"When joining, the all-blacks gave you a book with all jerseys of the team across all times, with blank pages at the end for you to fill in"
Stephan Neck
In this episode of SPCs Unleashed, the hosts Stephan Neck, Niko Kaintantzis, Ali Hajou, and Mark Richards delve into the Lean-Agile Lea...
âIf you donât have great teams, youâll never have great ARTsâ
Mark Richards
Mark Richards, Ali Hajou, and Niko Kaintantzis join Stephan Neck in the second ârepriseâ episode after the initial reprise of SPCâs Unleashed with Lean Thinking People and Agile Teams from the Organizational Agili...
âI think a good SPC has to be a coach, too ⌠You have to use the language of the people who have to become agile because agile isnât the goal. Itâs using the agile things to become faster, to become better, to have better user feedbackâ
Niko Kaintantzis
Stephan Neck and Niko Kaintantzis j...
"You get a mad underspend in Q1; then you spend Q2 and Q3 trying to catch up on the questions about your Q1 underspend. This is variation waste, and causes massive issues in terms of the ability of the system to absorb the work"
Mark Richards
In this episode, we turn our attention to the ...
"I love the people; I love my community. But itâs hearing new problems and understanding where they fit in the landscape of how people are trying to advance agility in their company. For me, thatâs always the best part of the summit!"
Eric Willeke
The Berlin SAFe Summit brought most of ...
âNot having good DevOps is a lot more expensive than having DevOpsâ
Mark Richards
In this enlightening podcast episode, Niko takes the reins as the host, guiding Ali, Stephan, and Mark through a rich discussion on the essence of DevOps and its implications for modern organizations.
Niko ...
"In most cases, the portfolio itself is under a fog of war. You can't actually see what's going on unless you take your telescope and really zoom in on an area"
Eric Willeke
This episode concludes the initial six-part arc laying the foundations of lean portfolio management. The first five...
âWhatâs the moment when you can help people understand the cause of some pain theyâre in and offer them something thatâs going to help with the pain?â
Mark Richards
 Rebeccaâs back from Disneyworld! Markâs discussion with two of his children about BDD triggers a fun exploration of our e...
âCan you integrate, and do you do that very frequently on a cadence? Yes, then that generates learning, and so forth, and so forth! Und so weiter, und so weiter!â
Ali Hajou
Why is it important to Develop on Cadence and Release on Demand? How fast can you learn? Does it integrate? Do...
"It's common for people to say they have a platform strategy that doesn't necessarily resemble a platform strategy so much as a center of dependency hell"
Mark Richards
In Episode 3, we explored the influence of Moore's Zone to Win model on understanding the portfolio ecosystem. Episode 4...
"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 Episode ...
"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 to c...