delivering value for your client. Troy also has a few ProKanban Certification classes coming up. In the back half of the interview, he explains what to expect if you sign up for a Professional Kanban 1 (PK1) Certification class or his Applying Metrics for Predictability (AMP) Certification class. Troy's Classes Professional Kanban 1 (PK1) Certification June 23-24, 2022 https://bit.ly/3HmV1Ug Applying Metrics for Predictability (AMP) Certification July 21-22, 2022 https://bit.ly/3zxZOk2 Links from the Podcast ProKanban.org https://prokanban.org The Kanban Guide https://kanbanguides.org My interview with Troy Magennis on Probabilistic Forecasting https://bit.ly/3tDUW9b My interview with Colleen Johnson on ProKanban and ProKanban Certification https://bit.ly/3NUN6Ac Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability by Dan Vacanti https://amzn.to/3tAVeh7 When Will it Be Done by Dan Vacanti https://amzn.to/3NUjrqR Contacting Troy Email: troylightfoot@gmail.com

In this panel podcast, co-hosts Andy Cleff and Colleen Johnson chat with Garry Miller, Jeff Burstein, Jessica Cavallaro, Dr. LeDonna Griffin, Roslynn Jackson, and Simon Holzapfel about their journeys as agilists and educators. We explore ways for educational systems to adapt to bring more joy into the classroom, as well as greater engagement from parents, administrators, teachers and students. Through flow-based education, students grow to be more independent, confident and persistent adults equipping them with autonomy and resilience to better address challenges Join the conversation at: https://www.l-eaf.org/teachers_lounge Websites l-eaf.org/ the-agile-mind.com/ crowboxpartners.com/ Contact Information linkedin.com/in/roslynn-jackson/ linkedin.com/in/jessicacavallaro/ linkedin.com/in/dr-ledonna-white-griffin-18067345/ linkedin.com/in/simon-holzapfel-99081b24/ linkedin.com/in/jeffburstein/ Additional Info John Miller: https://agileclassrooms.com/ https://www.agileineducation.org/ Willy Wijnandshttps://eduscrum.org/ A Manifesto for Agile Education: Why is agility in schools only valued in the gym department? https://medium.com/notosh/a-manifesto-for-agile-education-51afdf4a1690 Agile Schools: How Technology Saves Education (Just Not the Way We Thought it Would) https://www.infoq.com/articles/agile-schools-education/ https://scrumatschool.nl/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Manifesto-for-Agile-Education.pdf https://kanbanzone.com/2021/4-pillars-of-agile-in-education/ About the Agile Uprising If you enjoyed this episode, please give us a review, a rating, or leave comments on iTunes, Stitcher or your podcasting platform of choice. It really helps others find us.  If you'd like to join the discussion and share your stories,  please jump into the fray at our Discord Server! We at the Agile Uprising are committed to being totally free.  However, if you'd like to contribute and help us defray hosting and production costs we do have a Patreon.  Who knows, you might even get some surprises in the mail!

Listen in as Jeff Patton and Jeff Gothel chat about scrum product ownership, lean UX, product discovery, shipping to learn, and believability weighted design with Colleen Johnson and Chris Murman. (Rereleased bc it was so dang good.) Links Jeff Patton on Twitter Jeff Patton Books Jeff Patton on the web Jeff Gothelf on Twitter Jeff Gothelf Books Jeff Gothelf on the web Shakshuka Recipe Events CSPO Training Agile Munich 2018 Big Apple Scrum Day 2018 Agile Lean Ireland 2018 Please support the Agile Uprising Podcast by making a contribution via patreon.com/agileuprising  And join the discourse by sharing your experiments around believability weighted product design via Coalition.agileuprising.com

Join our hosts Andy Cleff, Chris Murman, and Colleen Johnson as they discuss the 12th Agile Principle: "At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly." We hope you enjoyed listening to this series as much as we did making it! Like the work we are doing? Become a patron and support the Agile Uprising for less than the cost of a single craft beer...   Links: ScatterSpoke Snake on the Board Impediments? We ain't got no stinkin' impediments  

Join our hosts Andy Cleff, Colleen Johnson, and Paul Elia as they discuss the 11th Agile Principle: "The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams." Are you enjoying these podcast? Become a patron and support the Agile Uprising for as little as $0.03 day!  

In the second episode of our "12 Days of Agile" series, join Colleen Johnson, James Gifford, and Jay Hrcsko as they discuss their thoughts on the second Agile Manifesto Principle: "Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness change for the customer's competitive advantage.." Are you enjoying our podcasts? Become a patron and support the Agile Uprising for as little as $0.03 day!  

