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.
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This 14-minute episode features Oluyomi Emmanuel, an Agile coach with seven years of experience, discussing how Product Owners can leverage team feedback to drive learning and improvement. The episode is structured around two contrasting archetypes: the great Product Owner and the absent Product Owner.
The first…
Worth it if you're a Scrum Master, Agile coach, or Product Owner looking for practical frameworks on feedback loops and organizational design in Agile teams.
Oluyomi Emmanuel, a Scrum Master with seven years of experience across fintech, energy, and consumer platforms, discusses how to measure Scrum Master success through 'constructive independence'—the team's growing ability to notice, discuss, and solve problems independently. Rather than traditional metrics, Emmanuel…
Worth it if you're a Scrum Master or Agile coach seeking to reframe success metrics beyond velocity or burndown, or if you want practical retrospective formats and daily reflection practices.
Oluyomi Emmanuel, an agile coach with seven years of experience across fintech, energy, and consumer platforms, discusses a real organizational challenge: creating end-to-end visibility across multiple value streams without adding administrative burden. The episode centers on a case study where Oluyomi's client faced…
Worth it if you're a scrum master, agile coach, or product leader struggling with fragmented work visibility, competing priorities, or unclear ownership across teams or value streams.
Oluyomi Emmanuel, a Scrum Master and Agile Coach with seven years of experience, discusses a common dysfunction in supposedly agile teams: the shift from individual task ownership to collective work ownership. He describes a pattern where teams appear collaborative during ceremonies but revert to siloed behavior…
Worth it if you're a Scrum Master or agile coach struggling with siloed team behavior or looking for practical ways to shift team language and ownership.
Oluyomi Emmanuel, a Scrum Master with seven years of experience across fintech, energy, and consumer platforms, shares a cautionary case study about how team trust can deteriorate before a Scrum Master intervenes. The episode centers on a newly formed eight-person software team where tension emerged between a tech…
Worth it if you're a Scrum Master or Agile coach looking for a cautionary tale about early intervention in team conflict, or someone managing newly formed technical teams.