Tito Jackson: How Adding More Cowbell Can Be the Prescription for Your Team's Fever In this episode, Richard interviews Tito Jackson. Tito is an entrepreneur, founder of Apex Noire, and a former City Councilor of the City of Boston. He tells us how to inspire cultural dedication to goals within your [...]

Dr. Dave Cornelius: How Having Fun and Building Trust Makes Teams Resilient and Successful In this episode, Richard interviews Dr. Dave Cornelius. Dr. Dave is a lean and agile catalyst leading and empowering others to achieve their best. He is the author of several books, including Belonging and Healing: Creating awesomeness [...]

Jessica Kerr: How Some Shared Fun Time Increases Your Team's Productivity In this episode, Richard interviews Jessica Kerr. Jessica is a software developer, popular public speaker, and a symmathecist. She tells us about symmathesy and observability and how they make our world develop faster and more harmoniously. When you finish listening [...]

Sally Elatta: Here Are 5 Factors That Will Guarantee Your Team's High Performance In this episode, Richard interviews Sally Elatta, CEO and founder of AgilityHealth. Sally tells us how leadership is just another way of serving a team and how leading from a place of love keeps the team engaged and [...]

Andrea Ippolito: How to Bind Your Team With Friendship and Trust In this episode, Richard interviews Andrea Ippolito, CEO and Founder of SimpliFed. SimpliFed is an organization supporting families in feeding their babies. Andrea was a part of and led many teams, including as the Director of the Department of Veteran's [...]

Lisette Sutherland: How to Build Strong Personal Connections in a Remote Team In this episode, Richard interviews Lisette Sutherland. Lisette is an author and keynote speaker, helping people work remotely successfully. She's also the founder of the online community Virtual Team Talk, the host of the Collaboration Superpowers podcast, and the [...]

Claire DeMarco: How to Bring Your Team to Perfection With the Core Protocols In this episode, Richard interviews Claire DeMarco. Claire is the Director of Information Discovery Services at the Harvard Library. She led multiple high-performance teams, including the one that made Harvard University Libraries available to virtually anyone in the [...]

Patricia Kong: How to Get From an Average to a Great Team With Emotional Intelligence and Psychological Safety In this episode, Patricia Kong comes back to the show and turns the tables on Richard, asking him questions. Patricia Patricia leads Enterprise and Leadership Solutions at scrum.org. She is a public speaker, coach, [...]

Brian Lucas: How to Define Your Team as a Powerful and Long-Lasting Brand In this episode, Richard interviews Brian Lucas. Brian is an Assistant Professor at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He is best known for his research on creativity and morality in the workplace and everyday life. [...]

Luke Hohmann: How Being Happy with Who You Are Makes You Feel Wonder for Who You Can Be In this episode, Richard interviews Luke Hohmann. Luke is the founder and CEO of FirstRoot, the company on the mission to create the next generation of impact investors. He is also an inspiring [...]

James Grenning: How to Make Your Team an Iterative Engineering Machine Safely In this episode, Richard interviews James Grenning. James is the founder of Wingman Software, where he coaches and consults around the world. James is also the author of the book Test-Driven Development for Embedded C and the co-author of [...]

Catherine Louis: How to Make Your Current Team Your Best Team In this episode, Richard interviews Catherine Louis. Catherine is a coach, trainer, and consultant helping people like their customers, create high-performance teams, optimize value, innovate and learn together. But it is Catherine's unique experience as a K9 handler and a [...]

Michael Spayd: How Destiny Brings the Best Teams Together In this episode, Richard interviews Michael Spayd, a co-founder of The Collective Edge, Agile Coaching Institute, and the co-author of Agile Transformation: Using the Integral Agile Transformation Framework (tm) to Think and Lead Differently. Michael is best known as the originator of [...]

Kate O'Brien: How "Rushing to Health" Actually Makes Your Team Perform Worse It is a part of human behavior to resist change, especially when things seem to go well. So, how do we secure "buy-in" among the stakeholders for the new ideas? In this episode, Richard interviews Kate O'Brien, Senior Human [...]

Arie van Bennekum: How Saying "Yes" Can Take You Anywhere You Want In this episode, Richard interviews Arie van Bennekum. Arie is a co-author of the Agile Manifesto and an Agile thought leader at Wemanity Group. Arie tells us how accepting new challenges, even when doubting ourselves, opens new opportunities and [...]

