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
How AI Is Changing the Way Agile Teams Deliver Value | Prabhleen Kaur
Feb 11, 2026
When Lack of Trust Turns Teams Into Isolated Individuals | Prabhleen Kaur
Feb 10, 2026
Letting Teams Own Their Process Through Working Agreements | Prabhleen Kaur
Feb 09, 2026
BONUS Conflict Is the Yellow Brick Road to Success — How Embracing Conflict Transforms Teams and Leaders With Dan Tocchini
Feb 07, 2026
Why "I'll Just Do It Myself" Is the Most Expensive PO Shortcut | Juliana Stepanova
Feb 06, 2026
When a Former Skeptic Calls to Say "Now I Know What You Did" — Defining Scrum Master Success | Juliana Stepanova
Feb 05, 2026
Trust Over Escalation — A Patient Approach to Difficult PO Relationships | Juliana Stepanova
Feb 04, 2026
The Slippery Slope — How Small Compromises Lead Teams to Abandon Scrum Entirely | Juliana Stepanova
Feb 03, 2026
The 90-Minute Retrospective Disaster That Taught Me Servant Leadership | Juliana Stepanova
Feb 02, 2026
The Product Owner Role in Construction—Voice of the Customer Across Every Phase | Felipe Engineer-Manriquez
Jan 30, 2026
Team Happiness as the True Measure of Scrum Master Success in Construction | Felipe Engineer-Manriquez
Jan 29, 2026
The DOWNTIME Strategy—Eliminating Waste Before Adding Process | Felipe Engineer-Manriquez
Jan 28, 2026
Over-Commitment and Silence—The Deadly Duo Destroying Your Teams | Felipe Engineer-Manriquez
Jan 27, 2026
Stop Teaching and Start Doing—The Secret to Agile Adoption in Construction | Felipe Engineer-Manriquez
Jan 26, 2026
BONUS Thinking Like an Architect in the Age of AI-Assisted Coding With Brian Childress
Jan 24, 2026
When Velocity Replaces Outcomes—The Product Owner Trap | Cristina Cranga
Jan 23, 2026
Decision Quality as the True Measure of Scrum Master Effectiveness | Cristina Cranga
Jan 22, 2026
Why Speed Without Value Creates Chaos in AI-Accelerated Teams | Cristina Cranga
Jan 21, 2026
Why Nice Teams Still Fail and the Power of Honest Conversations | Cristina Cranga
Jan 20, 2026
When Teams Stop Testing Reality and Fall Into Decision Hallucinations | Cristina Cranga
Jan 19, 2026
Coaching Product Owners From Messenger to Decision Maker—A Scrum Master's Guide | Mohini Kissoon
Jan 16, 2026
The Language Test That Reveals True Team Ownership | Mohini Kissoon
Jan 15, 2026
Beyond the AI Fear—Discovering What Makes Scrum Masters Truly Irreplaceable | Mohini Kissoon
Jan 14, 2026
When Politeness Becomes the Enemy of Team Growth—Escaping the Conflict Avoidance Trap | Mohini Kissoon
Jan 13, 2026
How to Break the Cycle of Dominant Personalities in Agile Teams | Mohini Kissoon
Jan 12, 2026
BONUS Saving Democracy—How AI Is Transforming the Battlefield for Our Minds With Anthony Vinci
Jan 10, 2026
Why the Best Product Owners Let Go of What They're Best At | Carmela Then
Jan 09, 2026
Why Teams Hate Agile (And How to Change That) | Carmela Then
Jan 08, 2026
From Requirements Chaos to Story Mapping Success—How Planning Transforms Agile Teams | Carmela Then
Jan 07, 2026
When Remote Teams Stop Listening—The Silent Killer of Agile Collaboration | Carmela Then
Jan 06, 2026
The Scrum Master Who Learned That Perfect Boards Don't Build Perfect Teams | Carmela Then
Jan 05, 2026
Coaching Product Owners to Be the Voice of the Customer | Steve Martin
Jan 02, 2026
Making Scrum Master Success Visible with OKRs That Actually Work | Steve Martin
Jan 01, 2026
Why Agile Fatigue Means We Need to Change Our Approach | Steve Martin
Dec 31, 2025
When a Distributed Team's Energy Vanishes into the Virtual Void | Steve Martin
Dec 30, 2025
When the Gospel of Agile Becomes a Barrier to Change | Steve Martin
Dec 29, 2025
BONUS The Operating System for Software-Native Organizations - The Five Core Principles With Vasco Duarte
Dec 26, 2025
BONUS Breaking Through The Organizational Immune System | Vasco Duarte
Dec 25, 2025
BONUS: Recovering the Essence of Agile - What's Already Working With Vasco Duarte
Dec 24, 2025
Xmas Special: Why project management tools fail software development - and what works instead!
