During our 2022 conversation, SAFe Fellow Kathy Marshak and Emily Lint sat down to discuss Middle Management in the agile space. Where do they belong? How do you bring them on the Agile journey with you? And, most importantly, how do we as Agilists help them thrive in these new ways of working. Take a listen to learn more! About the Featured Guest Kathy Marshak is a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Fellow, Business Agility Transformation Coach, and instructor with Icon Agility Services, Inc. She is...
Feb 22, 2023•35 min•Season 23Ep. 81
This episode features a new member of the Women in Agile Podcast team, Renae Craven. Get to know her through a conversation with our host Leslie Morse. Together they discuss authenticity and its importance in building our own leadership as well as building successful teams and organizations. About the Featured Guest Renae Craven is a certified Coach and Scrum Professional, with over 12 years of experience coaching organisations and their teams through their transformation to an agile mindset. Sh...
Feb 08, 2023•50 min•Season 23Ep. 80
During this 2022 conversation, Jess Brock and Emily Lint dive deep into dojos. What does it mean to run a great dojo and how do you measure a dojo's success? Have we been doing dojos all wrong? Find out more! About the Featured Guest At the brink of burn out, Jess Brock’s discovery of Dojo coaching renewed her faith in the possibility of providing meaningful and lasting Agile and technical coaching. Jess has led over 17 Dojos engagements, spanning 3 countries and in physical and virtual settings...
Oct 20, 2022•51 min•Ep. 79
In this 2021 conversation, Marjorie Anderson joins our host Leslie Morse to explore how community building serves our teams and organizations. The episode is aptly named after a quote Marjorie drops early in the episode, “Agile is Community, Community is Agile.” As you listen you’ll realize how true this is. During the discussion they touch on the multi-facted nature of nurturing communities and all the ways it has a possibility of serving the work agilists do. About the Featured Guest Marjorie ...
Sep 07, 2022•44 min•Ep. 78
In this episode you hear from Queirra Fenderson, the keynote speaker for the WiA 2022 event in Nashville, TN as part of the Agile2022 conference. In her discussion with our host, Leslie Morse, she explores her wisdom in ambition and intuition. Queirra shares her story of discovering her hidden inner-agilist, how she came to study the interplay of ambition and intuition and offers multiple tips and tricks for honing your “intuitive ambition.” While listening you’ll learn about blind ambition as w...
Aug 31, 2022•52 min•Ep. 77
During this 2022 conversation, Alena Keck and Emily Lint peel back the curtain on successful Transformation teams: how they look and what makes them successful. Whether you are using the Scaled Agile Framework and creating a Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE) or just want to start a successful transformation team across your organization, find out from this industry leader how to create one that sticks! About the Featured Guest Alena is a Lean-Agile Transformation Leader helping large global...
Aug 24, 2022•42 min•Ep. 76
In this episode you get to meet Emily Lint, a new host joining the Women in Agile Podcast team. During the conversation Emily and our host, Leslie Morse, discuss the story of Emily’s career journey as she began embracing agile leadership after starting off as a ITIL process expert. About the Featured Guest Emily Lint is a Business Agility Coach and founder of Lint Agility Services located in Albuquerque NM. She has 4 of years experience coaching Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe implementations, but with ...
Aug 17, 2022•56 min•Ep. 75
This episode is a re-release of a 2019 conversation our host, Leslie Morse, had with Billie Schuttpelz about imposter syndrome and authenticity. This was the 11th episode of our series and it's fascinating how important many of these topics still are. As you listen, we hope these words of wisdom from Billie stick out to you as much as they did for us. “What if instead of finding my purpose, I find myself... It leads me to fulfilling my purpose?” “People are the most innovative when they’re opera...
Aug 10, 2022•26 min•Ep. 74
This episode is a re-release of a 2020 conversation our host, Leslie Morse, had with Brandi Olson about burnout. We revived this episode because of its original popularity as well as because the content is incredibly relevant. Listen in as Brandi and Leslie explore how to recognize burnout in ourselves as well as in our organization, how it’s all about prioritization (whether proactive or reactive), and whether having grace within our team can prevent burnout in the first place. Join the convers...
Aug 03, 2022•42 min•Ep. 73
In this 2021 conversation, our host Leslie Morse geeks out with friend and colleague Summer Lawrence as they dance through a variety of topics related to professional development, learning, experimentation and personal empiricism. About the Featured Guest Summer Lawrence is an Agile Coach and Professional Scrum Trainer. Her passion is helping agilists with powerful ways to grow their skills and maturity. You can usually find her building something in the shop with Science Friday on the radio. Fo...
