With just days before the new year, your host, Dan Neumann, figured it’d be the perfect time to discuss New Year’s resolutions! Many people set New Year’s resolutions, but the problem is: they don’t keep them. Some research even says that only 8% of people actually achieve the goal they’ve set out for. Many of these goals don’t even reach a two-week shelf life before many people give up

On today’s podcast, Dan Neumann is joined by his collaborator, Sam Falco! Today they will be comparing a product-focused approach versus a project-focused approach and highlighting some of the major differences. They also cover how to apply a product mindset to a project-focused organization and offer some key tips on how to effectively implement either!

Today on the podcast, Dan Neumann is joined by a return guest, Christy Erbeck! Christy is a Principal Transformation Consultant at AgileThought and Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator. She has over 25 years of experience in domestic and international consulting; training and coaching; and working in both software development and non-product-focused environments, including manufacturing (discrete and process), distribution, and sales and marketing

In today’s episode, Dan Neumann is joined by Steven Granese, the Vice President of the Transform Practice at AgileThought! As the VP of Transform Practice, Steven leads a team of the top Agile Coaches, DevOps Consultants, and Product Consultants in the United States

This week on the podcast, Dan Neumann is joined by Che Ho! Che Ho is leading an agile transformation for the County of Santa Clara, California. He also recently got certified as a Scrum Master Professional through Agile Alliance. And, fun fact: He’s also a martial arts instructor for Wing Chun! He’s been studying it since he was 10 and has been teaching it now for 20-odd years

Recently, Dan received an email from a listener that posed an interesting question. In short, they said, “We’re doing alright every sprint and the business is doing alright too — we’re not really facing any competition. So, when the team asks, ‘Why should we continually improve?’ how can I help them through that scenario?” This is a great question! Though this team is stable, have been working together for a long time, and are doing well — they’ve reached a plateau.

This episode marks the first anniversary of the start of the Agile Coaches’ Corner podcast! In celebration of this special mark, Dan Neumann and his collaborator, Sam Falco, are taking a look back at the very first episode: “Do Scrum Well Before Scaling!” They’ll be revisiting the topic — but from a slightly different angle this time: “What anti-patterns interfere with or prevent good scaling?”

Today Dan Neumann will be focusing on the topic of getting to ‘done’ within a sprint. Getting an increment to ‘done’ is really challenging — even for Scrum teams that have been working for a while. So it is especially challenging for folks that are new to Scrum and sprinting all together. Even at the longest duration of a sprint (which is one month), it can fly by incredibly fast! So if you’re used to really long delivery cycles with long requirements, think about how fast a two-week sprint will

In this episode, Dan jumps right into what uncertainty is (and why we, as humans, are rather intolerant of it), how we can better cope with uncertainty, how it relates to agility, and how agility can be used to address uncertainty!

Today on the podcast, your host, Dan Neumann, is going to be exploring concepts around Agile. This is a very important topic as a lot of times we go into an organization and find that there’s a lack of clarity or a lack of common understanding about what agility really is. Often, it’s the agile itself that is confused with a popular framework on the market, or, it is seen to be implementing a different methodology than what they already have