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.

Connect with John Turner: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-turner-3helix/

About Nigel Thurlow

As a leading expert on Lean and Agile approaches, Nigel advises companies on successful transformation strategies and how to achieve effective and lasting change.
Nigel designs organizations that are highly optimized and customer value focussed. As a problem solver, Nigel helps executive leaders transform their operations. He creates disruptors and transforms the disrupted.

Connect with Nigel Thurlow: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nigelthurlow/https://www.linkedin.com/in/nigelthurlow/

The Flow System Playbook: https://www.getflowtrained.com/playbook/

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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.

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Connect with Bob on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobgalen/https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobgalen/

Bob's websites:

https://rgalen.com/

https://www.agile-moose.com/the-moose-as-coach

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