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How Business Can Rescue Our Current Healthcare System from 2021-11-30T02:26:28
Can we rescue the expensive, cumbersome, and increasingly patient un-friendly healthcare system we have here in the U.S? Yes. To hear the details about how to do it, listen to the Houston Healthcar...
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Enhancing Population Health Approaches After Covid - 19 from 2021-11-12T04:00
Enhancing Population Health Approaches After Covid - 19. On this edition of the Houston Healthcare Initiative Dr. Steven Goldstein, will discuss the reversals in preventative care the American publ...
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Ivermectin And Off Label Prescriptions from 2021-10-14T01:47:28
Even in the year 2021 the more things change, the more they stay the same. By that I am referring to the off-label prescription options doctors have always had that are still controversial when it ...
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Three Biden Administration Healthcare Goals Plus One Not Included from 2021-09-14T02:57:41
The new administration, like all of them, has plans for Americans and their healthcare. On this edition of the podcast Dr. Steven Goldstein, who founded the Houston Healthcare Initiative, will get ...
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Why? Weight Gain During the Covid-19 Lockdown from 2021-08-09T19:19:36
Why? Weight Gain During the Covid-19 Lockdown by Dr. Steven Goldstein
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Healthcare Payment Reform Is Critical To Improving Primary Care from 2021-07-14T21:44:08
Access to and paying for healthcare is a topic that Dr. Goldstein talks about a lot on the podcast and this one is no exception. But in this case access to primary care is a matter of the number of...
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UnitedHealthcare May Deny Emergency Room Claims from 2021-06-21T20:32:42
On this edition of the Houston Healthcare Initiative podcast, Dr. Steven Goldstein describes UnitedHealthcare’s try at reducing emergency room claim payments by retroactively ruling that some emerg...
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How To Hack Your Health Savings Account from 2021-06-09T02:13:29
How To Hack Your Health Savings Account
In this installment of the Houston Healthcare Initiative podcast, respected neurologist and founder of the Houston Healthcare Initiative, Dr. Steven...
How To Find A New Doctor from 2021-05-11T02:07:12
In the market for a new doctor? Wondering why you even need a primary care physician? There are lots of ways and reasons. Listen to the Houston Healthcare Initiative podcast with Dr. Steven Goldste...
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Covid Pandemic Stress And Overeating from 2021-04-20T21:35:03
Covid Pandemic Stress And Overeating by Dr. Steven Goldstein
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Patient Centered Healthcare from 2021-04-06T21:54:20
Patient Centered Healthcare by Dr. Steven Goldstein
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Healthcare By The Numbers from 2021-03-23T00:27:57
Healthcare By The Numbers by Dr. Steven Goldstein
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The Pandemic Cost Me My Job And Health Insurance Now What from 2021-03-01T21:27:36
The amount of people who were and remain unemployed because of the Covid-19 pandemic remains high. Since most individuals get their health insurance with their jobs, those same folks are also in ne...
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Hospital Price Transparency from 2021-02-15T21:18:47
How Some Hospitals Are Balking At These New Rules And One That Is Not
This week respected Houston based neurologist Dr. Steven Goldstein will discuss the price’s patients are charged by do...
Why Haven Failed To Repair Healthcare from 2021-02-01T22:36:56
A healthcare company blessed with lots of money, high tech abilities and really smart people will close up the end of January. Of course, this was Haven, the joint venture between Amazon, Berkshire...
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Why Did Haven Healthcare Fail? from 2021-01-19T22:22:58
Those with an interest in reforming the healthcare industry will be very interested in the topic of this podcast as respected neurologist Dr. Steven Goldstein tells us all about how some very large...
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Unsettled Healthcare Times from 2021-01-04T21:15:30
The Case for Healthcare Reform in Unsettled Times
That times are unsettled was never truer than in 2020 and 2021 will start out that way. But in an unsettled time with so much of the natio...
