Peter and Dave discuss capacity planning in transitional organizations, emphasizing a balanced mix of agile and traditional project management. Key points include the importance of due diligence, blending different methodologies, prioritizing tasks aligned with organizational goals, and strategically sequencing improvements for continuous enhancement.

Peter and David guide you through Agile capacity planning, emphasizing the shift from traditional methods to team consistency and a customer-centric approach. Discover strategies for empowering Agile teams, identifying key skills, and recognizing planning bottlenecks.

Explore the integration of Agile and Project Management with expert David Adeoye to enhance business value, especially in cybersecurity. Discover the benefits of agile methodologies in cybersecurity projects, feature-based planning, efficient value delivery, and fostering a proactive cybersecurity culture.

Learn how to create a culture that values quality and embraces design thinking. Key takeaways include making design thinking a continuous practice, fostering transparency and collaboration for innovation, aligning ideas with strategic objectives, and managing conflicts while respecting different ideas.

Delving into a successful business transformation in e-retail, the episode highlights the importance of innovative leadership, effective collaboration between various organizational levels, and aligning technology with business objectives for agile transformation success, with additional insights provided by the Hudson Bay Start methodology to mitigate project risks.

Addressing the substantial impact of context switching on productivity, the hosts delve into the complexities of human thinking and the disruptions caused by device notifications, while offering practical strategies such as time blocking, visible task management, and mindful meeting participation to enhance focus and minimize interruptions.

Explore the significance of aligning IT with business goals and discover strategies for effective communication and collaboration between the two. Tune in to our latest episode to transform your organization's IT-business integration.

This week, Peter and David delve into the intricacies of fixed processes, emphasizing the balance between agility and consistency in business operations. Tune in to gain tools for tailoring processes and insights on large-scale change implementation.

In this episode, we delve into problem-solving in Agile organizations, focusing on scaling methodologies. We discuss strategies like ITIL, Lean, and A3 for root cause analysis and address problem management in microservices using predictive tools. We also highlight the Safety 1 and Safety 2 models in complex systems. Our aim is to offer a systematic approach to reduce failures with effective contracts, smaller batches, and quick releases.

Peter and David discuss the significance of non-functional requirements and business resilience on the Definitely, Maybe Agile podcast, emphasizing the importance of preparedness against disruptions and the role of observability in system changes. Listen on your favorite platform and join the conversation for more insights.

Explore the intricacies of collaboration in both traditional and modern agile organizational setups. Drawing insights from a 2021 MIT article on ONA, we discuss the challenges of centralized decision-making and the essence of genuine teamwork. Learn about the importance of breaking down silos, aligning team objectives, and the nuances of Agile and DevOps.

This episode unpacks the 'Six Myths of Product Development,' showing how traditional beliefs can hinder digital innovation. We discuss the drawbacks of cost-saving, the need for flexible planning, and the wider business applications of these insights.

The episode discusses validation in agile development, emphasizing business validation, automated deployment, and system monitoring. Key takeaways include predicting customer behavior with new features, using varied metrics, and involving stakeholders.

Learn the "two-out, one-in" strategy for streamlining work-in-progress and discover the importance of task visibility and stakeholder communication in the latest episode.

Explore why a one-size-fits-all approach fails in agile practices and learn the importance of a diverse toolkit, contextual understanding, and measuring the right outcomes in the latest episode.

Maximize your conference experience by finding your tribe, preparing in advance, embracing informal networking, and knowing when to move on for optimal learning and connections.

Explore how Agile Architecture can transition from a service function to a strategic partner by involving architects in business domains, decentralizing responsibility, and reducing reliance on Architectural Review Boards for faster decision-making and innovation.

Dive into the transformative power of OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) for organizational alignment and adaptable goal-setting, and learn how they differ from traditional management frameworks like MBOs, balanced scorecards, and KPIs.

Discover holistic change management with guest Pia Wendelbo, as the episode focuses on the human aspects of transformation, the value of incorporating "slack" for work-life balance, and the continuous need for learning and improvement.

Leadership coach Erin Leslie explores the vital role of vulnerable leadership and emotional intelligence in agile transformations, especially in the public sector, highlighting the need for safe spaces, emotional openness, and compassion in both public and private leadership.

Marius de Beer, Senior Director of Digital Product Delivery at Aritzia, distills agile transformation into four key elements—measurement, recognition, reward, and support—while discussing how change itself has evolved to become a natural part of organizational learning and growth.

Explore the intricacies of product strategy creation with a focus on balancing customer needs and market readiness, while emphasizing the importance of an emergent strategy for rapid iteration and finding equilibrium between exploration and exploitation.

Delve into the insights from Patrick Lencioni's "Five Dysfunctions of a Team," as the episode discusses how addressing top-level team dysfunction and fostering collaborative environments can lead to accelerated progress and value creation.