Colleen Johnson is the CEO of ProKanban and ScatterSpoke. Check out the full show notes at TheAgileWire.com YouTube: https://youtu.be/Bn7UjdSHMCQ

Join an all-star cast of the Agile Uprising board as we discuss the past five years of putting out a weekly podcast. From folks who have been there since day one to others that have joined in the past year, we share a perspective that we are thankful to bring to listeners every week. We also chatted about how our Discord instance has been a lifesaver to not only our work but our sanity in the past couple of years. How does it play into our future and the content we hope to create in the future? Gotta listen to find out. Hosted by resident clown Chris Murman. Joined by Janee McConnell, James Gifford, Jay Hrcsko, Brad Stokes, Andrew Leff, Andy Cleff and former AU board member Colleen Johnson. If you enjoyed this episode, please give us a review, a rating, or leave comments on iTunes, Stitcher or your podcasting platform of choice. It really helps others find us.  Much thanks to the artist Krebs from Machine Man Records who provided us our outro music free-of-charge!  If you like what you heard, check out these links to find more music you might enjoy! Looking for real-time interaction and conversation with other practitioners?  Jump into the fray at our Discord Server! We at the Agile Uprising are committed to being totally free.  However, if you'd like to contribute and help us defray hosting and production costs we do have a Patreon.  Who knows, you might even get some surprises in the mail!

In this episode of the podcast Colleen Johnson, CEO of ProKanban joins me to talk all about ProKanban. During the interview we cover how this new organization came about, the ProKanban Guide, the community they have been fostering, and ProKanban Certification. If you aren't familiar with Kanban, it is another approach to getting work done that fits under the Agile umbrella. It can look like Scrum, but it solves a different problem set and focuses on different aspects of the work. The ProKanban team has put together the ProKanban Guide explaining how it all works. They've also been developing a strong online community, training classes, and they've begun offering a certification called ProKanban I. In the interview, Colleen and I explore some of the differences between Scrum and Kanban, the ProKanban Guide, their course offering, why they created the certification, and why, in the already crowded field of Agile certifications, this one merits serious consideration. To download a copy of the ProKanban Guide: https://prokanban.org/the-kanban-guide/ To learn more about ProKanban and ProKanban Certification: https://prokanban.org To learn more about Women in Agile: https://womeninagile.org To learn more about Scatterspoke and how it can help you with Retrospectives: https://www.scatterspoke.com Contacting Colleen Twitter https://twitter.com/scrumhive Email: colleen@prokanban.org

#0043 When is the last time you faced a failure in your personal or business life?Sometimes those failures are tough to bounce back from.Today's guest, Megan Colleen Johnson, is here to share her story of failure and triumph over those failures.With a strong entrepreneurial spirit at a young age, Megan started her first business at age 15. Throughout her journey she has encountered a lot of failure, but it never stopped her from pushing forward and overcoming that failure.Now, Megan helps others with the struggles she's worked through as a certified life coach.Listen now to hear how Megan was able to overcome failure and how you can bounce back from your next failure stronger than before.Leave a Review of the Nine-Five Podcast.Visit the Show Notes Page.

I'm super excited to bring you today's show with Megan Colleen Johnson – a life coach and business consultant for creatives, misfits, and holy outsiders. Today we're talking about the art of reclamation – taking back the personal power and dreams that were always yours to have. There are a few things that go into this work and she's sharing them all on today's show. We're covering: ✧ The 5 phases of self-reclamation ✧ The power of curiosity in the reclamation process and how to cultivate it ✧ A powerful practice that can help us tap into our trust and intuition With a focus on self-trust, wholeness, and sovereign reclamation, Megan's helping us discover our magic, stand in our power, and reclaim our dreams. I hope you enjoy the conversation! xoB ✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧ Catch more of Megan on her website: https://megscolleen.com or on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/megscolleen/ Register for my FREE WORKSHOP on Core Values at: theintuneexperience.com

On This week's Episode I have Life Coach Megan Colleen Johnson joining me, and we discuss how life coaching on a spiritual level can help you reclaim your power. Megan is also, a creative consultant, space holder, and is trained in life coaching with Beautiful you Coaching Academy. She also, Host her own Podcast Called " The Reclamation Podcast" and has 8 years experience as a creative marketing consultant. Guest: Megan Colleen Johnson Connect With Megan: https://megscolleen.com (https://megscolleen.com) IG:@megscolleen IG:@iamkyramahoney Vibe Selection Website: https://vibe-selection.captivate.fm (https://vibe-selection.captivate.fm) To Support The Vibe Selection Podcast Please Donate: Patreon: www.patreon.com/vibeselection CashApp: $vibeselection PayPal: PayPal.Me/vibeselection Shop Vibe Selection Merchandise: https://vibe-selection.myteespring.co (https://vibe-selection.myteespring.co) Like and Subscribe to YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK8Wd8_um8vAEx6rcIgBCsQ (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK8Wd8_um8vAEx6rcIgBCsQ)

Colleen Johnson, CEO of ProKanban and ScatterSpoke joins Dan and Prateek for a drink. They talk retrospectives, data, ProKanban and creating an inclusive community. Colleen takes us through the journey of how working directly with users helped create ScatterSpoke and when to ignore user requests/feedback. Also - Do feelings matter?

