In this episode, Brian Orlando talks with Curtis Lembke. Curtis is a Scrum Master at a Big Four Financial Firm with experience ranging both small and large organizations across several different business domains. We discuss the nature of Business Analysts and their relationships with Product Owners, different metrics that leadership and managers may ask for (and what they should be asking for), and the nature of work as it relates to Agility.

0:00 Business People & Developers Working Together
1:58 BA as an extension of the PO
5:40 BA is not a Substitute PO
8:10 Product Owner vs Product Manager
9:41 Working Smarter
13:21 Backstory Time (Logistics/Trucking)
16:28 Side-track - Weigh Station Bypass
17:53 Customers Paying for Roadmap Items
20:53 Multiplying White Label Mobile Apps
24:11 Hard Deadlines and Agile
26:14 Product Value vs Product Features
29:41 First Product Owner at a Start-Up
33:26 Success and Problems Scale Equally
37:12 Pre-Roadmapping Story
39:38 Roadmapping - What actually happened
42:35 Form Teams to Follow Roadmaps
44:34 Example of an Overloaded CTO
47:11 Roadmapping In-Person
48:24 Throughput and Stakeholders
50:16 Measure Satisfaction over Velocity
51:27 More on Satisfaction (NPS)
53:52 Adoption Rate & Fake Doors
55:12 Lean Startup
57:47 When Execs ask about Throughput
1:00:01 Reasons to Show Throughput
1:02:18 Backlog Health
1:06:35 Customer Satisfaction Can't Be Gamed
1:07:31 Measure Both: Money & Adoption
1:10:09 Ego or Measuring the Wrong Things
1:12:27 Ego or Bad Learned Habits
1:14:36 Wrap-up

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Agile Podcast E21 - Interview with a Scrum Master: Curtis Lembke
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