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Do you need assistance with your Agile adoption? Or would you like to share what worked or didn’t work during your adoption process in your own company? If so, we invite you to participate in the Agile Community Network. The ACN Podcast is recorded monthly at our live events. If you want to join that event, please visit acnpodcast.org to register. Help support the show by becoming an ACN supporting member or sponsor today!
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Agile Community Network episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Agile Community Network for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Agile Community Network episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Team and personal learning, moving from scrum master to Agile coach, and moving to enterprise-level coach
Agile Community Network
02/25/20 • 46 min
In this episode, we talk about how people learn both at the team and personal level. We also talk about how somebody moves to an Agile coach role from scrum master, and how to become an enterprise-level coach.
- (00:00) Introductions
- (02:17) Learning at the team and personal level
- (29:20) How do you move from scrum master to Agile coach?
- (39:41) How do you become an enterprise-level coach?
- (43:34) Wrap up
This podcast is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Never enough time to test, stakeholders participation, should leaders understand Agile, and personal agility
Agile Community Network
06/11/19 • 49 min
In this episode, (00:51) we explore a terrible story from the Narrative Project about never having enough time to test; (21:47) How do we combine sprint reviews so that stakeholders can participate?; (29:21 ) Is it essential for leaders to understand and act Agile before they have others do so? ; (36:53) Is it important to hone personal agility to enhance organizational agility? ; (46:49) Wrap up: upcoming events.

Lack of training opportunities, small steps to shift to an Agile funding model, building trust when teams are not co-located, and what we are reading
Agile Community Network
05/07/19 • 42 min
In this episode, (1:03) Narrative Project: we explore ways to dampen stories around somebody feeling that they don't get training opportunities | (14:59) What are some small steps to get started in shifting a large 3K employee organization from multi-year project funding to a more Agile funding model? | (23:59) What are the best approaches/ideas/personal experiences when trying to strengthen or build team trust when scrum coach and team are not co-located? | (35:33) What books are your reading? | (38:37) Wrap up: join Ray at the following events.

Great leaders impact on Agile, calculating business value, required reading on culture change, how to hold teams accountable
Agile Community Network
04/12/19 • 47 min
In this episode, (00:40) Narrative Project: Great leaders build strong Agile teams. How to make more stories like this?; (16:50) Business value delivered is a valuable metric to track for senior leadership. What are some of the best ways to calculate this?; (31:24) What research, studies, literature do you draw on during conversations with management regarding the need for cultural change?; (38:00) How do you hold a team accountable?; (44:40) Wrap up... Join us at Deliver:Agile 2019 in Nashville.

Empower the team to write great code, developing an Agile mindset, nonfunctional requirements and Agile, and addressing misleading terminology
Agile Community Network
03/12/19 • 58 min
In this episode, we talk about (00:26) a story from the Agile Narrative Project titled "What about the code?" and how to empower the team to write great code; (20:23) How do you move teams to go beyond agile rituals and really develop Agile mindset? ; (33:59) What is the best practice for nonfunctional requirements in Agile?; (47:50) How do you address if somebody is using misleading terminology?; (55:25) Wrap up.

Engage upper and executive management, first line managers, measuring the Agile coach, and coach helping with budgets
Agile Community Network
07/04/18 • 48 min
This episode we talk about (00:36) tactics and strategies to engage upper and executive management in adopting business agility, (12:49) how can you bring the most value to line-managers that might be willing to change but not yet see or understand the full implication, (32:04) how does an Agile Coach know that he has done a good job, and (41:05) how can a coach help a business head or a product manager on budget allocation.

Are all Agile transformations slow, backlog grooming in Kanban, Agile coach vs scrum master, and ignoring Agile values
Agile Community Network
06/08/18 • 51 min
In this episode, we talk about (00:55) are all Agile transformations extremely slow, (20:00) how to do backlog grooming in Kanban, (22:18) what are the deliverables of an Agile coach vs. scrum master, and (33:14) Where is the line between modifying Agile frameworks for need and ignoring Agile values and principles.

Ways to promote the value of Agile Coaching, and the limits to scaling the Agile adoption to large organizations
Agile Community Network
04/22/18 • 53 min
In this episode, we talk about (00:54) what are some ways to promote the value of Agile Coaching, and (25:46) we talk about what are the limits to scaling the Agile adoption to a larger organization.

Why scale frameworks feel like waterfall, talking to executives, and what is business agility
Agile Community Network
01/25/18 • 50 min
In this episode, we are talking about why scaled frameworks may feel like waterfall, how to talk to executives, and what the heck is this business agility.

From command and control to self-organization, and why use Agile project management.
Agile Community Network
10/22/20 • 47 min
In this episode, we talk about ways to move teams away from command and control over to a more self-organization model. Also, we explore why and when Agile project management.
- (00:00) Introduction
- (02:06) Moving from command and control to self-organization
- (33:18) Why use Agile project management?
- (45:17) Wrap up
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FAQ
How many episodes does Agile Community Network have?
Agile Community Network currently has 91 episodes available.
What topics does Agile Community Network cover?
The podcast is about Leadership, Transformation, Agile, Podcasts, Technology, Business and Coaching.
What is the most popular episode on Agile Community Network?
The episode title 'When Coaching is no Longer Coaching' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Agile Community Network?
The average episode length on Agile Community Network is 49 minutes.
How often are episodes of Agile Community Network released?
Episodes of Agile Community Network are typically released every 28 days, 16 hours.
When was the first episode of Agile Community Network?
The first episode of Agile Community Network was released on Feb 7, 2017.
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