For Agility's Sake

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 worldWhy we waste so much time making and dealing with bugsThe average developer creates 3

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 they will measure progress against them. Listen to learn:What are OKRs?How to keep teams a

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 - what used to be "nice to have" leader skills are now a "must-have."What it feels like to tr

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 Programming (XP), and then conducting trainings for other teams on XP. Hannes recalls hearing a

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 build carrying a significant amount of risk. It's simply too wide of an area to cover wi

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 brokenHis first organic agile transformationRole of a LeaderPeople oriented: aka making people awesomeCoach and mentor people to make wise decisionsRelieving the daily pains the team deals withProvide context and b

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 episode:What is a Portfolio ManagerMaking difficult tradeoff decisions while maintaining rel

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 teams - we're working with large corporations, multiple departments, external service pr

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 represent the position of Amway as a company, but as you'll hear, they speak admirably o

Tina Abdoo, VP at Amway shares how agile is a way to thrive in an ever-changing marketplace.Why it matters to a leaderYour 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 transformationYou will experience ups, downs, forward momentum, back sliding and forward progre