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  A common behavior that leads to agile team dysfunction is seeking credit. This takes away from the emphasis of teamwork and we should instead encourage people to focus on doing the right thing and telling the story of their work. Feedback: Twitter - email - Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - Support - Links:

Thinking out loud can help to improve collaboration, transparency, and co-creation in teams. By making one's work and thoughts more visible, it can lead to interesting discussions, corrections, and ultimately better ideas that help customers win. Feedback: Twitter - email - Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - Support - Links:

A quick grab bag of Q's and A's as I worked on some ideas for future shows. Feedback: Twitter - email - Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - Support -

For product folks, how do you identify the core problem? How do you know when you've fixed enough small problems to start tackling the bigger picture? And do people who make things really love problems or is problem-solving just a necessary (and sometimes exhausting) part of the creative process? Feedback: Twitter - email - Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - Support - Links:

Understanding the reasons behind the needs of a story, a problem, or a question, helps you learn more about your customers and product. How can you find the deeper issues that exist, you can ask “So that”. Feedback: Twitter - email - Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - Support - Links:

Exploring the idea of what it takes to change your mind. How I changed my mind recently, how you can, and help others change theirs. Feedback: Twitter - email - Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - Support - Links:

This episode talks about an idea that Product folks have some higher-level design goals when we are thinking about things. What are the 4 lenses or areas we are usually designing something for? Feedback: Twitter - email - Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - Support - Links: Kent Beck -

Back with a quick hit on why understanding your customers' Order of Operations for their work is magical Feedback: Twitter - email - Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - Support - Links:

Taking this episode to stop and reflect on the current state of product owners, agility, and lots of other basic information. If you are just starting out, this is a great first episode. If not, it's a good idea to review the basics and make sure you aren't skipping anything. Also looking back on the last 50(ish) episodes and what main ideas came from each one. Feedback: Twitter - @deliveritcast email - deliveritcast@gmail.com Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Support - Buy me a Coffee Links: The Scrum Guide SeekTaiju Links for Product Owners The Beautiful Mess - The Basics Many More Much Smaller Steps Product Coffee - Escaping the Build Trap

Often times the lesson you need to learn is stuck in your head and only crystalizes when you're ready. Such is the case for the notion of sharpening the saw that Bob Galen continually talks about. Now that I get it, I wanted to explore the idea more with him and get the background and tips about how to do that for PO's. Feedback: Twitter - @deliveritcast email - deliveritcast@gmail.com Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Support - Buy me a Coffee Links: Bob Galen - https://rgalen.com/ - https://twitter.com/bobgalen - https://www.agile-moose.com/ Sharpening the Saw in 2017 2019 & Beyond – Sharpening the saw 7 habits of highly effective agile transformation sharpen the saw Sharpen your knives

After hearing the word “finished” more and more over the last few weeks, I started to notice that it was bothering me. I wanted to explore why that was after looking over some notes and asking a better question. In product thinking terms, are we ever finished with something? Would it be such a bad thing if we never were finished? Experimented with a quick and simple way to think through that in this episode. Feedback: Twitter - @deliveritcast email - deliveritcast@gmail.com Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Support - Buy me a Coffee Links: The Myth of The Finished Product Software is never finished, only released Does the pursuit of ‘finished' destroy efficiency?

What could you do to make yourself, a little more uncomfortable? In your work, practices, and thoughts even. In this episode, we will explore some ideas about why you should be uncomfortable, how to challenge yourself, and what benefits might be found outside your comfort zone. Feedback: Twitter - @deliveritcast email - deliveritcast@gmail.com Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Support - Buy me a Coffee Links: Ken Norton - **Product Managers: Please Make Yourself Uncomfortable** Positive Psychology - How to Leave Your Comfort Zone and Enter Your ‘Growth Zone' Michael Easter - The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self Carol Dweck - Mindset: The New Psychology of Success Veritasium - The 4 things it takes to be an expert Dan Benoni & Louis Xavier - Growth.Design Case Studies

How do you know that something will work ahead of time? What problems will come up when a customer uses your product? When can you double down on something that works? A simple way to handle those questions is to keep your options open. Then when you get new info, you have the ability to react intelligently. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast  email - deliveritcast@gmail.com Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju  Support - Buy me a Coffee  Links: Signal v Noise - Options, Not Roadmaps  The Deep Dish - 10 Principles of Optionality For an Uncertain World  Kent Beck - Decisions, Decisions or Why Baskets of Options Dominate  Johanna Rothman - Consider Product Options with Minimum Outcomes  Drunk Agile - Episode 48 Observations of Flow  Simon Wardley - Wardley Mapping quick intro How to build your first Wardley Map with Miro  

