Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast: Agile storytelling from the trenches

By Vasco Duarte, Agile Coach, Certified Scrum Master, Certified Product Owner

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 Jan 15, 2019

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Every week day, Certified Scrum Master, Agile Coach and business consultant Vasco Duarte interviews Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches from all over the world to get you actionable advice, new tips and tricks, improve your craft as a Scrum Master with daily doses of inspiring conversations with Scrum Masters from the all over the world. Stay tuned for BONUS episodes when we interview Agile gurus and other thought leaders in the business space to bring you the Agile Business perspective you need to succeed as a Scrum Master. Some of the topics we discuss include: Agile Business, Agile Strategy, Retrospectives, Team motivation, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Backlog Refinement, Scaling Scrum, Lean Startup, Test Driven Development (TDD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD), Paper Prototyping, QA in Scrum, the role of agile managers, servant leadership, agile coaching, and more!

Episode Date
Fear-Free Teams—Creating Psychological Safety for High Performance | Mariano Gontcher
Sep 04, 2025
From Evangelist to Facilitator—How To Lead A Successful Company Merger | Mariano Gontchar
Sep 03, 2025
Breaking Down The Clan Mentality In Agile Teams | Mariano Gontchar
Sep 02, 2025
From Boss to Facilitator—The Critical Role of Empathy in Scrum Mastery | Mariano Gontchar
Sep 01, 2025
BONUS Agile Tour Vienna 2025: Building Community-Driven Agile Excellence With Robert Ruzitschka, Sabina Lammert, and Richard Brenner
Aug 30, 2025
Product Owner Patterns - From Absent to Exceptional | Salum Abdul-Rahman
Aug 29, 2025
The SECI Model of Knowledge Management Applied to Team Retrospectives | Salum Abdul-Rahman
Aug 28, 2025
From Lunch Conversations to Company-Wide Change—The Power of Creating Communities of Practice | Salum Abdul-Rahman
Aug 27, 2025
From Isolation to Integration—Rebuilding Agile Team Connection For Remote Teams | Salum Abdul-Rahman
Aug 26, 2025
The Expert Who Couldn't Connect: An Agile Team Integration Challenge | Salum Abdul-Rahman
Aug 25, 2025
BONUS: Captain David Marquet’s Guide to Becoming Your Own Best Coach
Aug 24, 2025
BONUS The Platform-as-Product Revolution: How to Turn Your Biggest Cost Center Into Your Secret Weapon | Alvaro Lorente
Aug 23, 2025
Truth vs. Fiction - The Power of Transparency in Product Ownership | Irene Castagnotto
Aug 22, 2025
The Risk-Aware Scrum Master: Preventing Problems Before They Happen | Irene Castagnotto
Aug 21, 2025
Timing Is Everything - Learning When Agile Teams Are Ready for Change | Irene Castagnotto
Aug 20, 2025
Three Toxic Conditions That Destroy Agile Team Effectiveness | Irene Castagnotto
Aug 19, 2025
When Proactive Help Backfires - A Gen Z Scrum Master's Learning Journey | Irene Castagnotto
Aug 18, 2025
BONUS The Management Revolution Transforming Company Culture and Employee Engagement | Rob Gallaher
Aug 16, 2025
When Technical Expertise Becomes Product Owner Micro-Managements | Somya Mehra
Aug 15, 2025
Why Collaboration Should Be Your Team's Primary Goal | Somya Mehra
Aug 14, 2025
From Top-Down to Collaborative—Reimagining Organizational Restructuring | Somya Mehra
