The Top 5 Daily Standup Podcast Episodes of 2025

1. Poltergeist Meetings — When Meetings Throw Things - October 29, 2025
2. The 5 Stages of Leadership - September 30, 2025
3. Agile Contracting Models in 2025 - June 10, 2025
4. The 1-Minute Introduction That Makes People Remember You Forever - August 21, 2025
5. Start With No... Why Most People Should NOT Be Managers - March 27, 2025

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Why Shipping One Thing Beats Planning Ten

Good processes don’t look impressive.
They quietly help you move forward.

And when you’re building real-world products,
that’s what actually matters.

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Finding Your Fit as a ScrumMaster

Here’s something nobody told me when I started as a Scrum Master: the most important interview isn’t the one where they ask you about impediment removal or sprint velocity.

It’s the one you have with yourself.

Everyone talks about whether you’re a good fit for the role. But what about whether the environment is a good fit for you?

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The Day After Christmas: Carry the Light Forward

Hey everyone, and welcome to today’s Agile Daily Standup.

If you’re listening to this on the Friday after Christmas, chances are things feel… a little quieter.
The presents are unwrapped.
The calendars are lighter.
The pace is slower.

And honestly? That’s not a bad thing.

Because the day after Christmas gives us something rare — space.

Space to breathe.
Space to reflect.
Space to decide what we want to carry forward instead of rushing straight back into “busy.”

Christmas — no matter how you celebrate — is a reminder of something important:
That the most meaningful things in life don’t arrive with noise or urgency. They arrive quietly.

In Agile, we talk a lot about delivery.
But today is about direction.

Before the year accelerates again, ask yourself three simple questions:

• What gave me energy this year?

• What drained me?

• And what am I ready to leave behind as we step into the new one?

This isn’t about resolutions. It’s about intentionality.

Great teams don’t just plan work — they create space for learning, gratitude, and renewal.
Great leaders don’t just push forward — they pause long enough to make sure they’re headed the right way.

So today, be kind to yourself.
Be patient with your team.
And remember that progress doesn’t always look like motion.

Sometimes, progress looks like rest.

As we move toward a new year, carry the best parts of this season with you — the gratitude, the generosity, the hope — and let those guide how you show up for the people around you.

Thanks for spending a few minutes with me today.
I’m grateful for you, for this community, and for the journey we’re all on together.

Until next time — stay kind, stay curious, and stay Agile.

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The Christmas Story - by V. Lee Henson

Merry Christmas from the team at AgileDad.

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Be Here Now - Mike Cohn

One of my favorite books is one I’ve never completely read. It’s called Be Here Now. A friend’s older brother was reading it when I was 10. He let me page through his copy.
The book caught my attention because it was square, an unusual shape for a book. Many of the pages inside the book were hand-lettered and illustrated.
I next came across the book when I was a college freshman. I read part of it then but never finished it because it’s a guide to Hinduism for Westerners, which isn’t my thing.
But the title of that book has always resonated with me: Be Here Now.
I think the ability to be here now is something too many of us are losing. We can’t just be in the moment and in the place. Everyone has to be constantly on their mobile phones. We multitask between what we should be working on and whatever else catches our eye, meanwhile listening for the assorted dings demanding attention.
(I admit to having paused once even while writing this to investigate the boing of a new email arriving. But I’ve so far withheld the temptation to look a second time.)
I witness the inability to be here now while training or working with teams. Once, during an in-person class, I was unable to make eye contact with any participant. Each was banging away on a laptop.
When they asked questions, they were like, “When does the sprint master help with the project backlog?”
Am I any better, though? I love music and grew up listening to the three-minute rock songs of the era. I remember listening to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony as a teen. It was OK (don’t judge me!) but I thought, “Who has time for a one-hour song?”
Now I hit skip halfway through my favorites on Spotify.
I worry about attention spans and the ability to focus. The inability to be here now must have an impact on innovation, productivity, and teamwork. I don’t have a solution.
I don’t have ”three quick tips to be here now.” I merely want to request that we each try to be here now a bit more often, a bit longer, and a bit more intensely each day,

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A Vision Should Be Actionable

Most companies have a vision statement. Few have a vision that actually matters.

Too often, a vision ends up as a vague slogan on a PowerPoint slide or painted on the office wall. Inspiring? Maybe. Useful? Rarely.

But a real vision isn’t decoration. A real vision is a service.

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When to Synchronize Sprints

Synchronizing sprints isn’t about control, it’s about rhythm.
And knowing when to bring teams into sync is what separates “we’re delivering together” from “we’re just drowning together.”

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