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For Agility's Sake
by Kyle Spitzley
Amway is on an agile journey, working to improve how it delivers value to YOU. Hear from the practitioners, leaders and everyone involved in making the transformation a reality.
Episodes
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For Devs: How to See Code Differently
In this episode Arlo Belshee, Aaron Coville and Marc Denman discuss how small changes in our coding behaviors can lead to incredible results. Arlo believes we can achieve a bug-free world, Aaron agrees with him on some points of that... Listen to hear the debate and more: Imagining a bug free…
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Drive Better Results with OKRs
In this episode, Sameera Moinpour, Sr. Director of Strategy Solutions at Workboard, explains how OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) can help drive better results for your team. OKRs are a key component of Amway's Agile Workflow Model, ensuring teams are clear on what outcomes they want and how…
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Becoming an Agile Leader - Rituparna Ghosh
Rituparna Ghosh, General Manager and head of DevSecOps at Wipro shares her view on Agile Leadership. Ritu will be the first to tell you, she is still on the journey of becoming an Agile and Servant Leader. In this episode we discuss: How leadership styles have changed over the past 15 years…
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The Evolution of Agile - Hannes Färberböck
In this episode Hannes Färberböck shares his rich, 20+ year history of agile and its various methodologies with us. Hannes is the Managing Director of Nagarro's Austrian operations and the had of their Testing Business Unit. He first started his journey by learning and applying Extreme…
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QA in an Agile World - Chris Mastnak
Hear from Chris Mastnak, "Global Practice Lead - Agile Testing" at Nagarro, on what it means for QA/Testing team members to work in an agile environment. According to Chris, life in QA gets easier with agile. He tells a story of major User Acceptance Test events at the end of a large 9-12 month...
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Being an Agile Leader - Daniel Eder
Daniel Eder, Enterprise Agile Coach from Nagarro, talks about the role of a leader in an agile organization (and more). When he realized that traditional development was broken His first organic agile transformation Role of a Leader People oriented: aka making people awesome Coach and mentor…
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Scaling Agile with Portfolios - Lisa Gordon
Agile Portfolio Manager Lisa Gordon explains the importance of blatant honesty, difficult tradeoff decisions and maintaining relationships across teams. Lisa has been instrumental in establishing Agile at Amway, particularly in our Agile Portfolios. Here are some of the highlights from this...
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Why Agile Fails - Lee Wiesehuegel
Coach Lee tells us "why agile fails" at scale and what needs to be addressed to reduce the chances of it happening to you and your organization. Most of us know that Agile is easy and effective on a single team, but those of us in the business of Agile Transformation are not working with single...
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COVID-19 and Agility - Tom Fox
The world is in a state of significant flux. If there was ever a time when individuals, corporations and society as a whole needed agility, it's now. In this episode Tom Fox, Manager of the Agile Transformation Office at Amway, speaks on the impacts of COVID-19. His words are his own and do not...
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Agility is a requirement to survive and thrive - Tina Abdoo
Tina Abdoo, VP at Amway shares how agile is a way to thrive in an ever-changing marketplace. Why it matters to a leader Your team is happier! Your team is more stable, predictable and autonomous, so you can have higher confidence in the things you commit to. Challenges you can expect during...
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Agile isn’t easy; it’s worth it - Gaye Garvelink
Sys. Analyst Gaye Garvelink recounts her experience with agile and how it hasn't been easy, but more than worth it. My favorite quote from this show was "We were working really hard, but we loved every minute of it." In this episode we discuss: How agile creates an environment that allows teams…
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Making Progress Over Making Perfect - Gayle Evans
Gayle Evans, Digital Experience Delivery Mgr at Amway, explains how an agile transformation is really a transformation of individuals. It does not require us to know everything up front, but it does require that we continue to make progress. Individual Transformation Servant Leadership Agility is...
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Agile Explained in Simple Terms - Luke Nieuwenhuis
Luke Nieuwenhuis, VP of ABO Incentives at Amway explains how Agile is a way of getting work done. We often overcomplicate it, but it's really about how we get things done as an organization. WHY IT MATTERS Our ability to move more quickly from one thing to another (markets, projects, strategies,...