Accept That Healthcare And Insurance Companies Will Always Do What They Want from 2020-12-02T22:11:35
Should you just accept that Healthcare and Insurance Companies Will Always Do What They Want? No matter which party’s reforms are adopted the public will be unhappy. What’s the solution? Walk Away ...
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Compare Democratic And Republican Healthcare Plans from 2020-11-15T18:06:54
Do we really have any chance of meaningful change for an industry that all but regulates itself? Or should we just resign ourselves to healthcare and insurance companies doing and charging what the...
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November Health Insurance Selections; Which One Is Best? from 2020-11-03T17:59:46
Is it possible to get good health insurance coverage in 2021 and save money on treatments, prescription drugs and the policy too? The answer according to Dr. Steven Goldstein, founder of the Housto...
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Vaccines And Liability Wavers from 2020-10-13T02:12:50
Vaccines And Liability Wavers by Dr. Steven Goldstein
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Who Decides What Drugs We Can Take from 2020-09-28T21:15:06
A group of U.S. doctors known collectively as the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons or the AAPS recently sued the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for limiting use of hydroxychloroq...
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Gerald Posner: Greed Lies and the Poisoning of America from 2020-09-14T19:01:21
On this special edition of the Houston Healthcare Initiative podcast, author Gerald Posner discusses the history of the pharmaceutical industry and his new book "Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poison...
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Blood Plasma Covid Treatment And Pharmaceutical Industry Reform from 2020-09-08T20:02:35
On August 23, 2020 the Food and Drug Administration’s announced a decision to grant blood plasma treatment for Coronavirus/Covid-19 patients with a fast-track authorization for its emergency use a...
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How A Retracted Article Drove Misunderstanding Hydroxychloroquine from 2020-08-23T21:17:08
On the Houston Healthcare Initiative podcast, Dr. Steven Goldstein describes how articles published and later retracted in both the "Lancet" and the "New England Journal of Medicine" contributed to...
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Why Canadian Drug Prices Are Lower Than US Drug Prices from 2020-08-10T22:11:27
What are the reasons prices for prescribed medicine here are far higher than they are in Canada? Is there a good reason or any reason? Add to this the recent federal government action to bring U.S....
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What The Court Ruled About Hospital Price Transparency from 2020-07-09T15:50:58
This week Dr. Steven Goldstein will take a deeper dive into a court decision that requires hospitals to reveal private negotiated rates with insurers starting this coming January 1, 2021. Plus, he ...
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Why Health Insurers Won't Disclose Pricing from 2020-06-26T18:11:58
Why Health Insurers Won't Disclose Pricing by Dr. Steven Goldstein
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Lost Jobs & Insurance Due To Coronavirus from 2020-06-09T21:48:05
Lost Jobs & Insurance Due To Coronavirus by Dr. Steven Goldstein
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Covid - 19 And Surprise Medical Bills from 2020-05-18T15:42:33
If the stress and anxiety associated with the Coronavirus/Covid-19 pandemic were not enough, people who must go to doctors, clinics or hospitals, because of the virus or anything else, may also be ...
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Lonliness And Covid 19 from 2020-04-28T16:46:51
Lonliness And Covid 19 by Dr. Steven Goldstein
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Healthcare Reform After Covid 19 from 2020-04-14T20:52:48
The end of the Coronavirus/Covid-19 crisis may be several weeks away, but the end will come and change is likely. What about the healthcare industry will change and what will go back to what it was...
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Medical Bills and Bankruptcy What To Do from 2019-12-17T20:01:34
There are few tragedies that surpass bankruptcy, particularly one caused by medical bills. You leave the hospital, recover enough to return to work and discover the costs of your treatment are more...
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Managed Care And Hospital Bills from 2019-11-26T01:36:46
This week on the podcast Dr. Steven Goldstein will help us better understand the roles of managed care and the prices paid by all of us. How are prices determined and by whom? Is it the free market...
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Medicare For All? from 2019-10-29T21:06:23
This week our conversation is right out of the headlines, and that is Medicare for All. There are pros and cons for it and here to help us make sense of it all is respected neurologist Dr. Steven G...
