Podcast appearances and mentions of luke szyrmer

Vasco Duarte and Luke Szyrmer discuss scrum in a remote setting, including how to adapt to remote even though scrum wasn't designed to handle it. This episode aired originally on the ScrumMaster toolbox podcast. Subscribe to Managing Remote Teams podcast on Soundwise

During this podcast episode, Luke Szyrmer shares his experience managing remote teams for years and how he has understood how to boost collaboration and build productive and happy teams.

When working with a team, how do you effectively help each other while knowing that emotions are and will always be part of communicating? Lots of things are being done in a company with all the skills of different employees. By combining the I's to form the we, we allow everyone to show up in the best way that makes them productive. However, there are times when a project feels so heavy because those who are involved weren't able to communicate properly. Remember that communication is also a form of listening. Join us in this episode as we learn how we can work in a remote team while making sure that everyone hears and understands what each person is sharing. Podcaster on Managing Remote Teams, Luke Szyrmer has managed or participated in remote-only teams for almost a decade and has led teams building software, running marketing, and sales. Most recently, he led a program of approximately 30 distributed across 13 time zones and 8 different locations. Luke is the author of the #1 bestseller Launch Tomorrow and  Managing Remote Teams: How to achieve together when everyone is working from how.     In this episode, Luke shares what he does to help remote teams achieve success and why facilitating is as important as listening when working with teams across time zones. He gives tips on how to engage introverts who work in the second language so that the value they bring is not lost on the team.     “If you do a lot of hierarchy, then just be aware that it can filter out important voices or data points.”   – Luke Szyrmer     Listen IN Notes:   00:20 – Short Backgrounder: How playing his guitar as he grew up led Luke to notice the power of listening     04:15 – Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: Luke shares the spark that inspired him to write a book and start a podcast about managing remote teams   09:16 – Lesson Learned: Luke's piece of advice for his younger self in relation to one's tone as we write and/or speak   14:04 – Choose Wisely: How to work with a team, knowing that emotions will always be a part of the process   19:19 – Facilitator > Manager: Getting people to show up in the best possible way, with as much of themselves as they can in work   24:41 – Show Us How It's Done: Luke shares how he structures a workshop-type of meeting when working with teams   30:59 – Bye ‘I', Hello ‘We': Focusing more on working together as you deal with the fear of not being understood   32:44 – Finished or Not: Why it is important that team members have a common definition of the word ‘done' as they hold themselves accountable to that   37:00 – Responding to executive demands: “It then becomes a question about resourcing and not about whether or not the team is underperforming”   40:24 – How Luke listens to the energy in his team: “You ask them. Make it okay to talk about that.”   46:32 – Learn from Luke: One important thing leaders should know when it comes to remote work   54:48 – This Distorts Listening: The hierarchy within a company as something that's meant to be a filtering mechanism   59:34 – Luke talks about his book, as well as his podcast, Managing Remote Teams     Key Takeaways:   “Music is a window into an emotional state over time.” – Luke Szyrmer   “It feels great to be listened to, definitely. It is a way of communicating respect for what someone's saying in addition to making them just feel good about it.” – Luke Szyrmer   “When you are communicating purely textually, there still is tone on what you write, but it is very context-dependent. The same words can mean very different things, depending on exactly everything else that's said around them.” – Luke Szyrmer   “They [meetings] should be fun. If they're not fun, then probably, you don't need a meeting.” – Luke Szyrmer   “It doesn't really matter so much what that definition [of ‘done'] is, from a general point of view. What does matter is that the team defines it and they hold themselves accountable to it.” – Luke Szyrmer   “Most people, when they show up for work, don't go there to do a bad job. They go there because they want to do something and enjoy doing it; they want to contribute to the whole. And my role as a facilitator is to help them do that as a group.” – Luke Szyrmer     Notes/Mentions:   Managing Remote Teams: https://www.amazon.com/Align-Remotely-achieve-together-everyone-ebook/dp/B08RJYH1Y1/  Managing Remote Teams podcast: https://managingremoteteams.co/     Connect with Luke Szyrmer: Website: https://www.launchtomorrow.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lszyrmer Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LaunchTomorrow/     Connect with Raquel Ark:   Website: www.listeningalchemy.com   Mobile: + 491732340722   Email:  contact@listeningalchemy.com   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raquel-ark-b2067613/?originalSubdomain=de  

