This week, I am joined by the authors of "The Flow System Playbook" authors John Turner and Nigel Thurlow, to discuss what inspired the book and how to get the best value out of it.

We covered:

1. The background of the book and those which it is in memory of
2. Clarifying the problem and ill-defined problems, getting clarity on your objectives
3. What inspired the book?
4. Business agility vs product agility
5. How to get started with value streaming
6. The 9 Cs of teamwork
7. Context, culture and composition, management helping shape the right environment
8. The Customer
9. Deductive, inductive and abductive reasoning
10. What is sense-making?
11. What are nudges?
12. Constraints and flow
13. Prototyping
14. The OODA Loop
15. Scrum: The Toyota Way vs Scrum in the Scrum Guide
16. Distributed leadership
17. The concept of Obeya vs miro and mural boards
18. Situational awareness
19. Red teaming
20. Value Stream Mapping
21. Multi-team systems

About John Turner

John R. Turner, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the University of North Texas for the Department of Learning Technologies in the College of Information. He currently serves as the Editor–in–Chief for Performance Improvement Quarterly (PIQ) journal. His research interests are in team science, team cognition, leadership, performance improvement, knowledge management, theory building, complexity theory, multilevel models, and meta-analysis techniques. He is the co-creator of The Flow System(TM) and the co-author of the book, The Flow System, and has published articles in Advances in Developing Human Resources; Human Resource Development Review; European Journal of Training & Development; International Journal of Technology, Knowledge, & Society; Journal of Information and Knowledge Management; Journal of Manufacturing Technology & Management; Journal of Knowledge Management; Performance Improvement; and Performance Improvement Quarterly.

Connect with John Turner: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-turner-3helix/

About Nigel Thurlow

As a leading expert on Lean and Agile approaches, Nigel advises companies on successful transformation strategies and how to achieve effective and lasting change.
Nigel designs organizations that are highly optimized and customer value focussed. As a problem solver, Nigel helps executive leaders transform their operations. He creates disruptors and transforms the disrupted.

Connect with Nigel Thurlow: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nigelthurlow/https://www.linkedin.com/in/nigelthurlow/

The Flow System Playbook: https://www.getflowtrained.com/playbook/

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The author of Extraordinarily Badass Agile Coaching: The Journey from Beginner to Mastery and Beyond joins me on this week's episode of the Xagility podcast to discuss:

1. How Bob got into Agile Coaching
2. What does Bob mean by “Badass”?
3. Serving your clients
4. The new stances on the wheel of competency
5. Different types of leadership
6. The coaching act
7. Meta skills
8. Taking coaching too seriously
9. The post-arc reflection
10. Striving for effectiveness
11. Systemic coaching
12. ORSC coaching
13. Internal vs external coaching
14. You don’t have to be strong across all competencies in the wheel of competency
15. The future of agile coaching

About Bob:

Agile leader, coach, author, speaker, and community builder.

For ~20 years, Bob has been focused on leveraging agile methods as the best way to deliver software value. While not being a silver bullet, they simply work better than anything he has tried.
Specialties: Bob has unique agile coaching skills & experience in the following areas: agile leadership & culture development, scaling the agile enterprise, distributed agile, and agile testing & DevOps in larger-scale contexts.
Bob is a Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC) providing agile team coaching & training with a focus on Scrum+XP, Lean and Kanban practices.

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Connect with Bob on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobgalen/https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobgalen/

Bob's websites:

https://rgalen.com/

https://www.agile-moose.com/the-moose-as-coach

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Many organizations have become successful, over decades, by following tried and tested #management and #projectmanagement rules. Rules and regulations that are deeply embedded in the culture of the organization. As we encounter increasing degrees of complexity, the business case for #agile has been proven time and again, especially in the world of #productdevelopment and #agileleadership. So, how do you convince the board to run a trial? How do you persuade other senior executives and #leadership teams to explore the opportunity of #agile? About John Coleman John Coleman has deep experience and expertise working with executives, #leadership teams and product development teams to achieve increased #organizationalagility and create environments where creativity and collaboration produce high-performance teams. https://linktr.ee/johncolemanxagility - social and podcast links https://linkpop.com/orderlydisruption - order training from right here If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-leadership-training/. If you value coaching and would like to work with a deeply experienced agile and executive coaching specialist, visit our coaching page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-coaching/ If you are looking for an agile consultant that can help your leadership team identify an appropriate roadmap to organizational agility and take the most effective course of action in your agile transformation, visit our consulting page on https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-consulting/

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This week I am joined by Quinton Quartel to discuss the Fluid agile Scaling Technology (FaST) - both a method and a framework.

What did we discuss?

1. Quinton’s road to the beginning of FAST and the history of FAST
2. How does open space work with 800 people? The power of open space
3. What other ingredients do you need to help your teams work together more effectively?
4. Quinton’s journey in getting support for the FAST approach and the factors behind its momentum
5. Describing the FAST diagram
6. Diving into the core method of FAST
7. The core cycle: the meeting
8. Does each team get its own product backlog?
9. The product map
10. The roles IN FAST: Product Manager, Transient roles: Team Steward of the cycle, Feature Steward (optional)
11. Small and large FAST
12. How big can the collective be?
13. Explaining the management innovation hexagon
14. Ways to visualise work
15. Managing expectations with FAST
16. Improvement and mastery with FAST
17. What was taken out/simplified in the latest version of FAST?
18. Product Management
19. Dealing with the Feature Factory Mode
20. Mobbing and using FAST

Check out FaST: fastagile.io

Connect with Quinton: https://www.linkedin.com/in/qrq/

About Quinton Quartel:

His passion is to make the world a better place by co-creating healthy workplaces as growth environments for humans to flourish - while helping businesses be more effective, adaptable, and innovative. Quinton's background is in software, and he still describes himself as a dev. Over twenty years in software exposed him to many years and many flavours of agile. Those experiences and his passion for better ways of working inspired him to start experimenting and have resulted in some exciting results.

