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LeadingAgile's resident Scrum trainer Dave Prior, hosts a weekly podcast that covers all sorts of topics about Agile, Scrum, Organizational Transformation and Leadership. No matter if you're new to Agile development or an Agile veteran, Dave and his guest are sure to make you think about Agile in a whole new way! Alexa knows us as Leading Agile Sound Notes.
Episodes
Thursday Oct 05, 2023
Exploring the Pros and Cons of Product Goals
Thursday Oct 05, 2023
Thursday Oct 05, 2023
In 2020, the Scrum Guide introduced the idea of the Product Goal, but left out anything about Vision. Was this move better or worse for Scrum teams?In this short podcast, Vic Bonacci and Dave Prior, our two resident CSTs, sit down to discuss the difference between product goals and vision and the impact this change is making on Scrum Teams.
Contacting Vic Bonacci
If you’d like to contact Vic you can reach him at:
LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/victor-bonacci
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vbonacci/
Email: Victor.Bonacci@leadingagile.com
Contacting Dave Prior
If you’d like to contact Dave, you can reach him at:
LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo
X: x.com/mrsungo
Email: dave.prior@leadingagile.com
If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to dave.prior@leadingagile.com
Interested in CSM or CSPO Training?
You can find all the details at www.leadingagile.com/scrum-training/
Thursday Sep 28, 2023
An Introduction to Sprint Goals
Thursday Sep 28, 2023
Thursday Sep 28, 2023
In this episode of SoundNotes, our two in-house CSTs get together to talk about the importance of sprint goals. They dive into everything from what they are, why they’re important, and how to go about creating them—even in the absence of an explicit business goal.
Contacting Vic Bonacci
If you’d like to contact Vic you can reach him at:
LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/victor-bonacci
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vbonacci/
Email: Victor.Bonacci@leadingagile.com
Contacting Dave Prior
If you’d like to contact Dave, you can reach him at:
LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo
X: x.com/mrsungo
Email: dave.prior@leadingagile.com
If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to dave.prior@leadingagile.com
Interested in CSM or CSPO Training?
You can find all the details at www.leadingagile.com/scrum-training/
Friday Sep 15, 2023
Balancing Culture With the Need to Produce Results
Friday Sep 15, 2023
Friday Sep 15, 2023
Why are so many Agile coaches and ScrumMasters getting laid off? Is it because Agile is disappearing? Or is it because they’ve gotten so dogmatic about the rules and ceremonies surrounding Agile that they’re more of a burden then they are valuable? In our latest episode of SoundNotes, Mike Cottmeyer and Dave Prior explore the how to balance the competing priorities of the Agilists and the leaders they’re trying to help so that everyone can get back succeeding with Agile.
Contacting Mike Cottmeyer
If you’d like to contact Mike, you can reach him at:
LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/mike-cottmeyer
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/cottmeyer/
X: x.com/mcottmeyer
Email: mike@leadingagile.com
Contacting Dave Prior
If you’d like to contact Dave, you can reach him at:
LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo
X: x.com/mrsungo
Email: dave.prior@leadingagile.com
If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to dave.prior@leadingagile.com
Interested in CSM or CSPO Training?
You can find all the details at www.leadingagile.com/scrum-training/
Thursday Jul 20, 2023
Exploring Kanban in an Enterprise Environment
Thursday Jul 20, 2023
Thursday Jul 20, 2023
Join us for today’s podcast where we dive into the world of Kanban and Agile methodologies to unravel the thought process behind large organizations who want embrace Kanban. If you’re considering Kanban, or you’re currently grappling with workflow challenges, this video will equip you with some Kanban strategies to help you seamlessly implement and optimize Kanban in a dynamic enterprise environment.
Contacting Tom Furland
If you’d like to contact Mike, you can reach him at:
LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/tom-furland/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tfurland/
Email: tom.furland@leadingagile.com
Contacting Dave Prior
If you’d like to contact Dave, you can reach him at:
LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo
X: x.com/mrsungo
Email: dave.prior@leadingagile.com
If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to dave.prior@leadingagile.com
Interested in CSM or CSPO Training?
You can find all the details at www.leadingagile.com/scrum-training/
Thursday Jun 15, 2023
Are Dependencies Meant to be Managed or Broken?
Thursday Jun 15, 2023
Thursday Jun 15, 2023
Mike and Dave sit down to have another debate with ChatGPT about dealing with dependencies in Agile. Mike asserts that dependencies kill Agility and that they’re meant to be broken. ChatGPT says that it’s all about managing dependencies and that while dependencies may limit Agility, they can also foster collaboration and synergy.
The debate quickly rolls into a conversation about dealing with legacy technical debt and business capability modeling and how we need to focus on minimizing dependencies in all aspects of the business, not just at the team level. Dave even gets Mike to start talking about his latest thinking on composable enterprises and what executives need to know about software architecture.
Contacting Mike Cottmeyer
If you’d like to contact Mike, you can reach him at:
LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/mike-cottmeyer
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/cottmeyer/
X: x.com/mcottmeyer
Email: mike@leadingagile.com
Contacting Dave Prior
If you’d like to contact Dave, you can reach him at:
LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo
X: x.com/mrsungo
Email: dave.prior@leadingagile.com
If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to dave.prior@leadingagile.com
Interested in CSM or CSPO Training?
You can find all the details at www.leadingagile.com/scrum-training/
Thursday Jun 08, 2023
From Practices to Principles: The Right Way to Scale Agile
Thursday Jun 08, 2023
Thursday Jun 08, 2023
Mike Cottmeyer debates ChatGPT and sits down with Dave to discuss what it really means to scale Agile. Over the course of the podcast, Mike and Dave explore the difference between Agile principles and practices, cloud migration, and what the Agile industry can learn from the US Air Force’s concept of Agile, Open, and Digital.
