AP39 - Being More Effective with Surprise Mystery Guest
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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