Agile Beyond the Enterprise: Coaching the Businesses Next Door with Marina Alex
The podcast explores how Scrum.org’s Marina Alex transitioned from high‑value enterprise engagements to serving small‑ and medium‑sized businesses after the 2022 market contraction left her without corporate clients. Alex explains that coaches must abandon framework‑centric pitches and instead articulate the concrete business problems they solve—turnover, revenue goals, and team culture—while adjusting fees to reflect SME budgets, typically $5,000‑$20,000 per engagement. She illustrates the shift with a first gig at a local resort that paid her $5,000 via Venmo, and later leverages AI‑focused talks, Chamber of Commerce speaking slots, and simple visual tools to win trust in non‑tech firms. The discussion signals a massive blue‑ocean: roughly six million U.S. SMBs versus 25,000 enterprises, urging agile practitioners to re‑skill, network locally, and monetize a previously untapped market.
Is AI Actually Making Your Team Better? Q&A Episode 4
The episode tackles a pressing question for agile teams: how to treat AI as a genuine teammate and gauge its contribution. Eric Neabberg and Daryl Fernandez walk listeners through audience queries from a recent webinar, focusing on metrics, role definition,...
Beyond the Code: Vibe Coding, AI Agents, and Scaling Autonomy with Tomasz Maj of Odevo
The Scrum.org podcast features Thomas Marge, head of product operations at Odevo, discussing how the company is tackling the fragmented residential property‑management market across Europe, the United States and Mexico. Marge explains that Odevo’s strategy is not a single monolithic...
From Vague to Valuable: Practical Writing for Product Backlog Items, Goals and More
The webinar hosted by Scrum.org’s Eric Naborg and trainer Stefan Walpers focused on turning vague product backlog items into actionable, testable artifacts. Emphasizing the link between writing and AI‑enabled agents, the presenters argued that documentation should drive decisions, not merely...
AI on Scrum Teams: Context, Consistency, and Collaboration - Q&A Part 3
The Scrum.org podcast episode dives into how AI can become a strategic teammate for Scrum teams, emphasizing the need for solid context, consistent terminology, and collaborative prompt engineering. Hosts Eric Neabberg and Daryl Fernandez field questions from a recent webinar,...
The Next‑Gen Scrum Master: Driving Delivery with AI Augmented Leadership
The Scrum Master role is shifting from traditional facilitator to an AI‑augmented delivery catalyst. This transformation emphasizes outcome‑driven stewardship, systems thinking, and data‑backed decision making to improve predictability. Simon Reindl and Bogdan Onyshchenko outline ethical boundaries for AI use, stressing...
Should Scrum Masters Lead the Charge with AI?
The video asks who should lead AI adoption in agile organizations, suggesting Scrum Masters could fill that gap. It argues Scrum Masters are uniquely positioned to champion AI, translating technical possibilities into team practices while product owners remain focused on market‑driven...
The 10x Organization: Redesigning for the AI Era with Org Topologies
The podcast introduces Org Topologies as a framework for redesigning enterprises in the AI era, positioning it as a language for visualizing how value moves from concept to cash. Host Dave West and authors Alexi Kichki and Roland Flem explain...
Leading with Evidence: Navigating Complexity Through the Agile Product Operating Model
The Scrum Pulse webinar introduced the Agile Product Operating Model (APOM), a framework that blends modern product management, agile delivery, and Evidence‑Based Management to address the shortcomings of traditional operating models. APOM extends Professional Scrum into a holistic environment where...