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#187: A Quick Summer Update and a Look at What's Ahead with Brian Milner

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#186: Why Teams Stop Caring About Retrospectives with Cort Sharp

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#185: The Real ROI of Agile with Scott Dunn

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#184: Scrum in High-Stakes Environments with John Holmes

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#183: How AI Is Reshaping Product Ownership with Lance Dacy

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#182: Never Stop Experimenting with Stavros Stavru

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#181: How to Start Agile Without Overengineering It with Cort Sharp

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#180: Why Velocity Is the Wrong Metric for Leadership with Scott Dunn

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#179: Leadership Decisions That Quietly Derail Agile with Mike Cohn

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#178: How AI Is Actually Changing Software Teams with Hunter Hillegas

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#177: The 5 Habits of High Learning Teams with Lance Dacy

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#176: Why Most Product Organizations Struggle with Jason Knight

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#175: When AI Makes Agile Teams Worse with Hunter Hillegas

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#174: Why Estimating Still Matters with Mike Cohn

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#173: Hiring for Agile Roles That Actually Work with Cort Sharp

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#172: The Five Pillars of Agile Transformation with Mike Cohn

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#171: Why Agile Teams Succeed—or Don’t with Colin Fisher

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#170: Leadership Lessons from the Marine Corps with Tanner Wortham

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#169: Building Practical AI for Agile Teams with Hunter Hillegas

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#168: Gratitude, Growth, and the Power to Evolve with Brian Milner

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#167: Running Better Remote Meetings with Evan Unger

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#166: AI Isn’t Coming for Your Job, But It Is Joining Your Team with Dr. Michael Housman

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#165: Can Your Product Process Keep Up With AI with Cort Sharp

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#164: Why Innovation Efforts Fall Flat with Tendayi Viki

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#163: Should We Go Back to the Office? It Depends. with Lance Dacy

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#162: Focus, Flow, Cold Coffee, and the ADHD Developer with Paige Watson

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#161: Test-Driven Development in the Age of AI with Clare Sudbery

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#160: The Real Work of a Scrum Master with Brian Campbell

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#159: Is Scrum Really Too Many Meetings? with Lance Dacy

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#158: Should You Skip the Sprint Retrospective? with Mike Cohn

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#157: What Teams Are Struggling With Right Now with Cort Sharp

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#156: Making Product Ownership Work in Shared Services with Kert Peterson

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#155: Preparing for Interviews the Agile Way with Tali Shlafer

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#154: The Underpowered PO with Barnaby Golden

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#153: Getting Real Buy-In for Agile Transformation with Scott Dunn

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#152: The Five Pillars of Real Agile Improvement with Mike Cohn

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Pressing Pause: A Summer Break and What’s Coming Next

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#151: What AI Is Really Delivering (and What It’s Not) with Evan Leybourn & Christopher Morales

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#150: What “1 Billion” Scrum Classes Taught Us About Team Culture (and Captain America) with Cort Sharp & Laura Kendrick

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#149: How Agile Action Drives Strategy with Boris Gloger

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#148: What It Really Takes to Lead Change That Sticks with Sherri Robbins

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#147: The Power of Quiet Influence with Casey Sinnema

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#146: Agile Leadership That Actually Works with Brendan Wovchko

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#145: How to Lead Without Burning Out (or Burning Bridges) with Ginger Boyll

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#144: How Modern Agile Teams Predict the Unpredictable with Lance Dacy

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#143: What Still Makes Teams Work (and Win) with Jim York

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#142: Communication Patterns Keeping Your Team Stuck with Marsha Acker

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#141: Cooking Up a Killer Retrospective with Brian Milner

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#140: The Power of Emotional Delight in Product Design with Dr. Nesrine Changuel

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#139: The Retrospective Reset with Cort Sharp

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#138: The Bad Meeting Hangover with Julie Chickering

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#137: Stop Wasting Time with Guests Kate Megaw

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#136: The Future of Agile Coaching with Andreas Schliep

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#135: Leading Without Authority with Pete Behrens

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#134: How Leaders Can Reduce Burnout and Boost Performance with Marcus Lagré

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#133: Trending Agile: Scrum Masters, AI, and the Future of Agile

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#132: Can Nice Guys Finish First? with Scott Dunn

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#131: Lessons from Modern Agile with Joshua Kerievsky

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#130: Be the Change: How to Drive Impact Without Authority with April K. Mills

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#129: 2025: The Year Agile Meets AI and Hyper-Personalization with Lance Dacy

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#128: Top Lessons from 2024’s Most Inspiring Episodes with Brian Miner

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#127: Agile Strategies for Job Market Uncertainty with Mark Kilby

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#126: Mastering the Scrum Master Role with Gary K. Evans

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#125: Embracing Gratitude in Challenging Times with Brian Milner

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#124: How to Avoid Common Product Team Pitfalls with David Pereira

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#123: Unlocking Team Intelligence with Linda Rising

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#122: Empowering Diversity with Nosa Oyegun & Louria Lindauer

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#121: Busting the Biggest Myths About Agile Tools with Steve Spearman

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#120: Agile in Gaming with Clinton Keith

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#119: Conferences, Connections, and Community with Chris Murman

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#118: The Secrets to Agile Success with Mike Cohn

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#117: How AI and Automation Are Redefining Success for Developers with Lance Dacy

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#116: Turning Weird User Actions into Big Wins with Gojko Adzic

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#115: Aligning Leadership for Success with Dr. Tess Thompson

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#114: Is Agile Dead? with Scott Dunn

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#113: Influence Without Authority with Christopher DiBella

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#112: Exploring Collaboration Styles with Jessica Guistolise

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#111: Adapting to the Future of Work with Heather McGowan

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#110: Overcoming Organizational Dysfunctions with Lucy O’Keefe

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#109: Leadership and Culture in DevOps with Claire Clark

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#108: Adaptive Organizations with Ken Rickard

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#107: Transforming Organizational Mindsets with Bernie Maloney

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#106: Innovating Through Economic Downturns with John Barratt

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#105: Scrum Conferences & Neurodiversity with Brian Milner

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#104: Mastering Product Ownership with Mike Cohn

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#103: Developer Relations and SQLMesh with Marisa Smith

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#102: Communicating Agile Transformations with McCaul Baggett

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#101: Fostering Sustainable Change with Leor Herzfeld

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#100: Navigating the Future of Agile and Scrum with Lance Dacy & Scott Dunn

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#99: AI & Agile Learning with Hunter Hillegas

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#98: Coaching the Coaches with Vinnie Gill

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#97: Exploring Liquid Agility with Arlen Bankston

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#96: Mastering Asynchronous Work with Sumeet Moghe

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#95: Navigating Change with Precision with Steve Martin

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#94: Connecting Teams and Leadership with Anthony Coppedge

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#93: The Rise of Human Skills and Agile Acumen with Evan Leybourn

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#92: Navigating Scrum Anti-Patterns with Stefan Wolpers

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#91: Revolutionizing HR with Pia-Maria Thorén

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#90: Mastering Agile Coaching with Cherie Silas

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#89: Transformational One-on-Ones with Avipaul Bhandari