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In this thought-provoking episode of Mindful Agility, learn how to transform confrontational encounters into productive dialogues. Ankur Shah Delight and Dan Greening share a transformational technique to handle triggering comments, guiding listeners to notice their physical reactions, pause, seek the core of the statement, rephrase it, and share with the other party. Hear an engaging case study where a potentially volatile workplace scenario is skillfully diffused. It's an essential guide for anyone seeking to enhance their communication skills, foster healthier relationships, and maintain a calm mental space amid conflict. Lean in, breathe deep, and transform your conversations.ResourcesMomentum Labs, Elephant in the Room Challenge (starts July 1, 2023)Wikipedia, Nonviolent Communication.CreditsStinger sound Swing beat 120 xylophone side-chained by Casonika licensed CC BY 4.0Staff Daniel Greening, host, agile consultant, software executive Mirela Petalli, co-host, meditation guide, and neurocritical nursing instructor Dan Dickson, business coach, executive and management consultant Links Mindful Agility Substack ("The Mindful Sprint" weekly brief) Mindful Agility web site Mindful Agility Community Facebook group Mindful Agility Youtube channel

In this Mindful Agility podcast episode on procrastination, hosts Mirela Petalli and Dan Greening delve into the hidden costs of procrastination. Have you wondered how procrastination could impact not just your work, but also your mental and physical health? This episode uncovers shocking research findings from Sweden that link procrastination to poor health outcomes. Tune in to discover an innovative tool developed by productivity guru Tim Ferriss to help overcome his fear of failure. You'll also hear compelling personal stories of overcoming procrastination through mindfulness techniques. Are you ready to turn your procrastination habit around and boost your success and wellbeing? Don't delay; listen to this enlightening episode today.ResourcesEva Skillgate et al, “Procrastination is linked to poor health – new study,” The Conversation (Jan 16, 2023).Fred Johansson et al, “Associations Between Procrastination and Subsequent Health Outcomes Among University Students in Sweden,” JAMA Network Open 6(1) (Jan 3 2023), doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.49346.Tim Ferriss, “Why you should define your fears instead of your goals,” TED2017.Tim Ferriss et al, Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers, 2017.CreditsReviewers: Ron Lussier, Stephen Zimmerman, Colleen Zimmerman, and Eve RubellStinger sound Swing beat 120 xylophone side-chained by Casonika licensed CC BY 4.0Staff Daniel Greening, host, agile coach, and computer scientist Mirela Petalli, co-host, meditation guide, and neurocritical nursing instructor Dan Dickson, business coach, executive and management consultant Links Mindful Agility Substack ("The Mindful Sprint" weekly brief) Mindful Agility web site Mindful Agility Community Facebook group Mindful Agility Youtube channel

Want to learn the secret behind Warren Buffett's success? Curious about how SpaceX rockets are built? This episode of Mindful Agility podcast uncovers the power of low-cost experiments and how they can propel your success. Hosts Dan Greening and Dan Dickson discuss how to use low-cost experiments to reduce risk and increase reward, and suggest practical steps to apply this concept in your own life. Learn how to turn your significant projects into a series of small, manageable experiments. By embracing failure and learning from it, you can fast-track your road to success. Tune in to find out how!ReferencesDan Greening, Pattern: Experiment to Improve, June 11, 2015.Dan Dickson, Dan Greening, "1: Low-Cost Experiments," The Mindful Sprint," April 4, 2023.CreditsBeta reviewers  helped improve this episode: Stephen Tryon, Eve Rubell, Amelia Hambrecht, Divya Maez.Stinger sound Swing beat 120 xylophone side-chained by Casonika CC BY 4.0Staff Daniel Greening, host, agile coach, and computer scientist Mirela Petalli, co-host, meditation guide, and neurocritical nursing instructor Dan Dickson, business coach, executive and management consultant Links Mindful Agility Substack ("The Mindful Sprint" weekly brief) Mindful Agility web site Mindful Agility Community Facebook group Mindful Agility Youtube channel

