President of Ascendle, Diana Bourns, joins our host Leslie Morse for a conversation on how Ascendle has leveraged discipline & empowerment as the underpinnings for creating a thriving agile organization. During this discussion Diana reveals that supporting organizational memory through co-created documentation as well as halving a relentless strive to improve are other keys for their success. One of the most interesting concepts in their goal to get everyone into their “genius zone.” About the Featured Guest Diana Bourns has more than 30 years of experience leading cross-functional teams, in both startup and non-profit organizations. A skilled agile practitioner, Diana has held the roles of Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Agile Coach and is the current President at Ascendle, a contract software engineering firm in Portsmouth, NH. Follow Diana on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dianabourns/) Follow Ascendle on Twitter @Ascendle (http://www.twitter.com/ascendle) Reference(s) “The Epic Guide to Agile: More Business Value on a Predictable Schedule with Scrum” by Dave Todaro (Founder & CEO of Ascendle) “Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business” by Gino Wickman (Source for Entrepreneurial Operating System) “The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It” by Michael E. Gerber Forbes Women’s Forum The Women in Agile community champions inclusion and diversity of thought, regardless of gender, and this podcast is a platform to share new voices and stories with the Agile community and the business world, because we believe that everyone is better off when more, diverse ideas are shared. Podcast Library: www.womeninagile.org/podcast Women in Agile Org Website: www.womeninagile.org Connect with us on social media! LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/womeninagile/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/womeninagile/ Twitter: www.twitter.com/womeninagileorg Please take a moment to rate and review the Women in Agile podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. This is the best way to help us amplify the voices and wisdom of the talent women and allies in our community! Be sure to take a screenshot of your rating and review and post it on social media with the hashtag #womeninagile. This will get you entered to a monthly drawing for a goodie bag of Women In Agile Org swag! About our Host Leslie Morse is an agilist at heart. She was leveraging agile practices and appreciating agile principles long before she even knew what they were. Her agile journey officially started in 2010 and she never looked back. Her career has taken many twists and turns. She led a digital marketing start-up in college, was involved with replatforming Lowes.com while they adopted agile practices, provided training and coaching for agile transformation across a wide array of industries, and now serves as the Product Owner of Professional Development Solutions for Scrum.org. She is a trained and certified in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and has been involved in the Women in Agile movement since its original inception at Scrum Gathering 2013 in Las Vegas. You can connect with Leslie on LinkedIn.

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