Arguing Agile
By Brian Orlando
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We're arguing about agile so that you don't have to! We seek to better prepare you to deal with real-life challenges by presenting both sides of the real arguments you will encounter in your professional career.On this podcast, working professionals explore topics and learnings from their experiences and share the stories of Agilists at all stages of their careers. We seek to do so while maintaining an unbiased position from any financial interest.
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AA224 - QA is the Bottleneck? | Why Your Testing Team Isn't the Real Problem
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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AA223 - People Don't Quit Jobs, They Quit Bosses! Part II
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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AA222 - People Don't Quit Jobs, They Quit Bosses - Or Do They?
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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AA221 - Steve Jobs' Radical Decision-Making: Why Consensus Beats Disagree & Commit
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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AA220 - Why Finance is Everyone's Job: The Hidden Truth Behind Product Failures
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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AA219 - How Private Equity Killed Instant Pot (And Why Your Product Could Be Next)
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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AA218 - Palantir's Forward Deployed Software Engineer - Revolution or Rebrand?
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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AA217 - Extreme Ownership: Military Leadership Lessons for Professionals
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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AA216 - New Scrum Guide Expansion: Revolutionary Update or Unnecessary Complexity?
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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AA215 - Why One-on-Ones Still Matter and Why You Should Have Them
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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AA214 - Vibe Coding: New Dystopian World or Just Another Tool?
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May 28, 2025 |
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AA213 - Being a Good Engineer Kinda Sucks (Reaction)
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May 21, 2025 |
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AA212 - Peak Product Management | Product Competencies
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May 14, 2025 |
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AA211 - Communication Is Product's Only Job, OR IS IT?
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May 07, 2025 |
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AA210 - The Need for (Engineering) Speed!
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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AA209 - Asking for What You Need: The Superpower of High Performers
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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AA208 - Jamie Dimon's Rant: Leadership Lessons on Trust and Effectiveness
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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AA207 - Innovation: It's Someone Else's Job?
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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AA206 - Reacting to Lenny's Podcast with Melissa Perri on Agile, Scrum, and SAFe
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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AA205 - Debating Impact vs. Visibility in Product Management
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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AA204 - Domain Expertise vs. PM Skills: Product Management Showdown
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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AA203 - Hating on Agile: Developer Frustrations with Agile
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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AA202 - Dual Track Development (aka. Dual Track Agile): Helpful or Harmful?
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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AA201 - Mastering Stakeholder Communication & Management
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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AA200 - 20 Years in Tech: Lessons Learned
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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AA199 - W. Edwards Deming's Profound Knowledge for Transforming Organizations
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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AA198 - Better Communication: Mastering Crucial Conversations
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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AA197 - The Rise of Fractional CXOs: Pros, Cons, and Red Flags
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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AA196 - The Most Frustrating Question in Product Management
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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AA195 - Tyranny of Plans & Planning in Software Development
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Dec 26, 2024 |
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AA194 - What is an Enterprise Business Agility Coach?
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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AA193 - Product Lifecycle Phases: From MVP to Sunset - A Guide for Product Managers
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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AA192 - Reaction: Product Management is Dead!