Toxic work and home environments are all around us: intimidation, humiliation, secret discussions, manipulation. Those environments are psychologically unsafe. When we and those around us feel unsafe, we become fearful, stop learning, and fail to improve.Discover the power of psychological safety in fostering high-performing teams, as we dive into techniques to cultivate trust and open communication. Learn from Google's Project Aristotle case study, Mirela Petalli's experiences in hospitals, and Dan Greening's experiences in tech companies, which reveal the transformative impact of psychological safety on productivity and collaboration.Join us as we challenge norms with mindfulness and agile practices to elevate team performance. Listen to this episode and transform your understanding of what it takes to create a successful, innovative, and cohesive team. Don't miss this chance to unlock your team's potential – tune in now!This episode parallels  our 2-minute newsletter (click to subscribe) The Mindful Sprint.  Mirela Petalli and Dan Greening use the Psychological Safety brief as a jumping off point for more details and stories around Psychological Safety.ReferencesDuhigg, C. (2016). What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team. The New York TimesAmy Gallo (February 15, 2023) “What Is Psychological Safety?,” Harvard Business Review.CreditsBeta reviewers Divya Maez, Amelia Hambrecht and Colleen Zimmerman helped improve this episode.Stinger sound Swing beat 120 xylophone side-chained by Casonika CC BY 4.0Staff Daniel Greening, host, agile coach, and computer scientist Mirela Petalli, co-host, meditation guide, and neurocritical nursing instructor Dan Dickson, business coach, executive and management consultant Links Mindful Agility Substack ("The Mindful Sprint" weekly brief) Mindful Agility web site Mindful Agility Community Facebook group Mindful Agility Youtube channel

Unlock the mindful power of the Five Whys technique in this intriguing episode, with agile coach Dan Greening and corporate fixer Dan Dickson. The Five Whys method has transformed businesses and personal lives, revealing hidden causes of problems, and promoting safer, more lasting improvements. Hear intriguing stories, like how Toyota fixed a recurring production line issue for good, and how Dan Greening hosted a Five Whys "party" that possibly saved an employee's job! Learn how this simple, effective approach can help you tackle challenges in your own life. Listen now, to transform your approach to problem-solving forever!ResourcesDan Greening, “Root Cause Mapping Party,” https://senexrex.com/cause-mapping/EPM, The 5 Whys Explained - Root Cause Analysis, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7FcK8jV2yAMindful Agility, The Mindful Sprint: Five Whys for Lasting BreakthroughsCreditsThanks to beta reviewers Amelia Hambrecht and Dan D'Agostino.Stinger sound Swing beat 120 xylophone side-chained by Casonika, CC BY 4.0 license.Staff Daniel Greening, host, agile coach, and computer scientist Mirela Petalli, co-host, meditation guide, and neurocritical nursing instructor Dan Dickson, business coach, executive and management consultant Links Mindful Agility Substack ("The Mindful Sprint" weekly brief) Mindful Agility web site Mindful Agility Community Facebook group Mindful Agility Youtube channel

Learning from failure ought to be easy. Good experiments should fail, about half the time, especially if they aren't costly. And agile experiments are designed to be low cost. But failure, it turns out, freaks us out, especially when we are new to a field. That might explain why agile transformations fail at a very high rate, even though the benefits of agile are well studied. Folks in an agile transformation are new to agile, and little failures at the beginning can lead them to run away.In this episode, Dan Dickson and Dan Greening talk about a recently published paper, "You Think Failure is Hard? So is Learning from It." We discuss the insights in the paper, and how those insights translate into agile practice.Here's the problemPeople avoid bad newsPeople are ashamed of failurePeople don't share what they learned from failure (so others have to repeat their experiments)And so, not only do we not learn from our own failures, our friends don't discuss their failures with us. So we don't learn from our own failures or our friends' failures. Bummer.We talk about the implications for agile: it's a problem we have to address head on. We provide some ways to make learning from failure much easier. ReferencesDan Greening, Root Cause Mapping Party [on “Five Whys”], 2015, https://senexrex.com/cause-mapping/Mindful Agility team, Business on Fire Part I: Steve Jobs protege Ron Johnson burns JC Penney cash fast as CEO, 1:11 (2022), https://sr.link/ma1-1Eskreis-Winkler, L., & Fishbach, A. (2022). You Think Failure Is Hard? So Is Learning From It. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 17(6), 1511–1524. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916211059817CreditsThanks to Dan Dickson, our guest and collaboratorImage of athlete tripping on a dog, by DALL-EStinger sound Swing beat 120 xylophone side-chained by Casonika licensed under Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) to Mindful Agility.Staff Daniel Greening, host, agile coach, and computer scientist Mirela Petalli, co-host, meditation guide, and neurocritical nursing instructor Matt Zimmerman, Scrum Master and web product manager Dan Dickson, business coach, executive and management consultant Links Mindful Agility web site Mindful Agility Community Facebook group Mindful Agility Youtube channel