Aug 13, 2025
How Upper Management Can Destroy a High-Performing Team in Minutes | Somya Mehra
Aug 12, 2025
Learning to Spot Team Performance Warning Signs Early As A Scrum Master | Somya Mehra
Aug 11, 2025
BONUS: Why Large Organizations Struggle to Innovate With Elliott Parker
Aug 09, 2025
How Decision Journals Can Transform Product Owner Behavior | Florian Georgescu
Aug 08, 2025
When Teams Embody Agility Without Having To Thinking About It | Florian Georgescu
Aug 07, 2025
From Resistance to Effective Change Leadership in Agile Adoption | Florian Georgescu
Aug 06, 2025
When Knowledge Hoarding Destroys Team Dynamics | Florian Georgescu
Aug 05, 2025
From Burnout to Balance: A Scrum Master's Reality Check | Florian Georgescu
Aug 04, 2025
Building Self-Awareness in Overly-Technical Product Owners | Anamaria Ungureanu
Aug 01, 2025
Measuring Success Through Team Evolution | Anamaria Ungureanu
Jul 31, 2025
Practical Strategies for Organizational Tool Rollouts | Anamaria Ungureanu
Jul 30, 2025
Knowledge Hoarding and Team Dependencies | Anamaria Ungureanu
Jul 29, 2025
Goal Clarity—The Missing Piece in Agile Team Performance | Anamaria Ungureanu
Jul 28, 2025
The Hidden Cost of Decision-Making Delays in Product Development | Anh Vu
Jul 25, 2025
Situational Leadership for Scrum Masters - Knowing When to Step Back | Anh Vu
Jul 24, 2025
From Project Mindset to Product Thinking - Leading Client Transformation | Anh Vu
Jul 23, 2025
From Individual Stars to Team Players - Transforming Competitive Developers | Anh Vu
Jul 22, 2025
The Hidden Cost of Skipping Scrum Ceremonies | Anh Vu
Jul 21, 2025
Business Analyst to Product Owner—More Than a Title Change | Joelle Tegwen
Jul 18, 2025
Building High-Performing Teams Through Three Essential Elements | Joelle Tegwen
Jul 17, 2025
Breaking Knowledge Silos Through Strategic Skill Sharing | Joelle Tegwen
Jul 16, 2025
How to Break Through the 'Not My Problem' Mentality | Joelle Tegwen
Jul 15, 2025
Why Your Scrum Master Job Needs a Reset with Every Leadership Change | Joelle Tegwen
Jul 14, 2025
The Mobile Product Owner—Why Great POs Have Legs and Use Them | Pascal Papathemelis
Jul 11, 2025
Selecting the Appropriate Agile Values for Organizational Impact | Pascal Papathemelis
Jul 10, 2025
From Waterfall to Agile—A Multi-Level Change Strategy | Pascal Papathemelis
Jul 09, 2025
The Hidden Cost of Removing Scrum Masters from High-Performing Teams | Pascal Papathemelis
Jul 08, 2025
From Mechanics to Human Factors—How Scrum Masters Grow | Pascal Papathemelis
Jul 07, 2025
Millions of Users, Multiple Stakeholders—The Art of Product Owner Navigation | Bernard Agrest
Jul 04, 2025
Creating Conditions for Healthy Conflict and Continuous Improvement in Agile Teams | Bernard Agrest
Jul 03, 2025
One-on-One Insights—Building Change Strategy Through Individual Conversations | Bernard Agrest
Jul 02, 2025
Avoiding Hard Conversations—When High-Performing Agile Teams Self-Destruct | Bernard Agrest
Jul 01, 2025
When Stepping Back Becomes Stepping Away—A Leadership Failure Story | Bernard Agrest
Jun 30, 2025
Business Case Ownership—The Product Owner's Core Duty | Lilia Pulova
Jun 27, 2025
Building Self-Sufficient Teams Through Emotional Intelligence | Lilia Pulova
Jun 26, 2025
Leading Transformation: Leading an Agile Transformation—The Power of Patience and Small Winss | Lilia Pulova
