Joe Krebs speaks with Jean Tabaka about her book Collaboration Explained. I can't think of a better way kicking off the second decade of Agile.FM then re-releasing an episode with the person that got Agile.FM going in the first place. The conversation with Jean was originally recorded in 2012.

Joe Krebs speaks with Katie Anderson about her capturing the leadership experiences bu Isao Yoshina from Toyota in her book “Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn”. Beside talking about Isao’s leadership story, I had a chance to learn about Katie’s story about lean and agile leadership

Joe Krebs speaks with James Grenning, who is one of the 17 signatories of the Agile Manifesto, about embedded software engineering, test-driven development, planning poker and a new exiting project he is currently working on ; a tool to automate and streamline training content management.

Joe Krebs speaks with Willem van den Corput, the VP of Engineering at Lightyear, about agile processes to produce innovative products like Solar Electric Vehicles (SEV). We talk about the prototypes that made Lightyear win World Solar Championships, their fail-fast approach to produce the first line of products, and scaling production and staff while keeping an agile culture. Willem connected the vision, challenges and small steps with plenty of experiments to the Agile Kata.

Joe Krebs speaks with Traci Fenton about Freedom at Work and a democratic workplace. She talks about the impact of fear on performance and moral. In 2022 Traci released her new book "Freedom at Work" that compliments the democratic workplace certification program which she founded in 1997 as WorldBlu.com.

Joe Krebs speaks with Kevin Callahan about the difference between agile team coaching and agile enterprise coaching and why these are often parallel tracks. Kevin takes a very pragmatic approach to agile enterprise coaching and was part of a group that designed the enterprise expert coaching track for ICAgile.

Joe Krebs speaks with Bob Galen about the role of agile coaches and his new book Extraordinarily BA Agile Coaching (a.k.a. EBAC). Hear him introduce the Growth Wheel for Agile Coaches and how it expands on the agile coaching framework. We talked about the stances and being well-rounded as an agile coaches. Learn about a great interview technique for bringing new agile coaches on and what pair coaching is all about.

Joe Krebs speaks with Bob Gower about great teams and the psychology behind it that make teams great. Hear him go deeper on one of the principles of positive teaming, a collection of patterns he created based on his 25+ years of experiences working with teams.

Joe Krebs speaks with Joshua Kerievsky about the Joy of Agility and his upcoming book with the same title. Joshua is a veteran agile community member since the late 1990s and an advocate of eXtreme Programming since then. Joshua will deliver a keynote at the Agile 2022 in Nashville.

Joe Krebs speaks with Joe Justice reconnect about Agile at Tesla. Even though Joe Justice is a Certified Scrum Trainer with the Scrum Alliance he explains why “Scrum is too slow for Tesla” and shares what the electric car maker is doing differently. He also explains why Scrum is still fast for the majority of organizations but that mob programming and Open Space can have a positive impact in agile teams.

Joe Krebs speaks with Tracy Defoe about Kata and the Kata community in general . She explains what makes the Improvement and Coaching Kata (a.k.a. Toyota Kata) so interesting for any kind of improvement. She has actively coached software / IT teams at Volvo and Volkswagen in using Kata and can draw from a wealth of information. Her background however spans across many more industries. She is the organizer of Kata Geek Girls and the Kata School Cascadia, both communities that spread knowledge and experiences among Kata enthusiasts.

Joe Krebs speaks with Clare Sudbery about eXtreme Programming related topics, such as pairing, refactoring and continuous integration. We also talked about professionalism in software development and how quality, coding, design and knowledge sharing are all intertwined to make agile teams successful. Clare has a full stack experience, has always been involved in the complete development lifecycle, and has extensive DevOps experience.

Joe Krebs introduces the Scrummer Quiz 2021

Joe Krebs speaks through the lens of a manager with Johanna Rothman about micro-management, engagement, workspace, psychological safety, 1:1’s and feedback loops for managers. Johanna is the author of the “Practical Ways…” books series.

Joe Krebs speaks with Mark Kilby about the experiences of distribution during the pandemic and what we have learned and can use for the future. Mark is the co-author of the book “From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams: Collaborate to Deliver” released in 2018. Mark also shares some insights on his next book with the working title “Exploring the Open Space Mindset” which will include stories and experiences from practitioners like him about the Open Space Technology.

Joe Krebs speaks with Chris Smith about what dynamic re-teaming did to performance, growth and the leadership team at his company. Chris is sharing real world experiences from the trenches.

Joe Krebs speaks with Christiaan Verwijs and Johannes Schartau about Zombie Scrum, how it can happen, and what can be done against it. We talk about the role of certification, liberating structures and the maturity of Scrum around the world.

Joe Krebs speaks with Jon Kern about quality the creation of software as well as adaptive organization and the future of agile in the business world. Jon is one of the 17 co-authors of the agile manifesto and we are using the 20th Anniversary to reflect on the creation and the time since then.

Joe Krebs speaks with Vasco Duarte about the lack of management support and why this role is so important for the future world of work and if the role “Scrum Master” is still appropriate or if it should be renamed.

Joe Krebs speaks with Heidi Helfand about Dynamic Re-teaming, team names, re-org’s and the 5 patterns for adaptive org-design. Heidi was on the original development team that invented GoToMeeting and GoToWebinar and she wrote the book “Dynamic Re-teaming”.