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Arguing Agile
We're arguing about agile so that you don't have to!
We seek to prepare you to deal with real-life business agility challenges by demonstrating both sides of the real arguments you will encounter in your work and career.
Arguing Agile is hosted by seasoned professionals who explore experience from their careers, share stories, and suggest advice to other professionals. We do these things while maintaining an unbiased position from any financial interest.
Episodes
247 episodes
AA247 - AI is a Poor Team-Player: Stanford's CooperBench Experiment
AI agents failed spectacularly at teamwork, performing ~50% worse than one solo agent!This week, we're discussing Stanford’s CooperBench study (a benchmark, testing whether AI agents can collaborate on real coding tasks across Python, T...
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Episode 247
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51:09
AA246 - The Spotify Model: The Viral Org Design That NEVER Existed
Spotify never used the Spotify Model - and neither should you. In this $2 billion episode, Product Manager Brian Orlando and Enterprise Business Agility Consultant Om Patel take a cutting torch to one of big-A-Agile's most beloved ...
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Episode 246
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54:33
AA245 - Legacy Code: Why Big Rewrites Fail (And What Actually Works)
Legacy systems work. So why do companies waste millions rewriting them? In this episode of Arguing Agile, Product Manager Nisha Patel joins Product Manager Brian Orlando and Enterprise Business Agility Consultant Om Patel for a deb...
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Episode 245
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1:03:34
AA244 - Why Your Meetings SUCK (And How to Fix Them) | Patrick Lencioni: Death by Meeting
Your meetings aren't boring because there are too many; they're boring because they lack drama, structure, and purpose!That's the claim made by Patrick Lencioni's book: Death by Meeting (2004)! Watch or listen as Product Manager Brian Orla...
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Episode 244
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52:47
AA243 - How Corporate Turns Good People Bad: The Neuroscience of Power Corruption
Does getting promoted literally rewire your brain to lose empathy? The science says YES. 🧠In this research-backed episode of Arguing Agile, Product Manager Brian Orlando and Enterprise Business Agility Consultant Om Patel e...
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Episode 243
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49:24
AA242 - Move Fast & Break Things: The Dark Side of Silicon Valley's Favorite Mantra
Is 'Move Fast & Break Things' just permission to be reckless?Join Product Manager Brian Orlando and Enterprise Business Agility Consultant Om Patel as they examine Mark Zuckerberg's (in)famous mantra and reveal how it may have metas...
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Season 1
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Episode 242
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47:20
AA241 - Product Risk: How Assumptions Kill Your Product (and Your Company, Eventually)
Stop wasting time building the wrong thing faster!In this episode of Arguing Agile, Product Manager: Brian Orlando and Business Agility Coach to THE STARS: Om Patel respond to yet another listener question, discussing Product Risk Analy...
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Episode 241
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53:01
AA240 - Why Product Managers & Solution Architects Are Always at War (And How to Fix It)
Is your solution architect a gatekeeper or an enabler? Join Product Manager Brian Orlando and Enterprise Business Agility Consultant Om Patel as they draw from their experiences to debate the reasons these roles - which should be n...
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Episode 240
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1:02:20
AA239 - Why Your Company Never Learns from Lost Deals (And How to Fix It)
Lost a $2M deal and nobody discussed why? You're not alone!Your company is running on hope, not learning.Product Manager Brian Orlando and Enterprise Business Agility Consultant Om Patel are discussing the potentially career-lim...
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Episode 239
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47:10
AA238 - 23 Business Models Everyone Should Know, Part 2 of 2
Discover how the world's most profitable companies actually make money, from Tesla to Amazon to ChatGPT. Join Product Manager Brian Orlando and Enterprise Business Agility Consultant Om Patel as they continue to explore the 23 busi...
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Episode 238
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1:16:52
AA237 - 23 Business Models Everyone Should Know, Part 1 of 2
12 proven business models that separate successful products from failures!Product Manager Brian Orlando & Enterprise Business Agility Consultant Om Patel examine 12 real-world business models with real examples of the companies that ...
