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Jim Benson has been involved with Agile since the very beginning. You may know him as creator of Personal Kanban, as the co-creator of Lean Coffee, through his work as CEO of Modus Cooperandi, his books, or from the many awards he\u2019s won for his work in applying Lean practices to knowledge work. \n\nAfter years watching Agile being misused, misunderstood, and seeing it \u201ccalcify and solidify because of commercialization\u201d, Jim\u2019s new project The Agile Heretic is focused on calling attention to many of the things people are doing that are causing Agile to not work. In the videos and blog posts, Jim takes on a wide range of Agile related topics, he explores why things are off the rails and how to address them.\n\nIn this interview Jim and I talk through what led to him creating this series, his hopes for it and what he is looking forward to seeing in the future of Agile. We also touch on some specific topics (like why he doesn\u2019t like Story Points) and he shares a bunch of great stories (like why a group of developers once passed the hat amongst themselves and smuggled him into their company after their organization deemed his ideas too dangerous to their way of working.\n\nNote: During the podcast, Jim makes multiple references to the Kuhn Cycle, You can find some basic info on it here: Kuhn Cycle: http://www.thwink.org/sustain/glossary/KuhnCycle.htm\n\nAgile Heretic Links - here are two places to get started:\nYouTube: YouTube https://youtu.be/CmfZvdGWKv4\nMedium: https://medium.com/@ourfounder/the-agile-heretic-an-introduction-29992e52052c\n\nJim at Agile 2018\nJim will be leading a Stalwarts session at Agile 2018 called \u201cAsk the Agile Heretic Almost Anything\u201d You can find more about that here:\nhttps://agile2018.sched.com/event/EUEU/ask-the-agile-heretic-almost-anything-jim-benson-jim-benson\n\n\nFor more in Jim and his work:\nModus Cooperandi http://moduscooperandi.com\nJim on Twitter https://twitter.com/ourfounder\nJim\u2019s books on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2LWuhx1\nPersonal Kanban http://personalkanban.com/pk/\nLean Coffee http://leancoffee.org