

Product Agility
Ben Maynard
Less Method. More Meaning.The world of Product Discovery and Creation is becoming increasingly challenging due to mistakes and missed opportunities that are prevalent in agile teams, large-scale Scrum and all other agile frameworks. History has shown that when organisations try and scale their product development to more than one cross-functional team, mistakes are made that cut short many chances of getting all possible benefits.The route of this for many is the need for more attention paid to the incredible advancements in Product Management driven by hordes of professional Product People who prove that making their customers happier is not a pipe dream but a hard and fast reality.This podcast exists to explore all topics related to Product and Agility and Coaching. How do you marry the agile principles with Product discovery?Is it really possible to have hundreds of cross-functional teams (or Product Teams) all working from an effectively prioritised single Product Backlog and a dedicated Product Owner?How can you embrace continuous improvement and empirical process control for your product, people and processes?Ever wondered how to overcome the problems people face when trying to scale the Product Owner role and how it relates to Product Management and Product Teams?Baffled by how to define a product in such a way that enables Feature Teams (aka Product Teams) and why doing wrong means you will only ever be stuck with technical teams? Scrum Teams are not compatible with modern product management techniques.Want to know what Product Focus means and how the right focus makes creating a shippable product less painful?Need to get your head around how to blend modern product management techniques with Sprint Planning and Sprint Reviews to achieve Product Increments that cover the entire product?This podcast's original focus was on Scaling Scrum vs Single-Team Scrum and how organisations can reap the benefits of Scrum when working on a larger product but still keeping a single product backlog. We found many Product People liked what we said, and then the penny dropped. This isn't a podcast about scaling Scrum or the limitations of single-team Scrum.This podcast is for Product People & agile advocates who coach or get their hands dirty with Product creation.We promise there is no Taboo topic that we will not explore on your behalf. We aim to transcend the conversations about a single team, Daily Scrums, Scrum Masters and the double-diamond and bring everyone together into responsible teams dedicated to working on the entire product to make their customers happier and their lives more fulfilling.Come and join us on our improvement towards perfection, and give us your feedback (we have a strong customer focus, too), and who knows, perhaps we will discover the magic wand that we can wave over all the broken agile and sudo-products to create a more resilient and adaptable future by bringing the worlds of Product, Agility and coaching together.This podcast has the conversations and insights you need.
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May 23, 2023 • 13min
Forget Customer Delight, Lets Go for Citizen Delight with Kubair Shirazee (Lean Agile London 23)
Send us a textThe talks in ten are back! This time around we are at brilliant Lean Agile London 2023.https://leanagile.london/For the 2nd episode of day 2 from the Lean Agile London 2023 conference, we hear about the only talk at the conference that nearly left me in tears...Kubair Shirazee - Peace Through Prosperity https://www.drupal.org/peace-through-prosperityKudos to Jordi Falguera for thrusting my and Kubair together! I am so pleased he did, Kubair is an inspiration with a surprising message for all of us Product Agility, Product and Agile people out there.Here is the talk blurbExploring Agile’s greater promise!In addition to his work with commercial enterprises, Kubair also holds the position of Chief Product Owner at Peace Through Prosperity. This innovative lab has been engaged in a 10+ year experiment in cross pollinating Agile values, principles, and practices from the enterprise to society, to affect societal/planetary transformation.During his interactive talk, Kubair will share his personal experience of implementing Agile principles, values, and practices in conflict-affected communities as part of the Peace Through Prosperity initiative, and share lessons learned in Social Transformation that he has brought back to the Enterprise and how this cross pollination has enabled Kubair and his teams to succeed in both the Enterprise realm and the Societal system all enterprises exist within.Kubair's BioI am an Enterprise Agile Coach, with over 20+ years experience facilitating transformation of people, teams, businesses and communities — in other words, I facilitate people who have a vision for moving past the status quo and explore better ways of working together. Building and nurturing high performance teams has been described as my ‘superpower’.I have taken multiple digital products to market, as well as optimised and scaled teams for my own startups and other organisations. Currently, I coach Agile coaches, Executives, Leaders and Teams, facilitating them improve product, service development and operations.Outside of my professional pursuits, I volunteer in the international development sector, coaching non-technical teams to apply agile principles, values and practices, so that they design and deliver impactful Host Bio Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes. Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱! Ben Maynard 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/ 🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard 💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ Product Agility Podcast 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/ 💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/ 🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility Listen & Share On Spotify & iTunes Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0lkwAYJzVSuk5zfJ1vIDZq?si=4c691fb12f124a56 iTunes - https://apple.co/3YvTX8p Want to come on the podcast? Want to be a guest or have a guest request? Let us know here https://bit.ly/49osN80

