The Agile Coach Podcast
We bring amazing agile minded individuals from product, coaching, entrepreneurship, and engineering space and bring you an immersive learning experience through stories and practices.
If you are an aspiring or new Scrum Master, Business Analyst, Product Owner, or Product Manager; you will take away a lot from these conversations!
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 37 minutes
- Episodes
- 109
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Ep. 49 | START FROM SCRATCH: Getting Into Scrum and Agile from a Non-Tech Background with Michelle Pauk (Part 1)
In this latest episode of the Agile Coach, Vivek Khattri welcomes Michelle Pauk, the Director for Agile Coaching and Kaizen Facilitation at Pfizer. Michelle will be sharing her unlikely entry to the …
Ep. 48 | BALANCED AGILITY: Jolene Jangles On The Balanced Approach Of Agility In Organizations
Jolene Jangles is back!
Vivek Khattri and Pabitra Khanal welcome Jolene back in this latest episode of The Agile Coach! Jolene is a Transformation Coach and the CEO of Balanced Agility, a company dedi…
Ep. 47 | MASTERY AND LEADERSHIP: Nikhil Nambiar On Becoming Fit To Be A Scrum Master And Leading Teams
It’s round 2 of our two-part series of The Agile Coach, where Vivek Khattri welcomes a former colleague, Nikhil Nambiar. Nikhil was a former Lead Technical Instructor in the Agile Coach and is now a …
Ep. 46 | BALANCE OF QUALITY: Nikhil Nambiar On Balancing Business Decisions and Quality Of Development (Part 1)
Today is the first of a two-part series of The Agile Coach, where Vivek Khattri welcomes a former colleague, Nikhil Nambiar. Nikhil was a former Lead Technical Instructor in the Agile Coach and is no…
Ep. 45 | TRIANGLES, TRIALS, AND ERRORS: Matt Philip On Triangle Models, Experimentation, And The Upside Of Making Mistakes (Part 3)
It’s round 3 with Senior Director of Agile Coaching and Kaizen Lead for Pfizer, Matt Philip in this exciting new episode of The Agile Coach. In this episode, Matt will be sharing his views on the Iro…
Ep. 44 | COACHING BY QUANTIFYING: Matt Philip’s Leadership Model By Coaching Teams With Quantified Goals (Part 2)
It’s round 2 with Senior Director of Agile Coaching and Kaizen Lead for Pfizer, Matt Philip in this exciting new episode of The Agile Coach. In this episode, Matt will be sharing with Vivek a little …
Ep. 43 | LARGE SCALE AGILITY: Leading A Large Scale Organization To An Effective Agile Transformation with Matt Philip (Part 1)
The Agile Coach goes big in its latest episode as Vivek Khattri welcomes Matt Philip, to talk about leading the Agile Transformation in a large organization. Matt has over 15 years of experience in t…
Ep. 42 | How to facilitate your team retrospective (with Joe Ziadeh)
Facilitating a retrospective is one tough cookie to crumble. But you don’t have to panic so much, because our hosts today, Vivek Khattri and Joe Ziadeh, will be giving you the information you need to…
Ep. 41 | How to Become a Business Analyst or Scrum Master
HIGHLIGHTS
- Benefits of Agile and Scrum
- Peter and Vivek’s background
- What is Agile?
- Understanding Agile Terminologies
- Roles and Tools involved in Agile
- Skills needed for Agile
QUOTES
Peter: “I've really seen …
Ep. 40 | Exploring the Art and Science of Interviewing with Peter Schmitz
HIGHLIGHTS
- A Business Analyst’s day-to-day
- A Business Analyst’s accomplishments
- Importance of being a Business Analyst
- Requirement Gathering
- Reasons to be a Business Analyst
- Business Analyst tools
QUOTES
Pet…
Ep. 39 | Get Connected with the Power of Networking with Jess Smith
HIGHLIGHTS
- Jess’ definition of Networking
- How Jess got her skill in networking
- Why networking is powerful
- Navigating job seekers and recruiters in networking
- Desperation vs. Urgency
- Best practices for job…
Ep. 38 | What It Takes To Be A Product Owner with Richard Seroter
HIGHLIGHTS
- The role of a Product Owner
- Leadership factor in Product Ownership
- Difference of Product Ownership and Product Management
- The setup in Pivotal and Centurylink
- The importance of updating version…
Ep. 37 | Life And Work As A Scrum Master And Agile Coach with Laxmi Khanal
HIGHLIGHTS
- Working as a scrum master in Mayo Clinic and acquiring an Agile mindset
- Empower your team by not making them excessively reliant on you
- Learn how to ask the right questions, then ask some mo…
Ep. 36 | On The Kanban Method And Other Agile Practices with Matt Philip
HIGHLIGHTS
- A lifetime of learning
- What is Kanban?
- The Kanban Iceberg: it's not just about sign cards
- Explaining Flow
- What does a flow manager do?
- Measuring Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD)
- The Agile Manife…
Ep. 35 | Conducting a Great Retrospective (Best Interview Moments)
In today's episode, we take a look back at some of our favorite tips we've received from our guests about how to conduct a great retrospective. Topics to be discussed include the five steps of a retr…
Ep. 34 | Tips for Business Analysts (Best Interview Moments)
In today's episode, we take a look back at some of our favorite tips we've received from our guests about what it means to be a business analyst. Topics to be discussed include the role of a business…
Ep. 33 | What is the Agile Mindset? (ft. Alex Courtney)
A common misconception is that agile is a process, but it's not; it's a way of thinking. You're not just repeating steps, you're continuously inspecting and adapting and looking for ways to create a …
Ep. 32 | The 12 Agile Principles (ft. Jeremy Aschenbrenner)
In February of 2001, seventeen individuals came together to create a people-first approach to software development. These ideas are now known as The Agile Manifesto and have been summarized by twelve…
Ep. 31 | Becoming a Business Analyst (ft. Zach Klipsch)
To become a business analyst, there's a lot you have to learn, even after you've obtained the title and role. Aside from writing user stories and representing the end user for the development team, t…
Ep. 30 | Best Scrum Master Interview Moments
In today's episode, we take a look back at some of our favorite moments from interviews we've had with scrum masters here on The Agile Coach Podcast! Topics to be discussed include scaling scrum, add…