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This week, I am joined by the authors of "The Flow System Playbook" authors John Turner and Nigel Thurlow, to discuss what inspired the book and how to get the best value out of it.

We covered:

1. The background of the book and those which it is in memory of
2. Clarifying the problem and ill-defined problems, getting clarity on your objectives
3. What inspired the book?
4. Business agility vs product agility
5. How to get started with value streaming
6. The 9 Cs of teamwork
7. Context, culture and composition, management helping shape the right environment
8. The Customer
9. Deductive, inductive and abductive reasoning
10. What is sense-making?
11. What are nudges?
12. Constraints and flow
13. Prototyping
14. The OODA Loop
15. Scrum: The Toyota Way vs Scrum in the Scrum Guide
16. Distributed leadership
17. The concept of Obeya vs miro and mural boards
18. Situational awareness
19. Red teaming
20. Value Stream Mapping
21. Multi-team systems

About John Turner

John R. Turner, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the University of North Texas for the Department of Learning Technologies in the College of Information. He currently serves as the Editor–in–Chief for Performance Improvement Quarterly (PIQ) journal. His research interests are in team science, team cognition, leadership, performance improvement, knowledge management, theory building, complexity theory, multilevel models, and meta-analysis techniques. He is the co-creator of The Flow System(TM) and the co-author of the book, The Flow System, and has published articles in Advances in Developing Human Resources; Human Resource Development Review; European Journal of Training & Development; International Journal of Technology, Knowledge, & Society; Journal of Information and Knowledge Management; Journal of Manufacturing Technology & Management; Journal of Knowledge Management; Performance Improvement; and Performance Improvement Quarterly.

The author of Extraordinarily Badass Agile Coaching: The Journey from Beginner to Mastery and Beyond joins me on this week's episode of the Xagility podcast to discuss:

1. How Bob got into Agile Coaching
2. What does Bob mean by “Badass”?
3. Serving your clients
4. The new stances on the wheel of competency
5. Different types of leadership
6. The coaching act
7. Meta skills
8. Taking coaching too seriously
9. The post-arc reflection
10. Striving for effectiveness
11. Systemic coaching
12. ORSC coaching
13. Internal vs external coaching
14. You don’t have to be strong across all competencies in the wheel of competency
15. The future of agile coaching

About Bob:

Agile leader, coach, author, speaker, and community builder.

For ~20 years, Bob has been focused on leveraging agile methods as the best way to deliver software value. While not being a silver bullet, they simply work better than anything he has tried.
Specialties: Bob has unique agile coaching skills & experience in the following areas: agile leadership & culture development, scaling the agile enterprise, distributed agile, and agile testing & DevOps in larger-scale contexts.
Bob is a Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC) providing agile team coaching & training with a focus on Scrum+XP, Lean and Kanban practices.

This week I am joined by Quinton Quartel to discuss the Fluid agile Scaling Technology (FaST) - both a method and a framework.

What did we discuss?

1. Quinton’s road to the beginning of FAST and the history of FAST
2. How does open space work with 800 people? The power of open space
3. What other ingredients do you need to help your teams work together more effectively?
4. Quinton’s journey in getting support for the FAST approach and the factors behind its momentum
5. Describing the FAST diagram
6. Diving into the core method of FAST
7. The core cycle: the meeting
8. Does each team get its own product backlog?
9. The product map
10. The roles IN FAST:  Product Manager, Transient roles: Team Steward of the cycle, Feature Steward (optional)
11. Small and large FAST
12. How big can the collective be?
13. Explaining the management innovation hexagon
14. Ways to visualise work
15. Managing expectations with FAST
16. Improvement and mastery with FAST
17. What was taken out/simplified in the latest version of FAST?
18. Product Management
19. Dealing with the Feature Factory Mode
20. Mobbing and using FAST

This week I had the pleasure of having Cliff Hazell talk about his time at Spotify, his journey into Flight Levels and what can you do when you need to deliver technical expertise when the capacity is already full?

On the agenda: 1. Cliff’s History

2. The usefulness of talking to people taking the calls every day

3. Helping leaders of scale-ups to grow

4. Lessons from Spotify

5. What can you do when you need to deliver technical expertise when the capacity is already full?

6. Teaching each other to do jobs is not FREE

7. Big bets

8. Challenges over autonomy and alignment

9. Survivorship Bias

10. Lessons on perseverance: red work and blue work

11. How do executives avoid going into execution bias?

12. Getting the company able to articulate the goals in terms of an outcome that we want to measure

13. Cliff’s journey into flight levels

14. Find leverage, create focus, build habits

15. Product roasts

16. Lessons from Cliff’s time in call centers

17. Successful/unsuccessful organizations

18. Are there any dark sides to transparency?

19. Dealing with burnout

About Cliff Hazell:

As a Founder, Manager, and Coach, Cliff has seen what works and what doesn't. Cliff uses this knowledge to help you avoid common mistakes and learn from tested experiences.

