Best Joshua Kerievsky Podcasts (2024)

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Interview with Stephen Parry 31:22

4+ y ago31:22

31:22

Episode 46 of the Modern Agile Show features an interview with Stephen Parry (@LeanVoices), Managing Director of The Sense and Adapt Academy and author of the pivotal book, Sense and Respond (2005). Based out of the UK, Stephen has decades of experience helping organizations actually transform (go beyond an existing form) rather than just improve. …

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Interview with Esther Derby 26:54

4+ y ago26:54

26:54

Episode 45 of the Modern Agile Show features an interview with Esther Derby, CEO of Esther Derby Associates, and the author of Behind Closed Doors, Agile Retrospectives and 7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change. Esther explains how well-intentioned management often achieves superficial change by rolling out packaged processes on top of existing o…

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Interview with Jeff "Cheezy" Morgan 23:25

4+ y ago23:25

23:25

Episode 44 of the Modern Agile Show features an interview with Jeff “Cheezy” Morgan, a veteran agilist, lean practitioner, DevOps leader and co-founder of Industrial Logic Canada. Jeff describes the fabulous Lean/DevOps transformation he’s led with teams in a conservative Canadian bank. The teams used to only do 4-5 deployments per year. They now d…

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Interview with Maaret Pyhäjärvi 19:36

4+ y ago19:36

19:36

Episode 43 of the Modern Agile Show features an interview with Maaret Pyhäjärvi (@maaretp), a Lead Quality Engineer at FSecure, an agile practitioner and the author of Strong Style Pair Programming, Mob Programming Guidebook and Exploratory Testing. Maaret describes the culture at FSecure and the benefits her team discovered when they experimented …

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Interview with Ellen Gottesdiener 33:35

4+ y ago33:35

33:35

Episode 42 of the Modern Agile Show features an interview with Ellen Gottesdiener, CEO of EBG Consulting (ebgconsulting.com) and the author of Discover to Deliver and Requirements by Collaboration. Ellen, an expert in product management and agile development, begins by noting that many agile teams pay more attention to user stories than to product …

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Interview with Rich Sheridan 28:04

4+ y ago28:04

28:04

Episode 41 of the Modern Agile Show features an interview with Rich Sheridan (@menloprez), president of Menlo Innovations in Ann Arbor, Michigan and the author of Joy, Inc. and Chief Joy Officer. Rich describes some of the lessons he learned from the innovative entrepreneurs who run Zingermann’s Deli as well as the book, The Great Game Of Business.…

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Interview with Elisabeth Hendrickson 33:30

4+ y ago33:30

33:30

Episode 40 of the Modern Agile Show features an interview with Elisabeth Hendrickson, a veteran tester, developer, agilist, trainer, author and former executive of Research and Development at Pivotal. We discuss how Elisabeth first got into agile development and what a paradigm shift Extreme Programming (XP) was for her. We discuss her definition o…

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Interview with David Parker 28:49

4+ y ago28:49

28:49

#ModernAgile 39 of the Modern Agile Show features my interview with David Parker, an experienced lean/agile coach. This interview is largely about David's excellent work to thoroughly improve the talent acquisition process of a major brand-name company. David used #lean principles to visualize the work, focus on value, help people collaborate, remo…

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Interview With Diana Larsen 31:13

5y ago31:13

31:13

Episode 37 of the Modern Agile Show features an interview with Diana Larsen, co-founder and chief connector of the Agile Fluency project, co-author of the books, Agile Retrospectives, Liftoff and Five Rules for Accelerated Learning. Diana is an expert in helping people learn. She and Joshua discuss the story of the learning that resulted from a lar…

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Interview with David Bland 25:29

5y ago25:29

25:29

Episode 38 of the Modern Agile Show features an interview with David Bland, a veteran lean and agile coach and co-author of the book, Testing Business Ideas. The book features a catalog of 44 experiments that help people learn faster whether their ideas are desirable, viable and feasible. David shares stories about how a small San Francisco startup…

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Interview with Pat Reed 27:50

5y ago27:50

27:50

Episode 36 of the Modern Agile Show features an interview with Pat Reed, an executive coach with extensive agile experience at companies like The Gap, Disney, Universal Studios and many others. She’s known for guiding executives and leaders in large scale agile transformations within huge organizations. Joshua and Pat discuss her experiences spearh…

