Podcast – Badass Agile

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November 06, 2025 The Agile Job Market – Reclaim Your Power
What’s Up With The Agile Job Market?
Open To Work. I see new contestants every day. The Agile Job Market is broken, and its not coming back.
There is no Agile 2.0. This isn’t a drill. No one is coming to save you.
Sure, you can pivot careers. Go back to project management, or rebrand yourself as a Product Manager. Here’s the good news. If you love this work because of the people you help, and the way Agility makes work better, you will always be in demand. Your future is secure. The bad news is…you’re going to have to go chase it.
The Agile Job Market Isn’t Coming To You
If there’s a brand new job title for us, I don’t know what it is. That means it’ll be years before employers, HR departments and recruiters know either. You have two choices. You can either accept what’s being handed to you (diminished opportunities and pay, or compromised titles and responsibilities) OR you can start creating your own opportunities.
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If you enjoyed this episode, you might also want to check out:
Episode 230 – The Difference-Makers
Career Freedom with Forge Genesis
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13min
October 03, 2025 Foundation BTS: Agile Principles for Business Success
Paul Lepage, Foundation BTS
On this episode, I sit down with Paul LePage, founder of Foundation BTS, a managed IT services and threat management company, in his office in Newmarket, Ontario. Paul shares his path from corporate IT manager to successful entrepreneur, revealing how embracing agile principles and learning from failure played a pivotal role in building his business.
He shared real-world stories about risk-taking, adapting to rapid changes in technology, including the growing impact of AI, and figuring out what it truly means to lead and serve in today’s market.
Whether you’re an Agile Coach or Scrum Master thinking about striking out on your own, or just looking for inspiration on leading with resilience and passion, I think you’ll enjoy Paul’s practical wisdom and candid storytelling. Join me for a look at what it takes to build a thriving business on your own terms.
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If you enjoyed this episode, you might also like:
Episode 87 – Fear of Failure
Episode 106 – Business Agility – Placing Small Bets
Episode 212 – The Agile Entrepreneur
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August 04, 2025The 6 Agile Principles We Abuse
How Important are The Agile Principles?
To me, the 12 Agile Principles are everything you need to build and guide your practice.
Rather than memorizing a ton of frameworks, rules and regulations, the Agile Principles allow us to hold in memory a few simple, yet elegant, virtues that can be adapted to any industry, client or context.
It’s easy to recite the twelve Agile principles, but living them is a whole different story, and we aren’t always honest about the ways we fall short.
This episode focuses on which of the original Agile principles we tend to violate most often:
We like to tell ourselves we’re chasing value—but a lot of what we build comes out of habit, orders, or assumptions, not a clear understanding of what our customers or business really need. We reflect on how often our teams lose sight of value, just following a checklist or building for the sake of building. It’s easier to focus on looking busy than to ensure we’re actually moving the needle for the people we’re supposed to serve.
We have a tendency to overcomplicate things. We think we’re sophisticated, but mostly, we layer on extra steps, plans, and artifacts to delay real delivery. Simplicity takes guts, and it exposes us to feedback—something many of us quietly shy away from. Our retrospectives and solution workshops often balloon into Excel nightmares, prioritizing spreadsheet gymnastics over real action.
We talk as well about our collective discomfort with saying “no”—a crucial principle of focusing on “work not done.” Too often, we say yes by default and take on more work than we should, fearing the consequences of pushing back on business or leadership. The end result? People are stretched thin and real value gets lost in the noise.
Working software—or “finished stuff”—is also on the chopping block. We admit that we usually measure progress by the wrong indicators: meetings attended, hours booked, and busyness, rather than what’s actually delivered.
And let’s not forget the supposed collaboration with “the business.” Despite Agile’s emphasis on constant feedback and in-person communication, genuine dialogues with stakeholders are rare. Schedules are packed, and direct conversations get traded for emails that are read too late (if at all).
Honestly, a lot of us treat Agile principles like slogans, not lived virtues. We tend to avoid the riskiest, but most effective, aspects, and fill the gaps with invented “principles” that are easier to check off. This episode is a nudge for all of us to look inward and challenge the ways we’re cutting corners or playing it safe, instead of truly leading our teams and adding value.