Through his Leadership experience across large and small organizations, from Tech, Product, Finance, and Marketing, Cliff has seen the benefit of integrating everything you do, not just fixing one part.

More than guidance and theory, Cliff will teach you how to do it so you can continue to fly without me.

Tom Gilb joins this week's episode of the Xagility podcast to tell us all about impact estimation tables, decomposing to deliver value and the laws of project success. In this episode: 1. Impact Estimation Tables 2. Simple symbols to indicate relationships 3. Strategies carry the cost 4. Value divided by effort and cost 5. How do we know we are halfway to the goal? 6. Rating the source of the evidence in terms of credibility 7. Estimating and delivering incrementally with corrections 8. The problem with balance scorecards 9. The laws of project success 10. Disciplined engineering approach for reaching success and keeping it 11. The Laws of Stratospheric Success 12. Eliciting stakeholder critical requirements 13. Stop outsourcing everything to people who steal your corporate knowledge 14. How do you quantify success? 15. Psychological safety 16. Failure borders and success levels 17. Dividing and conquering: small increments 18. Decomposing to deliver value streams 19. Value success principles 20. Summary of Success Book Access Tom's books here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Tom-Gilb/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3ATom+Gilb About Tom Gilb: see www.gilb.com for extensive detail and samples. https://linktr.ee/TomGilb For my selected windows into various works. See Leanpub.com/u/tomgilb for bio and recent ebook collection.

This week, Luca Minudel joins the Xagility podcast to discuss his book "Living Complexity Practical applications of Human Complexity in software and digital products development" as well as dot voting and assessing complexity.

On the agenda:

1. Luca’s journey with complexity
2. Luca’s experience with F1 & making changes during the race
3. Lessons learned from working with great teams 
4. Human complexity: what is it?
5. Identity, intentionality, intelligence, and diversity
6. Non-human complexity
7. Control knobs: turning complexity up and down?
8. Flow Model: the challenge level and the skill level
9. When does a team lose the ability to change and renew itself?
10. How can we assess the complexity that is in front of us?
11. Sensing complexity and delivery initiative complexity assessment
12. Sharing experiences with dot voting
13. Practices for dealing with complexity: C2 approach
14. Luca’s twist on the cone of uncertainty
15. Red teaming: what must we do to create psychological safety?
16. Co-creation and co-evolution
17. No scaling and organic growth

On this week’s episode of the Xagility Podcast, Matthew Skelton tells all about his books: Team Topologies: organising business and technology teams for fast flow and Remote Team Interactions Workbook.

On the agenda: 

1. Obstacles to fast flow
2. Is team topologies optimised for fast flow?
3. Sociotechnical systems
4. How to get value to customers on an ongoing basis?
5. Collaboration and finding good boundaries for flow
6. Team interaction modes
7. Team topologies and systems thinking
8. Team topologies and cybernetics
9. The influence of DevOps tooling for software teams
10. Conway’s Law: What is it and why it matters? & The Reverse Conway Manoeuvre
11. The implied architecture of flow & good software architecture
12. Interaction modes
13. Enabling teams & measuring their success
14. Streamlined teams
15. What kind of incentives do we need to put in place for the experts in the enabling teams?
16. Tracking dependencies
17. Team APIs
18. Tangible benefits software engineers can expect from implementing team topologies/ what do you tell employees/executives who ask how soon can we expect these results?
19. How important is training?
20. Cognitive load
21. Matthew’s attitude to keeping people busy

About Matthew: 

Matthew Skelton is co-author of Team Topologies: organizing business and technology teams for fast flow. Head of Consulting at Conflux (confluxhq.com), he specializes in Continuous Delivery, operability and organization dynamics for software in manufacturing, ecommerce, and online services, including cloud, IoT, and embedded software.

Recognized by TechBeacon in 2018, 2019, and 2020 as one of the top 100 people to follow in DevOps, Matthew curates the well-known DevOps team topologies patterns at devopstopologies.com and is co-author of the books Team Topologies (IT Revolution Press, 2019), Team Guide to Software Operability (Skelton Thatcher Publications, 2016), and Continuous Delivery with Windows and .NET (O’Reilly, 2016), along with several key reports on SRE. 

