In this episode Hayley Rodd and Renae Craven explore the topic of imposter syndrome and some strategies for overcoming it when you feel it bubbling to the surface.    About the Featured Guest Hayley is an accomplished Marketing professional who works for Easy Agile, an Australian software company. Their products, which plug into Atlassian's Jira, are sold across the world, used by 150,000 users and help teams be agile. Follow Hayley on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/hayley-rodd/) Reference(s) Easy Agile: https://www.easyagile.com/   The Women in Agile community cha ..read more

This episode explores the topic of what agile is today and what we have noticed in how it has shifted in organizations over the last 15 years.   About the Featured Guest Sam Liang is an agile coach and her personal motto is ‘be brave’. Sam embodies this by taking on challenges one small step at a time.  Follow Sam on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/samlaing/) Follow Sam on Twitter (@samoffgridnz) Reference(s) Research paper, Connecting coach to business need: https://businessagility.institute/learn/connecting-coach-to-business-need/725 The Women in Agile community champi ..read more

During our 2022 discussion, new mom Shikha Duggal takes a break from her busy mom and coach life to bring us back to the basics of why SAFe is one of the premiere scaling agile frameworks in the industry. We discuss the good, the bad, and the misunderstood elements of this framework in terms of implementation and coaching strategy using examples from our real-life clients. Join us as we dive deep into SAFe for your Transformation!   About the Featured Guest Shikha has led several Agile transformations across various industries. Throughout her career, she's had the opportunity to wear mult ..read more

During our 2022 discussion, Hannah Howard Bink and Emily Lint discuss Scaled Agile’s most recent transformative effort in their Marketing division. Yes, even Scaled Agile inspects, adapts, and evolves their strategy when they find their current business model lacking in efficiency. Learn from their lessons learned and take your Marketing or non-traditional Agile department flow to the next level!   About the Featured Guest   Hannah Bink heads digital marketing at Scaled Agile, supporting global expansion and account-based marketing efforts. She has 15 years of B2B marketing experienc ..read more

In this 2021 conversation with Laura Re Turner, our host Leslie Morse explores the realm of Systemic Coaching and how agilists can bring systems thinking and an overall systemic view into the ways they work with people, teams and organizations.   About the Featured Guest Laura Re Turner is an accredited coach, trainer, and facilitator who works with leaders and teams to develop an Agile mindset, behaviours, and the skills to thrive through change. Before becoming a coach, Laura delivered enterprise software projects as a project and programme manager, technology consultant, and software d ..read more

This episode of the Women in Agile podcast explores the topic of presence; what it means, how to build your own presence and what impedes it. We explore the importance of presence in agile teams and how to create that safe space for teams to explore their presence.   About the Featured Guest Antoinette is an ex-software developer that took a detour through academia to end up in the world of professional coaching. A veteran of Agile transitions, her focus currently is on developing leaders to grow agility in themselves and their organisations. Before the pandemic she practically lived at 3 ..read more

In this 2021 conversation, our host Leslie Morse discusses gender equitable recovery and the dynamics of how COVID-19 has impacted women in the corporate workforce with Denise Purtzer. Together they explore a variety of gender dynamics in the workplace including authenticity, the pay gap and the importance of mentorship. Denise also shares many recommendations to consider for people reentering the workforce which are important not only for those going through transitions, but also for those of us who are supporting our friends and colleagues who had to step away from the workforce.   We c ..read more

This episode features a new member of the Women in Agile Podcast team, Renae Craven. Get to know her through a conversation with our host Leslie Morse. Together they discuss authenticity and its importance in building our own leadership as well as building successful teams and organizations.  About the Featured Guest Renae Craven is a certified Coach and Scrum Professional, with over 12 years of experience coaching organisations and their teams through their transformation to an agile mindset. She enjoys building delivery teams that can self-organise to achieve commitments and hold themse ..read more

During this 2022 conversation, Jess Brock and Emily Lint dive deep into dojos. What does it mean to run a great dojo and how do you measure a dojo's success? Have we been doing dojos all wrong? Find out more! About the Featured Guest At the brink of burn out, Jess Brock’s discovery of Dojo coaching renewed her faith in the possibility of providing meaningful and lasting Agile and technical coaching. Jess has led over 17 Dojos engagements, spanning 3 countries and in physical and virtual settings. She is currently working on publishing a book called The Dojo Coach’s Pocket Guide: Maximizing Imm ..read more

In this 2021 conversation, Marjorie Anderson joins our host Leslie Morse to explore how community building serves our teams and organizations. The episode is aptly named after a quote Marjorie drops early in the episode, “Agile is Community, Community is Agile.” As you listen you’ll realize how true this is. During the discussion they touch on the multi-facted nature of nurturing communities and all the ways it has a possibility of serving the work agilists do.  About the Featured Guest Marjorie Anderson is an online community strategist who specializes in building community in the associ ..read more