10 Questions to Ask Before You Accept a Tech Leadership Role
The job market has been rough on tech leaders lately, and picking the wrong company can cost you a year or two of your career. In this episo...
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An agile podcast, delivered by agile practitioners, focused on helping agile teams. Bob Galen and Josh Anderson use their decades of agile coaching experience to power your organizations nee...
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We Got Leadership Wrong for Years. Here’s What We'd Change.
Bob and Josh frame the episode as “letters” to their future or past selves, sharing personal and leadership advice. Josh emphasizes trusting...
The 1 Measuring Stick We Hold Every Leader To
What would change if you treated every person on your team as someone else's precious cargo? A friend of the show visited her son at Fort Br...
The 4X rule every feature MUST pass
Josh and Bob discuss growing finance pressure over AI token spend—dubbed the “great token reckoning of 2027”—and the mismatch between claime...
The "New" AI Hiring Skills Are the Ones You Always Needed
Open any hiring feed this year and you'll find a fresh list of skills for the AI era. Discernment. Judgment. Taste. Bob Galen and Josh Ander...
Does Code Quality Still Matter When AI Writes It?
The hottest take on LinkedIn right now is that coding was never the bottleneck. Josh and Bob have hired hundreds of developers, sat through...
Most Leaders Can't Answer This One Capacity Question
There's a squeeze on right now, and it's landing hardest on middle managers and senior leaders. Do more with less. Do more with the same. Le...
Expectation Inflation Is Stronger Than Ever
Bob and Josh take on expectation inflation, the widening gap between what executives believe AI can do and what your team can actually deliv...
Just Ask Us For Help
Somebody finally sent Josh a message asking for help, and it turned into an episode. Bob and Josh break down every reason people talk themse...
When Being Stubborn Is Leadership And When It's Ego
Bob sings The Gambler and turns it into a leadership question. He quit a job after 4 days when he learned he'd been hired as the ax man. Jos...
10 Leadership Habits Most Managers Skip
Football's back. And on the first day of the 2026 preseason, Josh and Bob take one of the oldest lines in coaching and point it straight at...
Bob and Josh Finally Disagree About Something: Transparency
Bob opens with a metaphor about window blinds. Truth isn't a switch, he says, it's a set of slats you're constantly adjusting. Closed all th...
Everything We'd Tell a New Leader
Bob and Josh each bring a list for the person thinking about stepping into leadership for the first time. Your why, the loneliness, the burd...
AI Answers Everything, So Who's Having the Ideas?
AI can hand you an answer to almost anything in seconds. Bob and Josh spend this episode asking what that convenience is quietly costing us....
6 Leadership Characteristics We Admire After 20 Years of Working Together
Bob and Josh go round robin, naming the leadership characteristics they admire in each other after 2 decades of working together: generosity...
Life Balance for Leaders on a Hard Sprint
A CEO's LinkedIn vacation post sparks one of our most personal episodes yet. Bob shares the real cost of putting the company first, Josh sha...
Can AI Make You a Great Leader?
Can AI make you a great leader? Josh says no, Bob agrees, and they spend this one drawing the line between the tactical work AI can absorb a...
The 60 Second Habit That Builds Better Leadership Instincts
The smartest leadership tool you've got isn't in any AI model. It's your gut. Bob and Josh dig into why intuition still wins the hard calls,...
Why Great Leaders Get Comfortable Being Wrong
Every leader gets it wrong eventually. The question is what you do next. Josh and Bob dig into one of the hardest things any leader faces: a...
Lean Into the Ambiguity Before the Ambiguity Leans Into You
Bob and Josh sit with a hard truth this week. The change rolling through software and leadership isn't optional anymore. It's not Agile in 2...