In this episode, I dive deep into the topic of Agile’s current state and its potential decline.  As I explore the challenges faced by modern organizations, including the tendency to over-discuss and seek authorization before taking action, I question whether Agile has lost its original purpose of helping, solving problems, and delivering customer success. We need to move away from the obsession with accumulating knowledge and delve into the importance of wisdom and practical application. By focusing on helping people, optimizing work, and creating balance, we create opportunities to reshape Agile principles and practices. To ensure the future of Agile and the Scrum Master role, I encourage the community to elevate Agile and contribute to its revitalization. It’s time to shift our focus from debates over methodologies and details and instead prioritize productivity, customer success, and achieving goals. By questioning the current state of Agile and reflecting on its purpose and values, I aim to provide listeners with a fresh perspective on Agile’s path forward. So join me in this episode as we explore Agile’s decline and the opportunities for its new ascent. JOIN THE FORGE*** New cohort for Fall 2023!  Click here to discover more: https://badassagile.com/the-forge ****** ***WANT TO GROW AN AGILE BUSINESS?*** Check out my new premium podcast – “The Badass Agile Entrepreneur”. https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/ We’re also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me: https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile Check out the new online magazine about the future of agility: https://www.theagilehorizon.com Looking for your first Scrum Master job?  We help make the transition easier: https://agilesidekick.co ****** Don’t forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews! https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/ Follow The LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile ****** Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game. Contact us (contact@badassagile.com) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

In this episode, I dive deep into the topic of Agile’s current state and its potential decline. As I explore the challenges faced by modern organizations, including the tendency to over-discuss and seek authorization before taking action, I question whether Agile has lost its original purpose of helping, solving problems, and delivering customer success. We need to move away from the obsession with accumulating knowledge and delve into the importance of wisdom and practical application. By focusing on helping people, optimizing work, and creating balance, we create opportunities to reshape Agile principles and practices. To ensure the future of Agile and the Scrum Master role, I encourage the community to elevate Agile and contribute to its revitalization. It’s time to shift our focus from debates over methodologies and details and instead prioritize productivity, customer success, and achieving goals. By questioning the current state of Agile and reflecting on its purpose and values, I aim to provide listeners with a fresh perspective on Agile’s path forward. So join me in this episode as we explore Agile’s decline and the opportunities for its new ascent. JOIN THE FORGE*** New cohort for Fall 2023!  Click here to discover more: <a href="https://badassagile.com/the-forge" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://badassagile.com/the-forge</a> ****** ***WANT TO GROW AN AGILE BUSINESS?*** Check out my new premium podcast – “The Badass Agile Entrepreneur”. <a href="https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/</a> We’re also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile</a> Check out the new online magazine about the future of agility: <a href="https://www.theagilehorizon.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.theagilehorizon.com</a> Looking for your first Scrum Master job?  We help make the transition easier: <a href="https://agilesidekick.co" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://agilesidekick.co</a> ****** Don’t forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews! <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/</a> Follow The LinkedIn Page: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile</a> ****** Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game. Contact us (<a href="mailto:contact@badassagile.com">contact@badassagile.com</a>) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

Episode 239 – Is Agile Going Down?

The industry is facing a crowded market, a decline in quality of work, and a lack of focus on outcomes. We still tend to overthink and over-document, leading to a lack of actual delivery. Tune in to learn how the changing landscape, driven by COVID-19 and technological advancements, is reshaping the way we work and approach agility beyond just software concerns. JOIN THE FORGE*** New cohort for Fall 2023!  Click here to discover more: https://badassagile.com/the-forge ****** ***WANT TO GROW AN AGILE BUSINESS?*** Check out my new premium podcast – “The Badass Agile Entrepreneur”. https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/ We’re also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me: https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile Check out the new online magazine about the future of agility: https://www.theagilehorizon.com Looking for your first Scrum Master job?  We help make the transition easier: https://agilesidekick.co ****** Don’t forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews! https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/ Follow The LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile ****** Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game. Contact us (contact@badassagile.com) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

The industry is facing a crowded market, a decline in quality of work, and a lack of focus on outcomes. We still tend to overthink and over-document, leading to a lack of actual delivery. Tune in to learn how the changing landscape, driven by COVID-19 and technological advancements, is reshaping the way we work and approach agility beyond just software concerns. JOIN THE FORGE*** New cohort for Fall 2023!  Click here to discover more: <a href="https://badassagile.com/the-forge" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://badassagile.com/the-forge</a> ****** ***WANT TO GROW AN AGILE BUSINESS?*** Check out my new premium podcast – “The Badass Agile Entrepreneur”. <a href="https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/</a> We’re also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile</a> Check out the new online magazine about the future of agility: <a href="https://www.theagilehorizon.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.theagilehorizon.com</a> Looking for your first Scrum Master job?  We help make the transition easier: <a href="https://agilesidekick.co" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://agilesidekick.co</a> ****** Don’t forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews! <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/</a> Follow The LinkedIn Page: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile</a> ****** Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game. Contact us (<a href="mailto:contact@badassagile.com">contact@badassagile.com</a>) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

Episode 238 – Why I Quit The Agile Biz

You have a duty to lead and to make real change. We’re most imminently qualified to bring real cultural and social change to our workplaces. JOIN THE FORGE*** New cohort starting soon! Click here to discover more: https://www.badassagile.com/the-forge Become Badass with my NEW FREE Mini-Course.  Go to https://badassagile.com and look for “Becoming Badass” Want to recession-proof your leadership? Check out my new course – The New Leadership https://newleader.badassagile.com Don’t Miss Out on Our New FREE Community Click here to join now! https://learning.fusechamber.com/offers/7zrAfCY7 WANT TO GROW AN AGILE BUSINESS? Check out my new premium podcast – “The Badass Agile Entrepreneur”. https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/ We’re also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me: https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile Don’t forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews! https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/ Follow The LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game. Contact us (contact@badassagile.com) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

You have a duty to lead and to make real change. We’re most imminently qualified to bring real cultural and social change to our workplaces. JOIN THE FORGE*** New cohort starting soon! Click here to discover more: <a href="https://www.badassagile.com/the-forge" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.badassagile.com/the-forge</a> Become Badass with my NEW FREE Mini-Course.  Go to <a href="https://badassagile.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://badassagile.com</a> and look for “Becoming Badass” Want to recession-proof your leadership? Check out my new course – The New Leadership <a href="https://newleader.badassagile.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://newleader.badassagile.com</a> Don’t Miss Out on Our New FREE Community Click here to join now! <a href="https://learning.fusechamber.com/offers/7zrAfCY7" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://learning.fusechamber.com/offers/7zrAfCY7</a> WANT TO GROW AN AGILE BUSINESS? Check out my new premium podcast – “The Badass Agile Entrepreneur”. <a href="https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/</a> We’re also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile</a> Don’t forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews! <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/</a> Follow The LinkedIn Page: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile</a> Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game. Contact us (<a href="mailto:contact@badassagile.com">contact@badassagile.com</a>) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

