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Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast: Agile storytelling from the trenches

Vasco Duarte, Agile Coach, Certified Scrum Master, Certified Product Owner

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

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11:02

The Jazz Duo Effect and The Absent PO — Two Sides of...

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2026/05/22

Christian Thordal: The Jazz Duo Effect and The Absent PO — Two Sides of Agile Product Ownership The Great Product Owner: Clarity, Accountability, and a Partnership That Fills in the Blanks Read the full Show Notes and search through the world's largest audio library on Agile and Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website: http://bit.ly/SMTP_ShowNotes. "We kind of filled in the blanks for each other, and it felt very natural — it's grown organically into this partnership

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13:18

Structure Creates Freedom, How an Agile Coach...

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2026/05/21

Christian Thordal: Structure Creates Freedom, How an Agile Coach Measures Success by Becoming Less Needed Read the full Show Notes and search through the world's largest audio library on Agile and Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website: http://bit.ly/SMTP_ShowNotes. "The less I shine and the more the team shines, the better I perform." - Christian Thordal Christian shares how his definition of success has fundamentally shifted over the years. Early in his career, the

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16:17

Managing Cross-Team Dependencies in Scaled Agile,...

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2026/05/20

Christian Thordal: Managing Cross-Team Dependencies in Scaled Agile, From Planning to Real-Time Coordination Read the full Show Notes and search through the world's largest audio library on Agile and Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website: http://bit.ly/SMTP_ShowNotes. "When one team's plan failed, the rest collapsed — deliveries and outcomes were delayed across the entire domain." - Christian Thordal In this episode, Christian Thordal shares the biggest challenge

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13:04

How "Fake Kanban" Fooled the Metrics, And What This...

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2026/05/19

Christian Thordal: How "Fake Kanban" Fooled the Metrics, And What This Agile Coach Did to Fix It Read the full Show Notes and search through the world's largest audio library on Agile and Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website: http://bit.ly/SMTP_ShowNotes. "The team was like birds in a nest waiting to get fed — completely dependent on the PO for every piece of work." - Christian Thordal Christian tells us about a team that always appeared busy but was hiding serious

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13:29

When Applying Scrum By The Book Fails, Understanding...

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2026/05/18

Christian Thordal: When Applying Scrum By The Book Fails, Understanding Context Before Changing The System Read the full Show Notes and search through the world's largest audio library on Agile and Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website: http://bit.ly/SMTP_ShowNotes. "I treated Scrum like a military SOP — follow the book, execute the steps. But I failed to see that the context was really the tipping point. What looked like a problem was actually their solution." -

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39:00

BONUS Your Developers Got 20x Faster — Now Watch Your...

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2026/05/16

BONUS: Your Developers Got 20x Faster — Now Watch Your Product Managers' Heads Explode Clarke Ching is "The Bottleneck Guy" — and he just spotted the bottleneck that AI is about to create in every software organization. It's not in the code. It's inside the heads of the people who decide what gets built. In this conversation, Vasco and Clarke unpack why speeding up developers with AI tools pushes the real constraint upstream — onto product managers, designers, and leaders — and what to do before

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12:54

The Three Qualities That Separate Great Product...

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2026/05/15

Mukhtar Kadiri: The Three Qualities That Separate Great Product Owners From Those Who Just Drop Tickets The Great Product Owner: Decisive, Versatile, and Credible at Every Level Read the full Show Notes and search through the world's largest audio library on Agile and Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website: http://bit.ly/SMTP_ShowNotes. "This person could hold his own at any level of the organization — with executives, with engineering leadership, and with the team." -

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16:38

Why Success Means Nothing If the Project Doesn't Move...

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2026/05/14

Mukhtar Kadiri: Why Success Means Nothing If the Project Doesn't Move the Business Forward — And How Public Commitments Keep You Honest Read the full Show Notes and search through the world's largest audio library on Agile and Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website: http://bit.ly/SMTP_ShowNotes. "If you're not careful with success, you can deliver a project, but the project will really not do much for the business." - Mukhtar Kadiri For Mukhtar, success is personal —

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18:21

Merging Three Companies Into One Platform — When...

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2026/05/13

Mukhtar Kadiri: Merging Three Companies Into One Platform — When Founders Can't Let Go and Leaders Won't Decide Read the full Show Notes and search through the world's largest audio library on Agile and Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website: http://bit.ly/SMTP_ShowNotes. "A lot of times, conflict arises because people don't understand each other. The first thing you need to do is make sure they understand each other." - Mukhtar Kadiri Mukhtar brings us a challenge

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13:38

When the Smartest Person on the Team Becomes the...

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2026/05/12

Mukhtar Kadiri: When the Smartest Person on the Team Becomes the Biggest Bottleneck — And Explodes in a Meeting Read the full Show Notes and search through the world's largest audio library on Agile and Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website: http://bit.ly/SMTP_ShowNotes. "A lot of times, the problem is not necessarily technical. It's a human problem. Just figuring out the human dynamics removes the obstacles and makes the project flow." - Mukhtar Kadiri Mukhtar was

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14:27

The Invisible Stakeholder Who Almost Derailed His...