Our clumsiness in life creates most of our suffering. We haven't practiced the skills we need to be happy. We don't see what's going on around us. We don't see the causes early enough to prevent a train-wreck in work or life. And when we don't know how to distinguish truth from delusion, well that leads to a world of hurt. But if we don't have a purpose, should we or anyone else care that we mess up?Mindfulness skills help us reduce the dumb stuff we do to ourselves. When we get more comfortable and skillful just living in our existing situation, then we can contemplate why we are here and how to actively live. Knowing where we're going, means agile skills can get us there, finding creative solutions to the tough stuff.So, here's one way to think of our journey to higher purpose and fulfillment:Mindfulness skillsPurposeAgile skillsA couple of months ago, Dan Greening was interviewed for another podcast, called 10,000 Heroes, by his pal Ankur Shah Delight. If you've wondered what the hell those Mindful Agility people were trying to do, Ankur asked the right questions. Here's that 10,000 Heroes episode, in its entirety. If you like the idea of exploring purpose, 10,000 Heroes is a nice thing to check out. CreditsAnkur Shah Delight was our guest host for this episode. He is host of the 10,000 Heroes podcast. The original of this episode is #00039 The curious offspring of Agile and Mindfulness with Dan Greening. If you're curious, check out the follow up episode Nate signs up for Yet Another Challenge – this time applying Dan Greening's Mindful Agility to his professional life.Tom Looy, Ron Lussier, Amelia Hambrecht, Divya Maez were our beta reviewers, for whom we are super grateful. Early beta review is an agile staple: we make changes to our episode based on feedback. If you ever want to give it a try, reach out to us. If you are reading this, you are in our target audience. Stinger sound Swing beat 120 xylophone side-chained by Casonika licensed under Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) to Mindful AgilityImage of anime bear with a purpose list by DALL-EStaff Daniel Greening, host, agile coach, and computer scientist Mirela Petalli, co-host, meditation guide, and neurocritical nursing instructor Matt Zimmerman, Scrum Master and web product manager Dan Dickson, business coach, executive and management consultant Links Mindful Agility web site Mindful Agility Community Facebook group Mindful Agility Youtube channel

The first interview of Season 5! The first interview of 2023! I am so excited!   I'm also delighted to have had some really beautiful moments with my guest, Noah Rasheta.   Noah's probably best known as the host of the Secular Buddhism podcast, and an author, and a paragliding instructor. I was really moved by his story – from Dan Greening, a previous guest – and I really benefited from his story, and his Vibe.   The “Vibe” is a hard concept to define. For me, it's something about what a person has really integrated into themself, versus just what we say or claim to have learned.   There's a lot of people who talk about Buddhism. Who are interested in Enlightenment. Who have spent years (or decades) studying it. And I've met quite a few of those in my travels and my studies.   And then there's the sense I get when I'm around someone who feels “different”. And that's the Vibe. That there's more than an intellectual understanding, but a lived experience behind the words.   It's what Uncle Jamal would call “Knowledge of the Heart” as opposed to “Knowledge of the Tongue”. And Noah has it.   And when someone has it, it almost doesn't matter what's being communicated out loud. Because the real communication is a bass note, almost inaudible, below the words, and more impactful than the words could ever hope to be.   Cherished listeners: Noah Rasheta.   Show Links: Voicemail:  https://www.speakpipe.com/10khshow Email: info@10kh.show Twitter: @10khshow Guest References: https://secularbuddhism.com/   https://secularbuddhism.com/author/noahrasheta/   https://www.amazon.com/Secular-Buddhism-Noah-Rasheta/dp/1366922735   About our sponsor: 10,000 Heroes is brought to you by Momentum Lab.    I normally refer to Momentum Lab as a coaching program or a goal accelerator.   But you could also call it a Master's degree in life.   When you join Momentum Lab, you get crystal clear on what it is you actually want. Who you want to be, what you want to do, and how you want to contribute.   And then we get into all the painful details of what has been blocking you this whole time.    Once that's all in the clear, we can give you the knowledge, tools and support to actualize your vision.    Sometimes that's a spreadsheet. Sometimes it's a mindset hack. Sometimes it's a lecture and sometimes it's a hug.   Our only attachment is to your higher self.   So when you're ready to be the next version of yourself and your business for your family, or just for your own sense of fulfillment, drop me a line ;)   www.momentumlab.com   #momentumlab #greaterheights #noahrasheta #secularbuddhism #newage #purpose #easternphilosphy #magic #transformation #guru #youaretheguru #uncertainty #lifetransformation#2023 #happynewyear #Vibe

