On this episode, Brian talks with Om Patel about when companies customize their implementation of Agile. We discuss our observations and share our experiences with companies that began as Agile organizations and then sub-optimized their agility and also companies that were never Agile to begin with who have customized their implementations of waterfall in order to appear Agile.

0:00 Banter on Consultancies
0:57 Customizing Your Way Out of Agile
4:12 Length of Scrum Events
6:42 High Performing Spring Planning
8:48 Poor Sprint Planning
11:41 Confirmation Bias (Every Team is Different)
13:19 Fundamentals (by the book vs. figure it out)
15:05 Teams - Component vs. Feature
19:37 Clarity of Roadmap Progress
23:18 Rebranding Waterfall to Trick Execs
24:28 Siloed Development Management Mind-Set
28:10 Pressure's Effect on Quality & Culture
31:34 Outdated Management Theories
34:11 Taylorism: the Seeds of Command & Control
37:38 That Won't Work Here
41:11 Example of Customizing Out of Agile
43:30 Dashboards, Not Status Reporting
47:22 Roadmaps & Long-Term Planning
49:00 Budget Toward Outcomes
52:04 Wrap-Up

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Agile Podcast E15 - Customizing Your Way Out of Agile
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