Women in Agile
The Women in Agile podcast is a platform to champion new voices in the business world, because we believe everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
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Wednesday Feb 17, 2021
Wednesday Feb 17, 2021
The fourth episode of the Coaching Agile Teams Mini-Series wrap-ups the foundation setting context of the series. During this conversation Lyssa Adkins and Leslie Morse do more than share information about the supplements for the Coaching Agile Teams audiobook that are available when you purchase from Audible. Hear them discuss tips and tricks for making book clubs successful as well as get a mini-masterclass on aphorisms. As you’ll learn from Lyssa, aphorisms are an entry point for changing what you believe at the cellular level.
Reference(s):
Buy Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition on Audible
You can learn more about this series of episodes by visiting www.womeninagile.org/cat.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.solutionsiq.com/womeningile
Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile. This will get you entered to a monthly drawing for a goodie bag of Women In Agile Org swag!
Wednesday Feb 10, 2021
Wednesday Feb 10, 2021
In this episode of the Women in Agile podcast, Jessica Katz joins Leslie Morse for a conversation about how to best accept accountability when you’ve done harm to someone. They dance through a variety of examples, point to blindspots, and provide tips for how you can become more aware of when you’re doing harm and how best to repair relationships where you’ve caused harm. She also shares parts of her story for how she cultivated her skills to be able to do this work well. You can learn more about the Women in Agile podcast by visiting www.womeninagile.org/podcast
About our Guest
Jessica Katz is a trainer, mentor and coach through Liberated Elephant. She is passionate about working with individuals, teams, leaders, and organizations to help people discover and nurture their authentic selves. With this knowledge, Jessica helps them uncover solutions that move them forward on their journey. Her methodology is informed by Agile values, principles, and practices.
Follow Jessica on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeskatz/
Follow Jessica on Twitter: @ElephantTaming
Reference(s)
Book: Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall B. Rosenburg
Book: The Art & Science of Facilitation: How to Lead Effective Collaboration with Agile Teams by Marsha Acker
Book: Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling by Edgar H. Schein
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.solutionsiq.com/womeningile
Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile. This will get you entered to a monthly drawing for a goodie bag of Women In Agile Org swag!
Wednesday Feb 03, 2021
Wednesday Feb 03, 2021
The third episode of The Coaching Agile Teams Mini-Series unpacks a side of Lyssa Adkins you may have never seen before. You hear Leslie Morse comment on the laughter and lightness of the discussion during her opening comments and that comes alive in a real way through the use of metaphors inspired by playground equipment.
During this episode, Leslie and Lyssa unpack not only aspects of Lyssa’s journey to produce the Coaching Agile Teams audiobook but also compare and contrast how she is different from what she was 10 years ago when the book was originally released. Enjoy the story of how Mike Cohn invited her to consider writing a book, how the apprentice coaches she was working with reminded her of things to write down, and how theater inspired her take on the way collaboration shows up in her work.
The grounding theme in their conversation seems to be the center point of a merry-go-round and how it doesn’t actually move. They offer several inquiries and moments of reflection within the metaphor and use it to illustrate many concepts. One of which is Lyssa’s story about how she calls on the wisdom of her body as an early signaling system, and the four step process she uses when she feels tension rise and seeks to remind herself she is in a human body that has lots of wisdom.
Some of our favorite quotes from Lyssa include:
When referencing something her coach said to her, “Who are you to question whether or not you’re the person to write this? Get over yourself and get back to writing!”
“It is as important to repel things as it is to attract them. We all have limited time in the world. Time is the one thing we can’t make more of.”
“This doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to be useful.”
When referencing her absolute belief and come-from place, “At any moment there's a lot going right. What is going right? What is flowing? Do I have anything to add to it?
“I am still learning the same lessons I wrote about 10 years ago, but just in a different octave.”
Reference(s):
Book: Artful Making: What Managers Need to Know About How Artists Work by Robert Austin and Lee Devin
Behind the Scenes with Lyssa, the Coaching Agile Teams Audiobook Journey - The Perfection Monster: https://youtu.be/ZhyWx7NnNxA
You can learn more about this series of episodes by visiting www.womeninagile.org/cat.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.solutionsiq.com/womeningile
Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile. This will get you entered to a monthly drawing for a goodie bag of Women In Agile Org swag!
Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
The second episode of The Coaching Agile Teams Mini-Series was recorded by Lyssa Adkins and Leslie Morse in August of 2020. During this conversation they explore the inspiration and mission for the mini-series. It is very much an exploratory conversation with moments of laughter counterbalanced with deep and at times vulnerable discussion.
Leslie and Lyssa open their hearts and minds in an invitation to listeners as they call on their desire to normalize what it means to be on the journey to becoming an Agile coach. There is quite a bit of range in their conversation. You’ll have the opportunity to hear them to share fun stories such as one Lyssa recalls about Ron Jeffries at the 10-year anniversary of the Agile Manifesto as well as dig into deeper topics that feel more like coaching sessions between the two of them.
Two of our favorite quotes from Lyssa include:
“So much of what is in [Coaching Agile Teams] is not being done and I believe that if more of it was being done today we would have far less of the problems I continue to hear about - like on repeat. [They encounter] the same problem over and over and over again, and people are expecting Agile to solve it. It is only actually Agile’s job to reveal.”
“Whoa! Hang On! If I’m not solving problems for the team, then what am I doing? And [Coaching Agile Teams] says, here’s what you’re doing.”
Reference(s):
Book: An Everybody Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization by Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey
You can learn more about this series of episodes by visiting www.womeninagile.org/cat.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.solutionsiq.com/womeningile
Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile. This will get you entered to a monthly drawing for a goodie bag of Women In Agile Org swag!
Wednesday Jan 20, 2021
Wednesday Jan 20, 2021
Lyssa Adkins, a predominant stalwart in the Agile community and author of the 2010 book “Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition” joins Women In Agile Podcast host Leslie Morse to kick-off the Coaching Agile Teams mini-series. This is the first in a series of episodes where Lyssa and Leslie explore ten topics related to the topic of Agile coaching as well as Lyssa’s journey to create and release the audiobook version of the “Coaching Agile Teams” content. You can learn more about this series of episodes by visiting www.womeninagile.org/cat.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: www.solutionsiq.com/womeningile
Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/
Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile. This will get you entered to a monthly drawing for a goodie bag of Women In Agile Org swag!
Wednesday Oct 21, 2020
Wednesday Oct 21, 2020
Brandi Olson works at the intersection between learning, organizational agility, and human-centered design. She says: “We put people in a position of having to choose between doing good work and their humanity, and in most cases that’s a false choice.”
Listen in as we explore how to recognize burnout in ourselves as well as in our organization, how it’s all about prioritization (whether proactive or reactive), and whether having grace within our team can prevent burnout in the first place.
Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: solutionsiq.com/womeningile Women in Agile website: womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/Twitter: twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
Whether coaching, facilitating or value-stream mapping, Lizzy Morris introduces innovative and pragmatic techniques for promoting team engagement and accountability. She believes it is women who will catalyze change in society.
We are living in another Civil Rights movement. During the 60’s, people who supported the movement saw their businesses burnt down and they lost customers. Although the environment is different now and you might not see flaming crosses, there is still a risk today. What will happen to you today when you become an ally?
“We have to realize our united power to make real change, the kind of change we want...is going to come from sisterhood.”
Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: solutionsiq.com/womeningile Women in Agile website: womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/Twitter: twitter.com/womeninagileorg
Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
Wednesday Sep 30, 2020
Erin Kaohelaulii-Brett wakes up every day ready to motivate others to be a catalyst for change. An agile coach in the healthcare insurance industry, she shares her unique story of going from super skeptical to change champion – all while finding ways to integrate lessons from Hawaiian language and culture into her daily work.
The agile transformation initiative at her employer started strong then fizzled after the external consultants rolled off. Kaohelaulii-Brett invokes the Hawaiian concept of an ahupuaʻa (a communal land division stretching from the mountain to the ocean where natural resources were cultivated and exchanged) that thrived for years because of strong teamwork.
“You needed that teamwork to survive back then… Just looking back at my ancestors and how they were able to survive and thrive, I’m like, ‘I can do this.’”
Leslie Morse hosts.
The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared.
Podcast Library: solutionsiq.com/womeningile Women in Agile website: womeninagile.org
Connect with us on social media!LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/Twitter: twitter.com/womeninagileorg