Vanessa Druskat: How to Cross Rope Bridges by Relying on Your Teammates' Skillsets In this episode, Richard interviews Vanessa Druskat. Vanessa's research on organizational behavior and team emotional intelligence profoundly influenced Richard's work with teams. She tells us how relying on a specific skill set of each individual within your team [...]

Mary and Tom Poppendieck: How a Focused Leader Ensures Their Team's Success This episode is a continuation of Richard's interview with Mary and Tom Poppendieck. As the official part of the interview finished, they continued chatting and sharing some great ideas. Luckily, the record button was still on, so we can [...]

Mary and Tom Poppendieck: Keeping Your Team Together During the Great Resignation In this episode, Richard interviews Mary and Tom Poppendieck. Richard's Agile heroes, the Poppendiecks have written highly influential works on lean software development, including Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit, The Lean Mindset, and Leading the Lean Software Development: [...]

Woody Zuill: The Best Leader Is the One Who Leads Without Authority This is the second part of Richard's interview with Woody Zuill. Woody is an Agile coach well known for popularizing mob programming and the No Estimates movement. In this second part of the interview with Woody, we talk about [...]

Woody Zuill: Knowing When to Stop a Conversation Is Knowing When to Listen In this episode, Richard interviews Woody Zuill, an Agile coach well known for popularizing mob programming and the No Estimates movement. In this first part of the interview with Woody, he tells us how kindness, consideration, and respect [...]

Adam Weisbart: Make Things Simple and Your Team Will Move Faster In this episode, Richard interviews Adam Weisbart, principal at Weisbart Consulting, certified scrum trainer, and agile coach. Adam was also an initiator of Agile Virtual Summit, which grew into a community at https://agilemastery.com. Adam tells us how to eliminate friction, simplify [...]

Steven Wolff: How Understanding and Caring Eliminates Tension and Angst In this episode, Richard interviews Steven Wolff. Steve is a Team Emotional Intelligence expert whose research greatly influenced Richard's work with teams. Steven tells us how to transform angst and tension into excitement - a driving force of any successful team. [...]

Seb Rose: The Secret of a Good Team is a Shared Goal and What Else? In this episode, Richard interviews Seb Rose. Seb is a Continuous Improvement Lead at SmartBear, a co-author of the BDD books Discovery and Formulation, and a regular guest lecturer on behavior-driven development in Richard's course at [...]

Jeff Sutherland: Know How to Overcome Your Team's Limits and Become a Leading Force In this episode, Richard interviews Jeff Sutherland, a co-creator of the Scrum, founder of Scrum Inc., inventor of Scrum@Scale, and a signatory of the Agile Manifesto. He is also the author of the international bestselling book Scrum: [...]

Maria Matarelli: You Must Empower Your Team if You Want Them Motivated In this episode, Richard interviews Maria Matarelli. Maria is a co-founder of Personal Agility Institute, a co-founder of Agile Marketing Academy, an agile coach, and a well-known DJ! She tells us about applying agile principles outside of the IT [...]

Emily Bache: You Need Practice to Achieve Greater Harmony in Your Team In this episode, Richard interviews Emily Bache. Emily is the author of The Coding Dojo Handbook and Technical Agile Coaching with the Samman Method. She is well known in the software development community for her work on the Gilded [...]

Jorgen Hesselberg: Spread the Luck Surface and Increase Your Chance for Success In this episode, Richard interviews Jorgen Hesselberg, a co-founder of Comparative Agility and the author of Unlocking Agility: An Insiders’ Guide to Agile Enterprise Transformation. He tells us how luck is not necessarily a product of coincidence and how [...]

Lynn Langit: Make Every Team You Are in the Best Team of Your Life In this episode, Richard interviews Lynn Langit, a cloud architect specialized in big data, a technical educator, and an angel investor. Lynn also used to be the Director of teachingkidsprogramming.org, a not-for-profit online platform for early coding [...]

Matthew McCarthy: Why Being at Peace with Yourself Makes You A Better Team Player In this episode, Richard interviews Matthew McCarthy. Matthew is best known to the world as the CEO of Ben & Jerry's, where he leads an iconic and innovative global brand that continually breaks the rules on how [...]

Richard Sheridan: Dig-Out Your Basic Kindergarten Skills to Become a Better Team Player In this episode, Richard interviews Richard Sheridan. Richard is the CEO, Co-founder, and Chief Storyteller of Menlo Innovations, a software design and development firm in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is also the author of two books on creating [...]

