All Episodes
Badass Agile — 505 episodes
The Shift – Opportunity Is Everywhere
The Forge, Forge, Forge Lightning and Forge Genesis
AI Agile Hype Creates a Leadership Trap
The 1 Thing Agile Coaches MUST Do More Of
Agile In 2026 – The 4 Pillars of Leadership
Government Agility with Kevin Sutherland
The Real AI Opportunity
Adam Smith of Tension – Navigating AI Disruption and Leading The Unknown
Create A Movement With Your Voice
Badass Agile Leaders – This Is Your Call To Lead The Pack
Why You MUST Stand For Something
How To Switch to Leveraging Agile
You Are The Certainty We Need Right Now
Outcomes, Not Outputs – How To Resurrect Agile
The 2026 18th State Of Agile Report
Resisting Accountability Won’t Help Agile
Win Executive Support by Marketing Your Agile POV
Will AI Save Agile?
Badass Leadership – Emotional Control
Foundation BTS: Agile Principles for Business Success
The 6 Agile Principles We Abuse
Agile Coaching – More Is Not Better
Sameness Strikes Again
Wasting Your Gift on Big Corporate Agile
Career Freedom with Forge Genesis
Better Meetings With Dave Borzillo
Non-Conformity is the Key To Your Agile Future
No Longer The Hero
You Are A Creator
Why We Do It (Freedom)
Employee Mindset
3 Skills To Secure Your Agile Future
Agile Changed My Life
How To Revive Agile (And Your Career)
Reinvention – Why Now Is The Perfect Moment
The Forge Experience: Alumni Insights and Successes
Agile Delivery Challenges – Circulation Is The Key
The Future of Badass Agile?
Intentional Design with Adam Smith of Tension
We’re Not Listening To The Business
The Biology of Leadership with Carl Oxholm
Lead On Your Own Terms
Going Against The Grain
3 Signs You’re Addicted to Process
Why Are We Afraid Of The Word “Do”?
State of Agile Report 2024 Review
The Year Of The Agile Entrepreneur
Do We Have A Social Duty?
Badass Unscripted – 7 Must-Learn Skills for 2024
We Failed Agile
Where Will Agile Go In 2024?
Corporate Agile
Episode 243 – Your Practice
Episode 242 – Agile and Social Media
Episode 241 – Why Nobody Wants Your Agile
Episode 240 – Why Big Agile Fails
Badass Unscripted – Make Sure Your Training Does This
Episode 239 – Is Agile Going Down?
Episode 238 – Why I Quit The Agile Biz
Episode 237 – Agile Players Have a Duty
Episode 236 – Agile vs. Traditional Project Management: Is Agile Losing Favour?
Episode 235 – Agile Is A Doorway
Episode 234 – Opportunity
Episode 233 – The New Leadership
Episode 232 – The War Online
Episode 231 – What A Great Coach Does
Episode 230 – The Difference-Makers
Episode 229 – Why Sameness Is Not A Strategy
Badass Conversations – People and Culture in 2023 with Sofia Theodorou and Carl Oxholm
Badass Unfiltered – Strength And Ambition
Episode 228 – Agile Has Lost The Script
Episode 227 – 2023 – The Year Ahead
Episode 226 – Negative Energy Changes Outcomes
Episode 225 – Agile As Artistry
Episode 224 – Circulate Value – The Agile Survival Skill
Badass Unscripted – Uncommon Agile Leadership Without Certification
Badass Unscripted – Seeing Beyond Your Limiting Beliefs
Episode 223 – Time To Act
Badass Unfiltered – Why Hope Begins With The Agile Leader
Badass Unscripted – Don’t Quiet Quit…Do THIS Instead
Episode 222 – Why Strength Still Matters
Episode 221 – Quiet Quitting
Badass Unscripted – The Forge – The “Holy $&#! Who Was That?” School
Episode 220 – How To Keep Yourself Accountable
Badass Unscripted – Don’t Stay Stuck…Do This
Episode 219 – Don’t Waste Time On This
Episode 218 – These Unseen Beliefs Are Holding Your Team Back
Badass Unfiltered – Stop Spinning And Start Taking Control
Episode 217 – How A Simple Shift Will Multiply Your Results
Episode 216 – How To Have More Creativity In Your Agile Practice
Episode 215 – How To Unstick Stuck Teams
Badass Unfiltered – Why You’re Not Growing – Lack of Originality
Episode 214 – Why Leadership Isn’t A Thing
Episode 213 – Why Agile Isn’t A Thing
Agile Success Is a Matter of Will, Not Skill
Episode 212 – The Agile Entrepreneur
Episode 211 – How Five Questions Can Accelerate Your Growth
Badass Unscripted – Never Bow To Fashion
Episode 210 – The Rise of The Agile Company
Badass Unscripted – Meet Yourself
Episode 209 – Knowledge
Badass Unscripted – Our Old Friend Certainty
Episode 208 – Rigidity
Check Out The Agile Horizon
Announcement – The Forge Professional
Badass Unscripted – Are We Too Nice?
