Agile4Life

Aaron Kraft

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Agile Habit Forming

On today’s episode Moriah and Aaron consider the importance of habits in an agile life. Charles Duhigg wrote a book called The Power of Habit where he helps his readers better understand how habits are formed and how they can impact our lives in all the best ways. How do we create habits in an agile manner? We do so iteratively, over a period of time, getting fast feedback to know how it’s going, and various other intersections between the ideas of agile and habits. Often times we think of break...

Jun 14, 2021•36 min•Ep. 10

Agile at Scale

On today’s podcast we are going to talk to our next guest, Bernard Williams, about his experience developing scaled agile, meaning agile when you want to practice agile on a grander scale then just a single team. This is often the case when there are lots of moving pieces, when one thing is dependent on another, when timing is complex, and you need a birdseye view of all the complexities. Moriah and Bernard met recently at a training session covered SAFe, which stands for Scaled Agile Framework....

Jun 10, 2021•35 min•Season 1Ep. 9

What is Business Agility?

Without an understanding of Business Agility it makes it difficult for organzations to adapt and change to the world around us. In today's podcast we're going to be talking about Business Agility as a pivitol piece in our successes. We discuss the definition of Business Agility as found in this Wikipedia post, defined below, and how we can use this in our everyday life. Business agility refers to rapid, continuous, and systematic evolutionary adaptation and entrepreneurial innovation directed at...

May 05, 2021•33 min•Ep. 8

Why we must be emotionally agile to be successful

Without healthy emotional control in our lives we won't accomplish everything else we want to do. On today’s podcast we’re going to be talking about emotional control as a critical factor for our agility. 4 areas where emotional control or the lack there of can positively or negatively impact things Decision making Relationship success Day to day interactions Self care - physical and mental health Cole, Michel, Teti, Emotional Regulation is “the ability to respond to the ongoing demands of exper...

Apr 26, 2021•30 min•Ep. 7

Continuously Improving through Accountability

In today’s episode Moriah interviews Aaron about the idea of accountability, linking it with responsibility. These two pillars are foundational for a successful life, personally and professional. But how? Accountability and responsibility are like two sides of the same coin and the metal that it’s made of is transparency. Are you willing to be transparent so can be accountable for the goals you want to achieve in life or will you simply tell yourself that everything is great and you don’t need a...

Apr 19, 2021•32 min•Ep. 6

Are email, chat, and texts making things worse?

On this episode Moriah and Aaron talk about a book that was recently published called “A World Without Email” by Georgetown Computer Science professor Cal Newport. The title of the book is quite catching. Email has become an electronic leash for far too many people, with expectations that you will reply almost immediately, even more so with chat and texts. Is that a problem of the technology or the way we use it? Do we need to adopt a neo-ludite approach (props if you know what that is) or do we...

Apr 10, 2021•33 min•Ep. 5

Productive Planning

#4 How do we get from here to there? We don't know about you, but we want to great things with our lives and that's not really possible if we don't have a well executed plan. On this episode Moriah and Aaron talk about what's its like to make plans that get us toward our personal and professional goals. Don’t just do work for work’s sake. There's that great bit in the movie Office Space where the obnoxious boss is so focused on the creation of the TPS reports. But who cares? Is anyone using them...

Apr 04, 2021•24 min•Ep. 4

Tackling Complex Problems

In today's Agile4Life Podcast we interview longtime friend George Westwater. George is a solutions architect who has worked on technology projects for some of the largest companies in America. In addition to being an amazing technologist, George is also passionate about transformation. When thinking of how to approach a solution he starts with the people part before diving into either the process or technology needs. Some of the themes covered are: How do we break down complex problems to make t...

Mar 27, 2021•26 min•Ep. 3

Course Corrections

The very agile Moriah suggested the idea for this podcast. It started out as "test your hypothesis" and evolved into the idea of making those small, agile course corrections necessary to get you where you want to go as quickly and painlessly as possible. In this episode we take another pass at a definition of agile that applies to both our personal and professional lives and then talk about the difference between our goals and how we go about achieving them.

Mar 20, 2021•34 min•Ep. 2

We finally agiled our way into a podcast!

Moriah and Aaron introduce themselves and talk a little about how life brought them to this agile mindset. What started at work has quickly spilled over into the rest of their lives.

Mar 14, 2021•25 min•Ep. 1

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