About the show
In order to remain relevant, organizations need to adapt to ever-changing circumstances. Delivery of value, rapid learning, hyper-innovation, threats of competitors, engagement of employees, all these factors contribute to the success of any company. This podcast series inspires listeners to improve their practice situation.
What is Mastering Agility?
Why is it that products are so hard to develop and deliver?
How can we truly deliver value with so many different variables that can affect the outcome?
We are Sander Dur and Jim Sammons, professional consultants and trainers, who support organizations in their pursuit of creating valuable products. Passionate about helping the community and practitioners apply the theory many authors and thought leaders bring to the industry, we started this podcast to make these concepts more accessible.
This podcast will change your career and organization. You’ll be entertained while learning about the industry’s leaders and other practitioners, and you’ll feel familiar with the situations discussed as we invite guests over and discuss tools, concepts, models, metrics, leadership, frameworks, and many more elements that help you deliver amazing products.
Both of us understand the many struggles, challenges, antipatterns, and dysfunctions many of us face in our daily working lives. We are here to provide actionable advice and strategies for you to create continuous improvement. You will find things that actually work for many organizations, as we and our guests have tried and tested them.
You will find a goldmine of actionable information from many fields, including the space industry, Formula 1, psychology, and Silicon Valley’s top entrepreneurs. We break down these complex topics into easily digestible insights that you can start applying in your careers right away. The best part is that you can even join our live recordings to ask your most burning questions and get them answered based on your needs!
We dive deep into the world of business agility, product discovery, delivery, validation, product management, and product frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, LeSS, and many more. We’ll explore the benefits of decentralized decision-making, autonomous empowered teams, leadership, and much more. We empower you with the information you need to become the leaders your organization deserve.
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You can listen to the show right here on the website, or subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Podchaser, and more.
Could this show be something for me?
The format of Mastering Agility is informal and freestyle. Conversations flow as they come and do not have a preset of questions. Through our recording platform Riverside.fm we host a virtual audience to engage listeners with the speakers, and there are regular giveaways. Past giveaways include new books (signed by their author), an Apollo V Lego Set, and a Zombie Scrum Survival Kit.
If you’re working in an Agile environment and want to get more ideas on how and what you can improve, this show is for you!
Is the show suitable for children?
Yes, there are no inappropriate topics being discussed. The language and material are probably too complex for children to comprehend and at times some an expletive may slip in, we’re human after all.
If you have any concerns we suggest listening with, or prior to, children listening to the show.
Release schedule
New shows are being released every Monday at 10 PM, and often Thursdays at 10 PM, taking 24 hours into account for directory synchronization. Communication about new episodes is being done on Tuesdays on social platforms and Fridays via the newsletter.
Every episode includes show notes that contain more information about the episode, guest, host, additional information, and links.
About the hosts
Sander Dur is a Professional Scrum Trainer at Scrum.org, podcast host of Mastering Agility, Professional Scrum Master and Lead Agile Consultant, and trainer at Xebia. Besides this, he’s an avid writer for Mastering Agility on Medium.com, the Scrum.org blogs, and his upcoming book. Sander is a frequent speaker at conferences at meetups. Sander has a major passion for the human side in complex domains. Ensuring a high level of psychological safety, therefore, is a critical part of his work. Organizations in complex domains can only survive when innovating. Innovation can only take place with the right balance between low social friction and high intellectual friction. While most organizations now understand how to apply Agile frameworks, they struggle with the delivery of value. Psychological safety is the next step in this evolution and Sander has a huge drive to help organizations reach that step.
Sander is enthusiastic, open-minded, and ambitious. He finds interpersonal relationships and intrinsic motivations very important in team dynamics. Besides his work, Sander loves to spend time with his family, enjoys sports and eating healthy, barbecuing, and traveling.
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Jim Sammons is a Professional Scrum Trainer and an active Agile consultant. He currently spends most of my time working with leaders and teams in an Agile transformation for a Fortune 100 energy company. Sometimes Jim finds time to teach Scrum and Kanban classes for Scrum.org.
His work takes him all over the world and gets to meet engaging and passionate people each step of the way. These people make me better at what he does and he hopes that in return he can help them solve some challenges. He loves helping organizations, big and small, from global financial services firms to small startups and everything in between.
Jim feels that people, not resources, are the key to success and that if we take care of people they will change the world. It’s with this in mind that he feels he has found his calling in the Agile mindset and servant leadership.
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Listeners and stats
As of December 2023, Mastering Agility has:
- Over 20000 unique downloads
- Dozens of guests from the absolute top of the business
- Listeners in over 120 countries, including:
The United States, Japan, Australia, Senegal, Azarbaijan, Poland, Russia, Argentina, Jordan, the Netherlands, Canada, Brazil, Costa Rica, India, and Germany.
Contact us
Questions? Feedback? Looking for more information? Want to feature Mastering Agility in an upcoming interview or publication? Awesome! Just let us know by emailing us at sander@masteringagility.org or filling out this simple contact form: