Podcasts about mile high agile

In this week's episode James and Colleen sit down with David Bernstein while at Mile High Agile 2019 to discuss the importance and impact of software craftsmanship on business agility.  Enjoy! David's Twitter Order David's book Beyond Legacy Code here

This podcast features an interview with Johanna Rothman and Mark Kilby about their new book "From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams: Collaborate to Deliver" (https://tinyurl.com/yyrbhcrz). Distributed Teams present challenges for any group of people trying to work together. This is true in a traditional approach to project work, but maybe even more so in an Agile approach, where many of the frameworks are based on the idea of co-location. The challenges distributed teams face are present regardless of whether you are separated by 12 time zones or by a single flight of stairs. It can absolutely work, and there can be many benefits to working distributed. The big question is how? In their new book “From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams: Collaborate to Deliver" (https://tinyurl.com/yyrbhcrz), Johanna Rothman and Mark Kilby deliver the practical answers we all need to help our distributed teams succeed. During the interview Mark and Johanna explain who they wrote the book for and how it can help. We also walk through a few of the most critical practices that help distributed teams work well together, and the authors share some tips that they did not include in the final version of the book. Now... I generally try to remain objective in this blog/podcast, but... GO BUY THIS BOOK! YOU NEED THIS BOOK! As someone who works with and on distributed teams, I have questions of my own with respect to steps that can be taken to foster a distributed team's success. This book had answers/strategies for all my questions and it is sure to be an invaluable resource for anyone working on or with distributed teams. Links mentioned in the podcast: "From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams: Collaborate to Deliver" can be purchased on: Amazon https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07PRYM1TF/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i0 LeanPub https://leanpub.com/geographicallydistributedagileteams Dave interviews Johanna and Mark about writing as a Distributed Team at Agile 2018 https://youtu.be/JMxEeeCtK2I Johanna and Mark will be speaking at Agile 2019 https://www.agilealliance.org/agile2019/ Mark will be speaking at Mile High Agile https://www.milehighagile.org Contacting Johanna Web: https://www.jrothman.com Create an Adaptable Life: http://www.createadaptablelife.com Johanna's Fiction: https://www.jrothman.com/johannas-fiction/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/johannarothman?lang=en LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johannarothman/ Johanna on Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/y244gf35 Contacting Mark Web: https://www.markkilby.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/mkilby LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mkilby/

Nowadays you can’t go anywhere without hearing about or interacting with voice recognition technology. Kari Ostevik of the Toronto-based Tribal Scale knows: she helped with the voice technology powering both Amazon Echo (i.e., “Alexa”) and Google Home. She provides 5 lessons for working in emerging technology: Humility – nobody knows yet so everybody needs to be curious and patient. Power of the Pair – Pair programming makes knowledge dissemination fast and seamless. Ruthless Prioritization – Tech is changing all the time, so you have to be clear about priorities. Test Late – In additional to testing early, with emerging tech, it’s important to have enough of a product to get good feedback. Submit Early – Start time-consuming (legal/bureaucratic) processes earlier on. Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Howard Sublett hosts at Mile High Agile in Denver, Colorado. Reach our guest: Twitter: @kariostevik Email: kostevik@tribalscale.com The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Twitter: twitter.com/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Today, Chuck talks about how to recognize a fellow agilist using behavioral interview techniques. He also shares some wisdom of the crowd around good interview questions. This topic stems from an open space session he led at Mile High Agile 2018. This episode is sponsored by our friends and generous backers on Patreon. Sponsors are needed to help the podcast grow and thrive. Sign up today!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/agilechuckwagon)

First off, Mark Waite is a test-driven development (TDD) proponent. But - and hear him out - TDD may not actually be needed every single time you write code. Waite shares his discovery that the developers of Git - the leading version control system today - didn't use any tests during the first year or so of development. But why? Waite argues that testing is a quality assurance measure - and sometimes you don't care about things like longevity, breaking the code, or even shoddy value. For example, "Sometimes I need a tool to do something once" and never again. He goes on to point out that TDD is most useful when there is significant risk, or you need to understand the code better, or when there is a benefit to intentional variation. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett hosts at Mile High Agile in Denver, Colorado. Reach our guest on Twitter: @MarkEWaite Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Twitter: twitter.com/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/    