Matthew founded Conflux in 2017 to offer training and consulting to organizations building and running software systems.

Aimee Schuster joins me on this week's episode of the Xagility podcast to discuss all things marketing and sales.

Join us as we discuss the following:

1. Amy’s Marketing Background
2. What does Amy’s work consist of
3. Are organisations separating marketing and revenue? Is this effective?
4. Can there be a one-function leader?
5. Getting sales and marketing to connect
6. Making sure there is a shared language
7. Service level agreements
8. Is there consistent reporting between marketing and sales?
9. Is there consistent feedback between marketing and sales?
10. When is the right time to get a chief marketing officer?/Chief revenue officer?
11. Do you need a coach, or do you need a player?
12. Dealing with clients who are not tuned in 
13. Difference between fractional and normal consulting
14. Verbal and visual identity
15. Marketing in alignment with values
16. Barstool pitches
17. Sync up between sales and marketing (or revenue and marketing)
18. Where do sales and marketing really need to be aligned?
19. Linkedin and B2B marketing
20. Gender equity & returning to work
21. Agility and marketing

About Aimee Schuster:

Experienced CMO/COO with a demonstrated history of working in technology, startup, b2b, b2c and professional training/ coaching. Skilled in creating, growing and improving marketing departments to execute on lead generation and overall brand awareness. Serve as a player coach for: online and offline marketing strategy, demand generation, content creation, paid media and earned media (pr).

This week on the Xagility podcast we brought the amazing John Hibbs to tell us all about his company, CoEfficient, and all the ways in which measuring organisational performance from the human perspective is beneficial. Tune in to hear us discuss a range of topics, such as psychological safety, toxic positivity and the Monergy model.

On the agenda:

1. Changing the culture at Ford & Alan Mullaly
2. Seeing your problems and dealing with them
3. Stories of Marshall Goldsmith and being a great business coach
4. The importance of surrounding yourself with the right people & putting on your oxygen mask first
5. Why finding someone that is a cultural fit for your company is important
6. CoEfficient model & the Monergy flow
7. Why money is not a dirty word
8. Explaining CoEfficient
9. Psychological safety & emotional safety
10. What do you look for in leadership?
11. Why is CoEfficient different in relation to employee engagement surveys?
12. Toxic positivity
13. Disengaged employees - the scary statistics
14. Top tips on how you can be inspired and inspiring so that we can have more engagement in the workplace
15. What’s next for co-efficient and Monergy?

About John Hibbs:

John is passionate about giving our greatest asset a voice that we can hear, we can understand, and we can utilitise. He helps leaders improve their businesses, engage with their staff and increase their profits.

Welcome to the Xagility Podcast! In this episode, we explore the revolutionary approach of unFixed and its impact on agile team organization. Join us as we uncover the key differentiators between unFixed and team topologies, revealing how this innovative methodology enhances team dynamics and organizational agility.

Discover the reasoning behind the inclusion of dynamic reteaming in unFixed and how it empowers teams to adapt to the ever-evolving business landscape. Explore the origins of the name "unFixed" and gain insights into why it transcends the boundaries of a traditional framework, revolutionizing the way we approach team structures.

Do individual patterns emerge within crews? We delve into this question, exploring the distinctive roles and responsibilities of capability crews, experience crews, partnership crews, platform crews, and the facilitation crew. Gain a comprehensive understanding of the unFixed framework and its unique terminology as we guide you through its intricacies.

Explore the role of the closest thing to a captain before unFixed, understanding how leadership and decision-making differ from traditional hierarchical structures. We also shed light on the highly anticipated unfixed conference, a collaborative platform fostering knowledge exchange and innovation among agile practitioners.

The podcast takes an in-depth look at the governance crew and the management team within the unFixed framework. Discover their essential functions and how they collaborate with the various crews, ensuring organizational success.

Projects and products: defining their roles within unFixed. We delve into the fluidity and adaptability of these terms, uncovering how unFixed allows teams to redefine and optimize their work structure based on their unique context and goals.

To illustrate the practical applications of unFixed, we present compelling case studies showcasing successful implementations. Learn from these real-world examples and understand how unFixed has transformed teams and organizations, unleashing their full potential.

Join us for this enlightening episode of the Xagility Podcast as we embark on a deep dive into unFixed with Jurgen Appelo. Gain invaluable insights into this groundbreaking approach, revolutionize your agile journey, and unlock the power of your teams.