When we fail, we can easily fall into anxiety, guilt, or depression. But failure can lead us toward success. A simple Google search reveals many famous people discuss their failures and subsequent successes. We can succeed through failure, too!In this episode of the Mindful Agility podcast, Mirela Petalli, Matthew Zimmerman, Dan Dickson and Dan Greening discuss an episode of Matt's life. He moved to Ireland, thinking it would solve all his problems, and discovered: Nope. But through that humiliating experience, Matt unexpectedly discovered folks he could count on, and years later, he realized his experiment gave him new powers.ReferencesEskreis-Winkler, L., & Fishbach, A. (2022). You Think Failure Is Hard? So Is Learning From It. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 17(6), 1511–1524. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916211059817CreditsImage of humiliated traveler by DALL-E.Stinger sound Swing beat 120 xylophone side-chained by Casonika licensed under Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) to Mindful Agility.Staff Daniel Greening, host, agile coach, and computer scientist Mirela Petalli, co-host, meditation guide, and neurocritical nursing instructor Matt Zimmerman, Scrum Master and web product manager Dan Dickson, business coach, executive and management consultant Links Mindful Agility web site Mindful Agility Community Facebook group Mindful Agility Youtube channel

People around us need help. Our inclination is to rush in, fix the problem, and rush out. After all we have stuff we need to do, ourselves. But we can get stuck. And stay stuck. For months.Dan Dickson wanted his friend's pet project, a wine store in Manhattan, to succeed. Dan had the skills to add online transactions to their web site. But, he didn't want to get stuck doing all the work forever.Dan Dickson built the new site, and created the wine database structure. Because he didn't want to create a dependency, he left the work to the store staff. They added a few new entries were made to the database, but they were incorrect.Through a couple of tries, and many months, it never went live.He set everything up not to get stuck. And there he was: stuck.He commiserated with Mirela Petalli MSN-ed RN, Dan R Greening, and Matt Zimmerman on the Mindful Agility team.Hidden challenges were the problem. Dan Dickson couldn't find a path forward, until he looked at the bigger picture from a mindful, agile lens. And then, things started improving.Call to ActionThe CAVU company sponsored Scrum training for Mirela Petalli and Dan Dickson a couple of months ago. CAVU is a benefit company that teaches Scrum to both commercial and underrepresented communities. Christopher Sims and Dan Greening were co-trainers. Mirela and Dan Dickson are now Registered Scrum Masters and Registered Product Owners.We have recently held live online meditations and classes. If you'd like to get notified about those, do one of three things: join the Facebook group called “Mindful Agility Community,” or like the LinkedIn showcase called “Mindful Agility.” We have an email list at mindfulagility.com, as well.You can help us out by giving us a written review on Apple Podcasts, or by sharing our episodes with friends.CreditsMany thanks to Dan Dickson for joining us in this episode.Cover photo by DepositPhotos

