Arguing Agile: Product Management, Business Leadership, & Org Design

On this episode, Brian Orlando talks with William Lee about their careers in the United States Air Force. Also discussed are the topics of the old GI Bill versus the new, Post-9/11 GI Bill, separating from the military, and some random stories from our military service. We try to tie the topic back to Agile via a roundabout discussion of Leadership as we see it in the Military and in Corporate America. Quick, ask me how well I think we did on that...

0:00 GI Bill
4:33 Being Away
9:24 Separating (Getting Out)
13:55 Air Force Promotions (pt1)
15:28 Unintentional Side-track
16:53 Everyone's a Kid when F-18's Take Off
19:28 Shift-work & the A-Players
24:09 Landing without Lights at Night
25:45 Air Force Promotions (pt2)
27:28 Saudi Tourism
29:57 Mostly about Australians
39:06 Missing Shipments
40:52 Leadership
42:05 Leadership (Open Door Policy)
44:31 Leadership (Corporate America)
47:34 Systems Taking Control
51:14 Lead Start-up
57:41 Training
1:04:23 Onboarding
1:08:14 Corporate HR
1:12:17 Quick Wrap-up

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Agile Podcast E13 - Leadership and Stories from the Military
#airforce #military #agilepodcast #leadership

n this episode, Brian Orlando and Om Patel talk about career progression. Starting from college and progressing to Enterprise Agile Coaching and everything in between, we review the tips, hurdles, and strategies to get you where you want to go.

0:00 College
4:59 Impact of Bad Instructors
7:15 Career Starting Paths
9:40 A Tangent about RPG/Mainframes
12:03 Weirdness
12:55 Career Path into Agility
16:40 What is an Agile Coach
20:16 Value over "Metrics"
22:44 Stability and Quality over Quantity
23:55 Confrontation & the Scrum Master
27:20 When to Coach
31:30 Agile Coaching Backgrounds
33:57 Learn by Shadowing
37:47 Building your Network
43:42 Technical vs. Non-Technical in Agile
48:32 Scrum Master Backgrounds
49:25 Where to Go In Your Career
53:20 Big Thinking
55:22 Team vs. Enterprise Coaching
59:12 You Can't Force Change
1:02:40 Wrap-up

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Agile Podcast E12 - Career Progression in Agile
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Brian Orlando and Om Patel talk about the times when you know its over. This episode we're joined by two special guests!

0:00 When its Time (Om)
1:59 Outstaying Your Welcome
5:51 Car Talk
7:57 Intangible Company Value
9:59 More Car Talk
11:14 Little Things Add Up
12:13 A New Guest
12:44 Feeling Stagnant
14:52 Your Ego & Titles/Roles
16:46 The Case for Stagnancy
19:20 Inauthenticity at Work
22:27 When its Time (Tricia)
25:15 Abuse, Trauma, & Personality Deficits
28:15 Toxic People/Politics & Growth
31:40 No-Win Scenarios
33:54 Now Back to the Topic
35:10 Imposter Syndrome
37:55 Pitching Product Management to a Scrum Master
39:53 The Reason for Brian's Rant
40:33 Extraverted Thinking vs. Extraverted Feeling
42:03 Imposter Syndrome (Continued)
43:24 Scrum Master as a Low-Rent Program Manager
45:34 Wrap Up (& Topics We Didn't Get To)

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Brian Orlando and Om Patel talk about the differences between working within Big Organizations versus Small Organizations (for the most part).

0:00 Introductory Banter
2:01 Doing it All Yourself
4:55 Creating & Agreeing on a Roadmap
7:00 Clashes with Traditional Project Management
10:58 Leads in Large/Scaled Organizations
16:12 Having an Agile Coach at the Lead Level
18:34 When Brian was a Matrixed Resource Manager
22:09 Planning for a Team of Leads
28:13 Example of Non-DEV Work & Tracking it
34:06 Combined/Program Sprint Reviews
36:15 Large vs. Small, the Main Difference
39:00 Planning in LESS, Nexus, SAFe, and others
48:07 Delivering Program/Roadmap Deliverables
51:46 Executing successful UAT / BAT
58:30 Different Metrics
1:01:00 Wrapping up...