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2026/05/11

Mukhtar Kadiri: The Invisible Stakeholder Who Almost Derailed His First Big Project Read the full Show Notes and search through the world's largest audio library on Agile and Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website: http://bit.ly/SMTP_ShowNotes. "Nobody really told me, okay, this is what success looks like. And that's a very dangerous thing, because you can just go in there and be busy and be executing." - Mukhtar Kadiri Early in his career, Mukhtar was sitting on the

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18:37

From Desk-Pounding to Harmony — How the Game of Go...

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2026/05/08

Peter Merel: From Desk-Pounding to Harmony — How the Game of Go Transformed a Violent Product Owner, and Why Every Employee Should Think Like an Owner In this episode, we refer to The Agile Way by Peter Merel and The Great Game of Business by Jack Stack. The Great Product Owner: The Real Estate Visionary Who Built Channels of Learning Read the full Show Notes and search through the world's largest audio library on Agile and Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website:

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14:25

Leadership as a Service — Why Scrum Masters Should...

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2026/05/07

Peter Merel: Leadership as a Service — Why Scrum Masters Should Work Themselves Out of a Job and How Quality Circles Make Learning Flow Read the full Show Notes and search through the world's largest audio library on Agile and Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website: http://bit.ly/SMTP_ShowNotes. "A Scrum Master is a self-defeating role. If you have worked yourself out of a job, then you've succeeded." - Peter Merel Peter Merel challenges the very notion of the Scrum

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18:40

AI Alignment Is the Agile Coach's Next Frontier —...

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2026/05/06

Peter Merel: AI Alignment Is the Agile Coach's Next Frontier — Using Throughput Accounting and Pull-Based Transformation to Prove Value Read the full Show Notes and search through the world's largest audio library on Agile and Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website: http://bit.ly/SMTP_ShowNotes. "Our jobs ARE about alignment. Alignment is how do we get all of the people and all of the tools to work together for mutual benefit." - Peter Merel Peter Merel brings a

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16:31

When a Hub-and-Spoke Executive Hijacks Your Agile...

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2026/05/05

Peter Merel: When a Hub-and-Spoke Executive Hijacks Your Agile Transformation — And What to Do About It Read the full Show Notes and search through the world's largest audio library on Agile and Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website: http://bit.ly/SMTP_ShowNotes. "Either you're going to do what you know works, or you're going to step away. Either way, you're not going to do damage to your client." - Peter Merel After a successful transformation at Commonwealth Bank

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17:54

When Telling a Manager "You Don't Have a Role"...

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2026/05/04

Peter Merel: When Telling a Manager "You Don't Have a Role" Backfires — A Lesson in Agile Coaching Humility Read the full Show Notes and search through the world's largest audio library on Agile and Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website: http://bit.ly/SMTP_ShowNotes. "A failure is not a failure. A failure is just the first step." - Peter Merel Peter Merel became a Scrum Master by stealth — long before the title existed. Credited in Kent Beck's first XP book and

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37:11

BONUS Why Your Agile Transformation Keeps Snapping...

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2026/05/02

BONUS: Why Your Agile Transformation Keeps Snapping Back — And What Systems Thinking Says About It Natalia Curusi co-authored a book that doesn't tell you what agile should look like — it tells you what actually happens when you try to transform an organization. Friday-night deployments, zombie teams going through the motions, transformations that met a wall of silence. In this episode, we unpack the real lessons from the front lines: how personal values drive the shift to agile, why some teams

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20:41

BONUS Agile in Construction Track Preview With Felipe...

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2026/04/30

BONUS: Hard Hats and Standups — Why the Construction Industry Is Going Agile at GAS26 Felipe Engineer-Manriquez is one of the co-hosts of the Agile in Construction track at the Global Agile Summit 2026. In this preview episode, he and Vasco talk about why Agile belongs on the construction site, what the track's speakers discovered when they stopped following the plan, and why software people should pay close attention to an industry that builds hospitals, not apps. Construction Is 20 Years

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22:46

BONUS Agile in Gaming Track Preview With Eagan...

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2026/04/29

BONUS: The Game Industry Is Ending — And Why That Might Be the Best Thing for Agile Teams In this BONUS episode, we preview the Agile in Gaming track at the Global Agile Summit 2026 with track host Eagan Rackley. Eagan shares how he curated a lineup of speakers that spans indie studios, AI-driven game platforms, and multi-studio leadership — all focused on the human side of game development during one of the industry's most turbulent periods. If you've ever wondered what Agile looks like when

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27:10

BONUS People Track Preview With Pete Oliver-Krueger...

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2026/04/28

BONUS: Why the People Track Exists — And What It Will Help You See at GAS26 The Global Agile Summit kicks off on May 4th, and the People track is one of the most loaded lineups this year. In this episode, track co-hosts Pete Oliver-Krueger and Alina Thapliyal share the story behind the track, the sessions they're most excited about, and why — in a world increasingly focused on technology and AI — the people dimension is more critical than ever. The Story Behind the People Track "Every

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