How many discussions, debates, or other conversations do we get stuck in over practices and tools? What would happen if instead, we focused on the principles that those things are supposed to enable for us? In this episode, a review of some principles from different disciplines and areas that we can use to guide us. Which do you use already? Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast  email - deliveritcast@gmail.com Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju  Support - Buy me a Coffee  Links: Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit - Mary and Tom Poppendieck  ModernAgileShow#26 | Interview with Mary and Tom Poppendieck Jens-Fabian Goetzmann - Seven Product Management Principles  Mallory Kim - 12 Principles for better UX  How Lean and Agile Relate and How You Can Win by Using Both https://www.hq-digital.com/blog/7-psychology-principles-to-influence-user-and-customer-behavior 20 Psychological Principles That Will Help Your Students Learn More Effectively  SAFe Lean-Agile Principles  YDS: What are the Principles of the Scrum Framework? What Is Kanban? Explained for Beginners.  5 Principles Of Cooking That Will Give You A Solid Culinary Foundation

There seems to be something magical about the number 3. It appears to show up in many different places and in lots of useful ways. This episode examines a "Rule of 3" for the things we do in product, agile, and personal things. There are several other fields that have a similar structure, so why not for us as well? Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast  email - deliveritcast@gmail.com Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju  Support - Buy me a Coffee  Links: Jessica Dubin - 7 ways to use the Rule of Threes to build great products  Dawn Bauman - How to Use the ‘Rule of Three' to Jazz Up Your Writing in 2022  Ameet Ranadive - The Rule of 3  Photutorial - What is Rule of Thirds?  Sandra Forgues - User Story Mapping: what it is, how it works  Tim Ottinger - Waste Snake Ron Jeffries - Do you want crappy agile ( metrics, maybe we should just say no )

More Metrics! Which ones are the most important ones for people that are at the top levels of your company? What areas do they care about to decide if investing more is worth it? In this episode, Stephanie Tanzar talks about the 3 that are leading the way to better outcomes in product-led organizations, and why they are becoming more relevant to boardrooms and leaders. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast https://twitter.com/deliveritcast email - deliveritcast@gmail.com Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju  Support - Buy me a Coffee  Links: Stephanie Tanzar - Twitter @steffitanner  LinkedIn  Pendo - Product Engagement Score (PES) Overview  Pendo - The journey to a better Product Engagement Score  Pendo - Glossary for Product Engagement Score (PES)  Gainsight - Product Metrics Your Board Members Care About  Echometer - 9 agile KPIs that executives should know  Gojko Adzic - Redefining software quality  Deliver It Cast 88 - Working Software  Lenny Rachitsky - Lenny's Podcast Mike Cohn & Brian Milner - Agile Mentors Podcast  Ogilvy Consulting - NudgeStock 2022 

Exploring an idea around the 3rd root cause of failures I've seen in working in a more agile way, incentives. Many times, if the behavior and reasons don't make sense to you, take a look at how the person is being rewarded, or the lack of rewards, and see if you can understand it better. This can also be the secret key to changing how people work, change their incentives. If you have seen examples of this working against you, or altering them to work for you send it in! Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast  email - deliveritcast@gmail.com Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju  Support - Buy me a Coffee  Links: The Agile Angle - Agile Team Reward System  Shane Parrish - The Power of Incentives: The Hidden Forces That Shape Behavior  Mike Bedard - Plato's Allegory of the Cave  Art Bryne - What Incentives and Bonus Programs Best Support Lean?  Marty Cagan and Jon Moore - Transformation Defined  Rich Mironov - Product Waste and the ROI of discovery   

A reminder that *the* most important word for a Product Owner, is "No." There are so many different ways, places, and people that need to be told no that can really be difficult. What about if someone tells you no as well? Revisiting the idea of all the different times, reasons, and ideas that Product Owners can use to say no successfully with guest Jen Fields. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast  email - deliveritcast @ gmail.com Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju  Support - Buy me a Coffee  Links: Jen Fields - LinkedIn  Bob Galen - Moose Herd  Deliver It Cast - E7 Prepare to say no  Saeed Khan - How to say ‘No' as a Product Manager  Adam S - The Art of Saying No as a Product Owner  Dawn Ulmer - 7 Reasons why we don't say no and how to fix them  Sara McCord - 4 Completely Inoffensive Ways to Say "No" at Work (Because "Yes" Isn't Always an Option)  Leo Babauta - The Gentle Art of Saying No for a Less Stressful Life  Chris Voss - Never split the Difference  John Cutler - Mandate Levels Matt Barcomb - Who needs a Product Vision Anyway?  

How often do Product Owners find themselves telling stories? Stories about our customers, teams, and problems faced by both. In this episode, I wanted to share some things I've been reading that help to understand how to listen, gather, and tell better stories. If you are interested in seeing how the best storytellers refine their craft and how PO's can learn from them, listen up. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast  email - deliveritcast@gmail.com Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju  Support - Buy me a Coffee  Links: Robert McKee Books: Storynomics: Story Driven Marketing in the Post-Advertising World  Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting Michael Tucker - Lessons from the screenplay  Sritama Sarkar - Is it necessary for Product Managers to love their products?  Ant Murphy - Why Product Managers Don't Need Domain Knowledge to be Effective 

Sometimes you find a way to hack a problem so well, that it affects most other things you do as well. In this episode, I share a hack I tried out recently and changed my mindset about a lot of things, work-related and beyond. If you are struggling with planning, thinking, or executing something, try using a budget for it and see what happens. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast  email - deliveritcast@gmail.com Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju  Support - Buy me a Coffee  Links: Debbie Madden - Your Agile Project Needs a Budget, Not an Estimate  Ramsey Solutions - 15 Practical Budgeting Tips  Ami Vora - It's not prioritization until it hurts  EP51 - Accounting for PO's  EP55 - Time Management for POs  Jeff Gothelf - 7 Things I've learned from two years working from home  Bruce McCarthy - How to Ignore Customer Requests 

What are some of the habits that product people have? After reading two books on habits recently, that thought kept coming up. This episode goes into the idea of Product Habits, those things that we do with our teams, customers, company, products, and ourselves. Andrew Stokzko joins the show to discuss his ideas and experience. Got a good or bad habit you want to share with us? Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast  email - deliveritcast@gmail.com Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju  Support - Buy me a Coffee  Links: Andrew Skotzko @askotzko Make things that matter - Podcast Andrew Skotzko - How to know if you're interviewing at a product-led company  James Clear - Atomic Habits  BJ Fogg - Tiny Habits  Toby Sinclair - Tiny Habits vs Atomic Habits, Which should you read?  Sachin Rekkhi - Atomic Habits for Product Managers  Rich Mironov - Prioritization is a Political Problem as Much as an Analytical Problem   

There are lots of questions about certification and training for Product Owners. In this episode, we talk to scrum trainers Todd Miller and Ryan Ripley to understand what PO's should know before they attend any training. If you are looking to take a class or get your certification, what should you read, watch, and do ahead of the class. We also discuss some of the tougher aspects of scrum that people need help with.  Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast  email - deliveritcast@gmail.com Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju  Support the show - Buy me a Coffee Links: Twitter - Ryan Ripley Todd Miller  Agile for Humans - Community  PSM II: A Trainer's Perspective - Article Evidence-Based Management - Free EMB Training Course  Scrum.org - Product Owner Learning Path  Deliver It [102] - Fixing your scrum  Deliver It [46] - Metrics Madness 

More and more places seem to want to run some form of "Hybrid" model of agile and waterfall together. What does that look like in practice and how can a Product Owner survive? Is it possible to make this work, or should you abandon all hope if you start hearing this word a lot? In this episode, you'll learn what most places mean by hybrid and some tips on how to do something useful to deliver value. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast  email - deliveritcast@gmail.com Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju  Buy me a Coffee  Links: John Cutler - Journey to Product Teams (Infographic) Case Study: How To Eliminate Flaws Of Waterfall And Agile Development Processes Using A Hybrid Model  Matt Wallart - Start at the end - How to build products that create change Katelyn Burgoin - The trigger technique