You Might Also Like The Following Episodes:
Episode 43 – Revisiting the 12 Agile Principles
We Failed Agile
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14min
July 28, 2025 Agile Coaching – More Is Not Better
Developing your Agile Coaching skill is NOT about MORE
As you progress in your career, you might be tempted to accumulate MORE – more knowledge, more processes, rules, and templates. Why not sign up for one more newsletter, or substack, or Discord, or podcast, or blog. Why not read one more book? Why not go to another Agile Coaching camp, or conference?
It makes sense on the surface. If something has the potential to help me, why not get more of that?
But then you never really develop the instinct to solve specifically for each customer. You’re busy trying to remember and apply all of the rules, processes, and best practices you’ve collected.
Agile Coaching in The Age Of Overwhelm
It feels like we’re busy enough – Agile Coaching usually involves helping multiple teams at once. We may feel “on the hook” for financiall results, budgets, team happiness, individual well-being, and corporate practices and standards. That’s a lot. The last thing you need is more information – especially if it all seems to contradict one another. You’re going to feel overwhelmed pretty soon, and in 2025, we don’t need help with that.
We already feel like Agile is on borrowed time. Our reputation is at stake and we’re trying harder and harder to prove ourselves worthy. That’s not a great way to feel.
Just One More
So we keep searching for that magic hack. We keep digital clips and link lists of our favourite articles. Stuff we promise ourselves to remember to try. Here’s what I want you to remember. There is no magic salve. There’s no one thing you must do in order to be great. In fact, you can’t chase greatness as though it were a destination. You will approach greatness through humble practice. Humble meaning – be curious, be open to learning, but don’t crowd yourself with someone else’s rules or virtues. You have to earn them. The hard way.
What To Do Instead
Rather than obsessing about how well you conform to other people’s prescriptions of “good” Agile Coaching, set your own standards. We do that by learning to trust the process. Try, fail, repeat.
If you believe that you don’t have enough info to get started, you’re suffering from “but first” syndrome – the belief that there’s a low-water mark of things you need to know or have before you begin. In the beginning you know nothing. The paradox is, the more you know, the more you realize you still know nothing. You will always be stretching and reaching. Don’t let the sense of inadequacy thwart you. The only way to get great is to endeavour. Do the work. Your Agile Coaching will automatically get better as you work.
If you like this topic, you might also like…
Badass Unscripted – Too Much of The Wrong Thing
Badass Unscripted – Uncommon Agile Leadership Without Certification
Episode 209 – Knowledge
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12min
July 21, 2025 Sameness Strikes Again
Sameness In Agile Practice
There seems to be an awful lot of sameness out there. If you follow social media, especially LinkedIn, I’ve been seeing more and more Agile advice that encourages people to follow templates. Whether it be for retrospectives, standups, meetings, reports, or what to say to your boss, we’re promoting sameness as a virtue – whether we intend to or not.
Why Is Sameness a Problem?
I think the big issue with sameness is that it teaches us not to trust our unique voice. As agilists, we solve problems for businesses. We deliver solutions to market in a way that allows us to serve the end customer better. We owe it to them to bring our creativity and originality to that enterprise. When we don’t, our work is seen as a factory where requirements are poured in and what comes out the other side is measured primarily on cost and productivity.
Why We Crave Sameness
Here’s the thing – we’ve been taught to keep quiet, to know our place, to stay in the development room. We no longer see ourselves (if we ever did) as crucial to business success. And we must. If you expect Agile to survive the next five years, and not be replaced by the latest fad or marketing invention…sameness has got to go.
We can’t wait for someone to save us…our success, and our reputation for being badass practitioners rests with you.
Check out Episode 229 – Why Sameness Is Not A Strategy and Non-Conformity is the Key To Your Agile Future for an earlier take on this issue.
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14min
July 14, 2025 Wasting Your Gift on Big Corporate Agile
Corporate Agile refers to the diluted practices, unnecessary compromise, and prioritizing uniformity and safety over innovation and impact. Now 25 years old, has the potential to make work better. Yet, as it’s been adopted by massive companies, we’ve seen a slow erosion of its core intent.
What many of us are feeling is that in large companies, genuine Agile ways of thinking and working rarely fit. We see the focus shift to efficiency, dashboard-driven status checks, and a risk-averse culture where the boldness of Agile is stifled.
So why do we keep doing Corporate Agile? The benefits that once justified staying inside these environments—steady pay, benefits, job security—have almost disappeared altogether. Layoffs, stagnant career growth, and a loss of purpose and connection to meaningful work are becoming the norm, not the exception.
