In this episode I explore the challenges and limitations that the current corporate approach to Agile presents. Agile has devolved from a dynamic framework into a rule-bound guidebook that often prioritizes pleasing corporate structures over innovation. This “employee mindset”, and its focus on maintaining the status quo stifles innovation – and speed.

I challenge you to embrace an agile spirit that favors experimentation, flexibility, and a willingness to break free from rigid frameworks. The conversation also addresses the need to help Agile teams focus on value creation and client impact – instead of adhering strictly to prescribed processes. I invite everyone to rethink their approach to Agile and to prioritize outcomes and impact over traditional rule-following. It’s time to let go of the fear of failure and to cultivate a bold, adventurous spirit in the pursuit of excellence and service.

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3 Skills to Secure Your Agile Future

Make your agile future more viable amidst current market challenges. It’s time to focus on three critical skills we’ve never really addressed before: understanding real customer needs, convincing clients to adopt lean methodologies, and mastering the art of pitching and selling your ideas. By focusing on these areas, you can break free from traditional roles, and offer unparalleled value to organizations. Time to move beyond just technical proficiency to becoming customer-focused proactive problem-solvers and effective communicators, ultimately providing a roadmap to secure and elevate your agile career – OR build your own product or service business.

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In this episode I’ll share how Agile changed my life and career over the years.

First off, Agile taught me a ton about how businesses really work and make money. It helped me understand the importance of putting the customer first and solving real problems they face. These lessons helped me start my own business and focus on innovation, instead of deepening my career as a Project Manager and consultant.

I talk about using Agile to push boundaries in your career, whether you’re staying within a company or thinking about starting a side hustle.

If you’re curious about how Agile can inject meaning and fulfilment into your professional life, have a listen. This episode is full of insights and tips to help you make Agile work for you, both professionally and personally.

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In this episode of the Badass Agile podcast, we discuss How to Revive Agile in today’s dynamic business environment. I’ll explore the current challenges facing agile professionals and discuss the need for a shift in mindset and approach. I’ll emphasize the importance of adapting agile principles beyond traditional software development, suggesting ways to apply agility to various business areas. You’ll gain insights into the evolving demands for agile and be encouraged to embrace new skills and conversations to thrive in the industry. Join me as we explore the practical steps and mindset shifts required to navigate the changing landscape and deliver impactful solutions.

03:06 Tech agility alone insufficient; focus on transformation.
09:29 Become the go-to person for inspiration and information.
10:36 Coaching, career advice, and product info available.

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In this episode, I discuss the need for reinvention in the agile community amidst the changes brought by the pandemic and the shifting landscape of work. This is a great opportunity for individuals to lead and redefine the value of agile practices, bringing adaptability and the creation of new approaches to thrive in the evolving industry. Want to learn how to embrace change, break habits, and find new ways to bring meaningful transformation in your practice? Join me as I discuss why now is the perfect moment for reinvention.

00:00 People seek direction, but leading and adapting is key. Accept change; reminisce but move forward.
05:02 Replace old habits with healthier, empowering choices. Embrace change and new opportunities.
06:30 Setting higher bar for agile, redefining practices, sharing experiments, validating need for change.

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Unveiling Transformations: The Forge Experience

In this episode, we dive into the personal and professional journeys of several individuals who have completed ‘The Forge,’ a year-long development program evolved from a podcast into an immersive course. This episode features:

Laurens Bonnema – Visit Laurens’ LinkedIn profile and check out his sketchnoting site

Ken Goodman – Visit Ken’s LinkedIn profile and check out his TikTok account.

Tracy Baer – Visit Tracy’s LinkedIn

Andras Ivanyi – Visit Andras’ LinkedIn Profile and try his new Goal Crusher app at https://toad.works

Each share their transformations, ranging from enhanced self-confidence and leadership growth to launching new ventures and fostering impactful community connections.

What Changed Because of The Forge?

I ask each alum about the most profound changes and skills acquired through the program. All agree that maintaining a personal vision and accountability partnerships have been a massive benefit.

We talk about crafting a bigger vision for future cohorts, soft skills improvement, and methods to enhance continuous personal and professional growth.

Join us to understand how ‘The Forge’ helps people become better leaders and coaches, elevate their careers, and deliver bold outcomes.

Chapters/Contents

00:00 Transforming a Podcast into a Course

00:22 Meet the Pioneers

01:27 Lawrence’s Journey: From Listener to Author

02:44 Ken’s Path: From Software Engineer to Agile Coach

03:39 Tracy’s Story: From Agile Team Lead to Manager

04:50 Andras’ Experience: From Ideas to Execution

06:20 Building a Lasting Community

08:11 Key Takeaways: What the Forge Gave Us

09:14 Lawrence’s Transformation: Knowledge to Action

13:17 Tracy’s Growth: Vision and Accountability 1

6:46 Ken’s Evolution: Mindset and Coaching

19:02 Andras’ Realization: Finishing What You Start

22:02 Achievements and Success Stories

23:33 Setting the Vision for Success

25:03 Taking Immediate Action

26:56 The Changing Landscape of Agile

30:25 Who is the Forge For?