Product Owners frequently encounter Agile Coaches in our day-to-day work and some of their tools and techniques can be valuable to us. In this episode, Bob Galen joins the show to chat about what ideas PO's can adapt, borrow, or use that coaches do exceptionally well that can help us to improve our work. If you worked with a coach and carried forward something they did that was useful, tell us about it! Thank you listeners for a great season 7! Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - deliveritcast@gmail.com Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Work Blog - http://seektaiju.com/blog.html Personal Blog - https://corybryan.substack.com/ Support the show - Buy me a Coffee  https://rgalen.com/ - https://www.agile-moose.com/blog - Twitter@Bobgalen https://www.zenergytechnologies.com/ Qualities of Great Agile Coaches  Niall McShane - Three tensions agile coaches learn to navigate  BeLiminal - Agile Coaching Growth Wheel Guidance  Mishkin Berteig - Powerful Questions for Agile Coaches  Giff Constable - 10 Lessons on Making Software  Katelyn Bourgoin - Trigger Technique

No matter what method, framework, or practice you are using as a Product Nerd to break down your work, it all comes back to "what" and "how". At least that is what Alyssa Knoll's "Theory of Everything" says and for this episode, she joins the show to discuss the idea, the post she wrote detailing it, and some things that she's learned since then. What way have you seen this theory put into practice? Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - deliveritcast@gmail.com Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Alyssa Knoll - https://productnerdsonly.com - https://www.linkedin.com/in/alyssa-knoll/ - https://mixir.io “What” and “How”: The Theory of Everything Jeff Gothelf - Output, Outcomes, Impact and KPIs  Marty Cagan - Team Objectives – Empowerment  Spine Model - Intro  Ron Jefferies - A Satirical Website Raises Hackles  David Pereira - 7 Characteristics of Weak Product Management 

All too often what some PO's and teams call an "Iteration", is anything but. Seeing that far too often, this episode explores some of the reasons why and ways to iterate with our teams, products, practices, and selves. Got any tips or tricks to make sure that you are iterating towards success? Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - deliveritcast@gmail.com Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju SmartSheet - The Power of Iterative Design and Process  Jeff Patton - Don't Know What I Want, But I Know How to Get It  Troubleshooting Agile Podcast - https://agileconversations.com/troubleshooting-agile-podcast/ Jens-Fabian Goetzmann - The Iteration Imperative  Rich Mironov - Selling Problems (and Then Solutions) Instead of Philosophy Jens-Fabian Goetzmann - Product Teardowns at Yammer 

The language that Product Owners use every day plays a big role in how successful our products, teams, and customers will be, not to mention, ourselves. How do we change that language? In his wonderful books, David Marquet explores how he successfully used "Intent" as the driver of change on his submarine and when working in other areas as well. In this episode, we take a look at some of the great advice from his books and leadership nudges to move more towards speaking with intent. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - deliveritcast@gmail.com Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Daivd Marquet - @ldavidmarquet on twitter - https://intentbasedleadership.com/ Turn the Ship Around! A True Story of Turning Followers Into Leaders  Leadership Is Language: The Hidden Power of What You Say - and What You Don't  Leadership Nudges - YouTube Ken Sandy - Something Is Not Right in Modern Product Management  Simon Kneafsey - The 2 Best Product Owner I Ever Worked With – The Empowered Product Owner

Product owners see and deal with a lot of waste. It's almost everywhere. In our products, our process, our teams, our daily lives. The struggle is not only in how to eliminate or at least reduce the waste, it's how to get others to know and look for the waste as well. In this episode we will look at what are the 8 wastes from a Lean perspective and what can you do about them. Check out some of the great materials in the links for ways to learn to see the waste and why seeing it is so important. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - deliveritcast@gmail.com Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Paul Akers - 2 sec lean  Kent Beck - XP Explained  Fluid UI - 21 perfect examples of waste in Lean Product Development  Learnovative - How to manage the 7 wastes if agile software development  Alyssa Knoll - The power of good enough  Scrum Alliance - In search of the perfect product owner 

Have you ever been told you're a perfectionist? Is that really common for Product Owners? Is perfection even possible? In this episode, Geoff Watts joins the show to talk about how this is a trait that can sometimes trap us in our work and with our teams. Also, we discuss some areas where it might be a good thing and how POs can leverage it for a benefit. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - deliveritcast@gmail.com Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Geoff Watts - @geoffcwatts on twitter - https://www.inspectandadapt.com/ Geoff Watts and Kim Morgan - The Coach's Casebook  Sean Durham - Why Your Progress is more Important than Perfection  Kevin Wang - The Product Manager's Guide to Combating Perfectionism  Elizabeth Scott - Perfectionist Traits: Do These Sound Familiar?  Julian Treasure - How to speak so that people want to listen  John Cutler - The Form That Stole 20,531,250 Seconds  James Hoffman - Understanding The AeroPress (Episode #2) with Triangle Test  Society of Sensory Professionals - Triangle Test