Are educators doing all they can to prepare students for the real world? High school teacher and CSM Bret Thayer feels we could be doing better to give today's students - digital natives - the soft skills that modern businesses need. These include critical thinking, problem-solving, creativity, innovation, collaboration, adaptability. Thayer is all too familiar with the struggle of getting smartphone-obsessed teenagers to acknowledge, let alone learn from, other people - teachers as well as other adults and peers. He uses Scrum and Agile technicals and mindsets to get students involved in their own education. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett hosts at Mile High Agile 2018 in Denver, Colorado. Reach our guest:Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/teacherswhoscrum/ Twitter: @bathayerWebsite: agileintheclassroom.com/ Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Twitter: twitter.com/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Drawing from the work of Lisa Lahey and Robert Kegan, Henry Dittmer shares his experience using the Immunity to Change (ITC) map to help participants of his session identify what is keeping them from achieving a desired change. Dittmer used the four-step ITC map to demonstrate why - paradoxically - he doesn't like presenting at conferences. The four steps are: 1. What One Big Thing do you want to commit to changing? 2. What are you doing or not doing that's keeping you from doing this thing? 3. What worries and fears (hidden competing commitments) arise when you think about doing this thing? 4. What assumptions make these commitments real for you? From here you can test assumptions: are they real, are they silly? Do you really believe them? Dittmer finds that some difficult assumptions can open the door to coaching, for individuals and teams and even organizations. "It's really most powerful when individual leaders are getting leadership coaching," and then after they arrive at their One Big Thing, the team can look at itself collectively and decide what is their One Big Thing, specifically in terms of the company they are leading. Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett hosts at Mile High Agile in Denver, Colorado. Reach our guestTwitter: @hcdittmer ‏Email: henry.dittmer@agileforall.comWebsite: agileforall.com/ Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Twitter: twitter.com/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Diana Larsen is the Chief Relationship Builder at the Agile Fluency Project and she has a simple compelling message: software development is learning work. Knowledge work is what everyone is talking about - but Larsen argues that learning is really what we need to be doing today. She talks about "heroic learners" - people who have the courage, compassion and confidence to learn everywhere and all the time, because as Larsen puts it, "We have to get good and learning - or we get left behind." And this goes beyond just individuals - she discusses how teams need to learn together. Accenture|SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett hosts at Mile High Agile in Denver, Colorado. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Twitter: twitter.com/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Where will the Agile space be in ten years? This great question kicks off this edition of Round Table Roulette with our guests Aidee Fischer, Corey Post and Steve Kovach, three experienced Agile coaches here at SolutionsIQ. On the topic of the future of Agile, our guests are unanimous: "Agile will be everywhere." Other questions and conversation topics that host Howard Sublett guides our guests through include: Can Agile work at any scale? If no, at what size does it break down? (Fischer: "Depends on what we mean by Agile. If we're talking about the idea of delivery value quickly to customers, being more customer-centric... making our people or products the best that they can be, then I think that, yes: it could work at any scale.") What do you tell managers that want to compare Agile teams to each other? Is there a "Dunbar Number" for Agile? How do you know if someone is a good or great Agile coach? Share a story about Agile outside of software. (Kovach was moved last year by a session he attended at Mile High Agile by the teenaged Aaron Vadakkana who has been using Scrum at home for years. Listen here: Agileamped – Using-scrum-at-home-with-aaron-vadakkan) If you could only give one piece of advice to a new ScrumMaster, what would it be? Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Twitter: twitter.com/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Many of the data warehousing problems of the world have been tackled and solved--yet data warehousing and business intelligence teams in Agile settings still struggle with technical practices that better enable Agile. One example is test automation. Lynn Winterboer discusses with Agile Amped at Mile High Agile 2016 in Denver, Colorado, her conference presentation and why she thinks it's hard for such teams to do test automation and how the industry's vendor focus contributes to the problem.  The bottom line? Don't wait for the right tool or vendor. Just jump right into test automation. Lynn Winterboer coaches DW/BI teams on applying agile principles to their work. She has filled many roles on data and agile teams for 20 years. Lynn understands the unique set of challenges faced by data teams who want to benefit from Agile project delivery. You can reach Lynn via her website: winterboeragileanalytics.com   SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett hosts. About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series engages with industry thought leaders at Agile events across the country to bring valuable content to subscribers anytime, anywhere.   Podcast library: www.agileamped.comConnect with us on social media! Twitter: twitter.com/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