37:20 Personal Growth and Confidence

43:23 Final Thoughts and Where to Find Us

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Every Department Has Agile Delivery Challenges

The Essential Need for Circulation and helping all areas of the business with Agile Delivery Challenlges. In this episode of the Badass Agile Podcast, I highlight the importance of circulation in life and its parallel in agile practice. I emphasize how staying still leads to stagnation and blockages, and stress the critical need for movement and change.

To uncover agile delivery challenges throughout the enterprise, practitioners should continually evolve, meet new people, and have new conversations to keep up with the ever-changing business landscape.

The simple-yet-difficult nature of the Twelve Agile Principles means that most teams don’t practice what they preach. I include 9 practical examples for becoming more valuable and innovative within an organization.

Most organizations admit to wanting more agility. To help them with their agile delivery challenges, we must circulate and grow – reaching out beyond standard practices and environments to deliver true value.

00:00 Introduction to Circulation in Life and Agile

00:40 The Importance of Movement in Agile Practice

01:30 Revisiting Agile Principles

02:22 Agile Delivery Challenges

03:45 Practical Steps to Evolve and Innovate

04:41 Applying Agile Beyond Software Development

07:10 Final Thoughts and Call to Action

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I’ve been hosting this show for seven and a half years, watching the agile industry. As I publish less, I’m focusing on validating new ideas. My goal is unchanged – delivering the highest value, and transferring elite skills to leaders based on the principles that actually work.

I’m shifting from traditional scrum and agile topics to core principles of simplicity and wellness, creativity and innovation. If Scrum Masters and Agile Coach roles disappeared completely, we’d be ok; what we create and for whom is key. I aim to inspire and ignite a passion for excellence and practical agility in a rapidly changing world. My goal is to help you get the skills to stay relevant and in-demand in a new landscape of work.

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Episode Sections

00:00 Introduction and Show Evolution

01:01 Purpose and Mission of Badass Agile

01:37 Personal and Professional Changes

02:04 Redefining Roles and Titles

04:07 Focus on Simplicity and Mental Wellness

05:43 Creative Process and Innovation

07:25 Conclusion and Future Directions

Transcript

Introduction and Show Evolution

I’ve been doing this show for seven and a half years now, and in that time, our industry’s grown and changed and the show has changed too. So what’s next for Badass Agile? That’s this week on the Badass Agile podcast.

Greetings team. Welcome to the Badass Agile Podcast. I’m your host, Chris Williams.

Hey friend, good to see you. I’m glad you’re still tuning in. You might have noticed that I’ve been publishing less and that’s on purpose. You know, sometimes,

you have to spend the time figuring out what’s next, what belongs, what feels good, validating your intuition, and sometimes trying some new things and seeing what floats.

Let’s talk about what the changes are, what they mean to you and to me, and to the show.

Purpose and Mission of Badass Agile

But first, let’s take a moment to remember. As always, why we’re here. To create an elite tribe of leaders who truly serve their clients and communities by doing what matters and what works. Relentlessly chasing value and excellence like a badass.

There’s so many resources out there about what to do to be agile, but we focus on who you need to become. In order to lead teams. So let’s hammer down those fundamentals to create a truly unique and powerful force in this industry.

If you love the show, tell your friends, and don’t forget to check out my products and services at learning.fusechamber.com

Personal and Professional Changes

Look, I’ll be blunt. I’m not a scrum master or agile coach anymore. I haven’t done it for quite a while. As the years pass, I’m less willing to be defined by a job title. It’s what I do that matters, not how I do it or who I do it for. And frankly, I’m a little bored of the same conversations. I want something new.

Consistency and comfort, habit, let’s call it, has to be balanced with a little bit of novelty, some kind of excitement. And let’s think about this.

Redefining Roles and Titles

If you’re defined by your title, well, what happens when the title changes? Because that’s what’s happening now in our industry. Many of us find ourselves lost, struggling to define what to put on a resume or what positions to even send a resume in for now that our old familiar titles are disintegrating.

What is it we really do? You know what I think? I think we’re creators. No matter what your job title is, I see a crack letting in some light. In the future, we won’t be classified by and bound to that role.

We’ll define ourselves by what we make, the value we create, and who we make it for. Now this is really important news because this way, If the title disappears or falls out of favor, we’re not stuck in that rut.

We’re not all of a sudden finding ourselves without work, unable to snap into a new position if we lose the one that we already have when we help large organizations focus on pockets of value. To deliver fast for competitive advantage. You can do that almost anywhere in any department on any kind of product or offering.

And it never goes out of style. We should be expecting this. The rapid pace of tech means we’re going to change more often. Us agile folks should be comfy with that. It is after all, what we preach to our clients. And I’ve always said that I create massive art and experience to inspire and ignite people to a life of distinction, simplicity, and strength.

