Author: Noopur Pathak

Scott Ambler is the Chief Scientist at Disciplined Agile, Inc. He works with organizations around the world to help them to adopt agile and lean strategies across the enterprise. We started off our discussion by understanding how can we approach innovation effectively to succeed in today’s world. He says innovation varies organisation to organisation. One can drive innovation by understanding what customers want and how you can delight them.

In order to manage change in an optimal way, Scott says just assume change will happen and embrace this fact. Don’t get invested in your ideas and strategies, since you need to constantly shift with it.

Interviewee: Scott W. Ambler (Chief Scientist, Disciplined Agile, Inc)

Scott is the Chief Scientist at Disciplined Agile, Inc. He works with organizations around the world to help them to adopt agile and lean strategies across the enterprise. He provides training, coaching, and mentoring in disciplined agile and lean strategies at both the project and organizational level. Scott is the (co)-creator of the Disciplined Agile (DA) framework as well as the Agile Modeling (AM) and Agile Data (AD) methodologies. He is the (co-)author of several books, including Choose Your WoW!, An Executive’s Guide to the Disciplined Agile Framework, Refactoring Databases, Agile Modeling, Agile Database Techniques, and The Object Primer 3 rd Edition.

Interviewer: Noopur Pathak (Chief Media Editor, INNOVATION ROOTS)

In this insightful discussion with the CEO of Lean Kanban Inc. Todd Little, we begin with understanding how leadership and culture intersect. As per Todd, leaders can have significance influence on culture as they can help shape it. Effective leaders can only do that. Also, he explained his views on asking the right questions in order to assess the culture of an organisation. Asking a right questions depends a lot on observation. The most powerful question is ‘why’ so they know the purpose and business reason of what we are doing. Hear him out to understand leadership, culture and business Agility.

Interviewee: Todd Little (CE), Lean Kanban Inc.)

Todd Little is CEO at Lean Kanban Inc., the leading provider of professional Kanban management training. He is also a Founder at Accelinnova, a leadership and agility consulting group. Previously he has held executive roles as Vice President of Product Development for IHS, and Director of Software and Technology for Landmark Graphics a division of Halliburton.He has been developing or leading the development of software for over 35 years. For the past 10+ years, Todd has been a frequent presenter at Agile and Software conferences around the globe. He is a founding member and past President of the Agile Leadership Network. He has served on the Board of Directors of both the Agile Alliance and the Agile Leadership Network, and was a co-founder and Conference chair for several of the Agile20XX conferences. Todd is a co-author of the book “Stand Back and Deliver: Accelerating Business Agility,” Addison Wesley.

Interviewer: Noopur Pathak (Chief Media Editor, INNOVATION ROOTS)