In this episode, you will learn: • About John • John’s horizontal to net worth ratio • What John’s diet is like • John’s exercise routine • All about authentic relationships • John’s life happiness index score • What John does to give back to the community • John’s biggest business and personal goals in the next twelve months • Plus, so much more! John Samuelson is a Pragmatic Software Engineer that thrives on delivering value as part of a team. He is the Chief Technology Officer at ScatterSpoke. ScatterSpoke was founded by Colleen Johnson and John Samuelson, a husband-and-wife team who has been working on the product since 2015. Originally started as a side project, John and Colleen went full time in February 2020 and joined TinySeed in April 2020. John has strong communication skills and comfort with upper management. He is enthusiastic about completing projects by applying expertise towards testing, automation, code reviews & development. He is inquisitive, creative, and collaborative in exploring solutions to architectural design decisions, and a specialist in logistical back end problem solving with a focus on long-term maintainability.

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http://microconfremote.com Chapter 2: The Road to $10K MRR From launch, there are a ton of baby steps that are celebrated. Your first paying customer. Your first $100 MRR. $1,000K MRR. Maybe the first time that you can pay yourself! It is full of milestones that propel you forward. But depending on your pricing, it can be a different world entirely between earning your first $1,000 MRR on a $10 monthly subscription or a $100 monthly subscription. Hitting that $10K mark starts to instill that sense of product market fit. Our next storyteller is Colleen Johnson, the Co-Founder of Scatterspoke. The winding road that her and her husband co-founder have navigated in the last three years as they’ve build up a product that served a specific need within the Agile community has brought them to the door of $10K MRR. Take a step by step walkthrough on the various turns she and the Scatterspoke team took as they slowly made their way to that $10K MRR mark. If you want to join in on the conversation with over 1400 other founders, join MicroConf Connect, a slack community space where you can meet founders from around the globe working on cool products in a sustainable way. Head over to http://microconfconnect.com for more details. This video was recorded on September 1, 2020 in Minneapolis MN. All proper social distancing, PPE, and health and safety measures were taken in the production of this show. Note, this is not a live session, so calls for questions, survey, etc… are all pre-recorded.

http://microconfremote.com Chapter 2: The Road to $10K MRR From launch, there are a ton of baby steps that are celebrated. Your first paying customer. Your first $100 MRR. $1,000K MRR. Maybe the first time that you can pay yourself! It is full of milestones that propel you forward. But depending on your pricing, it can be a different world entirely between earning your first $1,000 MRR on a $10 monthly subscription or a $100 monthly subscription. Hitting that $10K mark starts to instill that sense of product market fit. Our next storyteller is Colleen Johnson, the Co-Founder of Scatterspoke. The winding road that her and her husband co-founder have navigated in the last three years as they’ve build up a product that served a specific need within the Agile community has brought them to the door of $10K MRR. Take a step by step walkthrough on the various turns she and the Scatterspoke team took as they slowly made their way to that $10K MRR mark. If you want to join in on the conversation with over 1400 other founders, join MicroConf Connect, a slack community space where you can meet founders from around the globe working on cool products in a sustainable way. Head over to http://microconfconnect.com for more details. This video was recorded on September 1, 2020 in Minneapolis MN. All proper social distancing, PPE, and health and safety measures were taken in the production of this show. Note, this is not a live session, so calls for questions, survey, etc… are all pre-recorded.

This week's episode is another in the "Should I Take This?" series: Colleen Johnson, Andrew Leff, and guest Tim Guay from Agile Velocity talk about the Path to Agility Facilitator's course with host Jay Hrcsko.  Who should take this?  What will they get out of it?  Do tactile teaching tools help?  Listen in and find out...enjoy! If you enjoyed this episode, please give us a review, a rating, or leave comments on iTunes, Stitcher or your podcasting platform of choice. It really helps others find us.  Much thanks to the artist Krebs from Machine Man Records who provided us our outro music free-of-charge!  If you like what you heard, check out these links to find more music you might enjoy! If you’d like to join the discussion and share your stories  please join Coalition.AgileUprising.com Looking for real-time interaction and conversation with other practitioners?  Jump into the fray at our Discord Server! We at the Agile Uprising are committed to being totally free.  However if you'd like to contribute and help us defray hosting and production costs we do have a Patreon.  Who knows, you might even get some surprises in the mail!