Jun 25, 2025
Leadership Red Flag—When Managers Care More About Career Than Team Success | Lilia Pulova
Jun 24, 2025
When Architects Push Solutions—Learning to Disagree but Commit in Agile Teams | Lilia Pulova
Jun 23, 2025
BONUS: Never Stop Experimenting—Building a Culture of Continuous Discovery | Stavros Stavru
Jun 21, 2025
The Product Owner Mindset in Construction | Luca Cotta Ramusino
Jun 20, 2025
Managing The Network of Promises in Lean Construction | Luca Cotta Ramusino
Jun 19, 2025
The Parade of Trades—Teaching Flow in Construction | Luca Cotta Ramusino
Jun 18, 2025
The Culture Shock of Applying Agile and Lean to Construction | Luca Cotta Ramusino
Jun 17, 2025
Tackling the Specialist-silo Problem in Agile Construction | Luca Cotta Ramusino
Jun 16, 2025
The Ghost Product Owner vs. The Storytelling Master | Stuart Tipples
Jun 13, 2025
Happy Teams Embrace Obstacles—Building Psychological Safety Through Retrospectives | Stuart Tipples
Jun 12, 2025
Leading Change Without Hierarchical Power | Stuart Tipples
Jun 11, 2025
Trust-Based Leadership and Team Implosion | Stuart Tipples
Jun 10, 2025
Breaking Free from Zombie Scrum | Stuart Tipples
Jun 09, 2025
The No-Scroll Bar Rule—Empowering PO’s Through Constraints | Joel Bancroft-Connors
Jun 06, 2025
Sustainable Value—Redefining Success Beyond Profit | Joel Bancroft-Connors
Jun 05, 2025
The 90-Day Rule—Building Trust Before Disrupting the Status Quo | Joel Bancroft-Connors
Jun 04, 2025
How Performance Reviews Killed a Great Agile Team | Joel Bancroft-Connors
Jun 03, 2025
When Great Scrum Masters Fail—The Hidden Cost of Poor Value Communication | Joel Bancroft-Connors
Jun 02, 2025
BONUS Martti Kuldma: How to Transform Century-Old Organizations Through Product-Driven Agile Transformation
May 31, 2025
BONUS Entertainment That Makes Change: Lessons in Product Thinking from Believe Ltd. With Patrick James Lynch
May 29, 2025
BONUS The Startup CTO's Handbook With Zach Goldberg
May 28, 2025
BONUS Tom Gilb: Building True Engineering Culture and Delivering Value Through Evolutionary Methods
May 27, 2025
BONUS Solution-Focused Coaching for Agile Teams With Ralph and Veronika
May 26, 2025
Why Great Product Owners Listen—Communication Lessons from Product Ownership Extremes | Deniz Ari
May 23, 2025
Stakeholder Management Rhythms for Successful Scrum Masters | Deniz Ari
May 22, 2025
Why Your Process Changes Are Failing—The Stakeholder Alignment Problem | Deniz Ari
May 21, 2025
Security Team Breakdown—The Devastating Impact of Poor Product Ownership | Deniz Ari
May 20, 2025
How Intense Delivery Pressure Destroyed Team Trust, Culture, and Brought Burnout | Deniz Ari
May 19, 2025
BONUS The PRFAQ Framework With Marcelo Calbucci
May 17, 2025
Why the 'Why' Matters—Product Owner Communication Lessons | Simina Fodor
May 16, 2025
The Courage to Question—Signs of a Healthy Agile Team| Simina Fodor
May 15, 2025
Building Bridges—How Cross-Department Champions Drive Agile Adoption| Simina Fodor
May 14, 2025
How Leadership Communication Can Destroy Team Morale | Simina Fodor
May 13, 2025
From Corporate to Startup—Navigating the Scrum Implementation Gap | Simina Fodor
May 12, 2025
BONUS The Human Side of Software Development With Jussi Mononen
May 08, 2025
BONUS: From Waterfall to Flow—Rethinking Mental Models in Software Delivery | Henrik Mårtensson
May 07, 2025
