The Delivery Space: Recent Episodes
Nisha Joshi and Sharon Williams
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Agile is dead - it’s like that one joke everyone has heard a million times - overused and rapidly losing its hook factor.
Tune in to the latest episode of The Delivery Space podcast, where we unpack this topic with our special guests, Christiaan Verwijs and Johannes Schartau, and ask ourselves why now might be the worst time to abandon Agile.
We cover:
📌 Is Agile Dead? - Tackling the question head-on and exploring whether Agile is truly obsolete or simply evolving.
📌 Why Didn’t It Work for Us? - Many organisations claim Agile didn't work for them. It may not be for everyone, but deeper reflection can help us surface and drive behaviours and practices to achieve agility, even in small measures, to give teams confidence and empower them to pursue our business goals.
📌 Evidence-Based Success - Christiaan refers to data-driven evidence showing that Agile teams tend to outperform in several key metrics, from customer satisfaction to team morale.
📌 The Real Role of Agile Coaches - Johannes sheds light on the often misunderstood role of Agile coaches and why they are crucial for genuine transformation. There is a critical difference between truly effective Agile practices and coaching and those that merely create a false sense of progress by focusing on the happy clappy team happiness stuff and less on understanding the purpose of the practices.
🌟About Our Guests🌟
Johannes is an Agile Coach, international speaker, complexity and integral thinker, Liberating Structures user, and Zombie Scrum fighter!
Christian enjoys igniting positive change in teams and organisations. It is his strong belief that people should be empowered to drive change themselves, rather than being told by management or consultants how to change. His mission is to liberate the world from ineffective and demotivating workplaces by helping organisations find better ways to tap into the creativity, intelligence, and wisdom of people.
Together they are the co-authors of the "Zombie Scrum Survival Guide" along with Barry Overeem.
🎧 Listen now using the link in the comments and let us know what you think!
Agile #Scrum #BusinessTransformation #Leadership #TheDeliverySpacePodcast #businessagility
If you've heard the phrase "Agile and scrum are dead", this episode is for you!
Christiaan's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christiaanverwijs/
Johannes' LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christiaanverwijs/
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Michaela is a spirited L&D professional, Agile and Lean coach, Scrum Master and Agile trainer, gifted with a natural flair for interpersonal and intercultural communication, and with an extensive track record in a great variety of industries in Europe, the Middle East, the Gulf, and South and Southeast Asia.
During this chat with Nisha you'll hear how to implement agile practices into HR, resulting in happier people and more effective teams.
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🗣️ Have you thought about the hidden costs of team drama?
They’re more impactful than you might think!
In the latest episode of The Delivery Space podcast, we are honoured to have Caitlin Walker (PhD) join us. Caitlin's journey from youth work to corporate consulting brings a wealth of knowledge on creating high-performing, drama-free teams.
Highlights from our conversation:
🔶 Understanding Drama - Caitlin shares her insights on recognising drama in teams, whether it’s internal conflicts, communication barriers, or unconscious biases.
🔶 Tools and Techniques - for working through team drama using Clean Language.
🔶 Real-World Applications - Caitlin discusses how she has successfully applied these methods across various sectors, including software development, marketing, and public health.
🔶 Personal Stories - Sharon and I share our own experiences with team drama and the conditions and invoke drama for us. Caitlin guides us to navigate some of the challenges we’ve both encountered.
Caitlin’s approach shows that it's more enjoyable and effective to discuss discomfort, conflict, and disagreement in advance, before they become bigger issues.
By doing so, teams can maintain balance, foster creativity, and enhance problem-solving capabilities.
⭐ About Caitlin Walker (PhD) ⭐
Caitlin Walker (PhD) received her PhD in Clean Language Interviewing at Liverpool John Moores University in 2021, within the area of curriculum design. She's an expert facilitator at home in conflict resolution, organisational development, culture change, & community mediation. Originator of Systemic Modelling & hashtag#DramaFree skills, she graduated in Linguistics at the School of Oriental & African Studies, followed by four years of postgraduate research in ‘Strategies for Lexical Access for Machine Language Recognition,’ including fieldwork in Ghana. She began creating models of diverse teaching strategies while at SOAS, volunteering intermediary classes to translate information presented at lectures into different learning styles for the students.
She was introduced to the Clean Language of David Grove in 1996 & has developed processes that result in whole system sustainable change. She facilitated sessions with at-risk teenagers as clean modelling workshops & achieved excellent results. The project won the Crime Prevention & Community Safety award for Great Britain in 1999. Her work is available on the Open University MBA program, it is incorporated into a 3-year Personal Development Profiling system at Liverpool John Moores University, & it is embedded in a number of international organisations.
TeamPerformance #Leadership #CleanLanguage #Podcast #DramaFreeTeams #ConflictResolution #Agile #Scrum #LeadershipCoaching #DigitalTransformation
Connect with Caitlin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caitlin-walker-phd-6a11a8b/
Clean Learning's Website: https://cleanlearning.co.uk/
Training Attention's Website: https://trainingattention.co.uk/our-team/
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Jac Hughes understands the role of a scrum master and why they're so important to a business, he's been studying the framework for years now and during this chat with Nisha you'll hear him impart some real nuggets.
Everyday Agile's Website: https://everydayagile.co.uk/
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Francis Laleman facilitates participatory design processes with learning communities and creative spaces, both physical and virtual. He is a Scrum & Agile practitioner, teacher & coach
During this chat with Nisha, you'll learn what Kata means and how it can be used in a professional setting and everyday life.
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Gary Wills is an award winning IT Recruiter who focuses on the wellbeing of his candidates, clients and community. He is Co-founder of a voluntary group called Furlearn.
During this chat with Nisha and Sharon, you'll hear Gary provide some golden nuggets around building high performing teams.
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Yogananthan has 30+ years of experience with C-Level IT Management and General Management in diverse international, cultural and functional environments. He's a strategic, goal-oriented and passionate leader, able to motivate and energise colleagues, partners and vendors, towards achieving goals.
He's passionate about creating the better leaders of tomorrow, this acts as the conversation topic in this episode, hosted by Nisha.
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Florence Olumodimu is a Digital Transformation Professional, Project Manager, Marketing Communications Consultant, Image and Personal Branding Consultant, Digital Marketing Strategist, Speaker, and Trainer who loves to find ways to leverage on digital across business processes & marketing while extending brand presence online.
She's passionate about the importance of personal branding, and that's the centrepiece of this chat with Nisha.
Connect with Florence: https://www.linkedin.com/in/florence-olubunmi-olumodimu-mba/
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Zsolt Berend is a business agility practitioner, coach, and trainer. Co-author of Sooner Safer Happier. He helps global organisations on their journey to achieving Better Value Sooner Safer Happier. In this episode we discuss we discuss how to unlock agility and the power of learning organisations.
Connect with Zsolt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zsoltberend/?originalSubdomain=uk
Jonathan Smart's book which features Zsolt as Co-Author: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sooner-Safer-Happier-Antipatterns-Organizational/dp/1942788916
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Sjoerd Nijland is a Scrum Trainer and Course Creator. He empowers teams with gold standard neuroscience-based training for high performance through professional learning journeys.
During this chat you'll hear about the Road to Mastery training that Nisha's sampled, and is a big fan of. This is long term training, where lasting relationships are built, and offers sooooo much more than a couple of days in a classroom!
If you’re passionate about transformative learning experiences to help you bring agility to the teams and organisations you’re working with, you’ll want to listen to this episode.
Key takeaways
📍The Genesis of Road to Mastery - The inspiration behind creating an Agile learning journey that bridges the gap between theory and practical application, making Scrum Mastery adventurous and fulfilling!
📍Navigating Challenges - We talk about the common hurdles for Scrum Masters, including facing down the beast that is imposter syndrome. Discover strategies for overcoming these challenges through community support and experiential learning.
📍Adapting to Real-World Scenarios - The importance of adapting Scrum to diverse team environments and cultures through experiential learning, feedback, and the courage to apply Scrum practices authentically.
📍Beyond Professional Growth - Don’t take our word for it! Participants share how the course made a huge impact to their personal growth, enhancing their authenticity, confidence, and leadership skills.
This episode’s got more insights and real talk than a chat with your most brutally honest mate.
It might just be the talk you need to tackle your challenges as a Scrum Master head-on—or at the very least, make you feel a bit better about not having all the answers straight away.
🎧Tune in and let’s get real.
Scrum #ScrumMastery #AgileTransformation #Agile #learningand development #thedeliveryspacepodcast
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Pamela is an Agile coach, who's passionate about transformation and understands that psychological safety within teams to essential for team members to perform at their most effective.