We’re joined in this episode by the founding team of Scatterspoke, John Samuelson and Colleen Johnson. What started as a lark to learn new technology has now turned into a successful business with more than $12k MRR. In this episode, we learn how they turned a side project into a successful fulltime business. The topics […]        

Listen in as @AgileAtelier Rahul Bhattacharya chats with Colleen Johnson @scrumhive and Andy Cleff @justsitthere on the topic of Product Discovery - a flexible period during which you and your team focus on building the right thing as opposed to building the thing right (Product Delivery) Rahul Bhattacharya is an independent Lean/Agility coach, speaker, and trainer who is currently living in Berlin, Germany. More about the Dual Track Single Flow model Contact Information  www.rahul-bhattacharya.com  LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul1727/ https://twitter.com/AgileAtelier www.agile-atelier.com Yadayada: If you enjoyed this episode, please give us a review, a rating, or leave comments on iTunes, Stitcher, or your podcasting platform of choice. It really helps others find us. Go ahead. We'll wait. If you’d like to join the discussion and share your stories  please join Coalition.AgileUprising.com Looking for real-time interaction and conversation with other practitioners?  Jump into the fray at our Discord Server! We at the Agile Uprising are committed to being totally free.  However, if you'd like to contribute and help us defray hosting and production costs we do have a Patreon.  Who knows, you might even get some surprises in the mail! (Hint hint.. stickers.. buttons... swag baby)

MARVIN ETZIONI is an illustrious and industrious producer/songwriter/musician who has been churning out tracks for decades under his own name, with Thee Holy Brothers, back in the late 80’s with the band Lone Justice and, in between, with a long list of artists, many of whom Marvin talks about on the show. During the episode you'll hear from TWIG PALACE, SETH GREEN, MIKE WILCOX, MARVIN ETZIONI, MR. JONES & THE PREVIOUS, I SEE HAWKS IN LA and a new track from host, ANDRAS JONES. To hear ANDRAS's question please join the Patreon campaign. $1 a month gets you the bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/radio8ball  Featuring: The Radio8Ball Theme Song performed by I SEE HAWKS IN LA The Pop Oracle Song of The Day for July 16th, 2020: "Little Finger" by TWIG PALACE SETH GREEN & TWIG PALACE  on Radio8Ball at Theater Off Jackson in Seattle, WA on March 21, 2010 https://vimeo.com/11344025 Featured Music: "The Arm's Race" by MARVIN ETZIONI "Might As Well Make It (Wonderful)" by ANDRAS JONES "Little Finger" by TWIG PALACE "Psycho Blues" by MIKE WILCOX "God Bless The Homeless" by MARVIN ETZIONI Double Naught Spy Car provides the musical bed with “The Mooche” by Duke Ellington & “In Walked Bud, Out Walked Bud” by Thelonious Monk Thanks to Alan Green for “special projects”. LINKS: RADIO8BALL WEBSITE - www.radio8ball.com MARVIN ETZIONI - https://www.marvincountry.com/ TWIG PALACE - https://twigpalace.bandcamp.com/ MIKE WILCOX - https://mikewilcox.bandcamp.com/releases RADIO8BALL APP - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/radio8ball/id1326738822 RADIO8BALL PATREON - https://www.patreon.com/radio8ball RADIO8BALL FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/radio8ball/ RADIO8BALL TWITTER - @radio8ball RADIO8BALL INSTAGRAM - @theradio8ballshow EPISODE PAGE at Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/radio8ball See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dave Snowden, Andrea Tomasini and Richard Dolman chat with Andy Cleff and Colleen Johnson to explore the most crucial leadership challenge of the day: Making Sense in Times of Uncertainty Dave Snowden is founder and chief scientific officer of Cognitive Edge. His work is international in nature and covers government and industry looking at complex issues relating to strategy and decision making. He has pioneered a science based approach to organisations drawing on anthropology, neuroscience and complex adaptive systems theory. He is a popular and passionate keynote speaker on a range of subjects, and is well known for his pragmatic cynicism and iconoclastic style. Andrea Tomasini is one of the founders of agile42. His background includes experience in product development, system architecture, business and strategic analysis, lean coaching, organizational change, and agile leadership. Andrea has trained and coached a diverse range of teams and helped many companies in various industries in implementing agile methods like Scrum. These days, Andrea works primarily as a Strategic Coach, supporting Agile Leaders in the process of transforming their organization, strategy, and culture to achieve greater agility and resilience. Being an international expert in the area of Agile Leadership, he is currently pioneering data capture and analysis methods in complex organizational structures and working on a book on ORGANIC agility. If you enjoyed this episode, please give us a review, a rating, or leave comments on iTunes, Stitcher or your podcasting platform of choice. It really helps others find us.  If this is your first time tuning in, why don’t you subscribe to our podcast? If you’d like to join the discussion and share your stories  please join Coalition.AgileUprising.com Looking for real-time interaction and conversation with other practitioners?  Jump into the fray at our Discord Server! We at the Agile Uprising are committed to being totally free.  However if you'd like to contribute and help us defray hosting and production costs we do have a Patreon.  Who knows, you might even get some surprises in the mail!

