Ajay Kabra is the senior leader, evangelist, and main contributor to the Agile space for Xebia, a Global Technology Strategy and Consulting firm with Full Stack Software Engineering, Product Development, and Digital consulting capability to enable the digital transformation of enterprises using the latest technology and methodologies. Over the years, Xebia has organically built domain knowledge across industries and used a platform engineering mindset to help fortune companies digitize.

Contact Ajay:
Web: https://xebia.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajaykabra/


Contact Avrohom:
Web: https://asktheceo.biz
Facebook: AvrohomGottheil
Twitter: @avrohomg
Instagram: @avrohomg

INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS:

[00:34] Agile is a big buzzword nowadays; however, it’s not as simple as people may think. What are some of the complexities behind agile, and what might people not understand about it?

[00:52] Agile has been on the market for nearly 25 years.
[01:08] Agile demands that management give up the control to the team – decentralize your decision-making.
[01:20] One of the challenges with Agile is that the senior leadership is afraid of giving control to the team.
[02:00] Agile is, more than anything, a mindset shift.

[03:01] What is the right mindset business leaders need to have in order to succeed with agile? You mentioned discipline. Can you share some examples of success?

[07:18] One of the ways Xebia sets itself apart as an industry leader in software development is with its customer training. What is the right way to train clients in new technology?

[08:00] The right way to implement solutions for your clients is to co-create them.
[11:00] To train customers effectively, you have to sometimes engineer a crisis so that they learn how to react.

[13:15] Besides serving clients, Xebia is also very active in the agile community. For example, Xebia organizes the Agile NCR event, which is held annually in the APAC region. Can you share with us a little bit about Agile NCR, as well as some of the upcoming exciting endeavors you will be launching here in North America in the near future?

[13:45] A core value of Xebia is to share knowledge.

[18:30] How do people connect with you to learn more about Xebia?

Ajay: You can connect with Xebia at our website: https://xebia.com, and with me, personally, on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajaykabra/. 

[21:37] Do you have any parting words of wisdom to share with the audience?

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Wbmc5w8fhUA

Agile done right

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/
Twitter: twitter.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
Twitter: 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/

Balancing Culture With the Need to Produce Results

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
Twitter: 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/

An Introduction to Sprint Goals

Le Product Owner a un rôle crucial, au cœur des approches de gestion de projet agiles. Dans cette vidéo, découvrez pourquoi le Product Owner ne rédige pas de Spécifications Fonctionnelles Générales (SFG) et comment il maximise la valeur en gérant le Product Backlog.

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https://bestofbusinessanalyst.fr/introduction-a-la-business-analyse/

Ce que vous allez apprendre :
•        Rôle du Product Owner : Comment agit-il en tant que gardien de la vision produit, en remplaçant la rédaction des spécifications traditionnelles par une gestion proactive du Product Backlog.
•        Limites des SFG en Agile : Pourquoi les Spécifications Fonctionnelles Générales, bien que cruciales en méthodes traditionnelles, n'ont pas de place dans un cadre agile tel que Scrum.
•        Puissance du Story Mapping : Découvrez comment le story mapping contribue à la conception fonctionnelle générale en vous aidant à prioriser ce qui compte vraiment pour l'utilisateur.

00:00 Introduction
02:09 Rôle du Product Owner
07:07 Les SFG et les méthodes agiles
10:48 La valeur du story mapping
14:13 Conclusion

Le Product Owner rédige-t-il les SFG (les Spécifications Fonctionnelles Générales en agile)?

After co-teaching a CSM class in Atlanta earlier this week, Tim Wise and Dave Prior sat down to talk about  Empathy in Agile. During their conversation, they dug into why empathy is such an important factor in developing an Agile mindset, working with teams, building trust, and helping your organization adopt an Agile approach to work.

Tim and Dave also offer some advice on:

How you can go about trying to develop empathy towards those up and down the org chart
How that plays out in your communication with others
How to deal with groups of people you may find especially difficult to have empathy towards
Links from the Podcast

The Responsibility Process by Christopher Avery

https://www.amazon.com/Responsibility-Process-Unlocking-Natural-Ability/dp/099774720X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1520482912&sr=8-1

Contacting Tim

Email: tim@leadingagile.com
LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/tim-wise/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timwise/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/timswise
Scrum Atlanta User Group: https://www.meetup.com/agile-38/
Contacting Dave

Email: dave.prior@leadingagile.com
LeadingAgile: http://www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/mrsungo
Personal blog: http://drunkenpm.net
Feedback/Questions

If you have comments on the podcast, or have questions for the LeadingAgile coaches that you’d like to have addressed in a future episode of LeadingAgile’s SoundNotes, you can reach Dave at dave.prior@leadingagile.com

LeadingAgile CSM and CSPO Classes

For information on LeadingAgile’s upcoming public CSM and CSPO classes, please go to: http://www.leadingagile.com/our-gear/training/
Use the discount code: LA_Podcast to receive a 15% discount on the class.