Special guest Jorge Arevalo discusses the crucial roles of C-level executives and boards in successful digital transformations, emphasizing the importance of understanding the 'why,' fostering a safe environment for innovation, and ensuring board-level digital literacy.

Guest Eric Brook discusses the multifaceted concept of ownership in organizations, highlighting its role in fostering accountability and responsibility, and offering practices to cultivate a culture of ownership that requires effort, commitment, and openness to feedback.

Special guest Mike Freislich dives deep into the Kanban Flight Levels framework, emphasizing its utility in crafting team strategies and fostering business agility, while advocating for a collaborative and inclusive culture during organizational changes.

This week's episode tackles the complexities of scaling agile, cautioning against a one-size-fits-all approach and urging organizations to focus on "descaling" work and continuous transformation rather than merely expanding a framework.

This episode dives into the role of AI in Agile coaching, suggesting that while AI tools like ChatGPT could enhance human capabilities, they should not be seen as replacements and must be critically evaluated.

This episode argues that the key to successful organizational change is a focus on culture and employee happiness, cautioning against imposing rigid methods and highlighting that the primary function of a corporation should be improving the standard of living and work life of its employees, not just maximizing shareholder value.

The episode tackles the challenge of workforce disengagement in Agile or digital transformations, emphasizing that a motivating work environment and employee well-being are crucial, and that disengagement often indicates deeper organizational issues that leaders must address.

The episode explores the complexities of integrating Agile practices into organizations with legacy systems, highlighting the necessity of incremental value delivery and empowering teams to make small, evolutionary changes.

The episode tackles key questions around senior leadership's role in agile transformation, emphasizing the importance of availability, response time, fostering a safe environment, and cultivating future leaders for successful change.

The episode explores change management through the lens of the book "Our Iceberg is Melting", discussing Kotter's eight-step model and emphasizing the importance of gaining organizational buy-in, broadening awareness of complexity, and empowering team members.

The episode delves into Mike Burrows' book "Agendashift," praising its practical, human-centered approach to organizational change and emphasizing its utility as a guide for facilitators looking to drive meaningful outcomes through empathy and customized strategies.

The episode explores how Geoffrey Moore's "chasm" model can help organizations understand the challenges and mindsets involved in different stages of adopting new ideas or technologies.

The episode offers 12 year-end suggestions for a more agile 2023, covering topics from embracing change and strategic decision-making to prioritizing quality and personal development.

The episode delves into the common pitfalls of digital transformation, including the dangers of undertaking too much change simultaneously, lack of alignment, and conflicting priorities.

The episode explores strategies for measuring progress and ensuring you're on the right path, emphasizing the importance of incremental steps, regular check-ins, and distinguishing between leading and lagging indicators.

The episode focuses on bridging the gap between technology and business, advocating for a customer-centric approach and discussing how a deeper understanding of technology can enhance business operations.

The episode delves into digital change management, emphasizing the importance of continuous, incremental changes and the need to test models before optimizing them.

The episode differentiates between agile and digital transformations, emphasizing the need for organizational participation and a clear understanding of the reasons behind the change, with insights from Simon Sinek's Golden Rule.

The episode delves into the crucial role of organizational or cultural transformation as one of the four types of digital transformation, emphasizing the necessity for leadership buy-in and the difference between intuitive and deliberate cultural change.

The episode focuses on domain transformation as one of the four types of digital transformations, exploring its challenges and differences from business model transformation, while emphasizing the importance of unique approaches, risk assessment tools, and data gathering for success.

The episode delves into business model transformation as the second type of digital transformation, emphasizing the need for strategic leadership, a reimagined customer interaction approach, and adaptability to change for successful implementation.

The episode unpacks Process Transformation as the first form of Digital Transformation, stressing the importance of understanding business outcomes and deciding whether the transformation will be incremental, as part of an ever-evolving business strategy.

In the intro to Season 2, the podcast sets the stage for exploring big questions around digital transformation, aiming to help listeners identify their own transformation journey and promising to challenge existing paradigms.

The episode explores the complexities of executive decision-making, discussing the role of emotional intelligence, the pace of change, and the importance of making decisions at the appropriate organizational level.

The episode delves into the challenges posed by dominant personalities in workshops and offers techniques to facilitate inclusive conversations, such as using Liberating Structures and the 15-minute FOTO exercise.

The episode offers crucial tips for successful workshop facilitation, emphasizing the importance of preparation, small group dynamics, clarity of purpose, and maintaining an enjoyable atmosphere.

The episode delves into the impact of mandated Return to Work policies on psychological safety, arguing that it should not be a mere checklist but a nuanced approach that considers individual perspectives.

The episode explores the complexities and psychological implications of transitioning back to the office, emphasizing the need for transparent decision-making and creating an attractive work environment.

