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In the face of change, many people inside large organizations are often left with more questions than answers. Do I have the ability to lead my team through this? Do I possess the necessary skills? Will my role become obsolete? Is my job safe? A good change management strategy accounts for these questions and tries to reduce the angst surrounding the change by deploying solid stakeholder management practices. Today, Mike and Dave sit down to discuss how we approach stakeholder management and reveal some of the tactics we deploy during a transformation to create safe, win-win situations for all those participating in the change effort. Contacting Mike Cottmeyer If you’d like to contact Mike, you can reach him at: LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/mike-cottmeyerLinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/cottmeyer/X: x.com/mcottmeyerEmail: [email protected] Contacting Dave Prior If you’d like to contact Dave, you can reach him at: LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungoX: x.com/mrsungoEmail: [email protected] If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to [email protected] Interested in CSM or CSPO Training? You can find all the details at www.leadingagile.com/scrum-training/

A couple years ago, Mike Cottmeyer did a webinar series on the fundamental building blocks of agility. These days, we’re calling these building blocks the physics of agile. Today, Mike and Dave get together to discuss the four laws that make up the physics of agile and why these laws must be taken into account to make agile work inside large organizations. Contacting Mike Cottmeyer If you’d like to contact Mike, you can reach him at: LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/mike-cottmeyerLinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/cottmeyer/X: x.com/mcottmeyerEmail: [email protected] Contacting Dave Prior If you’d like to contact Dave, you can reach him at: LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungoX: x.com/mrsungoEmail: [email protected] If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to [email protected] Interested in CSM or CSPO Training? You can find all the details at www.leadingagile.com/scrum-training/

Large organizations that want to stick around and maintain their competitive edge have to stop treating everything in their business like a distinct set of processes. How your technology is architected, your organization is designed, and your teaming strategies, resource management, governance, OKRs, and KPIs are all part of the same system. And you need to start treating them that way. In this podcast, Mike Cottmeyer and Dave Prior talk about the current state of Agile, how a lack of systems thinking is tanking the market, and the role of systems thinking as the transformation industry moves forward. Contacting Mike Cottmeyer If you’d like to contact Mike, you can reach him at: LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/mike-cottmeyerLinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/cottmeyer/X: x.com/mcottmeyerEmail: [email protected] Contacting Dave Prior If you’d like to contact Dave, you can reach him at: LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungoX: x.com/mrsungoEmail: [email protected] If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to [email protected] Interested in CSM or CSPO Training? You can find all the details at www.leadingagile.com/scrum-training/

Carrying work over from one sprint to the next is a thorn in the side of many scrum teams. And often, it’s due to one or two team members who aren’t quite carrying their fair share of the weight. We recently covered this topic in a previous podcast but got some other cool ideas from our listeners that we wanted to discuss. So, in this quick podcast, we explore even more possible solutions for scrum teams dealing with an underperforming team member. Podcast Mentions What Do You Do When One Dev is Slowing You Down?  Contacting Vic Bonacci If you’d like to contact Vic you can reach him at: LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/victor-bonacciLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vbonacci/Email: [email protected] Contacting Dave Prior If you’d like to contact Dave, you can reach him at: LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungoX: x.com/mrsungoEmail: [email protected] If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to [email protected] Interested in CSM or CSPO Training? You can find all the details at www.leadingagile.com/scrum-training/

Mike and Dave sit down to reflect on 2023 and discuss some of the biggest revelations we had as a company. Together, Mike and Dave explore how LeadingAgile is already applying our latest learnings to our client engagements and the impact of them on the future of the company. Additionally, in this sprawling conversation, the guys chat about whether personal agility plays a role inside your organization, the history of Agile, Mike’s beef with estimation, and the disconnect between Agile and “the business.” Contacting Mike Cottmeyer If you’d like to contact Mike, you can reach him at: LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/mike-cottmeyerLinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/cottmeyer/X: x.com/mcottmeyerEmail: [email protected] Contacting Dave Prior If you’d like to contact Dave, you can reach him at: LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungoX: x.com/mrsungoEmail: [email protected] If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to [email protected] Interested in CSM or CSPO Training? You can find all the details at www.leadingagile.com/scrum-training/

Thinking about becoming a ScrumMaster? Or maybe you recently got your CSM Certification, and you’re still trying to get your footing. Check out this quick podcast to learn what ScrumMasters do all day and gain some insights into the softer skills required of a ScrumMaster. Links From the Podcast ScrumMaster Checklist https://scrummasterchecklist.org/ 42 Tasks for a ScrumMaster’s Job https://agiletrail.com/2011/11/14/42-tasks-for-a-scrum-masters-job/ Contacting Vic Bonacci If you’d like to contact Vic you can reach him at: LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/victor-bonacciLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vbonacci/Email: [email protected] Contacting Dave Prior If you’d like to contact Dave, you can reach him at: LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungoX: x.com/mrsungoEmail: [email protected] If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to [email protected] Interested in CSM or CSPO Training? You can find all the details at www.leadingagile.com/scrum-training/