Episode 207 – Still Struggling After 20 Years
Episode 206 – Agile Success
Badass Unscripted – Be Original
Episode 205 – Agile Mind
Badass Unscripted – Agile Must Be Formless
Episode 204 – No Competition
Episode 203 – The Year Ahead
Badass Unfiltered – What Are We Accountable For?
Episode 202 – The World Will Respond To Your Courage
Episode 201 – Comfortable? Then You’re Not Growing!
Episode 200 – The Most Important Lessons
Badass Unscripted – Seek Truth, No Matter The Source
Badass Unfiltered – You Have to Scale “Mattering”
Episode 199 – Should We Eliminate Commitment?
Badass Unscripted – What You Avoid Will Find You
Episode 198 – Failure To Execute
Episode 197 – The Great Resignation
Badass Unfiltered – Strength
Episode 196 – Stay Hungry
Episode 195 – The Three Things That Destroy Agile Effectiveness
Badass Unscripted – A Great Coach Keeps Watch
Badass Unfiltered – The Hero’s Arc
Episode 194 – Do, Practice, Rehearse
Badass Unscripted – Why You Need To Work On Your Shadow
Badass Unfiltered – Fences
Episode 193 – Welcome Changing Requirements
Badass Unscripted – How To See
Episode 192 – Come With Me
Badass Unscripted – More Output Than Anyone
Episode 191 – Principle 1 – Do We Prioritize The Customer?
Badass Unscripted – How To Change Culture
Episode 190 – The Boldest Thing You Can Do
Badass Unscripted – Solve Their Biggest Problem
Episode 189 – The Best Source of Customer Value
Badass Unscripted – Cameras Off
Episode 187 – Paint With The Big Brushes
Episode 188 – Patience and Persistence
Badass Unscripted – Distractions
Episode 186 – Own Your Time
Agile In Toronto At Night – Adam Smith
Badass Unscripted – Overdeliver
Episode 185 – The Best Questions
Episode 184 – How Much Does Uncertainty Cost You?
Badass Unscripted – Stretch Goals
Episode 183 – Creating The Best Companies To Work For
Badass Unscripted – The Truth About Badasses
EP 182 – What Will You Bring
Badass Unscripted – Measuring The Wrong Things
Episode 181 – An All-Too-Common Story Arc
Badass Unscripted – Handling Your Inner Critic
Episode 180 – Failure of Courage In Action
Badass Unscripted – It’s Still About Profit And Speed
Episode 179 – Find Passion, Push Harder
Badass Unscripted – Run From Popular Opinion
Episode 178 – Balanced Leadership
Episode 177 – 5 Ways To Think Bigger
Episode 176 – How To Have Strong Ideas
Episode 175 – Outgrow
Badass Unscripted – Choose Scary
Episode 174 – Monitor Your Inputs
Badass Unscripted – Speaking To Your Fears
Episode 173 – No Quick Fixes
Special Episode – The Future of The Scrum Master with Vasco Duarte
Badass Conversations – Johanna Rothman – Author, Speaker and Consultant
Badass Unscripted – Positivity
Episode 172 – Commitment Culture
Badass Unscripted – The Unscripted Life
Episode 171 – Self Study
Episode 170 – Serve Change, or Clients?