The simple questions are usually the best. In this episode, I share a question ( or series of questions ) that has been driving a lot of my conversations lately to understand some of the fundamental thinking in companies. Sometimes this reveals things that aren't great and can give a direction for PO's to head in to make things better. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - deliveritcast@gmail.com Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Paul Akers - Banish Sloppiness  Justin Pot - ‘I don't know' is the best phrase for your career  Marty Cagan - The Best vs. The Rest  Forbes - Why Every Company Is A Technology Company 

What is it about measurements that cause so much grief? There's a great number of things that we should be measuring in our product, our teams, and our companies that would benefit us to look at. Product Owners need to be in a position to help see, understand, and explain all the different things that are being measured. If important things are not being measured, find some way to start.  Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - deliveritcast@gmail.com Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Douglass Hubbard - How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business  Freakonomics - Will Work-from-Home Work Forever? (Ep. 464) A Solution to Podcast Note-Taking? Look to the Airr App  David Pereira - Agile manifesto is long gone! We need a product manifesto! Zach Bonaker - Truth, Lies, and Agile

A common anti-pattern is when Product Owners are too focused on doing things only in the current iteration. Maarten Dalmijn has written a lot about teams and PO's that find themselves stuck in their sprint bubble and joins this episode to discuss some signs that you're stuck, some ideas to break out, and ways to make sure sure you don't find yourself there again.   Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - deliveritcast@gmail.com Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Maarten Dalmijn - @mdalmijn on twitter - https://mdalmijn.com/ 14 Signs you're working in a Scrum Feature Factory  Product Owners are great when their team doesn't need them  How to escape your Scrum prison  Bill Skeet - If you Love Design, it's Time to Stop Liking it  Kristen Berman - 4 ways a Behavioral Scientist can help PMs 

In this episode, you can hear a chat with Vitalik Demin the Chief of Product at Gossip, a voice-based social network app about how he became involved in the startup and how they are approaching all things product there. It's a great chance to hear how small start-ups get their initial product experiments and learnings done quickly, and what issues life throws at you as you try and get your product delivered to customers. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - deliveritcast@gmail.com Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Vitalik Demin - @VitalikGDemin on twitter - "What's The Gossip App and Why I Love Building and Using It" Gossip App - https://thegossip.app/ First Round - Don't Serve Burnt Pizza (And Other Lessons in Building Minimum Lovable Products) Marty Cagan - The CSPO Pathology  Adam Bennett - Effective steps you can take to create a winning product strategy

Product Owners will have the most success working with well-formed and happy teams. Creating those teams requires a lot of people working together and figuring out how best to enable them to succeed. Teams and the thinking around them have evolved in the last few years so in this episode there's some new information, some common challenges, and suggestions for how to look at teams now. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - deliveritcast@gmail.com Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Team Topologies - https://teamtopologies.com/ GitLab - Embracing asynchronous communication  FASTAgile - https://www.fastagile.io/method Bob Galen - Elastic Teams  Melissa Perry - Product Thinking podcast with Jeff Patton Isaac Sacolick - 5 Powerful Digital Transformation Storytelling tips

  Occasionally as a Product Owner, we'll get stuck trying to decide something. How to write a story, come up with a goal, or see when things need to happen. We are stuck trying to look forward into an unknown future. One way to change the outlook on something is to reverse it and start at the end. The reasons why you might want to do that and what you might want to do it on, are covered in this episode. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - deliveritcast@gmail.com Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Dan Charnas - Work Clean Jacob Thomas - Begin With the End In Mind: The “What,” “Why,” and “How” of This Powerful Philosophy Shreyas Doshi - Pre-Mortem Meeting Ibrahim Bashir - Onboarding Artifacts Rob Fitzpatrick - The Mom Test