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Surprise Hospital Bills from 2019-10-09T13:18:11
Earlier this year both houses of congress were debating legislation that would end practices that led to surprisingly large and unexpected hospital bills. It seemed that passage was all but done. B...
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Government Price Setting Ads; Who Is Behind Them? from 2019-09-16T21:52:47
Who is behind all those ‘government rate setting ads’ and what should the public know about them or do differently? For that matter, what exactly are they advocating? In his latest podcast, respect...
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Preexisting Conditions from 2019-08-06T22:31:40
With so many different parts to the whole health insurance debate, this week noted Houston based neurologist and founder of the Houston Healthcare Initiative Dr. Steven Goldstein will take one piec...
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ER Surprises from 2019-08-06T22:08:16
Patients may go to the hospital designated as in network by their insurance, but the doctors who treat them may not be part of that network. This is one of the main reasons for big bills even among...
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What You Buy? Cost Control Of Healthcare from 2018-10-23T18:40:49
What You Buy? Cost Control Of Healthcare. When looking for the best health insurance, it is a good idea to consider what are you buying and what value does it deliver. According to Dr. Steven Golds...
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What Did You Buy? Cost Control Of Healthcare from 2018-10-23T18:36:33
What Did You Buy? Cost Control Of Healthcare by Dr. Steven Goldstein
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Who Is Suited For A Corporate Board? from 2018-08-15T19:32:44
On this edition of The Guardian Podcast with Ryn Melberg, Ryn returns to her discussion with Ralph Ward who recently published, "Board Seeker: Your Guidebook and Career Map into the Corporate Board...
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Ralph Ward Board Membership from 2018-06-28T14:35:36
Corporate board of directors expert and author Ralph Ward joins Ryn Melberg on this edition of The Guardian Podcast to discuss how to become a corporate board member and his new book, "Board Seeker...
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The Guardian Podcast:The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security from 2018-05-09T17:37:26
On this edition we return to a favorite topic of the podcast and it is that of cyber security. Our guest is Marcus J Ranum who is a well known consultant in the field. Marcus is an expert in cyber ...
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Private Equity Firms on The Guardian Podcast with Ryn Melberg from 2018-04-11T19:39:02
Why did Toys R Us fail? Was it the fault of Private Equity (P.E.) firms or was there more to it? The answer to this and other questions about the role of private equity firms are the subject of the...
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?Ron Orol Activist Shareholders from 2018-03-29T03:10:33
?Ron Orol Activist Shareholders by Ryn Melberg
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ABA's Year Long Cyber Security Series from 2018-03-06T03:08:20
On this edition of The Guardian Podcast with Ryn Melberg, Ryn discusses cyber security with Jason Tashea. Jason is a writer with the "ABA Journal" and is writing a year long series on this importan...
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David Hussman and Chaos.Audiotrack 2 from 2018-01-02T16:26:26
On this edition of The Guardian Podcast with Ryn Melberg, David Hussman joins Ryn to discuss all things chaos, including "Chaos Day". David is well known for his web site and location in Minneapoli...
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Chaoslinger & Cyber Security from 2017-11-29T01:28:10
On this edition of The Guardian Podcast with Ryn Melberg, Ryn discusses how an organization and some very creative people are harnessing the power of open source code and chaos to manufacture cutti...
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Is Your Business Working on the Right Things and What To Do About It from 2017-11-15T17:09:17
?Mark A. Langley of PMI; Are You Working on the Right Things?
Mark A. Langley, president and CEO of Project Management Institute (PMI) is on this edition of The Guardian Podcast With Ryn Melbe...
David Hussman on Product Agility, DevJam & Agile Twin Cities from 2017-11-01T19:59:19
In this edition of the Guardian podcast we will be talking with David Hussman. David is someone I know and worked with before and am very happy he is with us. Among other things, David now leads a ...
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Alex Yakyma on Industry's Broken Mindset from 2017-10-19T18:45
On this edition of the Guardian Podcast we welcome someone Ryn has wanted to talk with for a long time, Mr. Alex Yakyma. Alex is known for his expertise in Lean, Agile and Scaled Agile. That alone ...
