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How Cloud Rescue Enables Enterprise Transformation
How to Economically Justify Transformation by Cutting Down on Cloud Costs
How the Need for Security is Driving the Need for Transformation
How to Align Your Product-Driven Organization to the Customer Experience
Product Development: Using Systems Thinking to Achieve Better Business Outcomes
Using Value Stream Maps to Identify Improvement Opportunities
Quantifying Waste Reduction Using Value Stream Maps
An Introduction to Value Stream Mapping
Avoid These Common Cloud Transformation Mistakes
Empathy, Trust, and Alignment: Stakeholder Management Tactics for Agile Leaders
4 Truths You Need to Know to Make Agile Work
A Systems Approach to Organizational Change
What Do You Do with Underperforming Team Members?
A Better Way to Approach Culture Change
What Do ScrumMasters Do All Day?
Bringing Agile Home for the Holidays
How to Get Started with a Career in Agile
How to Create Clarity and Unlock the Flow of Value in Large Organizations
Bringing Balance to the Agile Culture Conversation
What Do You Do When One Dev is Slowing You Down?
How to Make Home-Office Hybrid Scrum Teams Work
What Do You Do When Your Product Owner isToo Busy?
How to Overcome Specialized Roles in Scrum and Why it Matters
Exploring the Pros and Cons of Product Goals
An Introduction to Sprint Goals
Balancing Culture With the Need to Produce Results
Exploring Kanban in an Enterprise Environment
Are Dependencies Meant to be Managed or Broken?
From Practices to Principles: The Right Way to Scale Agile
Agile Metrics: Enabling Change with Data Modeling & Forecasting
How to Truly Succeed with Agile Transformation
The Future of Agile Transformation & Change Management
How to Unlock the Benefits of Agile & Get the Most Out of Training Your Teams
Unpacking the SAFe Debate. Is it Agile or Something Else?
Using Intention-Driven Communication
Maximizing the Value of Agile Metrics
Emotional Systems Theory and Leadership
Getting Your Leaders on Board With Agile Transformation
An Executive walks into a Daily Scrum
When the Team Doesn’t Want to Do Agile
Leading in Ambiguity
Industrializing the Agile Transformation Process
Creating win-win opportunities for Junior Talent Regan Jenkins & Lien Nguyen
Understanding Change Management with Melissa Oberg & Dennis Stevens
Corporate Communications in Agile with Tim Zack
Knowing the Answer is Not Enough with Mike Cottmeyer
Getting Started at LeadingAgile with Matthew Oatts
First Principles
Is Your Software Getting Better or Worse?
All About Spikes
Growth Mindset: Criticism
Growth Mindset: Effort
Working with Product at LeadingAgile
Advanced Scrum Mastery
Prioritizing Value
Goal Question Metric (GQM) Approach
Moving from SAFe to JIT with Yusef Hakim
Working with Legacy Applications in Agile Transformation
Servant Leadership & Coaching Stances with Luther Harris
Scrum‘s Guide Product Goal
Locus of Blame, Elevate Agile, and Speaking with Authority
Growth Mindset: Obstacles
Design Thinking w/ Angela Peat & Derek Poppink
Overcoming Challenges of Returning to the Office
Using Scrum at Hope Home in Nepal
Growth Mindset: Embrace Challenges
Scaled Agile Technical Coaching
What if You Don't Have Dedicated Teams? w/ Jeff Howey
