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Where Agile Is Quietly Winning
46 mins; March 30, 2026
Is Agile the Problem or is this an Organizational Disease?
49 mins; February 27, 2026
Change That Sticks
56 mins; January 23, 2026
Staying Resilient in a Layoff Era
47 mins; November 21, 2025
Agile Burnout
44 mins; October 24, 2025
Tools Over People
44 mins; September 26, 2025
Rebuilding Communities of Practice
46 mins; August 22, 2025
Does your boss understand what you do?
45 mins; July 25, 2025
Talking to The C-Suite
45 mins; June 27, 2025
Policy or Empowerment?
46 mins; May 23, 2025
Does Lean help Agile?
47 mins; April 26, 2025
Creating Flow
47 mins; March 30, 2025
Fixing a Broken Culture
51 mins; March 05, 2025
Agile in Mergers and Acquisitions
53 mins; January 29, 2025
Looking ahead to 2025 and celebrating 2024
48 mins; December 09, 2024
Agile in the Age of AI
50 mins; October 25, 2024
Organizational Change
50 mins; September 27, 2024
The Aftermath of Layoffs
50 mins; August 23, 2024
Is Transformation a Flawed Concept?
47 mins; July 26, 2024
Simplicity, the true power of Agile.
50 mins; June 22, 2024
Value of Agile Coaches
48 mins; June 11, 2024
Are Companies Backing Away From Agile?
44 mins; April 12, 2024
Responding to Changing Requirements
45 mins; February 26, 2024
Leadership Traits for Building Customer-Centric Teams
49 mins; January 26, 2024
Is it really back-to-basics for Agile?
49 mins; November 24, 2023
Influence and Ways to Improve it
52 mins; October 24, 2023
Strategic Agility
46 mins; September 22, 2023
Advice on Coaching a New Agile Team
48 mins; August 25, 2023
Learning Spike: Abandoning the Agile Brand
2 mins; July 29, 2023
The Agile Industrial Complex
49 mins; July 21, 2023
Agile Risk Mitigation and Tips for a New Team Coach
49 mins; June 23, 2023
What about the people!!!
48 mins; May 19, 2023
Has Agile Jumped the Shark?
50 mins; April 28, 2023
ACN Learning Spike: the Cynefin Framework
2 mins; April 19, 2023
Balancing the "how" and "why" in product delivery
53 mins; March 24, 2023
Communities of Practice the Benefits and Challenges
51 mins; February 24, 2023
Laid Off in the Age of AI
48 mins; January 27, 2023
Focus! How do we help people find it?
50 mins; December 04, 2022
When Coaching is no Longer Coaching
49 mins; October 30, 2022
Agile Transformation Strategies
51 mins; October 07, 2022
Teal Organization and its fit inside Agile. Plus, Agile metrics
47 mins; September 10, 2022
Impediments
53 mins; August 15, 2022
What would you have done differently?
53 mins; July 15, 2022
Ways to Coach and Foster Innovation
53 mins; June 10, 2022
The Agile Manager
53 mins; May 21, 2022
Too busy to improve!
48 mins; April 09, 2022
How and what are we learning this year?
50 mins; March 13, 2022
How can we help Agile teams to thrive?
46 mins; February 21, 2022
Helping Hybrid Workplaces to Prosper
54 mins; January 07, 2022
Where Agile Transformations Go Wrong
53 mins; December 16, 2021
How do we advocate for change?
48 mins; November 04, 2021
The future of work and convincing leaders to change
55 mins; October 04, 2021
Building technical excellence and do you need a certification?
53 mins; September 10, 2021
Constant pace indefinitely and should contractors move forward if done early?
49 mins; August 17, 2021
Has Agile become too homogeneous and how to coach leads and managers
44 mins; July 16, 2021
Dealing with project failure and going back to the office
48 mins; June 11, 2021
Fostering Self-Organizing Teams and Agile for Hardware Development
51 mins; May 01, 2021
Dealing with disruption and best practices to build trust
49 mins; April 22, 2021
Has Agile Left Programmers Behind? Plus, Flat Retrospectives
48 mins; March 28, 2021
Agile at 20 and what is the difference between facilitating vs. leading a meeting.
53 mins; March 07, 2021
Waves of transformation and Agile at 20
51 mins; January 05, 2021
Agile communities of practice, performance reviews, and mixed questions from our live event
52 mins; December 14, 2020
Permanent work-from-home and Agile, and resources for business and leadership agility
49 mins; November 13, 2020
From command and control to self-organization, and why use Agile project management.
