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Shaping Portfolio AgilityLouise Higgins on leadership resilience and cultural integration“You have to respect the orthodoxy of the culture that you’re operating within, because it will absolutely hold the way in which things are done. And you will know when you come up against that culture—you will feel it.” - Louise Higgins
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In this episode, we’re joined by Louise (Lou) Higgins. Lou joined ANZ in January 2020 as the Chief Financial Officer of Technology and Enablement. She was appointed Chief Financial Officer of Australia in May 2021 and Managing Director of Suncorp Integration in September 2022. In September 2023, she was appointed to lead the Australia...
2025-05-051h 02
De SandwichUitzending van 30 maart 2025Uur 1
1. When Sunny gets blue – Nancy Wilson
2. Amoureuse – Veronique Sanson
3. Lijn – Maaike Ouboter & Eric Corton
4. In your light – Jon Allen
5. Love me or leave me – Nina Sinome
6. Strawberries – Robert Forster & Karin Bäumer
7. Here’s to life – Glenn Frey
8. Aurora – Teresinha Landeiro & Antonio Zambujo
9. In ’t graas van de wei – Toon Hermans
10. In naam van de lente – Willeke Alberti
11. Alchemy – Johnnyswim
12. Gabriellas sang – Helen Sjöholm
13. Wind cries Mary – Jamie Cullum
14. Powder your face with sunshine – Dean Martin
Uur 2
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2025-03-301h 47De SandwichUitzending van 12 januari 2025Uur 1
1. Just say I love her – Dean Martin
2. La chanson de Paul – Serge Reggiani
3. Komt door mij – Mylou Frencken
4. Carolina Rua – Mary Black
5. If I had a hammer – Peter Paul & Mary
6. Kima to kima – Vaggelis Germanos
7. Rose of my heart – Johnny Cash
8. Rainbow connection – Becca Stevens
9. Café Biljart – Toon Hermans
10. Dit is een plek om lief te hebben – Willeke Alberti
11. Buxa – Lucibela
12. I remember you – Fay Claassen
13. It freon d’yt gult is oars – Douwe Heeringa & Kompagnie
14. Douce France – Jean Paq...
2025-01-121h 45
Shaping Portfolio AgilityEvan Leybourn on the Vicious and Virtuous Cycles of Change“Just as delegation is a skill that can get taught to leaders and often is, the ability to take ownership is a skill that needs to be developed in people, and organizations often do not invest in training that.” - Evan Leybourn
In this episode, we are joined by Evan Leybourn, the founder and CEO of the Business Agility Institute. Evan has been a thought leader in the realm of Business Agility since 2008, advocating for organizations to rethink how they operate, lead, and govern to become more human-centric and adaptable in the face of constant change...
2025-01-0359 minDe SandwichUitzending van 27 oktober 2024DE SANDWICH ZONDAG 27 oktober 2024Evergreen StemweekUur 1
1. Summertime – Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
2. Dat was ik – Frans Halsema
3. Mes emmerdes – Charles Aznavour
4. Layla – Eric Clapton
5. Petite fleur – Chris Barber
6. Alegria – Cirque du Soleil
7. Zo mooi – Harrie Jekkers
8. Sugar town – Nancy Sinatra
9. Me & Bobby McGee – Kris Kristofferson
10. Help me make it through the night – Gladys Knight & The Pips
11. Über den Wolken – Reinhard Mey
12. Mijn gebed – DC Lewis
13. Abergavenny – Marty Wilde
Uur 2
1. Whiskey in the jar – The Dubliners
2. ...
2024-10-271h 50
Shaping Portfolio AgilityNatalie Field on Leading with Purpose, Clarity, and Accountability (#12)“Often, there’s a real lack of clarity about where we are now. And it can be a very uncomfortable, painful set of truths that people don’t want to face. But to create progress, you need to face uncomfortable truths and understand where you’re starting from." - Natalie Field
In this episode, we’re joined by Natalie Field. Nat recently commenced as CEO of Informed Decisions and has accrued a wealth of portfolio leadership experience over the course of her career. Highlights include serving as the Chief Digital and Data Officer for BUPA Asia Pacifi...
2024-10-011h 01
Shaping Portfolio AgilityKarl Scotland on Strategy Deployment (#11)"Real strategy deployment empowers teams to act on strategic intent with ownership and clarity." - Karl Scotland
We’re joined by Strategy Deployment expert Karl Scotland in this episode.
