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In this episode, we refer to the previous episodes with David Marquet, author of Turn the Ship Around! The Great Product Owner: Trust and the Sprint Review That Changes Everything “She was like, oh my gosh, I’ve never seen this before, I didn’t think it was possible. I just saw you deliver stuff in 2 … Continue reading Alex Sloley: How to Coach Product Owners Who Treat Developers Like Mindless Robots
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Alex Sloley: How to Coach Product Owners Who Treat Developers Like Mindless Robots was first posted on October 24, 2025 at 10:05 am.©2019 "Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at communications@oikosofy.com
“Like the smell, the vibe is something you feel. If you’re having a successful impact on the organization or on teams as a Scrum Master, you can feel it, you can smell it. It’s intangible.” – Alex Sloley Alex introduces a compelling concept from Sumantra Ghoshal about “the smell of the workplace”—you can walk into … Continue reading Alex Sloley: Why Sticky Notes Are Your Visualization Superpower in Retrospectives
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Alex Sloley: Why Sticky Notes Are Your Visualization Superpower in Retrospectives was first posted on October 23, 2025 at 10:05 am.©2019 "Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at communications@oikosofy.com
“The team says, oh, we want to try to do things this way, and the org keeps coming back and saying stuff like, no, no, no, you can’t do that, because in this org, we don’t allow that.” – Alex Sloley Alex shares his current challenge working with a 10-person pilot Scrum team within a … Continue reading Alex Sloley: Coaching Teams Trapped Between Agile Aspirations and Organizational Control
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Alex Sloley: Coaching Teams Trapped Between Agile Aspirations and Organizational Control was first posted on October 22, 2025 at 10:05 am.©2019 "Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at communications@oikosofy.com
“They would take notes at every team meeting, so that later on they could argue with team members about what they committed to, and what they said in meetings.” – Alex Sloley Alex recounts working with a small team where a project manager created such a toxic environment that one new hire quit after just … Continue reading Alex Sloley: When Toxic Leadership Creates Teams That Self-Destruct
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Alex Sloley: When Toxic Leadership Creates Teams That Self-Destruct was first posted on October 21, 2025 at 10:05 am.©2019 "Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at communications@oikosofy.com
“Although I knew about the steps of sprint planning, what I didn’t really understand was the box of time versus the box of scope.” – Alex Sloley Alex shares a critical learning moment from his first team as a Scrum Master. After six months in the role, during an eight-hour sprint planning session for a … Continue reading Alex Sloley: The Sprint Planning That Wouldn’t End – A Timeboxing Failure
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Alex Sloley: The Sprint Planning That Wouldn’t End – A Timeboxing Failure was first posted on October 20, 2025 at 10:05 am.©2019 "Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at communications@oikosofy.com
In this BONUS episode, we explore the remarkable journey of Mario Aiello, a veteran agility thinker who has witnessed and shaped the evolution of Agile from its earliest days. Now freshly retired, Mario shares decades of hard-won insights about what works, what doesn’t, and where Agile is headed next. This conversation challenges conventional thinking about … Continue reading BONUS: The Evolution of Agile – From Project Management to Adaptive Intelligence, With Mario Aiello
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BONUS: The Evolution of Agile – From Project Management to Adaptive Intelligence, With Mario Aiello was first posted on October 18, 2025 at 10:05 am.©2019 "Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at communications@oikosofy.com
“Product owners who think about their products as just a backlog that I prioritize, and I get some detailed requirements from stakeholders, and I give that to the team… that’s not empowering the team. And it’s probably leading you to building the wrong thing, just faster.” – Renee Troughton The Bad Product Owner: The Backlog … Continue reading Renee Troughton: Analytics From Day One and Four Other Principles of Great POs
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Renee Troughton: Analytics From Day One and Four Other Principles of Great POs was first posted on October 17, 2025 at 10:05 am.©2019 "Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at communications@oikosofy.com
“If you, as a senior leader, demonstrate vulnerability, it creates real magic in an organization where others can open up and be their authentic self.” – Renee Troughton Renee defines success for Scrum Masters through deeply human values: integrity, holding her truth, being compassionately authentic, caring, open, honest, listening, and vulnerable. She emphasizes that vulnerability … Continue reading Renee Troughton: From Lower-Order to Higher-Order Values in Scrum
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Renee Troughton: From Lower-Order to Higher-Order Values in Scrum was first posted on October 16, 2025 at 10:05 am.©2019 "Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at communications@oikosofy.com
“For the actual product teams, it’s not a problem for them… It’s more the downstream teams that aren’t the product teams, that are still dependencies… They just don’t see that work until, hey, we urgently need this.” – Renee Troughton Renee brings a dual-edged challenge from her current work with dozens of teams across multiple … Continue reading Renee Troughton: Managing Dependencies and Downstream Bottlenecks in Scrum
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Renee Troughton: Managing Dependencies and Downstream Bottlenecks in Scrum was first posted on October 15, 2025 at 10:05 am.©2019 "Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at communications@oikosofy.com
“Trust and safety are the most fundamental foundations of a team to perform. And so you are just breaking the core of teams when you’re doing this.” – Renee Troughton Renee challenges us to look beyond team dysfunction and examine the “dirty little secrets” in organizations—leadership-driven anti-patterns that destroy team performance. She reveals a cyclical … Continue reading Renee Troughton: The Hidden Cost of Constant Restructuring in Agile Organizations
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Renee Troughton: The Hidden Cost of Constant Restructuring in Agile Organizations was first posted on October 14, 2025 at 10:05 am.©2019 "Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at communications@oikosofy.com
“I said to the CIO at the time, we’re not going to hit this. In fact, we’ll be… I can actually tell you, we’re gonna be 3 weeks late… And he said: ‘Just make it work!'” – Renee Troughton Renee shares a powerful story from her work on a mandatory legislative compliance project where reality … Continue reading Renee Troughton: How to Navigate Mandatory Deadlines in Scrum