During this chat with Nisha you'll hear valuable insights into how you can maximise psychological safety within your teams.
Connect with Pamela: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pamela-ay/
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Willy is a true educational disrupter, who's taken Scrum and agile into classrooms all over the world and created an awesome impact for students.
During this chat on the Delivery Space, you'll hear how a BBQ, an inspiring conversation and some notes on an A4 sheet of paper was the catalyst for eduScrum.
eduScrum takes the concepts behind scrum and applies them to any subject for students from as young as 4 years old.
🔍 Why You Should Listen
Whether you're deeply involved in education, passionate about agile, or curious about how simple concepts can lead to significant impacts, this episode is packed with insights.
We Discuss:
👉🏿A Focus on the Human Element - Willy brings to light the essence of eduScrum, which is about academic outcomes but fostering personal and team growth. Students gain a deeper understanding of themselves, learn the value of teamwork, and unlock their full potential, beyond traditional education.
👉🏼Impactful Learning for All Ages - eduScrum isn't confined to older students; it’s a flexible approach that enriches learning for children as young as four to university level, across all subjects.
👉Transforming the Educational Space: Willy's dedication is redefining teaching and also also empowering students and educators alike to embrace agility and continuous improvement in their learning journeys.
🌟 Willy Wijnands, is creator & founder of eduScrum® and has been a chemistry teacher since 1976 at Ashram College, a Highschool in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands until January 2021.
He is co-founder of the global initiative Agile in Education. He uses eduScrum® and the agile mindset with students and trainers worldwide in all his classes and projects, no matter the subject.
An important basis for his thinking and acting has been created in his years of involvement in Aikido, Chi Kung and Shiatsu. He has written and and contributed to several books on agility and eduScrum; eduScrum guide, Scrum in Actie, ‘Agile and Lean Concepts for Teaching and Learning’, and ‘Industry Practices, Processes and Techniques in Education’ by Springer Books.
Willy is on a mission to build a bridge between the educational system and market requirements, and believes that we can empower each other by collaborating. Together they create projects and products that contribute to a bright new world and develop students into lifelong learners and leaders of tomorrow.
Ever since 2011, he has trained more than 3000 teachers in more than 50 countries, online and on location, with eduScrum®, together with eduScrum® trainers and they have worked with more than 2500 students.
Now, he works together, every month, with teachers and students in the eduScrum community of practice with more than 400 active members and the numbers are on the rise.
Check out their community: https://eduscrum.org/
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Sheetal has been involved in Agile and Leadership since she can remember!
During this episode with Nisha, they talk about the movement from an old school hard leadership style to a more emotionally intelligent "soft" leadership style. They chat about many of the advantages and dispel one of the common myths of this new style.
As an expert in business agility and founder of FormAgility, Sheetal applies 15+ years of experience and expertise in digital transformation and agile methodologies to help leadership and their people work better together, deliver value faster, and create lasting change.
Sheetal has successfully led and supported large-scale transformations for various organisations. She has introduced new thinking, tools, and practices that create better cultures, drive innovation, and empower people to face the elephant in the room and buy into the change that’s needed to succeed in the future of work. Her mission is to introduce business agility into organisations in a way that’s sustainable, innovative, and rewarding.
Link in with Sheetal here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheetal-thaker/
Sheetal's company formAGILITY: https://www.formagility.com/
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Whether you're a seasoned leader or aspiring to step into a leadership role in a product-focused organisation, this conversation with Willem-Jan Ageling will equip you with the perspectives you will need to succeed.
Willem-Jan Ageling coaches organisations to create high value products, and he's passionate about the effectiveness of Agile and Scrum.
He's a Senior Agile Coach with Worldline Global and Co-founder, Editor and Writer for Serious Scrum.
🎧 What's Inside This Episode?
🔹Redefining Leadership: Discover how leadership within a product-centric environment marks a departure from conventional project-based approaches, emphasising flexibility, vision, customer focus and trusting our teams to problem-solve.
🔹Navigating Challenges: Willem-Jan shares insights into the key hurdles leaders encounter in complex product landscapes and strategies to navigate these challenges effectively.
🔹Impactful Decisions: Real-life instances where decisive leadership transformed a product's market performance, offering valuable lessons on focusing on desired outcomes and business value.
🔹Measuring Success: Using metrics and performance indicators that matter in a product-focused organisation and how they differ from traditional metrics.
🔹The Power of Adaptability: The critical role continuous learning and adaptability play for leaders to sustain the growth and evolution of products
🔹Balancing Innovation and Risk: Get expert advice on striking the perfect balance between fostering innovation and managing the inherent risks in complex product development.
Serious Scrum: https://www.seriousscrum.com/
Connect here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/willemjanageling/
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Karen's story is awesome, and proves what you can do as a Scrum Master with a fail fast mindset!
During this chat with Nisha and Sharon, you'll hear how she used Scum and Kanban to manage a diverse team to create and host a live rock festival! 🎸
Neither Karen, nor the rest of the team had any experience in the music or live events industries...they were just a group of individuals with a shared passion for rock music.
It all started with the Quarantune Rocks! Facebook group they setup during Covid: https://www.facebook.com/groups/quarantunerocks (we love the name too!)
Connect with with Karen here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-clayton-07863711/
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The latest episode of The Delivery Space podcast has landed!
⭐️Jay Abbasi joined Nisha Joshi and Sharon Williams to share tips on negotiating conflict, to get the best out of these situations and move our teams towards the most optimum outcomes.
In 2014, Jay's father passed away suddenly from a heart attack. It was devastating. At the time, his marriage was falling apart, he was working at a job that didn’t fulfil him, and he was thousands of dollars in debt.
This began a search to uncover a methodology to find success and fulfilment in life.
The methodology he discovered changed his life completely. It led to him joining Tesla and in under 4 years he worked his way up to running national training programs, responsible for the development and execution of training/coaching programs for approximately 1,000 employees throughout North America. It also led to him finding peace, contentment, and fulfilment no matter the external circumstances.
Now, Jay's mission is to leverage his skills and expertise to help professionals build careers they love while avoiding stress, anxiety, and burnout through 1 on 1 coaching and group coaching programs.
We discussed:
📌 Conflict that’s not immediately visible. How we can shed light on the ‘elephant in the room’ and use it more constructively.
📌 The ‘sweet spot’ between taking a stand and suppressing
📌 The role language plays in conflict resolution
📌 Advice for those who are uncomfortable with handling conflict in teams
Jay helps his clients build the life and career they love. During this episode you'll hear some awesome tips and tactics for communicating more effectively within your teams.
Connect with Jay on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayabbasi/
Check out his official website: https://jayabbasi.me/
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Bobby is passionate about the power of L&D, he has specialist expertise in the recruitment industry, and has been helping recruiters outperform the market since 2016!
During this chat with Nisha and Sharon you'll hear about the power of being allowed to thrive (rather than just survive) in the workplace, supporting staff to grow, and how investing in L&D can improve quality and overall productivity.
Connect with Bobby here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobbybanerjee/
Check out his company Elev8 Learning here: https://www.elev8learning.co/
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Anuradha is a Scrum Master, a Human value maximiser and a massive advocate of volunteering to gain experience.
During this chat with Nisha and Sharon, you'll hear how powerful volunteering can be to hone your skills as a Scrum Master, and not just within software teams, but through application across various industries.
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We welcome Evelien Acun-Roos and friend of the podcast and regular contributor, Christiaan Verwijs for our next episode.
Have you ever felt unsure or insecure within the Agile community?
Evelien and Christiaan are on a mission to make our community a safer space for more people, with their scientific psychological safety study and would love your input.
The results of their study will be available in March/April of 2024.
Tune into this episode where Evelien and Christiaan share why they started this study.
We also swap our own personal experiences of psychological safety within the Agile community. An episode full of reflections.
Take a listen and let us know what you think!
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Back by popular demand: Charles-Louis De Maere returns for series 4!
During this chat with Nisha, he talks about the importance of pivoting during facilitation sessions, obtaining the right balance of clarity and vagueness, and you'll hear an (initially shocking) but very interesting story about his time in Niger.
Here are some key highlights:
- Global Facilitation Experiences: Charles Louis shares his unique facilitation experiences in various countries, highlighting the importance of adapting to different cultural contexts.
- Embracing Vagueness: Charles Louis discusses ‘Kishotenketsu’ an organic narrative storyteller's pattern originating from China that has shown to be ideal for learning. The aspect of 'Kishotenketsu', Charles Louis talks about is emphasising the value of being 'vague enough' to foster creativity and engagement in facilitation. (See comments for a ten-day workshop design and facilitation program offered by Charles Louis and Francis Laleman who gradually developed over the last few decades)
- Impactful Stories: Charles recounts impactful stories from his facilitation work, including experiences in Peru and Niger, illustrating the diverse applications and profound impact of effective facilitation.