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Interview with Ainsley Nies 25:54

5y ago25:54

25:54

Episode 35 of the Modern Agile Show features an interview with Ainsley Nies, a longstanding contributor to the Agile community, instructor of the Agile Management course at Golden Gate University and a co-author of the excellent book, “Liftoff: Start and Sustain Successful Agile Teams.” Ainsley and Josh discuss the benefits and nuances of charterin…

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Interview with Wil Pannell 24:41

5y ago24:41

24:41

Episode 34 of the Modern Agile Show features an interview with Wil Pannell, a self-taught programmer, agile/lean practitioner and in-demand coach at Industrial Logic. Wil is a scholar who is constantly improving his skills in technology and process. He is passionate about improving racial diversity in tech. Joshua and Wil discuss Wil's journey to a…

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Interview with Emilia D'Anzica 16:55

5+ y ago16:55

16:55

Episode 33 of the Modern Agile Show features an interview with Emilia D’Anzica, an industry leader in the emerging field of customer success. Emilia is currently a partner at Winning by Design, which recently acquired her self-founded company, Customer Growth Advisors. Emilia shares her story as a CS strategist and consultant, where she has helped …

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Interview with Mike Rizzi 16:43

5+ y ago16:43

16:43

Episode 32 of the Modern Agile Show features an interview with Mike Rizzi, a veteran software developer, engineer, pragmatic geek, lean/agile coach, honorary Gujurati and DJ. Mike tells a fabulous sorry about practicing financial safety in software development at a healthcare company. integrating a seemingly small feature into a huge automated inte…

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Interview with Stas Zvinyatskyovsky 17:09

5+ y ago17:09

17:09

Episode 31 of the Modern Agile Show features an interview with Stas Zvinyatskyovsky, a managing Director at Solutions IQ/Accenture, a software architect and engineering leader. We talk about the epic journey that Stas co-led to help Yahoo move from a slow, manual, error-prone development process to a smooth, fast and reliable process with continuou…

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Interview with Ted M Young 18:31

6y ago18:31

18:31

Episode 30 of the Modern Agile Show features an interview with Ted M. Young, a veteran software practitioner, designer and instructor. Ted and I discuss the difference between using scaffolding and safety nets when changing code and what is means to program safely. We also discuss the need for awesome examples of great code from which people can le…

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Joshua Kerievsky talking about a Retrospective technique 12:36

6y ago12:36

12:36

Episode 29 of the Modern Agile Show features Joshua Kerievsky discussing Retrospectives. He tells a story of a team’s iteration retrospectives and how the same problem kept coming up, with no resolution in sight. Finally, by making it safe for an individual to speak up, he was able to help the person get past a problem. This reveals a need for a fa…

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Interview with Arlo Belshee 19:08

6+ y ago19:08

19:08

Episode 28 of the Modern Agile Show features an interview with Arlo Belshee, a pioneering agilest who is constantly pushing the boundaries of agility, from planning to programming. Arlo was at the deliver:Agile conference in Austin, Texas to talk about mastering legacy code via ultra-safe refactorings. Arlo describes “recipes” that people can execu…

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Interview with Sam McAfee 19:08

6+ y ago19:08

19:08

Episode 27 of the Modern Agile Show features an interview with Sam McAfee, a product management coach and author of the book, Startup Patterns. Sam explains some of the main reasons why enterprise agile teams fail, based on a popular Medium.com post that he wrote. He explains that organizations that have achieved success in a product area have oper…

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Interview with Mary and Tom Poppendieck 19:08

6+ y ago19:08

19:08

Episode 26 of the Modern Agile Show features an interview with Mary and Tom Poppendieck, co-authors of numerous excellent books, including Lean Software Development, Leading Lean Software Development and The Lean Mindset. Mary gave a wonderful keynote at the Scandinavian Agile conference (2018) called Proxies and Permissions. In that talk, Mary poi…

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Interview with Karl Scotland 19:08

6+ y ago19:08

19:08

Episode 24 of the Modern Agile Show features an interview with Karl Scotland, veteran agile/lean leader, focused on helping to build learning organizations. Karl discusses how to work with agile strategically. He recognized that four statements I’d written in the first Modern Agile blog were actually strategies and he observed that they might be a …

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Interview with Vasco Duarte, #NoEstimates 19:08