The Importance of Empathy in Agile w/ Tim Wise

John Tanner is going to be at Agile 2018 delivering his talk entitled Agile Metrics: The GQM Approach. The session will take place on Wednesday, August 8 at 10:45 AM. If you're new to GQM, it stands for Goal - Question - Metrics—which has been John's key area of focus for quite some time. If you're working towards gaining clarity around what data to collect at the different levels of your organization—and what to do with the information those metrics provide—John's session is one you won't want to miss.

In this episode of SoundNotes, John provides a quick preview of some of the topics he'll be covering during his session and some of the new elements he's included based on using these techniques in the field.

Agile 2018 LeadingAgile Presentations

Mike Cottmeyer
Agile Transformation Explained - Tuesday, August 7 • 15:45 - 17:00

John Tanner
Agile Metrics - The GQM Approach - Wednesday, August 8 • 10:45 - 12:00

Paul Argiry
Addressing Your CFO's Concerns To An Enterprise-Wide Agile Transformation - Thursday, August 9 • 09:00 - 10:15

Contacting John
LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/john-tanner/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tannerjs/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/tannerjs
Email: john.tanner@leadingagile.com
Contacting Dave

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

Or, if you're interested in taking one of our upcoming Certified ScrumMaster or Certified Scrum Product Owner classes, you can find all the details at https://www.leadingagile.com/our-gear/training/

Agile Metrics: The GQM Approach w/ John Tanner

In the first episode of our brand new podcast, your host Emma Clark will we be discussing everything about the Scrum Master.

We will discuss:

Who is a Scrum Master?
Different roles and responsibilities of a Scrum Master.
What a Scrum Master is not?
10 Common mistakes of a Scrum Master.
How to be a Scrum Master on a high performing team, and finally,
Should a Scrum Master be technical?

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Let's talk “Scrum Master”

In our second episode, which is exclusively focussed on Agile Methodology, let's try to find the answers of some of the least asked questions in the Agile industry.

What is the importance of an Agile coach?
What are the 7 habits of a successful Agile coach?
What are some of the common mistakes the Agile coaches are typically seen to commit?

How does an Agile coach walk the reverse path by questioning the answers instead of answering questions?

Why should an Agile coach be a good listener?

Could managers be the real barrier to a complete Agile transformation?
What kind of support(s) do organizations need to fully transform to Agile?
Can managers be leaders?
One of the Agile Values states “Responding to Change over Following a Plan”. Then why is there always a resistance to change of Scope within the Sprint?
What do teams commit to if they are not committing to the scope of the Sprint?
What if there is a business opportunity? Does that mean that has to wait until the end of the Sprint? If so, what about the opportunity lost?
What is the importance of alignment in scaling Agile?
What according to you are the most important things that a SAFe Agilist accomplishes?

Let's Talk Agile Methodology

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Agile is no longer a 'new' concept; Agile methods are increasingly well defined and the benefits are more widely acknowledged. As an organisation that is truly Agile from the ground up, we understand the benefits of using this approach, so much so that we have our own- the Clarasys Agile Method (CAM). 

In this episode Clarasys CEO Matt Cheung is joined by old friend and Agile specialist Matt Roadnight. The two cover more detailed topics into the Agile approach after reminiscing about a project they both worked on for a complex organisation who had failed their delivery several times before the two got involved. They also discuss Agile at scale, cross functional teams, benefit realisation, a data led approach and 'Amazon vs the Enterprise'. 

With over 20 years experience, Matt is a specialist in all things Agile. He is and Agile Coach and Trainer at SprintAgile and a Founding Partner at BeLiminal. Since 2004 Matt has been working on Agile projects for both service providers and corporates. He has extensive hands on delivery experience of distributed Agile projects and programmes using Scrum across multiple teams up to 160 people. And, since 2008 he has coached companies in delivering Agile change across organisations of up to 9000 people and led a team of Agile coaches. He gained his Scrum Trainer certification in 2009 after co-training with Scrum evangelist and author, Mike Cohn. You can often find him talking at conferences between coaching engagements. Thank you Matt for your contribution to this episode of Never Mind the Pain Points.

Please consider subscribing so you don't miss out when we release new episodes. Give us know your thoughts, ask us questions or let us know what you would like to hear in the comments, on Twitter at @NeverMindthePP or by emailing us at podcast@clarasys.com.

Talking Agile with Matt Roadnight

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Within a short span since its inception, KnowledgeHut has delivered insight to over 1,20,000 employees in 70+ countries across industries that range from Information Technology and Services, Financial Services, Insurance, and Banking to Sales & Marketing, Computer Software, Computer Hardware, Construction, Healthcare, Infrastructure, Management, Consulting, and Retail.  Their clients include HP, WIPRO, Accenture, IBM, Coca-Cola, Boeing, Dell, and HSBC to name a few.

Never Mind the Pain Points, hosted by Clarasys, is a podcast dedicated to all the current challenges businesses are facing. Each episode is hosted by a Clarasys employee, that has deep expertise in the subject matter of each episode. The hosts are joined by a variety of fantastic, interesting and knowledgable guests from the world of business and together they discuss pain points that organisations face and what you can do to overcome them! 

Whether you are a part of an organisation that face these problems and are looking for ways to overcome them or you just have a strong interest in knowing more about the topics covered, then this is the podcast for you!

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