Ten Thousand Heroes is a show about vision, meaning, and purpose. We seek inspiration from people actively living their purpose and share their insights, tips, and struggles with you. Today's episode is a debrief. Join our hosts Ankur Shah Delight and Nathan Ramos as they debrief last week's interview with Dan Greening.   Nate captures his understanding of Agile methodologies and then relentlessly applies it to everything in sight, including Purpose, Vision, and all of Nate and Ank's professional career.   And yes – he does apply the challenge to himself and his own work by the end of the episode!   Show Links: Voicemail:  https://www.speakpipe.com/10khshow Email: info@10kh.show Twitter: @10khshow

This is Ten Thousand Heroes and I'm Ankur Shah Delight.   10kh is here to provide inspiration, intimacy, and maybe even a little bit of guidance, as to what it means to live a truly purposeful life, and how we each can get there in our own individual way.   Welcome back to 10,000 Heroes.   Our guest today is Dan Greening, a host of the Mindful Agility podcast and an experienced hand at both Agile methodologies and mindfulness training. I go deep with Dan on how he has found his way at the nexus of these 2 seemingly contradictory approaches.   Let's jump in.   Show Links: Voicemail:  https://www.speakpipe.com/10khshow Email: info@10kh.show Twitter: @10khshow   Guest References: Mindful Agility podcast:  https://mindfulagility.com LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/greening Twitter: @greening

In this third and final episode on fabled merchandiser, Ron Johnson, we discuss the startup Enjoy.com, which turned $500M of invested capital and goodwill into nothing. This was Johnson's second attempt as a CEO. What did he learn from that failure? How did it shape his new company? Your co-hosts, Dan Dickson and Dan Greening, bring perspectives of traditional and agile management, finance and technology, retail and service. We think our analysis demonstrates how you can make better choices in your own projects, big and small, for much greater levels of success.We examine this company from the lens of Mindful Agility:How well did Enjoy understand its ecosystem, did it examine conditions without bias?As Enjoy matured, did it lean into potential risks, to explore and learn more?Did Enjoy mitigate risk and preserve options?Did Enjoy direct its evolution with low-cost, high-return experiments?And finally, we armchair quarterback what we might have done as execs at Enjoy.com. References(Nakrosis 2022) Stephen Nakrosis, Enjoy Technology to be delisted from Nasdaq, shares tumble, Market Watch, July 7, 2022, https://www.marketwatch.com/story/enjoy-technology-to-be-delisted-from-nasdaq-shares-fall-15-271657234123(Huddleston 2015) Tom Huddleston Jr., Two years later, ex-J.C. Penney CEO Ron Johnson resurfaces with e-commerce website Enjoy, Fortune, May 6, 2015, https://fortune.com/2015/05/06/ron-johnson-enjoy-jcpenny/(Stegeman 2022) Levi Stegeman**,** “this company is horrible my phone was…,” Trustpilot reviews, Enjoy.com, https://www.trustpilot.com/review/enjoy.com?page=2, Jun 17, 2022(seeabove 2021) seeabove, Enjoy Delivery Service is a SCAM, ATT Community Forums, Aug 12, 2021, https://forums.att.com/conversations/wireless-account/enjoy-delivery-service-is-a-scam/6115bcdbebe45663333f880e(Unglesbee 2022) Ben Unglesbee, Ron Johnson's Enjoy Technology wants to create a new form of retail. But first it must survive, Retail Dive, June 17, 2022, https://www.retaildive.com/news/ron-johnsons-enjoy-technology-potential-bankruptcy/625705/(Chafkin 2015) Max Chafkin, How Failed JC Penney CEO Ron Johnson Is Redeeming Himself With Enjoy, Fast Company, Oct 26, 2015, https://www.fastcompany.com/3051611/he-made-target-and-apple-stores-cool-after-his-jcp-flop-the-redemption-of-r(Hill 2022) Jeremy Hill and Bailey Lipschultz, SPAC Led by Former Apple Executive Goes Bankrupt Less Than a Year After Going Public, Bloomberg, June 30, 2022, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-30/ex-spac-led-by-former-apple-executive-goes-bankrupt-plans-sale?leadSource=uverify wall