Patricia Kong: Know How to Use Evidence to Quickly Improve Your Leadership In this episode, Richard interviews Patricia Kong. Patricia leads Enterprise and Leadership Solutions at scrum.org. She is a public speaker, coach, a co-author of The Nexus Framework for Scaling Scrum, and a co-developer of the Evidence-Based Management Framework. Patricia [...]

Michael de la Maza: Use the Friction to Get Your Team to the Top In this episode, Richard interviews Michael de la Maza, a well known Agile and Scrum Coach and Consultant from the Bay Area. Michael is a founder of the Heart Healthy Scrum, an Agile and Scrum consultancy firm. [...]

James Shore: How to Build Super-Cohesive Teams and Work with Joy In this episode, Richard talks with James Shore. James is an Agile software development teacher, writer, and consultant. He is the co-author of the book The Art of Agile Development, a seminal work in the Agile community. He also co-created [...]

Natalie Warnert: How to Turn Conflict Into a Strength? In this episode, Richard interviews Natalie Warnert, the founder, president, and executive director of Women in Agile, and an Agile Process coach at Volkswagen Financial Services. She tells us about the importance of embracing healthy conflicts in your organization to achieve real [...]

Ted M. Young: How to Have Fun Through Learning? In this episode, Richard interviews Ted M. Young, better known in the software development community as "Jitter Ted". Ted is a software industry veteran with decades of experience working with companies like Apple, Google, and eBay. Ted is the principal Java trainer [...]

Lisa Crispin: How to Transform Your Workplace Into a Safe Place? In this episode, Richard interviews Lisa Crispin, a quality owner at OutSystems, co-founder of Agile Testing Fellowship Inc, and one of the most influential testing professionals in the software industry. Lisa co-authored several books, including Agile Testing and Testing Extreme [...]

Tricia Broderick: How to Create a Support Network in Your Organization? In this episode, Richard interviews Tricia Broderick, an agile coach at Agile for All and an Agile Alliance Board member. She tells us how the feeling of being supported increases the success of the team and shares how to build [...]

Lyssa Adkins: How Strong Team Relationships Increase the Value of Products? In this episode, Richard Interviews Lyssa Adkins. Lyssa is a co-founder of the Agile Coaching Institute, an independent agile and leadership coach, and the author of the Coaching Agile Teams. Lyssa tells us about the importance of interpersonal relationships within [...]

Diana Larsen: Do You Know What True Compatibility Is? In this episode, Richard interviews Diana Larsen. Diana is a true agile pioneer, a visionary pragmatist, and one of the highest authorities on agile retrospectives. She co-authored several books, including Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great; Liftoff: Start and Sustain Successful Agile [...]

Mark Kilby: How to Stay Together in a Distributed Team? In this episode, Richard interviews Mark Kilby, a coach, and mentor to distributed teams. Mark co-authored the book From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams with Johanna Rothman, and he designed many online courses on the subject. We talk about finding a shared [...]

April Jefferson: How to Achieve Greatness Through Imagination and Fun? In this episode, Richard interviews April Jefferson. April is a coach, facilitator, and speaker. She currently serves as a board chairwoman at the Design Action Lab. We talk about achieving happiness within a team and among customers through innovation, improvisation, and [...]

Yann Toutant: How to Build Trust Between Your Teammates? In this episode, Richard interviews Yann Toutant, President of the French Chamber of Commerce in the Netherlands, startup advisor, and manager at Toucan Toco. Yann tells us about the importance of building trust and understanding between your team members and how to [...]

Esther Derby: How to Keep Your Team Connected and Focused? In this episode, Richard interviews Esther Derby, one of the world's top experts in organizational dynamics. Esther coauthored three books, including Behind Closed Doors with Johanna Rothman and Agile Retrospectives with Diana Larsen and Ken Schwaber. In her newest book - [...]

Lynne Cazaly: You Don't Have to Be Perfect! In this episode, Richard interviews Lynne Cazaly, a speaker, trainer, facilitator, and sense-maker who helps business owners, teams, and organizations transition to better ways of thinking and working. Lynne is the author of six books, the latest of which is Ish. We talk [...]

Tiffany Farriss and George Demet: How to Achieve Certainty in Uncertain Times? In this episode, Richard interviews Tiffany Farriss and George DeMet. Tiffany and George are CEOs of Palantir.net, a consultant company that designs web-based solutions for education, health-care, and other socially-oriented services. We talk about the role of distributed decision-making [...]