Karl helps businesses become Learning Organisations through outcome-oriented, continuous transformation, engaging everyone, everywhere.
Over the last 20+ years, he has been an advocate of Lean and Agile approaches to achieve this, working with companies including the BBC, Yahoo!, EMC Consulting, Rally Software, Cisco, SDL, Legal & General, Allegis, HSBC, Bank of America, Vocalink, Sky, and Irwin Mitchel.
During this time, he has been...
2024-09-1857 min
Shaping Portfolio AgilityNavigating Change and Building Empathy - Christine Babowicz on the Path to Portfolio Agility"So on any given day, I'm just managing those planes and flight patterns and trying to make sense and create that sequencing of road maps. Or at least highlight, hey, you're not going to achieve that, because this strategy over here in this portfolio isn't even thinking that way” - Christine Babowicz
When we decided to start inviting guests to join us, we were passionate about finding people with real lived experience to share their hard-won insights and wisdom. We were very grateful when Christine Babowicz agreed to join us as our second guest, and she c...
2024-08-281h 03
Business Agility Now PodcastTactical Tuesday: Framing Value OrganizationA lot of changes happen when companies organize and reorganize around value, which can feel overwhelming. In this episode, SAFe® Fellow and SPCT Eric Willeke from Shaping Agility shares his tips for what to focus on and when, as well as four key things to do to achieve flow throughout your portfolio. Like what you hear? Connect with Eric on LinkedIn. Explore SAFe courses here.
2024-08-2703 min
Shaping Portfolio AgilityLuke Hohmann on Building Sustainable and Profitable Portfolios“The right collective organization tends to have fewer blind spots, because, by definition, a team is a transactional memory system of sufficient predictive power that we can know how to work together” - Luke Hohmann
When we decided to start inviting interesting guests to join our portfolio conversations, Luke Hohmann was an obvious first choice.
Luke is a four time author, three time founder, SAFe® Fellow, keynote speaker, and internationally recognized expert in Agile Software Development. His passion is sustainably profitable businesses, because it is only through sustainable profits that a business can thrive...
2024-08-2159 min
Shaping Portfolio AgilityWhat to expect as a member of a portfolio ’going lean’ (#8)"The journey to get there isn’t easy. The outcomes, when it works, are pretty amazing and unbelievable, but you’ll find a whole new set of problems you never imagined could go wrong"
Eric Willeke
With the initial arc complete, this episode adopts a new perspective triggered by our conversations at the SAFe Summit in Berlin. We step into the shoes of portfolio members, embarking on a lean journey. The conversation begins by exploring how their first steps into lean portfolio management will look different from your first steps into agility. As the e...
2024-08-161h 08
Andermans VerenUitzending 23 juniSpeellijst Zondag 23 juni 2024
Parkeren (Lovsky) Fay Lovsky 2’43 Van de cd Eigen weg BASTA 30-9107-2Kind aan huis (R. Chrispijn/H. v. Veen, E. van der Wurff) Herman van Veen 4’43 Van de cd En nooit weerom Harlekijn 847 895-2Mannen en kinderen (Klunder) Bert Klunder 2’00 van de DVD Mannen voor Vrouwen RVUDa’s pas duidelijkheid (De Corte) Jules de Corte en Henk Elsink 2’11 eigen opnameMidzomernacht (Jeninke de Jong/De Toestand) De Toestand 3’07 Eigen opnameDe processie (Hermans) Toon Hermans 6’38 van luisterboek Ik ben weer even sprakeloos uitgeverij RubinsteinZitten in de trein (Y...
2024-06-2456 minDe SandwichUitzending van 23 juni 2024Uur 1
1. Stardust – Nat King Cole
2. De l’autre côté des collines – Les Troubadours
3. Helena – Esther van Hees
4. Sailing – Christopher Cross
5. On my way to Bamako – Eric Bibb & Habib Koité
6. In labirinto – Lina
7. De halve wereld – Pieter Derks
8. Somewhere – Lucy Thomas
9. Good friends – Joni Mitchell
10. Woman of heart and soul – Minnie Riperton
11. The border – Willie Nelson
12. 2 Von Millionen von Sternen – 2Raumwohnung
13. Die zomerdag – Willeke Alberti
Uur 2
1. Halt mich – Herbert Grönemeyer
2. Tea for two – Doris Day
3. ...
