Agile Driven Impact

Most team friction isn't about the work — it's about unspoken expectations around how people work together. In this Scrap Yard episode, Diane and Erich dig into two habits that separate high-performing teams from ones that just get by: understanding how your teammates like to receive (and offer) help, and knowing how to give and receive feedback that actually lands. When those two things click, teams stop losing energy to misread signals and start building the kind of trust that makes everyt...

In this Co-pilot episode of Agile Driven Impact, hosts Diane and Erich are joined by Rob Hatch — executive coach, trusted advisor to CEOs and senior leaders, and author of Attention! and Success Frames — to challenge one of the most deeply held assumptions in continuous improvement: that we learn best from failure. Rob makes the case that what teams actually need is a deliberate practice of examining what went right — the specific decisions, behaviors, and conditions that drove results. With...

In this Pit Stop episode of Agile Driven Impact, hosts Diane and Erich tackle one of the most common challenges facing teams with big missions: you have an important goal, everyone is working hard, but nobody really knows if you're winning. The fix isn't a better big goal — it's adding the layer underneath it. Diane and Erich walk through how to bridge the gap between long-term product goals and the day-to-day work your team is actually doing, using sprint goals as the connective tissue. Whe...

In this Co-pilot episode of Agile Driven Impact, hosts Diane and Erich are joined by Dr. Jessica Crowley, Co-Founder of Agileon and Registered Scrum Trainer, to explore why making work visible isn't just a best practice — it's the prerequisite for everything else. Jessica brings firsthand experience from large-scale transformations, including a rail industry client who discovered they had five times more open projects than their actual capacity. The problem wasn't effort. The work was simply...

Most teams treat the product backlog like a to-do list. JJ Sutherland, CEO of Scrum Inc. and co-author of Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time, says it should be so much more. In this episode, JJ joins hosts Diane and Erich to break down how teams can use the backlog to set, own, and stay aligned to long-term priority goals — and how to make those goals visible to everyone, from your daily check-in to your board of directors. Whether you're leading a software team, a nonpro...