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How do you manage your energy when trying to foster/cultivate change? Here are a few helpful tips to manage the energy you bring to a situation. Enjoyed this episode? Let's connect: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/johncolemanagilitychef/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/johncolemanxagility ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠- social and podcast links ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linkpop.com/orderlydisruption⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠- order training from right here If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-leadership-training/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. If you value coaching and would like to work with a deeply experienced agile and executive coaching specialist, visit our coaching page on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-coaching/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ If you are looking for an agile consultant that can help your leadership team identify an appropriate roadmap to organizational agility and take the most effective course of action in your agile transformation, visit our consulting page on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-consulting/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ #scrum #agile

This week I am joined by the amazing Allan Kelly to discuss his book: Succeeding with OKRs in Agile: How to create & deliver objectives & key results for teams. In this episode: 1. Allan’s journey into OKR 2. How do we implement OKRs in a healthy and helpful way? 3. 1975 vs 2023 OKRs 4. Strategy, mission and purpose 5. You want to do OKRs: where do you start? 6. The notion of commitment & aspirational OKRs 7. Psychological safety 8. Test-driven development & test-driven OKRs 9. Operational OKRs 10. Can you park business as usual and let your team do the shiny new stuff? 11. OKR 0 12. OKR roadmap 13. The rule of thumb: 3 OKRs 14. Queuing theory 15. Balancing your business as usual, your continuous improvement of business as usual and investment initiatives 16. The difference between Allan’s 1st edition and 2nd edition of his book About Allan: Allan helps companies create environments were digital professional can thrive and do great work to enhance digital agility and create competitive advantage. In agile, Allan found a set of ideas, techniques and people which matched his own thinking and to which he could contribute. That desire to change the world has led Allan to write seven books - his latest is "Succeeding with OKRs in Agile". The ones Allan is most proud of are "Business Patterns for Software Developers" and "Continuous Digital." In addition Allan has pioneered techniques such as Value Poker, Time-Value Profiles and Retrospective Dialogue Sheets. Allan is always open for discussion, engage through consultancy (part or full time), training and discussion. Allan's website: https://www.allankelly.net/ Allan's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allankellynet Allan's email: allan@allankelly.net Allan's books: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Allan-Kelly/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3AAllan+Kelly Enjoyed this episode? Let's connect: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johncolemanagilitychef/ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/johncolemanxagility ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠- social and podcast links ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linkpop.com/orderlydisruption⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - order training from right here If you are interested in helping your team or organization achieve greater agility and want to explore agile training options, visit our training page on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-leadership-training/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. If you value coaching and would like to work with a deeply experienced agile and executive coaching specialist, visit our coaching page on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-coaching/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ If you are looking for an agile consultant that can help your leadership team identify an appropriate roadmap to organizational agility and take the most effective course of action in your agile transformation, visit our consulting page on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x-agility.com/executive-agility-consulting/⁠⁠⁠⁠ #scrum #okrs #agile

This week I had the pleasure of having Cliff Hazell talk about his time at Spotify, his journey into Flight Levels and what can you do when you need to deliver technical expertise when the capacity is already full?

On the agenda: 1. Cliff’s History

2. The usefulness of talking to people taking the calls every day

3. Helping leaders of scale-ups to grow

4. Lessons from Spotify

5. What can you do when you need to deliver technical expertise when the capacity is already full?

6. Teaching each other to do jobs is not FREE

7. Big bets

8. Challenges over autonomy and alignment

9. Survivorship Bias

10. Lessons on perseverance: red work and blue work

11. How do executives avoid going into execution bias?

12. Getting the company able to articulate the goals in terms of an outcome that we want to measure

13. Cliff’s journey into flight levels

14. Find leverage, create focus, build habits

15. Product roasts

16. Lessons from Cliff’s time in call centers

17. Successful/unsuccessful organizations

18. Are there any dark sides to transparency?

19. Dealing with burnout

About Cliff Hazell:

As a Founder, Manager, and Coach, Cliff has seen what works and what doesn't. Cliff uses this knowledge to help you avoid common mistakes and learn from tested experiences.

Through his Leadership experience across large and small organizations, from Tech, Product, Finance, and Marketing, Cliff has seen the benefit of integrating everything you do, not just fixing one part.

More than guidance and theory, Cliff will teach you how to do it so you can continue to fly without me.

Check out his website: https://www.cliffhazell.com/

Connect with Cliff on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cliffhazell/

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Tom Gilb joins this week's episode of the Xagility podcast to tell us all about impact estimation tables, decomposing to deliver value and the laws of project success. In this episode: 1. Impact Estimation Tables 2. Simple symbols to indicate relationships 3. Strategies carry the cost 4. Value divided by effort and cost 5. How do we know we are halfway to the goal? 6. Rating the source of the evidence in terms of credibility 7. Estimating and delivering incrementally with corrections 8. The problem with balance scorecards 9. The laws of project success 10. Disciplined engineering approach for reaching success and keeping it 11. The Laws of Stratospheric Success 12. Eliciting stakeholder critical requirements 13. Stop outsourcing everything to people who steal your corporate knowledge 14. How do you quantify success? 15. Psychological safety 16. Failure borders and success levels 17. Dividing and conquering: small increments 18. Decomposing to deliver value streams 19. Value success principles 20. Summary of Success Book Access Tom's books here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Tom-Gilb/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3ATom+Gilb About Tom Gilb: see www.gilb.com for extensive detail and samples. https://linktr.ee/TomGilb For my selected windows into various works. See Leanpub.com/u/tomgilb for bio and recent ebook collection.

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