  We talk all the time about changing organizational structure...but we always end up with some sortof hierarchy.  And what about "teams that don't change"...is that really agile?  In this week's episode Jeff Anderson, author of Agile Organizational Design, sits down with hosts Ben AuYeung, Colleen Johnson, and Jay Hrcsko to discuss his book.  And there's even a Lantern Corps reference!   Jeff's Twitter Agile By Design, Jeff's firm Agile Organizational Design on Leanpub   If you enjoyed this episode, please give us a review, a rating, or leave comments on iTunes, Stitcher or your podcasting platform of choice. It really helps others find us.  If this is your first time tuning in, why don’t you subscribe to our podcast? If you’d like to join the discussion and share your stories  please join Coalition.AgileUprising.com Looking for real-time interaction and conversation with other practitioners?  Jump into the fray at our Discord Server! We at the Agile Uprising are committed to being totally free.  However if you'd like to contribute and help us defray hosting and production costs we do have a Patreon.  Who knows, you might even get some surprises in the mail!

Colleen Johnson @scrumhive chats with Mellissa Boggs @HmngbirdAgility  about the Scrum Alliance’s @ScrumAlliance  organizational refactoring over the past year, finding the right balance between self-organizing teams and organizational constraints. They also cover: Melissa’s role as Chief Scrum Master, and the healthy tension that role has with SA's Chief Product Owner Howard Sublett  @howardsublett The design of SA's new HQ space in Denver and how the office layout contributes to supporting SA’s core values Making it through 8 hrs a day on Zoom, while maintaining connections with friends, family, kids, and partners - all with patience and grace And totally unscripted - Colleen's little monsters make a cameo appearance. Enjoy!

  WARNING: NSFW!  Recorded deep in the J-curve of the coronavirus lockdown, the panel attempts to define the term "business value."  We're not sure if it was the cabin fever, the alcohol, or something in the water, but we had a helluva time trying to define it.   We're surprising everyone with a mid-week release as we think everyone can use a laugh right about now!  Join inadvertent host Chris Murman with the panel of Andrew Leff, Colleen Johnson, Brad Stokes, and our "irregular-regular" Jonathan Schneider as they attempt to unpack this.  Enjoy!

  Well, we started out intending to talk about effective remote coaching, but we took a turn and discussed how to be effective as a colleague with this "new normal" in the post-COVID world.  We got a bit loose but this is one of our most "real" episodes.  Coalition members Jon Schneider and Mike Caddell joined Colleen Johnson, Chris Murman, James Gifford, and Jay Hrcsko for a conversation that includes screaming kids, profanity, and honest feelings about how to try and be productive when life gets in the way.  Enjoy!

Welcome to yet another episode on the Agile Atelier podcast. In this episode about Feedback Loops, I chat with Colleen Johnson, who helps organizations apply a systems thinking approach to aligning agile methodologies across the enterprise. She works with clients to apply the right cultural and context-driven practices to create sustainable agility.  Colleen has served…… Continue reading Episode 20: Feedback Loops with Colleen Johnson

  What's the hardest department to transform?  What's the one thing a transformation always gets wrong?  We play a game of 20 questions with Colleen Johnson, Andrew Leff, Chris Murman, and Andy Cleff where we answer these an 18 more!  Enjoy!

  Change...the elephant in the room when it comes to transformation.  Why do we try and standardize it?  Is it merely just a training thing?  Join hosts Chris Murman and Colleen Johnson as they sit down to discuss this topic with Esther Derby, author of the new book 7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change.  Enjoy! 7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change Esther's Twitter  

Colleen believes building a good team with family, healthcare providers, and community is highly important in helping her to be the best caregiver possible for her care recipient, her husband. We couldn't agree more. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thiscaregiverlife/message