Within the Agile community, we’re grappling with the realization that many of the practices and mindsets that once set us apart are now seen as basic “table stakes.” The expertise that used to matter so much is expected everywhere, often in a watered-down form. The market doesn’t value these skills in the same way, and many of us are wrestling with what comes next. Do we keep conforming to systems that don’t value us, or do we find new spaces to apply (and expand) the Agile mindset?
I’m challenging our loyalty to institutions that don’t reciprocate, and asking you to imagine where Agile might bring real impact outside the safe confines of big corporate IT. We can ditch the Corporate Agile, and take our skills and learning into sectors and settings where its spirit can thrive again, and where we as practitioners can rediscover genuine meaning and pride in our work.
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13min
June 03, 2025 Career Freedom with Forge Genesis
Finally – Career Freedom in the Agile Space
This week, let’s focus on a new future for your Agile practice. If you’re unhappy with the status quo, where agility has gotten stuck in endless frameworks, roles, certifications, and tired routines. This episode is for you. We explore Forge Genesis, a project that’s taken shape from persistent questions about what comes next, especially for those of us craving true career freedom and impact outside of traditional frameworks and job opportunities.
The Troubling Current State
Agile has reached an inflection point. Framework fatigue has set in. Companies are growing skeptical, and the market is crowded with followers rather than leaders. We believe that just doing what’s written—or expected—is no longer enough. More and more, we face resistance: anti-Agile bosses, managerial pushback, a return to rigid control. Organizations are searching for consistency and predictability, but we know the real breakthroughs happen when we embrace change and tackle new problems head-on, not when we play it safe.
Time To Leverage Your Valuable Knowledge and Experience
So we’re turning away from the “employee mindset”—titles, roles, job definitions—and looking at what we need to become: builders, entrepreneurs, problem-solvers ready to spot real needs, craft solutions, and bring those ideas to those who crave them. The skills that serve this mission aren’t just the ones you find in Agile manuals. It’s about communicating a vision, connecting with real needs, testing assumptions, marketing new offerings, and having the courage to take a risk. That’s the path to true career freedom. We want to help people step beyond the familiar and begin shaping products, services, or movements that truly matter—inside or outside traditional organizations.
Not that everyone needs to quit their job and go solo. But if you do feel called to create, to lead a new way, or to focus your hard-won expertise on problems that excite you, you need more than just Agile know-how. You need the entrepreneurial skills to identify and connect with people who need what you can offer. That’s where Forge Genesis comes in.
What Can You Offer?
So many people I’ve met have something to offer. A service. A product. Content. Expertise they’ve gained and honed through years in the field. It could be time to take your idea to market and have career freedom. But unless you know how to do the icky stuff – selling, communicating, marketing, branding, finding an audience – you’ll be stuck with an audience of one. You’ll lose hope and go back to the regular full-time or contract scrum master/coach positions (which are vanishing fast!)
This episode is an invitation to find—or create—the arena where you can be most useful, influential, and fulfilled. Whether you’re itching to found your own venture, start a new consortium, or even revolutionize Agile education, we’ll be here to guide you through the mindsets and moves that make it real.
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16min
May 28, 2025 Better Meetings With Dave Borzillo
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Agile careers are shifting. You have to stand out and create meaningful, independent value in a space that’s not as rich with traditional opportunities as it once was. In this episode, I bring on Forge Genesis member Dave Borzillo, a seasoned leader with a background in engineering and decades of experience in software, project management, and aerospace. Acknowledging what’s facing agile professionals today – job scarcity, the limits of typical agile roles, and the need to pivot from simply finding another job or contract – to actually building something of our own.
Most of us are feeling these pressures. It’s no longer just about snagging a coveted Scrum Master job through a recruiter—those gigs aren’t as plentiful, nor as lucrative. So, we’re asking ourselves what comes next? Do we simply adapt our titles, or is there something deeper and more sustainable we can build on our own terms?
Dave’s story will resonate with anyone who has experienced the unpredictability of layoffs or economic downturns, and who wants to take ownership of their skills in a way that no external force can take away. We explore his decision to focus on a specific pain point so many organizations face—running better meetings. As we discuss, most companies struggle with turning meetings into true vehicles for alignment and action, even though many of us in the agile world might see this as basic skill. Dave explains how he carved out a niche for himself by honing and packaging up his unique facilitation approach, which he calls the “Frame, Flow, and Follow-Through” system.