So often the amount of success that Product Owners will have is dependent upon the organization they work in. How they are built, what they value, how they lead and treat their teams and individuals. In this episode, the amazing author of "Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Result" Marty Cagan joins the show to discuss some of the ideas in the book, what he sees as trends in the industry, what is a higher purpose than any agile practice, and why he sees two different worlds of product out there. Even if PO's won't benefit from this where they are at now, you can be encouraged that there are better organizations out there. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - deliveritcast@gmail.com Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Marty Cagan - @Cagan - Silicon Valley Product Group EMPOWERED: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products  AgileCamp 2019 - Empowered - Ordinary People, Extraordinary Results  Todd Lanford - I can’t sell Agile to you (And nobody else can either) Movies Insider - How Pixar's Movement Animation Became So Realistic

Such a simple and fundamental question. What do customers want? How much time and energy do we spend on this most important of topics. Tony Ulwick has been thinking about that very thing for a long time, and written several books about it. In this episode Tony joins to show to talk a bit about how deretmining what those customers needs are is the key to so many things that make the Product Owners job of delivering value a bit easier. If you don't start with those needs, how difficult it is to find them out, and why your product may not be successful. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - deliveritcast@gmail.com Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Tony Ulwick - @Ulwick on twitter - Strategyn  "What Customers Want: Using Outcome-Driven Innovation to Create Breakthrough Products and Services" "Jobs to be Done: Theory to Practice" "The Outcome-Driven Innovation Process - Overview" Michelle Yick - "How to spot a product led company"  Maarten Dalmijn - "How to deal with an absolute unit of a Product Backlog?"

Making decisions as a Product Owner is hard sometimes, mainly because each decision involves a trade-off. That makes people uncomfortable and hesitant since trade-offs are difficult to work through. You can't make everyone happy, and because you picked an option, that means the other choices won't happen. Such is life. In this episode, we'll go through that process of trade-offs, how to recognize them, make them better, and learn from them. PO's need to help your teams and organizations deal with these necessary sacrifices, big and small, so let's figure out how. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - deliveritcast@gmail.com Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju  Annie Duke - How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices  Erin Wilkinson - Using Product Principles to Guide Your Decision-Making  Tyler Sax - The Value of Making Smart Trade-Offs by Airbnb Product Manager  Mike Cohn - Schedule vs. Cost: The Tradeoff in Agile  Jeff Gothelf - Do OKRs Work with Jobs To Be Done? Ruden Ugarte - Data Driven Decision Making is an Oxymoron. Here’s Why 

When your organization isn't pointed in the same direction, it's really hard for a Product Owner to work effectively. You can end up in pointless discussions, working on the wrong thing, and lacking a focus on real customer value. How can we help our teams and others get aligned with the same goals and visions of the company? In this episode, Janna Bastow of Mind the Product and ProdPad joins the show to discuss some of her thoughts and experience with helping achieve an organization become more aligned and ways to check in regularly to see how it is progressing. How do you work toward making sure all your ducks are in a row? Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - deliveritcast@gmail.com Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju http://seektaiju.com/index.html Janna Bastow - @simplybastow on twitter  - http://www.simplybastow.com/about/ Janna Bastow - "Product Leadership: Autonomy, Alignment, and Psychological Safety"  Marc Kadish - "Collaborative Alignment – the ‘Auftragsklarung’ framework"  Brian O'Fallon - "Organizational Alignment Will Make Or Break Your Agile Transformation"  Russell Olsen - “Shipped Is Only the Beginning: The 10/10/10 Approach to Product Rollouts” David Harris/Tom Croonesgorghs - "Bayesian Product Ranking at Wayfair"

Kicking off Season 7 with a look at the updated Scrum Guide that launched in November of 2020. What's new, changed, or removed that Product Owners need to be aware of. If you are following scrum that is. If not, maybe there's an idea or two to use in your own process. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - deliveritcast@gmail.com Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Scrum Guide 2020 - https://scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html Dave West - "Scrum is about Value not Work. Reflections from Scrum Guide Update" Agile for Humans - "What's brewing in the 2020 Scrum Guide Updates" Roman Pichler - "Product Goals in Scrum" Nat Green - "Stop Guessing - 9 Behaviors of great problem solvers" David Pereira - "10 Attitudes of outstanding Product Owners"

Finishing up Season 6 with a Q&A session. Any/all questions on PO, Product, Agile, Podcast, anything really. Thank you everyone who stuck with the show through this crazy season with all the changes going on in your life and work. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - deliveritcast@gmail.com Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Douglas Squirrel and Jeffery Fredrick - Agile Conversations Joshua Kerievshy - Why are component Teams still so popular?    