On the agenda:

1. Differences between unfixed and team topologies
2. The reason behind bringing dynamic reteaming into unfixed
3. Why is it called unfixed
4. Why is unfixed not a framework
5. Are there individual patterns for what a crew would do?
6. Walking through the framework and terminology
7. Capability crews
8. Experience crews
9. Partnership Crews
10. Platform crews
11. Facilitation crew
12. The closest thing to a captain before unfixed came along
13. The unfixed conference
14. Governance crew and the management team
15. Projects and products: defining?
16. Case studies

Are you ready to embrace the power of shared decision-making? Join us in this thought-provoking episode as we journey through the pages of Ted Rau's book, "Many Voices, One Song: Shared Power with Sociocracy." Challenge conventional notions of governance and step into a world where collaboration and inclusivity reign supreme. Let's unlock the potential of sociocracy together!

Tune in and be prepared to be captivated, inspired, and motivated to embark on your own sociocratic journey. Don't miss out on this enjoyable and engaging episode that will leave you eager to create a future where many voices harmoniously sing one powerful song of shared power.

On the agenda:

1. Ted’s path to sociocracy
2. What is an intentional community, and what can we learn from it
3. The significance of equivalence in sociocracy
4. Lip service
5. What is a circle
6. Natural hierarchies
7. Linking circles
8. Membership circles & interdependent systems
9. Roles within the circle
10. The mission circle
11. Is there momentum behind sociocracy
12. Handoff vs. handover
13. Sociocracy in meetings
14. The hub pattern
15. Making policy decisions
16. Difference between sociocracy and holacracy

About Ted Rau:

Ted works to make collaborative systems, based on willingness and dignity, the new normal in for-profits, non-profits and communities. The focus of his work is sociocracy - in a joyful and non-dogmatic way.
He published the handbook Many Voices One Song. Shared Power with Sociocracy. With that groundwork done, Ted is now working on more real-life implementations as Program Director of the Sociocracy Academy.

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This week I am joined by Brian Robertson, the author of Holacracy: The Revolutionary Management system that abolishes hierarchy. Tune in to hear an insightful conversation about the problems and complexities of modern day management.

In this episode we cover:

• The discovery of Holacracy

• Corporate antibodies & Holacracy

• How does Holacracy work and what is it made up of?

• Defining roles & limits

• What would you have in a Holacracy constitution

• What does Holacracy look like from a structural point of view?

• The magic of Holacracy

• Meeting efficiency in Holacracy

• Meeting the CEO of Zappos - running a company like a city

• Tips to avoid your Holacracy adoption falling into traps

• Main industries in which Holacracy has been prevalent

About Brian Robertson:

Brian Robertson is a seasoned entrepreneur and organization builder, and a recovering CEO - a job he now helps free others from with Holacracy. Generally regarded as the primary developer of the system, Brian’s work allows leaders to release the reins of personal power and persuasion into a trustworthy and explicit governance process.

Brian also serves as the drafter and steward of the Holacracy Constitution, which captures the system's unique "rules of the game" in concrete form. Beyond joyfully crafting legal documents, Brian's creative expression takes many forms – he co-founded HolacracyOne to support Holacracy’s growth, and he fills and loves a broad variety of the company’s roles.

He's particularly grateful to hold no fancy titles and wield no special powers, so he can show up as just another partner doing his part to support something he cares about.

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This week I am joined by Cesario Ramos to discuss his latest book "Creating Agile Organizations", what is a product, where do former product owners go and dealing with dependencies.

On the agenda:

1. Structure, incentives & processes
2. What is a product
3. Where do former product owners go?
4. Mindset & hiring policies
5. Dependencies between teams
6. Coaching & leadership support
7. Customer centric focus

About Cesario Ramos:

Cesario Ramos is a Agile Management consultant. He founded AgiliX, a network organisation that guides agile adoptions worldwide. Cesario is the author of the books: 'Creating Agile Organizations', ‘EMERGENT – Lean & Agile adoption for an innovative workplace’ and 'A Scrum Book'.

He is also a certified LeSS (Large Scale Scrum) trainer, Professional Scrum trainer from Scrum.org and Qualified Innovation Games® Instructor.

He has an MSc in mathematics &computing science from the University of Eindhoven and started working with agile teams back in 2001.

In the past he was an agile consultant at Xebia, CTO at codecentric NL, a product manager at Atos, a hard-core developer and the lead software architect at PANalytical.

