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 Modeling. [...]

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 [...]