EP117 [117] - Speaking in Percentages? When Product Owners start asking questions or talking about an activity, what type of questions do we ask? Are they open-ended, exploratory or curious ones, or are they binary quick answers with little to no requests for information? In this episode, we'll explore a small section of David Marquet's latest book and the implications it might have on how the PO's can change the way we search for better connections and data with our teams, customers, and products. Would it help if we starting looking for more probabilistic or percentage-based answers? Could we really make some impactful changes by rephrasing our questions? Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - deliveritcast@gmail.com Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju David Perira - Why many companies will never hire a good Product Owner Janna Bastow - Reframing backlogs and roadmaps for good David Marquet - How to Avoid Groupthink - Leadership Nudge 228 David Marquet - Quality Questions - Leadership Nudge 214 David Marquet - Leadership Is Language Gizmodo - What It Really Means When There's A 50 Percent Chance Of Rain  

It's time for an updated look at a PO Maturity index. In this episode, Bob Galen returns to review the recent changes he made to his Agile Journey Index Maturity Model" and discuss why some of those changes happened. There's some feedback, some challenges, and some learning that we discuss along the way. Grab a sufficiently mature whisky and follow along. Maybe you and your organization can learn a thing or two about Product Ownership. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - deliveritcast@gmail.com Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Bob Galen - Twitter - Blog - www.rgalen.com Bob's Model - Scrum Product Ownership AJI Scotch Whisky - How do you define maturity in whisky? Jim, Kim, Bob - Organizational Agility Unleashed - Getting work done in an increasingly Complex Digital World Marty Cagan - Discovery - Judgment

  How much time do you, as a Product Owner, spend thinking about your user's core problem? How much time does the rest of the team spend exploring ideas and different approaches to solving them? Why don't you spend more time doing that? In this episode, we talk with Ant Murphy about some of the reasons that we need to spend more time, effort, and energy on the depth of our problem-solving. What would it look like if PO's and companies did go deep on understanding, iterating, and experimenting more? Our products will be better for it, users of our applications happier with it, and business will benefit more from it. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - deliveritcast@gmail.com Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Ant Murphy - Twitter - Blog Ant's Sketch - "Depth of Problem" Joe Van Os - The Art of the Strategic Product Roadmap AilgeLeanLife - The 5 Whys technique – dig deep to find the root cause of any problem InfoQ - How Lean Problem Solving Increases Agile Team Productivity: a Mobile Applications Startup Example Alistair Cockburn - How I saved Agile and the Rest of the World Maryanna Quigless - PURSUIT: Framework for your next great product idea    

  The Product Owner's brain is a complicated thing. Some of the practices and patterns that we try to make it easier, can also cause us to miss some key elements or information. These Cognitive Biases show up in our shortcuts or established ways of thinking every day. It's important to understand, acknowledge, and find ways to counter those biases when needed. In this episode there are some of the main ones PO's might have themselves, see in others, and deal with during your work. Have one that you struggle with? Send it in. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - deliveritcast@gmail.com Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Very Well Mind - 10 Cognitive Biases That Distort Your Thinking Buster Benson - You are almost definitely not living in reality because your brain doesn’t want you to  PhD Insights - 4 Cognitive Biases Every Product Manager Needs to Combat  Gil Bouhnick - 84 cognitive biases that will help you design better-converting products  Brad Wray - Cognitive Bias Song  Jeff Payne - Why Setting Priorities Is a Core Agile Practice Savage Books - The Incredibles- Pixar's Dark Magnum Opus    

A common career path when companies start to become more agile is Business Analysts looking to become Product Owners. Sometimes that's by choice and sometimes that is how the organization and teams first move towards using agile methods and practices. In this episode, we welcome Lisa Williams to the show to talk about how she went through that transition and how she has worked with teams and companies to move other BA's into the PO role. There might still be some places where BA's can work on agile or scrum teams successfully. Have any examples? Send them in. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - deliveritcast@gmail.com Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju  Lisa Williams - @lcw927 - LinkedIn  Jacqueline Sanders-Blackman - The Yin and Yang of the Business Analyst and Product Owner Roles IPL - Moving from a Business Analyst to a Product Manager role David Pereira- The road from Business Analyst to Product Owner  Angela Wick - https://www.ba-squared.com/ Simon Bates - Scrum in practice: the role of the Business Analyst Adrian Howard - Scrum doesn’t say… David Hoang - Zoom out of Zoom    