In his spare time he co-organises AgiliX Recap days, the international Large Scale Scrum conferences and is the initiator of the Agile-Lean Bathtub conferences.

He is happy to be an active member of the ScrumPloP® community and is a frequent speaker at conferences around the world.

Cesario strongly believes that fun at the workplace is essential for success.

Do you tap your card to use Transport for London? Today, the man behind the system, Russ Lewis, joins me to discuss innovation at TFL, his book "An operating Model for Business Agility", his career, artificial intelligence & intellectual property as well as a deep dive into "the Chalice".

Join us!

About Russ Lewis:

Russ has run 3 large and successful Agile transformations, 1 huge DevOps adoption, and turned around 4 digital transformation programs. Russ has coached 15 C-level executives and 3 leadership teams, rescued 4 software projects, and trained 3600 IT professionals.
Russ led the agile team that developed contactless fares payment at TfL. If you use a London bus or Tube and pay using a contactless card, or if you use an Oyster card on National Rail services in Greater London, then you're using one of the systems I designed and built.

What are the 3 primary challenges of project management that Kanplexity solves?

1. Improving flow & feedback
2. Figuring out what the right thing is to do
3. How do we figure out what the right thing is to do

But how does Kanplexity solve these problems?

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We are undoubtedly living in a complex world but what impact has that had on the leaders of today and tomorrow?

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Kanplexity is an alternative approach to product development and project management developed by John Coleman - X Agility - with the purpose of helping executive and leadership teams increase organizational agility and competitive advantage.

The model uses kanban as an agile framework but isn't based exclusively on kanban, as many organizations do use as a standalone approach.

Kanplexity combines the best of project management, agile productd evelopment practices, and kanban to help teams navigate complexity and focus on building the most valuable products, in the most valuable way, at the most valuable time for both customers and the organization.

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We often celebrate the great agile leaders that make impressive breakthroughs in product and customer markets. We look to the best in our industry and draw inspiration from their words, actions, and remarkable ability to create resilient, effective organizations in the face of adversity.

That said, we should also take time out to identify poor leadership and explore the consequences of that style of leadership. In many ways, there is a lot to learn from those who have truly dropped the ball and failed their teams, organization, and customers in every way.

In a simple or complicated environment, executives and #leadership teams know the answers upfront. They know a road needs to be built, they know how to build that road, how much it costs, and what steps are needed to build the road from point A to point Z.

This provides a degree of certainty and you can invest money knowing that what you build is valuable, necessary, and solves the problem effectively.

In a complex environment, we don't know what we don't know. We don't know how to solve the problem and we don't know if we can build the most effective solution. We only know once the solution has been built and once the problem has been solved, for sure.

So, how do you navigate complexity and work through a process of identifying what should be built, what problem should be solved, and how best to invest your money in product development?

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In the context of scrum, it is important that the productowner is focused on building the most valuable product, and that the developers have a clear sense of what the product is, what a platform for value delivery might be, and what kind of services are necessary to deliver value.

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Traditional project management tends to have a strong focus on efficiency, whilst #agile tends to have a strong focus on effectiveness. Efficiency is a strong focus on executing against a predetermined plan whilst optimizing resources. Effectiveness is a strong focus on building the most valuable product, in the most valuable way, at the most valuable time. So, in a nutshell, if project management is a focus on productivity whilst #agile is a focus on continuous delivery of value to a customer, what is value?

Since it's inception in 2001, #agile has come a long way. There are a number of great case studies that demonstrate the success of the approach, and there are phenomenal products and services that have been created using a variety of #agileframeworks. You do find that there is a lot of support at the individual and team level in the form of an #agilecoach or #agileconsultant, but that tends to dry up the more senior the leader or executive is in the organization. Why is that? If #agility actively needs #leadership and #executive teams to champion the transition, why are there so few executive coaches?

About Tim Wigham: 

Tim believes that with strong leadership, a systematic approach, and stable technology, any competent team can achieve excellence.  

Over the last ten years, he has completely immersed myself in the business of accelerated improvement; supporting leaders and teams in the energy sector, to unlock their potential and exceed their expectations.  He has also focused on accelerating his own improvement in the sport of CrossFit, applying the principles of “acceleration to automatic” in the areas of nutrition, preparation, training, and recovery.  In parallel he has read and listened to hundreds of performance related books, while also writing three of his own.  

