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May 2025

The AI Hype Survival Guide for Software People: What’s Actually Changing (and What Isn’t)
A practical guide for software folks navigating the AI hype—what’s actually changing at work, what isn’t, and why it matters. With some practical…
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Vasco Duarte
A Manifesto for Modern Agile: Here’s My Vision for the Future of Agile and Software Engineering
The opening speech at the First Global Agile Summit in Tallinn, 2025. Setting the Vision for the future of the software industry.
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Vasco Duarte
BONUS: Marcelo Calbucci reveals Amazon's secret innovation framework that transforms product development!
In this BONUS episode, we explore "The PRFAQ Framework" with author Marcelo Calbucci
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Vasco Duarte
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Marcelo Calbucci
28:14
Scrum Won’t Save Your Strategy—Unless You Use Scrum for Strategy, That is...
All the ideas here are Open Source. Feel free to use, abuse (I know some of you will!), change, modify and distribute. Our software industry is too…
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Vasco Duarte
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BONUS: Nesrine Changuel shares how to create emotionally connected, delightful products!
Listen now | In this BONUS episode, we explore the concept of product delight with Nesrine Changuel.
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Vasco Duarte
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Nesrine Changuel
39:38

April 2025

Why We Must Decouple Feature Testing from Code Delivery
The fastest teams don’t ship more—they learn faster. They validate features before code is written. And they know something many teams still forget…
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Vasco Duarte
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BONUS: Maria Chec Explores the Divide Between Agile Leaders and Practitioners
In this BONUS episode, Maria shares insights from her analysis of Miro's Agile Survey, revealing a concerning disconnect between how Agile leaders and…
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Vasco Duarte
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Maria Chec
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40:13
Speaking Software: Why We Need a New Language to Build—and Lead—with Code
The tactics of old don't work. They don't speak software. To win at software, we must learn to speak its language! We've tried it before, it had a huge…
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Vasco Duarte
Entangled Dimensions: Why Product Strategy, Discovery & Delivery Can’t—and Shouldn’t—Be Separated
Marty Cagan’s Product Operating Model offers valuable insights. In this response, I highlight its strengths, while also exploring where we, as a…
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Vasco Duarte
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X-Matrix and Obeya: How to Make Strategy Visible and Actionable for Everyone with Jim Benson and Karl Scotland
The missing link between C-suite vision and frontline execution revealed...
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Vasco Duarte
43:00
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