The Spiral Marketing Podcast

The Spiral Marketing Podcast


Episode 43: Developing an Agile Mindset with Eric Watson

May 31, 2019



Agile Development has become a productivity favorite for organizations that seek more efficient and effective project management. Both scrum masters and new discoverers of this methodology can learn a lot from this episode about sprinting past your competition via continuous improvement and so much more!


“Servicing your team instead of just asserting yourself will lead to better productivity.”


Just a few of the points you’ll learn in this episode:


  • Increasing team engagement
  • The importance of top-level management in empowering their teams

  • The specific things you need to focus on to be “agile”

  • What do engineers and preschoolers have in common?

“When you introduce something new, it’s rejected. Find individuals on your side. ”


Project Management


  • Do people ever really reach their 2+ year project goals?
  • What defines the scope of a project or service?
  • The importance of administrators
  • Why making your team feel capable leads to better project results

Agile Mindset for Client Satisfaction


  • How agile training and coaching benefits your clients
  • Why you need to branch out into unfamiliar areas to exceed expectations

  • Why servant leaders develop trust in teams
  • The necessity of directly molding agile strategies with team leaders

“By failing you learn and when you learn you develop better services.”


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