- Facilitation in Diverse Settings: The discussion also touches upon facilitating in various settings, including for NGOs in South and Southeast Asia, and adapting to online facilitation during lockdowns.
- What happens when things don’t go to plan and you have to pivot?: Charles-Louis mentions running facilitation skills training programs, focusing on the practical aspects of facilitation and how to handle unexpected challenges.
Follow Charles-Louis on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charleslouisdemaere/
Check out Exploration Labs SRL here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/explorationlabssrl/
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🚀 We’re Kicking off Season 4 with a cracker of a podcast with Michael Lloyd, talking about my own experiences of Dysfunction Mapping and the workshop I attended to equip myself with practitioner skills.
⭐️ Michael has created #DysfunctionMapping as a means to surface anti-patterns, monitor symptoms and help fellow Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches tailor their coaching strategies, to ensure they are making lasting changes to bring the most benefit to teams and organisations.
As Michael put’s it, Dysfunction Mapping allows us to be deliberate about our coaching, allowing us to get to the core of why dysfunctions exist, and put in place solutions to measure the improvements we’re making.
These dysfunctions can present as behaviours, or patterns that can hinder teams in their ability to work effectively, collaborate, and deliver business outcomes.
Grab a cuppa and tune into the episode.
We discussed:
01:19 - My feedback on The Dysfunction Mapping workshop and its impact on my own growth
01:20 - My personal reasons for attending the Dysfunction Mapping workshop
01:48 - Approach to improving team performance, the importance of identifying areas for improvement within teams, and the value you bring as a Scrum Master.
11:03 - Challenges faced while coaching Scrum Masters and analysis of the underlying reasons for these issues in different teams.
11:50 - Exploration of common patterns and root causes in dysfunction within teams
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🎯In this episode Nisha & Sharon met with Martin Parlett to discuss PMO Learning from the island of Montserrat, and what a heartwarming conversation we had. Montserrat was left devastated by two major natural disasters in the form of a hurricane in 1989 and a volcano in 1995.
Martin gave us an insight into how the PMO lead a major countrywide social and infrastructure repair programme, and why as he describes “right practice beats best practice”.
In this podcast we cover the following:
00:00 Introduction
02:25 The challenging environmental conditions that the team faced.
09:41 Capabilities required to deliver the change and how to overcome environmental constraints
17:15 The role of local knowledge and cultural understanding in delivering change
28:39 Facilitating effective dialogue
41:49 Key learnings from the experience
53:18 Tips for people who want to get involved in similar programmes
Martin Parletts’ LinkedIn Profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-parlett/
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🚀 Our latest episode of the Delivery Space is here!
The Double-Edged Sword of Diversity features a conversation with Christiaan Verwijs about the impact of diversity on agile teams.
📚In their latest research paper, Christiaan and Professor Daniel Russo explore how differences in gender, age, role, and cultural background affect how well a team works and the level of conflict within it. They also examined the part psychological safety plays in the effectiveness of diverse teams. Their research included over 1,118 participants from 161 teams and is soon to be published!
Our discussion delves into the research findings from the research paper. Link is in the comments 👇🏽
We also share our personal experiences and insights of working in diverse teams and how our experiences have made an impact on us, putting a spotlight on the complexities and benefits of diversity in various different contexts.
🔍Here are some highlights:
👉🏻 Research on Diversity and Team Effectiveness - Christiaan shares insights from his research with Professor Daniel Russo, highlighting their findings and the complexity of the topic
👉🏾 Real-World Examples and Experiences - We discuss lived experiences from our careers and the impact they’ve had on how we’ve experienced diversity in teams
👉 Cognitive Resource Diversity Theory - Christiaan explains the theory suggesting diverse teams bring varied viewpoints and perspectives, potentially leading to greater effectiveness, depending on the nature of the work being undertaken
👉🏿Practical Example of the Similarity Attraction Paradigm - An example is given illustrating how discovering similarities instead of focusing on differences, even in every-day contexts like shared food preferences or social activities, can positively impact team effectiveness
👉🏻The Categorisation Elaboration Model (CEM) - Christiaan explains how it integrates Cognitive Resource Diversity Theory & Similarity Attraction Paradigm and the significance of CEM is his latest research paper that is soon to be published!
👉🏾 Using Liberating Structures and other facilitation exercises to explore diversity and team member’s value systems to deepen connection and understanding.
🎙️ New Episode Alert: Communicating Your Value as a Scrum Master 🚀
In our latest episode of The Delivery Space I was joined by Patty Aluskewicz, who shares her insights on how Scrum Masters can effectively communicate their value.
As Scrum Masters, we often face the challenge of not just doing our job well but also communicating our value in a way that resonates with our peers, teams, senior leadership and potential employers/clients.
Patty and I talked about the nuanced journey of a Scrum Master, and how communicating value is linked with a deep sense of self-worth and a commitment to our own personal development.
Certifications and accomplishments may not tell the full story of the value that a Scrum Master can bring…
🔍 Some Highlights:
Coaching Beyond Books (25:06-25:42): Discover why coaching is crucial for overcoming hardwired behaviours and how it surpasses traditional learning methods.
Reflective Growth (26:59-27:57): Explore the power of self-reflection and a growth mindset in shaping your Scrum Master journey, drawing parallels from Patty’s personal experiences like yoga.
Self-Advocacy (28:26-29:22): How you can communicate your strengths, especially in challenging corporate environments.
Personal Branding & Networking (31:28-36:51): Patty talks about the significance of building a personal brand and the impact of networking, using personal stories for professional impact.
Community Engagement (37:24-39:01): Hear from Patty on the benefits of being active in the Agile and Scrum community and the endless opportunities for learning and sharing experiences.
Patty Aluskewicz is an Agile Coach for PwC and the founder of Agile Mindset Consulting. With over 15 years of experience, she assists businesses and their employees in building fundamental Agile and Scrum skills, improving team dynamics and communication, and successfully implementing organisational change.
👉 Grab a brew, listen in and share your thoughts and takeaways with us.
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🌐 Explore the value system that underpins Agile Coaching in this thought-provoking latest episode of The Delivery Space podcast.
We're honoured to have Femi Odelusi, an expert in Agile Coaching, as our guest.
💡 This episode offers a unique perspective on the transformative impact of Agile Coaching on teams and organisations.
We discussed:
📌 Femi Odelusi's Personal Agile Coaching Journey 5:37
📌Navigating the Complexities of Agile Coaching in Organisations - 7:45
📌Understanding the Agile Coaching Value System - 13:03
Femi is a Professional Coach who helps individuals, teams, leadership, and organisations to be the best they can be.
He has successfully guided several organisations (from a range of sectors) towards successful transformation, and he has a passion for guiding the Leadership of organisations towards maximising and leveraging the business benefits of today’s dynamic global markets using state of the art technologies.
He is currently a Lead Coach with BT in the Telecoms sector, in their Digital Transformation.
His professional coaching is backed up by accreditation:
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He is credentialled by International Coaching Federation (ICF) as ICF-ACC.
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EMCC Global Practitioner Level credentialled Coach (EIA).
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ORSC™ (Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching) trained Coach.
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Scrum Alliance® as a Certified Agile Coach® (CAC®) Certified Team Coach (CTC).
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International Consortium of Agile (ICAgile®) Agile Certified Coach (ICP-ACC) and Agile Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF)
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In terms of Scaling, he is a Scrum@Scale Practitioner and a Scaled Agile Program Consultant (SPC).
The goal he always strives for is, with each encounter, to leave people and organisations better off than he found them.
🎬 Watch or listen for a blend of personal stories, professional insights, and practical advice. The links to the episodes are in the comments below 👇🏽
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On this episode of the Delivery Space Podcast we are joined by Algy Ayson.
He is currently the Head of Project Delivery Centre of Excellence and Profession in the UK Parliament providing leadership to establish and develop a central hub of learning, best practice and community to bring together hundreds of project delivery professionals in Parliament. His core expertise is around change leadership, digital customer service transformation, operational and project delivery and community building.
In this podcast we cover the following:
00:00 Introduction
02:23 What a community of practice is & why its needed
04:35 What the community of practice in UK Parliament looks like and the drivers behind why it was created
10:32 How a community of practice can positively impact learning & career development
16:55 Links between community of practice, creativity & innovation
21:13 Tips on setting up a Community of Practice
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🔔New Podcast Alert - Latest episode On Driving Business User Engagement has landed 🚀
How do you cultivate a relationship of trust and openness with business users when introducing change?