6+ y ago19:08

19:08

Episode 25 of the Modern Agile Show features an interview with Vasco Duarte, an agile/lean expert, leader of the #NoEstimates movement, author of the #NoEstimates book and host of the popular ScrumMaster podcast. Vasco talks about how to conduct high-speed experiments (e.g. within 24 hours) so we invest in knowledge acquisition, not estimates. Vasc…

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Interview with Colleen Johnson, Founder and CEO, ScatterSpoke 19:08

6+ y ago19:08

19:08

Episode 23 of the Modern Agile Show features an interview with Colleen Johnson, Founder and CEO of ScatterSpoke, a tool for more effective team retrospectives. Colleen recounts how difficult it can be to put the agile practices to work when you’re building your own product. She mentions the ease of falling into “MVP bloat”, adding too many features…

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Interview with Woody Zuill 28:48

6+ y ago28:48

28:48

Episode 22 of the Modern Agile Show features an interview with Woody Zuill, father of Mob Programming, a pioneer of #NoEstimates and an experienced Lean/Agile trainer and coach. Woody describes the early origins and influences of Mob Programming, including the study groups that he conducted at Hunter Industries. Woody describes the importance of da…

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Interview with John P. Cutler 27:43

7y ago27:43

27:43

Episode 21 of the Modern Agile Show features an interview with John P. Cutler, expert product manager, systems thinker, prolific writer and thought leader. John recalls when he first came across Modern Agile and what inspires him about it. We discuss the question, “Is Modern Agile most applicable for individuals or teams/organizations?” We look int…

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Interview with David Hussman 29:41

7y ago29:41

29:41

Episode 20 of the Modern Agile Show features an interview with David Hussman, veteran agile leader, product geek and founder/CEO of DevJam. We discuss his talk, "Learning in Product: How Wrong are You Ready to Be?" We reminisce about Extreme Programming and the nature of the early community that formed around it. We discuss how to handle known vs. …

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Interview with Jennifer Marsman, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence 22:05

7y ago22:05

22:05

Episode 18 of the Modern Agile Show features an interview with Jennifer Marsman, an expert in machine learning and artificial intelligence and a principal software development engineer at Microsoft. Jennifer spoke at YOW! 2017 about her experiment to use machine learning to analyze brain wave data to determine if people were telling the truth. She …

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Interview with Brian Beckman of Amazon 20:11

7y ago20:11

20:11

Episode 19 of the Modern Agile Show features an interview with Brian Beckman, physicist and principal engineer in robotics at Amazon. Brian met Richard Feynman when he was a child and teenager and became greatly inspired by him. Brian tells a marvelous story that illustrates how serious Amazon is about investing in “customer obsession” and how the …

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Interview with Dave Farley, Co-Author of Continuous Delivery 27:24

7y ago27:24

27:24

Episode 17 of the Modern Agile Show features an interview with Dave Farley, co-author of Continuous Delivery. an independent software programmer and consultant and YOW! 2017 keynote speaker. Dave believes in applying the scientific method to software development and sees Continuous Delivery as a platform for experimentation. He believes that the bi…

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Interview with Lynn Langit 19:26

7y ago19:26

19:26

Episode 16 of the Modern Agile Show features an interview with Lynn Langit, a cloud architect, data architect, coder, instructor, autodidact and keynote speaker. Lynn entered the field of software at age 38, she is the author of a best-selling Hadoop course on Linda.com, she taught her calculus at age 51 in order to learn Machine Learning, she teac…

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Interview with Jeff Patton at YOW! 2017 23:02

7y ago23:02

23:02

Episode 15 of the Modern Agile Show features an interview with Jeff Patton, veteran agilest, author of the best-selling book, User Story Mapping and the guy who teaches the fantastic workshop, Passionate Product Leadership.By Joshua Kerievsky

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Interview with David J Bland, Founder and CEO, Precoil 20:51

7y ago20:51

20:51

Episode 14 of the Modern Agile Show features an interview with David J Bland, CEO and Founder of Precoil. We discuss optimizing for learning, how your customer determines what is viable in an MVP, how David helps companies experiment and learn rapidly and safely and what is assumption mapping.By Joshua Kerievsky

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Interview with Melissa Perri and Matt Barcomb: Issues with Product Owner role 19:04