We also reflect on the importance of learning how to actually market and sell this kind of expertise—something most technical folks aren’t naturally trained to do. Through experimentation, trial and error, and coaching, Dave learns the ropes of entrepreneurial selling, sharing some of the missteps he encountered along the way.
Ultimately, we’re redefining agility not just as a set of frameworks or job titles, but as a mindset for continuous adaptation—building products and communities around our authentic expertise and creating new opportunities even when the job market tightens.
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23min
May 19, 2025 Non-Conformity is the Key To Your Agile Future
“Non-conformity” is a loaded word.
Conformity feels safe. It’s comforting to look around, see everyone else doing the same thing, and assume it’s the right path. But comfort rarely leads to success or fulfillment.
Think about the people you genuinely admire—the ones whose careers and lives you’d love to emulate. Chances are, these people aren’t rule followers; they’re true originals. They’re not concerned with fitting in or copying what others do. Instead, they’re focused on creating something new. They innovate, take risks, and never settle for status quo.
Right now, everyone seems fixated on trends. If you’ve scrolled through LinkedIn lately, you’ve probably noticed endless posts featuring AI-generated action figures and avatars. Interesting, entertaining, yes. But if everyone is doing it, its no longer special When everyone is doing the same thing, nobody truly stands out. Following these trends won’t differentiate you; it makes you blend in even more.
Conformity won’t help you secure your future, especially in uncertain economic and political times. The safety promised by following rules is an illusion—because being just another face in the crowd won’t get you noticed, hired, or valued.
Stepping out as an original thinker isn’t easy. When I started the Badass Agile podcast, it was a leap into the unknown. People questioned me, doubted me, and sometimes outright rejected me. Including myself. But that rejection was just the cost of entry to building something uniquely mine, something valuable. Non-conformity required that I learn resilience and courage—qualities that genuinely attract people who are looking for leadership and inspiration.
If you want to be fulfilled, start seeing yourself as someone who creates unique value. It begins with recognizing your own voice and ideas, then having the courage to share them openly. Experiment, make mistakes, and stay committed despite setbacks or criticism. Be ready to walk away from security for the sake of pursuing something genuinely impactful.
Not everyone will embrace this path, and that’s fine. If you’re content with your comfort zone, no judgment. But if the thought of making a distinctive mark excites you, start by documenting your thoughts and ideas daily. Practice sharing your vision courageously and authentically.
Non-conformity is always risky. But in my experience, it’s the best—and perhaps only—way to build a life and career that truly matters.
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17min
May 13, 2025 No Longer The Hero
In this episode of Badass Agile, we explore what it means when the thrill and satisfaction of being the hero in our work begins to fade. Many of us who work in Agile or similar fields were drawn to the practice for the real impact we could have helping others adapt to change, master the unknown, or achieve things they thought were out of reach. That feeling of significance has powered our professional lives.
But as technology matures and becomes commonplace, and as Agile practices become standardized across industries, the nature of our impact changes. We’re no longer the rescuers bringing people up to speed with new tools or processes—those skills are now table stakes. The field feels crowded; it feels like we’re no longer making the difference we used to. Some of us feel unsettled by this shift, even questioning whether our roles are still needed. There’s a shared anxiety: if we’re not the heroes anymore, what’s next?
Let’s dig into this inflection point, acknowledging the discomfort that comes with realizing that merely being well-versed in Agile ways or knowing the latest technique isn’t enough. The work itself—the “how” and “what”—isn’t changing at the breakneck speed it once did, and the vast knowledge base we used to rely on is now easily accessible to anyone. If we’re honest, we recognize that sticking strictly to the old playbook—serving in traditional Agile roles, focusing on routine team practices, and repeating patterns—isn’t as valuable as it once was.
So, as a community, we’re challenged to reconsider where our value truly lies. The idea is to look beyond the established frameworks, to step up and address the emerging issues that teams and organizations still face—problems that Agile hasn’t solved yet. There’s a call to listen more deeply to our clients and teams, to identify pain points that persist even after Agile has “arrived,” and to find ways to serve that are innovative and unique.
Rather than clinging to the hero story of the past, we see this as an invitation to evolve our practice, deepen our impact, and innovate new forms of value. As uncomfortable as it is, there’s an exciting opportunity here: not to be the hero in the same old way, but to discover the next frontier where leadership, courage, and service are needed most.
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