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Arguing Agile
We're arguing about agile so that you don't have to!
We seek to better prepare you to deal with real-life challenges by presenting both sides of the real arguments you will encounter in your professional career.
On this podcast, working professionals explore topics and learnings from their experiences and share the stories of Agilists at all stages of their careers. We seek to do so while maintaining an unbiased position from any financial interest.
Episodes
240 episodes
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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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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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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Episode 223
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37:49
AA222 - People Don't Quit Jobs, They Quit Bosses - Or Do They?
We're challenging the most accepted wisdom in workplace culture - do people really quit bad bosses, or are they really fleeing broken systems?Join Product Manager Brian Orlando and Enterprise Business Agility Coach Om Patel as they enga...
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Season 1
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Episode 222
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50:22
AA221 - Steve Jobs' Radical Decision-Making: Why Consensus Beats Disagree & Commit
Steve Jobs once said he'd rather fire someone than force them to buy into a decision they disagreed with. This flies in the face of popular leadership advice like Amazon's "disagree and commit" philosophy. In this episode, we dive deep into Job...
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Episode 221
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52:56
AA220 - Why Finance is Everyone's Job: The Hidden Truth Behind Product Failures
Last episode, we talked about Instant Pot's failure via financial engineering that most product teams may never see coming.In this episode, we explore why financial literacy should be a core competency for product teams, not something l...
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Episode 220
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44:59
AA219 - How Private Equity Killed Instant Pot (And Why Your Product Could Be Next)
Instant Pot had $300M+ revenue, passionate users, and $100M cash on hand. So why did they file for bankruptcy? The answer lies in the pattern of how private equity systematically destroys beloved products through finan...
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Episode 219
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1:06:06
AA218 - Palantir's Forward Deployed Software Engineer - Revolution or Rebrand?
Today we're examining Palantir's "Forward Deployed Software Engineers" - and separating fact from the hype!Everything old is new again! Move over companies that have been doing this for decades such as SAP, IBM, and countless consulting...
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Episode 218
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37:27
AA217 - Extreme Ownership: Military Leadership Lessons for Professionals
Today, we're delivering a not-your-typical-leadership-book review: "Extreme Ownership" by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin!Ed Martin joins hosts Product Manager Brian Orlando and Enterprise Business Agility Coach Om Patel for a chapter-by-c...
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Season 1
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Episode 217
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1:32:51
AA216 - New Scrum Guide Expansion: Revolutionary Update or Unnecessary Complexity?
The Scrum community is buzzing about a new 55-page expansion to the Scrum Guide. Is this the depth practitioners have been asking for, or is it turning the lightweight framework into bloatware? In this episode, Enterprise Business A...
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Episode 216
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