The episode delves into the governance of software delivery value streams, discussing how to balance speed with essential organizational considerations like compliance and security, introducing the TACO framework for effective management.

The episode tackles the controversial reputation of Agile training and offers insights on making it more effective, emphasizing the importance of a common lexicon, principle-based learning, and the role of coaching for sustained impact.

The episode delves into the concept of Nested Value Streams, providing insights on how to scale from single-team value streams to complex, multi-team organizational systems, with a focus on understanding boundaries and making priority trade-offs.

The episode unpacks the concept of value streams, offering insights into understanding organizational processes for targeted improvement and more effective, faster delivery.

The episode delves into the importance of structured planning in project execution, advocating for predefined frameworks to guide decision-making and prioritize tasks.

Value Management Office (VMO) differ from those that we might associate with a Project Management Office (PMO).

Project Management Offices and Value Management Offices approach the same problems of transparency and governance differently.

Technology is no longer an ingredient to a successful business, it's the lever that strategically opens doors.

Business shouldn't be scared of constantly evolving technology. Yes it costs money, but it's often essential to operations.

The psychological safety of making mistakes and learning from them, is a foundational block in any learning organization. That's how innovation happens.

Quality takes time, and can make you less efficient, but it can also be worth it.

When projects do not get completed, the patterns that are not working need to be broken.

Learning from failure is an essential part of building your resilience. It gives us the ability to improve.

When it comes to agility, a company needs to walk the walk. The focus needs to be on the people.

Rob Hirschfeld stops by to talk about managing complexity, and not eliminating it.

Feedback is a crucial part to being agile. It should be something that is incorporated into the processes of any business.

Business agility requires focus and discipline to work on the right priorities.

Business agility fails when we do not gather information from customers or when feedback loops are too long.

Business agility creates resilience by building systems that are capable or learning and recovering.

Business agility improves culture by creating conversations, autonomy and learning.

Business agility increases your profitability by creating alignment to common goals in the organization and increasing efficiency.

Business agility increases revenue by getting a high-quality products into market faster.

Business agility reduces the cost of delivery by automating processes and analyzing out processes.

Single Point Of Failure (SPOF) happens when everything goes through one area, or person, in the organization. This causes huge bottlenecks and delays.

Experts can often struggle to explain things to those with zero experience, especially when topics are complicated.

Complex systems can't be optimized with a one dimensional view. Solving one small part of a large system usually doesn't solve optimize the whole.

Feedback can be a difficult topic for leaders to approach, but it's necessary. Booth giving and receiving.

It is important to understand when to bring governance into your process. It is important to minimize dependency on others, while maximizing flow for success.

Change management for an organization can be difficult, making clear and understood communication paramount.

Gamification is a technique that can help people to better understand topics, and apply them to their own environment.

Developing an agile process is not a copy and paste. It is taking idea and applying it in your environment.

Leaders can, and should, help their teams reduce their Work in Progress (WIP).

There are many difficulties in delivering large programs. Approach them iteratively, while acknowledging their complexity.

There is a huge importance of understanding and handling dependencies for any organization, big or small.

How do you train your teams when their work environment has changed drastically?

Lean thinking and how it can be applied in an innovative and complex environment.

Some people are more apt to change their minds than others. What strategies can help us keep moving forward when it feels like there is no other option?

Quality Assurance (QA) is an instrumental part of any software or product development team, which is why they need to be integrated in the team.

"Responding to change over following a plan", does not mean to disregard planning.

Agile expounds on the need for decentralization, self-organizing teams, autonomous teams. Is there such a thing as too much decentralization?

Managers have many functions. What happens to the aspects of the functional manager when you shift to a team centric delivery model?

Resourcing, delivery and management of agile roles in an organization.

The secrets of making strategy sessions successful.

Key decisions are made at every level of your organization, aligning and managing these decisions in larger scale initiatives can be a challenge.

Multitasking does not work, so we should stop doing too much at the same time. This means we have to start saying no to certain things.

The episode focuses on change fatigue and individual responses to change. Key takeaways advocate for an 'invite over inflict' approach, the importance of the human element, and a preference for continuous change over big shifts. Gary Hamel is cited for further insight.

Dave and Peter offer advice on demonstrating value quickly in agile settings. Key takeaways include starting small, focusing on a specific pain point, and taking immediate action through designing an experiment.

This week's episode focuses on financing in business, advocating for funding value streams over individual projects and promoting incremental funding models. The key takeaways emphasize that finance should serve as a supporting function and should not dictate the direction of the product.

Discover the prevalent challenge of balancing efficiency and effectiveness in today's agile landscape as Peter and Dave emphasize the importance of prioritizing effectiveness in response to rapid change, highlighting the role of resilience-building.