Episode 237 – Agile Players Have a Duty

Is Agile losing favour? Is it declining in popularity? I don’t know. I don’t fully think so. I think we’re failing to meet our brand promise though. I think that we’re not as efficient, not as fast, not as productive, not as progressive as we thought we were. A lot of Agile in practice that I see in organizations is simply falling back to the same mistakes that we used to make with traditional project management. Now, I’m not necessarily talking about the difference between Agile and waterfall here. I’m talking about the difference between the Scrum Master Agile Coach roles, the implementation of Agile or Scrum itself, and traditional means of managing projects. JOIN THE FORGE***Summer cohort starting in July! Click here to discover more: https://badassagile.com/the-forge Become Badass with my NEW FREE Mini-Course.  Go to https://badassagile.com and look for “Becoming Badass” Want to recession-proof your leadership? Check out my new course – The New Leadership https://newleader.badassagile.com Don’t Miss Out on Our New FREE Community Click here to join now! https://learning.fusechamber.com/offers/7zrAfCY7 WANT TO GROW AN AGILE BUSINESS?Check out my new premium podcast – “The Badass Agile Entrepreneur”. https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/ We’re also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me: https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile Check out the new online magazine about the future of agility: https://www.theagilehorizon.com Looking for your first Scrum Master job?  We help make the transition easier: https://www.agilesidekick.co Follow on CLUBHOUSE: https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agile Don’t forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews! https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/ Follow The LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game. Contact us (contact@badassagile.com) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

Is Agile losing favour? Is it declining in popularity? I don’t know. I don’t fully think so. I think we’re failing to meet our brand promise though. I think that we’re not as efficient, not as fast, not as productive, not as progressive as we thought we were. A lot of Agile in practice that I see in organizations is simply falling back to the same mistakes that we used to make with traditional project management. Now, I’m not necessarily talking about the difference between Agile and waterfall here. I’m talking about the difference between the Scrum Master Agile Coach roles, the implementation of Agile or Scrum itself, and traditional means of managing projects. JOIN THE FORGE*** Summer cohort starting in July! Click here to discover more: <a href="https://badassagile.com/the-forge" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://badassagile.com/the-forge</a> Become Badass with my NEW FREE Mini-Course.  Go to <a href="https://badassagile.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://badassagile.com</a> and look for “Becoming Badass” Want to recession-proof your leadership? Check out my new course – The New Leadership <a href="https://newleader.badassagile.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://newleader.badassagile.com</a> Don’t Miss Out on Our New FREE Community Click here to join now! <a href="https://learning.fusechamber.com/offers/7zrAfCY7" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://learning.fusechamber.com/offers/7zrAfCY7</a> WANT TO GROW AN AGILE BUSINESS? Check out my new premium podcast – “The Badass Agile Entrepreneur”. <a href="https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/</a> We’re also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile</a> Check out the new online magazine about the future of agility: <a href="https://www.theagilehorizon.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.theagilehorizon.com</a> Looking for your first Scrum Master job?  We help make the transition easier: <a href="https://www.agilesidekick.co" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.agilesidekick.co</a> Follow on CLUBHOUSE: <a href="https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agile</a> Don’t forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews! <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/</a> Follow The LinkedIn Page: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile</a> Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game. Contact us (contact@badassagile.com) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

Episode 236 – Agile vs. Traditional Project Management: Is Agile Losing Favour?

Agile principles can be used to improve not just the creation of better software but also to solve bigger problems and make the world a better place. They encourage Agile leaders to develop their team leadership skills to manage complex problems efficiently. They believe that Agile is a gift that enables effective problem-solving and that, ultimately, the goal of Agile is to improve ourselves as a species and as a planet. The focus should be on delivering better outcomes, not faster processes. – Agile concepts and practices can be applied to creative fields for easier and consistent content creation – True Agility in creative fields can lead to awesome leadership – Agile is a pathway to greater opportunities beyond software development – Agile practices can be applied to solve real-world problems and make the world a better place JOIN THE FORGE***New cohort starting soon! Click here to discover more: https://badassagile.com/the-forge Become Badass with my NEW FREE Mini-Course.  Go to https://badassagile.com and look for “Becoming Badass” Want to recession-proof your leadership? Check out my new course – The New Leadership https://newleader.badassagile.com Don’t Miss Out on Our New FREE Community Click here to join now! https://learning.fusechamber.com/offers/7zrAfCY7 WANT TO GROW AN AGILE BUSINESS?Check out my new premium podcast – “The Badass Agile Entrepreneur”. https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/ We’re also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me: https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile Check out the new online magazine about the future of agility: https://www.theagilehorizon.com Looking for your first Scrum Master job?  We help make the transition easier: https://www.agilesidekick.co Don’t forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews! https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/ Follow The LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game. Contact us (contact@badassagile.com) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

Agile principles can be used to improve not just the creation of better software but also to solve bigger problems and make the world a better place. They encourage Agile leaders to develop their team leadership skills to manage complex problems efficiently. They believe that Agile is a gift that enables effective problem-solving and that, ultimately, the goal of Agile is to improve ourselves as a species and as a planet. The focus should be on delivering better outcomes, not faster processes. – Agile concepts and practices can be applied to creative fields for easier and consistent content creation – True Agility in creative fields can lead to awesome leadership – Agile is a pathway to greater opportunities beyond software development – Agile practices can be applied to solve real-world problems and make the world a better place JOIN THE FORGE*** New cohort starting soon! Click here to discover more: <a href="https://badassagile.com/the-forge" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://badassagile.com/the-forge</a> Become Badass with my NEW FREE Mini-Course.  Go to <a href="https://badassagile.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://badassagile.com</a> and look for “Becoming Badass” Want to recession-proof your leadership? Check out my new course – The New Leadership <a href="https://newleader.badassagile.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://newleader.badassagile.com</a> Don’t Miss Out on Our New FREE Community Click here to join now! <a href="https://learning.fusechamber.com/offers/7zrAfCY7" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://learning.fusechamber.com/offers/7zrAfCY7</a> WANT TO GROW AN AGILE BUSINESS? Check out my new premium podcast – “The Badass Agile Entrepreneur”. <a href="https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/</a> We’re also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile</a> Check out the new online magazine about the future of agility: <a href="https://www.theagilehorizon.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.theagilehorizon.com</a> Looking for your first Scrum Master job?  We help make the transition easier: <a href="https://www.agilesidekick.co" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.agilesidekick.co</a> Don’t forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews! <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/</a> Follow The LinkedIn Page: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile</a> Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game. Contact us (contact@badassagile.com) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