The Coffee Break is the daily Christian talk and local events program on Hope Radio KCMI 97.1FM serving the Scottsbluff, NE area. Tune in for interviews with authors, musicians, pastors, and others in the Christian community and our local area! Visit our website: www.kcmifm.com Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/kcmifm Theme Music: "Life of Riley" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Jorgen Hesselberg and Steven Wolff on Agile Amped, Melissa Perri on Agile Uprising, Eric Elliott on Simple Leadership, Liz Keogh on Being Human, and Alex Schladebeck on Test Talks. I'd love for you to email me with any comments about the show or any suggestions for podcasts I might want to feature. Email podcast@thekguy.com. This episode covers the five podcast episodes I found most interesting and wanted to share links to during the two week period starting March 4, 2019. These podcast episodes may have been released much earlier, but this was the week when I started sharing links to them to my social network followers. JORGEN HESSELBERG AND STEVEN WOLFF ON AGILE AMPED The Agile Amped podcast featured Jorgen Hesselberg and Steven Wolff with host Howard Sublett. I liked what Steven had to say about how new norms can come into being simply through inaction and how we want to be more intentional about creating norms. This comment reminded me of the discussion of norms in the book Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change by Grenny et al., a book I highly recommend. In my own work, I use working agreements with my team to intentionally develop team norms and hold each other accountable for them. iTunes link: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/change-the-norms-to-change-the-culture/id992128516?i=1000429382285&mt=2 Website link: https://solutionsiq.podbean.com/e/change-the-norms-to-change-the-culture/ MELISSA PERRI ON AGILE UPRISING The Agile Uprising podcast featured Melissa Perri with hosts Colleen Johnson, Troy Lightfoot, and Chris Murman. This episode caught my attention because I enjoyed Melissa’s last appearance on Agile Uprising which motivated me to pre-order her book The Build Trap back in November last year. I learned a lot from the book and it introduced me to the book The Art Of Action by Stephen Bungay, which I talked about in the last podcast episode. I liked Melissa’s description of product managers as bad idea terminators. I see this as more of a behavior during the convergent thinking phase of product design. Lack of focus is definitely a problem I see on product teams, so I can appreciate the idea of having someone to keep people focused on the most valuable problems to solve. iTunes link: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/escaping-the-build-trap-w-melissa-perri/id1163230424?i=1000429120613&mt=2 Website link: https://agileuprising.libsyn.com/podcast/escaping-the-build-trap-w-melissa-perri ERIC ELLIOTT ON SIMPLE LEADERSHIP The Simple Leadership podcast featured Eric Elliott with host Christian McCarrick. I appreciated Eric’s comment about the myth of the individual contributor engineer because I have seen developers being judged on simple, easy-to-measure metrics like closed ticket counts when a more appropriate metric would be one that takes into account their time spent mentoring and the benefits that such mentoring had on the team. Over the long term, I have seen the damage that judging engineers by closed ticket count does to a culture where everybody is incentivized to work in their individual silo and almost no mentoring takes place even from senior engineers for whom mentoring and coaching should be, in my opinion, a large part of their day. iTunes link: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/how-culture-can-help-your-teams-scale-with-eric-elliott/id1260241682?i=1000429163879&mt=2 Website link: http://simpleleadership.io/how-culture-can-help-you-scale-with-eric-elliott/ LIZ KEOGH ON BEING HUMAN The Being Human podcast featured Liz Keogh with host Richard Atherton. Liz talked about the Cynefin framework, psychological safety, and real options. I particularly liked her story of a team that invested in making changes easily reversible by creating a rollback mechanism for when a production release goes awry. She remarked on how this technical safety net provided psychological safety as well. I also liked her description of real options, which I have recently been reading about in the book Commitment by Olav Maassen, Chris Matts, and Chris Geary. Liz told a story about how conference organizers gave themselves options by over-ordering on the engraved trophies. The very affecting second half of this podcast episode was focused on the #metoo movement. Liz shared her experiences of being harassed and Richard confessed to his own poor behavior. iTunes link: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/47-1-complexity-2-exploring-metoo-with-liz-keogh/id1369745673?i=1000429964823&mt=2 Website link: http://shoutengine.com/BeingHuman/47-1-complexity-2-exploring-metoo-with-liz-keogh-73971 ALEX SCHLADEBECK ON TEST TALKS The Test Talks podcast featuring Alex Schladebeck with host Joe Colantonio. The title of the episode, “How to Listen to Your Tests”, immediately caught my attention since I have been encouraging co-workers to develop this skill ever since I read Growing Object-Oriented Software Guided By Tests by Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce, even going so far as to create a 10-minute YouTube video tutorial on how to Listen To The Tests last April. Joe and Alex talked about how she applies her training in linguistics in her career in software testing. It turns out that such training was actually helpful as it taught her how to move back and forth between detailed and abstract ways of thinking. They got into a discussion of test data management, which Alex likened to continuous integration because it is something that starts out being painful when you don’t address it often enough or when you push it onto the testers and it becomes easier the more often you pay attention to it and when you make it everyone’s responsibility. I also liked Alex’s story of a pelican encounter on an early-morning run coming to represent to her the unknown unknowns that exploratory testing helps you discover. iTunes link: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/240-how-to-listen-to-your-tests-with-alex-schladebeck/id826722706?i=1000429560907&mt=2 Website link: https://www.joecolantonio.com/testtalks/240-alex-schladebeck/ FEEDBACK Ask questions, make comments, and let your voice be heard by emailing podcast@thekguy.com. 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REBROADCAST - Join Andrew Leff in his conversation with four of the agile community’s strongest female voices as they discuss how far we have come and how far we have to go in creating trust, safety and opportunity for women in agile. Listen in as Janice Linden-Reed, Becky Hartman, Lisa Crispin and Colleen Johnson share their personal stories and challenge each of us to find ways to mentor women at all points of their careers by building strong relationships and providing honest feedback.  