Episode 169 – Your Old Backlog
Episode 168 – The 13 Qualities Of A Badass Leader (Revisited)
Badass Unscripted – Too Smart For Your Own Good
Episode 167 – Talking To Big Shots
Badass Unscripted – Re-learning
Episode 166 – On Documentation
Episode 165 – The Cause of Obscurity
Badass Unscripted – Kicking off 2021 with Momentum
Episode 164 – Finding The Leaks
Badass Unscripted – The Turning Of A Year
Episode 163 – Is Creativity a Prerequisite to Agility
Special Episode – Vasco Duarte, Ryan Ripley, and Chris Williams
Badass Unscripted – Learn From Agile
Episode 162 – Agile Means Freedom
Badass Unscripted – Keep Your Works Silent
Episode 161 – Living The Values
Badass Unscripted – Letting Yourself Off the Hook
Episode 160 – Fireside Chat – Nobody Owns Agile
Badass Unscripted – Add Value
Episode 159 – Be Someone Who Gets It
Badass Unscripted – Stay Curious
Episode 158 – Slowly Over Time
Badass Unscripted – Necessity Engineering
Episode 157 – Your True Fans
Badass Unscripted – Talking About Excellence
Episode 156 – Trends
Agile In Toronto At Night #11 – Sue Johnston, Communication Specialist
Episode 155 – Coaching Is Teaching
Badass Unscripted – Protect Your Attention
Episode 154 – Not Just For IT
Agile In Toronto At Night #10 – Catarina Von Maydell, Facilitating Transformation
Episode 153 – On Solutions
Badass Unscripted – Planning vs. Preparation
Episode 152 – The Psychology Of “Done”
Agile In Toronto At Night #9 – Gino Marckx, Transformation Consultant
Episode 151 – What’s Next?
Badass Unscripted – Finding Perfect Flow
Episode 150 – Truth Doesn’t Come From Thought
Agile In Toronto At Night #8 – Daria Bagina, Agile Coach and Professional Scrum Trainer
Episode 149 – What Agile Has Done For Me
Episode 148 – By The Book
Badass Unscripted – Lowest Common Denominator
Episode 147 – The Echo Chamber
Agile In Toronto At Night #7 – Agile Coach Wayne Hetherington
Episode 146 – Complexity Is A Choice
Episode 145 – What About Victory?
Badass Unscripted – Break Rules
Episode 144 – Become an Agile Badass
Agile In Toronto At Night #6 – David Dame
Episode 143 – The Ultimate Agile Mindset
Badass Unscripted – If You Don’t Have A Tribe
Agile In Toronto At Night #5 Diane Dale
Badass Conversations – David Rutherford, ex-Navy SEAL, Author and Speaker
Badass Unscripted – Patterns and Autopilot?
Episode 142 – Why Demo?
Agile In Toronto At Night #4 – Oyinkan Sanni, Enterprise Agile Coach
Episode 141 – Uncommon
Episode 140 – Your Agile Career
Agile In Toronto At Night #3 – Shahin Sheidaei – Elevate Change
Episode 139 – Your Decisions
Badass Unscripted – Remain A Beginner
Episode 138 – Live By Your Code
Agile In Toronto At Night #2 – Trish Lynch of AgileTO
Episode 137 – Time For A Different Manifesto
Badass Unscripted – Check In On Your Vision
Episode 136 – Leaders Don’t Need Scripts
Episode 135 – Your Uncommon Edge
NEW!! Agile in Toronto At Night #1 – Jason Little, Author of Lean Change Management
Badass Unscripted – Your Uncommon Edge
Episode 134 – What Persistent Blockers Really Tell You
Badass Unscripted – What Could You Let Go Of?
Tap Into Your Creativity With Daily Journalling
Badass Unscripted – Mastering Yourself
Episode 132 – Agile As The New Way Of Working
Badass Unscripted – Your Reaction Teaches Them Everything
Episode 131 – Opposites in Agile
Badass Unscripted – Uncommon Does Not Mean Overdoing
Episode 130 – Management Destroys Trust
Episode 129 – A Small Shift to Become More Cross Functional
Badass Unscripted – Don’t Ask Me To Lower The Bar
Badass Unscripted – If There Was A Formula, We’d All Be Using It
Badass Unscripted – Discomfort Is Where The Growth Is
Episode 128 – The Best Way To Handle Lessons Learned
Badass Unscripted – COVID19 – What Happens Next Is Yours To Lead
Badass Unscripted – Embody True Certainty
Episode 127 – Mastering Your Craft – Where Leaders Must Focus
Badass Unscripted – Lead Without Imposing Your Will
Episode 126 – Does Agile Need Rules?