Episode 235 – Agile Is A Doorway

We could have gone back to normal by now….but we haven’t. Because we can’t. Things are forever changed. To the badass, that means opportunity. Think about everything that has changed since the pandemic.-People have seen what a balanced life looks like-People are learning that the traditional economy is unreliable – even unstable.-People have SEEN that the systems and rules that we were brought up with were nonsense.-Because they’ve SEEN it, not just read about it, they KNOW that things can be different. When the system refuses to acknowledge and respond to these changing forces….you see what happens-People quit even if they have nothing to fall back on-They divest themselves of a decades-long career-They realign themselves to a passion project-They suddenly find courage to do what they’ve always wanted to do When people start finding courage – tasting it for the first time, you’re on the brink of a revolution. At the same time, we have people rushing to tech careers (not necessarily a bad thing) including scrum master roles, the market saturates. So what does this mean for badasses? A window has been opened. Not like bitcoin or NFT’s – these are real, irreversible shifts. Good ones. That means there are opportunities for you. I don’t care if you want a promotion, raise, new job, new company, a switch to independent work – or if you just want to serve better and bigger – now is your chance. You must seize the open window where the PAIN is loud and clear but most organizations are too slow to respond to it. That’s where you come in. Not gonna lie. This takes courage. The easiest way forward is to just stick your chest out and go boldly through the aisles.-Ask anyone you know what their pain point is. I guarantee its not software-Listen carefully for common threads. You will hear a lot about people – finding good people, keeping good people, motivating good people.-Sit at home in the morning or at night, on the train or before the sun comes up with a pen and paper and start thinking about those problems. Get obsessed. read. study. research. But most important, come up with solutions. How does what you know about scrum/agile have the potential to help?-Don’t think inside your existing box. Take the greatest hits from your knowledge and think about what you could be doing differently to help solve these problems.-Remember the rules of the badass. Be visionary, don’t ask permission. Do the thing that has never been done before. Seek the hard challenges. Laugh in the face of danger.-If you can’t figure these out, hire me. Be bold. Let’s go. JOIN THE FORGE*** New cohort starting soon! Click here to discover more: https://badassagile.com/the-forge Become Badass with my NEW FREE Mini-Course.  Go to https://badassagile.com and look for “Becoming Badass” Want to recession-proof your leadership? Check out my new course – The New Leadership https://newleader.badassagile.com Don’t Miss Out on Our New FREE Community Click here to join now! https://learning.fusechamber.com/offers/7zrAfCY7 WANT TO GROW AN AGILE BUSINESS? Check out my new premium podcast – “The Badass Agile Entrepreneur”. https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/ We’re also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me: https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile Don’t forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews! https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/ Follow The LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game. Contact us (contact@badassagile.com) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

We could have gone back to normal by now….but we haven’t. Because we can’t. Things are forever changed. To the badass, that means opportunity. Think about everything that has changed since the pandemic. -People have seen what a balanced life looks like -People are learning that the traditional economy is unreliable – even unstable. -People have SEEN that the systems and rules that we were brought up with were nonsense. -Because they’ve SEEN it, not just read about it, they KNOW that things can be different. When the system refuses to acknowledge and respond to these changing forces….you see what happens -People quit even if they have nothing to fall back on -They divest themselves of a decades-long career -They realign themselves to a passion project -They suddenly find courage to do what they’ve always wanted to do When people start finding courage – tasting it for the first time, you’re on the brink of a revolution. At the same time, we have people rushing to tech careers (not necessarily a bad thing) including scrum master roles, the market saturates. So what does this mean for badasses? A window has been opened. Not like bitcoin or NFT’s – these are real, irreversible shifts. Good ones. That means there are opportunities for you. I don’t care if you want a promotion, raise, new job, new company, a switch to independent work – or if you just want to serve better and bigger – now is your chance. You must seize the open window where the PAIN is loud and clear but most organizations are too slow to respond to it. That’s where you come in. Not gonna lie. This takes courage. The easiest way forward is to just stick your chest out and go boldly through the aisles. -Ask anyone you know what their pain point is. I guarantee its not software -Listen carefully for common threads. You will hear a lot about people – finding good people, keeping good people, motivating good people. -Sit at home in the morning or at night, on the train or before the sun comes up with a pen and paper and start thinking about those problems. Get obsessed. read. study. research. But most important, come up with solutions. How does what you know about scrum/agile have the potential to help? -Don’t think inside your existing box. Take the greatest hits from your knowledge and think about what you could be doing differently to help solve these problems. -Remember the rules of the badass. Be visionary, don’t ask permission. Do the thing that has never been done before. Seek the hard challenges. Laugh in the face of danger. -If you can’t figure these out, hire me. Be bold. Let’s go. JOIN THE FORGE*** New cohort starting soon! Click here to discover more: <a href="https://badassagile.com/the-forge" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://badassagile.com/the-forge</a> Become Badass with my NEW FREE Mini-Course.  Go to <a href="https://badassagile.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://badassagile.com</a> and look for “Becoming Badass” Want to recession-proof your leadership? Check out my new course – The New Leadership <a href="https://newleader.badassagile.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://newleader.badassagile.com</a> Don’t Miss Out on Our New FREE Community Click here to join now! <a href="https://learning.fusechamber.com/offers/7zrAfCY7" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://learning.fusechamber.com/offers/7zrAfCY7</a> WANT TO GROW AN AGILE BUSINESS? Check out my new premium podcast – “The Badass Agile Entrepreneur”. <a href="https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/</a> We’re also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile</a> Don’t forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews! <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/</a> Follow The LinkedIn Page: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile</a> Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game. Contact us (<a href="mailto:contact@badassagile.com">contact@badassagile.com</a>) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

Episode 234 – Opportunity

The pandemic and rapid technological advancements have shown us that the old ways of leading no longer apply. Adaptability and understanding your team’s needs and values are essential in this new landscape. JOIN THE FORGE*** New cohort starting soon! Click here to discover more: https://badassagile.com/the-forge Become Badass with my NEW FREE Mini-Course. Go to https://badassagile.com and look for “Becoming Badass” Want to recession-proof your leadership? Check out my new course – The New Leadership https://newleader.badassagile.com Don’t Miss Out on Our New FREE CommunityClick here to join now! https://learning.fusechamber.com/offers/7zrAfCY7 WANT TO GROW AN AGILE BUSINESS?Check out my new premium podcast – “The Badass Agile Entrepreneur”.https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/ We’re also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me: https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile Check out the new online magazine about the future of agility: https://www.theagilehorizon.com Looking for your first Scrum Master job?  We help make the transition easier: https://www.agilesidekick.co Follow on CLUBHOUSE: https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agile Don’t forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews! https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/ Follow The LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game. Contact us (contact@badassagile.com) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

