On this episode, Brian Orlando and Om Patel discuss one of the main threats to not only Agility and Agile Transformations, but general business ventures - ego. This episode was also an experiment in (bad) lighting and cityscape background; we plan to be back in our normal space next week.

0:00 Introductory Banter
0:33 Topic Intro
2:10 Why have Project Managers
5:10 Transformation Challenges
8:06 Sabotaging Agility
9:57 Challenging Gantt Charts
13:40 Utilization Disguised as Capacity Planning
15:41 Work Assignments Destined for Failure
17:46 Management via Threat
20:16 Working with Other Cultures
25:36 Awareness of Undermining
30:07 Satisfy Outcomes not Egos
36:03 Transformation Metrics
37:55 Side Discussion - Technical Deliverables
42:55 Reasons to Silo
46:52 Takeaways
50:38 Wrap-up

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Agile Podcast E18 - Undermining Your Agility with Ego
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