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Renee Troughton: How to Navigate Mandatory Deadlines in Scrum was first posted on October 13, 2025 at 10:05 am.©2019 "Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at communications@oikosofy.com
In this BONUS episode, we explore the critical differences between building software as a consultant versus inside a product company. Jakob Wolman contributed an insightful article to the Global Agile Summit book examining how third-party software development operates under entirely different constraints than in-house product development. Joined by Wilko Nienhaus, CTO of Vaimo, a global … Continue reading BONUS: Consulting is Different—How Consulting Contracts Work Against Agile Development, With Jakob Wolman and Wilko Nienhaus
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BONUS: Consulting is Different—How Consulting Contracts Work Against Agile Development, With Jakob Wolman and Wilko Nienhaus was first posted on October 10, 2025 at 10:05 am.©2019 "Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at communications@oikosofy.com
In this BONUS episode, we dive deep into the emerging world of AI-assisted coding with Markus Hjort, CTO of Bitmagic. Markus shares his hands-on experience with what’s being called “vibe coding” – a paradigm shift where developers work more like technical product owners, guiding AI agents to produce code while focusing on architecture, design patterns, … Continue reading AI Assisted Coding: From Deterministic to AI-Driven—The New Paradigm of Software Development, With Markus Hjort
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AI Assisted Coding: From Deterministic to AI-Driven—The New Paradigm of Software Development, With Markus Hjort was first posted on October 9, 2025 at 10:05 am.©2019 "Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at communications@oikosofy.com
In this BONUS episode, we dive deep into the real-world experience of coding with AI. Our guest, Alan Cyment, brings honest perspectives from the trenches—sharing both the frustrations and breakthroughs of using AI tools for software development. From “Pachinko coding” addiction loops to “Mecha coding” breakthroughs, Alan explores what actually works when building software with … Continue reading AI Assisted Coding: Pachinko Coding—What They Don’t Tell You About Building Apps with Large Language Models, With Alan Cyment
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AI Assisted Coding: Pachinko Coding—What They Don’t Tell You About Building Apps with Large Language Models, With Alan Cyment was first posted on October 8, 2025 at 10:05 am.©2019 "Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at communications@oikosofy.com
In this BONUS episode we explore the practice of coding with AI—not just the buzzwords, but the real-world experience. Our guest, Llewellyn Falco, has been learning by doing, exploring the space of AI-assisted coding from the experimental and intuitive—what some call vibecoding—to the more structured world of professional, world-class software engineering. This is a conversation … Continue reading AI Assisted Coding: Agile Meets AI—How to Code Fast Without Breaking Things, With Llewellyn Falco
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AI Assisted Coding: Agile Meets AI—How to Code Fast Without Breaking Things, With Llewellyn Falco was first posted on October 7, 2025 at 10:05 am.©2019 "Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at communications@oikosofy.com
In this BONUS episode, we explore Moldable Development with Tudor Girba, CEO of feenk.com and creator of the Glamorous Toolkit. We dive into why developers spend over 50% of their time reading code—not because they want to, but because they lack the answers they need. Tudor shares how building contextual tools can transform software development, … Continue reading AI Assisted Coding: Beyond AI Code Assistants: How Moldable Development Answers Questions AI Can’t With Tudor Girba
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AI Assisted Coding: Beyond AI Code Assistants: How Moldable Development Answers Questions AI Can’t With Tudor Girba was first posted on October 6, 2025 at 10:05 am.©2019 "Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at communications@oikosofy.com
“I always try to ask the team first, what is your problem? Or what is the next step, do you think? Having their input, having my input, bundle it and share it.” Tom defines success for Scrum Masters through three essential pillars: purpose (achieving the team’s product goals), process (effective Agile practices), and people (team … Continue reading Tom Molenaar: Purpose, Process, and People—The Three Pillars of Scrum Master Success
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Tom Molenaar: Purpose, Process, and People—The Three Pillars of Scrum Master Success was first posted on October 2, 2025 at 10:05 am.©2019 "Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at communications@oikosofy.com
“We tend to skip the phase where we just give the person the space to grieve, to not know, instead of that, we tend to move to solutions maybe too quick.” Tom faces a significant challenge as he prepares to start with new teams transitioning between value streams in a SAFe environment. The teams will … Continue reading Tom Molenaar: Systemic Change Management—Making the Emotional Side of Change Visible
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Tom Molenaar: Systemic Change Management—Making the Emotional Side of Change Visible was first posted on October 1, 2025 at 10:05 am.©2019 "Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at communications@oikosofy.com
“When people don’t speak up, it’s because there’s no trust. The team showed that they did not feel free to express their opinions.” Tom describes working with a team that appeared to be performing well on the surface – they were reaching their goals and had processes in place. However, deeper observation revealed a troubling … Continue reading Tom Molenaar: How to Spot and Fix Lack of Trust in Scrum Teams
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Tom Molenaar: How to Spot and Fix Lack of Trust in Scrum Teams was first posted on September 30, 2025 at 10:05 am.©2019 "Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at communications@oikosofy.com
“Instead of slowing down and meeting the team in their resistance, I started to try and drag them because I saw the vision of the possible improvement, but they did not see it.” Tom shares a powerful failure story about a team that didn’t feel the urgency to improve their way of working. Despite management … Continue reading Tom Molenaar: When To Stop Helping Agile Teams To Change—A Real Life Story
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Tom Molenaar: When To Stop Helping Agile Teams To Change—A Real Life Story was first posted on September 29, 2025 at 10:05 am.©2019 "Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at communications@oikosofy.com
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