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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AA191 - Platform Product Management in Banking/Finance
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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AA190 - Navigating Product-Engineering Conflicts: A Coaching Session
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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AA189 - Inheriting a Product Backlog: 6 Tactics to Get Started
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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AA188 - CEOs Don't Care About Story Points: Being Better at Business
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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AA187 - The Future of AI, According to Big Tech
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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AA186 - Bridging the Finance-Product Gap: 13 CFO Lies (Mostly) Debunked
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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AA185 - What Companies Do Instead of Strategy
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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AA184 - Illusion of Control: Battling the Ubiquitous Need for Control
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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AA183 - The People vs. The Ivory Tower: Challenging Centralized Corporate Structures
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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AA182 - Switching to Kanban: How-To's for a Smooth Changeover
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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AA181 - Deming's 14 Points: The Management Revolution We Needed (40 Years Ago)
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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AA180 - UX Research vs Product Management: Pillow Fighting in a Burning House
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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AA179 - Winning Product Strategies & MVPs: Case Studies from Top Companies
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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AA178 - Navigating Technical Debt: Balancing Speed, Quality & User Needs
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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AA177 - What is a Platform Team? Roles, Responsibilities & Common Mistakes
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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AA176 - Arguing on Moving Away from Durable Teams toward Shared Services
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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AA175 - Why You Need to Make Space Learn: Cognitive Load in Agile Software Development
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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AA174 - From QA Intern to CEO: Lenar's Career Journey
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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AA173 - Product Manager Specializations: Pros, Cons & Navigating Your Career Path
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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AA172 - Review of "Transformed" by Marty Cagan
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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AA171 - The Shadow Backlog: How Invisible Work Derails Your Teams
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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AA170 - How to Prioritize Individuals & Interactions (Over Processes & Tools), with Yadi Caro
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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AA169 - Product Demos Gone Wild
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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AA168 - Why Asking for Help is Critical for Success
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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AA167 - How to Manage Products & Services Together in Your Business
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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AA166 - The Perils of "Just Build It": Why User Validation Matters
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May 31, 2024 |
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AA165 - Escaping the Feature Factory
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May 22, 2024 |
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AA164 - 10 Proven Techniques to Split User Stories
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May 15, 2024 |
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AA163 - Async Daily Scrum: The Pros and Cons (with Ed Martin)
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May 08, 2024 |
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AA162 - 5 Things to Analyze Before Shuffling Your Teams
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May 01, 2024 |
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AA161 - How Company Size Impacts Business Agility (with Ed Martin)
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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AA160 - Onboarding New Product Managers
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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AA159 - Exploring the Evolving Role of Quality Assurance (with CEO Bob Crews)
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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AA158 - What is Your Product Philosophy and Is That Even A Real Thing? (with Ed Martin)
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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AA157 - Embracing Failure: Why "Fail Fast" Beats "Learn Fast"
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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AA156 - "Selling" SAFe PI Planning to a not-SAFe Product Manager (with Special Mystery Guest)
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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AA155 - Weaponizing Standardization
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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AA154 - Intuition vs Evidence (with CEO and Founder: Alex Polyakov)
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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AA153 - "I" Know What the Customer Needs
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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AA152 - Weaponizing Efficiency
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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AA151 - Hardware & Software Products and Teams: Agile in Manufacturing
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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AA150 - Things You Don't Say Out Loud in Agile (with Mike Miller)
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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AA149 - Positive Indicators of Agile Team Effectiveness
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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AA148 - An Introduction to Software Development Finances
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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AA147 - Creating and Launching New Software Products (0 to 1)
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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AA146 - Our Most Viewed Podcasts and Clips
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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AA145 - Why Incompetent Men Become Leaders
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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AA144 - Your Scrum Manager Should Be... Your Manager?
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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AA143 - How Ego Kills Team Empowerment and Products
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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AA142 - What Technical Skills Should a Scrum Master Have
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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AA141 - Minimum Viable Product
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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AA140 - The Backlog Has 500 Bugs!
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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AA139 - We Have No QA
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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AA138 - Interview with Software-Engineer-turned-CEO and Founder, Alex Polyakov
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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AA137 - Estimation is Evil by Ron Jeffries
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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AA136 - Selling Management on Retrospectives
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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AA135 - The Most Common Disagreements You'll Get Into as a Scrum Master (Part 2 of 2)
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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AA134 - The Most Common Disagreements You'll Get Into as a Scrum Master (Part 1 of 2)
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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AA133 - Do Infrastructure Teams Need Product Management?
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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AA132 - Who Should Product Management Report Through?
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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AA131 - EVERYTHING IS PRIORITY ONE!!!
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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AA130 - Exploring Quality Assurance (QA) and Testing in Agile Software Development
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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AA129 - Agile Complaints, Gripes, and Pushback
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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AA128 - Change Management with Stormy Dickson
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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AA127 - Deep Dive on Agile Transformations with Two Agile Coaches
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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AA126 - Pros and Cons of Offshoring Software Development
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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AA125 - Working with Multiple Teams as a Scrum Master or Product Manager
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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AA124 - Blockers, Impediments, and Dependencies
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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AA123 - Product Requirements Document in Agile Development
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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AA122 - What to Do When the Scrum Master and Product Owner are the Same Person
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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AA121 - Self Organization Gone Bad
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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AA120 - Did AirBnB Fire Their Product Managers?