Contacting Mike Cottmeyer
If you’d like to contact Mike, you can reach him at:
LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/mike-cottmeyer
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/cottmeyer/
X: x.com/mcottmeyer
Email: mike@leadingagile.com
Contacting Dave Prior
If you’d like to contact Dave, you can reach him at:
LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo
X: x.com/mrsungo
Email: dave.prior@leadingagile.com
If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to dave.prior@leadingagile.com
Interested in CSM or CSPO Training?
You can find all the details at www.leadingagile.com/scrum-training/
Thursday Jun 01, 2023
Agile Metrics: Enabling Change with Data Modeling & Forecasting
Thursday Jun 01, 2023
Thursday Jun 01, 2023
Our guest, Troy Magennis, has been described as a national resource in the Agile community. He’s a published author and frequent speaker on forecasting and modeling Agile projects.
Today, Troy joins us to discuss how many of the metrics the Agile industry uses actually prevent companies from achieving the change they so desperately desire. Together, we’ll explore some ways the industry gets metrics and forecasting right and where it tends to go wrong. And Troy offers a ton of insight on how you can begin thinking about the work differently to release more value more rapidly more often.
Contacting Troy Magennis
If you'd like to contact Troy, you can reach him at:
Focused Objective: https://www.focusedobjective.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/troymagennis/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/t_magennis
Contacting Dave Prior
If you’d like to contact Dave, you can reach him at:
LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo
X: x.com/mrsungo
Email: dave.prior@leadingagile.com
If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to dave.prior@leadingagile.com
Interested in CSM or CSPO Training?
You can find all the details at www.leadingagile.com/scrum-training/
Thursday May 04, 2023
How to Truly Succeed with Agile Transformation
Thursday May 04, 2023
Thursday May 04, 2023
When organizations set out to adopt Agile, they always have a business reason. It’s never just because they really love Scrum, or SAFe, or LeSS. But when the teams start doing all the Agile things, and they’re met with resistance from the organization around them, it’s hard to point to success because not much changed. So, we start defining success as “do the roles and ceremonies exist and are we following all the Agile dogma.” That’s a poor definition of success, and we have to get better at changing the organization around the teams. But that’s a different problem altogether. To do that, we’ll have to deconstruct what people, especially leaders inside organizations, believe about Agile and get them to see it through an all-new lens.
Mike and Dave sit down to begin deconstructing some of the current beliefs about Agile, and talk about what success actually looks like in this week’s episode of SoundNotes.
Contacting Mike Cottmeyer
If you’d like to contact Mike, you can reach him at:
LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/mike-cottmeyer
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/cottmeyer/
X: x.com/mcottmeyer
Email: mike@leadingagile.com
Contacting Dave Prior
If you’d like to contact Dave, you can reach him at:
LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo
X: x.com/mrsungo
Email: dave.prior@leadingagile.com
If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to dave.prior@leadingagile.com
Interested in CSM or CSPO Training?
You can find all the details at www.leadingagile.com/scrum-training/
Thursday Apr 27, 2023
The Future of Agile Transformation & Change Management
Thursday Apr 27, 2023
Thursday Apr 27, 2023
Today, the market for Transformation is a transition period. We see some companies looking for the next big thing, and others going back to what they know. Is this a sign that Agile is waning? Is it evolving? Or is Agile so deeply engrained in the way business gets done, people have just started calling it something else to deny the fact they just aren’t very good at it? Mike Cottmeyer and Dave Prior sit down to discuss this interesting moment in time for our industry and more in this episode of SoundNotes.
Contacting Mike Cottmeyer
If you’d like to contact Mike, you can reach him at:
LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/mike-cottmeyer
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/cottmeyer/
X: x.com/mcottmeyer
Email: mike@leadingagile.com
Contacting Dave Prior
If you’d like to contact Dave, you can reach him at:
LeadingAgile: www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo
X: x.com/mrsungo
Email: dave.prior@leadingagile.com
If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to dave.prior@leadingagile.com
Interested in CSM or CSPO Training?
You can find all the details at www.leadingagile.com/scrum-training/
Thursday Apr 13, 2023
How to Unlock the Benefits of Agile & Get the Most Out of Training Your Teams
Thursday Apr 13, 2023
Thursday Apr 13, 2023
Agile practices don’t automatically lead to Business Agility. In the presence of dependencies and organizational impediments that the teams have no ability to change, going through the motions of Scrum or SAFe isn’t going to lead to greater Business Agility either. So, you can train the teams all you want, but if it doesn’t lead to greater Agility, who cares?
Listen as Mike Cottmeyer and Dave Prior discuss some common misconceptions about Agile Transformation, how training often leaves businesses wanting more, and some things to consider if you’re thinking about starting an Agile Journey of your own. Also, stick around for the end, where Mike reveals who his favorite fictional Project Manager is.
Contacting Mike Cottmeyer
If you’d like to contact Mike, you can reach him at:
LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/mike-cottmeyer
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cottmeyer/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mcottmeyer
Email: mike@leadingagile.com
Contacting Dave Prior
If you’d like to contact Dave, you can reach him at:
LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrsungo
Email: dave.prior@leadingagile.com
If you have a question you’d like to submit for an upcoming podcast, please send them to dave.prior@leadingagile.com
Interested in CSM or CSPO Training?
You can find all the details at www.leadingagile.com/scrum-training/