Agile practice for delivery work.
Agile in Action with Bill Raymond is a practitioner-focused interview show about applying Agile ideas inside organizations. Recent conversations move from human-centered AI automations and Scrum basics to regulated robotics prototyping, product-team traps, business pivots, and project professionalism.
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Agile in Action with Bill Raymond is a practical interview show built around Agile as it is used in organizations, projects, and product teams. The show’s recent conversations place Agile beside AI, learning design, regulated work, business pivots, and product management. Bill Raymond tends to begin with a guest’s current work and then steer toward process choices, team behavior, and implementation tradeoffs. The result is less theory recital than workplace translation. In the AI episodes, the show looks at human-centered automations, agentic workflows, Copilot tools, and the limits of machine-generated learning content. It also keeps asking where human judgment still belongs. In the Agile and Scrum material, the emphasis is on guardrails, basic principles, growth mindset, and making teams more self-sufficient. The show’s project-management conversations broaden that frame into project professionalism, competence, and organizational maturity. It is comfortable with technical and operational detail. It is also careful to connect that detail back to people doing the work. The robotics-prototyping conversation brings Agile into a federal and regulated setting, including the tension between contract specificity and learning during development. Business-change episodes add a company perspective, especially around moving from consulting work toward product development. Product-management episodes bring in value, experimentation, and the traps teams can fall into when delivery becomes detached from outcomes. The show also covers Scrum in AI and scaling product teams, with guests discussing work across software, hardware, industrial, automotive, pharma, and other organizational settings when those details appear in conversation. The pacing is professional and accessible. It assumes interest in delivery, but it does not require every listener to be a Scrum specialist. Questions are usually plainspoken, and the guests are given room to define terms before moving into examples. That makes the show useful for mapping Agile language onto current business problems. It is especially strong when AI tools meet the older questions of team structure, quality control, and accountable delivery. Across the episodes provided, Agile in Action works as a bridge between Agile vocabulary and the complicated settings where that vocabulary has to earn its keep.
Made for: Suits a listener who works around projects, products, software teams, AI adoption, training, or organizational change and wants concrete practitioner conversation. It also fits someone building Agile fluency without wanting a purely introductory show.
What sets it apart: The show sets Agile beside current implementation problems such as AI automations, learning platforms, federal robotics prototyping, and product value work. Its interviews keep returning to how teams actually decide, adapt, and maintain quality.
The Agile in Action podcast is hosted by Bill Raymond and features top industry leaders who share how they are adopting agile techniques to gain a competitive edge. The show features authors, agile practitioners, and teams working in the trenches that are eager to share how they are delivering a high level of value to their customers. Bill is an award-winning speaker, agile transformation leader, consultant, author, and trainer. Bill runs two popular podcasts, the Agile in Action Podcast with Bill Raymond and the T-Suite Podcast. Bill is the CEO of Cambermast, a strategic business consulting firm that helps clients deliver their most critical projects.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wi…
A robotics prototype meets a government contract, and Bill Raymond asks where the wiggle room went.
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A grounded look at agentic workflows, autonomous handoffs, and the value of starting small.
Bill Ryan, founder and partner at Sync AI, keeps human-centric AI automation grounded by moving past broad talk of agentic AI and into the workflows that make it useful.
A grounded look at using AI to speed up training design without giving up the editorial eye.
AI's role in online education lands here as a matter of editorial judgment, not replacement. Bhavneet Chahal, co-founder and CEO at GoSkills, frames the platform around bite-sized courses for career growth and a learning management system for companies building internal…
A clear beginner's guide to Agile practice, grounded in Jira, team routines, and steady confidence.
Agile in Action frames Learn Agile and Scrum in Two Hours as a practical starting point for listeners new to the field. Bill Raymond's conversation with Luke Pivac keeps the focus on usable fundamentals: Agile and Scrum principles as guard rails, information radiators in Jira,…
A project mindset becomes an organizational skill when change crosses functions.
This episode treats change as a practical test for project professionals, then opens up a wider question: how much project discipline should sit across the whole organization.
For federal teams, AI readiness includes leaving contracts enough room to learn.
Federal robotics prototyping turns into an acquisition story when agile teams have to learn inside regulated government contracts. On Agile in Action, Bill Raymond talks with Captain John Hasse, a Navy program manager at the Expeditionary Missions Program Office, PMS 408 in…
Power Platform news with practical static.
Bill Ryan, founder and partner at Sync AI, links his AI background to five years at Microsoft and the rise of Copilot, Copilot Studio, and agentic workflows inside the Office platform.
Bill Raymond speaks with Bhavneet Chahal, co-founder and CEO of GoSkills, about how the platform has used microlearning since 2013 with three-to-five-minute videos, cheat sheets, exercises, and a three-question quiz.
Bill Raymond talks with Luke Pivac about Learn Agile and Scrum in Two Hours, a beginner-focused book that he says he read in two hours before the interview.
Professor Adam Boddison, CEO of the Association for Project Management, says the world needs project professionals because AI, geopolitical turbulence, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals are driving change faster than organizations can staff it.
Captain John Hasse, a Navy program manager at PMS 408 in NAVSEA, describes how his team develops prototypes, tests them, and fields robotic systems for explosive hazards.
Bill Raymond interviews Millis co-founders Vazgen Tadevoisian and Edik Bargdasarian about moving a four-year-old consulting firm toward its own product, a Counter-Strike skin marketplace.
Allan Kelly defines OKRs as objectives with key results that describe success, and calls them a form of "test first management." He distinguishes top-down legacy OKRs from Agile OKRs that give teams a voice in how company goals are met.
Douglas Squirrel describes the Cynefin framework as a way to decide whether a problem is simple, complicated, complex, or chaotic.
David Pereira discusses the role of a product manager in uncovering value and avoiding traps along the value trail.
Paolo Sammicheli discusses scaling AI product teams using Scrum, drawing from his experience in hardware and software industries.
Gil Broza discusses how Agile principles can be adapted for non-software teams, emphasizing a mindset over rigid frameworks.
Aaron Upright discusses how AI can improve efficiency and accuracy in Agile software development teams, drawing from his experience as co-founder of ZenHub.
Bill Raymond interviews Pia Wendelbo about the human side of digital transformation, emphasizing a holistic approach that includes neuroscience and culture.