May 23, 2023 • 13min
Pub Quizzes and Flowing with Product Agility with Gabrielle Benefield (Lean Agile London 23)
Send us a textThe talks in ten are back! This time around we are at brilliant Lean Agile London 2023.https://leanagile.london/For the first episode of day 2 from Lean Agile London 2023 we have a legend from the agile world...Gabrielle Benefield - Founder of Mobius Navigator - a decision-making navigator and outcome acceleratorGabrielle told me about her innovative and definitely different closing keynote for Day 1 of Lean Agile London before we dived into a conversations on the problems with frameworks and learning.Make sure you listen to the end to hear Gabrielle's brilliant final words.The Amazing Mid-Conference Interactive Chaotic 45-Minute Stand Up-Agile Dynamic Quiz Show Happy Hour!Pub quiz meets trivial pursuitJoin us for an exciting end-of-day session with a twist! The Amazing Interactive Chaotic 45-Minute Stand Up-Agile Dynamic Quiz Show Happy Hour is not your typical session. Our roving network of quizmasters will challenge you with questions and games that will test your knowledge of agile and your athletic ability (think geeks meet games). You’ll have a chance to network with fellow attendees, have a laugh, and have a blast while doing it.So, bring your A-game and let’s dive into this Amazing Mid-Conference Interactive Chaotic 45-Minute Stand Up-Agile Dynamic Quiz Show Happy Hour!Gabrielle BioGabrielle Benefield is an author, speaker and advisor specialising in Agile and Lean product strategy and innovation. She is the founder of Evolve Beyond, a global consultancy headquartered in London working with diverse industries including finance, telecommunications, energy and gaming. Gabrielle is the founder of Mobius Outcome Delivery (mobiusloop.com), a navigator to align strategy to delivery using measurable outcomes, and flexiblecontracts.com, a Lean Agile contract model. Previous to Evolve Beyond, Gabrielle was a successful executive in Silicon Valley, leading major Product, design, and technology divisions. She used Agile and Lean methods to take a startup to successful Initial Public Offering, then led one of the largest Agile enterprise transformations at Yahoo! scaling up to 250+ teams in the US, India, Europe, and Asia. Gabrielle founded the Scrum Foundation in 2Host Bio Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes. Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱! Ben Maynard 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/ 🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard 💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ Product Agility Podcast 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/ 💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/ 🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility Listen & Share On Spotify & iTunes Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0lkwAYJzVSuk5zfJ1vIDZq?si=4c691fb12f124a56 iTunes - https://apple.co/3YvTX8p Want to come on the podcast? Want to be a guest or have a guest request? Let us know here https://bit.ly/49osN80

May 22, 2023 • 14min
50 Shades of Retrospective With Chris Stone (Lean Agile London 23)
Send us a textThe talks in ten are back! This time around we are at brilliant Lean Agile London 2023.https://leanagile.london/For the last episode of day 1 from Lean Agile London 2023 we have a man whose reputation preceeds him (in a good way)Chris Stone - The Virtual Agile CoachChris and I have been meaning to record a longer episode for a while so when I saw hi come into the social area of the conference looking for a cup of coffee I took my opportunity and pounced!What did you talk about?Well his talk (below) and agile naturism. Sound odd. It was a bit.Chris's talk synopsis from Agile London 2023Tired of the same old retrospective format? Struggling to turn insights into actions? Having difficulties creating a safe, inclusive environment where people participate equally?Join me for an interactive exploration of my top tips, strategies, and hacks for continuous improvement.In this unique and engaging slideless session, you’ll participate in a “choose your own adventure” experience that will allow you to influence where we focus our time. No standard one way presentation here; this is your talk, focused on your challenges.We could run this session 50 times together, and each would be different.You’ll leave this session with practical tools and strategies that you can immediately implement with your teams to drive continuous improvement.Who is Chris Stone?As The Virtual Agile Coach, I'm on on a mission to help people to continuously improve each and every day and have fun while they do it. With over a decade of experience creating high performing teams across a range of industries, from smaller, lean enterprises to some of the worlds largest companies, I'm dedicated to creating environments where people can be their best selves on their best day and be supported on their worst. I'm the Managing Partner of Virtually Agile, a challenger consultancy, a regular on the conference circuit, podcaster, trainer, blogger and soon to be author, I always seek new ways to share my expertise and inspire others to think creatively about how they can continuously improve.Host Bio Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes. Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱! Ben Maynard 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/ 🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard 💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ Product Agility Podcast 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/ 💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/ 🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility Listen & Share On Spotify & iTunes Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0lkwAYJzVSuk5zfJ1vIDZq?si=4c691fb12f124a56 iTunes - https://apple.co/3YvTX8p Want to come on the podcast? Want to be a guest or have a guest request? Let us know here https://bit.ly/49osN80

May 22, 2023 • 15min
Breaking Your Mindset & Starting a Status Quo Challenging Product with Jordi Falguera (Lean Agile London 2023)
Send us a text The talks in ten are back! This time around we are at brilliant Lean Agile London 2023.https://leanagile.london/Third we have... Jordi Falguera the Opening Keynote from Lean Agile London 2023!His talk was about breaking your mindset so that you can achieve what you need to achieve. Tantalisingly he also mentioned a product he has created, norne out of the frustration of UpWork and Fiverr.Speedy Time Agency a service that you can send a WhatsApp voice note too and get your Fiver-like tasks done for you, but with less stress and energy. Who wouldn't want that! Of course I had to learn a little more about this, brilliantly he obliged!Here is his talk blurbYour mindset is a crucial factor in determining your success in life. To truly achieve extraordinary results, it’s essential to unleash your mindset and push beyond your limits in a real and pragmatic way.In this talk, we will explore various topics such as the Mindset Redesign Framework (MRF), Bloom’s taxonomy, low vs high order thinking, and pattern recognition to help you develop the right mindset for success. We will also share practical strategies for reducing your cognitive load, including the Ignition time and ITEM (Individual Talent Exploration and Maximization), and discuss how coaching and mentorship can help you achieve your goals.Through real-life and thought provoking examples you will gain valuable insights and learn how to apply these concepts to your personal and professional life. Join us for this engaging and insightful keynote and unlock the full potential of your mindset in a lean and agile way!About Jordi FalgueraAs a Business Agility Executive Coach and Strategic Advisor, for more than 10 years, I had the opportunity to participate and lead multiple international transformations from big companies in more than 14 countries and very diverse cultures.These experiences allow me to support directors and executives to align and properly connect their corporate strategy with their execution, contributing to successfully adopting an Agile-Lean mindset in their companies.I also participate as a speaker and keynote speaker in multiple conferences across Europe, Asia and America.My biggest passion since the beginning is optimization. That'Host Bio Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes. Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱! Ben Maynard 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/ 🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard 💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ Product Agility Podcast 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/ 💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/ 🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility Listen & Share On Spotify & iTunes Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0lkwAYJzVSuk5zfJ1vIDZq?si=4c691fb12f124a56 iTunes - https://apple.co/3YvTX8p Want to come on the podcast? Want to be a guest or have a guest request? Let us know here https://bit.ly/49osN80

May 22, 2023 • 14min
Flamingos & Flow - Lightweight Metrics and Why Cycle Time Can Be Useless: Haroon Khalil (Lean Agile London 2023)
Send us a text The talks in ten are back! This time around we are at brilliant Lean Agile London 2023.https://leanagile.london/The second guest is Haroon Khalil, his talk on FLOWmingos shared a fantastic metaphor for how to help an organisation, tech or product, find out what matters to them and use lightweight metrics to help them get there more effectively What do Flamingos have to do with flow metrics?Are you curious about the minimum viable light-weight metrics that can help teams and organizations focus on? ︎ delivery of valuable bets︎ managing the arrival and departure rates of their work︎ creating less overwhelm in the system of work and reduce burnout︎ Improving the time it takes to get things done︎ better visualise where your blockers exist and how to help systematically manage and resolve them in an effective way︎ Metaphors and dancing with Data and making meaningful insights to help us move to ‘better”: I’ll give you a clue, I’ll be sharing the metaphor of Flamigos.Why