Recently Worlds shifted to a new business environment and with it also new opportunities and space for new products and services. But with changes also came new challenges, which meant for many entrepreneurs and new or existing business owners to pull up sleeves to have a successful launch in the market. What are the best ways to launch a new product on the market? What are some of the efficient ways to advertise your product in the market? How to avoid the pitfalls of failed product or service launches? Those and many other questions were answered during this episode when I have been joined by Founder & Managing Director of @Launch Tomorrow, Luke Szyrmer. Tune in now and get your answer that may skyrocket your next product launch. ––– FOLLOW LUKE SZYRMER AND LAUNCH TOMORROW HERE: * Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lszyrmer/ * Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/LaunchTomorrow/ * Homepage - https://www.launchtomorrow.com/ ––– DISCLAIMER –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– THE ENTREPRENEUR OR THE ORGANISATION HOSTED ON THIS EPISODE HAS NOT SPONSORED THIS EPISODE, AS WELL AS THIS EPISODE IS NOT SPONSORED BY ANY ORGANISATION OR COMPANY. IT IS PURELY OUR OWN INTEREST TO UNDERSTAND THE ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDSET. Music –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– * Music licensed from http://www.purple-planet.com * Record Player Static Sound - Recorded by Mike Koenig

Links:   Website: https://www.launchtomorrow.com Book: https://book.launchtomorrow.com (should redirect to the right amazon) Hero Canvas Course: https://www.launchtomorrow.com/hero-canvas-reg/   Bio:   Luke Szyrmer is the bestselling author of Launch Tomorrow and an innovation consultant. He helps companies speed up and improve new product development. Luke got into innovation by successfully validating a number of not-so-great startup ideas using landing pages and paid advertising. As he validated that there was unmet demand for a book on this topic, he wrote it. Luke helps primarily with the early or seed stage, by connecting product and marketing together with clear messaging around the product. Often, customers succeed when they quickly identify and discard a bad idea. Also, his readers and customers have gone on to achieve 9 figure exits using the techniques in his work.

Luke Szyrmer Founder of Align Remotely has managed or participated in remote only knowledge work teams for almost a decade. Most recently, he lead a program of approximately 30 distributed across 13 time zones and 8 different locations. Over the last 9 years, he has lead teams building software, running marketing and sales, and launched a bestselling book called Align Remotely. In many cases, with people he never met or spoke to in person. Now that everyone has been thrust into a similar situation, he is keen on helping other leaders come to grip with this pandemic, by sharing what has worked well for him in the past. About the podcast and community  Welcome to the Remote Work Life Podcast, where real-world remote work CEOs and leaders talk about how they hire, network, collaborate and thrive. Join me and more than 5000 followers in customer success, marketing, product and engineering to learn skills you need to work online from anywhere. I am your Host, Alex Wilson-Campbell - I'm an Employment Coach and Tech Recruiter on a mission to help you gain clarity and direction in your career AND uncover hidden jobs through one-to-one and group coaching.  

Vasco Duarte and Luke Szyrmer discuss scrum in a remote setting, including how to adapt to remote even though scrum wasn't designed to handle it. This episode aired originally on the ScrumMaster toolbox podcast.

Read the full Show Notes and search through the world’s largest audio library on Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website: http://bit.ly/SMTP_ShowNotes. In this episode, we explore Luke’s lessons learned when working with Agile teams remotely.  About Luke Szyrmer Luke is the host of the Align Remotely podcast. Luke has managed or participated in fully remote teams for almost a decade. He has lead programs of widely distributed teams. Over the last 9 years, he has lead teams building software, running marketing and sales, and launched a bestselling book. Remotely. In many cases, with people he never met or spoke to in person. You can link with Luke Szyrmer on LinkedIn and connect with Luke Szyrmer on Twitter.  You can also follow Luke’s work at AlignRemotely.com.

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Over the last 9 years, Luke Szyrmer has led teams building software, running marketing and sales, and launched a bestselling book. Remotely. In many cases, with people he never met or spoke to in person. Now that everyone has been thrust into a similar situation, he is keen on helping other leaders come to grips with this pandemic, by sharing what has worked well for him in the past. Luke is also the author of #1 bestseller Launch Tomorrow, and new book Align Remotely, How to Achieve Together, When Everybody is Working from Home, as well as having an Align Remotely podcast.   In celebration of MicroBiz Matters Day, Ian Farrar live streamed (Facebook, YouTube & Twitter) with friend of the show, Luke Szyrmer.   Ian & Luke discuss; What made Luke want to write Align Together Embracing going remote Kids basically being ‘forced to work like adults’ How to be productive Tips on staying positive with your team Designing a way & schedule that fits for everyone The secret tool to innovating online Managing your energy Engaging everyone on virtual meetings Keeping yourself motivated Importance of looking after your physical health   Industry Angel Twitter Industry Angel Website Podcast Sponsors;- Far North Sales & Marketing Carpeway MrFarrar.com

