Arguing Agile: Product Management, Business Leadership, & Org Design

Building and maintaining a Product Roadmap can be an infinitely complex task - or it can be easy. What are the challenges and how might we overcome them are the questions we tackle in this episode of the Arguing Agile Podcast.

#productmanagement #agile #career 

0:00 Why This Topic?
1:24 Starting in the Right/Wrong Place
3:24 Down the Hierarchy
6:01 The Difficulty of Mission & Vision
8:00 Building Alignment
9:56 Alignment & Incentives
13:02 Speaking Different Languages
16:19 Disagreeing on Mission/Vision
19:26 Delivering on Strategy
21:21 Examples of Mission & Vision
24:20 Build Me A Roadmap
26:22 Roadmap Format Examples
30:04 Takeaways
32:14 Why Don't I Just Make It Up Myself?
35:03 Step Back for Perspective
39:35 Future Podcast Musings
41:56 Shaky Wrap-Up
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AA103 - Challenges to Building a Product Roadmap

An anti-pattern is a common response to a recurring problem that is usually ineffective and risks being highly counterproductive.

On this episode, we take a look at 13 Backlog Anti-patterns!

0:00 Topic Intro
0:28 1. Prioritization by Proxy
4:36 Tangent on "By Proxy"
5:49 2. The Oversized Product Backlog
11:16 3. Outdated Issues
13:58 4. Everything is Detailed and Estimated
16:42 5. INVEST?
20:14 6. Missing Acceptance Criteria
22:02 7. 100% In Advance
26:35 8. No More Than a Title
30:41 9. Storage for Ideas
34:28 10. Part-Time PO
35:48 11. Copy & Paste PO
37:17 12. Dominant PO (Spoiler Alert, We Skip It)
38:43 13. The "I Know It All" PO
41:52 Go-Back: 12. Dominant PO
45:29 Wrap-Up
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AA102 - Backlog Antipatterns #agile #productmanagement #podcast

On this episode, we take three arguably unrelated topics from our list that didn't get their own episodes and bring them together. We believe that each of these topics deserve a bit of attention and we present them here in the style of the Jeopardy category: Potpourri!

Welcome, to the mélange de conversation agile: Accountability, Prioritizing Technical Debt, & Product Cannibalization.

0:00 Intro
0:18 Topic 1: Agilists Never Take Accountability
2:22 What is Accountability
4:43 Product Accountability
6:06 Mindset, Failure, and Blame
7:49 Defending the Declaration
10:02 Self-Management
12:05 Scrum Master as Leadership
13:43 Topic 2: Product's Input on Technical Matters
15:52 Digging Into an Example
18:41 Pitching the Idea to Product
19:52 Challenging Product
23:37 Craftsmanship & Code Comments
28:31 Topic 3: Multiple Products & Cannibalization
30:49 Word & Excel as Examples
33:58 Vision, Strategy, & Goals
36:59 I'M A (Data) WIZARD
39:19 Products that are Everything to Everyone
41:29 User Segmentation
44:47 Wrap-up
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AA101 - Accountability, Prioritizing Technical Debt, & Product Cannibalization

On this episode, we talk about the book Mindset by Carol Dweck, PhD with guest Ed Martin.

0:00 Two Quotes
0:19 Topic Intro - Mindset
1:32 The Fixed Mindset
3:05 Growth Mindset
4:25 Changing Your Mind
5:35 Being Flawless
8:05 Doing Hard Things
9:51 The Drawing Example
11:56 Failure WILL Happen
12:58 Continuous Learning
13:49 Bowling Example
15:37 Business Equivalent of the Bowling Example
17:25 Failure & Feedback
19:02 Getting Around Negative Type Praise
20:57 Coachable People & Leaders
23:15 Remote Work
27:00 Remote Work: Example of Mindset
29:27 Blame = Failure
32:32 Learning Over Blame
35:09 Sailboat Retro
37:12 Stormy-cast
38:22 Women in STEM
42:34 The Scrum Master's Dilemma
45:15 Chapter 5 - Mindset & Leadership
48:52 Brutal Bosses
51:37 The Gemba Walk & Culture
54:47 Taylorism & Rewards
56:39 Profit Sharing
58:11 HR
1:00:04 Mindset for Managers
1:01:25 Where Will Leaders Come From
1:06:43 Crossing the Chasm (of Leadership & Being Remote)
1:10:53 Choosing Mindset
1:14:20 Wrap-Up

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AA100 - Mindset by Carol Dweck, PhD (with Ed Martin)

Do you want to know all the secrets to being a better, more respected Agile Coach?

If so, then this podcast is for you! In this episode, Enterprise Agile Coach reveals the secrets of Agile Coaching success to Product Manager Brian Orlando.

