On this episode, Brian Orlando and Om Patel sit down with our favorite Surprise Mystery Guest! Today, we are talking about Sprint Reviews in addition to a dizzying array of other topics including the victim mentality, biases, more effective push-back, a different take on diversity, and muse on why management is so often under-skilled.

0:00 Product Gets What Product Wants
2:31 Effect of Org Placement on Effectiveness
4:40 Pushing Back on Taking More Work
7:22 Setting Expectations (i.e. Saying No When You're New)
8:58 Being a Victim & Reclaiming Agency
12:02 Pushing Back
14:00 The Problem with Corporate Podcasting
14:47 Not Passing Along Your Pain & Defects
15:51 What is Coaching "Up"
17:45 Tips for the One-on-One
20:25 It's Not Stalking (But It Kinda Is)
21:59 Dirty BA Tricks (To Get People's Time)
24:23 The Power of Positive Intent
25:46 A (Totally Not Creepy) Story About Grabbing People's Time
27:10 Most Effective Language for the Culture
28:33 Consulting and Burnout
30:58 More on Positive Intent and Self-Reflection
32:51 Mentor/Mentee Relationships
36:20 Soft Skills are Hard. Hard Skills are Easy.
38:12 Masculine and Feminine Energy
40:08 Musings on Diversity
42:02 Incompetence at the Top
44:31 Thoughts on Management Training
46:24 Musings on Introversion vs. Extroversion
46:57 Sprint Review - No Business Stakeholders
48:55 Sprint Review - Customer Collaboration
50:31 Sprint Review - What to Actually Show
51:52 Sprint Review - Breaking Up the Review
54:03 Sprint Review - Product Owner Running the Demos
56:16 Sprint Review - Developer Attendance
58:53 Sprint Review - Are We Delivering the Right Product?
1:00:22 Wrap
1:00:45 Post-Wrap ASMR Gag-Reel

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