Dec 23, 2025
Xmas Special: Software Industry Transformation - Why Software Development Must Mature With Vasco Duarte
Dec 22, 2025
From Spreadsheets to Discovery—Helping POs Make the Transition | Natalia Curusi
Dec 19, 2025
Measuring What Matters Beyond Velocity and Story Points | Natalia Curusi
Dec 18, 2025
Demonstrating Your Value When the Market Questions Agile Roles | Natalia Curusi
Dec 17, 2025
The Dark Side of High-Performing Dream Teams | Natalia Curusi
Dec 16, 2025
When Your Technical Expertise Becomes Your Biggest Scrum Master Weakness | Natalia Curusi
Dec 15, 2025
Swimming in Tech Debt — Practical Techniques to Keep Your Team from Drowning in Its Codebase | Lou Franco
Dec 13, 2025
The Agile Organization as a Learning System With Tom Gilb and Simon Holzapfel
Dec 12, 2025
Quality 5.0—Quantifying the "Unmeasurable" With Tom Gilb and Simon Holzapfel
Dec 11, 2025
Testing as Measurement—Why Bug-Hunting Misses the Point With Tom Gilb and Simon Holzapfel
Dec 10, 2025
Continuous Strategy Engineering—Beyond Waterfall Planning With Tom Gilb and Simon Holzapfel
Dec 09, 2025
Impact Engineering, Finding Agile's Lost North Star |Tom Gilb and Simon Holzapfel
Dec 08, 2025
Empathy and Availability Define Excellent Product Ownership | Scott Smith
Dec 05, 2025
Using MIRO to Build a Living Archive of Learning | Scott Smith
Dec 04, 2025
Building a Coaching Service Where Survey Scores Become Living Improvement | Scott Smith
Dec 03, 2025
Why Great Scrum Masters Create Space for Breaks | Scott Smith
Dec 02, 2025
The Spotlight Failure That Taught a Silent Lesson About Recognition | Scott Smith
Dec 01, 2025
BONUS: When AI Knows Your Emotional Triggers Better Than You Do — Navigating Mindfulness in the AI Age | Mo Edjlali
Nov 29, 2025
AI Assisted Coding: Building Reliable Software with Unreliable AI Tools With Lada Kesseler
Nov 28, 2025
AI Assisted Coding: Transactional AI Development - Commit, Validate, and Rollback With Sergey Sergyenko
Nov 27, 2025
AI Assisted Coding: Augmented AI Development - Software Engineering First, AI Second With Dawid Dahl
Nov 26, 2025
AI Assisted Coding: Swimming in AI - Managing Tech Debt in the Age of AI-Assisted Coding | Lou Franco
Nov 25, 2025
AI Assisted Coding: From Designer to Solo Developer - Building Production Apps with AI With Elina Patjas
Nov 24, 2025
Coaching Product Owners from Isolation to Collaboration | Sara Di Gregorio
Nov 21, 2025
How to Know Your Team Has Internalized Agile Values | Sara Di Gregorio
Nov 20, 2025
Facilitating Deeper Retrospectives—When to Step In and When to Step Back | Sara Di Gregorio
Nov 19, 2025
Rebuilding Agile Team Connection in the Remote Work Era | Sara Di Gregorio
Nov 18, 2025
When Teams Lose Trust—How Scrum Masters Rebuild It One Small Change at a Time | Sara Di Gregorio
Nov 17, 2025
BONUS: Flawless Execution — Translating Fighter Pilot Precision to Business Results | Christian "Boo" Boucousis
Nov 15, 2025
When Product Owners Facilitate Vision Instead of Owning It | Alidad Hamidi
Nov 14, 2025
Maximizing Human Potential as the Measure of Success | Alidad Hamidi
Nov 13, 2025
The Tax Teams Pay for Organizational Standards | Alidad Hamidi
Nov 12, 2025
When a Billion-Dollar Team Becomes Invisible | Alidad Hamidi
Nov 11, 2025
When Silence Becomes Your Most Powerful Coaching Tool | Alidad Hamidi
Nov 10, 2025
From Requirements Documents to Customer Obsession—Redefining the PO Role | Karim Harbott
Nov 07, 2025
Don't Scale Dysfunction—Fix the Team First | Karim Harbott
Nov 06, 2025
You Can't Make a Flower Grow Faster—The Oblique Approach to Shaping Culture | Karim Harbott
Nov 05, 2025
Why System Design Beats Individual Coaching Every Time | Karim Harbott
Nov 04, 2025
The Day I Discovered I Was a Scrum Project Manager, Not a Scrum Master | Karim Harbott
Nov 03, 2025
Organizations as Ecosystems — Understanding Complexity, Innovation, and the Three-Body Problem at Work With Simon Holzapfel
Nov 01, 2025
From Missing in Action to Present and Collaborative—The Product Owner Spectrum | Darryl Wright
Oct 31, 2025
Beyond Vanity Metrics—Defining Real Success for Scrum Masters | Darryl Wright
Oct 30, 2025
