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Badass Agile

Badass Agile

Fuse Chamber, Inc 508 Episodes Aug 10, 2026

Badass Agile is a podcast dedicated to elite leaders and teams. It explores agile methodologies, leadership, and team performance. The show offers practical strategies for building high-performing teams in fast-paced environments. Listeners gain insights to navigate modern workplace challenges.

Episodes

Stop Looking For Your Old Job – Angela Dugan of Red Foundry
Stop Looking For Your Old Job – Angela Dugan of Red Foundry Aug 10, 2026 52:49 No amount of tooling makes an organization go faster or do better. AI has made that clearer than anything else I’ve watched in nine years of doing this. What it has produced instead is what people are now calling the human wreckage of AI. How I Met Angela Dugan So one day I’m cruising around LinkedIn, in a market where nobody can get hired and companies swear they can’t find anyo
Curry Barker And The Art Of Disruption
Curry Barker And The Art Of Disruption Jul 6, 2026 11:19 Ripe for Disruption In an environment begging for disruption, Agile lost its reputation. It wasn’t because the 12 Principles were ineffective. It’s because we let it fall prey to comfortable, common thinking. Slow it down, make it safe. Don’t shake the floor; just go faster. When we want calm and predictable, we choose patterns. Copy something that works and repeat it. But patter
The Authentic Agile Leader
The Authentic Agile Leader Jun 26, 2026 18:53 The Rise of The Authentic Agile Leader I’m obsessed with voice. If you look carefully at history….THERE IS NO politician, writer, performer, or business leader who got the attention and results they’re famous for WITHOUT BEING BOLD. Like the revolutionary voices of our culture, the authentic Agile leader has the potential to create a new future. It doesn’t matter WHAT futu
The Shift – Opportunity Is Everywhere
The Shift – Opportunity Is Everywhere Jun 1, 2026 15:24 The current moment feels like 'the end'. If you're truly Agile, the opportunities are everywhere. Tech feels like mayhem right now, but that creates MORE opportunity to envision the future, and place a bet on an experiment that could change everything. Isn't that what we're supposed to be good at?
The Forge, Forge, Forge Lightning and Forge Genesis
The Forge, Forge, Forge Lightning and Forge Genesis May 5, 2026 15:32 The Forge Programs: Navigating the End of the Agile Era Nine years of Badass Agile has led to this exact moment. The ground under the industry has shifted. The comfortable era of easily landed roles and endless demand for generic agile support is gone. If you are watching your position disappear or feeling the walls close in on your career, know this: the panic you feel is a signal, not a failure.
AI Agile Hype Creates a Leadership Trap
AI Agile Hype Creates a Leadership Trap Apr 28, 2026 10:30 AI Agile promises easier work, but it creates a leadership trap for anyone trying to stand out. When leaders turn to AI Agile for content, resumes, or pitches, the output becomes uniform and robotic, blending into the surrounding noise. Distinction requires consistent effort in uncomfortable areas: making direct outreach, stating difficult positions, and drawing connections others overlook. AI Agi
The 1 Thing Agile Coaches MUST Do More Of
The 1 Thing Agile Coaches MUST Do More Of Apr 15, 2026 11:33 The Evolving Role Of The Agile Coach Being an Agile Coach is no longer about staying buried in frameworks or cheerleading teams. It’s about getting out of the team room, talking to the business, and understanding what people are measured on, what they fear, and what they need to move faster and create value. Why It Matters When we build regular conversations with the business, we stay closer to re
Agile In 2026 – The 4 Pillars of Leadership
Agile In 2026 – The 4 Pillars of Leadership Mar 26, 2026 16:21 The Real State of Agile in 2026 It’s been nine years since I started this show, and I can tell you this. Agile isn’t going anywhere. But man, has it ever changed shape. Agile in 2026 is barely recognizable from when I started. Our resumes are no longer welcome in recruiter inboxes. Funny, because what we were hired FOR has never changed. Businesses need to move the needle on metrics
Government Agility with Kevin Sutherland
Government Agility with Kevin Sutherland Mar 16, 2026 45:09 Meet Kevin Sutherland of SI Delivery Consulting Kevin Sutherland is doing bold things to bring agile methods to large-scale government. He went from early days with Accenture, through first-hand experience with waterfall and the pitfalls of massive system delivery, to founding his own company focused on state-level innovation. Kevin isn’t just theorizing about agile transformation, he’s in the tre
The Real AI Opportunity
The Real AI Opportunity Mar 3, 2026 13:06 What’s the Real AI Opportunity? You know me. I think the AI thing is a bit of a sandstorm. A gold rush. There’s no question its useful (I use it for a ton of stuff actually) and there’s no question its only going to get better. But in the early stages of any new tech, there’s a lot of hype, a lot of bandwagon-joining, and a lot of waste. (Y2K? NFT’s? Anyone…?) W
Adam Smith of Tension – Navigating AI Disruption and Leading The Unknown
Adam Smith of Tension – Navigating AI Disruption and Leading The Unknown Feb 25, 2026 51:16 Welcome back Adam Smith, founder of Tension, a Toronto-based user experience firm. It’s been about a year since our last conversation, and Adam Smith’s journey through the rise of AI, the shifting value of UX/UI, and the broader changes across creative and knowledge industries made us reflect more deeply on what we actually do—and how we define ourselves. Adam describes how AI has dra
Create A Movement With Your Voice
Create A Movement With Your Voice Feb 19, 2026 14:01 It’s not just an ideal time to create a movement, it’s essential now. Agile isn’t going to rebound to its original shape. Corporate work isn’t going to get less stressful. Jobs aren’t going to become more abundant. And AI isn’t going to save you from anything. It’s not that things are crumbling. They’re shifting. And if you build the courage and skil

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