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Product Management in a Complex World - Scott Sehlhorst
Product Management Coach Scott Sehlhorst goes deep into how an Agile Workflow Model and Product Management can enable a company to thrive in an increasingly complex world. Our Agile Workflow Model is a robust decision making system; providing clarity and alignment at each decision point. This is...
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Building resiliency through safeguarding - Llewellyn Falco
He's back! Tech Craftsmanship Coach Llewellyn Falco shares stories of his second visit to Amway. Some of the topics he touches on in this episode are: Anti-fragile: a systemic way of implementing things so that when they break, you get stronger. More resilient. If your system is dependent on...
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Experience Design & Empathy - Kate Kronemeyer
Experience Owner Kate Kronemeyer shares her thoughts on agile, empathy and a hyper-focus on the user. "Design is more disciplined than you think." Other topics we touch on: Building empathy. Design is more disciplined than you think. With agile, everyone can help make things better. Satisfying…
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Lessons from 15 Years of Transformation - Marty Bradley
Marty Bradley, Sr VP at LeadingAgile, says Agile Transformation is NOT about Agile; it's a way of achieving your companies goals. Here are some of the other topics we discussed. It's not about Agile. It's a way of achieving your goals. Companies have to get better de-risking their investments....
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Leaders: Agile is NOT the Goal - Brian Hart
Brian Hart, VP of ABO & Customer Solutions shares his thoughts on why agility matters, how leader behaviors MUST change, and a first step you can take toward agility - rapid experimentation. Other topics we touch on: Agile isn't the goal. It's a way to achieve your business goals. You can apply...
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Overcoming the Silo Mentality - Francisco Calderon
Product Owner for Training & Development, Francisco Calderon explains how Agile can tear down the mentality of "us and them". He highlights the importance of cross-team collaboration and a constant focus on improving what we build and how we build it.
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Managing Change is Easier w/Agile - Alyssa Rawsky
Scrum Master Alyssa Rawsky shares her agile experience and how her first reaction was "I don't want this." Now, she encourages others with "don't be afraid of change!" Alyssa describes how she and her team are using agile practices to improve adaptability and team morale. A number of other topics...
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Refactoring Code You Don't Understand - Llewellyn Falco
DevOps Coach Llewellyn Falco talks about improving code you don't understand, among other technical topics. Llewellyn is known for his unique coaching style, working with teams for 2 weeks at a time and getting into the technical details with them, creating a sense of safety that allows the team…
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Scrum Masters & Agile Mindset - Nichole Vanderlaan
Nichole Vanderlaan shares her experience as a Scrum Master, her love-hate relationship with Retrospectives and the mindset of responding to change over following a plan.
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Agile & Psychological Safety - Kaylee Betzinger
Delivery coach Kaylee Betzinger shares her recent experience in the world of agile and how it can create a positive culture of psychological safety on teams.
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Agile feels like coming home - Erin Huttinga
Product Management Coach Erin talks about her experience with agile as a developer, a Scrum Master and an Agile Coach over the last decade.
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The 7th Day Effect of Agile - Kris Zoerman
Hear from Amway's Agile Transformation Office Program Manager, Kris Zoerman, on agile and the 7th day effect. The 7th day effect is a concept for what it feels like to finish a job and feel immediately satisfied because the results are immediately apparent (like mowing the lawn or cleaning a…
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Product Ownership & Empathy - Alissa Dornbos
Product Owner Alissa Dornbos talks about her experience as a Product Owner and the importance of having empathy for your customers.
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Defining DevOps at Amway - Marc Denman
Hear from Marc Denman, the Amway Agile Transformation Office DevOps coach about the practice of DevOps and how it's being applied at Amway. What is "DevOps" How we define and apply it at Amway Why it matters
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Why Agile at All - Tom Fox
Hear from Tom Fox, Manager of the Agile Transformation Office at Amway on why agile is so important to the company, its distributors and employees.
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The Agile Workflow Model - Kyle Spitzley
Learn about the Agile Workflow Model being used at Amway and how it can improve your work! In this episode of AgileNEXT podcasts we give an overview of the Agile Workflow Model at Amway. Here are the key points we cover: Why have a model at all What is "the model" How it works
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Amway is on an agile journey, working to improve how it delivers value to YOU. Hear from the practitioners, leaders and everyone involved in making the transformation a reality.
HOSTED BY
Kyle Spitzley
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