That’s my personal vision statement. And further, I’ve always said that the podcast was about those fundamentals of excellence. It was about who you need to become, not the doing of Agile that made people and teams So I’m going to keep doing more of that. And in keeping with the work that I’m doing inside the forge, I’m going to talk less and less about pure scrum or agile.

I might even have to change the name of this show someday. If you think about it, I’ll talk more and more about the fundamental principles.

Focus on Simplicity and Mental Wellness

I’m going to focus on simplicity. Because in my professional life, I’ve been called to bring that simplicity to the mental wellness sphere. What that means is, I’m all about finding a return to the things that we were built to be.

To do and the people we were built to do it for because simplicity means stripping away. And we have a lot of social and technological buildup right now. It’s time for a cleaning. Like when you get all the plaque and tartar cleaned off your teeth, it’s bad for your smile. It’s bad for your heart. What you’re going to see is my basic agile principles reframed.

The focus is on ideal mental states, mental attitudes, And the habits that pave the way for agility, high performance, and effectiveness. I love talking about the people fundamentals too. How to influence, how to lead, how to inspire, how to sell your ideas. And market what you do inside and outside an organization.

I love learning and growing in those areas specifically. So I’m always studying, I’m always getting better. And my experience tells me that people love learning about it, too. But when I say fundamentals, I don’t mean the things that you can read anywhere. There’s enough rehash on the internet already. I’m talking about the foundational ideas that usually defy the accepted norm.

When I say simple, I don’t mean easy. Because it was easy, Everybody would already be doing it. This is the stuff they don’t teach in school. This is the chemistry set of the true rebel, the hero.

Creative Process and Innovation

And in the process, I’ll also talk more about the creative act, whether it’s technical innovation, if that’s an area that interests you and helping your clients, whether it’s writing a blog post or a book or playing the trumpet.

New ideas and expressions are the seed of great outcomes and we could use more positive change right now, couldn’t we? The less time we spend consuming mindless content on social media, the more freedom, the more space we have to create new things.

And you’ll find it doesn’t matter how many likes you get, creating for the sake of creation is the master skill at the heart of every great agilist, at the heart of every great entrepreneur, at the heart of every great visionary.

Agile surrounds solutioning and solutioning is really just creation. So let’s magnify that. Let’s learn about the creative process. And let’s do more of that process. In this time of so much AI and so much sameness, there’s never been a better time. But I’m also going to talk about why. The why of what we do.

In some ways, my friend, this podcast has been a letter to you. A way to connect like minded souls over a common belief. A common desire to do something more than manage people and manage the tasks of one of a million projects in a big corporate machine. A chance to love what we do for once, to have the freedom to make art, to create truly what we want.

Beautiful and meaningful experience.

Conclusion and Future Directions

So as I’ve said before, in the past, I’m arcing away from the technical and the bookie agile, and I’m assuming that we have this agile skill, this agile way of thinking and doing, and it’s a tool in our toolkit. Now we don’t have to stress over the what or the how I feel like at this point, we’ve probably got it.

It’s going to be more about where you can apply that agility to continue to thrive and to add value and to serve and to create meaning for yourself and others by bringing those tools to bear in a world that’s very, very different than when they first dreamed up and wrote down agile a quarter of a century ago.

It’s a different place, and we have to let go of the fact that these aren’t the same halls we used to occupy decades ago. It’s not the same people, it’s not the same time, it’s not the same opportunity. All of the parts have shifted, and nothing looks like it used to. Emotionally, we have to unattach from that comfortable feeling.

To exhibit our bravery now to bring these truly great ideas that the agile movement stirred in us and woke up in us and bring them to places where they’re most needed. So hope you don’t mind the break. And I hope you can sit with me through the change. If you’ve got questions or comments, I’d love to hear them.

As always, you can find me out there. Check me out on LinkedIn. You can find me on Instagram. You can find me at badassagile. com. I look forward to seeing you next time and until then stay badass.

Adam Smith returns after four years in with his design venture, Tension Consulting Inc. Adam discusses intentional design, building trust with clients, and customer-centric focus in UI/UX services. He speaks in-depth about understanding clients’ needs and objectives – and how global and internal events over the past four years have shaped small business. Adam *gets* modern delivery, and every agile practitioner can learn from his mindset and approach.

You can find Adam at https://www.weartension.com and on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamrtsmith/

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I’ve noticed across all the Agile discussions that we’re not listening to the business.

In this episode of Badass Unscripted, I explore the concept of true agility and the common pitfalls that prevent us from achieving it. Let’s discuss how agile has evolved over time, warning against the tendency to prioritize conformity to rules over genuine innovation and problem-solving. I discuss the importance of embracing change and continuous learning, emphasizing the need to move beyond rigid adherence to existing frameworks and instead cultivate a mindset of exploration and creativity.

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