What does it take to not only involve but also inspire business users - be they from Marketing, HR, Finance or Sales to get involved and help shape our transformation initiatives?
Max Dave stands out in the consulting landscape as a transformative leader with over a decade and a half of dedicated service in optimising business processes. Her journey has been marked by her significant contributions to both venerable Fortune 500 companies as well as dynamic start-ups, where her strategic vision has been a driving force behind their operational success. Max has not only led these organisations through complex change but has also left an indelible mark on their operational frameworks and team culture.
Max has redefined how businesses she’s worked with visualise and streamline their workflows, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
Her skill in applying the best fit approaches and techniques for clients plays a critical role in aligning technical solutions with business needs, ensuring that she delivers value to the organisations she works with.
Here’s what we discussed when Max joined us on The Delivery Space:
1️⃣ Effective User Engagement - We discussed the crucial elements that constitute deep engagement and how to foster them within your user base (2:58)
2️⃣ Dealing with Resistance - Max shares her insights on the hurdles she’s experienced when driving change and how to transform resistance into support (6:01)
3️⃣ How we communicate matters - Communication strategies that resonate with users, breaking down complex transformations into relatable and compelling narratives. (20:56)
4️⃣ Learning from Past Challenges - how these challenges have shaped Max’s approach to delivering value to business users. (21:25)
5️⃣ Top Tips for Driving Business User Engagement (34:33)
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Om this episode of the Delivery Space Podcast we are joined by Ken Burrell. He joins us from the PMO Professionals, a boutique PMO Consultancy. He has a background in Chemical Engineering and has worked in the brewing industry as well as manufacturing where he first starting working in Project Management. He now provides PMO services to various clients spanning a number of industries including retail, public sector and financial servicesKen Burrell’s LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenburrell/In this podcast we cover the following:00:00 Introduction01:45 How a PMO can bring benefits to an organisation03:43 Project Management Maturity06:48 How can PMO’s improve the organisation maturity14:01 When should an organisation start working on Project Management maturityFollow Nisha on https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishajoshi1/ Follow Sharon on https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharon-williams-pmo/
🔔New Podcast Alert. Brace Yourselves! The Community Builders behind Agile Tour Vilnius Have Landed! 🚀Our guests, Diana Borovik & Inga Keraityte, pull back the curtain to reveal the craftsmanship behind creating a vibrant community around Agile Tour Vilnius and other events hosted by Agile Lithuania (Agile Lietuva)Here’s what we discussed:1️⃣ The unique atmosphere at Agile Tour Vilnius - 1:262️⃣ Driving Community Engagement - Strategies for active participation. 18:283️⃣ Challenges & Triumphs - Overcoming obstacles while nurturing the community 19:304️⃣ Championing Diversity & Inclusion - Successful initiatives that made a difference 29:135️⃣ Networking Opportunities - The evolution of connections and collaborations 29:596️⃣ The genesis of the Agile Tour Vilnius community - What sparked the idea? 30:197️⃣ Future Vision - The roadmap for the community in the coming decade. 33:518️⃣ The essential Feedback Loop - Integrating community insights into conference planning 36:209️⃣ The ripple effect on the broader Agile community - Impact in the Baltics and beyond 37:41Diana Borovik is a board member at a non-profit association Agile Lithuania (Agile Lietuva) and is leading the organization of the biggest Agile conferences in the Baltics - Agile Tour Vilnius 2023. She is a data-driven professional with a strong commitment to tasks, teams, and quality. Diana is skilled in uncertainty reduction, stakeholders management, and effective communication. She possesses a keen eye for detail and a passion for improving things. Diana also is a PhD student at Vilnius University and is deep-diving into the interpersonal communication between managers and employees.Inga is a dedicated IT project manager with a profound passion for Agile methodologies. As a board member of Agile Lithuania, she is responsible for community and partner management. A true Agile enthusiast, Inga blends expertise with a heart for volunteering, making a meaningful impact in both realms.Take a few moments today to learn how this inspiring duo is making such a positive impact to the Agile Community in the Baltics.
On this episode of the Delivery Space podcast we are joined by Mignon Mapplebeck Mignon Mapplebeck is a Consulting Director in the UK delivering Digital and Data Transformation. She has worked for a number of global organisations ranging from Media and Entertainment, Retail, Financial Services to Charity. She was listed in 2021 and 2022 as one of the UK's Most Influential Women in Technology and qualified in 2022 through the London Business School in Design Thinking.She is a strong advocate in advancing women in technology and providing an equitable, inclusive environment to all the teams she works with.In this podcast we discussed:02:09 What purpose data plays in running a transformation08:17 How much does Intuition play a part vs Data Driven Decisions18:13 The role of PMO in transformation and why are they needed24:17 Agile coach tips for successful transformationMignon Mapplebeck’s LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mignonmapplebeck/Follow Nisha on https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishajoshi1/ Follow Sharon on https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharon-williams-pmo/
🎉 **Special Collaboration Episode Between The Delivery Space Podcast" and "The Podcast by the Agile Coaching Roundtable" 🎉
❓Have you ever wondered how a strong personal brand can elevate your impact in the change and transformation community?❓What role does your LinkedIn profile play in shaping perceptions about your expertise? ❓How can you leverage content creation to build your personal brand?If these questions resonate with you, listen or watch our latest episode with Sharon Williams, Nisha Joshi, Ramya Shastri, Vivek Kuntoji,
🎙️ Episode Highlights:🌟 Why is personal branding a non-negotiable for professionals in change and transformation? (5:03)🌐 How your online presence can be a game-changer for your personal brand. (7:38)🎯 Strategies for utilising your expertise to carve out a niche in the Agile, transformation, and business change space. (9:10)💼 Key elements of a LinkedIn profile that make recruiters stop and take notice.(17:26)🗣️ Crafting a compelling narrative around your unique value proposition on LinkedIn. (23:31)📝 The power of content creation and sharing for personal brand building. (30:39)🏆 Real-world success stories of leveraging LinkedIn for career advancement. (44:53)
On this episode of The Delivery Space podcast, we are joined by Maarten Dalmijn, the mind behind the much-acclaimed book on "Driving Value with Sprint Goals: Humble Plans, Exceptional Results".In our conversation, Maarten helps us tackle some pressing questions that many of us encounter in the software development industry:* How can we move past the rigidity often seen in traditional planning and create an environment that is open to change and promotes collaboration? * Isn't it about time we questioned the reliance on hierarchical structures, given that the market seems to be leaning towards more flexible, team-centric approaches?