Jul 27, 2022•41 min•Ep. 72
Pragmatic Talk about Community, Agility, Teams and Organizations - Georgina Donahue | 2201 During this 2021 conversation, Georgina Donahue and Leslie Morse explore what community means, how community and Agile intersect, and the adjacency of Pragmatic Marketing, Product Management and agility. About the Featured Guest Georgina Donahue is an experienced community builder who has worked with companies like PWC, ESRI, and American Express. She currently runs the Pragmatic Alumni Community—A Communi...
Jul 20, 2022•54 min•Ep. 71
This episode of the Women in Agile Podcast is the final installment of the “Coaching Agile Teams” Mini-Series. Lyssa Adkins and host, Leslie Morse, explore the opportunity agile practitioners and agile coaches have to impact society on a global level. The episode has a balance of serious reflection and inquiry sprinkled with laughter, appreciation, and deep dreaming for the future. You can learn more about this series of episodes by visiting www.womeninagile.org/cat . The Women in Agile communit...
May 13, 2021•49 min•Ep. 70
Nada Buhendi, former management consultant turned career coach, joins Women In Agile Podcast host Leslie Morse for a discussion where she shares her story and perspectives on career agility and what she sees impacting both job seekers and those looking to hire agile professionals. Nada does an exceptional job of being vulnerable about how she experienced the workplace and the factors that led her to embark as an entrepreneur focused on aiding others on their career journey. Leslie and Nada use p...
May 06, 2021•56 min•Ep. 69
This episode of the Women in Agile Podcast is another from the “Coaching Agile Teams” Mini-Series. Our Host, Leslie Morse is joined by Lyssa Adkins and special guest Molood Ceccarelli as they explore the dynamics of remote working and serving agile teams while not physically co-located. Featured Guest Molood Ceccarelli is a Remote work strategist & remote agile coach often referred to as the queen of remote work in agile. She is the founder and CEO of Remote Forever and host of the fully onl...
Apr 29, 2021•58 min•Ep. 68
During this episode of the Women in Agile Podcast, host Leslie Morse is joined by Lisa Bradburn as they discuss the interplay of agile coaching and Gestalt Psychotherapy. Lisa shares her agile origin story and what led her to study Gestalt Psychotherapy. Then they proceed to unpack the difference in coaching and psychotherapy, what Gestalt Psychotherapy is, and how underlying skills and tenets of the study can aid in the work of agile coaching. About the Featured Guest Lisa Bradburn is a Toronto...
Apr 21, 2021•52 min•Ep. 67
This Episode of the Women in Agile Podcast is another from the “Coaching Agile Teams” Mini-Series. Our Host, Leslie Morse is joined by Lyssa Adkins and her mentor, Mike Vizdos. It is a special conversation filled with lightness, vulnerability, and true wisdom. Leslie guides Lyssa and Mike through a series of stories and anecdotes that not only tell aspects of Lyssa’s origin story and evolution, but also showcase wisdom on the difference in coaching and mentoring, how to create meaningful connect...
Apr 14, 2021•53 min•Ep. 66
This episode of the “Coaching Agile Teams” Mini-Series on the Women in Agile Podcast brings you Part 2 of a discussion on the art and science of team coaching and group facilitation. During this episode, Lyssa Adkins and our host, Leslie Morse, focus on the topic of group facilitation before wrapping the overall discussion by circling back to team coaching as they touch on co-leadership and co-facilitation. One of the most important reminders in this episode might be the guidance around the 2:1 ...
Apr 07, 2021•32 min•Ep. 65
In this special release episode, Women in Agile Org is thrilled to feature our new sponsor for the Women in Agile Podcast, Scrum.org. Listen in as Dave West, CEO of Scrum.org and Patricia Kong, Product Owner of Enterprise Solutions at Scrum.org, join our host Leslie Morse for a conversation on diversity, complexity, and social responsibility. They touch on some of the origins of Scrum, what complexity means, and how team and organizational diversity are key for solving complex problems. About th...
Apr 01, 2021•34 min•Ep. 64
The “Coaching Agile Teams” Mini-Series is more than half-way over, and during this episode, Women In Agile Podcast host, Leslie Morse, leads Lyssa Adkins through the first part of a discussion on the art and science of team coaching and group facilitation. During part one of this conversation, Lyssa and Leslie focus exclusively on the team coaching topic. During part 2 you’ll get the chance to hear them discuss group facilitation. Leslie and Lyssa play with an operating systems metaphor during t...
Mar 31, 2021•19 min•Ep. 63
The seventh topic of the “Coaching Agile Teams” Mini-Series on the Women in Agile Podcast brings you a content-heavy discussion with Lyssa Adkins and our host, Leslie Morse. During this episode they explore five categories of models useful when working with agile teams. Detecting and Seeing Problems Navigating Conflict High Performing Teams Team Development Product Management and Product Ownership You’ll learn how models enable you to see the world differently, can serve when you are emotionally...
