Joe Krebs speaks with Joe Justice reconnect about Agile at Tesla. Even though Joe Justice is a Certified Scrum Trainer with the Scrum Alliance he explains why “Scrum is too slow for Tesla” and shares what the electric car maker is doing differently. He also explains why Scrum is still fast for the majority of organizations but that mob programming and Open Space can have a positive impact in agile teams.

Joe Krebs speaks with Christiaan Verwijs and Johannes Schartau about Zombie Scrum, how it can happen, and what can be done against it. We talk about the role of certification, liberating structures and the maturity of Scrum around the world.

Joe Krebs speaks with Vasco Duarte about the lack of management support and why this role is so important for the future world of work and if the role “Scrum Master” is still appropriate or if it should be renamed.

Joe Krebs speaks with Lee Henson about Scrum and the Scrum Community. Lee had a difficult childhood but he had the willpower to escape the spiral he was in. Years ago, just when he was about to start a 5-day PMP boot camp someone ate his breakfast off his plate and convinced him to join his training. His name: Ken Schwaber. Lee was intrigued and has been infected with empiricism ever since.

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

Joe Krebs speaks with JJ Sutherland about his new book "The Scrum Field Book - A Masterclass on Accelerating Performance, Getting Results and defining the Future". JJ is also the co-author of the book "Scrum - The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time" with his father Jeff Sutherland.

JJ is an award-winning NPR correspondent and producer with assignments in Iraq, Afghanistan, during the Arab Spring and Japan during the Tsunami in 2011. He is also the CEO of Scrum Inc.

Joe Krebs speaks with Jim Sammons, a fellow Professional Scrum Trainer about how Data Analytics teams can utilize agile in their day-to-day work. Not only did we speak about the importance of visualization, we also connect the dots between the two topics at the end of the episode again.

Jim shares a lot of practical examples about how large Data Analytics projects can be chunked if the focus is on outcome vs. output. The use of inspection and adaption can also be useful when picking the right process framework for Data Analytics projects, which could be Scrum or Kanban. He shares some pro’s and con’s and has Data Analytics build their own opinion about them. Last but not least, Jim is in his early stages of improving his visualization techniques in his classroom so listeners can learn first hand how he tackled the issue of making posters lovable. I hope you enjoy this one.

Check out this Scrum Poster which Incrementor made available as a Visual Scrum Guide. It is intended to become a learning tool for Scrum teams around the world. The hardcopy is available world-wide but not as a digital download.

Joe Krebs speaks with Dave West about a paper he co-authored in collaboration with McKinsey. We chat about favorable personally traits for team members in agile teams. You will get a confirmation about some well known facts such as handling ambiguity but also some really eye-opening findings around pride in work, extroverts and the secret sauce of agile team members.

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 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 and Jeff Sutherland talk about the Agile Movement just days before the Agile Manifesto turned 10 years (It originally aired in January 2011 and is re-released). Jeff provides metrics around the Scrum adoption, the Scrum Guide and of course an outlook of Scrum in the world.

Jochen (Joe) Krebs speaks with Geoff Watts about Scrum Mastery (From Good to Great Servant Leadership), one of the 3 books Geoff has published. Geoff provides input in advancing the profession of a Scrum Master, reflects on the profession and provides 4 quick tips how Scrum Masters can quickly improve. He shares one tip per Scrum event in this episode. He also offers his opinion about metrics, the definition of done and working agreements.

Joe Krebs speaks with Dave West, Product Owner at Scrum.org, about the changes made to the new Scrum Guide release in November 2017. We had the time to hit on the following topics: Daily Scrum, Time-Boxing, Scrum Master Redefined, Retrospectives and the use of Scrum outside of IT. Last but not least, we also learned that Dave is working on a book for Nexus and that a new Nexus guide is just around the corner.

Joe Krebs speaks with Bob Schatz about creating magic for customers during Sprint Review

Jochen (Joe) Krebs speaks with Dave West, Product Owner at Scrum.org. In this episode Dave shares his view of Scrum at its 21st birthday with a focus on scaling, definition of done and the consistency as part of the Scrum. Last but not least, he closes with his thoughts around certification.

Joe Krebs speaks with Ken Schwaber about the Agility Path, an approach to increase agility within an organization. The Agility Path include a set of core metrics, which interpreted together lead to the Agile Index, the final benchmark.