Welcome to Episode 260 of the Yeukai Business Show. In this episode, Luke Szyrmer and I discuss risk reduction and management. So if you want to learn how the foundations of identifying your biggest risks and being able to predict profitability and marginal certainty of your tech company so you can avoid loss, tune in now! In this episode, you'll discover: The process of mitigating risk and cutting lossesThe common reasons for loss and bankruptcy among Tech StartupsThe impact and potential profitability of proper risk management About Luke Luke Szyrmer is an expert in product development and risk management whose accomplishments include: Luke specializes in commercialization across DeepTech, Finance, and Software/Internet. He serves as an innovation consultant that helps both startups and established companies get to market faster with new products. Having built out products that ended up dying to no interest on the market side, he realized that co-creation is the best path to creating successful new products. More Information Learn more about how you can improve your results with risk management among Tech Startups: Launch TomorrowLuke Szyrmer - Amazon Books Thanks for Tuning In! Thanks so much for being with us this week. Have some feedback you'd like to share? Please leave a note in the comments section below! If you enjoyed this episode on risk reduction and management, please share it with your friends by using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of the post. Don't forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic episode updates for our "Yeukai Business Show!" And, finally, please take a minute to leave us an honest review and rating on iTunes. They really help us out when it comes to the ranking of the show and I make it a point to read every single one of the reviews we get. Please leave a review right now. Thanks for listening!

In this episode of the Working From Home podcast, Nelson is joined by Luke Szyrmer. Luke is an author and consultant who is experienced in the agile management of remote teams.Topics of conversation include: common roadblocks to taking a team remote in the agile format, building culture with a remote team, deconstructing societal norms around work, the importance of visually mapping out a company’s organization structure, quality control checks with remote teams, and other topics.[1:02] - Luke shares his background as an international worker, author, and business consultant.[10:50] - How Luke transitioned from a regular job, to working remotely, to managing a remote team.[12:49] - What are the barriers to entry for teams that are interested in going remote? Experience with agile team management, sprints, setting deadlines, etc.[17:24] - Is it easier to take an existing team and transition them to remote work, or to build a remote team from scratch? It’s less about the team, it’s more about the organizational context.[20:27] - What are the greatest difficulties when it comes to managing remote teams? How do you ensure people are working and submitting vetted deliverables?[25:41] - Creating a culture of quality up and down the chain of command.[30:17] - Examples of how a company might prioritize quality in different industries.[32:46] - Luke discusses his podcast Align Remotely, and his forthcoming book on the topic.[37:21] - Reconsidering norms and beliefs around remote work.[42:22] - The importance of visually mapping out the organizational structure of a remote team (e.g. how work gets done, communication guidelines, deliverables, etc.)....Resources Mentioned:https://www.linkedin.com/in/lszyrmerhttps://www.launchtomorrow.com/https://nelson-jordan.com/resources

Recently Worlds shifted to a new business environment and with it also new opportunities and space for new products and services. But with changes also came new challenges, which meant for many entrepreneurs and new or existing business owners to pull up sleeves to have a successful launch in the market. What are the best ways to launch a new product on the market? What are some of the efficient ways to advertise your product in the market? How to avoid pitfalls of failed product or service launch? Those and many other questions were answered during this episode when I have been joined by Founder & Managing Director of @Launch Tomorrow, Luke Szyrmer.Tune in now and get your answer that may skyrocket your next product launch.–––FOLLOW LUKE SZYRMER AND LAUNCH TOMORROW HERE: * Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lszyrmer/* Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/LaunchTomorrow/* Homepage - https://www.launchtomorrow.com/ –––DISCLAIMER––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––THE ENTREPRENEUR OR THE ORGANISATION HOSTED ON THIS EPISODE HAS NOT SPONSORED THIS EPISODE, AS WELL AS THIS EPISODE IS NOT SPONSORED BY ANY ORGANISATION OR COMPANY. IT IS PURELY OUR OWN INTEREST TO UNDERSTAND THE ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDSET.Music––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––* Music licensed from http://www.purple-planet.com* Record Player Static Sound - Recorded by Mike Koenig

In this episode, Luke Szyrmer, an innovation consultant and author of the bestseller - Launch Tomorrow: Take Your Product, Startup, or Business From Idea to Launch in One Day shares how to How to use a product-market fit framework to boost growth. Insights he shares include: How to find product-market fitLuke's product-market fit framework How Luke's product-market fit framework differs from the lean product processWhy achieve product-market message fit as opposed to product-market fitWhy we also need to ensure product-owner fitHow does the hero canvas help understand the customer mindsetWhat framework can we use to ensure product-market message fitHow to prioritize our sources of validationHow to clearly identify our buying audience and offer in order to launch to successand much more

All the profits in your business come from one single source: your customers. No matter how much you know about marketing, you HAVE to understand your customers and what makes them tick. Luke Szyrmer learned all this the hard way. After seeing multiple of his own start-up enterprises fail, he decided to collaborate with his market instead. The end result was a tool called the Hero Canvas. By following Luke's advice, you'll learn what REALLY matters to your customers. You'll know what content they want the most... because they'll have told you. You'll create a visual map of the content you need to develop for your marketing maze. We KNOW we need to be speaking to customers regularly, but the real question is HOW? Listen now to learn more.

