In this episode, Brian Orlando and Om Patel are joined by a Special Mystery Guest to talk about Challenging the Status Quo. We discuss typical issues Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches experience in their role as Change-Agent including out-of-control Systems, working with Vendors, and the burden of redundant reports and meetings.

0:00 Intro
0:14 Contracting-to-Perm
3:10 Ignoring Expertise (that You've Paid For)
6:14 Contracting & Perm - More Differences
8:13 Continuing to Challenge the Status Quo
9:39 Time for Budgeting
11:44 Manually Created Scrum "Reports"
14:41 Bashing on Jira & ADO
16:52 More Challenging the Status Quo
19:29 Vendor Teams
22:47 Corporate vs Start-Up (Big vs Small)
26:15 Scrum Master at a Small Company
29:01 Difference Between Status and Status Reports
31:11 Carry-Over Work
34:39 When Teams Over-commit Consistently (another Podcast)
36:16 Segue on Market Position
38:06 Right and Wrong Ways to Challenge
40:48 High "C" DISC Personalities
45:56 Out of Control Systems
52:33 Aaaaand, a break for Taylorism
54:12 Back to Controlling Systems
55:22 Wrap-Up
56:25 After-Wrap (I might cut this, or not)

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Agile Podcast E25 - Challenging the Status Quo