Strap in for a long one folks!  In this week's episode Troy Lightfoot, Colleen Johnson, and Jay Hrcsko discuss lean and it's utilization inside IT organizations, how to enable flow at all levels of the organization, and they round out the conversation talking about how to properly utilize No Estimates to drive predictability!

Join hosts Troy Lightfoot and Colleen Johnson as they discuss the value of focusing on shipping over spending too much time planning. This is part 2 of our Advanced Product Ownership discussion with Kevin. 

Join our hosts Colleen Johnson and Jay Hrcsko as they sit discuss how to help remote agile teams with Molood Noori Alavijeh, host of the Remote Forever Summit.  They start off by defining the difference between "remote" and "distributed" teams, and then dive into practices to make collaboration more effective, how tools play into a team's success, and then they discuss the upcoming Remote Forever Summit.  Enjoy!   Molood Noori Alavijeh: Remote Forever Summit  Starts Monday, November 5th! Remote Forever (Molood's upcoming book!) Molood's Twitter   Colleen Johnson: Colleen's Twitter   Jay Hrcsko: Jay's Twitter Jay's favorite album at the moment: Hate Eternal

Join hosts Colleen Johnson and Paul Elia and guests David J. Anderson and Teodora Bozheva as they discuss the Kanban Maturity Model (KMM) and Evolving Fit-for-Purpose Organizations. Show Links http://www.kanbanmaturitymodel.com/ https://edu.leankanban.com/ http://www.leankanbanindia.com/ Related Podcast Episodes https://podcast.agileuprising.com/david-anderson-kanban-method/ Agile Uprising Online http://www.agileuprising.com/ https://coalition.agileuprising.com/ http://podcast.agileuprising.com/ https://twitter.com/AgileUprising  @AgileUprising Support for the Agile Uprising was made possible in part from funding contributions via patreon.com/agileuprising. Thank you to our listeners and contributors.  

Episode 23 of the Modern Agile Show features an interview with Colleen Johnson, Founder and CEO of ScatterSpoke, a tool for more effective team retrospectives. Colleen recounts how difficult it can be to put the agile practices to work when you're building your own product. She mentions the ease of falling into “MVP bloat”, adding too many features to your early product and not delivering early enough. Colleen describes how ScatterSpoke supports the practice of Continuous Retrospectives by letting people continuously submit (via tools like Slack) messages that get saved in ScatterSpoke. Colleen mentions her work with responsive roadmapping, a pull-based and capacity-oriented approach to roadmapping that constantly considers changing customer needs instead of nailing down a concrete plan that isn't supposed to change.

  Our first interview! We must have saved our nation in a previous life, because we were blessed with an opportunity to interview Colleen Johnson, Social Media Manager for DramaFever.   Find out how she went from a casual KDrama fan to managing social media content that gets distributed to millions of fans on a daily basis. Also hear her hilarious stories about KCON (and the KDrama shenanigans she pulled there!). And learn which idol made the biggest impression on her (spoiler: she's met some amazing Korean idols!)...   00:00 Intro 01:00 Interview 11:47 Kdramafighting.com 13:47 KDramas 24:50 KPop 28:10 KCON 31:05 Idols 33:40 Irene wants to know... 39:39 Outro   Thanks so much to Colleen for talking with us! You can connect with Colleen through Facebook and Twitter.

DR. THERESA BULLARD and Olympia's POLKA DOT DOT DOT join R8B host ANDRAS JONES for a ghostly musical divination on Alternative Talk 1150AM in Seattle, Washington on May 30th, 2008. R8B Theme performed by COLLEEN GREEN LINKS: RADIO8BLOG - http://www.radio8ball.com/2017/12/08/dr-theresa-bullard-polka-dot-dot-dot-alternative-talk-1150am/ Dr. Theresa Bullard - http://www.universalkabbalah.net/ IBIS Polka Dot Dot Dot - http://www.electricityandlust.com/Artists/pddd/ R8B Website - http://www.radio8ball.com/ RADIO8BALL PATREON - https://www.patreon.com/radio8ball RADIO8BALL FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/radio8ball/ RADIO8BALL TWITTER - @radio8ball RADIO8BALL INSTAGRAM - @theradio8ballshow R8B APP - http://www.radio8ball.com/the-r8b-app/ Support the show. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/radio8ball See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Interviews abound during the EDPA Access Conference 2017 in Carlsbad, CA. Don and Mike talk to John Rose from JC Rose and Associates; Bernie Massett from MC2; Travis Nichols from Blue Pony; Colleen Johnson from ShoLink and Uta Gretsky from IFES. Get involved with the Don and Mike Show by calling or texting 770-298-0695 or email TheDonandMikeShow@gmail.com

