Senior Product Coach Mike Miller is back on the Podcast, joining Brian & Om for a fun and lightweight podcast discussion about the unspoken realities of agile software development!

Get ready to talk about all those elephants in corners - from the unspoken challenges teams experience, to budgeting woes, to inflated titles, to unclear goals and value propositions!

0:00 Topic Intro: Things You Don't Say Out Loud in Agile
0:19 Project Managers Retitled to Product Manager
2:40 Product vs Project
4:17 Truer for Scrum Masters?
10:33 Middle Management is Unnecessary
18:41 Peering is Rare
22:45 Systems over Agile Coaching
27:25 Annual Budgeting is King
34:50 Backlog Managers are the Norm
38:36 PO as Delivery Manager
40:21 Product Goals (Do they Exist?)
43:11 Strategy (It's Hard, and also Rare)
47:23 More on Backlogs & Prioritization
50:25 Customer Value - what Value?
52:05 Value Must be Defined
55:10 PO/SM with Technical Knowledge
58:48 The Typical Answers
1:02:50 Wrap-Up

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