The pandemic and rapid technological advancements have shown us that the old ways of leading no longer apply. Adaptability and understanding your team’s needs and values are essential in this new landscape. JOIN THE FORGE*** New cohort starting soon! Click here to discover more: <a href="https://badassagile.com/the-forge" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://badassagile.com/the-forge</a> Become Badass with my NEW FREE Mini-Course. Go to <a href="https://badassagile.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://badassagile.com</a> and look for “Becoming Badass” Want to recession-proof your leadership? Check out my new course – The New Leadership <a href="https://newleader.badassagile.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://newleader.badassagile.com</a> Don’t Miss Out on Our New FREE Community Click here to join now! <a href="https://learning.fusechamber.com/offers/7zrAfCY7" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://learning.fusechamber.com/offers/7zrAfCY7</a> WANT TO GROW AN AGILE BUSINESS?Check out my new premium podcast – “The Badass Agile Entrepreneur”. <a href="https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/</a> We’re also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile</a> Check out the new online magazine about the future of agility: <a href="https://www.theagilehorizon.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.theagilehorizon.com</a> Looking for your first Scrum Master job?  We help make the transition easier: <a href="https://www.agilesidekick.co" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.agilesidekick.co</a> Follow on CLUBHOUSE: <a href="https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agile</a> Don’t forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews! <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/</a> Follow The LinkedIn Page: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile</a> Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game. Contact us (contact@badassagile.com) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

Episode 233 – The New Leadership

There’s a lot of opinion out there. But not all of it will help you. Bickering with trolls on social media doesn’t help you succeed. And it’s not good for our craft. Choose sources that are experienced, open and maybe swimming aginst the current. JOIN THE FORGE***New cohort starting soon! Click here to discover more: www.badassagile.com/the-forge Become Badass with my NEW FREE Mini-Course.  Go to badassagile.com and look for “Becoming Badass” Want to recession-proof your leadership?  Check out my new course – The New Leadership newleader.badassagile.com Don’t Miss Out on Our New FREE Community Click here to join now!https://learning.fusechamber.com/offers/7zrAfCY7 WANT TO GROW AN AGILE BUSINESS?Check out my new premium podcast – “The Badass Agile Entrepreneur”.https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/ We’re also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me: https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile Check out the new online magazine about the future of agility: https://www.theagilehorizon.com Looking for your first Scrum Master job?  We help make the transition easier: www.agilesidekick.co Follow on CLUBHOUSE: https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agile Don’t forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews! https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/ Follow The LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game. Contact us (contact@badassagile.com) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

There’s a lot of opinion out there. But not all of it will help you. Bickering with trolls on social media doesn’t help you succeed. And it’s not good for our craft. Choose sources that are experienced, open and maybe swimming aginst the current. JOIN THE FORGE*** New cohort starting soon! Click here to discover more: <a href="http://www.badassagile.com/the-forge" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.badassagile.com/the-forge</a> Become Badass with my NEW FREE Mini-Course. Go to <a href="https://badassagile.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">badassagile.com</a> and look for “Becoming Badass” Want to recession-proof your leadership? Check out my new course – The New Leadership <a href="http://newleader.badassagile.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">newleader.badassagile.com</a> Don’t Miss Out on Our New FREE Community Click here to join now! <a href="https://learning.fusechamber.com/offers/7zrAfCY7" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://learning.fusechamber.com/offers/7zrAfCY7</a> WANT TO GROW AN AGILE BUSINESS? Check out my new premium podcast – “The Badass Agile Entrepreneur”. <a href="https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/</a> We’re also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile</a> Check out the new online magazine about the future of agility: <a href="https://www.theagilehorizon.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.theagilehorizon.com</a> Looking for your first Scrum Master job?  We help make the transition easier: <a href="http://www.agilesidekick.co" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.agilesidekick.co</a> Follow on CLUBHOUSE: <a href="https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agile</a> Don’t forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews! <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/</a> Follow The LinkedIn Page: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile</a> Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game. Contact us (contact@badassagile.com) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

Episode 232 – The War Online

The best kind of coach is one who understands where you want to go, where. you are, and what strategies are likely to work (universally and just for you). Are you doing that? Coaching is about hearing what the other is all about. The prescriptions that you give will be based on the individual, the team, the context, the outcome, existing processes and beliefs. Be fearless in your curiosity about other people. Be fearless in sharing your ideas. A great coach is widely experienced and understands how to connect the threads between experiences. This is the primary difference between scrum master and coach. A great coach intuitively knows what experiments to try FIRST that have the best hope of improving results A great coach knows that agile may not be the best approach A great coach is not attached to any one way, or to their own rightness. A great coach serves first.  Don’t like life coaches…here’s why. There’s a saying that what we hate in others is what we fear most in ourselves. I see a great many coaches that are either inexperienced or were raised in a certain paradigm. All of their knowledge and skill is neatly tied to those frameworks and ways of thinking.  You can’t effectively coach people if you don’t know how to identify goals and outcomes and support the tough changes required to get them. This requires intuition and certainty that allows you to speak truth to people, challenge ideals, identify unhelpful mindsets and habits, hold people accountable, and measure results. That’s hard to do, and most coaches know that, so they despise those who can and suggest it’s not important. If you can’t connect, inspire, persuade, lead, and sometimes rock the room, you can’t coach. People always talk about how sport coaches are masters of the skill, but the coaches they write books about are the ones that elevate the character and commitment of the team and the individuals within it. Period. JOIN THE FORGE*** New cohort in March 2023!  Click here to discover more: https://event.webinarjam.com/register/23/ywm0ga0 Don’t Miss Out on Our New FREE Community Click here to join now! https://learning.fusechamber.com/offers/7zrAfCY7 ****** ***WANT TO GROW AN AGILE BUSINESS?*** Check out my new premium podcast – “The Badass Agile Entrepreneur”. https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/ We’re also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me: https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile Check out the new online magazine about the future of agility: https://www.theagilehorizon.com Looking for your first Scrum Master job?  We help make the transition easier: https://agilesidekick.co ****** Follow on CLUBHOUSE: https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agile Don’t forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews! https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/ Follow The LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile ****** Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game. Contact us (contact@badassagile.com) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

