We talked about:

• Politics invading agile?
• Word police
• Leaving the Agile movement
• Cost centers that are set up to fail
• Canada’s failed Phoenix payroll system
• Robert Moses and Scientific Management: Thinkers vs Doers

If you are familiar with Scrum.org, you know of the highly qualified Professional Scrum Trainers (PSTs) who go through a rigorous process to take their real world Scrum experience to Scrum.org students.

In this podcast series, Scrum.org CEO Dave West interviews Professional Scrum Trainers about their experiences that led to their becoming a PST and exploring what Professional Scrum means to them.

In this episode, I chat with Dave West and discuss my journey to becoming a PST.

I am honoured to be a Professional Scrum Trainer with Scrum.org and an expert contributor of the podcast. Scrum.org’s ask me anything series is among my favourites.

Scrum is a simple framework for effective team collaboration on complex products. While it is lightweight and simple to understand, it can be difficult to apply effectively. The Scrum.org Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer series features Professional Scrum Trainers (PSTs) in a live session, answering your most pressing questions regarding the challenges and situations your Scrum Teams are facing.

I am honoured to be a guest on Le Sprinkler with Eric Laramée and Mathieu Lafond.

Eric and Mathieu were podcasting directly from Agile Tour Montréal, interviewing speakers and live-Tweeting throughout the day. We recording this “mini” episode of Le Sprinkler and discussed the messy business of Agile at scale.

In this Scrum Pulse webinar, I examine self-organization (in team settings) and explore examples of self-organization in the workplace.

My premise is simple: teams are self-organizing. I assert that is not a statement of preference or intention; rather, it is a statement of objective fact.

Scrum is among a very small number of frameworks which acknowledge that self-organization is natural. Scrum asserts that the quality of decisions increase when stakeholders collaborate with and trust the wisdom of their teams. The opposite is also true: Scrum’s design implies that common misbehaviors of managers (intervention, command & control) have costly consequences.

This webinar helps you learn strategies to better manage the work environment to support Scrum Teams and enable successful self-organization.

I joined host, Vasco Duarte, for a series of 5 discussions about Scrum in the trenches.

We covered topics like culture, retrospectives, the Scrum Master role, large Agile adoption, and self-organization.

Vasco is the author of #NoEstimates and the very popular Scrum Master Toolbox. It was an honour to be his guest.

BeTheTalk is a daily podcast where Nathan Eckel chats with talkers from TEDx & branded events. I was a guest on Nathan’s show to discuss my 2012 TEDx talk.

• [1:50] – My 2012 talk at TEDxFortMcMurray in a nutshell.
• [4:23] – Empowering teachers.
• [08:49] – What can the parents or the community do to support and be a force for a positive change?
• [10:15] – The Blitz Round.
• [14:49] – Final word of advice.