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Season 1
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Episode 237
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1:30:25
AA236 - Why Product Managers Should Own Pricing (Not Sales or Execs)
Debating why pricing belongs in product management's hands, not sales or finance.Product Manager Brian and Enterprise Business Agility Coach Om are rankling egos as they discuss a heated debates: who should own pricing decisions? Listen...
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Episode 236
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56:16
AA235 - Changing Your Message: Adaptive vs. Manipulative Communication
When does adapting your communication style cross the line into manipulation? Join Product Manager Brian Orlando and Enterprise Business Agility Coach Om Patel as we examine the differences between translation and transformation of...
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Episode 235
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1:00:24
AA234 - When Teams Refuse Coaching, What Works, And When to Walk Away
What do you do when you're assigned to coach a team that clearly doesn't want your help? In this episode, we tackle the uncomfortable reality of coaching unwilling teams—from building trust with resistant groups to knowing when it's time to wal...
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Episode 234
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1:08:23
AA233 - Building Your Own Product: Ultimate PM Hack or Career Sabotage?
Building products for yourself sounds like the perfect PM training ground!At first glance, you get instant feedback, prioritize ruthlessly, and have no bureaucracy to whom you answer... but does it actually prepare you for professional ...
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Episode 233
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1:00:35
AA232 - Product Sense: Innate or Learnable? The Million Dollar Question
Is product sense innate or learnable? We debate the million dollar question in product management.Brian and Om explore whether great product leaders are born or made, why organizations promote people with weak product intuition, and how...
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Season 1
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Episode 232
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1:06:38
AA231 - Real Strategies to Help Influence Without Authority
You're expected to drive transformation but can't fire anyone. You need to deliver results but don't control budgets. Welcome to the reality of leading software development efforts - all responsibility, zero authority.Join Enterprise Bu...
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Episode 230
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45:07
AA230 - The Human Cost of M&A: When Good People Turn Against Each Other
Ever wondered why mergers and acquisitions turn good people against each other? In this deep dive, we explore the systematic destruction of workplace relationships after an M&A. From sponsors-turned-foes to informa...
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Episode 230
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1:11:22
AA229 - Build First: The Dumbest Take of 2025?
Join Product Manager Brian and Enterprise Consultant Om as they peel back the sticky veneer from the "Build First" trend sweeping through product development. Listen or watch as we debate the message being projected by AI tool vendors (who...
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Episode 229
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57:19
AA228 - Product Management: The Impossible Job - Is the PM role fundamentally broken?
Is Product Management the most unrealistic job description ever created? Product Managers are supposed to be the "CEO of the product" - a one-person army who is CEO, therapist, engineer, and strategist (all without equity or author...
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Season 1
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Episode 228
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49:10
AA227 - Tired of Repeating Yourself? Fixing Broken Communications!
In this episode of Arguing Agile, Brian and Om explore the frustrating reality of constant repetition in leadership roles. They discuss why product managers, agile coaches, and team leads find themselves saying the same things over and over - a...
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Episode 227
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AA226 - If Agile Really is Dead: What Agile Professionals Should Do Next
The agile brand may have become toxic, but your skills haven't lost value. If you're struggling - listen or watch as we discuss the valuable skills you have and how you might apply them in future roles. Founder & C...
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Episode 226
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57:09
AA225 - The Team That Got You Here: Navigating Growth and Team Evolution
Your founding team delivered your first million-dollar quarter - but can they scale you to $10 million and beyond? Join Enterprise Business Agility Consultant Om Patel and Product Manager Brian Orlando as we talk through the challe...
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Episode 225
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49:15
AA224 - QA is the Bottleneck? | Why Your Testing Team Isn't the Real Problem
Is your QA team really slowing down delivery, or are they just revealing the cracks in your development process? In this episode of Arguing Agile, we're talking about one of the most persistent myths in software development and reveal why QA te...
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Episode 224
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37:31
AA223 - People Don't Quit Jobs, They Quit Bosses! Part II
People don't quit jobs - they quit bad bosses... OR DO THEY?!? We had so many untouched debate points from our first episode that it would have been a crime - A CRIME - to throw it all away. So we decided to do a part 2! <...
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Episode 223
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