Molood Ceccarelli: Tips on Surviving Remote Work During the COVID-19 Crisis? In this episode, the first one recorded since the beginning of the Coronavirus outbreak, Richard interviews Molood Ceccarelli. Molood is an agile coach, the founder of the Remote Forever Summit, and CEO of Remote Forever. As someone who dedicated her [...]

Arlo Belshee: What Are the Hidden Foundations of Successful Team-Building? Richard interviews Arlo Belshee. Arlo is a well-known legacy code consultant, a team-building leader, and one of the inventors of promiscuous pair programming. Arlo currently serves as CTO at Deep Roots. As we chat about our favorite teams, Arlo shares with [...]

Radhika Dutt: How to Create a Clear Vision for Your Company? Richard interviews Radhika Dutt. Radhika is an entrepreneur, product leader, and co-founder of Radical Product Thinking. At Radical Product, it is all about vision-driven product creation. But how do you define the vision of your company, and how do you [...]

Joshua Kerievsky: How to Grow from a One-Man-Show into a Global Team? Richard Kasperowski interviews Joshua Kerievsky. Joshua is the creator and steward of the Modern Agile movement, CEO of Industrial Logic, and the author of the award-winning book, Refactoring to Patterns. He tells us the story of how he grew [...]

Allison Pollard: How to Give a Sense of Ownership to your Team? Richard Kasperowski interviews Allison Pollard. Allison is the director of Improving, an agile coach, creative facilitator, consultant, and public speaker. We talk about the importance of giving your team a sense of ownership. Can that be done? And how? [...]

Gil Broza: How to Transform Management Into an Effective Team in No Time? Richard Kasperowski interviews Gil Broza. Gil is a mindset and leadership coach. He is well known for his books: The Agile Mind-Set and The Human Side of Agile. Recently, he authored a third book - Agile for Non-Software [...]

Linda Rising: How to Listen to Understand and How to Share to Gain? Richard Kasperowski interviews Linda Rising. Linda is an independent consultant and speaker with vast experience in telecommunications, avionics, and other industries. She is an author or a co-author of four books, including the Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing [...]

Rod Collins: Innovation Discovery and How to Do It the Right Way Richard Kasperowki interviews Rod Collins. Rod is the director of innovation at Optimity Advisors and innovation curator at Salt Flats. Rod and I talk about the collectivization of strategic leadership in the dynamic business environment of the 21st century. [...]

Jutta Eckstein: 4 Secrets of Bossa Nova for Powerful, Motivated Teams Richard Kasperowski interviews Jutta Eckstein. Jutta  is an Agile coach, consultant, and trainer. She is the author of the  books Company-wide Agility, Retrospectives for Organizational Change, and Agile Software Development with Distributed Teams. Jutta and I chat about the importance of [...]

Llevellyn Falco: How to Grow Crushingly Effective Remote Teams? Richard Kasperowski interviews Llewellyn Falco. Llewellyn is a technical coach specialized in rapid mob programming and in building remote teams. Llewellyn and I chat about the ways of growing, rather than engineering, successful teams. Llewellyn shares with us his insights about the [...]

Richard Kasperowski: How to Increase Success with Simple Team-Building Tools? In this episode, Richard Kasperowski answers the questions! Back in March 2019, I was a guest on the radio show Morning Affair with Mark Bishop at 1030 KVOI-AM The Voice in Tucson, Arizona. We talked about team- building techniques in the IT [...]

A Really Good Team Is Rare. If You're In One, Celebrate It! This episode is an interview with Caitlin Walker. Caitlin is a specialist in creating the conditions for groups to collaborate, which is her modest way of saying that she is the world’s leading expert on Clean Language and Systemic [...]

Michael and Audree Sahota: Oh My God, I Love Being Here This episode is an interview with Michael and Audree Sahota. Michael and Audree are the authors of the book, Emotional Science. We chat about intentionality in creating your organization’s environment, including meditation as a form of “Check In on steroids.” [...]

There Was This Buzz in the Organization Richard Kasperowski interviews Johanna Rothman. Johanna is known as the Pragmatic Manager—that’s the name of her email newsletter, where she shares her thinking on practical pragmatic approaches to hiring people, looking for a job, and managing projects, programs, and portfolios. Johanna talks about the [...]

First Scrum Team Was the Best Team of My Life Richard Kasperowski interviews Vasco Duarte. Vasco is a long-time Agilist and the host of the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast. Vasco talks about his journey as an Agilist, starting with the time he did Scrum exactly by the book—and it turned out [...]

