Agile And The Learning Culture Corporate culture is one of those topics that gets written and talked about a good bit and with good reason. Implementing and maintaining an Agile culture and an Agile learning culture are both very challenging. Inside a learning culture employees have to be willing to keep up with what is new and how that newness impacts their performance and contribution...
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Consider the amount of time, effort, learning, and practice someone who plays golf, tennis, rides horses or plays ‘World of Warcraft’ devotes to any one of those activities in an effort to be proficient. Is it possible to take the same dynamics of recreation and bring them to the workplace? This is one of the topics author, speaker and management expert Jurgen Appelo discusses with...
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Author Jurgen Appelo Talks About Managing For Happiness. This week on The Guardian Podcast with Ryn Melberg, Ryn talks with well known author and management expert Jurgen Apello. To listen to the podcast go here: The Guardian Podcast. From his Amazon book page, Jurgen describes the book and why Agile and Scrum devotees will be interested. A practical handbook for making management great again! Managing...
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This week Ryn will be talking with Moira Alexander of CIO Magazine. In addition to her responsibilities at CIO, Moira is the founder and president of Lead-Her-Ship Group. She has more than 20 years of experience in business, IT and project management for small to large businesses in the U.S. and Canada. She writes often about project management and Agile is one of the topics that...
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Agile / Business / The Guardian Podcast
Overcoming Resistance to Agile Process Roll-Outs. Jonathon Levene shares the insights he gained over years of executive coaching of cross-functional teams this week on The Guardian Podcast with Ryn Melberg. The podcast can be heard on iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/jonathon-levene-on-agile introductions/id977764101?i=1000380138828&mt=2) Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/harold-nicoll/jonathon-levene-on-agile-introductions) or at rynmelberg.com. Mr. Levene (Jonathon as he prefers to be called) drove top-line growth through new products and services to market among many...
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Agile / The Guardian Podcast
This week on the podcast Ryn The Guardian Melberg discusses what is needed to implement the Scaled Agile Framework, the right size organizations and some examples of good and not so good experiences she has had.
Does Human Resources Need A Name Change? Words matter. No one would want to replant their lawn if it were full of elf grass and not crab grass. So, this week Ryn tackles the topic of naming or labeling. Specifically what is known as the ‘human resources department’ or HR. What we call things is important because labels relate inside the human brain to a whole...
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Agile’s emergence as a global movement extends beyond software development. Agile’s popularity is driven by the discovery that its benefits are not isolated to software developers. Among other things, Agile enables people in organizations to master continuous change, make smaller mistakes earlier on a smaller scale, and engage customers at the development level regardless of the product or service. It permits firms to flourish in...
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Could Agile Repair Delta Airlines Woes? This week Ryn will be discussing the recent troubles Delta Airlines and their customers experienced due to what was described as a computer glitch caused by a power outage. The local electric utility, Georgia Power, said the problem was “a failure overnight in a piece of equipment known as switchgear” that affected only Delta. Disagreement remains about how this...
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This week on The Guardian Podcast with Ryn Melberg, Ryn describes the best places to consider an Agile Transformation, the symptoms that signal it is time and the types of places and personalities that are not suited to Agile. The Guardian Podcast with Ryn Melberg is the only podcast anywhere devoted to Agile, Scrum, SAFe, and corporate governance challenges that could best be managed using...
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