All Episodes
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Episode 21 — Inter-Team Coordination: Scrum of Scrums vs Team-of-Teams
This episode examines how agile practices scale beyond the boundaries of a single team, focusing on coordination mechanisms like Scrum of Scrums and Team-of-Teams. Lis...
Episode 22 — Transparency: Radiating Status, Risks, and Learning
Transparency is presented as the backbone of trust and accountability in agile environments. This episode explains how teams can “radiate” information through visible ...
Episode 23 — Feedback Loops: Establishing Regular Team Feedback Mechanisms
This episode dives into feedback loops as the central mechanism for learning and improvement in agile practice. The discussion covers how feedback loops operate at mul...
Episode 24 — Communication Strategies: Co-Located and Distributed Teams
This session explores how agile teams communicate effectively in both co-located and distributed environments. The episode highlights the advantages of co-location, in...
Episode 25 — Psychological Safety: No-Blame Culture and Objectivity
This episode introduces psychological safety as a key enabler of agile performance. Candidates learn how creating a no-blame culture fosters openness, encourages exper...
Episode 26 — Psychological Safety: Dialogue Over Debate
Building on the previous episode, this discussion explores how teams can sustain psychological safety through constructive dialogue rather than adversarial debate. The...
Episode 27 — Feedback Culture: Giving, Receiving, and Acting on Feedback
This episode reviews how feedback culture extends beyond loops and becomes a daily habit within high-performing agile teams. Candidates learn structured approaches for...
Episode 28 — Challenging the Status Quo: Encouraging Constructive Dissent
This episode examines how agility thrives when teams feel empowered to challenge assumptions and propose alternatives. Learners discover that constructive dissent prev...
Episode 29 — Stakeholder Inclusion: Involve Stakeholders from Day One
This episode emphasizes the importance of stakeholder inclusion from the earliest stages of an agile initiative. Candidates learn that involving stakeholders early red...
Episode 30 — Value Focus: Maximizing Value Within Timeboxes
This session explores how agile teams optimize for value delivery within the constraints of timeboxed iterations. The discussion reviews techniques for aligning backlo...
Episode 31 — Fast Feedback: Design Thinking and Lean Startup Techniques
This episode explores how agile teams harness fast feedback loops to reduce risk and accelerate learning. The discussion begins with Design Thinking, which emphasizes ...
Episode 32 — Growth Mindset: Responding to Change with Learning
This session highlights how adopting a growth mindset enables agile teams to embrace change as an opportunity rather than a threat. The concept, rooted in the work of ...
Episode 33 — Adaptive Process: Evolving Requirements and Priorities
This episode delves into how agile processes are designed to evolve in response to learning and shifting priorities. Learners explore the concept of emergent requireme...
Episode 34 — Cross-Skilling: Encouraging Generalizing Specialists
This session introduces the idea of “T-shaped” skills and why agile teams thrive when members develop competencies beyond their core expertise. Cross-skilling increase...
Episode 35 — Product Adaptation: Adjusting to Learning and Feedback
This episode focuses on how agile teams adapt their product direction based on continuous learning and customer feedback. Candidates are introduced to practices such a...
Episode 36 — Domain 2 Leadership: Overview
This session introduces the second PMI-ACP domain, Leadership, and explains why it is central to enabling agile culture and performance. Candidates learn how leadershi...
Episode 37 — Team Trust: Enabling Transparent Communication
This episode explores how trust underpins agile teamwork, enabling open dialogue, transparency, and shared responsibility. Candidates learn how trust develops through ...
Episode 38 — Motivation: Encouraging Experimentation and Smart Risk-Taking
This session examines how agile leaders motivate teams not through extrinsic rewards but by enabling intrinsic drivers such as autonomy, mastery, and purpose. Learners...
Episode 39 — Coaching and Mentoring: Building Capability Deliberately
This episode introduces the distinction between coaching, mentoring, and training, explaining when each is most appropriate in an agile context. Coaching is presented ...
Episode 40 — Collective Ownership: Sharing Goals and Outcomes
This session emphasizes how agile teams succeed when responsibility is shared collectively rather than fragmented by role or hierarchy. Learners discover how collectiv...