Joe Krebs speaks with Sandy Mamoli about organizational culture and leadership. From working with global enterprises in Amsterdam, Stockholm and Copenhagen to being one of New Zealand’s leading coaches, she brings her practical flair and passionate advocacy for all things Agile to businesses around the world. She works with a wide range of organizations and help them create an environment conducive to high performance and creativity. She specializes in teams outside of technology, predominantly business and leadership teams. Sandy is a former Olympian, an international keynote speaker and author of “Creating Great Teams – How Self-Selection Lets People Excel“.

In this episode, Sandy and I explore the topics of self-selection, self-organization and why this is so important for the culture of modern companies.

Joe Krebs speaks with Johanna Rothman and Mark Kilby about working with distributed teams.We touched on self-organization, working agreements, celebrations, virtual water coolers, tools and Scrum Master facilitation techniques in an distributed or dispersed environment.

In this episode Johanna, Mark and I talk about their new book called "From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams: Collaborate to Deliver" which is available on Amazon and LeanPub. This book contains a ton of useful guidance when working with distributed teams in an agile project. We touched on self-organization, working agreements, celebrations, virtual water coolers, tools and Scrum Master facilitation techniques in an distributed or dispersed environment. Although we covered a lot of ground in the podcast, the book will provide more insights and additional points to consider.

Joe Krebs speaks with Daniel Lachmann-Nishibane about the Agile Leadership certification and training program. We explored how an empirical process impacts agile leadership, delegation and decision-making.

Daniel took the Scrum.org Professional Agile Leadership certification class (PAL-E) class with me back in February 2019. Following the course, he took the exam and his this podcast he shares his experience with others that might on the same path.

The Scrum Poster intends to be a learning tool for entire Scrum teams that are looking for visual reminder of the rules of Scrum and the framework itself. Order your free copy of the poster at www.incrementor.com/products/scrum-poster.

Check out this Scrum Poster which Incrementor made available as a Visual Scrum Guide. It is intended to become a learning tool for Scrum teams around the world. The hardcopy is available world-wide but not as a digital download.

Joe Krebs speaks with Dave West about a paper he co-authored in collaboration with McKinsey. We chat about favorable personally traits for team members in agile teams. You will get a confirmation about some well known facts such as handling ambiguity but also some really eye-opening findings around pride in work, extroverts and the secret sauce of agile team members.

Dave West, Product Owner at Scrum.org, co-authored the article "How to Select and Develop Individuals for successful Agile Teams: A Practical Guide". The research confirmed quite a few items in the career and development field but also brought a few fascinating elements to surface. Learn about the secret sauce for an agile team member, extroverts and pride in work in this episode with Dave. I hope you enjoy this one.

Jutta Eckstein co-authored together with John Buck the book with the title "Bossa Nova" which covers company-wide agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space Technology and Sociocracy. Jutta links company-wide agility to the values, principles and mindset off the Agile Manifesto and proves it still to be up-to-date. The subtitle of the book "Survive and Thrive on Disruption" outlines why agility is so crucial when agile is applied across all parts of an organization.