"Create the visualizations that are going to be useful, do some cleanup work to create the space for people to think a little more deeply, and then make sure you don't waste their time so they can put some wins on the board"
Eric Willeke
With our love of strategy off the leash in...
"I don't want to have a minnow next to a minotaur because the minnow is never going to feature in the conversation"
Mark Richards
This is the first episode where we deep-dive into strategy. Whether your portfolio is shaping a strategy or deploying one shaped elsewhere, you need tools...
"Team of teams is not a target state, but rather an opportunity for value creation and delivery"
Stephan Neck
As an SPC or other agile change agent, how do you bring the Team of Agile Teams dimension of SAFe's Team and Technical Agility competency to life in your organization? In...
"In nearly half of the cases I can think of, the things that the teams most hate providing to governance are the same things the governance team doesn't actually want and doesn't know how to tell the teams to stop providing"
Eric Willeke
This episode dives into the 'Lean'...
"First you sit in the moment, then you dance in the moment, if a little bit later."
Eric Willeke
Rebecca's in Disneyworld this week, so Eric and Mark are unsupervised again! We've both just finished our second draft of our talks for the Berlin SAFe Summit, so naturally, we start by...
"Start with questions that paint a picture of today before you try painting a picture of tomorrow"
Mark Richards
In this podcast's first episode, we lay the foundations for exploring Lean Portfolio Management. We start with a high-level overview of portfolios and their...
"Experiment like a scientist, not a mad scientist"
Mark Richards
Have you ever asked yourself, "If Innovation was an animal, which one would it be?" That's how Niko started this episode's journey into the Innovation Culture dimension of SAFe's Continuous Learning Culture competency....
"I deeply love curiosity-driven learning. Go figure"
Eric Willeke
Rebecca leaves Eric and Mark unsupervised this week, and the conversation winds up revolving around Mark's highlight of the week, which is his excitement as he experiences the power of cohort-based training.
The...
"At the heart of a learning organization is a shift of mind - from seeing ourselves as separate from the world to connected to the world, from seeing problems as caused by someone or something 'out there' to seeing how our actions create the problems we experience"
Peter Senge
As an...
"Test it while it feels unfinished. Otherwise, you fall in love with your solution and defend it instead of accepting feedback."
Niko Kaintantzis
As an SPC or agile change agent, how do you support your organization's mastery of Customer Centricity and Design Thinking? In this...
"This is a very real concern for how we make decisions that need to filter all the way down to what people are doing day to day. Otherwise, it's just going to stay in that ethereal layer of well-intentioned statement that doesn't actually get acted upon."
Michael Casey
This week,...
"Scream and shout that you've done good things"
Ali Hajou
As an SPC or other agile change agent, how do you help your organization turn Relentless Improvement from something you talk about to something you do? In this episode, Ali , Stephan, and Mark continue in their quest to...