Tim strongly believe that any competent individual or team can unlock full potential by implementing the right system to the point where best-practice is automatic.   This requires mindset, method, and "moodset".  Mindset is led by leadership! It involves openness to possibility, openness to objective assessment, openness to coaching, and a belief in better. It includes optimism and resilience in equal measure. Mindset is critical for initiative, then essential for acceleration to automatic.  

About Glaudia Califano: 

Glaudia started her Agile journey in a Scrum team. Over the years she enhanced her skills and knowledge by taking on different roles and responsibilities across a variety of disciplines such as Scrum Master, Product Ownership, Business Analysis, Service Delivery Management, Agile & Lean coaching. 

She has guided organizations along their journeys towards business agility, allowing them to inspect and adapt and focus on customer value.  Glaudia has extensive experience in helping organisations break down silos, enabling the creation of a continuous learning environment that encourages communication, collaboration and innovation.  

About David Spinks: 

David's professional experience spans roles of; Agile Trainer, Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Product Owner, Kanban Service Delivery Manager, Team Leader and Software Developer in a variety of industries, including finance, eCommerce, social housing and education.  

David is a Kanban University Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT) and Kanban Coaching Professional (KCP), a Scrum.org Professional Scrum Trainer (PST) and an ICAgile Authorized Instructor. He is also the co-author of the books "Mastering Collaboration in a Product Team" and "Adopting Agile Across Borders" published by Apress.  David believes in servant leadership, and value environments where empowerment, autonomy and flexibility enable teams to do the best work possible. 

He is committed to continuous learning and development in myself and others. David is passionate about getting the best out of teams and seeing people reach their full potential.  

About John Coleman:  

About Professor Rao:

Professor M.S. Rao, Ph.D. is the Father of “Soft Leadership” and the Founder of MSR Leadership Consultants, India. 

Curious to deep dive into Organisational Topologies? 

This week the Xagility podcast hosts Alexey Krivistky and Roland Flemm to tell all.   

About Alexey Krivitsky: 

Alexey is the creator and consultant of Organisational Topologies. He is also a LeSS Coach, Scrum Master for Scaled Products, and Software Developer. He had also been a coach with Scrum Alliance for 10 years. 

How did John start his career at Bose? How was the noise canceling headphones invention born? How do you market innovations? John Carter brings his immense knowledge and experience to this episode of the Xagility™ podcast.   

John Carter has been a widely respected adviser to technology firms over his career. John is the author of "Innovate Products Faster: Graphical Tools for Accelerating Product Development". As Founder and Principal of TCGen Inc., he has advised some of the most revered technology firms in the world:   

• Abbott, Amazon, Apple  

• BOSE, Cisco, Fitbit  

• HP, IBM, Roche  

He specializes in the value creating aspects of product development – from the strategy and innovation processes, through product definition, execution and launch. He has helped companies cut time to market, rapidly scale their product program, and improve innovation with customer led insights which has led to greater profitability, reduced costs, and improved customer satisfaction.   

John currently serves on the Board of Directors of Cirrus Logic (CRUS) a leading supplier of mixed signal semiconductors where he is involved with company strategy and sits on the Compensation and Audit Committees.   

He was the founder of Cambridge-based Product Development Consulting, Inc. (PDC), a consultancy advising Fortune 500 companies in the areas of research, development, and marketing. During his time there, he worked with Apple to create the Apple New Product Process (ANPP) which is used in all product divisions. He has been an invited speaker at MIT and Stanford University, and a member of the faculty at Case Western’s Executive program.  

Before starting PDC, John was Chief Engineer of BOSE Corporation. John is the inventor of the Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones and shares the original patent with Dr. Amar Bose. He was one of the initial contributors in BOSE’s entry into the automobile OEM business and led the product and business development of BOSE’s patented noise reduction technology for the military market. He earned his MS in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BS in engineering from Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, CA.  

In this video version of the Xagility podcast, the incredible Indi Young joins me to talk about why you shouldn't look at a problem through the aperture of a solution and the effect this can have on overall performance.  

Packed with metaphors and anecdotes, this episode is the perfect mix of fun stories and incredible wisdom.  

In this video version of the Xagility podcast, the incredible Indi Young joins me to talk about why you shouldn't look at a problem through the aperture of a solution and the effect this can have on overall performance.  

Packed with metaphors and anecdotes, this episode is the perfect mix of fun stories and incredible wisdom.  

This week, the Xagility podcast has the pleasure of hosting Dave Snowden to discuss his latest book, Cynefin weaving sense-making into the fabric of our world publication in 2020.

Sit back, relax and enjoy. 

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLAyXnUx_TU