
Assumptions Mapping with David Bland
Assumptions are often the Achilles heel of any development effort. These are the things we’ve unintentionally decided are true and unfortunately, far too often, our assumptions are wrong. If you’ve ba...
29 Nov 202137min

When Your Team Members Also Report to Other Teams w Dan Eberle
In this episode of the podcast, Agile Coach Dan Eberle is back to help me respond to a student question that is complicated, confusing, and more common than it should be… Ivan (not the person’s real ...
12 Nov 202135min

What it Takes to Enable Business Agility with Karim Harbott
In June of 2020, I posted an interview with Karim Harbott about his Business Agility Canvas. During the interview, he mentioned that he was working on a book, The 6 Enablers of Business Agility: How t...
26 Okt 202130min

What do we do with the QA Manager? w Joel Norman
When all the testers have joined self-organizing, cross-functional Scrum Teams, do we actually still need a QA Manager? Joel Norman joins Dave for this episode of the Reluctant Agilist.
20 Okt 202133min

Does Your Team Really Understand What Is Valuable? w Adam Weisbart
Adam Weisbart is back and this time we’re taking on a tragically common problem. Teams who do not have clarity on how the organization defines value. This can happen for a variety of reasons. In some ...
6 Okt 202133min

Can Teams Actually Achieve Predictability? w/ Troy Magennis
Before the pandemic hit, one of my favorite parts of the summer was going to the Agile Conference and doing podcast interviews with the speakers and thought leaders who were there. Each year, one of t...
1 Okt 202141min

Do We Really Need A Scrum Master?
In a class recently, a student asked a question that caught me by surprise. He asked if Scrum Master was a necessary role. If the team was fully engaged in approaching the work with an Agile mindset, ...
31 Aug 202145min

Responsibility Immersion - August 2021
This podcast is also available in video form. You can find it here: https://youtu.be/0-Mha3nv6G4 The Responsibility Process is a system that provides you with tools that enable you to develop leaders...
3 Aug 202142min



















