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Joe Krebs speaks with William Davis about his experiences becoming an Advanced Professional Scrum Master. William gives a few examples why this course gave him a ton of useful tools and techniques to become a better a Scrum Master in the near future . If you are currently evaluating if you like to advance your Scrum Master career by adding an additional advanced certification, this episode is for you.

Joe Krebs speaks with Richard Kasperowski about criteria for measuring high-performing teams, open space, core-protocols and even tandem cycling.Richard is an author of two books, High Performing Teams and Core Protocols which was inspired by the work of Jim and Michelle McCarthy.

Joe Krebs speaks with Ken Schwaber at the birthplace of Scrum in Burlington, MA about the origins of Scrum. If you are interested in how everything began, and want to learn about the years leading up to the Agile Manifesto, you might like this episode. Ken also talks about his relationship with Jeff Sutherland, how they crossed paths and what made the connection to create Scrum. This episode originally aired 2012.

Joe Krebs speaks with Gunther Verheyen, author of the Scrum  Pocket Guide - A Smart Travel Companion. Gunther talks about his travel guide that got a facelift in 2018 and is being released as a 2nd edition.

Joe Krebs speaks with Nigel Thurlow about Agile and Lean at Toyota Connected. Nigel is the Chief of Agile at Toyota Connected, an innovative start-up within the Toyota Family. Nigel shares how Toyota Connected uses Agile and Lean Practices to their advantage and as an accelerator for innovation and response time. He provides insights on the structure and culture of the organization and what it means for them use agile and lean in parallel or in combination.  Nigel provides insights into how the Toyota Way, PDCA Cycle as well Lean Manufacturing influences the way on how they do things. But more importantly, Nigel describes how they collect a Pattern Catalog for successful scaling based on Scrum at Scale, Nexus and their own findings.

Joe Krebs speaks with Woody Zuill, who coined the term “Mob Programming” and which he pioneered in from of blogging, conferences and speaking engagements. Today Mob Programming is a standard practice in agile teams around the world. In this episode he also shares insights into the “No Estimates” movement he created and why he applies this thinking to complex knowledge work in particular.

Exactly today 5 years ago, on July 30th, 2013, the first Agile.FM podcast went live. Prior to that, I had released podcast episodes designed for the local agile community in  New York City. Over the years thousands have tuned in, subscribed, and listened to the great guests that made agile.fm so very special.  Agile.FM is commerial free and independent in its views and typically the conversations are not edited unless a technical challenge forces me to do that.  Agile.FM wouldn’t exist in this form without Jean Tabaka, who encouraged me to continue and explore this medium further when we met in New York back in 2012.  She loved the concept, the style and asked a simple question that changed a lot of things “Why are you limiting this to NYC, this would be wonderful for the world to know about”. Jean would be probably happy to hear that so many people took advantage of listening to the podcast, but unfortunately she has left us way too early.  So, if you are listening to agile.fm and ask yourself if there is anything you can do to help, the answer is YES! Carve out a moment and rate the podcast. If you have a slightly longer moment to spare, give the podcast a quick review. This will spread the word far and give others a possible to reason to join. In the meantime, keep enjoying my guests on the show Thank you, Joe Krebs

Joe Krebs speaks with Harold Shinsato speak about culture hacking, but also co-active coaching and the open space movement

Joe Krebs speaks with Kelly Waters about how agile processes impact digital agencies. Kelly spoke for example about fixed price projects, success stories but also the challenges his clients face. Technical excellence using eXtreme Programming, which was his entry into the agile community many years ago are also part of this episode.

Joe Krebs speaks with Ellen Gottesdiener about product management in an agile environment, for example discovery techniques, roles and responsibilities as well as answering basic but very important questions such as "What is a product in the first place?". Ellen touched on the 7 Product Dimensions and demystifies common misunderstandings of an MVP. Hear her take on product strategy and tactical product backlogs.