Category: Video Interview

Change management is the process of Adapting, Controlling and Implementing the Change. In our recent interview, we have featured Janice Linden-Reed (Senior Manager, Agile Coaching at Salesforce). Janice shared her unique experiences about Change Management during COVID situations. She shared her distinguished thoughts on some of the challenges faced during the change process in the organizations/teams. We discussed “Why is Change important in an organization?”.

She said, any company struggling in certain situations needs to focus on the Change Management Process. We also discussed various aspects of Kanban Implementation for Change management. Janice highlighted that we need to have a collaborative relationship with customers (Internal and External) for smoother flow of change in any organization. She framed the Misconceptions, Risks of Kanban and better ways of implementations and many more thoughts on Change Initiatives.

Interviewee: Janice Linden-Reed (Senior Manager, Agile Coaching at Salesforce)

Janice Linden-Reed is Senior Manager, Agile Coaching at Salesforce. She is passionate about business agility, the ability to quickly shift to keep up with changes in customer needs, the competitive landscape, and the market.

She is a former executive with Lean Kanban Inc. and has over 10 years’ experience using Kanban for knowledge work and service work, as well as building programs and the global community for trainers, coaches, and enthusiasts for the Kanban Method. She is based in Seattle, Washington and appears around the world doing public speaking and consulting. Janice is program chair for the Lean Kanban North America 2019 conference, part of the Lean Kanban Global Summit.

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

In our recent interview, we have featured Jon Kern (Co-Author, Agile Manifesto). He shares his experiences and the reason behind being a contributor of Agile Manifesto. He shared his understanding of the 4 values shared by 17 people in the Agile Manifesto.

He mentions 17 people coming together itself is an opportunity and is Agile. He answered our questions on what is Fake Agile, Misconceptions and the Future of Agile practices. He says learning and unlearning is the key for being Agile. He highlights the significance of Plan, Do, Inspect and Adapt. When we spoke about high performing teams in organizations, he said meeting customer expectations and values makes a company more successful. He also spoke on different aspects of Agile.

Interviewee: Jon Kern (Co-Author of Agile Manifesto)

Jon, a co-author of the Agile Manifesto, is passionate about helping clients succeed in delivering business value through software. He works with (typically distributed) teams to articulate, design, architect, and deliver software that solves challenging business problems. Jon has a significant impact on the projects he works on. Projects routinely see high-quality solutions in less time, and leave the local team mentored on object-oriented and agile techniques, and excited. (Often more valuable than the technical improvements).

Jon also enjoys speaking and evangelizing about being agile at conferences around the world. Jon seeks better ways for teams to accomplish their goals from the perspectives of people, process, and technology. Jon likes to help teams build an environment that enables effective practices, solid architecture, agile development, quality-by-design (not accident), and laser-like focus on delivering business value through the strategic use of s/w development.

Specialties: agile development, agile coach, domain modeling, architectural solutions that meet business needs, leading distributed teams, highly varied domain expertise, leadership by example.

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