In an insightful interview with Lyssa Adkins, she describes herself as a leader of leaders. She works on her own leadership abilities as a first step.
She is a coach, facilitator, teacher and inspirer. Many of us know her as an author of Coaching Agile Teams which, as a top ranking Agile book for more than a dozen years.
In this interview, she shares her views and experiences on:
1. How can a leader evolve his/her leadership style as the team grows
2. Silliest myth about Agile coaching
3. Her idea of staying actively engaged without dominating team
4. Tips on becoming an effective Agile Coach in today’s world
5. Things to be avoided to become and effective Agile Coach
Interviewee: Lyssa Adkins (Author, Coaching Agile Teams)
Lyssa Adkins is a coach, facilitator, teacher and inspirer. She is the author of Coaching Agile Teams which, as a top ranking Agile book for more than a dozen years.
Her Agile community focus is amplifying women’s voices, which is why she is a founder of the TENWOMENSTRONG #WomeninAgile programs.
In 2010, she co-founded the Agile Coaching Institute which has developed over 10,000 people in the knowledge, skills and being-ness needed to yield genuinely competent agile coaching. Since 2011, she has been a member of the ICAgile working committee that defines the learning objectives for Agile Facilitation and Coaching and she assesses candidates for the ICAgile-Expert in Agile Coaching competence-based certification. She has also served the Scrum Alliance as an application reviewer for the Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC) designation.
Interviewer: Noopur Pathak (Chief Media Editor, INNOVATION ROOTS)
Category: Video Interview
Relevance of Scrum in 2024 with Ken Rubin
In this interview, we have featured Ken Rubin who is an author of Amazon’s #1 worldwide best-selling book Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process. He shared what inspired him to write this book and also how Scrum practices can evolve to incorporate sustainability goals of the organizations.
As we speak about the relevance of Scrum in 2024, he tells some of the trends expected in 2024 in the agile community.
Interviewee: Ken Rubin (Author, Essential Scrum)
Ken Rubin is an agile thought leader and the author of Amazon’s #1 worldwide best-selling book Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process. Ken founded Innolution where he helps organizations achieve outstanding returns through the application of agile principles. Trained as a computer scientist and forged into a business executive at IBM and ten early-stage technology companies, Ken’s distinctive strength is his ability to successfully apply an agile mindset from the boardroom to the individual team.
As a Certified Scrum Trainer, Ken has trained over 30,000 people on six continents in agile as well as object-oriented technology. He has also coached over 200 companies ranging from startups to Fortune 10, and is an angel investor and mentor to numerous exciting startups. Ken was also the first managing director of the worldwide Scrum Alliance, a non-profit organization that has certified over one million agile practitioners.
Interviewer: Noopur Pathak (Chief Media Editor, INNOVATION ROOTS)