Maarten has been in the trenches for more than 10 years wearing many hats that are necessary to deliver value. He has worked with many award-winning start-ups, scale-ups, and corporations in various roles before taking the leap as an independent Product Management, Agile,and Scrum consultant working with companies all over the globe. Maarten believes in 'less, but better'. #productmanagement is aboutgetting the right things done. It is easy to come up with a list of things to add to make something better. It is much harder to decidewhich things to leave out to make something better. We discussed:* Why storytelling is important? 3:18 * Why Maarten picked the subject of Sprint Goals for his first book 7:18 * How Sprint Goals empower teams 9:38 * Why it’s so important to get a good read of your environment (refCynefin) 10:59 * How Friction (frequent surprises) impacts our plans in complex environments 12:00 * What Humble Planning is and how it can help us adapt and respond effectively in complex software delivery environments 13:06 * Roadmapping hell experiences 16:28 * You can have as many experts as you want to plan, but in a complex environment there will always be surprises 19:00 * There’s no sub team in a Scrum team 20:03 * Maarten’s FOCUS acronym for crafting Sprint Goals 21:40 * Complex environments and emerging plans in the movie industry, whatcan we learn from this? 24:31 * What happens if there’s no Sprint Goal? The link between Sprint Goals and technical debt 29:20
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🔔 'The Delivery Space' podcast is back with another engaging episode, featuring our guest, Karim Harbott. We dive into our topic 'Carving out the Space for Innovation,' discussing how innovation and business agility work hand in hand to navigate today's unpredictable business world. 🌐🚀Karim is a leadership and business agility expert, entrepreneur, author, non-executive director, and international keynote speaker. Over the past 20 years he has worked with some of the most complex agile transformations anywhere in the world.Karim is one of only a handful of people globally to hold the Certified Agile Leadership (CAL) Educator, Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST), and Certified Enterprise Coach® (CEC) status. He is also an ICF Professional Certified Coach® (PCC), Certified LeadershipAgility® 360 Coach, and holds a master’s degree in Innovation & Entrepreneurship.He is the creator of the Business Agility Canvas, a widely-used strategic tool for driving agile transformations. Karim also served as a non-executive director at the Scrum Alliance, and is the author of the best-selling book The 6 Enablers of Business Agility: How to Thrive in an Uncertain World.We cover several essential points:🔸The inception and impact of 'The 6 Enablers of Business Agility' (2:35)🔸Identifying and tackling obstacles to agility and innovation (10:43)🔸Understanding the levels of innovation needed for Business Agility (13:03)🔸Key traits and actions of leaders promoting innovation (21:00)🔸Where organisations struggle in their quest for innovation (24:03)🔸How some organisations have successfully shifted to a culture of innovation, leaving old ways behind (28:28)🔸The importance of imagination for innovation and creating room for it (30:19)And more…Links to the episode are in the comments 👇🏽 and the podcast is now available on the platform of your choice!#TheDeliverySpace #BusinessAgility #Innovation #culturetransformation #agile #agilecoaching #scrummasters #scrum #agiletransformation 🚀📘
Drumroll, please…The latest Delivery Space Podcast is out and this week we’re talking about… Making Difficult Conversations Easier.Who among us relishes the thrill of a tough talk? Show of hands? Anyone? No? Didn't think so. We’ve all encountered scenarios where we’ve had to deliver bad news, ask for a promotion, a pay rise or even apologise for a mistake.These chats can turn even the bravest among us into a bundle of nerves. However, there are ways in which we can have these conversations to honour ourselves and the other person. Sharon Williams and Nisha Joshi were joined by the remarkable Sam Kiani who shared some helpful tips that we can put into action to help you navigate these conversations in a balanced way. Sam is a Change Alchemist, a Coach, Facilitator, Transformational Space holder with more than 25 years’ experience of delivering & leading change within both IT and the business, for some of the biggest Investment Banks where she reached Director level as well as entrepreneurial start-ups including my own.Throughout her career, Sam's experiences have revealed that the technical problems we face are never the things that hold us back and cause the most stress – it’s all in the way we work and collaborate – or not. Sam loves to help make working life better by helping Individuals, Teams and Leaders find their full capability, learn tools of successful collaboration and unlearn everything else that gets in the way of creativity, innovation and growth. Sam is also a yogi & bio-optimiser, trained by the Human Potential Institute, deeply looking into the factors that underpin exceptional performance, vibrant energy and radiant health. Sam teaches performance breath work and mind training sessions both privately and for corporate clients.We delved into:The anatomy of a difficult conversation (6:25)The art of preparing for the dreaded talk (10:34) Managing emotions to stay present, express our truth, and truly listen (12:36) Turning the conversation into a positive experience (16:32) Tools to handle defensive responses (29:18) Join us in this enlightening conversation and empower yourself with these great tips!
🎙 Scrum Masters & Agile Coaches - are you wanting to build impactful relationships with senior executives that you’re coaching ?Our latest episode of The Delivery Space podcast is a prime opportunity to pick up some super useful coaching tips!Sharon Williams and I had a delightful chat with Bob Galen 🇺🇦, Author of Extraordinarily Badass Agile Coaching: The Journey from Beginner to Mastery and Beyond, to discuss:⭐️The Artistry of Coaching Up⭐️Bob is an Agile leader, coach, author, speaker, and community builder.He has a knack for turning around struggling organisations, teams, and products in a sustainable and productive way. Bob is also a proven team builder and a servant-leader.For ~20 years, he’s been focused on leveraging agile methods as the best way to deliver software value. While not being a silver bullet, these methods simply work better than anything he’s tried.Bob is also a Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC) providing agile team coaching & training with a focus on Scrum+XP, Lean and Kanban practices.Our conversation included:🎯 Tips for building relationships with the exec so you can appreciate their vision, challenges and the organisation through their eyes. (09:42)🎯For those Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters who don’t necessarily have a management background, what steps they can take to advise senior executives when coaching up.(12:42)🎯 The push and pull elements of the coaching relationship (17:45)🎯 How reframing resistance allows Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters to build rapport, and a mutual understanding, so they can help organisations solve complex problems for customers and end users. (28:28)🎯 The importance of self-care for Agile coaches and Scrum Masters (35:22)Leave us a review and make our day !
🎙️ 🚀 Exciting news! Our latest episode of The Delivery Space Podcast has landed, featuring an insightful conversation with Paddy Corry, a seasoned Agile Coach at ESW (eShopWorld), a rapidly expanding e-commerce business.🔑 In this episode, we explore meta-skills - the philosophy, attitude, and principles Agile Coaches operate from, shaping how they interact with their clients.This episode is brimming with insights on:📌 How Agile coaches can discern which meta-skill is needed for coaching situations 3:03📌 The Coaching Agreement and other tools that Agile coaches can use to frame the coaching conversation with teams and with leadership 8:46📌 Why Agile coaches need to be aware of their inner state, the energy that they are taking into coaching conversations and the impact of this on coaching conversations 20:32📌 The importance of reflection and feedback to evaluate how we show up as coaches 22:42📌 How to adopt the coaching stance of a disruptor, when we know it is needed but may not be received well 26:31📌 The range of stances we are comfortable adopting and recognising where we need further development 36:44Paddy's journey spans 20 years in software development, from developer to Scrum Master and Agile Coach. Currently, he's expanding his knowledge, pursuing Scrum Alliance Certified Team Coach certification, and the ICF's ACC certification. Paddy also writes for Serious Scrum on Medium.com. If you want to benefit from practitioners sharing their direct experiences on practice of Scrum and brining agility to organisations, check out Serious Scrum, it’s an invaluable resource.🚀 Working with the Lean-Agile Centre of Excellence team at ESW, Paddy is at the heart of a rapidly growing e-commerce business, guiding it to adapt and evolve through agile approaches.👥 Join us in this enlightening conversation and enrich your Agile Coaching journey! Follow Paddy here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paddycorry/Follow Nisha here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishajoshi1/Follow Sharon here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharon-williams-pmo/
🚀 🔔 The Delivery Space, New Podcast Alert: "Iterate to Great: Create a learning environment to raise Scrum team performance" 🎙️ This week, Christiaan Verwijs, co-creator of The Scrum Team Survey and Co-Founder of The Liberators, talks to us about how we can navigate the tricky waters of balancing customer needs with the pursuit of continuous improvement 🔄. 📝 Episode Highlights: * The purpose and impact of The Scrum Team Survey created by Christiaan and Barry Overeem,(4:14) * Revealing a scientifically backed model for Scrum team effectiveness, involving comprehensive data from over 2000 global Scrum teams (06:04) * Mastering the art of balancing learning opportunities with the necessity of delivering value to stakeholders (10:57) * Understanding the critical role of a learning environment for Scrum team's continuous improvement (11:47) * Discussing the strategies Scrum Masters can adopt to foster a learning culture (16:25) * The influence of Liberating Structures in shaping a learning environment (18:23) * The effectiveness of The Coaching Centre software in driving improvements (23:00)
👥 About Christiaan: He enjoys igniting positive change in teams and organisations. He has an academic background in organisational psychology and software engineering. Together with Barry Overeem, he founded The Liberators, wrote the Zombie Scrum Survival Guide, spread Liberating Structures far and wide in the Agile community, and engaged in scientific research. Christiaan lives in Utrecht with Lisanne. He loves writing, software development, data analysis, reading, and learning. To date, he has worked with hundreds of Scrum teams and dozens of organisations.Christiaan's Linked in Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christiaanverwijs/Barry's LinkedIN Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barryovereem/ Empower your team with the right tools and techniques to excel. #TheDeliverySpace #ScrumMaster #PerformanceImprovement #scrum #agile #continuousimprovement #learning #agilecoaching #teamcollaboration
