[briantakita]

IMO, the worst meeting you can have is the "agile inception". Do not allow a consultant who has no skin in the game to lead an inception. Do not allow them to have a louder voice than the engineers in the project. They can set a tone which is not coherent with the engineering team, which is bad, bad, bad.

I've been involved with a few inception meetings. Two of them had terrible consequences for the life of the project. I got into a disagreement with a high level company executive in one and an "inception master" consultant in the other. They had no accountability for their "guidance" and they nearly killed the projects from the start.