As an executive working for other CEOs, Ron Johnson succeeded wildly in redesigning Target stores and building Apple Stores from scratch. But then, as a CEO, Ron Johnson crashed and burned two later companies.Join Dan Dickson, a seasoned retail executive and Harvard Business School grad, and Dan Greening, co-host of Mindful Agility, as we talk about Ron Johnson's first failure, JC Penney.Major shifts in management practice arise in response to crises. Lean Manufacturing helped Toyota and Japan survive, after the Japanese industrial base had been destroyed in World War II. Lean Manufacturing now dominates the auto industry, and failure to adopt its principles bankrupted General Motors and others.Agile management practices arose in response to growingly spectacular software project failures. It is now dominates software teams and is expanding to other creative teams and whole businesses. "Business agility" is emerging as a trend in business management.This is the first of three episodes where we analyze business failures to discover whether agile and mindfulness philosophies could have averted disaster.Three take awaysFailure analysis helps us succeed, sometimes beyond competitorsBusiness success is correlated to business agility and mindfulnessRon Johnson's failures at JC Penney could have been anticipatedReferencesMax Chafkin, "How Failed JC Penney CEO Ron Johnson Is Redeeming Himself With Enjoy," Fast Company (October 26, 2015).Noel Tichy, "J.C. Penney and the terrible costs of hiring an outsider CEO," Fortune (November 13, 2014).Phil Wahba, "Ron Johnson says J.C. Penney should have stuck to his plan ," Fortune (May 16, 2016).Jennifer Reingold, "How to Fail in Business While Really, Really Trying," Fortune (March 20, 2014).Taiichi Ohno, Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production, 1988.CreditsStinger sound Swing beat 120 xylophone side-chained by Casonika licensed under Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).Photo of Ron Johnson by Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch, licensed under Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)

Welcome to the Mindful Agility podcast. Mindfulness and agile can help you lead a more fulfilled life, at work and at home. Mindfulness practices help us gain insight and clarity, while agile practices help us forge new paths. We explore both. Support usRate the podcast and its episodes. Share the podcast with friends. Follow and comment in our Facebook page, "Mindful Agility podcast".HostsMirela Petalli is a trained mindfulness instructor and a neuro critical care nursing instructor. Mirela and Dan have studied mindfulness together for a few years. Dan Greening is an enterprise agile coach. He led the agile coaching teams at Skype and Citrix to help improve their ability to innovate. He's started a few companies. Between startup 1 and 2, he miraculously finished a long-postponed computer science PhD. And after startup 3, he cleaned the garage, another miracle.Human ReferencesMindful Staff (2020) The Science of Mindfulness. Mindful. https://www.mindful.org/the-science-of-mindfulness/Academic ReferencesBaas M, Nevicka B, Ten Velden FS (2014) Specific Mindfulness Skills Differentially Predict Creative Performance. Pers Soc Psychol Bull 40(9):1092–1106.Crane C, Winder R, Hargus E, Amarasinghe M, Barnhofer T (2012) Effects of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy on Specificity of Life Goals. Cogn Ther Res 36(3):182–189.Rosenstreich E, Levi U (2019) Mindfulness and Memory: a Review of Findings and a Potential Model. Journal of Cognitive Enhancement 3.

On this extra special birthmonth bonus episode, birthday boy Christopher selects one of his favorite albums ever, Kraftwerk's lush 1978 offering "The Man Machine". Joined by Dan Greening, the boys discuss Jim's mop experience, meting styrofoam over dead cockroaches (but at least having the decency to drive the cockroaches home after), and commemorative shrimp. We also continue our music news challenge with the following headline: "Keith Richards Drops The Rolling Stones Retirement Bombshell" Think you know what that actually means in the real world? Listen in to find out.

