Dan Neumann At AgileThought Podcasts

This week, Dan Neumann is joined by his colleague Justin Thatil to explore POWER Start, a great strategy to help you plan, structure, and run your meetings effectively. In this episode, Dan and Justin dive deep into the structure of POWER Start and the fantastic benefits that result from using it as the most effective tool to make meetings producti…

This week, Ola Tunde joins Dan Neumann to explore the innovations on SAFe, which just launched the 6.0 version. In this episode, they talk about the new features of SAFe 6.0, including new strategic themes. Dan and Ola Tunde dive deep into the benefits and advancements this latest version of SAFe offers Teams and Organizations. Key Takeaways Strate…

This week, Dan Neumann is joined by Mike Guiler to discuss the benefits of Agility, including employee satisfaction, predictable delivery, and speed to market among others. Key Takeaways: Agility leads to employee satisfaction since every Team member is connected to the purpose of the work. Sustainable pace is enabled by Agile Methods Agile done we…

This week, Dan Neumann is handing his role as a host to Buyi Kalala and Mike Guiler, who are leading today’s episode. Gerardo DeLaFuente and Eric Lindgren join them to discuss information radiators for leadership. In this episode, they explore how information radiators influence a Team’s performance and the delivery of value when going from one eng…

This week, Dan Neumann is joined by Buyi‌ ‌Kalala‌ to talk about the Scrum Master role and the misconceptions associated with it. In this episode, Dan and Buyi address the personality types that seem more effective/successful in the Scrum Master role. Key Takeaways What do Scrum Masters really do? There are a lot of misconceptions regarding the rol…

This week, Dan Neumann is joined by his colleague Mike Guiler to talk about Teams. Dan and Mike explore the four types of Team topologies and the three different types of interactions among them. They also dive deep into how to design effective Teams and how to help them grow so they can move at the speed of the customer. Key Takeaways Why is a Tea…

In this episode, Eric Landes addresses the challenge of doing Continuous Delivery on a Scrum team. Many teams and organizations struggle with Continuous Delivery, and some think that in a Sprint there can be only one release. Or, they struggle with getting their Increment good enough to be “potentially shippable.” What’s a Scrum Team to do? Check o…

This week, Dan Neumann is joined by his colleague and friend, Adam Ulery, to talk about product backlogs. In this episode, Dan and Adam explore the recent patterns showing interesting ways of using Agile terms, as it is an example nowadays that people call product backlogs the source of requirements for the Team, they discuss today the challenges t…

This week, Dan Neumann is joined by Quincy Jordan. In this episode, Dan and Quincy discuss the current state of events for the Agile movement, they dive into an insightful discussion about what Agility really means and what the key elements are that make a sustainable transformation to Agile. Quincy and Dan share how Agile works when an organizatio…

This week’s Trainer Talk is with Olatunde, SAFe Program Consultant (SPC). A student asked about the importance of psychological safety in a scaled agile environment. If you are interested in attending a training class, please view a list of our public SAFe training classes. Key Takeaways So, someone asked me recently, “why do you believe in psychol…

This week, Dan Neumann is joined by his colleague Mike Guiler In this episode, they answer a listener's question about how they might approach joining a new company. Times of change are exciting and create new possibilities. The next question is: "how might I approach it?" Mentioned in this Episode: Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technolo…

In this episode, Eric Landes addresses the challenge of getting team members who are inclined to be quiet, reserved, or “introverted” to collaborate for the betterment of the team and the product. Check out our public Scrum training courses if you want to attend Scrum training. Key Takeaways: In the software development world, you may have noticed …

This week, Dan Neumann is joined by his colleague Andrea Floyd, who is about to start her retirement journey and today is sharing her excitement about this new stage in her life. In this episode, Andrea talks about the many ways in which her life was improved by Agile principles and the framework it provides to face different life scenarios and ove…

In this episode, Eric Landes addresses a question he received while training: “How many times should I refine a Product Backlog Item before it’s ready for a Sprint?” If you are interested in attending Scrum training, check out our public Scrum training courses. Key Takeaways: How many times should a team refine a PBI before it is ready for the spri…

This week, Dan Neumann is joined by ChatGPT, a large language model developed by open AI. An AI language model, I'm designed to understand natural language and generate human-like responses to questions and prompts, trained on a vast amount of text data, and have knowledge of a wide range of topics including software development project management …

This week’s Trainer Talk is with Olatunde, SAFe Program Consultant (SPC). Tunde shares some reflections on how to merge the best of Kanban with the best of Scrum in an approach called “Scrumban.” Key Takeaways: Somebody asked me a question. The question was, “why do you need to Implement Scrumban?” First, I always ask, “what do you know about Scrum…

This week, Dan Neumann is joined by a long-time acquaintance and friend, Tricia Broderick, a leadership advisor and co-author of Lead Without Blame with Diana Larsen. In this episode, Tricia talks about the book she wrote with Diana, their mission, and the most important messages that are carried in it, such as the true meaning of a Team, the relev…