Product Agility

Ben Maynard
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Jul 4, 2022 • 24min

Tim Robinson - Dependencies, the consequence of over empowerment or an avoidable waste?

Send us a textTim is an experienced organisational agile coach, I work with individuals, teams, and organisations to help them to improve, he is also (as you would guess) an experienced agile coach, certified trainer and Scrum Master.Tim's agile mindset grew through experience in a startup and it is this agile mindset that helps to drive this conversation...Do dependencies mean that someone has dropped the ball when it comes to your organisational structure? Some think that ZERO dependencies are possible others think that many many dependencies are ok and just need to be managed. Would it hurt you to find out neither is true?Me and Tim explore these topics to help better understand what on earth is going on:🎯 When scaling do organisations forget about the I of INVEST and this is why they design work to that creates avoidable dependencies between teams?  🎯 Do some approaches make condone organisations having dependencies and promote us having centralised dependency management?We talk about other stuff too, but these are the things I thought would get you to listen 😘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
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Jun 29, 2022 • 16min

Tim Robinson - Should an Agile Organisation Centralise Strategy Or Planning?

Send us a textThe centralisation of strategy and planning is clearly the best idea anyone ever had.I mean, what could go wrong?!💥💥💥💥💥💥Turns out quite a lot 🤨Tim Robinson has some strong opinions on this topic, that's why I loved our conversation.In this natter, we talk about 🎯Does the reduction of queues (like Product Backlogs) naturally lead to more centralised planning and strategy? 🎯How much planning should we divest to teams?🎯Do  component teams lead to centralised planning?🎯If you have dependences, is empowerment dangerous? Impossible? Sudo? Even Fake? This is the first of three conversations with Tim, keep those eyes peeled for the next episodes!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
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Jun 27, 2022 • 10min

Wolfgang Richter - What In the Agile World Should have been BIGGER?

Send us a textDr. Richter has more experience with agile and project management than so many of us and a solid knowledge of approaches to help organisations be agile that spreads far beyond just Scrum and Kanban...So when I asked the question "What in the agile world should have been bigger" his answer came from a deep understanding of what works and what does not work when coaching individuals, teams or organisations through an agile journey.Listen to this and be learn why Wolfgang and I believe that Kanban and Scrum should never be the only options we have. Who is Wolfgang?Dr. Wolfgang Richter is the founder and CEO of JIPP.IT GmbH, an Agile Change Agency. He is a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), Certified LeSS Trainer (CLT) and Coach and works with Scrum and Agile Methods since 1998. He and his team specializes in improving processes and structures by using agile methods and principles. Agile Transformations is one of the main activities. The portfolio comprises Software Development, Portal Development, Agile Training, Agile Consulting, and Innovation. 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
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Jun 22, 2022 • 4min

Wolfgang Richter - What is the next BIG thing in Agile?

Send us a textEveryone loves hopping on a bandwagon that will seemingly make them happier, more successful or for some, just richer.For the last 20 years of agile there have been many supposed and actual next big things, so what is next?Wolfgang Richter has over 20 years of experience in working in agile environments (and an agile based PHD to boot) so hearing his answer to this was an education for me (and probably for you too)Who is Wolfgang?Dr. Wolfgang Richter is the founder and CEO of JIPP.IT GmbH, an Agile Change Agency. He is a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), Certified LeSS Trainer (CLT) and Coach and works with Scrum and Agile Methods since 1998. He and his team specializes in improving processes and structures by using agile methods and principles. Agile Transformations is one of the main activities. The portfolio comprises Software Development, Portal Development, Agile Training, Agile Consulting, and Innovation. 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
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Jun 20, 2022 • 59min