Badass Unscripted – Be Relentless With Waste
Episode 125 – Whining And Complaining
Badass Unscripted – Absence Allows Leaders To Emerge
Badass Conversations – Navy SEAL (Ret.) Mark Divine on The 7 Commitments That Forge Elite Teams
Badass Unscripted – How To Get Practice Building Great Teams
Badass Unscripted – Living with Your Limiters On
Episode 124 – Balanced Learning
Episode 123 – Return to Simplicity – Here’s How
Badass Unscripted – Not Ready For Change
Episode 122 – Do You Struggle With Consistency?
Badass Unscripted – Dealing With Low Uptake Rates
Episode 121 – Want To Be More Creative? Do These Three Things
Badass Unscripted – ….It Won’t Make You Faster
Episode 120 – Leveraging Lessons Learned
Episode 119 – Vision Check
Badass Unscripted – Business Value Statements
Episode 118 – How To Improve Accountability
Badass Unscripted – Too Many Questions
Episode 117 – 4 Mindsets That Amp Up Your Coaching Skills
Badass Unscripted – The Stories You Tell Yourself
Badass Answers – How To Stand Out In a Sea of Scrum Masters
Badass Unscripted – Agile Secret Sauce – Teams
Badass Unscripted – Knowledgeable, or Effective?
Episode 116 – 5 Tips For Better Coaching
Badass Unscripted – Authenticity, Originality, and The Year Ahead
Episode 115 – Move (And Never Swim Alone)
Badass Unscripted – Agile As Non-Event
Badass Conversations – Get Burly And Build an Elite Team With Michael Caron
Badass Unscripted – Trophies For Everyone?
Episode 114 – Simplicity
Badass Unscripted – What Happens When You Act With Courage
Episode 113 – Starting From Zero – How Agile Teams Evolve
Badass Unscripted – Tips to Build A Badass Resume
Badass Answers – How Do You Find Your Vision And Purpose?
Badass Unscripted – How To Have A Coaching Mindset
Episode 112 – How To Set The Bar High
Badass Unscripted – On “Cheaper”
**Announcement** – The Badass Agile Netherlands Chapter
Episode 111 – How To Train Integrity
Badass Unscripted – Multi-Project Teams
Episode 110 – Making Work Visible
Badass Unscripted – Silver Linings
Episode 109 – Dealing With Changes
Badass Answers – Capacity and Theme Song
Badass Unscripted – 3 Components Of Influence
Badass Unscripted – Two Kinds Of People
Episode 108 – The Grooming Habit
Badass Unscripted – Getting Good At Mayhem
Episode 107 – 4 Reasons Why We Still Need Captains
Badass Unscripted – 100% is Waste
Episode 106 – Business Agility – Placing Small Bets
Badass Unscripted – Making Agile Teams vs. Making Teams Agile
Episode 105 – Reclaiming The Badass
Badass Unscripted – Authenticity
Episode 104 – Nailing the Interview for Scrum Master or Coach
Badass Unscripted – Butthurt Revisited
Episode 103 – Herds Versus Heroes
Badass Unscripted – When Org Values Don’t Match Agile Values
Epiosde 102 – Rails
Episode 101 – Iron Sharpens Iron
Badass Unscripted – Stretch
Episode 100 – A Retrospective On Badass Agile
Badass Conversations – Ardita Karaj Part II – Frameworkless Transformations
Badass Conversations – Ardita Karaj Part I – Frameworkless Transformations
Badass Unscripted – How To Break A Slump
Badass Answers – Regulators, and New Scrum Masters
Badass Unscripted – Beliefs and Actions
Badass Unscripted – Do Scary Things
Episode 99 – Agile Evangelism
Badass Unscripted – Transformation – Speed or Consistency?