Software Engineers are Paid to Solve Problems, Not Write Code! | John Crickett
May 06, 2025
BONUS: Beyond Frameworks, A Provocative Guide to Real Agility | Erwin Verweij
May 05, 2025
BONUS Creating Delightful Products With Nesrine Changuel
May 03, 2025
Beyond the Backlog—How Great Product Owners Embrace Team Collaboration | Carmen Jurado
May 02, 2025
The Power of Constructive Feedback in Building Trust in Agile Teams | Carmen Jurado
May 01, 2025
Lean Change Management, How to Design Change with Those Affected | Carmen Jurado
Apr 30, 2025
The Power of Being Heard, Turning Critics Into Agile Advocates | Carmen Jurado
Apr 29, 2025
Scrum Masters, Your Team Needs to Know Which Hat You're Wearing | Carmen Jurado
Apr 28, 2025
The Power Dynamics of Product Ownership | Chris Sims
Apr 25, 2025
Dual Focus, Balancing Agile Team Health with Value Delivery | Chris Sims
Apr 24, 2025
Middle Management, The Forgotten Layer in Agile Transformations | Chris Sims
Apr 23, 2025
The Hidden Cost of "No Time for People Stuff" in Software Teams | Chris Sims
Apr 22, 2025
When Terminology Creates Misunderstandings, The "Ideal Days" Story | Chris Sims
Apr 21, 2025
BONUS Maria Chec Explores the Divide Between Agile Leaders and Practitioners
Apr 19, 2025
Balancing Product Ownership Between Vision and User Reality | Richard
Apr 18, 2025
Contracting for Success, Establishing Clear Agile Coaching Outcomes | Richard
Apr 17, 2025
When Individual Performance Metrics Block Agile Transformation | Richard
Apr 16, 2025
How Small Signs of Cynicism Can Destroy Agile Team Cohesion | Richard
Apr 15, 2025
Skipping the Vision, How Not to Introduce Kanban To An Agile Organization | Richard
Apr 14, 2025
BONUS NVC, Walking Towards Conflict with Love | Maria Arpa and Bob Marshall
Apr 11, 2025
BONUS The End of Product Management? Three Experts Reveal the Unstoppable Rise of Product Engineers | Anton Zaides, Rafa Paez, and Max Piechota
Apr 10, 2025
BONUS Keeping Backlogs Lean With The Now-Next-Later-Never Roadmap Framework | Kent McDonald
Apr 09, 2025
BONUS Team Effectiveness With Arne Roock
Apr 08, 2025
CTO Series: The Anti-Scaling Paradox: Why and When a CTO Should Refuse to Grow His Team | Markus Hjort
Apr 07, 2025
BONUS X-Matrix and Obeya: How to Make Strategy Visible and Actionable for Everyone | Jim Benson and Karl Scotland
Apr 05, 2025
How Feedback Transforms Product Owners | Zvonimir Durcevic
Apr 04, 2025
The Solution-Focused Retrospective for Agile Teams, Turning Problems Into Goals | Zvonimir Durcevic
Apr 03, 2025
From Command to Collaboration, An Agile Leadership Team's Transformation Story | Zvonimir Durcevic
Apr 02, 2025
Context Diagramming, Helping Agile Teams See Their Complex Communication Network | Zvonimir Durcevic
Apr 01, 2025
Establishing Communication Channels, Lessons From a Scrum Master's Failure | Zvonimir Durcevic
Mar 31, 2025
AI and Cybersecurity - An Introduction to The Hidden Threats in Our Connected World | Dr. Eric Cole
Mar 29, 2025
The Great Product Owner: Leadership Skills Make the Difference | Marina Lazovic
Mar 28, 2025
Measuring Agile Team Success Through Stable Delivery Flow | Marina Lazovic
Mar 27, 2025
How to Introduce Data-driven Decision Making to Skeptical Agile Teams | Marina Lazovic
Mar 26, 2025
How Limiting Work-in-Progress Saved a Struggling Agile Team | Marina Lazovic
Mar 25, 2025
When Nobody Expects the Scrum Master, Overcoming a Rocky Start in a Team New to Agile | Marina Lazovic
