Joe Krebs speaks with Arie Van Bennekum about the creation of the Agile Manifesto but also the time before and after the event on FEB 11-13, 2001 at the snowbird in Utah. Arie is one of the 17 authors of the Agile Manifesto, a pragmatist who accommodates his pragmatism in structure, discipline and common sense.

He is not afraid to enter untrained paths and take risks. He has done this since his first days in health care, later in the armed forces, and he continues to do so today. This has led to his special position as co-author of the Agile Manifesto. In the course of his Agile years Arie has become an expert in the field of business transformations towards Agile on the basis of strategic objectives and link this to very concrete objectives. He focuses on delivering value, bringing efficiency and creating support among stakeholders, through role and chain clarity based on the business model and the work packages.

Joe Krebs speaks with Adam Braus about Nemawashi and innovation. Adam is a polymath professional and breakout expert in the fields of leadership, technology, and education.

Adam Braus is the author of the book “Leading Change” where he introduces an organic, grass-roots, bottom-up change management that uses the power of a social network.

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 Gil Broza about challenges non-software teams are facing when they are interested in increasing their agility. We talk about boards, stories, automated testing, an agile mindset, and the role of a product owner.

Gil helps organizations increase their agility and team performance with minimal risk and thrashing. Close to 100 companies seeking Agile transformations, makeovers, or improvements have relied on his pragmatic, modern, and respectful support for customizing Agile in their contexts. He is the author of three acclaimed books, “The Agile Mind-Set”, “The Human Side of Agile”, and most recently “Agile for Non-Software Teams”.

Joe Krebs speaks with Dr.Jill Greenbaum about the Bikablo technique and the various use cases for more visual support for agile coaches. She shares tools and techniques and how visual content can be produced on paper or digital.

Jill helps leaders across the globe to create responsive environments in corporate, government, nonprofit, and educational settings, by accessing the strengths of their communication styles. She utilizes her expertise in instructional design, training, facilitation, and coaching to deliver stellar offerings that transform participants, their relationships, and their work. She leverages her strengths as a graphic facilitator to support clients in gaining greater clarity, perspective, and depth, about the issues and challenges they are facing, enabling accelerated, richer, and long-lasting results.

Joe Krebs speaks with Daniel Vacanti about the Scrum and Kanban communities and the importance of predictability and what this means in terms of empirical process control. Back in 2007, he helped to develop the Kanban method for knowledge work. He is the author of “When Will It Be Done?” and “Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability”.

Joe Krebs introduces the Scrummer Quiz 2020

Joe Krebs speaks with Richard Kasperowski about virtual Open Space and how to adjust this liberating structure to make it work in a remote environment.

Hear Harrison Owen’s talk from 2012 where he talks about organizational agility. Although the audio quality is low, it is a re-release of this timeless piece that should be remembered.

Open Space is an integral part of many companies and Harrison Owen, who created Open Space, shows how Open Space enables organizational agility.

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 .

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.

Joe Krebs speaks with Mary and Tom Poppendieck about Lean Software Development. Together they wrote a series of books: “Lean Software Development” “Implementing Lean Software Development”, “Leading Lean Software Development” and “The Lean Mindset” in chronological order.

Mary and Tom talked about how Lean fits into the universe of processes, tools and techniques in regards to processes like Scrum or Kanban. They did that from a leaders point of view. We discussed the role of knowledge workers and how that relates to people for example in Lean Manufacturing. We also had a chance to touch on Kata practices as they gave feedback to the initial release of the Agile Kata.