The Trouble With Dojos w/ Joel Norman
Organizational Basecamps and the Third Layer w/ Mike Cottmeyer
5 THINGS THAT MAXIMIZE THE VALUE OF TRAINING W/ JEFF HOWEY
Planning Sprints and Releases
Understanding DevOps for Agile Transformation at Scale
Multiple Product Owners with Competing Priorities
Biological Systems, Organizational Systems, and Catalyzing Change w/ Matt Craig
An Agile Approach to Personal Development w/ Mike Cottmeyer
Governance, the Investment Tier, and Business Agility w/ Ross Beurmann
The Physics of Agility: Quality w/ Mike Cottmeyer
The Physics of Agility: Predictability w/ Mike Cottmeyer
CapEx and Agile Transformation w/ Justin Polk
Remote Work and PSTIR w/ Jeff Howey
Trust vs Trustworthiness w/ Yaton Bowens
Using Earned Value With Agile w/ Justin Polk
Getting Hired in Agile w/ Priya Sethuraman
Selecting and Running Agile Pilots w/ Justin Polk
Teaching OKRs to Executives w/ Andrew Young
Simply Having Agile Teams Does Not Make an Agile Organization w/ Dragos Dumitriu
Training vs Transformation w/ Nathan Hummel
Outcome-Based Planning w/ Greg DePasquale
Managing Product Risk and Uncertainty with Design w/ Scott Sehlhorst and Will Evans
Product Funding vs. Project Funding with Dennis Stevens
Agile Procurement in the Public Sector w/ Nathan Hummel
Leadership vs. Management w/ Ross Beurmann
The Secret to Building the Right Thing w/ Will Evans
Connecting Strategy to Execution w/ Marty Bradley
Agile Transformation vs. Project Management Offices w/ Ross Beurmann
Can you use Agile for Mergers and Acquisitions? w/ Rick McMichael
Lean Portfolio Management w/ Tina Wang
Putting the Enterprise Back in Enterprise Architecture w/ Ross Beurmann
Tying the Investment Tier Back to Agile Delivery w/ Matt Smith
Executive Leadership as Product Owner w/ Mike Cottmeyer
Epics, Features, and Stories, Oh My! w/ Scott Sehlhorst
Impact Mapping w/ Will Evans
Work Bifurcation and Change Control w/ Ross Buermann
Creating Safety for Leadership w/ Tim Wise
Understanding The Impact Of Your Investment in Agile Transformation w/ Doug Spencer
How Leaders Create Agile Organizations w/ Lee Wiesehuegel
Creating an Organizational System that Supports Business Agility w/Dennis Stevens
ElevateAgile: The Business Value of Agility w/ Marty Bradley
Dealing with Risks and Dependencies in Agile Transformation w/ Tom Furland
What if You Don’t Have a Product Owner? w/ Sara McClintock & Jeff Streitmatter
Elevate Agile w/ Mike Cottmeyer
Feedback is a Gift w/ Sarah Smith
Agile 2019 Day 4: Making Agile Transformation Fun w/ Portia Tung
Agile 2019 Day 4: Prioritizing & Learning Backlog w/ Andy Cleff
Agile 2019 Day 4: Enabling Agility w/ Natalie Solomon
Agile 2019 Day 4: Self-Awareness, Self-Reflection, and Magic w/ Olaf Lewitz
Agile 2019 Day 4: Diversity & Inclusion in Agile w/ Heidi Musser
Agile 2019 Day 4: The War of Perfectionism w/ Lynne Cazaly
Agile 2019 Day 4: How to Measure Outcomes w/ Diana Larsen
Agile 2019 Day 4: Psychology & Leadership w/ Christopher Avery
Agile 2019 Day 3: What's New at Agile 2019? w/ Christina Hartikainen
Agile 2019 Day 3: Agile in the Non-Technical Sector w/ Shannon Ewan & Ahmed Sidky
Agile 2019 Day 3: Social Tokens in Agile w/ Mark Kilby
Agile 2019 Day 3: Leading the Scrum Alliance w/ Melissa Boggs & Howard Sublett