2024-06-231h 53Shaping Portfolio AgilityApplying a Lean Lens to Portfolio Operations and Governance (#7)"You get a mad underspend in Q1; then you spend Q2 and Q3 trying to catch up on the questions about your Q1 underspend. This is variation waste, and causes massive issues in terms of the ability of the system to absorb the work" - Mark Richards
In this episode, we turn our attention to the application of lean to Portfolio Operations and Governance. Eric focuses on improving flow, while Mark wants to reduce waste. We start by looking at aggregating and analyzing patterns from portfolio members. Discussing moving from PMO to VMO is a...
2024-04-291h 03Shaping Portfolio AgilityGenerating Portfolio Insights that Lead to Effective Interventions (#6)"In most cases, the portfolio itself is under a fog of war. You can't actually see what's going on unless you take your telescope and really zoom in on an area" - Eric Willeke
This episode concludes the initial six-part arc laying the foundations of lean portfolio management. The first five episodes were devoted to building a clear picture of your portfolio ecosystem. Picture in hand, we explore the insights it might yield and the ensuing interventions they should trigger. The conversation dwells primarily on strategic insights, exploring the concept of 'acting this fiscal year' with operational...
2024-04-221h 04Shaping Portfolio AgilityHealthy Portfolio Patterns (#5)"It's common for people to say they have a platform strategy that doesn't necessarily resemble a platform strategy so much as a center of dependency hell" - Mark Richards
In Episode 3, we explored the influence of Moore's Zone to Win model on understanding the portfolio ecosystem. Episode 4 explored the role of purpose, context, and structure in modeling the ecosystem you have and starting to look at it through Lean eyes. In this episode, we combine these ideas with the portfolio examples defined in the SAFe Portfolio article Eric contributed to last year. This sets the stage for...
2024-04-151h 22Shaping Portfolio AgilityDiscovering, Designing, and Evolving the Portfolio Ecosystem (#4)"Create the visualizations that are going to be useful, do some cleanup work to create the space for people to think a little more deeply, and then make sure you don't waste their time so they can put some wins on the board" - Eric Willeke
With our love of strategy off the leash in Episode 3, we continue down the path this episode. We explore why strategy matters so much to portfolio design. This provides a bridge to understanding how portfolios evolve and change over time, the critical characteristics to clarify early, and the questions that might...
2024-04-081h 07Shaping Portfolio AgilityStrategy Partitioning with Portfolios (#3)"I don't want to have a minnow next to a minotaur because the minnow is never going to feature in the conversation" - Mark Richards
This is the first episode where we deep-dive into strategy. Whether your portfolio is shaping a strategy or deploying one shaped elsewhere, you need tools to contextualize it in the overall enterprise. We take horizon-based investment and Geoffrey Moore's Zone to Win model and explore what happens when you use it as a conceptual model for your portfolio ecosystem.
Along the way, we discuss our belief that you should be...
2024-03-271h 06Shaping Portfolio AgilityWhat makes a portfolio lean, and what are its jobs to be done? (#2)"In nearly half of the cases I can think of, the things that the teams most hate providing to governance are the same things the governance team doesn't actually want and doesn't know how to tell the teams to stop providing" - Eric Willeke
This episode dives into the 'Lean' aspect of lean portfolio management. It begins with a brief exploration of lean and systems thinking and their focus on optimizing the whole, improving flow, and reducing waste. We then 'put our lean hats on' to explore lean’s relation to strategy, operations, and governance.
Treat...
2024-03-271h 00Shaping Portfolio AgilityPortfolios: What are they, and what really matters"Start with questions that paint a picture of today before you try painting a picture of tomorrow" - Mark Richards
In this podcast's first episode, we lay the foundations for exploring Lean Portfolio Management. We start with a high-level overview of portfolios and their uses and share our stories of first encountering them. From there, we dig into the few key definitions and elements we feel are critical to setting the stage for the show's arc before diving into the tensions, trade-offs, and recurring definitional pieces.
We stress the importance of being aware of your nat...