In this episode of SoundNotes, we’re having a little fun discussing how you can apply the roles, ceremonies, and artifacts of Scrum to get more out of this holiday season and improve your goal-setting for 2024.  Contacting Vic Bonacci If you’d like to contact Vic you can reach him at: LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/victor-bonacciLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vbonacci/Email: [email protected] Contacting Dave Prior If you’d like to contact Dave, you can reach him at: LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungoX: x.com/mrsungoEmail: [email protected] If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to [email protected] Interested in CSM or CSPO Training? You can find all the details at www.leadingagile.com/scrum-training/

As Agile becomes more mainstream and commoditized, breaking into the industry is harder. Companies value certifications differently, and expectations are all over the place. Even when you find a job that looks promising, finding a way to stand out and differentiate yourself is more challenging than it was 10 years ago. In this episode of SoundNotes, Dave sits down with Aimee McLean, who we recently hired, to discuss how they see the Agile job market and advise you on how to get started with a career in Agile in 2024. Contacting Aimee McLean If you'd like to contact Aimee, you can reach her at: LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/aimee-mclean/LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/aimeemclean/Email: [email protected] Contacting Dave Prior If you’d like to contact Dave, you can reach him at: LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungoX: x.com/mrsungoEmail: [email protected] If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to [email protected] Interested in CSM or CSPO Training? You can find all the details at www.leadingagile.com/scrum-training/

Business Agility is all about creating strategic alignment between different parts of your organization. One of the ways that we help our clients create strategic alignment is by implementing a four-tiered governance model that has a dedicated strategy team, or investment team on top. This team is responsible for setting the strategy, applying context for all the other teams, and making sure that they are holding the system of delivery accountable. But this requires a shift in how you think about things like metrics, OKRs and KPIs. IT requires a shift in how you think about funding and what it means to have a system of delivery. We explore all this and more in this episode of SoundNotes. Contacting Andrew Young If you’d like to contact Mike, you can reach him at: LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/andrew-young/LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/atyoung/Email: [email protected] Contacting Andy Fine LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/andy-fine/LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/andyfine/Email: [email protected]  Contacting Dave Prior If you’d like to contact Dave, you can reach him at: LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungoX: x.com/mrsungoEmail: [email protected] If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to [email protected] Interested in CSM or CSPO Training? You can find all the details at www.leadingagile.com/scrum-training/

Culture eats strategy for breakfast was a quote from the legendary management consultant and author Peter Drucker. If that’s true, then what does it mean when there are competing views on culture? What type of culture gets to eat strategy for breakfast? Who gets to decide and why do we have to choose? In this podcast, Mike and Dave sit down to discuss how your personality type influences the way you see and value culture, and the implications that can have on your business. Together they explore different types of personalities, how they manifest in the Agile community, and some ways the Agile community can find some common ground to achieve what we’re all chasing—greater Business Agility. Contacting Mike Cottmeyer If you’d like to contact Mike, you can reach him at: LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/mike-cottmeyerLinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/cottmeyer/X: x.com/mcottmeyerEmail: [email protected] Contacting Dave Prior If you’d like to contact Dave, you can reach him at: LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungoX: x.com/mrsungoEmail: [email protected] If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to [email protected] Interested in CSM or CSPO Training? You can find all the details at www.leadingagile.com/scrum-training/

Most developers aren’t waking up in the morning and wondering how they’re going to mess up the sprint today. There’s usually a reason why they can’t get their work done on time. Still, if one developer isn’t meeting their commitment, then the whole team isn’t meeting their commitment. So, something’s got to give. In this episode of SoundNotes, Vic Bonacci and Dave Prior draw on their vast experience as CSTs and dish out some tips on what you can do when you have one developer slowing you down. Contacting Vic Bonacci If you’d like to contact Vic you can reach him at: LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/victor-bonacciLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vbonacci/Email: [email protected] Contacting Dave Prior If you’d like to contact Dave, you can reach him at: LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungoX: x.com/mrsungoEmail: [email protected] If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to [email protected] Interested in CSM or CSPO Training? You can find all the details at www.leadingagile.com/scrum-training/

During the height of the pandemic, many teams learned how to work from home. As people start heading back to the office, many teams are in this weird in-between space where things aren’t always what they need to be to get the most out of your team. In this short podcast, Dave and Vic explore how hybrid teams are impacting your ability to do Scrum successfully, and discuss some tips and tricks to get the most out of your Scrum team while ensuring you’re also getting what you need to do your best work. Contacting Vic Bonacci If you’d like to contact Vic you can reach him at: LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/victor-bonacciLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vbonacci/Email: [email protected] Contacting Dave Prior If you’d like to contact Dave, you can reach him at: LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungoX: x.com/mrsungoEmail: [email protected] If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to [email protected] Interested in CSM or CSPO Training? You can find all the details at www.leadingagile.com/scrum-training/