The best kind of coach is one who understands where you want to go, where. you are, and what strategies are likely to work (universally and just for you). Are you doing that? <ol><li>Coaching is about hearing what the other is all about. The prescriptions that you give will be based on the individual, the team, the context, the outcome, existing processes and beliefs.</li> <li>Be fearless in your curiosity about other people.</li> <li>Be fearless in sharing your ideas.</li> <li>A great coach is widely experienced and understands how to connect the threads between experiences. This is the primary difference between scrum master and coach.</li> <li>A great coach intuitively knows what experiments to try FIRST that have the best hope of improving results</li> <li>A great coach knows that agile may not be the best approach</li> <li>A great coach is not attached to any one way, or to their own rightness.</li> <li>A great coach serves first.</li> </ol> Don’t like life coaches…here’s why. There’s a saying that what we hate in others is what we fear most in ourselves. I see a great many coaches that are either inexperienced or were raised in a certain paradigm. All of their knowledge and skill is neatly tied to those frameworks and ways of thinking. You can’t effectively coach people if you don’t know how to identify goals and outcomes and support the tough changes required to get them. This requires intuition and certainty that allows you to speak truth to people, challenge ideals, identify unhelpful mindsets and habits, hold people accountable, and measure results. That’s hard to do, and most coaches know that, so they despise those who can and suggest it’s not important. If you can’t connect, inspire, persuade, lead, and sometimes rock the room, you can’t coach. People always talk about how sport coaches are masters of the skill, but the coaches they write books about are the ones that elevate the character and commitment of the team and the individuals within it. Period. JOIN THE FORGE*** New cohort in March 2023!  Click here to discover more: <a href="https://event.webinarjam.com/register/23/ywm0ga0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://event.webinarjam.com/register/23/ywm0ga0</a> Don’t Miss Out on Our New FREE Community Click here to join now! <a href="https://learning.fusechamber.com/offers/7zrAfCY7" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://learning.fusechamber.com/offers/7zrAfCY7</a> ****** ***WANT TO GROW AN AGILE BUSINESS?*** Check out my new premium podcast – “The Badass Agile Entrepreneur”. <a href="https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/</a> We’re also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile</a> Check out the new online magazine about the future of agility: <a href="https://www.theagilehorizon.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.theagilehorizon.com</a> Looking for your first Scrum Master job?  We help make the transition easier: <a href="https://agilesidekick.co" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://agilesidekick.co</a> ****** Follow on CLUBHOUSE: <a href="https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agile</a> Don’t forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews! <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/</a> Follow The LinkedIn Page: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile</a> ****** Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game. Contact us (<a href="mailto:contact@badassagile.com">contact@badassagile.com</a>) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

Episode 231 – What A Great Coach Does

Episode 230 – The Difference-Makers

Episode 229 - Why Sameness Is Not A Strategy. Don't be an algorithm-pleaser! If you're talking about agile on social media, but you're copying what everyone else is doing...you're a follower. Learn how to stand out in this episode.

Episode 229 – Why Sameness Is Not A Strategy

Badass Agile welcomes Sofia Theodorou (People Executive) and Carl Oxholm (Tax Executive and CEO of Virtue Compass) to talk about the state of people and culture in 2023.

Badass Conversations – People and Culture in 2023 with Sofia Theodorou and Carl Oxholm

Strength is still a requirement – and it’s making a comeback. I recently attended an event that was supposed to be about heroes – big impact, big ideas.  But guess what?  The only next step was planning the next meeting.  No action.  Nothing gets shipped.  No “done thing”.   What happens without the strength and ambition to DO?  Give it 18 months and we’ll wonder why things didn’t happen.  Drained of hope and certainty, we’ll quietly shut the initiative down.  Put it on the pile of things we never accomplished. The gift of agility is not to self-congratulate on big dreams.  Making the dream REAL is the only marker of transformation. ******* YOU should be part of our new elite community – FREE! Click here to join now! https://learning.fusechamber.com/offers/7zrAfCY7 JOIN THE FORGE*** New cohort in March 2023!  Click here to discover more: https://badassagile.com/the-forge/ ****** ***WANT TO GROW AN AGILE BUSINESS?*** Check out my new premium podcast – “The Badass Agile Entrepreneur”. https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/ We’re also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me: https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile Check out the new online magazine about the future of agility: https://www.theagilehorizon.com Looking for your first Scrum Master job?  We help make the transition easier: https://www.agilesidekick.co ****** Follow on CLUBHOUSE: https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agile Don’t forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews! https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/ Follow The LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile ****** Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game. Contact us (contact@badassagile.com) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

Strength is still a requirement – and it’s making a comeback. I recently attended an event that was supposed to be about heroes – big impact, big ideas. But guess what? The only next step was planning the next meeting. No action. Nothing gets shipped. No “done thing”. What happens without the strength and ambition to DO? Give it 18 months and we’ll wonder why things didn’t happen. Drained of hope and certainty, we’ll quietly shut the initiative down. Put it on the pile of things we never accomplished. The gift of agility is not to self-congratulate on big dreams. Making the dream REAL is the only marker of transformation. ******* YOU should be part of our new elite community – FREE! Click here to join now! <a href="https://learning.fusechamber.com/offers/7zrAfCY7" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://learning.fusechamber.com/offers/7zrAfCY7</a> JOIN THE FORGE*** New cohort in March 2023!  Click here to discover more: <a href="https://badassagile.com/the-forge/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://badassagile.com/the-forge/</a> ****** ***WANT TO GROW AN AGILE BUSINESS?*** Check out my new premium podcast – “The Badass Agile Entrepreneur”. <a href="https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/</a> We’re also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile</a> Check out the new online magazine about the future of agility: <a href="https://www.theagilehorizon.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.theagilehorizon.com</a> Looking for your first Scrum Master job?  We help make the transition easier: <a href="https://www.agilesidekick.co" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.agilesidekick.co</a> ****** Follow on CLUBHOUSE: <a href="https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agile</a> Don’t forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews! <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/</a> Follow The LinkedIn Page: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile</a> ****** Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game. Contact us (<a href="mailto:contact@badassagile.com">contact@badassagile.com</a>) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