Why AI Adoption Will Fail Just Like Agile Did—Unless We Change | Darryl Wright
Oct 29, 2025
The Agile Team That Committed to Failure for 18 Sprints Straight | Darryl Wright
Oct 28, 2025
When Enthusiasm Became Interference—Learning to Listen as a Scrum Master | Darryl Wright
Oct 27, 2025
How to Coach POs Who Treat Developers Like Mindless Robots | Alex Sloley
Oct 24, 2025
Why Sticky Notes Are Your Visualization Superpower in Retrospectives | Alex Sloley
Oct 23, 2025
Coaching Teams Trapped Between Agile Aspirations and Organizational Control | Alex Sloley
Oct 22, 2025
When Toxic Leadership Creates Teams That Self-Destruct | Alex Sloley
Oct 21, 2025
The Sprint Planning That Wouldn't End - A Timeboxing Failure | Alex Sloley
Oct 20, 2025
BONUS: The Evolution of Agile - From Project Management to Adaptive Intelligence | Mario Aiello
Oct 18, 2025
Analytics From Day One and Four Other Principles of Great POs | Renee Troughton
Oct 17, 2025
How Vulnerability Creates Magic in Agile Leadership | Renee Troughton
Oct 16, 2025
Managing Dependencies and Downstream Bottlenecks in Scrum | Renee Troughton
Oct 15, 2025
The Hidden Cost of Constant Restructuring in Agile Organizations | Renee Troughton
Oct 14, 2025
When Leadership Says "Just Make It Work" in Agile | Renee Troughton
Oct 13, 2025
BONUS: Consulting is Different—How Consulting Contracts Work Against Agile Development | Jakob Wolman, Wilko Nienhaus
Oct 10, 2025
From Deterministic to AI-Driven—The New Paradigm of Software Development | Markus Hjort
Oct 09, 2025
Pachinko Coding—What They Don't Tell You About Building Apps with Large Language Models | Alan Cyment
Oct 08, 2025
Agile Meets AI—How to Code Fast Without Breaking Things | Llewellyn Falco
Oct 07, 2025
Beyond AI Code Assistants: How Moldable Development Answers Questions AI Can't | Tudor Girba
Oct 06, 2025
When Product Owners Eat the Grass for Their Teams | Tom Molenaar
Oct 03, 2025
The Three Pillars of Scrum Master Success | Tom Molenaar
Oct 02, 2025
Systemic Change Management—Making the Emotional Side of Change Visible | Tom Molenaar
Oct 01, 2025
Building Trust in Teams - The Foundation of Self-Organization | Tom Molenaar
Sep 30, 2025
When To Stop Helping Agile Teams To Change—A Real Life Story | Tom Molenaar
Sep 29, 2025
BONUS Product Delight - How to make your product stand out with emotional connection With Nesrine Changuel
Sep 27, 2025
The Product Owner Who Made Retros Unsafe (And How We Fixed It) | Terry Haayema
Sep 26, 2025
Why "Working Myself Out of a Job" Is Wrong for Scrum Masters | Terry Haayema
Sep 25, 2025
When Consensus Becomes Paralysis—The Nemawashi Challenge For Agile Software Development | Terry Haayema
Sep 24, 2025
The High Cost of Unsafe Agile Retrospectives | Terry Haayema
Sep 23, 2025
When Scrum Practices Aren't Enough - Learning to Sense the System | Terry Haayema
Sep 22, 2025
BONUS: Building High-Performing Engineering Teams | Jochen Issing
Sep 20, 2025
Beyond Product Knowledge—The Hidden Skills Every Product Owner Needs | Shawn Dsouza
Sep 19, 2025
The Marathon Mindset—Building Agile Teams That Last Beyond Sprint Deadlines | Shawn Dsouza
Sep 18, 2025
From AI Anxiety to AI Advantage: A Scrum Master's Experimental Approach | Shawn Dsouza
Sep 17, 2025
The Database Migration Disaster— Why Software Development Teams Need Psychological Safety | Shawn Dsouza
Sep 16, 2025
When Scrum Masters Forget to Listen - A Team Trust Crisis in Agile Implementation | Shawn Dsouza
Sep 15, 2025
Problems vs. Solutions: The Great Product Owner Distinction | Bernie Maloney
Sep 12, 2025
From Permission-Seeking to Forgiveness-Begging—Agile Team Evolution in Self-Management | Bernie Maloney
Sep 11, 2025
Mastering Complexity Through Systems Thinking and NLP Coaching | Bernie Maloney
Sep 10, 2025
The Triangulation Technique—Coaching Agile Teams Through Challenges | Bernie Maloney
Sep 09, 2025
The Power of Psychological Safety in Agile Teams | Bernie Maloney
Sep 08, 2025
CTO Series: Scaling Engineering Teams and Aligning Tech with Business Goals With Toni Sallanmaa
Sep 06, 2025
The Visionary vs The Micromanager - Two Product Owner Extremes | Mariano
Sep 05, 2025
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