47 mins; October 22, 2020
Implementing Agile on non-software teams, when teams get too big, and steps to become a product owner
48 mins; August 31, 2020
Agile Testing Strategies and Coaching an Overwhelmed Product Owner
48 mins; August 14, 2020
Dealing with unconscious biases, and shifting the team to an outcome mindset.
48 mins; June 28, 2020
Maneuvering a Black Swan event, and what are good ways to measure Agile maturity.
48 mins; May 27, 2020
What does it mean to be good enough, and how should Agile coaches measure their success
47 mins; April 29, 2020
Working remotely when face-to-face is not possible and taking care of yourself
51 mins; March 30, 2020
Team and personal learning, moving from scrum master to Agile coach, and moving to enterprise-level coach
46 mins; February 24, 2020
Moving boldly into the New Year, how to not be an outsider as a scrum master, and effective team communications.
48 mins; January 29, 2020
Building an octopus organization and supporting sustainability
49 mins; December 18, 2019
Why ask permission to be better, the nature of work and frameworks, and assessing Agile maturity
49 mins; November 22, 2019
A live chat with thought leaders in the Agile test community about Agile and test.
49 mins; November 11, 2019
Is Agile killing or helping innovation, do cycle time metrics add value, building cohesive teams, what success has happened with Agile in K-12 education, and what people are reading
45 mins; October 25, 2019
Building "Yes, and" culture, how to bring culture change to an organization, and what people are reading
43 mins; September 23, 2019
What is wrong with mandated Agile, Scrum master value, digital vs. Agile transformations, and late user stories
48 mins; September 03, 2019
Building projects around motivated people, employee engagement, and stop converting story points to time
50 mins; July 23, 2019
Flow and Agile, measuring coaching effectiveness, and the role of the PMO in Agile
42 mins; June 24, 2019
Never enough time to test, stakeholders participation, should leaders understand Agile, and personal agility
49 mins; June 10, 2019
Lack of training opportunities, small steps to shift to an Agile funding model, building trust when teams are not co-located, and what we are reading
42 mins; May 06, 2019
Great leaders impact on Agile, calculating business value, required reading on culture change, how to hold teams accountable
47 mins; April 11, 2019
Empower the team to write great code, developing an Agile mindset, nonfunctional requirements and Agile, and addressing misleading terminology
58 mins; March 12, 2019
Calling an Agile Adoption done and firing the coaches, encouraging continuous development, concerns with SAFe, and Agile and team structures,
42 mins; February 02, 2019
Round table discussion with Agile leaders, is it really just about software, business and developers working together, self organization, and is face-to-face outdated
55 mins; December 18, 2018
Agile improving work life balance, how project managers transition to Agile, and best practices for tactical and strategic goals
51 mins; November 27, 2018
Agile burnout, training programs for managers, good certification programs, measuring scrum master value
49 mins; October 24, 2018
The overpowering scrum master, techniques to help traditional companies, product owner empowerment, small chunks of work, and long lived teams
52 mins; October 23, 2018
David Hussman, building physiological safety, sprint planning, useful metrics, and best practices for release planning
53 mins; August 24, 2018
Influencing the business, knowing if your coaching is going the right direction, facilitating Agile principles and values, and realistic sprints goals
45 mins; August 01, 2018
Engage upper and executive management, first line managers, measuring the Agile coach, and coach helping with budgets
48 mins; July 03, 2018
Are all Agile transformations slow, backlog grooming in Kanban, Agile coach vs scrum master, and ignoring Agile values
51 mins; June 08, 2018
Ways to promote the value of Agile Coaching, and the limits to scaling the Agile adoption to large organizations
53 mins; April 22, 2018
Affecting culture in complex systems, and Agile adoption steps in classic organizations
51 mins; April 01, 2018
The risk of setting up a internal coaching group, setting a deadline for the Agile adoption, and how to coach when the manager is aggressive
55 mins; February 22, 2018
Why scale frameworks feel like waterfall, talking to executives, and what is business agility
50 mins; January 24, 2018
Overcoming negative bias of a failed adoption, working with geographically dispersed teams, under trained Scrum masters, building credibility when you are a non-developer coach
52 mins; April 06, 2017
How to motivate a team working on a old product, what makes a good agile coach, and must read/watch for Agile practitioners
48 mins; March 23, 2017
How to handle interrupts, using story points vs. hours, getting a vertical slice of functionally, how to integrate Agile in non-software teams, and when can you call yourself Agile