Mar 24, 2025
BONUS Why Your Teams Really Resist Change, The Neuroscience of Leadership That Nobody Taught You | Andra Stefanescu
Mar 22, 2025
Decision Authority, The Make-or-Break Factor for Product Owners | Karen Suarez
Mar 21, 2025
Beyond Process Compliance: True Indicators of Agile Team Maturity | Karen Suarez
Mar 20, 2025
When a Scrum Master Needs to Hire a Manager, An Organizational Design Story | Karen Suarez
Mar 19, 2025
Balancing Team Protection and Stakeholder Engagement | Karen Suarez
Mar 18, 2025
"You're Not Listening": A Scrum Master's Wake-Up Call | Karen Suarez
Mar 17, 2025
BONUS Mastering Your Own Career Success as a Scrum Master | Fred Deichler
Mar 16, 2025
BONUS Challenging the Agile Status Quo with #NoBacklogs | Allan Kelly
Mar 15, 2025
BONUS Implementing Agile Practices for Data and Analytics Teams | Henrik Reich
Mar 14, 2025
BONUS Transforming Conflict into Opportunity, Leadership Lessons for Agile Teams | Eagan Rackley
Mar 13, 2025
BONUS Escaping the Agile Doom Loop With Pete Oliver-Krueger and "Agile Mike" Dougherty
Mar 12, 2025
BONUS Unifying Strategy, Discovery, and Delivery in Product Development | Roman Pichler
Mar 11, 2025
BONUS Measure and Visualize Software Improvement for Actionable Results | Mooly Beeri
Mar 10, 2025
BONUS The Power of Handwritten Letters for Leaders | Amy Daughters
Mar 08, 2025
Helping PO’s Move Beyond User Story Templates to True Customer Understanding | Anuj Ojha
Mar 07, 2025
Beyond the Scrum Master Role: Signs of Team Maturity | Anuj Ojha
Mar 06, 2025
Breaking the Iron Triangle: Navigating Change in Agile Environments | Anuj Ojha
Mar 05, 2025
Transforming Agile Team Meetings, Less Time, More Value | Anuj Ojha
Mar 04, 2025
From Process Police to People Partner, Self-Accountability and Self-Awareness for Scrum Masters | Anuj Ojha
Mar 03, 2025
BONUS: How To Build Trust and Manage Conflict | Maria Arpa
Mar 01, 2025
From Defensive to Collaborative Product Ownership | Season Hughes
Feb 28, 2025
How To Be A Data-Driven Scrum Master Or Agile Coach | Season Hughes
Feb 27, 2025
Understanding the "Why" Behind Agile Transformation | Season Hughes
Feb 26, 2025
Transforming Workgroups into High-Performing Teams | Season Hughes
Feb 25, 2025
How A Product Cancellation Tests a New Scrum Master's Growth | Season Hughes
Feb 24, 2025
BONUS Creating Psychological Safety at Work With Mehmet Baha
Feb 22, 2025
Substack Week: AI in Product Management, Enhancing Product Development Through Artificial Intelligence | Toni Dos Santos
Feb 21, 2025
Substack Week: The Shared Ownership Challenge, Understanding Clear Accountability in Engineering Teams | Rafa Páez
Feb 20, 2025
Substack Week: Engineering Strategy, Bridging Technical Excellence with Business Success | Aleix Morgadas
Feb 19, 2025
Bridging the Gap Between Agile Teams and Leadership | Josh Anderson
Feb 18, 2025
Why Product Management is Broken and How to Fix It | Anton Zaides
Feb 17, 2025
BONUS: The Future of Agility: Data-Driven Insights With Simon Powers
Feb 15, 2025
From Business Analyst to Product Champion, The Impact Of Vision In The PO Role | Mateusz Komander
Feb 14, 2025
The Big Agile Questions for 2025: A Community Reflection With Your Submitted Questions
Feb 14, 2025
Understanding Team Expectations: The Key to Scrum Master Success | Mateusz Komander
Feb 13, 2025
