âGood flow is invisible, but it takes a lot of work to get thereâ
Nikolaos Kaintantzis
In this episode of SPCs Unleashed, Mark Richards, Ali Hajou, Nikolaos Kaintantzis, and Stephan Neck take you behind the scenes of their virtual facilitation setups. Itâs a follow-up to their earlier ha...
âItâs weeding time, right? Sometimes you have to weed out stuff that doesnât work. Dead wood is not good on a tree.â
Stephan Neck
Is Agile really âdead,â or just misunderstood and badly applied? In this lively podcast episode, Mark, Stephan, and Niko challenge the buzz about Agileâs demise ...
âA cheap writing tablet can transform your PowerPoint into a shared canvas.â
Ali Hajou
Remote facilitation has come a long way since the early days of clunky video calls. In this lively episode, four experienced facilitatorsâMark, Ali, Stephan, and Nikoâswap stories about how they transfo...
âLeaders have to do more than simply say âwe have two systems.â They have to actively steer the organization so itâs both robust and free to innovate.â
Stephan Neck
What happens when an organization outgrows the myth that âall you need is cross-functional teamsâ? In this episode of SPCs U...
âIf you do no pre-work, the first 20 minutes are lostâsomeone canât open Miro, doesnât have the password, so you lose that time sorting out technical difficulties.â
Mark Richards
Remote facilitation may feel like juggling blindfoldedâespecially when every participant has a muted mic and a...
âIf you ask questions about the past, itâs always about going to a corpse and opening it up... If you ask questions about the future, itâs always about values.â
Nikolaos Kaintantzis
âAre you all dumb?ââwhen a senior stakeholder dropped that bombshell mid-retro, chaos threatened to derail...
âIf you do it right, if you have the right people, and if you have some nerds and lots of engineering DNA, it really works on the tool side"
Stephan Neck
If youâve ever believed that failing once in remote PI Planning means catastrophe, this episode of SPCs Unleashed proves otherwise. Mar...
Effective dashboards and ART insights are crucial to navigating the complexities of Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and organizational alignment.
In this episode of SPCs Unleashed, Mark Richards, Stephan Neck, Niko Kaintantzis, and Ali Hajou delve into the strategic role of dashboards in improving...
âShi(f)t happens: Either guided or becoming a loose cannonâ
Stephan Neck.
This episode explores change management in the context of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), which refers to the process of planning, implementing, and managing changes within an organization as it adopts SAFe pract...
âIf people do not share a common vision, and do not share common mental models about the business reality within which they operate, empowering people will only increase organizational stress and the burden of management to maintain coherence and direction.â
Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline
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âIf you want to coach senior leaders, you need to start by understanding whatâs important to themâeven if it has nothing to do with Lean Portfolio Management.â
Mark Richards.
In this lively and thought-provoking episode of SPCs Unleashed, Nikolaos Kaintantzis, Mark Richards, and Stephan Ne...
"PI Planning is where the framework meets realityâitâs a test of alignment, collaboration, and leadership."
Stephan Neck
In this episode of SPCs Unleashed, hosts Stephan Neck, Niko Kaintantzis, and Ali Hajou explore one of SAFe's cornerstone activities: PI Planning. The trio leads an engagi...