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Project Management Institute & Agility from 2017-10-03T20:32:20
Project Management Institute & Agility by Dr. Steven Goldstein
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Equifax And Cyber Security from 2017-09-27T16:37:01
The 2015 hack of Ashley Madison and any possible lessons appear lost on most Fortune 500 companies with Equifax the most recent and dangerous. While this is a challenge with ‘coding’ there is more ...
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Mary And Tom Poppendieck Discuss Agile and Lean from 2017-09-06T17:15:51
This week on The Guardian Podcast with Ryn Melberg, Ryn welcomes Mary and Tom Poppendieck. Mary and Tom are the authors of four different books on the concepts of Lean and Agile. Their website is h...
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Does Your Business Need An Agile-DevOps Makeover? from 2017-08-22T18:05:35
Does Your Business Need An Agile-DevOps Makeover? by Dr. Steven Goldstein
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The Agile Practice Guide and PMI Collaboration from 2017-08-08T16:14:43
On this edition of the Guardian Podcast with Ryn Melberg, Ryn talks with Stephen Townsend of the Project Management Institute or PMI as they are also known. Steve is the Director, Global Alliances ...
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Psychological Safety for Agile Teams from 2017-07-25T16:55:55
Psychological Safety for Agile Teams by Dr. Steven Goldstein
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Joel Traugott On Scrum, Agile and Content Marketing from 2017-07-12T22:52:18
On this edition of The Guardian Podcast with Ryn Melberg, Ryn talks with Joel Traugott. Joel is a self-described digital marketing geek with a love of data-driven marketing and a flair for building...
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Agile, Airlines and Corporate Governance from 2017-06-06T20:18:52
Nothing says put up your dukes like a boarding call. And with summer vacation season here, airline seats getting smaller while passengers stay the same shape or get bigger, it seems likely that mor...
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Mario Moreira from 2017-05-02T01:57:35
On the podcast today we will meet and talk with Mario Moreira. Mario is an Enterprise Agile consultant and Master Agile Coach at Vistaprint who focuses on company success. Mario is a Certified Scr...
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Backlogs In Agile from 2017-04-24T19:57:01
This week, Ryn helps answer questions about the backlog and more specifically the team backlog as part of the Agile, SAFe, and/or Scrum work process. This is a topic we have not discussed before on...
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Agile Testimonial For Texas Non Profit from 2017-04-04T21:44:01
Ryn 'The Guardian' Melberg talks with Wes Copeland about his organizations' experiences with user stories, Kanban and stand up meetings. Wes is the executive director at the Brazosport Center for t...
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Agile And Learning Cultures from 2017-03-21T21:38:28
Corporate culture is one of those topics that gets written and talked about a good bit and with good reason. Implementing and maintaining an Agile culture and an Agile learning culture are both ver...
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Governance Security and Cloud Pet from 2017-03-09T22:11:30
Ryn The Guardian Melberg had not talked about security and governance on her own podcast for a while, though she has on other radio programs, so it is high time for her to do so again here.
The Guardian Podcast With Ryn Melberg Guest Jurgen Appelo from 2017-02-22T17:45:29
This week on The Guardian Podcast with Ryn Melberg, Ryn talks with well known author and management expert Jurgen Apello. Among a lot of topics, Ryn and Jurgen discuss his latest book, "Managing fo...
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Moira Alexander Of CIO Magazine from 2017-01-31T02:48:27
This week Ryn will be talking with Moira Alexander of CIO Magazine. Moira is the founder and president of the Lead-Her-Ship Group. She has more than 20 years of experience in business, IT and proje...
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Jonathon Levene On Agile Introductions from 2017-01-18T16:57:11
To start the new year, Ryn talks with Jonathan Levene (www.levenecoaching.com). Mr. Levene is a Boston-based executive coach specializing in the leadership development of high-tech entrepreneurs, e...