Badass Answers – Coaching 1:1; Using Gantt Charts
Badass Unscripted – Leap
Episode 98 – Sharing Lessons Learned
Badass Unscripted – The Courage Habit
Badass Unscripted – Be Graceful
Episode 97 – Small Business Agile
Badass Unscripted – What Would Dirty Harry Do
Episode 96 – Why I’m So Over Agile
Badass Ideas – Talks from the Agile and Beyond Speaker’s Lounge
Badass Unscripted – Why Your Organization Can’t Compete
Badass Unscripted – Agile Is Not For Everyone
Badass Conversations – Jeff Dalton, Agile CxO
Badass Unscripted – Badass Time Management
Badass Conversations – Emotional Intelligence with Carl Oxholm, PwC
Badass Unscripted – Find A Way Or Make A Way
Badass Conversations – Matt Comand, Performance Coach
Badass Unscripted – Agile Must Evolve
Badass Unscripted – Journalling
Episode 95 – The Language Innovators Use
Badass Unscripted – Have Lots Of Lines
Episode 94 – Delighting Customers
Badass Unscripted – Mindfulness
Badass Unscripted – Survival
Episode 93 – Your Reasons
Episode 92 – Fear, And Failure To Commit
Badass Unscripted – If It Doesn’t Challenge You, It Won’t Change You
Badass Unscripted – Leverage
Episode 91 – Redefining Business Agility
Badass Unscripted – No Longer A Choice
Episode 90 – Essential Qualities Of An Agile Leader
Badass Answers – Lunch Meetings
Episode 89 – Listening
Badass Answers – Connecting With New Teams
Badass Unscripted – Thanks, Texas
Badass Unscripted – Too Much of The Wrong Thing
Episode 88 – Working Around Fear
Badass Answers – Keeping Procrastinators on the Rails and Being vs. Doing Agile
Badass Unscripted – Your One Thing
Episode 87 – Fear of Failure
Badass Answers – Timelines and Predictions
Badass Unscripted – Estimation
Badass Unscripted – Coaching Vision
Badass Unscripted – Shutting Off Messenger
Badass Conversations – Scott McCarthy of Moving Forward Leadership
Badass Answers – How To Master Public Speaking
Favourite Podcasts – Moving Forward Leadership
Episode 85 – The Innovation Inhibitor
Badass Unscripted – Ego
Episode 84 – The Different Types of Fear You’ll Meet
Badass Unscripted – Favourite Podcasts – Agile Chuckwagon
What Is Agile?
Badass Unscripted – All 1-Hour Meetings Must Die
Episode 83 – The Source Of All Leadership
Episode 82 – Agile Takes Time
Badass Unscripted – Focus Styles
Episode 81 – Planning For The Next 365
Episode 80 – On Getting Butt Hurt
Episode 79 – What Service Buys You
Badass Unscripted – Agile or Not?
Badass Unscripted – Expanding Your Edges
Episode 78 – The Real Value of Done Things
Episode 77 – Order Versus Overhead
Badass Unscripted – Total Accountability
Episode 76 – Doing The Hard Things
Badass Unscripted – Agile Is What You Strip Away
Badass Unscripted – Fundamentals
Episode 75 – Learning From Conferences
Badass Unscripted – DONE Things, Not ING Things
Badass Unscripted – Finding Your Own Way
Badass Unscripted – Loving the Fight
Episode 74 – Business Agility
Badass Unscripted – Haters, Consensus and People Pleasing
Badass Unscripted – Agile Podcasting
Episode 73 – Get Badass (Revisited)
Episode 72 – Shoot For The Moon
Episode 71 – Creating The Future – Your Creative Habit
Episode 70 – The Problem with Agile Leadership
Badass Unscripted – Handling Objections
Episode 69 – Design Your Agile Life
Badass Unscripted – Your Voice, Your Value
Badass Unscripted – 5:15 AM
Episode 68 – How To Properly Spread and Scale
Badass Unscripted – Ice Breakers
Episode 67 – Converting A Vision Into a Backlog
Badass Unscripted – Intention
Badass Unscripted – More On Magic Bullets
Episode 66 – Square Pegs, Round Holes and Magic Bullets
Episode 65 – Task Level Prioritization With Stickies and Dots
Episode 64 – Performance Rituals
Episode 63 – What’s Your Backlog?
