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Do you need assistance with your Agile adoption? Or would you like to share what worked or didn’t work during your adoption process in your own company? If so, we invite you to participate in the Agile Community Network. The ACN Podcast is recorded monthly at our live events. If you want to join that event, please visit acnpodcast.org to register. Help support the show by becoming an ACN supporting member or sponsor today!

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

55 mins; March 10, 2017

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