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This week, I am joined by the authors of "The Flow System Playbook" authors John Turner and Nigel Thurlow, to discuss what inspired the book and how to get the best value out of it.



We covered:


The background of the book and those which it is in memory of
Clarifying the problem and ill-defined problems, getting clarity on your objectives
What inspired the book?
Business agility vs product agility
How to get started with value streaming
The 9 Cs of teamwork
Context, culture and composition, management helping shape the right environment
The Customer
Deductive, inductive and abductive reasoning
What is sense-making?
What are nudges?
Constraints and flow
Prototyping
The OODA Loop
Scrum: The Toyota Way vs Scrum in the Scrum Guide
Distributed leadership
The concept of Obeya vs miro and mural boards
Situational awareness
Red teaming
Value Stream Mapping
Multi-team systems



About John Turner

John R. Turner, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the University of North Texas for the Department of Learning Technologies in the College of Information. He currently serves as the Editor–in–Chief for Performance Improvement Quarterly (PIQ) journal. His research interests are in team science, team cognition, leadership, performance improvement, knowledge management, theory building, complexity theory, multilevel models, and meta-analysis techniques. He is the co-creator of The Flow System(TM) and the co-author of the book, The Flow System, and has published articles in Advances in Developing Human Resources; Human Resource Development Review; European Journal of Training & Development; International Journal of Technology, Knowledge, & Society; Journal of Information and Knowledge Management; Journal of Manufacturing Technology & Management; Journal of Knowledge Management; Performance Improvement; and Performance Improvement Quarterly.

Connect with John Turner: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-turner-3helix/



About Nigel Thurlow

As a leading expert on Lean and Agile approaches, Nigel advises companies on successful transformation strategies and how to achieve effective and lasting change. Nigel designs organizations that are highly optimized and customer value focussed. As a problem solver, Nigel helps executive leaders transform their operations. He creates disruptors and transforms the disrupted.

Connect with Nigel Thurlow: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nigelthurlow/https://www.linkedin.com/in/nigelthurlow/



The Flow System Playbook: https://www.getflowtrained.com/playbook/



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The author of Extraordinarily Badass Agile Coaching: The Journey from Beginner to Mastery and Beyond joins me on this week's episode of the Xagility podcast to discuss:


How Bob got into Agile Coaching
What does Bob mean by “Badass”?
Serving your clients
The new stances on the wheel of competency
Different types of leadership
The coaching act
Meta skills
Taking coaching too seriously
The post-arc reflection
Striving for effectiveness
Systemic coaching
ORSC coaching
Internal vs external coaching
You don’t have to be strong across all competencies in the wheel of competency
The future of agile coaching



About Bob:

Agile leader, coach, author, speaker, and community builder.

For ~20 years, Bob has been focused on leveraging agile methods as the best way to deliver software value. While not being a silver bullet, they simply work better than anything he has tried. Specialties: Bob has unique agile coaching skills & experience in the following areas: agile leadership & culture development, scaling the agile enterprise, distributed agile, and agile testing & DevOps in larger-scale contexts.Bob is a Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC) providing agile team coaching & training with a focus on Scrum+XP, Lean and Kanban practices.



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Connect with Bob on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobgalen/https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobgalen/

Bob's websites:

https://rgalen.com/

https://www.agile-moose.com/the-moose-as-coach



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Many organizations have become successful, over decades, by following tried and tested #management and #projectmanagement rules. Rules and regulations that are deeply embedded in the culture of the organization.

As we encounter increasing degrees of complexity, the business case for #agile has been proven time and again, especially in the world of #productdevelopment and #agileleadership.

So, how do you convince the board to run a trial? How do you persuade other senior executives and #leadership teams to explore the opportunity of #agile?

About John Coleman

John Coleman has deep experience and expertise working with executives, #leadership teams and product development teams to achieve increased #organizationalagility and create environments where creativity and collaboration produce high-performance teams.

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This week I am joined by Quinton Quartel to discuss the Fluid agile Scaling Technology (FaST) - both a method and a framework.



What did we discuss?


Quinton’s road to the beginning of FAST and the history of FAST
How does open space work with 800 people? The power of open space
What other ingredients do you need to help your teams work together more effectively?
Quinton’s journey in getting support for the FAST approach and the factors behind its momentum
Describing the FAST diagram
Diving into the core method of FAST
The core cycle: the meeting
Does each team get its own product backlog?
The product map
The roles IN FAST:  Product Manager, Transient roles: Team Steward of the cycle, Feature Steward (optional)
Small and large FAST
How big can the collective be?
Explaining the management innovation hexagon
Ways to visualise work
Managing expectations with FAST
Improvement and mastery with FAST
What was taken out/simplified in the latest version of FAST?
Product Management
Dealing with the Feature Factory Mode
Mobbing and using FAST



Check out FaST: fastagile.io

Connect with Quinton: https://www.linkedin.com/in/qrq/



About Quinton Quartel:

His passion is to make the world a better place by co-creating healthy workplaces as growth environments for humans to flourish - while helping businesses be more effective, adaptable, and innovative. Quinton's background is in software, and he still describes himself as a dev. Over twenty years in software exposed him to many years and many flavours of agile. Those experiences and his passion for better ways of working inspired him to start experimenting and have resulted in some exciting results.



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How do you manage your energy when trying to foster/cultivate change?
Here are a few helpful tips to manage the energy you bring to a situation.

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This week I am joined by the amazing Allan Kelly to discuss his book: Succeeding with OKRs in Agile: How to create & deliver objectives & key results for teams.

In this episode:
1. Allan’s journey into OKR
2. How do we implement OKRs in a healthy and helpful way?
3. 1975 vs 2023 OKRs
4. Strategy, mission and purpose
5. You want to do OKRs: where do you start?
6. The notion of commitment & aspirational OKRs
7. Psychological safety
8. Test-driven development & test-driven OKRs
9. Operational OKRs
10. Can you park business as usual and let your team do the shiny new stuff?
11. OKR 0
12. OKR roadmap
13. The rule of thumb: 3 OKRs
14. Queuing theory
15. Balancing your business as usual, your continuous improvement of business as usual and investment initiatives
16. The difference between Allan’s 1st edition and 2nd edition of his book

About Allan:
Allan helps companies create environments were digital professional can thrive and do great work to enhance digital agility and create competitive advantage.

In agile, Allan found a set of ideas, techniques and people which matched his own thinking and to which he could contribute.

That desire to change the world has led Allan to write seven books - his latest is "Succeeding with OKRs in Agile". The ones Allan is most proud of are "Business Patterns for Software Developers" and "Continuous Digital." In addition Allan has pioneered techniques such as Value Poker, Time-Value Profiles and Retrospective Dialogue Sheets.

Allan is always open for discussion, engage through consultancy (part or full time), training and discussion.

Allan's website: https://www.allankelly.net/
Allan's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allankellynet
Allan's email: allan@allankelly.net
Allan's books: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Allan-Kelly/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3AAllan+Kelly

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