Agile 2019 Day 3: Product Owners & LeSS w/ Bas Vodde
Agile 2019 Day 3: Solving for Technical Debt w/ Arlo Belshee & Marian Willeke
Agile 2019 Day 3: Unlearning Agile w/ Jessie Shternshus
Agile 2019 Day 3: Women in Leadership w/ Lyssa Adkins
Agile 2019 Day 3: Personal Agility w/ Lyssa Adkins and Maria Matarelli
Agile 2019 Day 3: Cognitive Biases and How to Overcome Them w/ Lisa Cooney
Agile 2019 Day 3: Product Development at Scale w/ Ellen Gottesdiener and Andy Repton
Agile 2019 Day 2: The Most Effective Retrospectives w/ Eric Rapin
Agile 2019 Day 2: The Power of Design Sprints w/ Carlos Oliviera
Agile 2019 Day 2: Agile Transformation w/Ronica Roth and Eric Willeke
Agile 2019 Day 2: Applying Agile to Government Agencies w/ Richard Cheng
Agile 2019 Day 2: Mob Programming w/ Woody Zuill
Agile 2019 Day 2: What’s Unique About Enterprise Agile Transformation? w/ Marty Bradley
Agile 2019: Day 2 The Evolution of Business Agility w/ Dean Leffingwell
Agile 2019 Day 2: Think Better—Fast and Slow w/ Linda Rising
Surviving Agile 2019 with Priya Setuhuraman
Advice for New ScrumMasters and Product Owners w/ Kaely Hall
Student QA: Can the ScrumMaster take on additional work? Should you re-estimate unfinished work? w/ Sarah Smith
Should You Limit the Size of Work Brought Into a Sprint? w/ Scott Sehlhorst & Andrew Young
The Benefits of Volunteering w/ Julianne Jones
Getting Stakeholders to Attend Your Sprint Review w/ Sara McClintock
What is a Well-Formed Backlog? w/ Jeff Howey
Why You Need Empathy Maps w/ Scott Sehlhorst
Planning a System of Transformation w/ Mike Cottmeyer
Understanding the Problem You're Trying to Solve with Metrics w/ Jessica Wolfe
ScrumMaster Survival Tips w/ Sarah Smith
Maximizing Value in the Presence of Constraints w/ Mike Cottmeyer
How Does Sprint Planning Work?: A SoundNotes Tutorial
System of Delivery vs System of Transformation w/ Mike Cottmeyer
What is the Worth of a Good Product Owner? w/ Tim Wise
How Do I Use Scrum on Data Warehouse Projects w/ Dave Nicolette
Prioritizing Work to Maximize Return w/ Dennis Stevens
Coordinating Work with Agile & Waterfall Teams in a Mixed Environment w/ AJ Sanford
Designing an Organization that Manages Value w/ Mikkel Ladegaard
Letting Go of the Waterfall, Embracing Agile, and Mixed Martial Arts w/ Brandon Dudley
The Language of Loss and the Language of Gain w/ Mike Cottmeyer & Andrew Young
The Value of Improving Your Technical Practices w/ Rich Dammkoehler
Measuring the Impact of Change in Agile Transformation w/ Jeff Howey
Agile Estimation: A SoundNotes Tutorial
Kicking Off 2019 w/ Mike Cottmeyer
Designing a Feedback-Driven, Strategic Execution Model w/ Dennis Stevens
Using Process Mapping to Understand How Agile Can Help w/ AJ Sanford and Andrew Fuqua
On-Boarding at LeadingAgile w/ Betsy Layman and Matt Smith
Building an Organizational System That Can Embrace Change w/ Dennis Stevens
Creating a Definition of Done: A SoundNotes Tutorial
SoundNotes Live: Q&A Session w/ Mike Cottmeyer vol. 3
SoundNotes Live: Q&A Session w/ Mike Cottmeyer vol.2
How Tooling and Reporting Enable Transformation
Agile Q&A w/ Mike Cottmeyer | SoundNotes Live
The Agile Industrial Complex and Imposing Agile Practices w/ Mike Cottmeyer