join this talk?WHAT?Would you like to know more about why Flamingos can help us better understand the key concepts around Flow. Learn tips and tricks on how we can experiment and to invite people to improve the flow of value in our organizations.SO WHAT?With extensive experiments with over 500 global teams, Haroon will share a Flow navigation guide for how to get started and how to take your TransFLOWmation to the next level.NOW WHAT?We have flow charts that help us identify how we are flowing, now what do we do? How do we co-create the spaces to socialise flow with managers and leaders? Haroon Khalil - A Selection of his Best BitsLean-Agile Practitioner | Coaching | Mentoring | Flow | Enterprise Agility | Product Leadership | Visual Facilitator | C-Suite & Board Member Consultancy⭐ Key Conferences & Talks ⭐🏈 March 2022 - Speaker at Egypt's first ever Regional Scrum Gathering (RSG). Facilitated a session on 'Unearthing Agile Leaner-ship'. 🌍 January 2022 - Panel member at the Global Agnostic Agile conference. The session focused on Leadership and Business Agility, hosted by Arie Van Bennekum (Agile Manifesto Co-author).🏈 September 2021 - Speaker at Pakistan's first ever Regional Scrum Gathering (RSG), 'Host Bio Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes. Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱! Ben Maynard 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/ 🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard 💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ Product Agility Podcast 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/ 💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/ 🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility Listen & Share On Spotify & iTunes Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0lkwAYJzVSuk5zfJ1vIDZq?si=4c691fb12f124a56 iTunes - https://apple.co/3YvTX8p Want to come on the podcast? Want to be a guest or have a guest request? Let us know here https://bit.ly/49osN80

May 22, 2023 • 12min
Product Story Generation & The Product Disposition Canvas - Stuart Young (Lean Agile London 2023)
Send us a textThe talks in ten are back! This time around we are at brilliant Lean Agile London 2023.https://leanagile.london/First up we have Stuart Young, I dragged him outside on a rather chilly morning to learn more about his talk Product Story Generation & The Product Disposition CanvasHere is the synopsis of his talk at Lean Agile LondonGrounded on your perspective of the product and your personal product stance it is useful to plot a path that will lead to product success.During this talk I will introduce the Product Disposition Canvas, as a useful tool given any product situation.We will navigate the terrain between strategy to tactics and visionary to execution, unlocking your ability to create stories that bring stakeholders and teams on a compelling journey.If you are a product passionate individual keen to find powerful ways to engage, inspire, teach and learn whilst discovering your strengths and product blind spots, this is the talk for you.Stuart's Bio I’m a Certified Scrum Trainer and Visual Storyteller with a deep-rooted appreciation for methods of Design Thinking and Agile Ways of working. My key driver is to enable individuals, teams and organisations to tell impactful stories. As a result, people can make decisions faster, take action, reduce waste and drive value. As a Visual Storytelling thought leader and practitioner within the Agile Community and beyond I endorse the use of Visual Storytelling to engage stakeholders, address customer needs, enhance team collaboration and accelerate learning.Facilitating a suite of Design Thinking, Visual Storytelling and Product Agility workshops I encourage teams to work more visually, creating visually compelling stories that make the intangible tangible, catalysing customer centric creativity, driving product innovation and business success.I joined Radtac-Cprime in 2015 where I continue to assist organisations with an array of Product Innovation and visualisation services.Stu on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuart-young-2b683729/Host Bio Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes. Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱! Ben Maynard 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/ 🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard 💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ Product Agility Podcast 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/ 💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/ 🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility Listen & Share On Spotify & iTunes Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0lkwAYJzVSuk5zfJ1vIDZq?si=4c691fb12f124a56 iTunes - https://apple.co/3YvTX8p Want to come on the podcast? Want to be a guest or have a guest request? Let us know here https://bit.ly/49osN80

May 18, 2023 • 30min
Exploring Cross-cultural Learning & The Value Of Reflection with Ali Ezzeddine