Dan Greening works for a startup using Agile to develop, design and manufacture a digital handheld single-molecule biosensor that can be used to detect diseases and viruses (like HIV and Zika) within minutes and at a fraction of the price of traditional approaches. After 8 years working in Agile, Dan now uses his Agile knowledge and experience to get this nanotechnology into consumer hands quickly. Dan highlights for Agile Amped that the Agile community generally focuses on software, but in an Agile startup you need to think deeper. "My interest in Agile has always been in Agile companies that produce things that people really find valuable." Agile startups have to think about the full lifecycle: hardware, firmware, software, cloud. SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett hosts at Agile2016 in Atlanta, GA. About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series connects the community through compelling stories, passionate people, shared knowledge, and innovative ideas. Fueled by inspiring conversations with industry thoughtleaders, Agile Amped offers valuable content – anytime, anywhere. To receive real-time updates, subscribe at YouTube, iTunes or SolutionsIQ.com. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SIQYouTube, http://bit.ly/SIQiTunes, http://www.solutionsiq.com/agile-amped/ Follow: http://bit.ly/SIQTwitter  Like: http://bit.ly/SIQFacebook

In this podcast, Dr. Dan Greening is back to follow up in the earlier podcast interview about Agile Base Patterns. This time, Dan and Dave Prior discuss leading indicators you can study to assess Agile Portfolio Health. During the podcast, they dig in to metrics that can be used to assess Lead Time, Abandoned Work and Fitness Functions.

Lyssa Adkins is one of the leading voices in Agile coaching. A founder of the Agile Coaching Institute, her book “Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition” set the bar for what it means to be an Agile Coach. In this interview Lyssa and I talk about what’s happening with the Agile Institute, coaching middle management and how to deal with coaching burnout. Show Notes: The Super Nervous Interview Begins 2:10 Focused Listening 4:05 Four essential skill sets of coaching 6:00 The difference between “coaching” and being a professional coach 6:30 Big things going on at Agile Coaching Institute 7:45 Coaching Middle Management 8:40 The impact of the cultural change Agile brings 11:40 Is there a limit to how much change we can handle and where are the boundaries 12:30 Background on the burnt out coach14:30 Burn out is on the rise with Agile Coaches 15:00 Finding a path you can be on with heart 15:45 Finding the heart in letting the org become what it wants to become 16:40 Checking your own ambition 18:20 Goal setting and knowing when to walk away 19:00 What to do with the organizations on Life Support 19:15 Hospicing the death of old systems 20:20 Trying to reach people who don’t want to take your hand 21:30 Meeting confusion with curiosity 22:20 Agile coaches are agents of human evolution 24:00 How Agile Coaching Institute helps organizations 24:30 Developing a coaching capability that is in sync with where the organization’s goals 25:45 How to find and develop the coaches in an organization 27:45 How to help a burnt out coach/change agent 31:25 The importance of self-care if you want to be present and help others 32:50 Exposing why people avoid self-care35:00 Ways Lyssa practices self-care 35:30 The job is to “allow” 37:05 You can’t let go because it’s the tension that holds it together 38:18 What happens when you do let go 38:50 Lyssa Reads Poetry 40:25 All of us in the Agile community are part of evolving our capacity for complexity 41:45 We are in the time of organizations being living thing 43:05 How to contact Lyssa 43:25 Lyssa’s advice for the coaches who are feeling burned out 43:55 Lyssa’s Coaching Agile Teams book is 6 years old 44:45 Thanking Lyssa for making me uncomfortable (in a good way) 45:50 Upcoming Events for Lyssa 46:00 Links Mentioned in the Podcast Lyssa in Twitter https://twitter.com/lyssaadkins The Agile Coaching Institute http://www.agilecoachinginstitute.com/coaches/ 2016 Scrum Gathering Agenda http://bit.ly/1Upsg9W Perseverance - Meg Wheatley http://amzn.to/1W4PSmM Little Guide to Empathetic Technical Leadership - Alex Harms https://leanpub.com/littleguide Agile Base Patterns, a Cross-Quadrant Conversation - a conversation between Lyssa Adkins and Dan Greening http://www.infoq.com/articles/agile-base-patterns Iawake.com http://www.iawaketechnologies.com The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America - David Whyte http://amzn.to/1NtifV7

Interview Start 1:48 A little about Dan 2:28 Five Characteristics of Sustainable Agility 4:04 Pattern 1 - Measuring Economic Progress (Leading Indicators) 5:04 Pattern 2 - Proactively Experiment for Improvement 8:45 Pattern 3 - Limit Work in Process 10:31 Clarification on Limiting Work in Process for the Five Characteristics of Sustainable Agility 11:30 Pattern 4 - Collective Responsibility 24:31 Pattern 5 - Solve Systemic Problems 28:49 Want more: Dan’s profile on LeadingAgile: http://www.leadingagile.com/guides/dan-greening/ Dan’s blog on SenexRex http://senexrex.com/blog Dan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/greening Dan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/greening Dan’s email: Dan.Greening@leadingagile.com

