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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 moving, planning for holidays or communicating better, Agile is as useful at home as it is at work.

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 the governing board of FIFA, (which rules over the world of professional soccer, the most popular sport in the world), are under incredible scrutiny. 14 FIFA and other sports executives are already facing criminal indictments. One of the FIFA leaders was recently fired for making joke on a Swiss radio program. Facts About FIFA Failures Federal prosecutors here in the USA allege that not one but two generations of soccer executives used partnerships with sports marketing companies to solicit $150 million in bribes and kick backs in exchange for among other things, their support for the sites of FIFA World Cup Events from the qualifiers to the 2010 World Cup. A 47-count federal indictment was unsealed in Brooklyn, charging 14 defendants — nine FIFA officials and five corporate executives — with racketeering, wire f

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 Alliance along with projects that are best suited to Scrum. To contact Ryn directly go to her website at www.rynmelberg.com.

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 the challenges often dominating. But some organizations have found ways to make it work.

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 and Governance.

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 audience this week, May 18, 2015. Her opinions and suggestions were based on recent events and published articles about Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris and NFL quarterback Tom Brady.

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 and control organization. Ryn The Guardian Melberg describes this in detail on her weekly podcast.

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 CIO Jeff Smith wants to use the Agile project management methodology at a company where he leads 20,000 IT employees. Mr. Smith’s aim is to bring the speed of small company innovation at a company with 380,000 employees.

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 increased transparency and better rules for governing behavior on these popular vacation destinations.

This week, Ryn The Guardian Melberg tells us what this Agile thing is all about.

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.

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.

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 for ensuring appropriate governance? To help us wrap our brains around that concept is Ryn The Guardian Melberg.

Ryn The Guardian Melberg is an expert on Agile, Scaled Agile Network, corporate governance and project management. Her website is www.rynmelberg.com.