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SAFe Implemetation from 2016-12-07T23:36:01
This week on the podcast Ryn The Guardian Melberg discusses what is needed to implement the Scaled Agile Framework, the right size organizations and some examples of good and not so good experience...
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If Words Matter Does Human Resources Need A Name Change? from 2016-10-05T20:09:10
What's in a name? Would a rose still smell as sweet if we called it 'stink weed'? Yes, but we would perceive 'roses' differently because words matter. This week on the podcast Ryn 'The Guardian' Me...
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Is Agile a philosophy, methodology, or something that’s gone too far? from 2016-09-15T23:11:25
Agile’s emergence as a global movement extends beyond software development. Agile’s popularity is driven by the discovery that its benefits are not isolated to software developers. Among other thin...
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Can Agile Methods Repair Delta Airlines I.T. Infrastructure from 2016-08-23T19:11:53
On August 9, 2016 Delta Airlines experienced a computer network shutdown that caused the cancellation and/or delay of flights for three days. Can Agile project methods be used to repair a network a...
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Pokemon Go And Cyber Security from 2016-08-09T18:47:26
This week on The Guardian Podcast Ryn Melberg brings us all up to speed on the biggest mobile app game in history that is of course Pokémon. What are the potential cyber security vulnerabilities pl...
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How Can I Know If Agile Is Right For Me from 2016-07-27T20:40:31
This week on The Guardian Podcast With Ryn Melberg, Ryn helps us know whether Agile is a good fit for organizations and the individuals who work inside those organizations. The Guardian Podcast wit...
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Agile And DevOps from 2016-07-06T19:57:31
This week Ryn talks with Ross Clanton about Dev-Ops and Agile. Ross Clanton is an accomplished leader with over 16 years of IT experience in the retail industry. Ross is a DevOps enthusiast whose m...
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Leadership Qualities For A Successful Agile Transformation from 2016-06-21T16:51:31
This week on the podcast Ryn does the interview with guest Paul Ellarby as they discuss the need for and types of leadership for an Agile Transformation. Paul and Ryn share a lot of common experien...
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A Brief History Of Project Management from 2016-06-07T21:30:48
This week during the interview segment we swing back to the world of Agile. To know where we are in terms of current project management methods and where we are headed there is no better way than t...
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Advantages And Disadvantages Of Outsourcing from 2016-05-24T18:36:55
This week during the interview segment with Ryn we discuss the practice of outsourcing. There are plenty of industries where this happens and it is not a coincidence that IT, web development, techn...
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Agile IT Only Or Business Practice Too? from 2016-05-17T20:19:57
Agile Practice or Business Practice? Can the two co-exist? It seems that there are places other than software products where the really good, sensible, useful, affordable solutions based on decades...
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Agile Continuous Integration from 2016-05-12T15:40:06
This week on the interview segment of the program we will talk to Ryn about Continuous Integration in Agile. According to Martin Fowler of ThoughtWorks, continuous integration is a software develop...
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Marketing With Agile from 2016-05-03T17:27:48
Approaching marketing with the Agile methodology will create a competitive advantage for those who choose to use it. Advantages for Agile marketers are fast and frequent customer feedback with cost...
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Scrum Of Scrums from 2016-04-26T23:50:50
This week on The Guardian Podcast with Ryn Melberg, Ryn discusses the pros and cons of the 'scrum of scrums' and calls out some things she finds 'stupid and ineffective'. In the news segment we lea...
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Geographically Diverse Teams Plus News from 2016-04-19T18:01:09
In the age of the Internet and instant communications it is no longer necessary for team members to work in the same office floor or building. In fact it is not really necessary to even be in the s...
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Knowledge Worker Salary And Incentives from 2016-04-04T15:23:44
Is money the best tool for attracting and retaining the best knowledge workers? Or, is there a formula for finding what is too little, too much or what is just right, like porridge. Some employers ...
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Connecting Information Security and Corporate Governance from 2016-03-28T19:41:23
The infrastructure that allows everything from streaming movies and songs to international banking, commerce and satellite directed intelligence and defense is not as secure as it should be.