Live from Agile 2018 w/Cara Turner
Live from Agile 2018 w/ Esther Derby
Live from Agile 2018 w/ John Miller
Live from Agile 2018 w/ Laura Powers
Live from Agile 2018 w/ Natalie Warnert
Live from Agile 2018 w/ Olaf Lewtiz
Live from Agile 2018 w/Scott Ambler
Live from Agile 2018 w/ Shane Hastie and Shannon Ewan
Live from Agile 2018 w/ Becky Hartman
Live from Agile 2018 w/ Bernie Maloney
Live from Agile 2018 w/ Dean Leffingwell
Live from Agile 2018 w/ Dennis Stevens
Live from Agile 2018 w/ Dhaval Panchal
Live from Agile 2018 w/ John Tanner
Live from Agile 2018 w/ Larry Maccherone
Live from Agile 2018 w/ Peter Green
Live from Agile 2018 w/ Troy Magennis
Live from Agile 2018 w/ Cass Van Gelder
Live from Agile 2018 w/ David Bland
Live from Agile 2018 w/ Dominic Price
Live from Agile 2018 w/ Jeff Patton
Live from Agile 2018 w/ Joe Vallone
Live from Agile 2018 w/ Lyssa Adkins
Live from Agile 2018 w/ Sarah Klarich and Pam Corbin
Live from Agile 2018 w/ Michele Sliger and Erika Lenz
Live from Agile 2018 w/ Mike Cottmeyer
Live from Agile 2018 w/ Paul Argiry
Live from Agile 2018 w/ Ron Jeffries and Chet Hendrickson
Live from Agile 2018 w/ Bob Tarne
Live from Agile 2018 w/ Diana Larsen
Live from Agile 2018 w/ Linda Rising
Live from Agile 2018 w/ Johanna Rothman and Mark Kilby
How to Get the Most Out of Agile 2018 w/ Rachel Howard and Tim Zack
Addressing Your CFO's Concerns To An Enterprise-Wide Agile Transformation w/ Paul Argiry
Agile Metrics: The GQM Approach w/ John Tanner
How to Create a Definition of Ready w/ Rick Austin
Transforming the Transformation w/ Mike Cottmeyer
Why You Need a Definition of Ready w/ Dave Nicolette
Configuring Agile Tools to Work for You w/ Jessica Wolfe
Capability Mapping w/ Dean Stevens
Tracking and Reporting: What Should the PMO be Measuring? w/ Derek Huether
Creating a Definition of Done w/ Tim Wise
What Do You Do When the Team Can't Break the Work Down? w/ Tim Wise
Agile Myth Busting: Is There Really No Documentation in Agile? w/ Anil Jaising
The 2018 North American Global Scrum Gathering w/ Dr. Jeff Sutherland
Becoming a Journeyman w/ Dave Nicolette
What's the Difference Between Scrum and Kanban? w/ Jessica Wolfe and Derek Huether
Is Culture Really the Issue? w/ Mike Cottmeyer
Business Intelligence Report Creation in Scrum w/ Derek Huether and Jessica Wolfe
The Importance of Empathy in Agile w/ Tim Wise
Why You Need a Vision Statement w/ Dave Prior
Introduction to Leading and Lagging Indicators w/ Derek Huether
Transforming a Long-Standing Traditional Organization to Agile w/ Derek Huether
Tips for ScrumMasters of Distributed Teams w/ Jessica Wolfe
The Evolving Role of an Agile Coach w/ Mike Cottmeyer
Who Should be a ScrumMaster? Who Should be a Product Owner? w/ Dave Prior
Sprint Report Basics: What Should You Be Tracking? w/ Jessica Wolfe
What do you do when you can’t finish the work in a Sprint? Student Q&A w/ Derek Huether:
Team-Based New Year's Resolutions w/ Jessica Wolfe
Student Q&A: How PBIs get into the Product Backlog & Tips for Moving from Waterfall to Agile w/ Jim Hayden and Tim Wise
Agile in a Few Weeks and Correcting Developer Behavior w/ Tom Churchwell
CSP Deadline 12/31/17: How to Earn SEU's Fast! w/ Special Guests: Erika Massie and Cody Winberg.