Mar 24, 2021•58 min•Ep. 62
President of Ascendle, Diana Bourns, joins our host Leslie Morse for a conversation on how Ascendle has leveraged discipline & empowerment as the underpinnings for creating a thriving agile organization. During this discussion Diana reveals that supporting organizational memory through co-created documentation as well as halving a relentless strive to improve are other keys for their success. One of the most interesting concepts in their goal to get everyone into their “genius zone.” About t...
Mar 17, 2021•39 min•Ep. 61
The seventh episode of The Women in Agile Podcast’s Coaching Agile Teams Mini-Series brings you the second part of the conversation where Lyssa Adkins and Leslie Morse explore the pathway to Agile Coaching. Part 1 of this discussion left off as Lyssa & Leslie were opening a discussion on coaching ethics and the intersection of agile coaching and professional coaching. There is specific focus on how agile coaching is not professional coaching, but that professional coaching is a part of agile...
Mar 10, 2021•32 min•Ep. 60
Join us for reflections and appreciations as Natalie Warnert and Leslie Morse celebrate International Women’s Day 2021. During this episode of the Women in Agile Podcast, you’ll get insight on the accomplishments and impacts of Women in Agile Org from the President and Executive Director, Natalie Warnert. The 2021 International Women’s Day theme #ChooseToChallenge is a key aspect of the discussion. You’ll hear Natalie share her aspirations for the future of the Women in Agile non-profit organiza...
Mar 08, 2021•42 min•Ep. 59
The sixth episode of the Women in Agile Podcast Coaching Agile Teams Mini-Series brings you the first part of a deep discussion between Lyssa Adkins and our host Leslie Morse where they unpack multiple dimensions of the pathway to becoming an Agile Coach. During this discussion you’ll start collecting tips, tricks, and pointers for reflection as you consider forming your own agile coach journey. There are things in here for those new to agile coaching as well as those tackling more advanced topi...
Mar 03, 2021•33 min•Ep. 58
The fifth episode of The Coaching Agile Teams Mini-Series features special guest Kory Stamper. The conversation with Lyssa Adkins, Kory Stamper and Leslie Morse twists and turns through a variety of topics all inspired by the ah-ha moment Lyssa had when listening to Kory’s Women in Agile 2020 keynote. It caused her to take a step back and really look at the words she used in the “Coaching Agile Teams” book. Lyssa had already taken note of how militaristic language showed up in her 2010 descripti...
Feb 24, 2021•44 min•Ep. 57
The fourth episode of the Coaching Agile Teams Mini-Series wrap-ups the foundation setting context of the series. During this conversation Lyssa Adkins and Leslie Morse do more than share information about the supplements for the Coaching Agile Teams audiobook that are available when you purchase from Audible. Hear them discuss tips and tricks for making book clubs successful as well as get a mini-masterclass on aphorisms. As you’ll learn from Lyssa, aphorisms are an entry point for changing wha...
Feb 17, 2021•42 min•Ep. 56
In this episode of the Women in Agile podcast, Jessica Katz joins Leslie Morse for a conversation about how to best accept accountability when you’ve done harm to someone. They dance through a variety of examples, point to blindspots, and provide tips for how you can become more aware of when you’re doing harm and how best to repair relationships where you’ve caused harm. She also shares parts of her story for how she cultivated her skills to be able to do this work well. You can learn more abou...
Feb 10, 2021•48 min•Ep. 55
The third episode of The Coaching Agile Teams Mini-Series unpacks a side of Lyssa Adkins you may have never seen before. You hear Leslie Morse comment on the laughter and lightness of the discussion during her opening comments and that comes alive in a real way through the use of metaphors inspired by playground equipment. During this episode, Leslie and Lyssa unpack not only aspects of Lyssa’s journey to produce the Coaching Agile Teams audiobook but also compare and contrast how she is differe...
Feb 03, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 54
The second episode of The Coaching Agile Teams Mini-Series was recorded by Lyssa Adkins and Leslie Morse in August of 2020. During this conversation they explore the inspiration and mission for the mini-series. It is very much an exploratory conversation with moments of laughter counterbalanced with deep and at times vulnerable discussion. Leslie and Lyssa open their hearts and minds in an invitation to listeners as they call on their desire to normalize what it means to be on the journey to bec...
Jan 27, 2021•51 min•Ep. 53
Lyssa Adkins, a predominant stalwart in the Agile community and author of the 2010 book “Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition” joins Women In Agile Podcast host Leslie Morse to kick-off the Coaching Agile Teams mini-series. This is the first in a series of episodes where Lyssa and Leslie explore ten topics related to the topic of Agile coaching as well as Lyssa’s journey to create and release the audiobook version of the “Coaching ...
Jan 20, 2021•17 min•Ep. 52