Special Guests Don Peters Marc Chouinard Topics Real-Time Team Improvements Setting Clear Objectives, Goals, and Working Agreements Try Pair Testing in 2018 Find Your Personal Impact / Motivation Picks Liftoff (https://www.amazon.com/Liftoff-Start-Sustain-Successful-Agile/dp/1680501631/) (Book) by Diana Larsen & Ainsley Nies – provides specific methods for “agile chartering” to help teams define their vision, and then write mission and mission tests to guide activities supportive of the vision Mile High Agile 2018 (https://www.milehighagile.org/) (Live Event) – Inspired by being in Denver, consider checking out the annual Mile High Agile conference being held in Denver, CO on May 21 & 22, 2018 – great conference with open space to learn from others Don’t just attend a conference, go present at it (Personal Development) – If you’ve attended a conference before, consider getting involved by presenting a session at a 2018 conference somewhere – lots of call for papers are open this time of year (early 2018), so consider helping improve the agile community by sharing what you know in 2018 – if you wait ‘til next year, you’ll only be another year older! Links Stop Work Authority Card (https://medium.com/@JoshuaKerievsky/stop-work-authority-d853f6a3c42d)

Who said open space was for a small crowd only? Jake Calabrese has successfully hosted open space for crowds as large as 1200 people (in San Diego for the Scrum Gathering) and for the 800 people in attendance at Mile High Agile 2017. Jake works to ensure everyone, even those on the edges, are engaged - which involves a lot of running and silliness on Jake's part. The Agile Amped podcast series brings Agile news and events to life. Fueled by inspiring conversations, innovative ideas, and in-depth analysis of enterprise agility, Agile Amped provides on-the-go learning – anytime, anywhere. To receive real-time updates, subscribe at YouTube, iTunes or SolutionsIQ.com.Subscribe: bit.ly/SIQYouTube, bit.ly/SIQiTunes, www.solutionsiq.com/agile-amped/Follow: bit.ly/SIQTwitterLike: bit.ly/SIQFacebook

Andy Cleff talks with us about his presentation at Mile High Agile 2017, "Agile Team Metrics - Measure Many Things" -- an interactive discussion that explores how we can remove perverse incentives from our metrics and provide healthier ways for teams to gain meaningful insights on the outcomes of their experiments. Andy reminds us that "analysis without data is just an opinion." The Agile Amped podcast series brings Agile news and events to life. Fueled by inspiring conversations, innovative ideas, and in-depth analysis of enterprise agility, Agile Amped provides on-the-go learning – anytime, anywhere. To receive real-time updates, subscribe at YouTube, iTunes or SolutionsIQ.com.Subscribe: bit.ly/SIQYouTube, bit.ly/SIQiTunes, www.solutionsiq.com/agile-amped/Follow: bit.ly/SIQTwitterLike: bit.ly/SIQFacebook

14-year-old Aaron Vadakkan uses Scrum at home and visualizes work with his family using a task board. Who's the Product Owner of this family Scrum team? Mom, of course. Meanwhile, Dad Manoj is co-presenter of "Saved by Scrum" with Aaron at Mile High Agile 2017. The Agile Amped podcast series brings Agile news and events to life. Fueled by inspiring conversations, innovative ideas, and in-depth analysis of enterprise agility, Agile Amped provides on-the-go learning – anytime, anywhere. To receive real-time updates, subscribe at YouTube, iTunes or SolutionsIQ.com.Subscribe: bit.ly/SIQYouTube, bit.ly/SIQiTunes, www.solutionsiq.com/agile-amped/Follow: bit.ly/SIQTwitterLike: bit.ly/SIQFacebook

