In this episode, Brian Orlando and Om Patel sit down with our favorite mystery guest - Jessica! Doing the hard work for us (as normal), Jessica brings the patterns she has observed emerging as trends throughout her career that hold back or damage agility... and we do our best to discuss both sides of each!

0:00 Intro (but, a real intro)
0:25 Scrum Master Managers (but, evil ones)
7:25 Non-Evil Scrum Master Managers
11:39 Peer and Community Responsibilities
15:39 Quick Animal Anecdote
16:32 Standardization (not velocity)
24:29 One Big Advantage of Distributed Models
26:14 Other Indicators: Quality
27:32 Backlog Troubles
34:56 Backlog Troubles, Part 2 (Not Enough Stories)
39:38 Product Push-back on Sprint Reviews
42:52 Sprint Review Pushback - the Counterpoint
49:24 What's the Point? - Value in Sprint Reviews
54:58 Breaking Up the Sprint Review
1:00:06 Wrap-Up
1:00:38 This Tea!

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AP48 - Anti-Patterns in Your Agility, Part 1