What Makes a Team Successful Is You Meet Your Objective Richard Kasperowski interviews DiDi Vaz. DiDi is an Agile coach working on the data sciences platform at the Broad Institute. DiDi and I chat about connection: connection to each other as teammates, and connection to your shared goals. She offers advice on [...]

There’s No One Truth for How to Do Things Richard Kasperowski interviews Yuval Yeret. Yuval is an Agile coach and trainer at Agile Sparks. Yuval and Richard chat about his best team ever, which he describes as family. He offers advice to listeners working with both f2f and partially distributed teams, and [...]

Figure Out What You Want to Do, and Do It Figure Out What You Want to Do, and Do It Richard Kasperowski interviews Abby Fichtner, the Hacker Chick. Abby is an author, speaker, and innovation ninja. Abby shares the story of her best team ever, the founding team at the Harvard [...]

Making Team Magic Happen Richard Kasperowski interviews Michael Nir, a keynote speaker and bestselling author with expertise in Lean, Agile, and Gestalt. Michael shares his experience with a team of people from different walks of life, their intention to be part of a great team, and investing the time to make [...]

Delivering Awesome Value at High Speed Richard Kasperowski interviews Heidi Helfand, director of engineering excellence at Procore Technologies and author of the book Dynamic Reteaming: The Art and Wisdom of Changing Teams. Heidi shares her wisdom on clarity of roles, having a clear sense of purpose, and patterns of dynamic reteaming. Visit [...]

The Feeling of Belonging Richard Kasperowski interviews Dave West, product owner and CEO of Scrum.org. Dave talks about the feeling of belonging, the regular work rhythm of great teams, and remembering that everyone is human. Connect with Dave at dave.west@scrum.org and read the Scrum.org blog at https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog. Join hundreds of high-performers and subscribe to Richard’s newsletter at https://kasperowski.com. [...]

Clean Language – Know What Brings You Joy Richard Kasperowski interviews Andrea Chiou, an Agile coach based in Reston, VA. Andrea shares her thoughts on Clean Language and Systemic Modeling, knowing what brings you joy, and the strength that arises from our diversity. Connect with Andrea on Twitter and on her [...]

Steve Denning: Courage to Ignore Limits Richard Kasperowski interviews Steve Denning, author of The Age of Agile and contributor to Forbes.com. Steve talks about courage, openness to diverse viewpoints, and ignoring limits – working around the team’s constraints. Contact Steve at stevedenning.com, and check out his book, The Age of Agile, at kspr.co/theageofagile. [...]

Complementary Skills & Work Styles Richard Kasperowski interviews Wendy Wong, Senior Director of Product Management at Constant Contact. Wendy discusses opt-in team formation, complementary skills and work styles, and the right number of people on a team. Connect with Wendy at wwong@constantcontact.com. Join hundreds of high-performers and subscribe to Richard’s newsletter at [...]

Richard Kasperowski interviews Eugene Krylov, VP of Engineering at HealthEdge. Eugene discusses learning, short feedback cycles, and inviting your actual customers to your sprint reviews. Connect with Eugene at www.linkedin.com/in/ekrylov, visit HealthEdge at www.healthedge.com, and listen to HealthEdge’s CEO’s podcast. To support this podcast, sign up for my newsletter at kasperowski.com. [...]

Safe to Fail, Learn, and Grow Richard Kasperowski interviews Julie Bright. Julie is an Agile coach at Capital One. She introduces the concept of “going slow to go fast”. Julie and I chat about her experience with fostering an environment where it’s safe to fail, where it's safe to learn and grow [...]

When You Listen Better, Your Teammates Think Better Richard Kasperowski interviews Judy Rees. Judy is an author and an expert on Clean Language and distributed teams. Judy and I chat about attentive listening as the most important element of her best team ever. If you enjoy this conversation with Judy, be sure [...]

Love the Work You Do, Do the Work You Love: an interview with Sateesh Kamisetti Richard Kasperowski interviews Sateesh Kamisetti, a young team leader and Scrum Master. Sateesh’s personal vision is to continuously explore, improve, and see life with a new lens every day. He shares thoughts on individual and team growth, [...]

Jim and Michele McCarthy share the origins of the Core Protocols. The Core Protocols describe the behaviors of the best teams in the world. Jim and Michele observed teams in their lab and in industry until they understand the common behaviors that the best teams shared. The documented these behaviors and [...]