Dean Leffingwell, author, serial entrepreneur, and creator of the Scaled Agile Framework, discusses the "Ten Essential Scaling Patterns We Can (Probably) All Agree On," his keynote presentation for Mile High Agile 2017. The Agile Amped podcast series brings Agile news and events to life. Fueled by inspiring conversations, innovative ideas, and in-depth analysis of enterprise agility, Agile Amped provides on-the-go learning – anytime, anywhere. To receive real-time updates, subscribe at YouTube, iTunes or SolutionsIQ.com.Subscribe: bit.ly/SIQYouTube, bit.ly/SIQiTunes, www.solutionsiq.com/agile-amped/Follow: bit.ly/SIQTwitterLike: bit.ly/SIQFacebook

In episode 1 of a 3 part conversation with Chuck Durfee, Scrum Master, Agile Denver Board Member Emeritus, recent MBA graduate, recovering developer, and friend of neon tapirs everywhere, we discuss the following. His 6 year history with Agile Denver, and the evolution of the Mile High Agile conference. His experience as a Scrum Master, and his first experiment with Agile Scrum. His early revelations with Agile. Startup like experiences and the evolutionary path of backlog refinement. War Rooms, Kanban style boards, tracking, and flow optimization. The invaluable practice of asking questions. Grassroots idea generation and dispersion. His intuitive way of uncovering motivations. Enticing people to apply their interests in new ways. Developing cross-functional teams and organizations. Leveraging transferrable skill sets, and cross-training. Enhancing empathy by getting developers to think from a customer's point of view. Developing a vocabulary from patterns, and how doing things empirically makes it difficult to name what you are doing. Collaboration, Paul Raynor, and the need to develop a ubiquitous (shared) language. Design Thinking. Domain Driven Design. Cross-training, and the development of multidisciplinary teams and organizations. Experimentation, Innovation, Managing Risk. And now welcome to the first episode of a 3 part conversation with Chuck Durfee.

Agile tester JoEllen Carter sits down with Agile Amped at Mile High Agile 2016 to chat about using "Testing to Build the Right Thing", the topic and title of the hands-on session she presented with Lisa Crispin. After enjoying their experience diving into story mapping, the duo decided to share it with a wider audience. Though testers aren't always invited to story mapping sessions traditionally, JoEllen points out that testers can help determine where weaknesses in a story are before it gets build into the product. JoEllen Carter has more than ten years of experience defining the role of tester on agile teams. Her experience in software development and testing began in the highly regulated and QA-intensive nuclear power industry, and now includes direct marketing donor management software, staffing software, e-commerce systems, and project management software. SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett hosts. About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series engages with industry thought leaders at Agile events across the country to bring valuable content to subscribers 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

Agile tester extraordinaire Lisa Crispin is back for another round with Agile Amped. This time she's talking about her presentation at Mile High Agile "Agile Testing to Build the Right Thing" (co-presented with JoEllen Carter). She also touches on some trends that she sees, some positive (e.g., people in the Agile field are recognizing testers as really valuable), others not so much (companies expecting that hiring an SDET will solve all their code quality problems).  Lisa Crispin is the co-author of More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team (2014, with Janet Gregory), Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (2009, also with Janet Gregory), co-author of Testing Extreme Programming (2002, with Tip House). Lisa enjoys working as a tester and sharing her experiences in the agile and testing communities. See our last podcast with Lisa here: http://www.solutionsiq.com/resources/... SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett hosts. About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series engages with industry thought leaders at Agile events across the country to bring valuable content to subscribers 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

Jurgen Appelo, author of Management 3.0 and keynote speaker for Mile High Agile 2016, is back with his new book "Managing for Happiness" (due for release in June). Agile Amped was excited to sit down with him and discuss, among other things, the virtuous cycle between happiness and success, how frameworks can't simply be "installed" on people and how "recipes" or "workouts" for successful management resonate more with him. The goal in all this is to foster happiness throughout our organizations and empower managers to contribute to the proliferation of happiness. Because the research is clear: happy workers are more productive workers. SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett hosts. About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series engages with industry thought leaders at Agile events across the country to bring valuable content to subscribers 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

