Agile4Life

On today’s episode Moriah and Aaron consider the importance of habits in an agile life. Charles Duhigg wrote a book called The Power of Habit where he helps his readers better understand how habits are formed and how they can impact our lives in all the best ways. How do we create habits in an agile manner? We do so iteratively, over a period of time, getting fast feedback to kno

On today’s podcast we are going to talk to our next guest, Bernard Williams, about his experience developing scaled agile, meaning agile when you want to practice agile on a grander scale then just a single team. This is often the case when there are lots of moving pieces, when one thing is dependent on another, when timing is complex, and you need a birdseye view of all the comp

Without an understanding of Business Agility it makes it difficult for organzations to adapt and change to the world around us. In today's podcast we're going to be talking about Business Agility as a pivitol piece in our successes. We discuss the definition of Business Agility as found in this Wikipedia post, defined below, and how we can use this in our everyday life.  Bus

Without healthy emotional control in our lives we won't accomplish everything else we want to do. On today’s podcast we’re going to be talking about emotional control as a critical factor for our agility. 4 areas where emotional control or the lack there of can positively or negatively impact things Decision making Relationship success Day to day interactions Self care - physi

In today’s episode Moriah interviews Aaron about the idea of accountability, linking it with responsibility. These two pillars are foundational for a successful life, personally and professional. But how? Accountability and responsibility are like two sides of the same coin and the metal that it’s made of is transparency. Are you willing to be transparent so can be accountable

On this episode Moriah and Aaron talk about a book that was recently published called “A World Without Email” by Georgetown Computer Science professor Cal Newport. The title of the book is quite catching. Email has become an electronic leash for far too many people, with expectations that you will reply almost immediately, even more so with chat and texts. Is that a problem of

#4 How do we get from here to there? We don't know about you, but we want to great things with our lives and that's not really possible if we don't have a well executed plan. On this episode Moriah and Aaron talk about what's its like to make plans that get us toward our personal and professional goals. Don’t just do work for work’s sake. There's that great bit in the movie Off

In today's Agile4Life Podcast we interview longtime friend George Westwater. George is a solutions architect who has worked on technology projects for some of the largest companies in America.  In addition to being an amazing technologist, George is also passionate about transformation. When thinking of how to approach a solution he starts with the people part before diving in

The very agile Moriah suggested the idea for this podcast. It started out as "test your hypothesis" and evolved into the idea of making those small, agile course corrections necessary to get you where you want to go as quickly and painlessly as possible. In this episode we take another pass at a definition of agile that applies to both our personal and professional lives and then t

Moriah and Aaron introduce themselves and talk a little about how life brought them to this agile mindset. What started at work has quickly spilled over into the rest of their lives.