2024-03-261h 03
Dit is een Goede Podcast - voor een duurzamer leven06 Eric Corton | De zorg rocken, duurzamer na drank en drugs, boeren in Kenia en een doe-dan-mentaliteitEric doet het gewoon. Hij werkt nu zo’n drie dagen per week in een verpleeghuis. Hij is circulair boer in Kenia. Hij kickte af en zet door. Eric geeft tips over van-kop-tot-kont-koken en vrijwilligerswerk doen, en kan niet tegen onverschilligheid. In deze zesde aflevering bespreken duurzame lifestyle-expert Marieke Eyskoot en (radio)presentator, acteur en schrijver Eric Corton o.a.:
Worstelen met impulsaankopen
Omkijken naar elkaar
Zelf in de zorg gaan werken
Dat je het gewoon moet doen
Ver vliegen, maar dan minder vaak
Circulair boeren in Kenia
Wat wij kunnen leren van het leven daar
Drank en dr...
2024-03-031h 04
Business Agility Now PodcastDEEP DIVE: SAFe® 6.0 with Eric WillekeHow about a stroll down memory lane? On today’s episode, Eric Willeke, SAFe® Fellow and co-founder of Elevate.to joins Adam to discuss the evolution of SAFe over the years, what excites them the most about the newest revisions, and talk about how, at least for Eric, everything comes back to flow. Plus, hear why the skills that make for the best Scrum Master often aren’t found on a resume—and why that’s important.
2023-03-2244 min
Wetenschappelijk Bureau GroenLinksCorruptie in de polderNederlandse politici lopen er graag mee te koop: het poldermodel. In ons land rollen bestuurders niet ruziënd over straat maar regelen we de zaken onderling. Toch is het precies dit geregel dat ons blootstelt aan een groot risico: corruptie. Hoe kunnen we ons bestuur hiertegen beschermen? En hoe voorkom je dat je zelf betrokken raakt bij corruptieschandalen?Daarover praten we met Willeke Slingerland, lector Weerbare Democratie aan de Saxion Hogeschool, en met Eric Smit, hoofdredacteur van onderzoeksplatform Follow the Money.Groene Gasten is de podcast van Wetenschappelijk Bureau GroenLinks, de denktank voor g...
2022-07-0246 min
Business Agility Now PodcastRemoving Friction from Agile TransformationSometimes an Agile transformation is a lot harder than it needs to be. It can happen when an organization is launching an ART, or it can happen during something as simple as helping an individual team improve its demos. So how do you spot that friction and remove it from your transformation? In this episode, Eric Willeke, SAFe Fellow and founder of Elevate, joins us to discuss how tactics and different investments make it easier to do the work of successful change
2022-02-1518 min
Business Agility Now PodcastPurposeful PortfoliosWhat happens when the strategy set by an organization’s leaders is disconnected from the work that’s actually happening on the Agile Release Train? In this episode, SAFe® Fellow and SPCT Eric Willeke joins us to discuss how to get leadership to focus on strategic direction, and how to make sure people on the trains know the why (not just the what) behind the work.
2021-06-2219 minBusiness Agility Now PodcastPurposeful PortfoliosWhat happens when the strategy set by an organization's leaders is disconnected from the work that's actually happening on the Agile Release Train? In this episode, SAFe® Fellow and SPCT Eric Willeke joins us to discuss how to get leadership to focus on strategic direction, and how to make sure people on the trains know the why (not just the what) behind the work.
2021-06-2219 min
Mik + One: The Official Project to Product Podcast by Dr. Mik KerstenEpisode 26: Eric Willeke on the Metrics Killing Your TransformationIn this episode of Mik + One, Mik is joined by Eric Willeke, Co-Founder and Principal of Elevate.to.
In this episode, Mik and Eric touch on many key points around simplicity and flow to drive successful digital transformations, including:
Lean-agile techniques and helping organizations to understand agility, progress and reorganize around it
How inherent simplicity relates to flow and how to reverse Work in Progress (WIP) issues and bottlenecks
Agile sponsorships and the importance of tying agility to the company’s purpose and market outcomes in a clear and obvious way
The risks of mechanical adoption an...