7y ago19:04

19:04

Episode 13 of the Modern Agile Show features an interview with Melissa Perri and Matt Barcomb. We discuss issues with the Product Owner role, as defined by Scrum and explore the importance of product management and how to make product ownership a team sport.By Joshua Kerievsky

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Interview with Laura Klein, author of Build Better Products 25:19

7y ago25:19

25:19

Episode 12 of the Modern Agile Show features an interview with Lean Startup/UX guru, Laura Klein, author of Build Better Products: A Modern Approach to Building Successful User-Centered Products. Learn how her work maps to Modern Agile, User Maps and how Laura writes books on a treadmill!By Joshua Kerievsky

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The Tar Pit Agile Leadership interview with David Lokietz 13:44

7+ y ago13:44

13:44

Episode 10 of the Modern Agile Show begins with a small passage from The Mythical Man-Month, by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr, followed by an interview about agile leadership with agile coach, David Lokietz.By Joshua Kerievsky

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Interview with Brett Durrett CEO of IMVU 30:44

7+ y ago30:44

30:44

Episode 11 of the Modern Agile Show features an interview with the great Brett Durrett, CEO of the Silicon Valley company, IMVU. He talks about the Modern Agile principles present at IMVU and how the company grew from nothing to $50 million/year in revenue.By Joshua Kerievsky

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Cycles of Mistrust explained 12:26

8y ago12:26

12:26

Episode 9 of the Modern Agile Show is about the Cycle of Mistrust, as documented in the fantastic book, Driving Fear out of the Workplace, by Kathleen D. Ryan and Daniel K. Oestreich.By Joshua Kerievsky

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Deliver Value Continuously Demystified Lean Startup Continuous Deployment Q+A. 17:45

8y ago17:45

17:45

A show devoted to the topic of Delivering Value Continuously, a passage about Continuous Deployment from the book, The Lean Startup (by Eric Ries) and several answers to questions about Delivering Value Continuously.By Joshua Kerievsky

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Networks Not Hierarchies Who Sets Team Priorities Hardest Principle to Adopt 14:33

8y ago14:33

14:33

A book passage from Tom DeMarco about teams as Networks not Hierarchies, a white board discussion about who sets priorities on teams, answering a question about the hardest Modern Agile principle to adopt.By Joshua Kerievsky

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Vision + Hustle What Product Leaders Do My Product Story Q+A 16:47

8y ago16:47

16:47

You need Vision and Hustle to be awesome at implementing Modern Agile, a passage about Product Leaders from the book, The Discipline of Market Leaders, a story about Industrial Logic's product at a famous search engine company and answering a question about deadlines.By Joshua Kerievsky

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Make People Awesome Horizontally Hobbled Pixar Collaboration Story Badass Ex 14:49

8y ago14:49

14:49

A show about Making People Awesome, Horizontally Hobbled teams, the designer table that caused collaboration issues at Pixar, Kathy Sierra's Badass book and what it teaches us.By Joshua Kerievsky

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Jez Humble Interview Lean Enterprise Trunk Based Development 24:04

8y ago24:04

24:04

Episode 7 of the Modern Agile Show features an interview with Jez Humble, co-author of Continuous Delivery, Lean Enterprise and The DevOps Handbook. Jez reads a passage from Lean Enterprise, we discuss the Modern Agile principles, Continuous Delivery and Trunk-based development.By Joshua Kerievsky

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Bargain Hunting Lean Startup Story Industrial Logic Story 13:06

8y ago13:06

13:06

Episode 8 of the Modern Agile Show is about the valuable practice of bargain hunting. You’ll hear bargain hunting stories about plumbing, a teleportation feature in IMVU (the birthplace of Lean Startup) and a security feature in Industrial Logic’s eLearning.By Joshua Kerievsky

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Thomas Edison Story Feature Fake Is MA Old or New 13:44

8y ago13:44

13:44

Story of an early failure by Thomas Edison and what he learned from it. Explanation of a Feature Fake and how it helps you remain capital efficient and avoid building features that not enough people need. Answering a question about whether Modern Agile is back to basics or modern?By Joshua Kerievsky

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Show Intro Four Principles Tom DeMarco Story 12:22

8y ago12:22

12:22

Episode #1 Why Modern Agile? A brief guide to Modern Agile's four principles. Who is Joshua Kerievsky? A "Make People Awesome" story from Tom DeMarco's classic book, Slack.By Joshua Kerievsky

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