Badass Unfiltered – Strength And Ambition

Agile has lost the script – we’ve become divisive, intolerant…maybe even a little arrogant.  When we lose our desire to elevate the craft and the community as a whole, history tells us that the final days are near.  Instead of behaving like noble beings worthy of trust and talent to make work better, we making this into a circus.  We should know better. Don’t Miss Out on Our New FREE Community Click here to join now! https://learning.fusechamber.com/offers/7zrAfCY7 JOIN THE FORGE*** New cohort in March 2023!  Click here to discover more: https://badassagile.com/the-forge/ ****** ***WANT TO GROW AN AGILE BUSINESS?*** Check out my new premium podcast – “The Badass Agile Entrepreneur”. https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/ We’re also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me: https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile Check out the new online magazine about the future of agility: https://www.theagilehorizon.com Looking for your first Scrum Master job?  We help make the transition easier: https://www.agilesidekick.co ****** Follow on CLUBHOUSE: https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agile Don’t forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews! https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/ Follow The LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile ****** Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game. Contact us (contact@badassagile.com) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

Agile has lost the script – we’ve become divisive, intolerant…maybe even a little arrogant. When we lose our desire to elevate the craft and the community as a whole, history tells us that the final days are near. Instead of behaving like noble beings worthy of trust and talent to make work better, we making this into a circus. We should know better. Don’t Miss Out on Our New FREE Community Click here to join now! <a href="https://learning.fusechamber.com/offers/7zrAfCY7" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://learning.fusechamber.com/offers/7zrAfCY7</a> JOIN THE FORGE*** New cohort in March 2023!  Click here to discover more: <a href="https://badassagile.com/the-forge/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://badassagile.com/the-forge/</a> ****** ***WANT TO GROW AN AGILE BUSINESS?*** Check out my new premium podcast – “The Badass Agile Entrepreneur”. <a href="https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/</a> We’re also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile</a> Check out the new online magazine about the future of agility: <a href="https://www.theagilehorizon.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.theagilehorizon.com</a> Looking for your first Scrum Master job?  We help make the transition easier: <a href="https://www.agilesidekick.co" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.agilesidekick.co</a> ****** Follow on CLUBHOUSE: <a href="https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agile</a> Don’t forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews! <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/</a> Follow The LinkedIn Page: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile</a> ****** Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game. Contact us (<a href="mailto:contact@badassagile.com">contact@badassagile.com</a>) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

Episode 228 – Agile Has Lost The Script

Each year, I like to do an annual forecast. What does 2023 have in store for agile professionals? Here are the trends you need to watch – and react to – this year: We’re getting polarized as a community – a sign that things aren’t in good shapeIncreasing need for community building that does NOT Centre around framework and methodBusiness Agility continues to growIncreasing need for people who can sell culture change to leadershipShorter-scale projects to focus on completion, and continuityObviously handling the burst of AI tools that have started to gain attention JOIN THE FORGE*** Click here to discover more: https://badassagile.com/the-forge/**WANT TO GROW AN AGILE BUSINESS?Check out my new premium podcast – “The Badass Agile Entrepreneur”.https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/We’re also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me:https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgileCheck out the new online magazine about the future of agility:https://www.theagilehorizon.comLooking for your first Scrum Master job?  We help make the transition easier:https://www.agilesidekick.coFollow on CLUBHOUSE:https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agileDon’t forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews!https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/Follow The LinkedIn Page:https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile**Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game.Contact us (contact@badassagile.com) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

Each year, I like to do an annual forecast. What does 2023 have in store for agile professionals? Here are the trends you need to watch – and react to – this year: <ul><li>We’re getting polarized as a community – a sign that things aren’t in good shape</li><li>Increasing need for community building that does NOT Centre around framework and method</li><li>Business Agility continues to grow</li><li>Increasing need for people who can sell culture change to leadership</li><li>Shorter-scale projects to focus on completion, and continuity</li><li>Obviously handling the burst of AI tools that have started to gain attention</li></ul> JOIN THE FORGE*** Click here to discover more: <a href="https://badassagile.com/the-forge/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://badassagile.com/the-forge/</a>**WANT TO GROW AN AGILE BUSINESS?Check out my new premium podcast – “The Badass Agile Entrepreneur”.<a href="https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/</a>We’re also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile</a>Check out the new online magazine about the future of agility:<a href="https://www.theagilehorizon.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.theagilehorizon.com</a>Looking for your first Scrum Master job?  We help make the transition easier:<a href="https://www.agilesidekick.co" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.agilesidekick.co</a>Follow on CLUBHOUSE:<a href="https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agile</a>Don’t forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews!<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/</a>Follow The LinkedIn Page:<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile</a>**Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game.Contact us (<a href="mailto:contact@badassagile.com">contact@badassagile.com</a>) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

Episode 227 – 2023 – The Year Ahead

Agile teams are considered high-performing, so their survival depends on managing negative energy.   We’re often unaware when we leak negativity. As a defense mechanism, it operates without our awareness or permission.  But negativity has a toxic effect on teams – and you might not even know its happening.  Learn more about the sources of negative energy – and what you can do about it in this episode. ***JOIN THE FORGE*** Click here to discover more: https://badassagile.com/the-forge/ ****** ***WANT TO GROW AN AGILE BUSINESS?*** Check out my new premium podcast – “The Badass Agile Entrepreneur”. https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/ We’re also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me: https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile Check out the new online magazine about the future of agility: https://www.theagilehorizon.com Looking for your first Scrum Master job?  We help make the transition easier: https://www.agilesidekick.co ****** Follow on CLUBHOUSE: https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agile Don’t forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews! https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/ Follow The LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile ****** Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game. Contact us (contact@badassagile.com) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

Agile teams are considered high-performing, so their survival depends on managing negative energy. We’re often unaware when we leak negativity. As a defense mechanism, it operates without our awareness or permission. But negativity has a toxic effect on teams – and you might not even know its happening. Learn more about the sources of negative energy – and what you can do about it in this episode. ***JOIN THE FORGE*** Click here to discover more: <a href="https://badassagile.com/the-forge/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://badassagile.com/the-forge/</a> ****** ***WANT TO GROW AN AGILE BUSINESS?*** Check out my new premium podcast – “The Badass Agile Entrepreneur”. <a href="https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/</a> We’re also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile</a> Check out the new online magazine about the future of agility: <a href="https://www.theagilehorizon.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.theagilehorizon.com</a> Looking for your first Scrum Master job?  We help make the transition easier: <a href="https://www.agilesidekick.co" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.agilesidekick.co</a> ****** Follow on CLUBHOUSE: <a href="https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agile</a> Don’t forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews! <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/</a> Follow The LinkedIn Page: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile</a> ****** Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game. Contact us (<a href="mailto:contact@badassagile.com">contact@badassagile.com</a>) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