Viktor Grgić - Certified LeSS Trainer Interview

Send us a textViktor Grgić is one of the worlds greatest when it comes to making Product Groups become happy and effective, for years, not months. In this episode, Viktor Grgić and host Ben Maynard talk about:🎓 The Desolation of the Scrum Master - has the agile industry destroyed it?🎓 De-Scale Agile Banking Bubbles - What are they and why are the useful?🎓 One Thing I would Change About LeSS🎓 How Do You Get Tech Debt Prioritized?🎓 Has Finding LeSS Made You less Successful?🎓 Which LeSS Adoption Means the Most To You?🎓 What Do You Love About LeSS?🎓 What Is Scrum Good For?🎓 Perm or Contractor? Which is Best for Agile?🎓Are Some Cultures More Compatible With Agile?🎓Agile Keys to the Bank🎓Scope of LeSS🎓Elevator Pitch for LeSS🎓What is it Like Working @ Odd-e🎓Why Viktor Grgić? never got into C++🎓Has The Productization of Agile RUINED IT For Us All?Stuff that was spoken aboutViktor's Large Scale Scrum - Port of RotterdamThankyou for watching & stay tuned for more wholesome content coming up! Stay up-to-date with us on our social media! LeSS Matters website - https://www.lessmatters.co.uk LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/less-matters-community/?viewAsMember=true Twitter - https://twitter.com/LeSSMattersComm 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
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Jun 15, 2022 • 17min

Magnus Vestin - Neuroscience, Coaching and Teams

Send us a textNeuroscience, Coaching and Teams, sound like topics that sell tickets. And they do, people love to learn about them and the agile community is always a great source of information in the application of practical Neuroscience and coaching to help teams thrive. And this episode is no different.Magnus and I (Ben) cover:🧠 WeQ - Collective Emotional Intelligence, the secret yet to be embraced in Team Coaching🧠 Scrum and its relationship to in the moment and in between coaching🧠Are we guilty of invoking reflections in unethical ways and how to avoid that🧠 And a bit on how your brain works and how it rejects feedback with no conscious effort from us.We await your feedback and promise that we won't reject it, however much our brains may want to 😉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
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Jun 13, 2022 • 20min

What is needed more in Agile Orgs Intellect Or Empathy with Magnus Vestin?

Send us a textHumans are amazing creatures and human intellect and ingenuity have created some of the most wonderful and terrible things ever seen on this planet.BUT, research shows that traditional intellect alone is not enough to make us successful. Having the biggest and best brains is only a part of the equation in modern, complex and adaptive organisations.So, if managers have historically been rewarded and organisations succeeding based chiefly based upon the quest for intellect, what would Magnus, an ex-manager, have to say on how this compares against what many of us know in our guts...That Emotional Intelligence is just as, if not more important.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
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Jun 8, 2022 • 7min

Viktor Grgić - What is Going to be the NEXT BIG THING in the Agile World?

Send us a textNo one has an effective crystal ball, one which accurately predicts the future, but this question is about being correct its about having a guess and what intriguing guesses Viktor made.VIktor has been in the agile world for many many years and his ideas and opinions are some of the best out there.Want a head start on the next big thing? Then get a pen and paper and spend 5 minutes watching this video.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
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Jun 6, 2022 • 20min

From Manager to Scrum Master a story from Magnus Vestin

Send us a textMagnus is not your typical agile coachHe has been a pro in technology environments for over 30 years and has been on quite the journey from manager to a team member and now an Agile Coach via being a Scrum Master. With an experience so broad we were bound to get more than a few golden nuggets of information from him that will help us to be better and learn from his deep experience. Here are some reasons to listen to this episode: 💡Build empathy and understanding for managers (critical for helping them)💡Gain questions to ask managers to help them reflect and improve💡Acquire a story or two that will help managers move away from the land of the traditional manager to a land where agile rules💡Learn more about who is better placed to help with an agile transformation, a manager or a Scrum Master💡Leave with the ability to share some of the implications of being a Scrum Master for people you used to manage?💡Find out what was more important for Magnus when faced with a role transition,  Emotional or traditional intelligence? Magnus Vestin on LinkedInHost 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
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Jun 1, 2022 • 11min

What in the Agile World Should Have Been More Popular? - Viktor Grgić

Send us a textLet's go back to the future and consider...What should have been bigger in the agile world?Viktor has been a success, you can't deny it and the thing which thinks should have been bigger is actually, we think, perhaps the secret to some of his success...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

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