🎙So you’ve come to the realisation that your current career path doesn’t fully satisfy you. But what comes after the epiphany? 🤔Figuring out next steps - whether that’s investing in a mentor, diving into a fresh career, or working on a side hustle, can feel like navigating a maze 🌀⭐️ Simon Minall-Burdett, opens up about his own journey, sharing valuable insights and real-life lessons on navigating career changes.He shares his very own story of how he talked himself into a new career from working in customer accounts to becoming a Principle Enterprise and Transformation Consultant with Improving in the US.Simon considers himself something of an 'accidental agilist' after being introduced to it fortuitously in 2013. This isn’t an episode about uncovering a secret 7-step blueprint or embracing intense daily workouts.This is a story of inquisitiveness, leaning on a nurturing network, bouncing back, and in Simon's words – administering the occasional "boot to the backside" to spur him on, when necessary!If you want to break free & reinvent, listen to Simon’s experience on the podcast to get some inspiration!Simon Minall-Burdett’s LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-minall-burdett-49413887/In this podcast we discuss:🥘 Simon’s love of Curry - 1:36💡 The moment Simon realised that his career path was not satisfying him - 3:05🔍 How Simon started to express an interest in Testing and widen his net at work - 6:39⏳ A flashback to how Simon made an early breakthrough in Software Testing aged 10/11 - 10:53🤝 The support Simon received from his managers once he’d decided on his new career path - 13:24🌟 Stellar advice from Harry Redknapp - 14:15🚀 The daunting journey of a Scrum Master starting out with just a CSM - 16:39🎭 The stage presence Scrum Masters need to bring into the room - 18:45📘 Avoiding information overload whilst you learn - 25:36💼 How taking responsibility for our own learning also benefits our clients - 27:51🌱 The importance of resilience when changing career direction - 33:54🔗 How looking outward for support in the community, helped Simon advance in career 42:17Follow the Delivery Space on: Spotify & all other podcast platformshttps://open.spotify.com/show/2HW2Ni2ZAetmzUnqXFbZzD?si=Iwd9zcbtQiCqgGTziY-3Hw&utm_source=copy-link LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/77075379 Instagram ttps://instagram.com/delivspace?utm_medium=copy_linkFollow Nisha on https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishajoshi1/ Follow Sharon on https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharon-williams-pmo/
🚀A fresh episode of The Delivery Space podcast has landed, featuring our stellar guest, Helen Meek!🚀Scrum Masters & Agile Coaches! Do you ever feel like there's more you could do to boost your team's performance? The title "Scrum Master" may suggest a sole emphasis on Scrum, but that doesn't mean we're restricted from incorporating other methods to elevate team effectiveness. Helen Meek comes on board to discuss how embracing Kanban practices can lead to data-driven insights and unveil team enhancements that'll leave you questioning why you didn't give it a shot earlier 🤯.Helen is an outgoing and driven coach and trainer who is passionate about working with Individuals, teams and organisations on their road to agility. Helen has working with many varied organisations and teams in many different industries and brings this vast wealth of experience and knowledge to her training and coaching.Helen has a holistic approach to coaching operating with individual team members, whole teams, leaders, managers and executives across technical and non-technical departments. You will often find her working with clients on rolling out enterprise level Kanban or Scrum.Helen is proud to be an Accredited Kanban Trainer with the Kanban University (KU) and runs regular classes publicly and privately. Helen is also one of the few people to hold the Train the Trainer title for the KU. Not forgetting her roots Helen is a regular trainer for Agile and Scrum.Helen's Linkedin Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/helenjmeek/We discussed:1️⃣ Tackling misconceptions directly that it must be either Scrum or Kanban, as if they're in some sort of rivalry, rather than considering their potential to complement one another. (2:08)2️⃣ Helen’s direct experiences of why Scrum teams switch to Kanban practices - the good and the bad (3:21)3️⃣ No framework is a silver bullet. The importance of using your Scrum practice to the fullest extent and not just jumping from one framework to another, but dealing with dysfunctions and challenges as they come up. (6:10)4️⃣ Merging the worlds of the Agile advocates and Senior leadership whose aim is to grow and evolve their businesses (8:01) 5️⃣ Evolving through the Kanban Maturity Model to get consistent results and showing visibility of the flow work through the entire system. (15:00)6️⃣ Helen’s take on securing leadership buy-in when introducing new practices and ways of working. (20:11)Follow the Delivery Space on: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HW2Ni2 LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-delivery-space/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/delivspace/ Follow Nisha on: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishajoshi1/ Follow Sharon on: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharon-williams-pmo/
🗣 Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters play a crucial role in overcoming dysfunctions within Agile teams. These dysfunctions can present as behaviours, or patterns that can hinder teams in their ability to work effectively, collaborate, and deliver business outcomes.⭐️ Michael Lloyd has created #DysfunctionMapping as a means to surface anti-patterns, monitor symptoms and help fellow Scrum Masters and Agile coaches tailor their coaching strategies, to ensure they are making lasting changes, and bringing the most benefit to teams and organisations. 🚀Michael joined us on The Delivery Space to talk about the Dysfunction Mapping method that he’s offering in a workshop format, to equip Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters to solve challenges faced by teams. Michael's Linkedin Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-lloyd-124621177/We discussed:📌 Michael’s motivation for creating Dysfunction Mapping (2:27)📌 Feedback on the Dysfunction Mapping tool from those in the community, that have used it (3:45)📌 Our early experiences as Scrum Masters (15:39)📌 Using the method to form a coaching backlog (25:06)📌 The importance of articulating our value as Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches (27:02)Make sure you follow The Delivery Space for more great episodes like this 🚀Follow the Delivery Space on: Spotify & all other podcast platformshttps://open.spotify.com/show/2HW2Ni2ZAetmzUnqXFbZzD?si=Iwd9zcbtQiCqgGTziY-3Hw&utm_source=copy-link LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/77075379 Instagram ttps://instagram.com/delivspace?utm_medium=copy_linkFollow Nisha on https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishajoshi1/ Follow Sharon on https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharon-williams-pmo/
👉🏽Do you use automation to drive the maximum value in your PMO❔❔Automation allows team members to focus time & energy on the high value activities which in turn can help with more informed decision making from portfolio level to projects, deliver value to customers, boost overall morale and improve job satisfaction & staff retention. 💡We had the opportunity to speak to John McIntyre from Hot PMO 🔥 on all things automation! 🤖John heads up a niche UK project management office (PMO) consultancy, HotPMO, which promises to help organizations “deliver the right things, faster.” He has over 20 years of experience helping organizations deliver projects and programs that deliver business outcomes.You can get in touch with John on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnmcintyrepmo/We discussed:📌 What automation means in a PMO context📌 Where & how automation can add value in PMO’s📌 The link between use of automation tools & improved delivery of projects and programmes📌 Future automation trendsFollow the Delivery Space on: LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/the-delivery-spaceInstagramhttps://www.instagram.com/delivspace/Follow Nisha on:https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishajoshi1/Follow Sharon on:https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharon-williams-pmo/
If you want to learn more about how the Scrum Master and Product Owner relationship is crucial to high performing teams, this episode is for you !
On this episode, we are joined by Maarten Dalmijn
Maarten has been in the trenches for more than 10 years wearing many hats that are necessary to deliver value. Maarten Dalmijn has worked with many award-winning start-ups, scale-ups and corporations in various roles before taking the leap as an independent Product Management, Agile and Scrum consultant working with companies all over the globe.
Maarten believes in 'less, but better'. Product management is about getting the right things done. It is easy to come up with a list of things to add to make something better. It is much harder to decide which things to leave out to make something better.
Maarten Dalmijn’s LinkedIn Profile:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/maarten-dalmijn/
In this podcast we discuss:
- Examples from Maarten’s own career when the SM and PO relationship has worked well
- Why a sense of play is important to high-performing teams
- Impact of Silos on this relationship
- Scaling and solving dysfunctions in an agile way
- Scrum Master - does the role name truly represent the function the Scrum Master performs today in the quest to bring more agility into their teams and organizations?
- Importance of data driven evidence to changes made to the Scrum Guide
- Tips to deal with conflict between Product Owners and Scrum Masters
- Being visible at high levels within Organisations to make the bigger impacts
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What Makes an Effective Leader ?
Is it title, status, authority, the impressive salary and benefits, having all the answers or the ability to influence others and help teams work together for the best outcomes ?
When life passes you the leadership mantle, what you do with it has a significant impact on the teams you serve.
Authentic leadership is truly an inside out job and the ability to self reflect is key.
Which qualities do you pull from within yourself to show up for your teams ?
Our teams can become our mirrors.
As leaders, when we hold ourselves to high standards, our teams get inspired and crush it !
This week we are joined by Pete Brown.
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Pete has been a senior leader for over 25 years, working with global clients across retail, financial, hospitality, logistics, travel, and construction on a vast array of operational and digital transformation programmes. Pete prides himself as being a professional disrupter and has built an impressive reputation in helping organisations reach optimal performance and growth ambitions.
In this podcast we discuss:
- The character traits of a good leader.
- The different styles of leadership, & what scenarios they are effective.
- How Leaders can empower the team to also become leaders in their own right.
- The impact the pandemic has played on leadership
- Tips for our listeners who want to develop leadership skills and any resources or tools that can help.
- How a leader can foster diverse thinking to deliver programmes.
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If you ever needed advice on how to navigate a progressing career and parenthood, this is the podcast for you!
This week we are joined by Jana!