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Devops vs. Systems Teams In Agile from 2016-03-13T17:44:16
While not a cage match or winner take all, this week on the podcast Ryn describes the differences between Devops and Systems Teams and their respective roles in Agile. While there is plenty of oppo...
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Cyber Security and Reputation Damage from 2016-03-07T17:52:14
This week on the Guardian Podcast, Ryn describes the role directors must play to make cyber security a day to day job for everyone in the organization. Ryn also describes in detail the monetary los...
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How To Ruin Your Agile Transformation from 2016-02-26T19:52:55
Nothing succeeds like success and one of the ways to recognize success is to know the signals or signs that you and your Agile transformation are flittering with disaster. There are several of thes...
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Agile and Scrum Coaching from 2016-02-23T05:18:43
What are the qualities of the best ‘coaches’ or teachers that you’ve ever had? Do those same qualities make for good Agile and scrum coaches? And are you a candidate for a coaching role in Agile or...
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How To Lead In An Agile Environment from 2016-02-15T16:20:58
Leadership in general and leadership in an Agile setting may or may not have a number of similarities. Most people would likely see leadership as an ‘eye of the beholder’ kind of thing that is hard...
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Objections And Struggles To And With Agile Practices from 2016-02-08T16:45:30
Nothing is perfect. There are no perfect solutions to anything and no solver bullets. We have all heard these expressions hundreds of times. The same thing can be said of Agile, Scrum, Scaled Agile...
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Epics In Agile from 2016-02-01T19:43:44
This week on The Guardian Podcast with Ryn Melberg, the topic is Epics. What are Epics in Agile and Scrum? Are they better suited to Scaled Agile or are they appropriate elsewhere? And what are the...
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Writing Agile Features Best Practices from 2016-01-25T19:21:44
This week on The Guardian Podcast, Ryn Melberg helps Agile/Scrum/SAFe users define what a feature really is. There is a lot of confusion and misuse of the term. Ryn describes how using the term co...
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Social Media and Governance Policy from 2016-01-18T20:31:54
There was bound to be a nexus between social media, company policy and best practices. This includes what employees do on line while on and off the clock and extends to customers, suppliers, shareh...
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Daniel Pink Agile and Science from 2016-01-11T16:27:11
This week on The Guardian Podcast with Ryn Melberg, the science of motivation in the workplace, based on the writing of Daniel Pink. As Ryn has said previously, the carrot and stick approach to man...
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Agile Tools Review from 2016-01-04T17:51:45
This week on The Guardian Podcast with Ryn Melberg, Agile and tools for managing and tracking are the topic. Among others, Ryn reviews: Atlassian. Jira, Leankit, Rally Platform for Agile Lifecycle,...
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Getting To Know Ryn The Guardian Melberg Better! from 2015-12-27T21:30:44
This week on The Guardian Podcast With Ryn Melberg, we learn more about Ryn and how she came to be where she is and where she is hopeful of being in the not too distant future. How did she turn a s...
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The Truly Agile Board of Directors from 2015-12-21T16:26:33
This week Ryn The Guardian Melberg discusses the ways that practices from Agile can be used to improve the overall work and practices of boards of directors for privately owned, publicly traded or ...
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Governance On Campus For College and University Boards from 2015-12-14T17:17:28
This week on the podcast Ryn will discuss the issue of governance on university campuses. Specifically the board members of those universities who come from outside the respective college campuses ...
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V-Tech Hacks' Impact On Child Security from 2015-12-07T14:32:52
This week on the program Ryn will discuss with us some much needed steps that parents or anyone with children in their lives needs to take to protect the privacy of those same youngsters. This in t...
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Myth Of Multitasking from 2015-11-30T19:07:01
This week on the Guardian Podcast with Ryn Melberg we will discuss why multitasking is not the productivity gain that so many people seem to think it is. A popular notion in the culture is that so ...