Scaling with Purpose, Managing Agile Team Growth While Avoiding Conway's Law Pitfalls | Mateusz Komander
Feb 12, 2025
When Process Becomes a Prison, Breaking Free from Over-Rigid Agile Team Practices | Mateusz Komander
Feb 11, 2025
The True Purpose of Scrum, Enabling Individuals And Interactions | Mateusz Komander
Feb 10, 2025
BONUS The Evolution of Agile Leadership: Embracing the Therapeutic Turn with Ari-Pekka Skarp
Feb 08, 2025
The Pressure Conduit, aka The Tornado Product Owner | Chrissy Fleming
Feb 07, 2025
The Role of Trust and Fun in High-Performing Agile Teams | Chrissy Fleming
Feb 06, 2025
From Tasks to Outcomes, An Agile Cultural Transformation Story | Chrissy Fleming
Feb 05, 2025
The Impact of Unaddressed Conflict on Agile Team Health | Chrissy Fleming
Feb 04, 2025
The Hidden Cost of Combined Scrum Master and Product Owner Roles | Chrissy Fleming
Feb 03, 2025
Balancing Product Owner Responsibilities with Team Empowerment | Antti Horelli
Jan 31, 2025
Achieving Productive Serenity - Sign of Scrum Master Success | Antti Horelli
Jan 30, 2025
Balancing Delivery Pressure with Agile Transformation | Antti Horelli
Jan 29, 2025
The Challenge of Breaking Silos, And Building Collaborative Teams Remotely | Antti Horelli
Jan 28, 2025
The Three-Day Sprint Planning Nightmare - Learning from Failure | Antti Horelli
Jan 27, 2025
BONUS: Gojko Adzic on Optimizing Products for Long-Tail Users (Agile Online Summit 2024 Replay)
Jan 25, 2025
Overcoming the Part-Time Product Owner Trap | Ville Reijonen
Jan 24, 2025
How To Use Agile Retrospectives To Help Teams Focus On Continuous Growth | Ville Reijonen
Jan 23, 2025
Why Organizational And Scrum Patterns Are Essential for Leading Change | Ville Reijonen
Jan 22, 2025
Overcoming Code Ownership Silos in Agile Teams | Ville Reijonen
Jan 21, 2025
Building Trust Between Teams and Product Owners During A Challenging Rewrite Project | Ville Reijonen
Jan 20, 2025
CTO Series: Engineering Leadership, Automation, and Trust with Dan Hollinger
Jan 17, 2025
CTO Series: Mastering the CTPO Role, Katrina Clokie’s Guide to Tech and Product Leadership
Jan 16, 2025
CTO Series: How Open Strategy and Agile Practices Drive Success at NorthCode With Ismo Aro
Jan 15, 2025
CTO Series: Navigating Growth, A Playbook for Scaling Engineering Teams With Toni Ala-Piirto
Jan 14, 2025
CTO Series: Bridging Innovation and Strategy as CTO of CrateDB With Sergey Gerasimenko
Jan 13, 2025
BONUS: Building Agile Startups with Nick Hughes of Founders Live
Jan 11, 2025
Product Owner Patterns – The Great and the Bad | Ellen Grove
Jan 10, 2025
The Power of "Why", Modeling Coaching Behavior for Agile Teams | Ellen Grove
Jan 09, 2025
The Dual Work of Agile, Managing Projects and Change Simultaneously | Ellen Grove
Jan 08, 2025
Why Feedback Loops Are Essential for Agile Teams | Ellen Grove
Jan 07, 2025
Managing Change in Complex Organizational Cultures | Ellen Grove
Jan 06, 2025
Throwing Features Over the Fence, The Disconnected PO | Robert Finan
Jan 03, 2025
Promoting Agile Team Growth Through Experiments And Small Focused Changes | Robert Finan
Jan 02, 2025
Flexible Change Processes, How To Adopt Agile With An Agile Approach | Robert Finan
Jan 01, 2025
Why Agile Teams Need the Right Support, And How We Can Help Them | Robert Finan
Dec 31, 2024
The Challenges of Trying Too Hard in an Agile Transformation | Robert Finan
Dec 30, 2024