2021-02-2354 minAndermans VerenUitzending 31 januariSpeellijst ZONDAG 31 JANUARI 2021
Petruschka (H. v. Deventer) Hans van Deventer 2’38 Van de LP Hans van Deventer EMI XLPH 1063
Zwanenzang (H. v. Deventer) Hans van Deventer 2’45 Van single SGI 108
’t Konijn is dood (Kan) Corry Vonk 2’45 van de cd Ik zou je het liefste in een doosje willen doen NN
500.003-2
Liedje (J. Herzberg) Judith Herzberg 0’40 Van de cd Het vertelde De Harmonie CD JF 01
Het duurt altijd langer dan je denkt (J. Herzberg/H. v. Veen, E. van der Wurff) Herman van Veen,
Willeke Alberti 2’40 Van de cd Liedjes voor altijd Dino DNCD 99678
Der Ganzumsonst (T. van der Pol/C. Bolzek) Haus...
2021-01-3155 min
Engineering Culture by InfoQEric Willeke & Ronica Roth on Leadership and Lisa Crispin on the State of Testing in Agile & DevOpsIn this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Eric Willeke & Ronica Roth about supporting leadership through transformation and then he spoke to Lisa Crispin about the state testing in agile and DevOps
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2020-08-2836 min
Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring ConversationsToo Much WIP? Destroy Your BacklogThe struggle to limit work in progress is not a new one. It's a constant balance between our desire to get more done and avoiding employee burnout. It happens at all levels of the organization. Often strategic initiatives stem from a good place - leadership wants to do the right thing – but, as our guest Eric Willeke puts it, "A single piece of strategic WIP equals hundreds to thousands of pieces of individual WIP." As the Founder and a Principal at Elevate.to, he knows how hard it is to be an effective leader who limits his WI...
2020-01-2325 min
LiminalArc SoundNotesAgile 2019 Day 2: Agile Transformation w/Ronica Roth and Eric WillekeLast week, the biggest conference in the Agile industry took place in Washington DC at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center. We were proud to be a sponsor of this event and we were even more excited about catching up with friends—both old and new. For those of you who couldn't make it to the conference, we wanted to give you a little taste of what it's all about, so we decided to live-stream our podcast out of our booth in the Prince George Exhibitor Hall.
We had a chance to talk to a lot of re...
2019-08-2117 minAndermans Veren19-05-19Bumalijst Zondag 19 mei 2019
Het is over (Schmidt/Bannink) Jenny Arean 5?19 Van de cd Een nieuwe jas COL 469083 2
Het is begonnen (Yentl en De Boer) Yentl en de Boer 5?20 Eigen opname
Het allermooiste schilderij (T.v. Lieshout/H. Bannink) Frank Groothof 2?23 Eigen opname
Het item (De Wijs/Stokkermans) Jasperina de Jong 5?43 Van de LP Tussen zomer en winter Polydor 2925 115
Kater (Berman, Rowold) Eric Herfst 4?29 Van de cd Wie was bang voor Lurelei? Mercury 512 109-2
Telefoon (Schmidt/Lemaire) Wim Ibo 3?08 Eigen opname
Brexit (Nochem) Marc Nochem 4?00 Eigen opname
Vallende bladeren (Kosma/Prévert, De Vos) Willeke Alberti 3?13 Van de cd Willeke Alberti 65 U...
2019-05-2055 min
Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring ConversationsBusiness Strategy, Transformation Strategy and SAFe | Eric WillekeTransformation consultant and SAFe Fellow Eric Willeke shares his deep Lean-Agile experience with Agile Amped, focusing on the importance of ensuring organizations are guided by key results and outcomes. He points out that while many organizations are great at getting Agile Release Trains (ARTs) up and running, people doing the work have a hard time articulating how their work maps back to the bigger business strategy. Eric also highlights for us the need to clearly distinguish business strategy and transformation strategy and act accordingly. The topic of Eric's session at SAFe Summit 2017 was "Aligning Business Strategy and Execution with...
2017-10-0633 min
Agile Amped Podcast - Inspiring ConversationsEric Willeke and the Tragedy of Unfocused Feature and Strategy WIP at Agile2016Eric Willeke shares an account of his experience working with CA Technologies (formally Rally) where he discovered that limiting team WIP is only so useful when feature and strategy WIP aren't also coordinated. After working hard to figure out how to help his teams manage their WIP and deliver near-perfectly, Eric found that there was almost no change in the system; the same problems existed. Looking at a burndown chart of work performed by 47 teams, Eric thought it looked almost perfect--and yet the features delivered and accepted were flat. He found that while focus at the story level was great...
2016-09-0810 min