There's always room for pie, right? Well, this isn't that kind of slice. Richard Lawrence introduces Agile Amped to a concept he calls feature mining, which he uses to "find the first slice" of work to do on a project. Feature mining asks four important questions of the group of the "right" people (i.e., people who can actually contribute to the solution of the problem at hand): 1. What makes it valuable? 2. Why is it big (and why don't we just go build it this afternoon)? 3. Where is the risk? 4. Where is the uncertainty? For each question, participants generate a list of answers. Then the group brainstorms different ways to slice the lists. (Surprisingly, answers tend to jump out at participants at this point.) Then comes the hard part: actually doing the work involved in the agreed-upon first slice. Richard Lawrence trains and coaches teams and organizations to become happier and more productive. Richard is one of a handful of Scrum Alliance Certified Enterprise Coaches and is a certified trainer of the accelerated learning method, Training from the Back of the Room. SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett hosts. About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series engages with industry thought leaders at Agile events across the country to bring valuable content to subscribers 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

Everyone in the Agile industry has had it: that one moment when you realize the effect Agile could have on you, your team, or your organization. Michele Sliger has become a connoisseur of such moments and collects them like butterflies, which are on display at http://www.sligerconsulting.com/light.... But can an organization also have a lightbulb moment? Michele Sliger has worked in software development for over 25 years and is the owner of Sliger Consulting Inc. She is the co-author of The Software Project Manager’s Bridge to Agility.  SolutionsIQ's Evan Campbell hosts. About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series engages with industry thought leaders at Agile events across the country to bring valuable content to subscribers 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

Dan Sharp stops by Agile Amped to discuss his Mile High Agile 2016 talk "Refactoring to Deeper Insight: Lessons Learned Applying Domain-Driven Design (DDD)" (co-presented with Paul Rayner). DDD is a new approach to refactoring legacy code, which is often a confusing mess of code in many languages like a huge pot of spaghetti with way too many cooks throwing ingredients in. This approach sheds light on refactoring legacy code by rethinking the system in design terms: how are objects being modeled, what are the naming conventions, how to ensure that each part of the system only does what it's supposed to do and nothing more, etc. Dan provides an example that hits close to home: his own experience redesigning a product for his employer Nexia. Dan Sharp is a life-long geek, having been fascinated with computers since early childhood. Dan is Senior Software Architect for the Nexia™ team at Ingersoll Rand, affording him the luxury of a startup environment backed by a multi-billion dollar company.  SolutionsIQ's Evan Campbell hosts. About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series engages with industry thought leaders at Agile events across the country to bring valuable content to subscribers 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

Today's businesses and organizations are faced with problems  and opportunities that have never been faced before, and knowledge workers are important in the charge to resolve these problems. And yet these same businesses and organizations still operate under assumptions that don't apply to knowledge work and don't take into consideration the degree of difficulty and novelty inherent in the problem space. In her presentation at Mile High Agile this year (co-presented with Matt Barcomb), Cat Swetel proposes that businesses start implementing a more value-based roadmapping approach populated with options not commitments. "It's insane to dictate when a thing will be done when it hasn't been done before or it hasn't been done before in this context." Cat Swetel is a nerdy technologist with a finance degree. When she’s not helping teams and technology organizations improve processes and quality of work life, she’s probably reading feminist literature or making jokes about Bitcoin. Currently she’s very interested in smart contracts and the so-called trust web SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett hosts. About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series engages with industry thought leaders at Agile events across the country to bring valuable content to subscribers 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

Playing cards, index cards and dice are some of the tools that Mike Clement uses to make learning fun because, as he puts it, "Learning shouldn't be an arduous activity." Mike's session at Mile High Agile this year is on "Playing to Learn". Many of the games that Mike uses, including the suggestively titled "Die Card Die!", teach Agile and Lean principles and engages players in a way that is both informative and enjoyable. "I can't force you to learn anything," Mike emphasizes to Agile Amped. "You're gonna learn what you're gonna learn and you're going to take the lessons that you're gonna take." To reinforce learning, Mike leverages debriefs where one person's a-ha moment may cause other lights to go on. Mike Clement is a husband, father of four, and currently a Software Craftsman and Co-founder of Greater Sum. Passionate about agile technical excellence, Mike founded and organizes Software Craftsmanship Atlanta, founded Utah Software Craftsmanship and previously organized the Agile Roots conference.  SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett hosts. About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series engages with industry thought leaders at Agile events across the country to bring valuable content to subscribers 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

