Jeff Bubolz and Chad Beier

The Agile Wire

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The Agile Wire with Jeff Bubolz and Chad Beier is focused on long-form conversations about the struggles associated with increasing agility of teams, products, and organizations around the world. As change agents, advisors, coaches, and trainers the hosts are focused on helping listeners get agile and stay agile.

Author

Jeff Bubolz and Chad Beier

Category

Business

Podcast website

www.theagilewire.com

Latest episode

Mar 18, 2026

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Episodes

Don't Divide by Zero - The Collaboration Equation featuring Jim Benson 22.05.2023

00:00 Intro 00:35 Jim's New Music Album 03:52 Why write "The Collaboration Equation" book 06:38 Structure of the book 11:10 Leadership is a verb 16:10 Ten rules for jamming - applied to product development 20:13 Problems to create the right environment for collaboration 21:37 Acting with confidence 29:02 If you always bring the same tool you are the tool 31:50 Does agile scale? 33:53 Responsibilit...

Product Owner by Sprinting Heads Explained 15.05.2023

00:00 Intro 00:09 Product Owner Song (the verse) 00:24 Getting Customer Feedback 01:50 One Product Owner and Stress 03:30 Product Owner Song (the chorus) 04:01 Closing the Agile Feedback Loop 08:31 Outro Connect with us at the following places: Wisconsin Agility Training: https://wisconsinagility.com/training Advising: https://wisconsinagility.com/advising Merch: https://wisconsinagility.com/merch...

Scrum Day! Join the Rebellion! Featuring Mary Iqbal 04.05.2023

00:00 Intro 00:21 Why Scrum Day 02:49 Behind the scenes of Scrum Day 04:50 Scrum Day as a Product 06:07 Sponsors 06:38 Scrum Day Teaser - Themes 11:03 Scrum Day Logistics 11:32 Scrum Day Speakers 15:06 Rebel Scrum 19:24 What makes Scrum pleasant 21:58 The power of Liberating Structures 26:28 Outro Scrum Day - https://www.scrumday.org/ Mary Iqbal - https://www.linkedin.com/in/maryiqbal/ Rebel Scrum...

All The Scrum Things Explained 01.05.2023

00:00 Intro 00:17 Inspiration for All The Scrum Things 01:30 Song Clip 1 01:45 Scrum Brings Agility 02:50 Feedback in Scrum 04:11 Transparency in Scrum 05:38 Song Clip 2 05:51 The Sprint in Scrum 07:38 Sprint-182 Sticker on Guitar 07:51 Song Clip 3 and Outro Connect with us at the following places: Wisconsin Agility Training: https://wisconsinagility.com/training Advising: https://wisconsinagility...

The Next Evolution of Agility with Jurgen Appelo 24.04.2023

00:00 Start 00:21 Intro 01:10 SAFe Framework Vs UnFix Model 05:10 Pattern Library of the UnFix Model - Lego Analogy 13:08 Is SAFe the new waterfall? 16:55 Network vs Matrix Organizations 19:40 Startups Using UnFix 23:56 Wasteful Organizational Transformations 28:20 Sources of Innovation 30:05 From Product to Experience 35:07 Fast Delivery is NOT a Better Experience - Spotify is Destroying the Musi...

Best Sprint With My Scrum Team Explained 17.04.2023

00:00 Intro 00:09 New Experiment - Behind the Music 03:58 The Song - Best Sprint With My Scrum Team 06:30 Meaning Behind the Lyrics 10:00 Teach Me Scrum 11:37 Wrapup Connect with us at the following places: Wisconsin Agility Training: https://wisconsinagility.com/training Advising: https://wisconsinagility.com/advising Merch: https://wisconsinagility.com/merch Jeff Bubolz Jeff Bubolz LinkedIn: htt...

Why This Change? Why Now? Jason Little 10.04.2023

0:22 Intro 2:49 Agile Transformation Failed (Agile Comedy) 8:03 Common Pitfalls and Patterns 14:50 Change Management? 24:30 Feedback vs Analysis Mindset 27:22 Patience and Persistence 32:10 Scrum Master Skills 36:00 Internal vs External Change Agents 39:45 Getting Naked (the book) 44:30 Change Agent Stances 51:39 Still Discovering "agile" in 2023 54:05 Waves of Change 56:28 Guitars, Agile Comedy,...

Product Backlog Management on the Scrum Master Toolbox 20.03.2023

0:25 Bonus Episode Intro 1:10 Chad and Jeff Intros on Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast 2:37 From Frantic and Stressful to Strategic and Focused Backlogs 4:19 Task-based backlogs... 5:53 Focused and strategic backlog 9:40 Moving from tasks to impacts  and outcomes (product goals) 10:37 Decomposition or recomposition? 12:45 Scrum teams are expensive 14:34 Why do we do product backlog refinement? 15:30 R...