Send us a textThink that remote learning is the same as real face to face learning (not over Zoom but so you can actually smell their breath). Think again.What is clear from getting to know Ali Ezzeddine is that in addition to a desire for knowledge in pursuit of helping people learn - he also deeply believes that physical proximity and real face-to-face interaction is crucial in education. In this episode Ben and Ali dip into the critical role that emotions play in an educational setting - Learners are more likely to be engaged and motivated when they are happy. Certificates? Bah! When are the actually valuable? What if you only got on if you had evidenced you can implement what you have learnt? All this and we explore one of the most impactful training tools you probably are not using yet... Chapters:00:03:00 Why & How We Should Challenge Learners00:06:56 What's the one question we can ask that will make people think?00:07:47 Learning Should Provoke Curiosity00:11:29 When Training is Piled High and Sold Cheap 00:11:50 What is a Knowledge Gap?Linking Practice And Failure To Enhance Learning And Reduce Fear.00:14:10 What Would Ben Like to See Changed in Training From the Back of the Room?00:17:24 Cultures That Hinder Curiosity00:21:36 What are the "Vibes" from In-Person Training that you do not get in remote?00:25:04 What's the Thing that Remote Work & Education Can Never Do?00:28:39 Episode Recap and Some Big News!Key Takeaways: We need to grow as learners, rather than just obtaining a certificate. Physical proximity is really important to learning and don't ignore finding ways to leverage a culture to enhance the learning experience. Technology cannot replace face-to-face contact and physical proximity in training, these are key to creating an emotional and therefore recallable learning experience.Guest BioAli is a certified educational consultant and Training from the Back of the Room trainer in various educational fields. He is also trilingual in Arabic, French and English and is a lifelong learner.Ali has spent years researching how we as humans learn and has spent just as long putting it into practice. A dediHost Bio Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes. Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱! Ben Maynard 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/ 🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard 💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ Product Agility Podcast 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/ 💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/ 🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility Listen & Share On Spotify & iTunes Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0lkwAYJzVSuk5zfJ1vIDZq?si=4c691fb12f124a56 iTunes - https://apple.co/3YvTX8p Want to come on the podcast? Want to be a guest or have a guest request? Let us know here https://bit.ly/49osN80

May 11, 2023 • 29min
Maximizing Learning Potential: Remote Learning, Brain Function And Multilingual Training with Ali Ezzeddine
Send us a textWhen are you learning at your best?When are you bored?When you spend all of your time distracted?Or is it the opposite of all these?I guess it is the opposite.In this episode, we go delve into what makes for effective learning environments as we are joined by Ali Ezzeddine, a teacher of teachers that believes that if the content is engaging and attractive, individuals will be motivated to learn. So if you want people to remember things that you say to them, chances are something in this episode will help you with that.We explore the crucial conundrum of in-person vs. remote learning, and Ali shares some brilliant book recommendations and choice snippets from them.Ali also talks about the "Netflix generation" or "YouTube generation" who have more choices and distractions than previous generations and how this means we have to think differently if we want to engage people with what we say or the products we produce. The Best Bits:00:03:01 - Ali's Story00:08:39 - How Ali Found Training From the Back of the Room00:11:55 - Research Beyond Training From the Back of the Room?00:13:59 - We are built to learn together (well, some of us)00:14:58 - Learning is multisensory. Remote training just is not the same00:19:27 - Learning, Distractions and the Netflix & Youtube Generation00:22:43 - The Importance Of Learning How To Learn00:27:56 - Episode RecapGuest BioAli is a certified educational consultant and Training from the Back of the Room trainer in various educational fields. He is also trilingual in Arabic, French and English and is a lifelong learner.Ali has spent years researching how we as humans learn and has spent just as long putting it into practice. A dedicated father and all-around lovely human being, Ali's wisdom and gentle demeanour make him easy to learn from. Host Bio Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes. Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱! Ben Maynard 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/ 🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard 💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ Product Agility Podcast 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/ 💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/ 🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility Listen & Share On Spotify & iTunes Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0lkwAYJzVSuk5zfJ1vIDZq?si=4c691fb12f124a56 iTunes - https://apple.co/3YvTX8p Want to come on the podcast? Want to be a guest or have a guest request? Let us know here https://bit.ly/49osN80

May 4, 2023 • 45min
Reading Hacks: How To Read More Books, Faster with Noel Warnell
