
How to Unlock the Benefits of Agile & Get the Most Out of Training Your Teams
Agile practices don’t automatically lead to Business Agility. In the presence of dependencies and organizational impediments that the teams have no ability to change, going through the motions of Scru...
13 Apr 202342min

Unpacking the SAFe Debate. Is it Agile or Something Else?
People have debated whether or not SAFe is Agile for as long as it’s been around. LeadingAgile CEO, Mike Cottmeyer, joins Dave on this episode of SoundNotes to explore the roots of small team Agile an...
3 Apr 202346min

Using Intention-Driven Communication
There’s a layer to communication that is most important for understanding: intention. It’s the most often overlooked aspect because it’s hard to decipher if people are saying what they mean or if you ...
13 Jan 20231h 3min

Maximizing the Value of Agile Metrics
During Transformation, we need a way to measure its performance and improvements to the organization so that leaders continue to support the initiative. Metrics need to be used to help teams get bette...
9 Nov 202244min

Emotional Systems Theory and Leadership
In this episode of SoundNotes, Len Greski joins Dave to discuss leadership and emotional systems. Len is a Principal Consultant at LeadingAgile and he has a background in sociology. As Len explains, “...
19 Okt 202243min

Getting Your Leaders on Board With Agile Transformation
This week’s podcast was created as a response to a question we were recently asked by some of our CSM/CSPO course students. This one is for all the team members and Scrum Masters, the people on the gr...
7 Okt 202255min

An Executive walks into a Daily Scrum
So an Executive walks into a Daily Scrum and demands Team Member X who must immediately begin work on something that is not part of the Scrum Team’s commitment for the Sprint. If you are a Scrum Maste...
6 Okt 202233min

When the Team Doesn’t Want to Do Agile
This week in SoundNotes, Chris Barton joins me to talk through a problem that shows up one way or another in every single CSM class I teach… How do I get my team to want to do Agile when they don’t wa...
31 Aug 202233min




















