Category: Video Interview

Andy Carmichael is the Managing Director and Principal Trainer at Huge IO. He has co-authored ‘Essential Kanban Condensed’ with David J Anderson. In this interview, he talks about why Business Agility is being talked about so much these days. The pace of change is one of the reasons we need to talk about it. However, why should business be Agile is the most important question for any organisation. Andy also goes on describing the challenges to achieve business Agility.

Interviewee: Andy Carmichael (Co-Author, Essential Kanban Condensed)

Andy brings wide and profound experience of software management in multiple industry sectors. He is co-author of “Essential Kanban Condensed” with David Anderson, the definitive guide to Kanban, senior agile coach and trainer in major Agile initiatives, and experienced manager and director in IT businesses,

Andy is an expert in applying agile frameworks such as Scrum and Kanban, and versions of these frameworks at scale, particularly Kanban ESP (he is a certified KCP), DAD and LeSS. He is known in the community through his writing and speaking on development and management methods, and he has co-authored several books, including “Better Software Faster” (2002) with Dan Haywood, which introduced an agile modelling approach to development. 

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

Leaders are born or leadership can be learned is something we discussed at the beginning of our interview with Mark Lines. He says people grow into leadership with experience. He also highlights what is Disciplined Agile and why should people care about it.

Interviewee: Mark Lines (Co-creator of the Disciplined Agile framework)

Mark Lines is Managing Partner at Scott Ambler + Associates. He is an Agile Coach and co-creator of the Disciplined Agile Delivery framework. Mark is co-author with Scott Ambler of Disciplined Agile Delivery: A Practitioner’s Guide to Agile Software Delivery in the Enterprise. Mark is a “disciplined” agile coach, helping organizations all over the world transform from traditional to agile methods. He writes for many publications including the Cutter Consortium and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. Mark blogs about DAD at DisciplinedAgileDelivery.com. Mark is also a Founding Member of the Disciplined Agile Consortium (DAC), the certification body for disciplined Agile.

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