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IT Security Governance and Crisis Management from 2015-11-23T17:22:46
In the past on this program we have talked about the need for better security in an on line world. We have also talked about corporate governance failures at several companies and organizations. Th...
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How Agile Can Save The Healthcare Industry from 2015-11-16T16:14:44
We have been told that there were some industries that were too big to fail. What many believe is that they are simply too broke to fix. Healthcare seems like one of those that we cannot afford to ...
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Agile For Non-Software Projects And Companies from 2015-11-09T15:27:49
Most weeks on the podcast, Ryn talks about how Agile is used for writing code to deliver software. And different software of course runs all kinds of machinery from cars to cell phones, refrigerato...
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Agile User Stories Best Practices from 2015-11-02T18:09:45
This week on the podcast Ryn Melberg describes the do's and don'ts of Agile User Stories. The overall idea with these stories is that members of the team talk about what the customer wants and why....
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When and How to Scale Up Agile from 2015-10-26T19:59:11
This week on the podcast, Ryn Melberg describes when and how to know the right time to move from Agile to the enterprise wide Scaled Agile Framework, which is also known as "SAFe". To contact Ryn d...
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Corporate Governance Update On Dow and FIFA from 2015-10-19T16:12:36
According to an article in Reuters there are still more governance challenges for Dow CEO Andrew Liveris. This article describes an alleged role his spouse had with a remodeling project at a compan...
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Agile Return On Investment from 2015-10-12T16:25:06
This week on the podcast we will talk about the return on investment organizations can expect from implementing Agile practices. From a business point of view this is among the most persuasive aspe...
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Corporate Governance Failures At Volkswagen from 2015-10-05T22:05:08
On this program we talk about programming and code writing using Agile/Safe/Scrum methodologies. We also talk a lot about governance issues at places like FIFA or Dow Chemical. But this is the firs...
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Features In Agile from 2015-09-28T16:32:51
This week on the Guardian Podcast Ryn Melberg educates us on the role of the feature, the feature team, and the difference between features and user stories.
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Cyber Security from 2015-09-21T17:36:49
This week on The Guardian Podcast with Ryn Melberg cyber security and the business and political implications for breaches by foreign governments is the topic. The U.S. has a cyber security problem...
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Stand Up Meeting Best Practices from 2015-09-14T03:29:55
This week Ryn will introduce us to the “stand up meeting” as part of the Agile project management way. Stand up meetings are at the heart of Agile/Scrum team organization. A stand up meeting is lik...
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Ashley Madison and Cyber Security Using Agile from 2015-08-31T14:36:30
AshleyMadison.com, a site that helps married people cheat and whose slogan is “Life is Short, have an Affair” was recently hacked and information on as many as 37 million people is now public. This...
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Transforming The Agile Organization from 2015-08-24T19:15:28
This week on The Guardian Podcast with Ryn Melberg we learn about the true ways an organization becomes and embraces Agile. What each must have to separate the Agile from the fakes and wannabes.
Agile Testing Methodologies from 2015-08-10T15:50:49
This week on The Guardian Podcast with Ryn Melberg, tests and testing for users of the Agile project management methodology are described and discussed. How testing gets done with Agile is where th...
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Governance FIFA Dow Chemical and the Cruise Industry from 2015-08-03T20:34:28
This week on The Guardian Podcast with Ryn Melberg we review three governance cases to see what progress has been made since we first discussed them. These are governance issues at FIFA, The Dow Ch...
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Ryn Melberg podcast on 2015-0 from 2015-07-26T21:31:13
This week on The Guardian Podcast with Ryn Melberg we discuss 3 huge governance and IT security failures. A couple of weeks ago, there was what can only be described as a very unusual coincidence. ...
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Development Operations For Agile Project Management from 2015-07-21T18:42:26
This week on The Guardian Podcast with Ryn Melberg, we are going to learn about another role in the Agile project management world, that of ‘development operations’ or as it is more commonly known,...
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The Scrum Master And The Release train Engineer from 2015-07-06T17:45:09
This week on The Guardian Ryn Melberg describes a couple of more roles in the Agile project management world, that of Scrum Master and then later the Relief Train Engineer.
