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Agility Episodes

June 11, 2024

How to Become a Lean Leader: Richard Knaster

This podcast is centered around helping you refine those skills that help you do your work in tech, and a lot of those skills center around using agile ways of working. Today, I speak with an expert in one of …

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June 4, 2024

How to Coach and Lead with Agility: Lyssa Adkins

If you are a frequent listener you knoe I have had a few epsiodes about coaching on this show, especially agile coaching. I think as managers especially in the IT world, knowing that is takes a different skill set to …

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May 28, 2024

How to Become a Badass Agile Coach: Bob Galen

Making teams, especially tech teams, work together effectively may not be something that just happens naturally. Sometimes it requires some coaching. In the world of adopting agile ways of working, agile coaches are a key part of an organization to...

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Dec. 26, 2023

Soft Skills Coaching: How Can My Team Become More Agile?

How do I help my team become agile? Hello and welcome to episode 100 of the HSS. If this hapesn to be the first episode you lsten to, in each episode I discuss a difefernt essential skill with the help …

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Aug. 15, 2023

Agility and Joy: Joshua Kerievsky

This is the last episode of season 8 until we return in a few weeks. I have been fcusing a lot this season on the topic of agility since this is a central skill to the way we work, even …

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July 25, 2023

Agility and Optimization: Jon Kern

Today we feature Jon Kern ( , one of the co-authors of the Agile Manifesto. His career has spanned jet engine R&D and flight simulators, to being an object-oriented and lightweight process evangelist through the 90s, authoring books, and...

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June 26, 2023

Agility and Communications: Arie van Benekum

Today you'll hera my interview with Aarie van Benekum ( and ), one of the co-signers of the Agile Manifesto ( His career in software development started as developer and technical designer, and in the 90s, he switched from traditional...

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May 2, 2023

Replay: Agility with Jeff Sutherland

This episode originally aired in July 2021. ------------------------------------------- As many organizations are talking today about becoming “agile” it is important to know what it really means. Dr. Jeff Sutherland...

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Jan. 18, 2023

Skills Coaching: 3 Mistakes When Adopting Agile

This episode marks the end of season 6. Today I intend to answer a question: how do we become more agile? Here are three reasons why Agile initiatives fail and what skills to use to address this. Here are some …

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July 20, 2021

Agility: Dr.Jeff Sutherland

This week’s interview was one I had wanted to do for a long time. I work as Product Owner working closely with software developers creating apps at a military organization. We use the Scrum framework, which is one of the …

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