Creating Empathy Maps w/ Scott Sehlhorst
Student Q&A: Dealing with Performance Issues and Stakeholder Expectations w/ Jessica Wolfe
The Trust and Influence Loop w/ Mike Cottmeyer
Q&A: Estimation and Meeting Sprint Commitments w/ Derek Huether
Working in Consulting w/ Rick Austin and John Tanner
Hacking Agile for Digital Agencies w/ Dave Prior
Using Personas to Reduce Risk w/ Scott Sehlhorst
Agile Therapy w/ Paul Hammond and Chris Li
Agile2017: Conference Update w/ Tricia Broderick
Portfolio Management and Capitalizing Software in an Agile World w/ Rick Austin and Paul Argiry
Solving the PMO Paradox w/ Kim Brainard and Jesse Fewell
Becoming an Agile Coach w/ Tim Wise
Agile in Education w/ Mike Vizdos
Agile Planning with TIES: Part 2 w/ Tom Churchwell and Jeff Voglesang
Create Your Successful Agile Project w/ Johanna Rothman
Introducing Play into the Workplace w/ Laura Powers
Agile Fluency Model w/ Diana Larsen
Making Goal-Question-Metrics work in agile w/ John Tanner
Agile 2017: Building Businesses that Matter w/ David Bland
Creating the Conditions for Successful Agile Adoption w/ Mike Cottmeyer
Agile 2017: Surviving Backdraft w/ Adam Weisbart
LeSS without Scrum w/ YI LV
Regulatory Compliance Meets Lean Agile Development w/ Doctor Harry Koehnemann
Four Characteristics of Good Goals w/ Christopher Avery
Live from Agile 2017 w/ Michael J Tardiff
Live from Agile2017: The importance of neuro-diversity w/ Sallyann Freudenberg
Live from Agile 2017: Agile Uprising w/ Mike McCalla
Agile 2017: The ART of Avoiding a Train Wreck w/ Em Campbell-Pretty
Leading Change in Your Organization and Managing Teams Without Top Down Control w/ Esther Derby
Live from Agile 2017 w/ Lyssa Adkins
Agile 2017 Interview w/ David Marquet
Live from Agile 2017 w/ Troy Magennis
Agile 2017: SAFE 4.5 Updates w/ Dean Leffingwell
The PMI Agile Practice Guide from Agile 2017 w/ Mike Griffiths and Johanna Rothman
Are Stretch Goals OK? w/ Tim Wise
Tips for Job Hunting At Agile 2017 w/ Rachel Howard
Portfolio Management in an Agile World at Agile 2017 w/ Rick Austin
Evolving Patterns of Agile Transformation w/ Mike Cottmeyer
Student Q&A: Dealing with Architecture in Agile w/ Devin Hedge
Agile Planning with TIES w/ Tom Churchwell
Student Q&A: Working thru the Waterfall Hangover w/ Dave Prior
Student Q&A - How do you cope w/ the PO being many time zones away from the team? - w/ Derek Huether
Student Q&A: Normalizing Points As Time w/ Dave Prior and Derek Huether
Heart of Agile and Personal Agility Canvases w/ Dave Prior
Should Work Be Assigned During Sprint Planning? w/ Chris Li
"It's not a math problem" The Cost of Delay Part 3 w/ Dean Stevens
Student QA: The No Mission Statement Blues w/ Derek Huether
Scrum Gathering 2017 w/ Maria Matarelli and Alistair Cockburn
Heart of Agile 2017: w/ Derek Huether and Dave Prior
Student Q&A: When the Chief PO defines the Release Plan without the PO or Stakeholders w/ Jim Hayden
Heart Of Agile and Volunteerism w/ Rob Lingle
Student QA: Defining Done with Scrum in a Marketing Team w/ Derek Huether
Student QA: Getting Hired in Agile w/ Rachel Howard
Calculating Cost of Delay w/ Marty Bradley
Using Scrum for a Greater Mission w/ Jon Horton from NewSpring Church
An Overview of Cost of Delay w/ Jim Hayden
The Value of Slack w/ Andrew Fuqua
Student QA: Design on the Scrum Team & Multiple Roles w/ Derek Huether
Should the PMO Go Away? w/ Marty Bradley
Agile in 2017: Is Culture Really The Issue? w/ Mike Cottmeyer
The Value of Not Productive Time: A Retrospective on Vacations w/ Derek Huether
Student Q&A: Coping with Reduced Capacity and Tracking Team Member Performance w/ Derek Huether
Making Agile work at MLB Advanced Media w/ Michael Daly and Matt Volpe