Send us a textWant to read faster?Want to remember more of what you read?Would you like to know how some people consume books at 30 times the rate at which people speak?Would you like some proven reading hacks that will allow you to bust that bulging backlog of books?Then this episode is just for you!Ben was joined by Noel Warnell. Noel has spent the time that we could have done researching and blending together proven practices for engaging with books in new, different and extremely effective ways. The Best Bits (In Our Opinion)00:05:40 Noel's multiple techniques stolen from other people and blended into one00:08:48 Is a growth mindset needed for these techniques?00:10:50 You are not bad at reading, here's why00:14:00 Making A Decision To Continue Reading A Book Based On Its Visual Presentation00:17:14 Reading Hack: Skipping To The End00:20:37 Reading Hack: Quit!00:26:05 The Evolution Of Confidence In Decision Making00:30:41 Business Books as Graphic Novels? 00:33:10 Speed Read an Audiobook? Sounds like nonsense...00:42:30 Can Noel entice you learn direct from the master?00:43:32 Episode Recap! (Ben goes off script and entertains himself)Guest BioNoel is a creative, energetic and enthusiastic human with over 22 years experience of software product delivery, 11 of them working with leaders and agile teams.His approach is solution focused, experiment driven and full of passion to help organisations and individuals avoid dysfunction and improve the way they work with agility. Most of his clients have been in the finance sector, which has provided the opportunity to work with large human systems of multiple teams (60+), be part of significant transformation initiatives (c.800 people) and launch many products delivering high value for both customers and the client. However he has also helped design and launch agile transformations in retail, publishing and beverages companies.I enjoy creating memorable experiences for companies using a range of techniques including Liberating Structures, Constellations, Clean Language and improv games.Feel free to contact Noel about:Agile adoptionDigital transformationProductHost Bio Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes. Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱! Ben Maynard 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/ 🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard 💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ Product Agility Podcast 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/ 💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/ 🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility Listen & Share On Spotify & iTunes Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0lkwAYJzVSuk5zfJ1vIDZq?si=4c691fb12f124a56 iTunes - https://apple.co/3YvTX8p Want to come on the podcast? Want to be a guest or have a guest request? Let us know here https://bit.ly/49osN80

Apr 27, 2023 • 43min
The Likeability Penalty, Habits - Design For How People Learn & Change with Julie Dirksen
Send us a textThis episode took some unexpected turns, turns which will give anyone interested in change at an individual or systemic level food for thought. You can explain skills to people, but can you ever do this to the extent that the other person will be proficient without practice?Julie and Ben spoke about how unjust the world can be as Julie shared the details of a study that explains how the Likeability penalty explains why many women have long been paid less. If you are serious is helping individuals and organisations change for good then this episode has so much for you. Don't believe us, check this out...Chapters:00:05:03 Importance Of System-level Feedback & Forming Habits00:08:54 Inequality in Starting Salaries Due to Gender - Individual Vs. System Perspective.00:11:24 The Gender Dynamics Of Salary Negotiations00:15:20 Systemic Understanding For Effective Learning Interventions00:17:32 Challenges Of Measuring The Effectiveness Of Behavior Change Without Feedback00:20:32 Anxiety Surrounding Coaching Conversations00:24:36 The Benefits Of Demonstrations Over Instructions In Learning.00:28:53 The Limits Of Ai In Replacing Doctors: Strategies For Teaching And Learning00:32:01 How many examples are enough to help you learn?00:35:27 Will Ben & Julie Start a career in Stand Up Comedy?00:41:12 The End and Episode Recap!Guest BioJulie is an independent consultant and instructional designer with over 15 years of experience creating highly interactive e-learning experiences for clients from Fortune 500 companies and technology startups.She has a degree in Instructional Systems Technology and a whole lot of background in things like UX design, game-based learning, and behaviour change.Julie has also been an adjunct faculty member in the Visualization Department at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, where I created and taught courses in project management, instructional design, and cognitive psychology.Julie likes learning :-)Julies website - https://usablelearning.com/ - https://usablelearning.com/Courses https://desHost Bio Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes. Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱! Ben Maynard 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/ 🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard 💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ Product Agility Podcast 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/ 💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/ 🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility Listen & Share On Spotify & iTunes Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0lkwAYJzVSuk5zfJ1vIDZq?si=4c691fb12f124a56 iTunes - https://apple.co/3YvTX8p Want to come on the podcast? Want to be a guest or have a guest request? Let us know here https://bit.ly/49osN80