In this episode, I talk to Luke Szyrmer; an entrepreneur who help others to launch their products fast by using the power of advertising to pre-sell your product. He is also a landing page expert which plays a part in this process and we will go to in more details about that.

Luke Szyrmer is a B2B technical product manager. He’s a Lean Startup community activist with Lean Startup Circle London, Europe’s largest Lean Startup meetup. He’s the bestselling author of #1 bestseller Launch Tomorrow. He also mentors early stage tech founders. Ian & Luke discuss:- Reasons why companies fail Idea validation Testing/Engaging with the market When to kill a project Validation/experiment cards Buying personas Company culture Pivot or persevere Check out Luke's blog launchtomorrow.com Books mentioned https://www.gitbook.com/book/trikro/the-real-startup-book/details https://leanpub.com/YourFirstStartupExperiment Experiment template http://www.kromatic.com/downloads/experiment-herder-template Other experiment templates: http://blog.strategyzer.com/posts/2015/3/5/validate-your-ideas-with-the-test-card http://blog.strategyzer.com/posts/2015/3/9/capture-customer-insights-and-actions-with-the-learning-card

In this episode, I am sitting down with Luke Szyrmer, an experienced product manager from London, to discuss his new book, Launch Tomorrow. Alex Makarski:  Hello and welcome. This is Alex Makarski with another episode of StartupGizmo. And today, I have with me Luke Szyrmer hanging out with me from London on the opposite end of the pond, but he's sporting a nice shirt that says University of Pennsylvania, I take it. So I guess there's a story coming up. Luke is a sought after authority in all things lean and startup and is the one who runs Lean Coffee events in London. And he is an author of Launch Tomorrow, the book on launching a startup, a tech startup, I presume, that hit number one on Amazon in its category recently. So, congratulations on the book, Luke, and welcome to the show. Luke Szyrmer:  Thanks, Alex. Yeah, it's great to catch up with you. Alex Makarski:  Awesome. So what's up with this Pennsylvania theme going on here? Luke Szyrmer:  Well, I grew up in the area. But I went there a while ago and graduated. And it was a good time and it taught me quite a lot, did economics there a long time ago. But somehow I got into IT and it stuck on me for 20 years or more at this point in various forms. Alex Makarski:  Right. So what led you to writing a book? Luke Szyrmer:  So the main reason is that I, at some point, tried to create a product that I thought would be relevant for hedge funds here in London. It was about the time YouTube was becoming a thing and it was a video website, and aimed specifically at that vertical, which at the time I thought was a great idea and I put a lot of heart and soul and savings into it. And after basically launching it, it turned out that they weren't really all that interested and it didn't resonate with them pretty much at all. And I realized that even though I, from a technical standpoint, had something that was working, that clearly wasn't enough that I very much had a marketing problem. And at some point, about two or three years later, I discovered the work of Eric Ries – The Lean Startup – and one of the things that he advocates there is going out and speaking with customers, interacting with them long before you even started building some sort of product just to be able to really understand who it is that you're creating something for. And over time, the part that I found the most interesting was something that he briefly described in The Lean Startup over a couple of pages, it's using a landing page to test out a product idea. So, it's kind of like a smoke test. Originally, the term “smoke test” comes from electrical engineering. So basically, if you plug it in, does smoke come out of it? So, here, it's a slightly different connotation. So, basically, it's just a quick test to make sure that if you are going to go in a certain direction, from a marketing point of view, there is actually somebody who's there, who's waiting for that product to be made. Alex Makarski:  If it's even worth putting any more effort into it. Luke Szyrmer:  Exactly. Exactly, that's the whole point. And it's a slightly different way of approaching the whole topic than, on one hand, customer development, which I just mentioned because there you're trying to get lots of information and speak with lots of people. And it's also a different kind of conversion rate optimization where you already have something that you're selling and you just want to be able to sell better. And that mentality, that framework, other than that sliver within The Lean Startup and occasionally mentioned here and there, nobody is really covering it, and I realize that it's something worth testing on its own. So what I did was I went to cycle Leanpub which essentially led me start writing a book, basically describe a book, without necessarily having it done yet and to see if people would start buying. And lo and behold, people did start paying me even though it wasn't done.