Is Your Organization Innovating? (and who's hosting this podcast?) 13.03.2023

0:00 Intro 0:15 And we're recording...Jeff Maleski's OUT 1:37 New host - Chad Beier is IN 11:24 Innovation Centers - pros and cons 27:34 Innovation options: startups, innovation centers, embedded in culture 37:21 Incentives and shared risk and reward 41:46 Vendor partners - buy, build, or buy AND build? 52:41 Wrapup - Jeff is OUT 52:51 Outro - Jeff and Jeff introductions over the years Connect wit...

Surviving vs Thriving in an Agile Organization with Veronica Steward 22.02.2023

We covered a lot of topics with Veronica! Here are some of the themes from our conversation: Life coaching Friday night every day at work Survive and thrive No such thing as strategic planning Comfortable with the unknown Thinking fast and slow Upper brain vs lower brain thinking Energy Business schools Medicine 2.0 vs 3.0 Shark tank Orgs and survival and culture and valuation Cost of scrum teams...

Experimentation with Josh Seiden 29.01.2023

Josh Seiden is the author of LeanUX, Sense and Respond, and Outcome over Outputs. YouTube: https://youtu.be/PQfvR_UKwJE

Psychological Safety with Stephan Wiedner 08.01.2023

Stephan is the CEO of Noomii.com & Zarango.com who specializes in Psychological Safety training. Check out the full show notes at TheAgileWire.com YouTube: https://youtu.be/EHlGiJBYOXw

The Right Conversation with Drunk Agile 18.12.2022

Dan Vicanti & Prateek Singh are Professional Kanban trainers and the hosts of Drunk Agile. Check out the full show notes at TheAgileWire.com YouTube: https://youtu.be/1YoV942b_wY

Learning from Failure with Sander Dur 28.11.2022

Sander Dur is a Professional Scrum trainer with Scrum.org and the host of Mastering Agility. YouTube: https://youtu.be/9zaaxeWzlFc

Changing The Rules with Joe Justice 08.11.2022

Joe is an amazing change agent who has helped influence organizations like Amazon, Toyota, Tesla, Apple, and leads WIKISPEED. Check out the full show notes at TheAgileWire.com. YouTube: https://youtu.be/iG3B3e52IAA

Psychological safety with Sander Dur 17.10.2022

Sander Dur is a Professional Scrum trainer with Scrum.org and the host of Mastering Agility. Check out the full show notes at TheAgileWire.com YouTube: https://youtu.be/zlDXPv9seCs

Value of Scrum with Fred Fowler 26.09.2022

Fred Fowler is an Author and one of the few to hold the PSM III certification through Scrum.org. Check out the full show notes at TheAgileWire.com YouTube: https://youtu.be/DhcEg9vKTxM

High Performance Daria Bagina 05.09.2022

Daria Bagina is a Professional Scrum trainer with Scrum.org and manages the website ScrumMastered.com. Check out the full show notes at TheAgileWire.com YouTube: https://youtu.be/RkQeW2qcn7o

Individualism with John Hurney 14.08.2022

John Hurney is a Transformation Leader with extensive background in banking and scaled organizations. Check out the full show notes at TheAgileWire.com YouTube: https://youtu.be/xhqcGDuB164

Finding Patterns with Maarten Dalmijn 01.08.2022

Maarten Dalmijn helps teams beat the Feature Factory and discover better ways of working together. Check out the full show notes at TheAgileWire.com YouTube: https://youtu.be/udMYEiMzb3Q

The unFIX Model with Jurgen Appelo 04.07.2022

Jurgen Appelo is an entrepreneur, speaker, writer pioneering leadership and creator of the Unfix Model. Check out the full show notes at TheAgileWire.com YouTube: https://youtu.be/mcjKrCUG3zE

Back to Basics with Chad Beier 13.06.2022

Chad Beier is a parody master, organizational change wizard, and all around great dude. Check out the full show notes at TheAgileWire.com YouTube: https://youtu.be/KKfbnovStzA

Show me the Data with Troy Magennis 22.05.2022

Troy Magennis is a technology executive, author, and keynote speaker. Check out the full show notes at TheAgileWire.com YouTube: https://youtu.be/0itFvDI1oFs

On the Homestretch with Bob Galen 01.05.2022

Bob Galen is President and Principle Agile Coach at RGalen Consulting. He has ~20 years of in-depth agile experience. He is an accomplished author, trainer, and speaker who is widely recognized as one of the leading voices of pragmatic agility. Check out the full show notes at TheAgileWire.com YouTube: https://youtu.be/Xyp4onZHHfE

Agile Transformation with Michele Madore 10.04.2022

Michele Madore is a Principal of Trans4mation, Leadership Coach, and author of Agile Transformation: Using the Integral Agile Transformation Framework™ to Think and Lead Differently. Check out the full show notes at TheAgileWire.com YouTube: https://youtu.be/nLnUAE1gYXk

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