Cancer Survivor and Ultra-Marathon Runner Colleen Johnson was 57 years old when she was diagnosed with a rare but aggressive form of endometrial cancer.  Her tumor weighed in at 2 pounds, was deeply invasive, and was about the size of a cantaloupe. Her cancer was so locally advanced and aggressive that she was given only given a 20% chance of surviving 5 years. Many (though certainly not all) adult onset cancers are influenced by obesity.  There was reason to believe Colleen's might be one of them.  At her peak, Colleen was 242 pounds.  Colleen readily admits "I was obese." Clinical trials done with both breast and colon cancer patients have established the fact that many who experience an adult-onset cancer can improve their chance of survival by losing weight if they need to, changing to a healthy diet, and engaging in regular, vigorous exercise. Colleen didn't have either breast or colon cancer, but there was reason to believe this might work for her kind of cancer too.  So Colleen decided to do just that.  She got with an oncological nutritionist, who gave her a 1500 calorie diet to follow.  Colleen was at high risk for her cancer to return, therefore, her oncologist did not want her losing weight too quickly.  A 1500 calorie diet would allow Colleen to lose weight slowly but steadily - only 1 to 1 and 1/2 pounds a week.  Her doctor felt that was a safe pace to lose the weight.  Also, her oncologist does not want her going under 140 pounds, because even today, she runs the risk of her cancer coming back, and if it ever does, her doctor says she will need some reserve fat to survive. As for regular, vigorous exercise, Colleen began with just a walking program.  She would walk some today, and then walk a little bit more tomorrow.  She walked 6 days a week and preplanned her walks so that she would increase her walking distance by about 10% every week.  This allowed her to grow stronger at a slow, but steady clip. Eventually, she began to mix some running into that mix.  She ran just a little bit at first.  In the beginning, she could not even run 1/8th of a single mile (one loop on the indoor track at her gym).  But she kept working at increasing the amount of distance that she could run, until one day, she could do it.  This was the day she decided that -- if she could slowly build her way up to running 1/8th of a mile, she could slowly build her way up to run/walking a full marathon! By adding just a little bit more running or walking distance every day, she kept increasing her abilities and did so without the soreness, hurting or even injury that can come from trying to do too much at one time. Seven months after her cancer treatments ended, she had built herself up enough to do her first 5K ever: the Teal for a Cure 5K for ovarian cancer awareness, in September of 2013.  She crossed the Finish Line in 35:52. Less than 5 months later, in February of 2014, Colleen ran/walked her first FULL MARATHON - the Shelby Forest Loop Marathon.  She backed that up by run/walking the Little Rock Marathon the very next weekend.  In June of 2014, she did her first ultra-marathon, Run Under the Stars (RUTS), a 10-hour endurance race in Paducah, KY.  She successfully completed 32 miles in the race that year.  She was 58 years old. Colleen is now 62 years young and has been doing road races for four years.  As of late October 2017, she has successfully completed 10 full marathons, 30 half marathons, and 9 ultra-marathons. Among her ultra-marathons were the 60 miles she did in the Tour d'Esprit in east Memphis in 2015, and two 100 milers she successfully completed at A Race for the Ages in Manchester, TN  (2016 and again in 2017). Her 100 miler in 2017 was particularly challenging, as the first 12 hours of her race were run in the torrential rains of Hurricane Harvey (by then "only" a tropical storm) as it slowly passed through middle Tennessee.  There were places on the course that had standing water a...

Colleen Johnson is the Co-Founder of ScatterSpoke, a tool for conducting remote team Agile retrospectives. We discuss how ScatterSpoke helps remote teams stay connected through giving feedback, why minimizing multi-tasking and setting clear expectations are important, and why the future of Agile is in staying collaborative no matter where your team members are. For more stories, visit www.CollaborationSuperpowers.com.

NOTE: The scheduel is slightly different this week because of the holiday. TUESDAY night, 7/5/11!Tonight continues the new season of The Backstage Pass Radio Program!  And not only that, but we'll also be streaming LIVE TV at the same time atwww.justin.tv/divataunia!  (PLEASE NOTE:  Airing on Tuesday, July 5th because of the Indepence Day Holiday!) TONIGHT'S SHOW FEATURES: WLS Topics & Updates:   disturing trend on Twitter this week:  "fatpeoplenightmares."WLS LOVELY FEATURE:SarahWillBeSkinny! Live Interview "CHEW ON THIS" Feature Recipe INDEPENDENT ARTISTS:  Etsy and Other Artistans feature their work - giveaways and prizes!  Live Interview with Colleen Johnson of 2SistersHandCrafted on Etsy PRODUCT GIVEAWAYS! BACKSTAGE PASS RADIO SPONSORS: Divas & Goddesses:www.divasandgoddesses.com Rhythm, Rhyme, Results: www.educationalrap.com The Weight Loss Surgery Foundation of America: www.wlfsa.org We encourage listeners to call-in at 347-857-2052 to win prizes, or just stop in to say hello!