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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AA119 - Software Development Methodologies
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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AA118 - Scrum Master to Project Manager Career Transition
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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AA117 - You Should Do Time-Based Estimates (Article Review)
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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AA116 - Breaking Labels: The "Agile Purist" Stereotype
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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AA115 - Going from Scrum Master to Product Manager (and why you should)
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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AA114 - Working at a Sustainable Pace
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May 31, 2023 |
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AA113 - Debating Outcome-Based vs Output-Based Roadmaps
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May 24, 2023 |
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AA112 - Master Agile Estimation by Evolving Beyond It
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May 17, 2023 |
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AA111 - Exploring AI in Health Care (with Stormy Dickson)
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May 10, 2023 |
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AA110 - Project Manager to Product Manager
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May 03, 2023 |
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AA109 - 3 Types of Teams (from Post-Capitalist Society by Peter Drucker)
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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AA108 - Breaking into Penetration Testing and Career Paths, with Steve Kline
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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AA107 - Sharing Team Members (Non-dedicated team members)
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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AA106 - Imposter Syndrome in Product Management
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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AA105 - Where Have All the Scrum Masters Gone?
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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AA104 - Creating a Mission, Vision, & Strategy
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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AA103 - Challenges to Building a Product Roadmap
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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AA102 - Backlog Anti-Patterns
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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AA101 - Accountability, Prioritizing Technical Debt, & Product Cannibalization
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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AA100 - Mindset by Carol Dweck, PhD (with Ed Martin)
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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AA99 - How to be a More Respected Agile Coach
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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AA98 - Are B2C and B2B Product Management Different Skills?
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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AA97 - The What & the How: Two Sides of Software Development
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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AA96 - Stages of Company Decline, or When Companies Hate Their Customers
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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AA95 - Project-Led to Product-Led (with Product Coach Mike Miller)
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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AA94 - Don't Say Collaboration
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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AA93 - Being a Positive Advocate for Agile
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Dec 30, 2022 |
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AA92 - Life without a Scrum Master
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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AA91 - Going from Product Owner to Product Manager
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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AA90 - Org Culture (with Stormy Dickson)
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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AA89 - Agile Interviewing Red Flags (with Tricia Barnes & Surprise Mystery Guest)
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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AA88 - Contracts in Agile Software Development
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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AA87 - Burnt-Out Product Managers
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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AA86 - New Product Owners and Product Managers
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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AA85 - Deadlines in Agile
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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AA84 - Stakeholders in the Scrum Events
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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AA83 - Agile Doesn't Work Here
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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AA82 - What does a Scrum Master Do All Day (Part 3: the Org)
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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AA81 - What does a Scrum Master Do All Day (Part 2: the Product)
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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AA80 - What does a Scrum Master Do All Day (Part 1: the Team)
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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AA79 - The Case Against Psychological Safety, with Stormy Dickson
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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AA78 - Building the Wrong Thing, with Senior Scrum Master Ted Wells
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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AA77 - Technical or Not? Backgrounds of Product Managers or Owners
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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AA76 - Product Owner vs Product Manager
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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AA75 - Definition of Done
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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AA74 - Bad Certification Experiences & Maybe Bad Certifications...
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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AA73 - Should Velocity Always Be Increasing, Forever?
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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AA72 - Gantt Charts in Agile Software Development
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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AA71 - Career Paths to Product Management
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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AA70 - Working with Finite Resources
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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AA69 - Gatekeeping Agile
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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AA68 - Dealing with Conflict, with Special Mystery Guest
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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AA67 - Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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AA66 - Personal Agility & the Great Resignation, with Joey deVilla
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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AA65 - The Perfect Sprint Review Agenda
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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AA64 - Bad Agile Experiences, with Curtis Lembke
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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AP63 - Better Scrum
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May 27, 2022 |
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AA62 - Failing to Accomplish the Sprint Goal
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May 20, 2022 |
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AA61 - Experiences in Corporate Buyouts (Mergers & Acquisitions)
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May 13, 2022 |
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AA60 - Leading Change with Curtis Lembke
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May 06, 2022 |
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AP59 - New Teams with Agile Coach Caurie Waddell
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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AP57 - Can We Fix Certifications? with Brent Breaux
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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AP58 - Article Review: "Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt on why in-office work is better"
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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AP56 - Business Value (Who, What, When, Why, & How)
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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AP55 - Can a Scrum Master Skip Meetings?!?