A lot of PO's, teams, and organizations struggle with the principles of the agile manifesto. One in particular causes so many issues, that of simplicity. Adding instead of removing, more instead of less, trivial many over the essential few. In our products, systems, and structures you've seen the added parts that build more and more complexity and complications. Why do we collectively do that? What can you do to help simplify some of those items or start with a simple item to begin with. In this episode, there are some suggestions for how to engage your focus, some steps to work toward simplicity, and tips to keep it there. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - deliveritcast@gmail.com Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Des Traynor - Product Strategy: Revisited Chris Davies - Simplicity — the least understood Agile Principle Ron Jeffries - YAGNI, yes. Skimping, no. Technical Debt? Not even. Cognitive edge - Cynefin framework introduction Christopher Laine - Advice to Product Owners from a Developer Gee Paw Hill - Re-Balancing Made, Making, and Makers        

Another technical topic that PO's either get drafted into or need to know more about, is Security. In all its various forms, needs, and issues, Product Owners need more information about how to work with the team, organization, and users on having a solid baseline and making improvements. In this episode, Coveros CEO Jeff Payne joins to talk about how he has seen the PO help and hurt security efforts, some things to think about during planning and daily activities, and who to partner with to get better. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - deliveritcast@gmail.com Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seektaiju Jeff Payne - @jefferyepayne - Coveros Coveros - From Chaos to Successful Distributed Teams Coveros - Continuous Security in Agile Development LeanAgile Training - Question about the PO, vague requirements and team members HBR - Develop Agility That Outlasts the Pandemic Zack Bonaker - Do you need an “Agile Coach”? Probably not.    

Even though you as a Product Owner are surrounded by teams, customers, and stakeholders, sometimes things can happen that leave you feeling like your all alone. It's a nasty feeling and not knowing who to turn to, who can help, and what to do next. A situation of isolation is something that POs can find themselves in for one reason or another. Todd Miller is back on this episode to share his stories and examples of when he was Lonely as a PO and what he did to find his way through that. We also talk about some studies and information on how some leaders find themselves or make themselves isolated and keys to eliminating that feeling of you against the world. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - deliveritcast@gmail.com Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju - http://seektaiju.com/index.html Todd Miller - @todd_miller11 - Fixing Your Scrum Craft Brewed Agile - YouTube Scrum.org - Lessons Learned from Implementing Evidence-Based Management  Forbes - Do You Feel Lonely As A Leader? Study Says You're Not Alone. HBR - The Strange Relationship Between Power and Loneliness Psychology Today - 7 Types of Loneliness, and Why It Matters Full Story - What Drives Rage Clicks? How Users Signal Struggle, Frustration Online Anthony Marter - Why we need to rethink Product Management in an agile practice    

Looking back at the scrum guide is a good idea for a Product Owner. One of the foundational elements of scrum is the philosophy that it is built on, that being empirical process controls. What is empiricism and how can POs and others benefit from it? In this episode, some of the ideas around empiricism are explored and why they are important. Also some of the related and competing concepts are recognized for thought. If you have any favorite stories or empirical examples please share so we can continue to learn. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - deliveritcast@gmail.com Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Scrum Guide - Scrum Guide Mark Noneman - The Empirical Product Owner ThoughtCo - Philosophical Empiricism Jason Fried - Take a tour of Hey ScrumMaster Toolbox - The PO who threw the team under the bus (Steve Jaccaud)    

As Product Owners, we've helped to understand the customers' goals and found ways to collaborate with the team to build what is needed. One step that might have been overlooked is why would customers care? How do you let them know how amazing your product is for them? What you need is a great way to position your product in the market. That's where today's guest comes in, April Dunford has written an eye-opening and deep book on product positioning for you and your customers that PO's can greatly benefit from. Take a listen then grab the book so you can start winning in your market with her examples and methods. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - deliveritcast@gmail.com Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Obviously Awesome Book  April Dunford aprildunford.com @aprildunford April Dunford, Ambient Strategy - Obviously Awesome: How to Nail Product Positioning Holly MacDonald - April Dunford and Obviously Awesome Jiajia Hu - How to think systematically as a UX Researcher Christian Strunk - How to get started with user story mapping