Category: Video Interview

Communication is a key in our day-to-day life, be it professionally or personally, there is always a need to maintain a healthy and open- minded communication with people around you. Communication is an art which brings two individuals closer in the long run while also enabling them to understand each other’s thoughts easily. In our discussion with Jutta Eckstein, we started exploring the significance of communication in teams or organizations. We discussed different aspects of conflicts in communication and using retrospectives for organizational changes.

She brings in her unique experiences about working in teams and how we can address the changes. She also shared her opinion on Retrospective in Agile Processes. We covered initial steps of change which are learning from the situations and decisions to be taken as a team according to Individual experiences. Thus drives us towards organizational change. We also discussed the influence of the environment around us. She briefed us on VUCA conditions(Volatile, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity) for organizations and also on sustainability.

Interviewee: Jutta Eckstein(Coach, Consultant, Speaker and Author)

Jutta Eckstein works as an Independent Coach, Consultant and Trainer. She has helped many teams and organizations worldwide to make an Agile transition. She has a unique experience in applying Agile processes within medium-sized to large distributed mission-critical projects. Jutta has recently pair-written with John Buck a book entitled Company-wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy (dubbed BOSSA nova). Besides that, she has published her experience in her books Agile Software Development in the Large, Agile Software Development with Distributed Teams, Retrospectives for Organizational Change, and together with Johanna Rothman Diving for Hidden Treasures: Uncovering the Cost of Delay in your Project Portfolio.

Jutta is a member of the Agile Alliance (having served the board of directors from 2003-2007) and a member of the program committee of many different American, Asian, and European conferences, where she has also presented her work. She holds a M.A. in Business Coaching & Change Management, a Dipl.Eng. in Product-Engineering, and a B.A. in Education.

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

Lean Change Model is a non-linear and feedback-driven model for managing change. In our discussion with Jason Little, we started off with exploring Lean Change Management. He shared his real time experience in the Industry. We focused on Change Management in the organizations and its significance in our discussion and covered different aspects of heading in the right direction and also success measurement.

He said Agile Transformation is never done and is a continuous process.Uncertainty is something which we touch based on. He also answered many of our questions on “Every change being an Improvement?”, people being change agents and many more

Interviewee: Jason Little (Chief Product Nerd at Spero Careers Canada)

Jason began his career as a web developer when Cold Fusion roamed the earth. Over the following years, he moved into management, Agile Coaching and consulting. The bumps and bruises collected along the way brought him to the realization that helping organizations adopt Agile practices was less about the practices, and all about change.

In 2008 he attended an experiential learning conference about how people experience change and since then, he’s been writing and speaking all over the world about helping organizations discover more effective practices for managing organizational change. He’s the author of Agile Transformation: A Guide to Organizational Change on InformIT and Safari Books as well as Lean Change Management: Innovative Practices for Managing Organizational Change.

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