Jana is a Project Manager, who has a wealth of experience within the real estate industry and has recently completed an MBA in real estate and construction. Outside of her day job she enjoys spending time with her son, reading, sewing and mentoring young people. As a natural planner Jana strongly believes victory loves preparation so if you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.
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In this podcast we discussed:
✔ How Jana’s career began & how it progressed
✔ Some of the adjustments made once she became a parent
✔ What the transition was from full time professional to working single parent & dealing with workplace resistance
✔ Advice/ tips for other parents that are also progressing their careers
✔ Support frameworks
✔ Things that companies can do to support working parents
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If you want to learn about the importance of leadership and the role it plays in creating high quality teams, this is the podcast for you!
This week we were joined by Gill Bennet who is passionate about conveying the message that leadership responsibility to communicate with impact, doesn’t just lie at the senior levels of organisational structures.
Born and raised in Queensland, Australia, Gill has lived and worked in the UK for the last 10 years. She has delivered some of the largest web, app, and back-end projects for the BBC and NewsUK, reaching over 35 million people around the world.
Gill builds high-performing, self-organising teams. By drawing upon her own personal journey with leading teams without authority and in mental health, she always puts people at the center of anything she does.
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In this podcast we discuss:
✔️ The key traits of truly human leaders
✔️Gill’s experiences of leadership
✔️ The part that leadership plays in creating connections and allowing us to form high performing teams
✔️ Gill’s advice for new leaders
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If you want to learn some techniques to show your PMO impact, this is the podcast for you!
This week we were joined by Laura Barnard
Laura Barnard is a top Global PMO Thought Leader. In 2021 she was named as global PMO influencer of the year. She is a Keynote Speaker, Trainer & Consultant & Founder and CEO of PMO Strategies
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In this podcast we discuss:
✔ Some ways in which PMO’s can transition to focusing on outcomes rather than outputs
✔ Methods in which PMO’s can get a better understanding of the problems the business are facing
✔ Tips so PMO’s can start to have a seat at the table & start to be involved in strategic conversations
00:00 Introduction
02:17 Some ways in which PMO’s can transition to focusing on outcomes rather than outputs
11:17 Methods in which PMO’s can get a better understanding of the business problems
16:47 Tips so PMO’s can start to have a seat at the strategy table
23:40 Key Takeaways
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If you want to be inspired with ways to encourage agility within your organisation, this is the podcast for you!
This week we were joined by Tomasz ‘TK’ Kropiewnicki and Arif Bobat
Tomasz is an experienced Professional Coach, change agent, facilitator and systems thinker with a focus on objective results and Servant Leadership. He strives for congruency while inviting organisations to change with his enthusiasm and humility. He appreciates and respects each organisation as an individual complex and adaptive system with its own culture and history.
Arif is a Leadership and Team Coach who enjoys nurturing safe, positive and trusting spaces. He thrives in challenging environments as they are ideal conditions for growth. Arif’s key areas of focus include product management, team culture and supporting leaders through periods of change. In his individual coaching, Arif brings calmness and kindness to his relationships, creating the right environment for clients to find their own path.
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In this podcast we discuss:
✔The importance of agility for organisations today
✔The common pitfalls that we need to be aware of when it comes to increasing agility within our organisations
✔The part that leadership plays in encouraging the spirit of experimentation
✔Impactful changes within client organisations that ‘TK’ and Arif have worked with
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If you want to learn about Well-being in the workplace, this is the podcast for you!
This week we are joined by Nicole Mapleson!
With 15+ years experience in Supplier Relationship Management in recruitment & L&D, Nicole has learnt to hone her people skills, increase her emotional intelligence and connect with people from all walks of life.
She’s currently working for Philip Morris International and manages their learning vendors, specifically for the Leadership & Coaching categories.
Nicole is part of a team of Mental Health Ambassadors within PMI and believes in being mindful and that we all have mental health to take care of. Ensuring we do little things to keep that happiness bucket topped up, is essential for everyone’s wellbeing.
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In this podcast we discuss:
✔️ Whether enough is being done to engage, communicate & support Co-workers
✔️ Some of the things those of us working in teams can do to support each others wellbeing in the workplace
✔️ Tips to prompt discussion about wellbeing without stigma
✔️ How to encourage people to come forward and speak on wellbeing
✔️ What wellbeing tools as individuals can we put in place in day to day stressful situations
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If you want to explore what good decision making looks like as a board member this is the podcast for you!
This week we are joined by Shirah Mansaray
Shirah Z Mansaray has over 15 years experience working in humanitarian field with organisations such as United Nations and the Human Rights and Economic Affairs Department at the Council of Europe Strasbourg. Shirah is a Trustee & Non Executive Director at Amnesty International UK. She is CEO and founding trustee of International charity ‘I am somebody's child soldier’ which provides mental health support to former victims of war in Uganda.
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In this podcast we discuss:
✔Shirah’s five step decision making process
✔Role of intuition & emotion in decision making
✔How the current ecosystem/ economic climate has an impact on board members
✔Shirah’s recent research paper on purpose driven business & the impact economy
✔What inspires Shirah
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If you want to explore the importance of learning & how it can benefit your career this is the podcast for you!
This week we are joined by Swetha Kalyanapu
Swetha is on a journey from being a Neuro-Scientist to being a Data Scientist and is someone who believes in "Learning as a lifetime process". She says, in times of rapid change, the key to success is learning. Those who are most receptive to change, willing to come out of their comfort zone and able to learn the fastest are going to be the “winners”. She adds, my willingness to learn something new both professionally and personally helped me boost my confidence and gain competitive advantage.
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In this podcast we discuss:
✔When Swetha’s passion for learning began
✔What role learning plays in career development
✔Different types of learning styles
✔How networking can support learning
✔How to make time for lifelong learning
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We are back with Season 3 !
If you want to learn how to approach resistance in the workplace through kind leadership this is the podcast for you!
This week we are joined by Kayrn Ross.
Karyn is on a mission to Activate People to Create a Kinder, Better World. An artist, internationally acclaimed speaker, award-winning author, consultant, coach, and practitioner, Karyn is one of the Founding Mothers of Women in Lean – Our Table, a global group of almost one thousand women lean practitioners. Karyn is also Founder and President of the Love and Kindness Project Foundation, a registered public charity and The New School for Kind Leaders. She has created both of these initiatives to help people around the world think, speak, act and lead more kindly.
Karyn’s sixth book, The Kind Leader: A Practical Guide to Eliminating Fear, Creating Trust and Leading with Kindness is available on Amazon.
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In this podcast we discuss:
✔Whether resistance is actually a negative thing
✔How to work with resistance and maintain positive team dynamics
✔Tips for facilitators encountering resistance
✔Where resistance can lead to positive outcomes
✔The Kind Leader Book
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Youtube Lindsay
If you want to learn about the different types of PMO & necessary key competencies this is the podcast for you!
This week we are joined by Lindsay Scott
Lindsay has worked in and around project management and PMO for over 20 years and is a Director at PMO Learning, a training company focused on PMO and Co-Founder of the House of PMO, a professional membership organisation for PMO practitioners.
Lindsay is the co-author of the PMO Competency Framework, the editor of the Handbook of People in Project Management and PMI’s careers columnist. She speaks regularly on project management and PMO careers topics – and provides 1-2-1 coaching for those looking to advance their careers in PMO.
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In this podcast part 2 of 2, we discuss:
✔ Different skill sets required for the different PMO types
✔ Recommendations for PMO people that want to develop additional skills and switch between the different types of PMO
✔ How PMO’s can support delivery teams
00:00 Part 1 recap
01:20 The different skills sets are required for different PMO types mentioned
03:16 Recommendations for PMO people that want to develop additional skills and switch between the different types of PMO
10:45 How PMO’s can support delivery teams
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If you want to learn about the different types of PMO & necessary key competencies this is the podcast for you!
This week we are joined by Lindsay Scott
Lindsay has worked in and around project management and PMO for over 20 years and is a Director at PMO Learning, a training company focused on PMO and Co-Founder of the House of PMO, a professional membership organisation for PMO practitioners.
Lindsay is the co-author of the PMO Competency Framework, the editor of the Handbook of People in Project Management and PMI’s careers columnist. She speaks regularly on project management and PMO careers topics – and provides 1-2-1 coaching for those looking to advance their careers in PMO.
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In this podcast, part 1 of 2 we discuss:
✔The different types of PMO
✔The scenarios in which the different types of PMO are needed
✔The impact of the pandemic on the types of PMO & skills that were needed and impactful
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If you want to learn how to get ahead & progress your career in the field of delivery this is the podcast for you!
