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Our product vision for take5IRL is to provide members of the Agile community with an idea that they can incorporate into their daily lives to make them more effective. In every episode, Jeff Lee and Mike Stuedemann share Scrum wisdom that will enhance your Scrum Team, overall organization, and most importantly- your leadership skills. Tune in every week for Agile insights in 5 minutes and gain applicable tips to improve your organizations, teams, and life.
agilityIRL hosts take5IRL Podcast, a education show with 102 episodes published.
Is estimation actually helping your team, or just creating the illusion of predictability? In this episode of Take Five IRL , Mike Studeman and Pat Campbell challenge one of the most common assumptions in Agile and produ
💄🐷 You can't put lipstick on a pig and call it transformation.That's the hard truth behind most agile transformations.Organizations invest in training, rename roles, and add new ceremonies—but if leadership doesn't cha
Most Agile transformations focus on teams, ceremonies, frameworks, and tools. Yet one of the biggest barriers to agility often sits somewhere else entirely: the way work gets funded.Organizations spend years trying to im
You don't have a Scrum problem. You have a pipeline problem.Many organizations struggling with delivery assume they need more Agile process, more planning, or more ceremonies. But what if the real bottleneck isn't Agile
Can Agile really work in FDA-regulated medical device environments? In this episode of Take Five IRL, Mike Stuedemann and Jeff Lee reflect on their experience at DeviceTalks Boston—one of the largest medical device confe
🚨 Your teams are delivering faster… but are they building the *right* thing?Too many enterprise organizations treat product discovery like a phase — something completed at the beginning before teams disappear for months
🚨 Flow metrics won’t save your product.Cycle time is improving. Throughput is up. Your dashboards are green.But what if your team is just getting better at building the wrong thing?In this episode of the Take5IRL Podcas
🎙️ On this episode of the Take5IRL Podcast, all three co-hosts—@Mike, @Jeff, and @Pat—tackle a big one: Agile Failure. Why does it happen… and more importantly, how do you fix it? The conversation gets real fast. Most A
🎙️ On this episode of the Take5IRL Podcast, @Mike and @Jeff dive into a real-world case from the medical device space where a traditionally hardware-focused organization began shifting toward software-driven product dev
🎙️ On this episode of the Take5IRL Podcast, all three co-hosts—@Mike, @Jeff, and @Pat—continue the series S*** We Hate About Agile: Velocity! Pat brings this one to the table as they come full circle in the series. He s
🎙️ On this episode of the Take5IRL Podcast, all three co-hosts—@Mike, @Jeff, and @Pat continuing the series of S*** We Hate About Agile: Story Point Edition! Mike opens with a hot take: while he appreciates the theory b
🎙️ On the first episode of Take5IRL Podcast, all three of our co-hosts, @Mike, @Jeff, and @Pat start a new series, S*** We Hate About Agile. Jeff Lee kicks things off by calling out one of his biggest frustrations—those
🎙️ In this episode of the Take5IRL podcast, hosts @Pat and @Mike wrap up their series on flow metrics with a deep dive into Little’s Law—a foundational concept for understanding how work really flows through a system. L
🎙️ In this episode of the Take5IRL podcast, hosts @Pat and @Mike dig into another critical flow metric: wait time—often overlooked, but deeply impactful. Wait time is waste time. Whether it's handoffs, approvals, or sta
🎙️ In this episode of the Take5IRL podcast, hosts @Pat and @Mike explore another essential flow metric: throughput—the number of work items completed over a given period of time. They break down how throughput differs f
🎙️ In this episode of the Take5IRL podcast, hosts @Pat and @Mike explore another key flow metric: cycle time. Cycle time measures the duration from one point in your workflow to another—making it one of the most honest
🎙️ In this episode of the Take5IRL podcast, hosts @Pat and @Mike dive into one of the most critical—and misunderstood—flow metrics in Agile: Work in Process (WIP). WIP can be a powerful indicator of a team’s progress, b
🎙️ In this episode of the Take5IRL podcast, hosts @Pat and @Mike dig into common fallacies around work processes that often get in the way of effective delivery. Their discussion leads to a deeper look at flow metrics—w
🎙️In this episode of the take5IRL podcast, hosts @Pat and @Mike dive into what it truly means to be an Advanced SAFe Practice Consultant (ASPC)—one of the highest distinctions in the SAFe community. Pat, one of the orig
In this episode of Take5IRL, hosts @Pat and @Mike unpack insights from the recent SAFe Agile Summit. Pat shares his key takeaways from the event, including updates to the SAFe “Big Picture” and a growing emphasis on cust
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