Joe Krebs speaks with Lauri Apple about agile program management. We talked about the need for a role that is the glue between the teams, within the team and leadership. The glue that keeps things going also from on a personal level. She relates the role to Zombie Scrum, robotic behavior and execution of specific Scrum elements. You will hear Lauri talk about how to cut through the zombie scrum problem, how the program manager deals with metrics and most importantly can drive value. Program management does not have to be conflict with Scrum Mastery, but she sees value in both. Hear topics like culture, agile coaches with technical expertise, bugs, metrics and we close it out with a conversation about Open Source.

Joe Krebs speaks with Joe Justice about the differences between agile in hardware and software and how car manufacturers take advantage of agile processes to their competitive advantage. Joe is dedicated to change the world how cars and living spaces are being built. He is the author of the Scrum in Hardware Guide and offers engineers to use an agile mindset to build the products of the future.

Joe Krebs speaks with Jim Benson about Personal Kanban and Lean Coffee, things Jim created which we use in the agile community on a daily basis. We talk about the importance of collaboration in Personal Kanban and how much of an impact multi-tasking, silo conversation as well professionalism has on the quality of work.

Joe Krebs speaks with Evan Leybourn about the characteristics of business agility versus agile in business and the challenges organizations face aiming for more business agility. He is the founder of the research group and member based organization called “Business Agility Institute” and the organizer of the business agility conference. which shares insights from the research with their members.

Joe Krebs speaks with Rick Dove,who led a government project in 1991 to explore improvements to manufacturing processes at that time. The word "agile" was chosen which influenced the creators of the Agile Manifesto a decade later. Rick published two books “Response Ability” and “Value Proposition” and hundreds of articles that relate to agile. Rick is an early influencer of Agile System Engineering, Business Agility and of course the early days of Agile.

Joe Krebs speaks with Cristina DiGiacomo who wrote “Wise Up! At Work” and created Industrial Philosophy. She describes how philosophy can help agile leaders, coaches and teams in their day to day work. She gave an example through the parable “The Quarrel between the pond the river” which is listed below. Hear how Immanuel Kant fits into agile processes, leadership and coaching.

Joe Krebs speaks with Juriaan Kamer about “Formula X”, a business fable for organizations that strive for more agility. He introduces FASTER an acronym for a list of areas for improvement.

Joe Krebs speaks with Diana Larsen, co-author of “Agile Retrospectives” and “Liftoff”, about practical retrospective tips for visual teams and the agile fluency model.

In this episode, learn about the role of an Agile Transformation Coach in an agile transformation process called Agile Kata. See how this approach lives by the same agile values during a transformation. Learn how inspection and adaptation can help steer complex efforts like an agile transformation more successful and how simple questions like “Is the Agile Transformation successful?” can actually be answered with evidence.

Joe Krebs speaks with Ryan Ripley, co-author of “Fixing Your Scrum”, about advancing Scrum via training and talks about challenges with Scrum.