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Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring Conversations

Mar 28, 2017

High Performing Agile teams seems to be what everyone wants - but do you know what is means and what it takes to get there?  Yasser Farra talks about his perspective of high performing teams and how to help create them.  He gives us some helpful tips on team make up and dynamics, team environment, and more.   We also...


Mar 23, 2017

Amber King is a fan of team self-selection, which, in her experience, yields happier, more empowered, more productive teams. Amber shares her story working at Opower where the company decided to do an experiment: the goal would be to do what's best for the company, but individuals get to choose what they work on and...


Mar 22, 2017

Karen Favazza Spencer hears the echoes of the pioneering experiential learning psychologists from a hundred years ago in today’s Business Agility movement. Drawing on the wisdom of both 20th and 21st century neuroscience, Karen penned an Agile primer called “The Agile ABC Book” (


Mar 21, 2017

Enterprise Agile coach Renee Troughton believes that pessimism and optimism are additive: lots of horrible moments can give you a pessimistic outlook, while lots of positive moments can yield an optimistic one. "We ride this pessimistic and optimistic wave as individuals based upon the moments that we have in...


Mar 17, 2017

Katy Saulpaugh started out in change management before becoming an Agile coach. Today she applies her previous knowledge and experience to the field of Agile transformations. In her Business Agility 2017 talk "Agile Reorgs: A Survival Guide", she outlines how to approach reorgs for Agile teams and minimize the pain...