Episode 226 – Negative Energy Changes Outcomes

If you want to follow the agile or scrum manual or worship the rules, you can’t be an artist. An artist expresses their opinion, their creative contribution, or their vision with the tools of their medium.  By definition, your art must be an original.  Nobody else could make the exact same thing.  Artistry involves discovery, failure, and risk.  What you make might not work right away.  It might require sweat and continuous refinement.  It might force you to admit that you don’t know everything.  It might take you to unexplored and dangerous places. Doesn’t that sound like agile? Without these elements, you’re applying a recipe.  You’re blindly implementing best practices and rules.  There is no room to create something new that serves the distinct character of your team, your client, or their customer ***JOIN THE FORGE*** Click here to discover more: https://badassagile.com/the-forge/ ****** ***WANT TO GROW AN AGILE BUSINESS?*** Check out my new premium podcast – “The Badass Agile Entrepreneur”. https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/ We’re also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me: https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile Check out the new online magazine about the future of agility: https://www.theagilehorizon.com Looking for your first Scrum Master job?  We help make the transition easier: https://www.agilesidekick.co ****** Follow on CLUBHOUSE: https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agile Don’t forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews! https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/ Follow The LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile ****** Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game. Contact us (contact@badassagile.com) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

If you want to follow the agile or scrum manual or worship the rules, you can’t be an artist. An artist expresses their opinion, their creative contribution, or their vision with the tools of their medium. By definition, your art must be an original. Nobody else could make the exact same thing. Artistry involves discovery, failure, and risk. What you make might not work right away. It might require sweat and continuous refinement. It might force you to admit that you don’t know everything. It might take you to unexplored and dangerous places. Doesn’t that sound like agile? Without these elements, you’re applying a recipe. You’re blindly implementing best practices and rules. There is no room to create something new that serves the distinct character of your team, your client, or their customer ***JOIN THE FORGE***<a href="" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> Click here to discover more: <a href="https://badassagile.com/the-forge/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://badassagile.com/the-forge/</a> ****** ***WANT TO GROW AN AGILE BUSINESS?*** Check out my new premium podcast – “The Badass Agile Entrepreneur”. <a href="https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/</a> We’re also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile</a> Check out the new online magazine about the future of agility: <a href="https://www.theagilehorizon.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.theagilehorizon.com</a> Looking for your first Scrum Master job?  We help make the transition easier: <a href="https://www.agilesidekick.co" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.agilesidekick.co</a> ****** Follow on CLUBHOUSE: <a href="https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agile</a> Don’t forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews! <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/</a> Follow The LinkedIn Page: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile</a> ****** Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game. Contact us (<a href="mailto:contact@badassagile.com">contact@badassagile.com</a>) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

Episode 225 – Agile As Artistry

Agile Survival Agile survival depends on circulating value. You can’t stand still, surrounded by the same four walls, and expect to grow. A Bad Pattern We’ve gotten into a bad pattern in the past few decades.  If we’re not talking software, we don’t know how to serve our clients with agility.  Most CEO’s don’t know for sure what agile is – or what it can do for them when used beyond the technology sphere. You can apply Agile and Scrum anywhere you have a high-value and uncertain outcome.  We should be using our superpowers to help companies bring products and solutions “to the market” quicker.  That could be product, solutions, culture, revenue, or change. How You Can Help Remember, our universe is changing.  There are more and more scrum masters and coaches every year. If all of us are heading straight for the software team rooms, we’re going to oversaturate the market and lose our value.  Here’s where we can be helping to busines solve their MOST important problems.  For example: Remote work – how can you make this work for people who no longer want to work in centralized offices? Help companies experiment with new modes of working. Figure out the challenges and change the perceptions that remote work is bad/impossible Quiet Quitting And Great Resignation – people are quitting and they’re not being replaced.  This increases resource pressure and dissatisfaction on the people left behind – and then they quit too. Whoever solves tis problem first will recover from this unique challenge.  There’s no template – this has never been done before.  Innovation and creativity is required. Throwing Money at #2 – turns out that’s not what was needed.  We’ve filled a resource gap with resources that can’t/don’t want to work with passion and purpose.  Economic Instability – there has never been a better time to help companies react to unstable conditions. That could include bringing new products to market, pivoting, increasing customer value or loyalty, diversifying revenue streams, or simplifying existing processes or structures.  We can also be teaching new agile and scrum practitioners how to approach these opportunities. JOIN THE FORGE Sign up for an upcoming info session about our online leadership immersion experience. JOIN THE FORGE Sign up for an upcoming info session about our online leadership immersion experience. https://event.webinarjam.com/register/15/l71zgcl Or click here to discover more: https://badassagile.com/the-forge/ ****** ***WANT TO GROW AN AGILE BUSINESS?*** Check out my new premium podcast – “The Badass Agile Entrepreneur”. https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/ We’re also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me: https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile Check out the new online magazine about the future of agility: https://www.theagilehorizon.com Looking for your first Scrum Master job?  We help make the transition easier: https://www.agilesidekick.co ****** Follow on CLUBHOUSE: https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agile Don’t forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews! https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/ Follow The LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile ****** www.badassagile.com Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game. Contact us (contact@badassagile.com) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

Agile Survival Agile survival depends on circulating value. You can’t stand still, surrounded by the same four walls, and expect to grow. A Bad Pattern We’ve gotten into a bad pattern in the past few decades. If we’re not talking software, we don’t know how to serve our clients with agility. Most CEO’s don’t know for sure what agile is – or what it can do for them when used beyond the technology sphere. You can apply Agile and Scrum anywhere you have a high-value and uncertain outcome. We should be using our superpowers to help companies bring products and solutions “to the market” quicker. That could be product, solutions, culture, revenue, or change. How You Can Help Remember, our universe is changing. There are more and more scrum masters and coaches every year. If all of us are heading straight for the software team rooms, we’re going to oversaturate the market and lose our value. Here’s where we can be helping to busines solve their MOST important problems. For example: <ol><li>Remote work – how can you make this work for people who no longer want to work in centralized offices? Help companies experiment with new modes of working. Figure out the challenges and change the perceptions that remote work is bad/impossible</li> <li>Quiet Quitting And Great Resignation – people are quitting and they’re not being replaced. This increases resource pressure and dissatisfaction on the people left behind – and then they quit too. Whoever solves tis problem first will recover from this unique challenge. There’s no template – this has never been done before. Innovation and creativity is required.</li> <li>Throwing Money at #2 – turns out that’s not what was needed. We’ve filled a resource gap with resources that can’t/don’t want to work with passion and purpose. </li> <li>Economic Instability – there has never been a better time to help companies react to unstable conditions. That could include bringing new products to market, pivoting, increasing customer value or loyalty, diversifying revenue streams, or simplifying existing processes or structures. We can also be teaching new agile and scrum practitioners how to approach these opportunities.</li> </ol>JOIN THE FORGE Sign up for an upcoming info session about our online leadership immersion experience. JOIN THE FORGE Sign up for an upcoming info session about our online leadership immersion experience. <a href="https://event.webinarjam.com/register/15/l71zgcl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://event.webinarjam.com/register/15/l71zgcl</a> Or click here to discover more: <a href="https://badassagile.com/the-forge/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://badassagile.com/the-forge/</a> ****** ***WANT TO GROW AN AGILE BUSINESS?*** Check out my new premium podcast – “The Badass Agile Entrepreneur”. <a href="https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/</a> We’re also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile</a> Check out the new online magazine about the future of agility: <a href="https://www.theagilehorizon.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.theagilehorizon.com</a> Looking for your first Scrum Master job?  We help make the transition easier: <a href="https://www.agilesidekick.co" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.agilesidekick.co</a> ****** Follow on CLUBHOUSE: <a href="https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agile</a> Don’t forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews! <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/</a> Follow The LinkedIn Page: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile</a> ****** <a href="https://badassagile.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.badassagile.com</a> Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game. Contact us (<a href="mailto:contact@badassagile.com">contact@badassagile.com</a>) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