Also available on Youtube:
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Brian Orlando and Om Patel talk about working within the confines of the PMO! Whether it is the Project Management Office, the Product Management Office, or some combination thereof, in this episode, we cover it all.

0:00 What is a PMO (Project Management Office)
7:45 Traditional PMO, Day in the Life
13:12 An Agile PMO
18:38 Retrofitting a PMO to encompass Agility
25:13 Nobody wants to do Maintenance Forever
30:50 Agile PMO Operations
40:22 Changing the PMO
47:03 What is a PMO (Product Management Office)
54:47 When the What became the How
56:21 PMO Responsibilities & Career Paths
1:01:01 The Ideal PMO
1:07:43 Communicating Clearly & Getting Help
1:12:43 Bad Life Advice
1:14:01 Customer-centric Approaches
1:19:28 Sprint Demo Clarification
1:22:11 Wrap-up

Also available on Youtube:
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Brian Orlando and Om Patel go back to basics in part two of our walkthrough of each of the Scrum Events! In this episode, we talk about the Sprint Review and Sprint Planning. We discuss our experiences and the different ways to approach and facilitate each event. We also briefly discuss Backlog Refinement which it totally not an "event."

0:00 Design Thinking & the Sprint Review
10:48 Musings on the Sprint Review Purpose
17:40 Summarizing the Sprint Review
27:27 Mainly Nonsensical Banter
28:21 Sprint Planning - the Methods
33:54 Sequencing/Prioritizing Work
39:39 Detour through Micromanagement City
46:56 Refinement Types
52:38 Ideal Refinements
56:00 Topic Wrap

Also available on Youtube:
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Brian Orlando and Om Patel go back to basics in part one of our walkthrough of each of the Scrum Events! In this episode, we talk about the Daily Scrum and the Sprint Retrospective. We discuss our experiences and the different ways to approach and facilitate each event.

0:00 Daily Scrum - 3 Questions
13:36 Daily Scrum - Walk the Board
19:37 Why Do the Daily Scrum at All?
28:47 Daily Scrum for a New Team
33:44 Retrospectives
42:45 On-Demand Retro May Have Helped
51:00 Faux Statuses
56:06 Stopping the Line
1:03:43 Retro Topic Wrap

Also available on Youtube:
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Brian Orlando and Om Patel discuss the riveting topic of Agile Budgeting! In this episode, we compare and contrast Agile budgets versus Traditional budgets. We also discuss the effects budgets have on timelines as well as walk through several examples that could affect budgets (some more than once).

0:00 Budgeting for New Projects
4:01 Old School Budgeting
12:40 The Value Stream Approach
17:10 The Start-Up Scenario
26:26 Timeline effect on Budgets
30:54 Team Stability effect on Budgets
35:42 Capitalizing Scrum Projects
44:46 Release Management & PO Time Balance
49:32 Summary & Wrap

Also available on Youtube:
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Brian Orlando and Om Patel discuss topics related to Agile Teams. In this episode, we talk about team size and its effect on team effectiveness, as well as how to measure the business value of the teams' output.

0:00 Utilization Fallacies
8:25 Team Size (Sub-Optimizing)
16:31 Team Size (When to Divide)
21:55 Tracking Business Value
29:28 Effects of Changing Team Members
37:40 Dedicated vs. Distributed Scrum Master
42:25 Agile Testers

Also available on Youtube:
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Brian Orlando and Om Patel talk at length about Psychological Safety. Later on, Brian and Om are joined by a Special Surprise Guest to talk about the challenges of joining a new team and about unlearning habits as a Scrum Master. Also, our apologies for the audio/video sync problems that plagued this episode. There were some gear issues that will be resolved after some changes.

Contents:
0:00 Psychological Safety
9:02 Jarring pivot to talk "about the podcast"
12:21 Psychological Safety, Part 2
15:55 Executives and Budgeting (and rambling)
25:01 Implementing/Destroying Psychological Safety
34:02 Another non-intro Intro and our Working Agreement
36:40 Joining an Existing Team
43:30 Challenging your Team
51:43 Unlearning Habits

Also available on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEtb70nGz9o&t=2179s