Episode 61 – Build a Shark Tank
Episode 60 – Think Like An Owner
Episode 59 – Tension Kills Everything
Episode 58 – Slow Is Smooth, Smooth Is Fast
Episode 57 – Setting, Achieving, and Re-setting Targets
Episode 56 – Is Agile Coaching Dead?
Episode 55 – The Most Common Questions
Episode 54 – Visioning The Sprint
Episode 53 – Asking for Forgiveness Instead of Permission
Episode 52 – The Simple Art of Discipline
Episode 51 – Badass Leadership – Recruiting A Passionate Tribe
Episode 50 – Badass Leadership – The New Wave Of Leader
Episode 49 – Badass Leadership – If You Don’t Trust People, You Are The Problem
Episode 48 – Badass Leadership – Spreading And Scaling Agile
Episode 47 – Badass Leadership – Owning The Team Room
Episode 46 – Badass Leadership – My Low-Down Sneaky, Badass Trick to Make People Awesome
Episode 45 – Badass Leadership – A Life of Distinction
Episode 44 – Badass Leadership – Why Service Matters More Than Vision
Episode 43 – Revisiting the 12 Agile Principles
Episode 42 – Badass Leadership – Courage
Episode 41 – Badass Leadership – Value
Episode 40 – The Next Phase – Badass Leadership
Episode 39 – Team Life VI – Performance Through Promises
Episode 38 – What Boxing Taught Me About Agile
Episode 37 – Agile Wants To Be Simple
Episode 36 – Team LIfe V – People Voodoo
Episode 35 – Team Life IV – Protecting the Team Through Failure
Episode 34 – Team LIfe III – Creating Compelling Cultures
Episode 33 – Team Life II – Building Teams With Beer
Have Your Own Voice
Episode 32 – Team Life I – About Teams
Episode 31 – Adaptive Planning VII – Managing Change
From Geek to Giant: Why You Need To Become Badass
Episode 30 – Adaptive Planning VI – Being Solution Agnostic
Becoming Badass – Handling Positional Authority
Episode 29 – Adaptive Planning V – Staying the Course In The Worst Moments
The Resistance
Mayhem. The First 6 – 8 Weeks
Episode 28 – Adaptive Planning IV – Constant Re-Prioritization
Episode 27 – Adaptive Planning III – The Biggest, Closest Things
Episode 26 – Adaptive Planning II – The F-Word
The Elusive Art of Influence
Episode 25 – Adaptive Planning I – Waiting for Perfection
Episode 24 – Continuous Improvement VI – Aggressively Attack Waste
Episode 23 – Continuous Improvement V – Personal And Team Mastery
Create a Culture of Extraordinary
Labour Day Retrospective
Focus On Go
Accountability – The Unfair Advantage in Leadership
Episode 22 – Continuous Improvement IV – How to Get Honest Feedback
On Transformation
Checkpoint – Step Up Your Badass Game
Episode 21 – Continuous Improvement III – Awareness Techniques of Elite Leaders
Episode 20 – Continuous Improvement II – Self Reflection
Fuse Chamber Cross-Post – “The Secrets of the 2%”
Episode 19 – Continuous Improvement I – Retrospectives
Episode 18 – Badass Leadership – Control
Episode 17 – Focus Part V – Freedom from Distractions
Episode 16 – Focus IV – Decisions
Episode 15 – Focus III – Discipline and Resilience
Use a Habit Tracker
Become a Social Observer
Your Job Is Change
How a Badass Deals With Haters
Episode 14 – The Badass Keys – Focus II – Breaking Bigger things into Smaller Things
Episode 13 – The Badass Agile Keys – Focus I – Prioritization
Surround Yourself With Inspiration
Episode 12 – The Problem Of Bigness
Episode 11 – What Makes Agile Work
Episode 10 – Becoming Badass Part III – Knowing
Episode 9 – Spreading Excellence
Reason Is Everything
Episode 8 – The Badass Agile Ethos
Episode 7 – Becoming Badass Part II – Confidence and Core Values
Episode 6 – Breaking It Down To Build It Back Up Again
Episode 5 – Vision
Episode 4 – Becoming a Leader – Making the Decision To Lead
Basics – How I Teach Badass Agile
Episode 3 – The Leader’s Mindset
Interlude 1 – What I Make
Episode 2 – Becoming Badass
Episode 1 – Introduction to Badass Agile