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The Product Owner And Product Manager In THE Agile And SAFE System. from 2015-06-29T16:25:32
Last week we learned about Scrum so this week we press ahead with another piece of the nomenclature, and that is the Product Owner and Product Manager in THE Agile and SAFE system.
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Living La Vida Agile from 2015-06-22T15:16:42
This week on The Guardian Podcast with Ryn Melberg, ways to take the same project management and rational people skills that come from Agile in the workplace and make them work at home. Whether mov...
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FIFA & Governance Failures from 2015-06-15T16:51:10
Corporate governance is a topic covered on The Guardian Podcast with Ryn Melberg regularly and especially when issues involving governance are in the news. That is the case this week as members of ...
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What Is This Thing Called Scrum? from 2015-06-08T20:01:18
This week on The Guardian podcast, Ryn Melberg introduces us to Scrum. Among other things, Ryn describes Scrum as a part of the Agile project management methodology, Scrum Teams and the Scrum Allia...
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Agile and On Line Security from 2015-06-01T15:45:26
This week we are going to discuss how on line security can be positively impacted by Agile. The move to agile development practices poses both challenges and opportunities to security teams -- with...
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Agile and Corporate Governance from 2015-05-27T15:26:51
Last week Ryn talked about a specific example of governance failures at The Dow Chemical Company involving CEO Andrew Liveris. This week Ryn is going to continue with that thread and discuss Agile ...
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Corporate Governance Failures of Dow Chemical and the NFL from 2015-05-19T17:03:59
Ryn The Guardian Melberg made observations and recommendations about corporate governance and the negative impact to employees, customers, shareholders and other stakeholders to her podcast audienc...
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Recruiting Talent for Agile Organizations from 2015-05-14T11:11:10
Recruiting hiring and retaining talent for companies that use the “Agile” methodology for project and product management requires a different approach than what is used at the traditional command a...
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IBM and Agile Transformation from 2015-05-04T11:24:16
This week we are going to consider a real life example of Agile at work in no less a place than legendary computer manufacturer, IBM. A recent article from the Wall Street Journal describes how IBM...
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Cruise Lines and Corporate Governance from 2015-04-27T17:28:53
This week on The Guardian Podcast, Ryn Melberg discusses corporate governance and the vacation cruise industry. Listen in to hear her advise for the industry and how to repair public trust with inc...
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What is this Agile thing? from 2015-04-20T03:58:33
This week, Ryn The Guardian Melberg tells us what this Agile thing is all about.
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The Positive Influence of Agile, Scaled Agile Framework on Corporate Governance from 2015-04-12T20:23:21
This week on The Guardian Podcast with Ryn Melberg, Ryn discusses how Agile and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) can positive impact governance at all levels of a company.
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Ryn The Guardian Melberg podcast from 2015-04-06T14:35:50
This week on The Guardian Podcast, Ryn Melberg describes the practicalities and behaviors that will not only prevent waste but make organizations more profitable with details about ROI, IRR and WSJF.
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Agile and SAFe Certification from 2015-03-31T21:46:23
This week on The Guardian podcast with Ryn Melberg, we are going to discuss the merit of training and certification for Agile and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
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3 Ways To Implement Agile and/or Scaled Agile Framework from 2015-03-24T15:36:25
Ryn “The Guardian” Melberg And Different Models for Implementing Agile and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) This Week
This week on her podcast, Ryn “The Guardian” Melberg discusses 2 well kno...
Ryn Melberg podcast on 3/7/2015 from 2015-03-17T17:37:51
Those who work with Agile see benefits that occur inside the business almost right away. But can Agile/SAFe have a similar impact on external audiences? And along those lines, how can it be used fo...
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Ryn Melberg podcast on 2/28/2015 from 2015-03-17T17:32:52
Ryn The Guardian Melberg is an expert on Agile, Scaled Agile Network, corporate governance and project management. Her website is www.rynmelberg.com.
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