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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AP54 - Anitra Pavka: Sr. Product Owner
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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AP53 - Service Manager: Brian Fidalgo
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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AP52 - Taylorism: The Principles of Scientific Management
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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AP51 - Challenges of Product Management (with Tricia Barnes)
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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AP50 - Estimation (Hours vs. Story Points vs. Flow)
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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AP49 - Should a Scrum Master be Technical (and why its the wrong question)
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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AP48 - Anti-Patterns in Your Agility, Part 1
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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AP47 - Acceptance Criteria in User Stories
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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AP46 - Article Review: We Should Stop Trying to Make Scrum Fit for Every Situation
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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AP45 - Better Cross-Team Collaboration
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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AP44 - Product Managers and Their Teams
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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AP43 - Similarities between Software Development and Animation with Alfonso Guerra
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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AP42 - Agile Podcast Year-End Retrospective
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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AP41 - Testing in Agile Software Development
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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AP40 - Interview with Agile Coach: Caurie Waddell
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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AP39 - Being More Effective with Surprise Mystery Guest
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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AP38 - Why I'm Done Being a Scrum Master
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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AP37 - Agile Horror Stories with Scrum Master Jamie Leatherman
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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AP36 - What can Software Development Teams learn from Air Disasters?
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Agile Podcast E35 - Splitting Teams
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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Agile Podcast E34 - Reaction to "Agile is Dead" by Dave Thomas
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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Agile Podcast E33 - QA Engineering with Michael Iglesias
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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Agile Podcast E32 - Reaction to the MBA/CSPO Pathology
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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Agile Podcast E30 - User Acceptance Testing in Agile
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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Agile Podcast E31 - Project & PMO Cultures
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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Agile Podcast E29 - Review of "Agile" Job Descriptions
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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Agile Podcast E28 - How to Spot a Good or Terrible Lead
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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Agile Podcast E27 - All About Agile Coaching, Part 2
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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Agile Podcast E26 - All About Agile Coaching, Part 1
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Agile Podcast E25 - Challenging the Status Quo
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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Agile Podcast E24 - Career Profile: Om Patel (Enterprise Agile Coach)
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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Agile Podcast E23 - Director of Agile Product Owners: Mike Miller
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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Agile Podcast E22 - Interview with a Scrum Trainer: Fred Mastropasqua
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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Agile Podcast E21 - Interview with a Scrum Master: Curtis Lembke
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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Agile Podcast E20 - Twelve Principles of Agile
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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Agile Podcast E19 - Metrics for Agile and Transformations
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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Agile Podcast E18 - Undermining Your Agility with Ego
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Aug 01, 2021 |
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Agile Podcast E16 - Communities of Practice
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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Agile Podcast E17 - Scrum Master's Role in Releases (Planning & Deployment)
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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Agile Podcast E15 - Customizing Your Way Out of Agile
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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Agile Podcast E14 - Solo Q&A on Product Management & Product Ownership
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Jul 10, 2021 |
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Agile Podcast E13 - Leadership and Stories from the Military
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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Agile Podcast E12 - Career Progression in Agile
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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Agile Podcast E11 - How You Know it's Time to Quit
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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Agile Podcast E10 - Big Organizations vs. Small Organizations
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Jun 20, 2021 |
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Agile Podcast E8 - Sprint Reviews and Sprint Planning (and Backlog Refinement)
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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Agile Podcast E9 - Working within the PMO
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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Agile Podcast E6 - Agile Budgeting
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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Agile Podcast E7 - The Daily Scrum and the Sprint Retrospective
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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Agile Podcast E5 - All About Agile Teams
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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Agile Podcast E4 - Psychological Safety
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May 20, 2021 |
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Agile Podcast E3 - Organizational Agility & Scrum Masters
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May 14, 2021 |
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Agile Podcast E2 - New POs, Not Getting Fired, and Meet them Where They Are
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Apr 03, 2021 |
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Agile Podcast E1 - The First Episode
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Mar 28, 2021 |