Women Who Code is an international, non-profit organization supporting women in technical careers. They even support casual coders, who may not be working professionally as coders but are still contributing to the tech space. Rylee Keys sits down with Agile Amped to discuss how this organization strives to inspire women to excel in technology and technical careers, in particular as it pertains to Denver and Boulder, CO. Rylee Keys is a software developer with a background in Agile, mobile, healthcare, eCommerce and social media SaaS platforms. SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett hosts. About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series engages with industry thought leaders at Agile events across the country to bring valuable content to subscribers 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

Pairing is a common concept for development teams: two developers working to produce superior code together. While their pairing role may change (e.g. from driver to navigator, etc.), it's generally assumed that pairing is only useful within development teams, but couldn't it be useful elsewhere as well? Pradeepa Narayanaswamy has been pioneering an approach to pair testing within Agile teams and also external stakeholders that provides each individual in the pair a new perspective of the application being developed and iterated on. Pradeepa shares with Agile Amped her experience of working with a salesperson to gain a new perspective on how customers actually use the application. The result is quicker, more valuable feedback that the developer can use early in the development cycle while it is still cheap, rather than late in the cycle. As an Agile Coach, Trainer and Consultant, Pradeepa Narayanaswamy is a self-proclaimed “Agile Passionista” who strongly believes in the agile principles used in transforming organizations to build superior quality products. SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett hosts. About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series engages with industry thought leaders at Agile events across the country to bring valuable content to subscribers 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

It's all too common for the "business" to provide conflicting priorities for development teams, and Dominica DeGrandis is helping to get them re-aligned. She shares her experience with how LeanKit approached this exact problem internally. Dominica is presenting "From Divided to United--Aligning Technical and Business Teams" at Mile High Agile this year. Dominica DeGrandis teaches Kanban Flow to Devops enthusiasts. Her passion involves helping organizations improve workflow and optimize throughput. She is keen on providing visibility and transparency across teams to reveal mutually critical information. As Director of Learning & Development at LeanKit, Dominica combines experience, practice and theory to help teams level up their capability. SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett hosts. About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series engages with industry thought leaders at Agile events across the country to bring valuable content to subscribers 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

Managers in an Agile organization have it tough: leadership and delivery teams have been given a clear understanding of how to "be Agile". Managers, though, have for a long time been left to fend for themselves. Steve Martin shares with Agile Amped that there is a way for managers to make their way back from the "land of the lost"--and he even has a nifty exercise, which he shares with us here! Steve Martin is a Principal Enterprise Agile Consultant at SolutionsIQ with over 20 years experience helping companies deliver exceptional results. SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett hosts. About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series engages with industry thought leaders at Agile events across the country to bring valuable content to subscribers 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

According to Chris Shinkle, businesses that have been focused primarily on one thing (manufacturing hardware, developing new medications) are struggling to build the software that now drives... well, everything. Enter gamification. Gamification is more than just points and badges. Chris discusses how it can be used to increase engagement in users not of games but of future medications. The example he gives pertains to Alzheimer's medication. There's no shortage of new medications to bring to market, Chris says, but there is a real problem with engaging individuals willing to participate for the entirety of clinical trials. Who knows if this approach couldn't be the difference between "Game Over" and "1Up" for this area and countless others? Chris Shinkle is a thought leader and initiator of new ideas and continuous improvement at SEP. He has used these methods leading large, complex projects. He uses these ideas to train SEP engineers and coach clients. SolutionsIQ's Howard Sublett hosts. About Agile Amped The Agile Amped podcast series engages with industry thought leaders at Agile events across the country to bring valuable content to subscribers 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