This week we are joined by Mamta Gera
Mamta is a leadership consultant, coach and course creator who has delivered numerous workshops, coaching and training to executives, directors and managers within organisations, ranging all industries.
Mamta has over 20 years’ experience within the Broadcast Media industry, having worked in companies such as Sky, Amazon, and the BBC.
In Mamta's previous role at Accedo, she led a team of over 60 employees across EMEA and was accountable for financial performance, portfolio health and governance activities.
Mamta is now passionate about positively changing mindsets within organisations - particularly helping women, ethnic minorities and LGBTQ members reach their full potential, and become confident, inspiring leaders. Current clients include Warnermedia, Cazoo, Naked Wines, Harper Collins, News UK and UCL.
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In this podcast we discuss:
- Mamta’s career journey in the delivery space
- Career challenges Mamta faced and she overcame them
- Recommended support
- The importance of networking
- How Mamta chose her career path
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If you want to explore how to create a resilient mindset & creating momentum via the power of the compound effect this is the podcast for you!
This week we are joined by Property Developer Lewis Blakelock
Lewis’ previous experience includes managing a KFC Franchise store with 2m annual turnover and a team of 30-40 staff. He is Co-Host of The Developers Network North East, a fantastic & knowledgeable monthly networking event focused on property development.
His experience spans across portfolio management of Serviced Accommodation, Buy to Let, House in Multiple Occupation, Industrial stock, land development and acquisition, commercial conversions and project management.
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In this podcast we discuss:
✔How to create a sustainable routine
✔A breakdown of the compound effect
✔Tips on building a resilient mindset
✔What types of challenges Lewis faced at the start of his business ventures and what tools he used to overcome them
✔Recommended reading
If you want to explore how to create understanding through differences using facilitation this is the podcast for you!
This week we are joined by visual facilitator Charles-Louis de Maere.
Bringing people together is something that lives on through Charles-Louis workshops and training. Whether they take place online or on-premise, Charles-Louis facilitates workshops and learning experiences that focus on high participation, on learning by doing and verifying that the concepts are integrated.
Charles-Louis is also a skilled visual facilitator. He loves bringing people in contact with the power of Visual Thinking, of getting back to our roots and using pen and paper to bring people closer together.
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In this podcast we discuss:
- Facilitation techniques to create a safe experience for team members to bring up their differences
- Why getting to a unified conclusion isn’t always helpful
- Techniques to test understanding when facilitating
- How making small changes can switch things up. For instance, if leadership are involved, do they always have to talk first?
- How to avoid ‘Groupthink’ and invite team members to voice their own opinions
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If you want to explore the differences between LeSS and SAFe this is the podcast for you!
This week we are joined by Agile Transformation and Feature Team Specialist, Ben Maynard.
Ben has coached, trained & been passionate about software & people since 2009 proving that it is possible to sustain change, build relationships, trust & respect at all levels of an organisation.
He is the creator of the UK’s best Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) Community & the most successful Podcast dedicated to all things LeSS Ben is the UK’s only Certified LeSS Trainer & Certified Coach.
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In this podcast we discuss:
- The distinction between LeSS and SAFe
- The key attributes required for scaled frameworks to succeed in client-vendor scenarios
- Common pitfalls in selecting scaled frameworks
- Building blocks that organisations need to have in place before scaling
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If you want to learn some tips on how you can enhance your Stakeholder Management skills this is the podcast for you!
In this podcast Sharon & Nisha discuss:
✔The importance & impact of having engaged stakeholders
✔How to cultivate a relationship
✔Stakeholder Management Plans
✔How to speak the same language for better results
✔How to manage external stakeholders
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If you want to learn how coaching helps support enterprise agility this is the podcast for you!
This week we are joined by Femi Odelusi
Femi is a Professional Agile Coach with the one of the world’s largest Digital Communications companies (combining digital technology with telecommunications). He has a passion for guiding teams and leadership in maximising and leveraging business agility benefits in today’s dynamic global markets.
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In this podcast we discuss:
✔Why coaching important at an enterprise level
✔What styles of coaching he employs at an enterprise level
✔What are the main challenges that he has experienced
✔What is the response when he experiences resistance at an exec level
✔How to remain neutral whilst suggesting methods to achieve an outcome
✔What are the foundational things that need to be put in place to ensure that there is no roll back of changes
✔How to ensure commitment at Senior Leadership/ Exec level
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If you want to learn more about Enterprise Agility and how Organisational Leaders can avoid Fear of Failure you’ve come to the right place!
This week we are joined by Arthur MLaughlin
Arthur McLaughlin is a scientist, technologist and latterly a Chief Operating Officer who started his career as a mathematical modeller, moving into Enterprise Sales & Outsourcing where he managed Large Pharmaceutical Accounts for IBM before moving into Financial Services Tech with JP Morgan. For the last two years he has conducted interim & Board Advisory work (for clients in Enterprise Tech, Fintech, Artificial Intelligence, Private Equity and Management consultancy).
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In this podcast we discuss:
✔What is Enterprise Agility
✔Business Architecture to support Enterprise Agility
✔Corporate Vanity
✔How to create teams that accept failure as necessary for business growth
✔The impact the pandemic has had on enterprise agility
✔Mindset needed to thrive in organisations that embrace Enterprise
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If you want to learn how to set the right foundation for a successful change delivery this is the podcast for you!
This week we are joined by Noel Warnell.
Noel is a Delivery Director for Reason, with 20 years’ experience of project delivery, 11 of those with agile teams. He thrives on creating memorable experiences for colleagues and clients through coaching, facilitation, drawing, mentoring, speaking and writing.
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'Mise en place' is the French term used in professional kitchens to describe the preparation of dishes & ingredients before service begins. He uses this analogy to take us through the foundation that needs to be in place to deliver successfully. In this podcast we discuss:
✔What the foundational ingredients are
✔The benefits of taking an experimental approach towards innovation
✔Book recommendations
✔Minimum viable boundaries
✔Managing resistance
✔Third party suppliers
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Season 2 Episode 1
If you’ve ever wondered how you can develop your personal brand and what some of the benefits are, this is the podcast for you!! In this week’s episode we are joined by Andrew MacAskill.
He is the is Founder of Executive Career Jump, Author of The Job Search Playbook and the recently named LinkedIn Changemaker for Careers and Unemployment and has a huge following of 90k users on LinkedIn.
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In this podcast we discuss:
- What a personal brand is and the benefits of creating it
- Tips from anyone who is starting from scratch
- How to deal with online critique
- The importance of being on LinkedIn
- How to get the right balance between personal & professional posts
- How to make your profile stand out
- Tips for people who are introvert and don’t like social media
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Have you ever wondered how you can increase your personal resilience in addition to that of your team? If so, this is the podcast for you!
In this week’s episode Sharon Williams and Nisha Joshi discuss the following:
- What is resilience ?
- What the characteristics are of a resilient team
- Examples of where we have had to be resilient throughout our careers
- The benefits of building resilience
- Tools and techniques that can be incorporated to build resilience
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If you’ve ever wondered what tips you can use to motivate a team and yourself this is the podcast for you!!
In this week’s episode we are joined by Muhammad Shehzad. He is an Enterprise Cloud Solutions Architect, Scrum Master, and Motivational Speaker with over 17 years of experience in the field of Data Analytics. He has worked ground up, starting as a SQL DBA/Developer to leading international teams and delivering enterprise-level international cloud transformation projects. His experience spans over UK, USA, Europe, and the Middle East.
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In this podcast we discuss:
- The importance of motivating a team
- How a leader can keep themselves motivated
- The role that effective listening plays in motivation
- Why a positive mindset matters
- The role of creativity in team meetings
- How to make your team feel valued
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Making the most of our inner talents often requires taking time out to get greater clarity on how we can apply these talents to help us achieve our goals.
If you find that the treadmill of life has taken over and you're not sure where to start, listen in to Sharon Williams and Nisha Joshi sharing how coaching and mentoring has helped to further their careers within the delivery space.
PMOs and PMs have worked together since these professions first arose. However, to be effective, it’s important that this relationship is nurtured and understood. This will increase chances of a controlled & successful project delivery, raise productivity, and ensure benefits get realised. Having a good PMO on a project helps to unblock problems and support the overall delivery of strategic business goals.
Despite the global pandemic, there has been a significant benefit that we've experienced from having a PMO fully engaged and working alongside delivery teams. Here are some key observations to help you make the most of this partnership
This is The Delivery Space podcast. Whether you're interested in software delivery, business change or transformation, we have some great content lined up for you. We launch into different areas of project delivery and bring you insights and experience that you don't get from a book.... Welcome it's Nisha & Sharon. This is episode #1 and introduction to our podcast.