0:00 Intro
0:21 Topic Intro
0:36 Have a Vision
3:12 What's a Vision?
5:21 Courage
7:29 Courage, but with Impact
12:17 Asking for Help
13:57 Communicate Like a Doctor
17:25 Scrum Master Coaching Metrics
21:20 Projecting Confidence
24:36 Evidence = Confidence
27:45 Enthusiasm is Infectious
29:59 Mindset
31:48 Communicating Through Questions
37:29 Process Vision
38:54 Summary
39:55 Wrap-Up

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AA99 - How to be a More Respected Agile Coach #ArguingAgile #agile #podcast

Do B2C and B2B Product Managers need different skills?

Product Manager Brian Orlando kicks this podcast off by telling the story of how he once missed out on an opportunity because of this question. Enterprise Agile Coach Om Patel joins to weigh in on this discussion, adding how B2B and B2C might be change the way teams work.

0:00 Topic Intro
0:59 Reading the Post
1:31 Core & Product-Specific Skills
3:09 Skills vs Traits
6:32 Building the Argument
9:32 Feedback
12:34 Contracts
13:49 B2B Stakeholder Management
15:49 The PM Books Experiment
18:48 Finding the Early Adopters
22:52 Common Pro-Difference Points
25:57 Differences
32:19 Metrics
33:39 Dealing with People
36:25 User Personas
40:06 Building Crap - A Risky Portfolio
42:33 Let's Talk Strategy
43:51 Logical and Rational Reasoning
48:09 Custom Requests
54:37 Conclusion
57:12 Wrap-up

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AA98 - Are B2C and B2B Product Management Different Skills? #ArguingAgile #agile #podcast

In the agile software development discipline, the customer is represented by two separate yet equally important groups: The Business, who brings WHAT to build, and the team(s), who decide HOW it gets built. These are their stories.

Cue the Law and Order "DUN-DUN!"

On this episode, Product Manager Brian Orlando and Enterprise Agile Coach Om Patel talk about the two cycles that exist in product development, the "what" and the "how." We discuss how they should function in small, medium, and large businesses and the common dysfunctions that growth brings to the cycles.

0:00 Topic Intro: The How & the What
1:34 Small Companies
3:40 The First Product Manager
4:43 Small Company Issues
9:27 Process Changes
10:28 Selling Brian & Om's Small Business
13:29 Brian's Logistics - My New Company!
15:11 Dispatchers & Drivers, a Love Story
17:30 Segmenting by Expertise
20:20 Focus - Owning Product
22:27 Enter Product - Enter Problems
25:40 Starting New (or Like New)
27:47 Getting Outside Help
30:25 Coaching Leadership
33:09 The Ideal Scenario
36:49 Multi-Product How/What
40:13 Rapid Expansion or Growth
41:52 Now, You're BIG
49:19 Summary

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AA97 - The What & the How: Two Sides of Software Development

Today, we're talking about the things we don't talk about - transformations!

On this episode, Product Coach Mike Miller joins Product Manager Brian Orlando and Enterprise Agile Coach Om Patel to talk about moving from a Project-led organization to one that is more Product-led.

0:00 Failed Intro
0:13 The Real Intro
0:36 Where Did This Come From?
1:44 What's Wrong with Projects?
2:56 Physical Products and Risk Tolerance
7:11 Services that Also Have Products
9:34 Products with Services
11:30 Brian's Product-Led Pitch
12:29 Exploring Manufacturing Roots
14:53 Arguing on Silos
16:52 Customer Delight
19:11 Project-Led Impact
23:13 Crossing the Chasm
25:08 Breaking Annual Budgeting / Breaking Command-and-Control
27:42 Customer Centricity, Product Definition
29:15 Autonomy
31:18 You Can't Scale Bad Stragegy (or No Strategy)
33:24 Starting with Product Management
37:34 Two Different Worlds
39:26 Top Things to Do
41:59 Fix Budgeting or Nothing Will Stick
47:19 Leadership - Learning

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AA95 - Project-Led to Product-Led (with Product Coach Mike Miller)

The most successful leaders have the ability to get people working together.

Why is it then, so many organizations have cultures where people are discouraged from working together (for example, development teams where they don't peer program)?

On this episode, Product Manager Brian Orlando and Enterprise Agile Coach Om Patel talk about getting people to work together without using the word collaboration.

0:00 An Interesting Exchange...
1:05 Who Benefits from this Podcast?
2:17 Everything is Priority-One
4:09 Why the Problem?
5:51 Chaotic Organizations
8:43 Transparency vs Covert Backlogs
11:27 A Theoretical (but very real) Scenario
13:41 Om's Response to the Theoretical Scenario
17:29 How to Focus
19:11 How to Focus - Business/Leadership Edition
21:10 Alignment & Communication
23:30 Mergers & Acquisitions (Product End-of-Line)
24:55 Blockers vs Impediments
30:52 Example of Impediments
33:20 Scrum Masters & Impediment Removal
35:45 Streams of Work
38:19 Assigned To - How it Should Work
42:00 Accountability & Business Categories
44:35 Challenges to Collaboration
45:46 Promting the Team To Collaborate More
47:50 Testers
49:27 The View that XP Work is "Not Work"
51:47 Changing the Mindset
55:01 Wrap-Up

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AA94 - Don't Say Collaboration