Hosts Ryan Ripley, Zach Bonaker, Dan Greening Discussion A rejuvenated Zach Bonaker (@zachbonaker) joined Dan Greening (@greening) and Ryan Ripley (@ryanripley) to talk about #NoEstimates and some of the limitations of not estimating work. We quickly moved on from that topic to an area that Dan has put a lot of work in to: What are the patterns that agile organization exhibit? In other words, how do we know that we are agile? Dan has expressed his thoughts on what it means to be agile within 5 base patterns that he explained to Zach and Ryan: Measure economic progress Experiment Limit work in progress Embrace collective responsibility Solve systemic problems From there the discussion pivoted to top down vs. bottom up agile transformations. We discussed how they work, the pitfalls of each, and our personal experiences with trying to help organizations adopt agile. Management must be the first mover when adopting agile, followed by the rest of the company. Dan gave a few cautionary tales of what happens if management does not adapt along with the rest of the organization. Management must be the first mover when adopting #agile, followed by the rest of the company.Tweet This Dan gave us a preview of some exciting work he's doing with Scrum, Inc.…and then we called it a night. Agile for Humans is brought to you by audible.com – get one FREE audiobook download and 30 day free trial at www.audibletrial.com/agile Resources, Plugs, and More Ryan – https://ryanripley.com Joy, Inc. By Richard Sherridan Software Development and Evolution Conference 2015 (SDEC) Zach – https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachbonaker Agile Cancer: Stop Whining and Cure It The Art of Thought by Graham Wallas Dan – http://senexrex.com/ Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences Agile Base Patterns The post AFH 017: 5 Base Patterns to Guide Agile Teams [PODCAST] appeared first on Ryan Ripley.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In agile, we have broad ambitions with no defining principles. We often talk about agile teams, people, departments, organizations and political campaigns, as if the definition of "agile" was obvious. And yet the Agile Manifesto and its principles were written for software development teams. Furthermore, many CEOs tell us how agile they are, because "we can move teams around on a whim" or because "we run sprints every week," but their teams can't produce working products rapidly, increasingly add technical debt, or shamble into work demoralized. Until we frame agile concepts around more general principles and modern psychological and system science research, our best advice will remain marginalized as the dreams of "software zealots."

Hosts Ryan Ripley and  Zach Bonaker Discussion Zach is an independent consultant who recently posted a provocative article called: “The Subversion of Agile: Agile is a Cancer”. We discussed his post, talked about what the cancer is in the community that needs to be removed about posts from others in the community about the “death of Agile”. We moved on to what Agile in a business language would look like – agile base patterns – and he shared some ideas that he and Dan Greening have been contemplating. We discussed the 5 pillars of an agile organization, which include: Measure economic progress Experiment Limit work in progress Embrace collective responsibility Solve systemic problems From there the discussion pivoted to top down vs. bottom up agile transformations. We discuss how they work, the pitfalls of each, and our personal experiences with trying to help organizations adopt agile. Of course I found a way to bring up agile management. We added a few more books to Don's book club, talked about the difficulty of filling the role of the product owner, and then…called it a night. Zach was a great guest who I hope becomes a regular contributor to the podcast. He recently posted a follow-up to his original post called “Agile Cancer: Stop Whining and Cure It” which has expanded the conversation, set off a few flame wars, and provoked some important conversations about our industry. Resources, Plugs, and More Ryan – http://agileanswerman.com Management 3.0 by Jurgen Appelo Drive by Dan Pink Lean Change Management by Jason Little Scrum Product Ownership: Balancing Value from the Inside Out by Bob Galen Zach – https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachbonaker Reinventing Organizations by Frederic Laloux Joy Inc. by Richard Sheridan Dan Greening's Site Agile is Dead – Long Live Agility The post AFH 003: Agile is a Cancer [PODCAST] appeared first on Ryan Ripley.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.