Future State Now: A Business Technology Podcast

In this edition of our Sound Notes podcast, we sat down with Enterprise Transformation Consultant, Devin Hedge and CST, Dave Prior to share our experiences introducing innovation into an organization through the program and portfolio levels.

In this edition of our Sound Notes podcast, we sat down with LeadingAgile CEO, Mike Cottmeyer to talk about the big splash our company plans to make during the World's Largest Agile Conference in Atlanta.

In this version of Sound Notes, we sat down with Jann Thomas and Tim Wise of our consulting team to answer questions from attendees of our Certified Scrum Training courses. This podcast tackles questions on how UX fits into Agile and recommendations to help Design and UX work with Agile.

We sat down with Enterprise Transformation Consultant, Tim Wise to discuss how people going through IT transformation can develop empathy for change.

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

In this episode, we are joined by Enterprise Transformation Consultant, Russ Pena to talk about how to understand value at the portfolio level, and how an organization can establish a decisioning stack to help them make cut, kill, continue decisions. From there, we discuss how to use capability mapping to move past making “gut” based decisions and prioritize projects using a more scientific method. We closed our show sharing the need for organizations to develop an understanding of how much change they can have in process at once. If you’d like to reach Russ, you can contact him at russ.pena@leadingagile.com or via twitter at @russpena Show Notes: Welcome 2:00 Background on Russ and his work helping organizations build our product and portfolio teams 2:40 How an organization determines what value is, and how they make choices that align it with strategic goals 3:25 Determining Cut, Kill, Continue at the Portfolio Level 5:40 Leveraging Test Driven Development with Creating New Products 7:55 Time Constraints for New Product Experiments 8:50 Shifting the Perception of Success and Spoiling the Bed 9:55 Protecting Yourself from Bad Experiments by Assigning a “Watcher" 10:48 The importance of a Murder Board 12:28 The cultural impact of accountability 15:25 Clarity, Accountability and Showing Measurable Progress 17:16 Finding Evidence Evidence 18:27 The Hard Part of the Power of “No" 20:00 Building in the Decisioning Mechanism 20:34 Capability Mapping 23:34 Getting Past the Culture of Overly Optimistic Management 25:50 The Criticality of Trust, Understanding Capacity and Capability 28:10 The importance of a scientific approach to prioritization 32:00 Developing Innovation Within an Enterprise 34:08 Bringing Capability Mapping to Innovation 40:02 WIP limits for Organizational Change 43:44 Contacting Russ 46:39

In this version of our Sound Notes podcast, we sat down with LeadingAgile CEO, Mike Cottmeyer to talk about the focus of Agile in 2016. We discuss why organizations are still struggling to successfully adopt agile, how the systems of many large organizations are still broken, and how the popular scaling methods are only a part of the solution to successful enterprise agile adoption. From there, Mike and Dave Prior use a couple of metaphors to describe the past, present and future of agile along with the difficult change management aspects of agile transformation.

In this version of Sound Notes, we sat down with Enterprise Agile Coach, Jann Thomas and asked here the question: Is the ScrumMaster role a full-time position?

VP of Enterprise Engagements, Derek Huether sat down to share how he created, organized and hosted the inaugural Agile Baltimore Unconference. This past October, Derek led the one-day unconference which featured over 100 paid attendees, all with a common passion for agile and lean development methodologies. Unlike traditional conferences which rely on heavy upfront planning and coordination, Derek shares how he used agile practices to organize and run an entire event.

In this version of our Sound Notes with Dave Prior, we speak with LeadingAgile CEO, Mike Cottmeyer on the rise of Bimodal IT Enterprises and how it is impacting modern businesses. Based on new research coming out of Gartner, we explore where Bimodal IT found it's roots and how it is being applied today. From there, Mike and Dave discuss the differences between mode 1 and 2, as well as how organizations can make the journey from a more traditional form of delivery with mode 1, to a more exploratory and nonlinear model with mode 2. Lastly, we'll explore how mode 1 and mode 2 relate to LeadingAgile's Compass for Enterprise Transformation, the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and what it takes to make the shift from mode 1 to mode 2.