Episode 224 – Circulate Value – The Agile Survival Skill

Agile Certification is a for-profit product. Can it be an effective way to become a better Agile Leader? Education is a way to develop skills and learn concepts quickly.  Modern education, and industry certifications are designed to ensure predictable outcomes from regular employees. While Agile Certifications can be a great way for a beginner to ramp up quickly, they are NOT the best way to develop Agile Leadership skill. We are not trying to be doctors or lawyers. Life, death, or freedom do not depend on what we do as Agile practitioners. A computer-based quiz and a paper certification is not a testament to our effectiveness in our role. Leaders don't graduate.  They arise. The best way to develop your skill is to immerse yourself in a team.  Lead when called for, and be content to follow too.  Focus on becoming visionary.  Develop your discipline.  Learn to focus and commit.  Learn to persist in the face of challenge. In the face of your own shortcomings. Find mentors and walk toward mastery.  This is the most effective path. You can use Agile Certification to complement the journey, but it can never be a replacement. JOIN THE FORGE Sign up for an upcoming info session about our online leadership immersion experience. https://event.webinarjam.com/register/15/l71zgcl Or click here to discover more: https://badassagile.com/the-forge/ WANT TO GROW AN AGILE BUSINESS? Check out my new premium podcast - "The Badass Agile Entrepreneur". https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/ We're also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me: https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile Check out the new online magazine about the future of agility: https://www.theagilehorizon.com Looking for your first Scrum Master job?  We help make the transition easier: https://www.agilesidekick.co Follow on CLUBHOUSE: https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agile Don't forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews! https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/ Follow The LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game. Contact us (contact@badassagile.com) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

Agile Certification is a for-profit product. Can it be an effective way to become a better Agile Leader? Education is a way to develop skills and learn concepts quickly. Modern education, and industry certifications are designed to ensure predictable outcomes from regular employees. While Agile Certifications can be a great way for a beginner to ramp up quickly, they are NOT the best way to develop Agile Leadership skill. We are not trying to be doctors or lawyers. Life, death, or freedom do not depend on what we do as Agile practitioners. A computer-based quiz and a paper certification is not a testament to our effectiveness in our role. Leaders don't graduate. They arise. The best way to develop your skill is to immerse yourself in a team. Lead when called for, and be content to follow too. Focus on becoming visionary. Develop your discipline. Learn to focus and commit. Learn to persist in the face of challenge. In the face of your own shortcomings. Find mentors and walk toward mastery. This is the most effective path. You can use Agile Certification to complement the journey, but it can never be a replacement. JOIN THE FORGE Sign up for an upcoming info session about our online leadership immersion experience. <a href="https://event.webinarjam.com/register/15/l71zgcl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://event.webinarjam.com/register/15/l71zgcl</a> Or click here to discover more: <a href="https://badassagile.com/the-forge/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://badassagile.com/the-forge/</a> WANT TO GROW AN AGILE BUSINESS? Check out my new premium podcast - "The Badass Agile Entrepreneur". <a href="https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/</a> We're also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile</a> Check out the new online magazine about the future of agility: <a href="https://www.theagilehorizon.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.theagilehorizon.com</a> Looking for your first Scrum Master job?  We help make the transition easier: <a href="https://www.agilesidekick.co" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.agilesidekick.co</a> Follow on CLUBHOUSE: <a href="https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agile</a> Don't forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews! <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/</a> Follow The LinkedIn Page: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile</a> Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game. Contact us (contact@badassagile.com) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.

Badass Unscripted – Uncommon Agile Leadership Without Certification

[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text] You cannot ascend if your beliefs, routines thoughts, experiences and emotions are limited to your present circumstances and reality. Think and feel bigger than your environment. JOIN THE FORGE Sign up for an upcoming info session about our online leadership immersion experience. https://event.webinarjam.com/register/15/l71zgcl Or click here to discover more: https://badassagile.com/the-forge/ WANT TO GROW AN AGILE BUSINESS? Check out my new premium podcast - "The Badass Agile Entrepreneur". https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/ We're also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me: https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile Check out the new online magazine about the future of agility: https://www.theagilehorizon.com Looking for your first Scrum Master job?  We help make the transition easier: https://www.agilesidekick.co Follow on CLUBHOUSE: https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agile Don't forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews! https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/ Follow The LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game. Contact us (contact@badassagile.com) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content. [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]

[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text] You cannot ascend if your beliefs, routines thoughts, experiences and emotions are limited to your present circumstances and reality. Think and feel bigger than your environment. JOIN THE FORGE Sign up for an upcoming info session about our online leadership immersion experience. <a href="https://event.webinarjam.com/register/15/l71zgcl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://event.webinarjam.com/register/15/l71zgcl</a> Or click here to discover more: <a href="https://badassagile.com/the-forge/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://badassagile.com/the-forge/</a> WANT TO GROW AN AGILE BUSINESS? Check out my new premium podcast - "The Badass Agile Entrepreneur". <a href="https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://learning.fusechamber.com/#podcast/</a> We're also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgile</a> Check out the new online magazine about the future of agility: <a href="https://www.theagilehorizon.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.theagilehorizon.com</a> Looking for your first Scrum Master job?  We help make the transition easier: <a href="https://www.agilesidekick.co" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.agilesidekick.co</a> Follow on CLUBHOUSE: <a href="https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/badass-agile</a> Don't forget to join us in the Badass Agile Listener Lounge on Facebook for member exclusives, livestreams and previews! <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/badasslistenerlounge/</a> Follow The LinkedIn Page: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile</a> Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game. Contact us (contact@badassagile.com) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content. [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]

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