Deliver It Cast

By Cory Bryan

What's Deliver It Cast about?

Deliver It is a podcast for agile Product Owners. Hosted by Cory Bryan and guests bring their experience and ideas on how to improve the role and techniques they use to deliver value within an agile framework. The show brings together relevant news, discussion, around a central topic and your feedback in a fun and supportive way.

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Deliver It Cast episodes:

07.05.2023
[158] - Credit
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....
06.07.2023
[157] - Thinking out loud
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 - ...
05.24.2023
[156] - Q&A#?
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 -
05.10.2023
[155] - The Problem
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...
04.26.2023
[154] - …so that…
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 -...
04.12.2023
[153] - Change your mind
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...
03.29.2023
[152] - Design Four
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 - ...
03.15.2023
[151] - Order of Operations
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:
09.28.2022
[150] - Back to Basics Part 3
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...
09.14.2022
[149] - Sharpen your Saw
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...
09.01.2022
[148] - Ever Finished?
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...
08.17.2022
[147] - Uncomfortable
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...
08.03.2022
[146] - Optionality
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...
07.20.2022
[145] - Best Principles
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...
07.07.2022
[144] - Rule of 3
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,...
06.22.2022
[143] - Boardroom Metrics with Stephanie Tanzar
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...
06.08.2022
[142] - Incentives
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...
05.25.2022
[141] - Degrees of No with Jen Fields
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...
05.11.2022
[140] - Storynomics
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...
04.27.2022
[139] - Budget-wise
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...
04.13.2022
[138] - Product Habits with Andrew Stokzko
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,...
03.30.2022
[137] - Before the Training with Todd and Ryan
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...
03.16.2022
[136] - Hybrid
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,...
10.27.2021
[135] - Learning from Coaches with Bob Galen
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...
10.13.2021
[134] - Theory of Everything with Alyssa Knoll
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...
09.29.2021
[133] - Iterate
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...
09.15.2021
[132] - Speaking with Intent with David Marquet
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...
09.01.2021
[131] - Waste
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...
08.18.2021
[130] - Perfection with Geoff Watts
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...
08.04.2021
[129] - What kind of...
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...
07.21.2021
[128] - Measuring Things
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...
07.07.2021
[127] - Escape the Sprint Bubble
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...
06.23.2021
[126] - Product at Gossip
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...
06.09.2021
[125] - Rethinking Teams
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...
05.26.2021
[124] - Start at the end
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....
05.12.2021
[123] - Empowered with Marty Cagan
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...
04.28.2021
[122] - What Customers Want with Tony Ulwick
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...
04.14.2021
[121] - Talking Trade-Offs
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,...
03.31.2021
[120] - Organizational Alignment with Janna Bastow
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...
03.17.2021
[119] - Scrum Guide 2020
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,...
10.28.2020
[118] - Q&A
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....
10.14.2020
[117] - Speaking in Percentages?
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...
09.30.2020
[116] - PO Maturity with Bob Galen
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...
09.16.2020
[115] - Problem Depth with Ant Murphy
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...
09.02.2020
[114] - Cognitive Bias
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...
08.19.2020
[113] - BA to PO with Lisa Williams
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....
08.05.2020
[112] - Simplicity
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...
07.22.2020
[111] - Security with Jeff Payne
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...
07.08.2020
[110] - Lonely PO with Todd Miller
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,...
06.24.2020
[109] - Empiricism
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...

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Deliver It Cast episodes:

[158] - Credit

[157] - Thinking out loud

[156] - Q&A#?

[155] - The Problem

[154] - …so that…

[153] - Change your mind

[152] - Design Four

[151] - Order of Operations

[150] - Back to Basics Part 3

[149] - Sharpen your Saw

[148] - Ever Finished?

[147] - Uncomfortable

[146] - Optionality

[145] - Best Principles

[144] - Rule of 3

[143] - Boardroom Metrics with Stephanie Tanzar

[142] - Incentives

[141] - Degrees of No with Jen Fields

[140] - Storynomics

[139] - Budget-wise

[138] - Product Habits with Andrew Stokzko

[137] - Before the Training with Todd and Ryan

[136] - Hybrid

[135] - Learning from Coaches with Bob Galen

[134] - Theory of Everything with Alyssa Knoll

[133] - Iterate

[132] - Speaking with Intent with David Marquet

[131] - Waste

[130] - Perfection with Geoff Watts

[129] - What kind of...

[128] - Measuring Things

[127] - Escape the Sprint Bubble

[126] - Product at Gossip

[125] - Rethinking Teams

[124] - Start at the end

[123] - Empowered with Marty Cagan

[122] - What Customers Want with Tony Ulwick

[121] - Talking Trade-Offs

[120] - Organizational Alignment with Janna Bastow

[119] - Scrum Guide 2020

[118] - Q&A

[117] - Speaking in Percentages?

[116] - PO Maturity with Bob Galen

[115] - Problem Depth with Ant Murphy

[114] - Cognitive Bias

[113] - BA to PO with Lisa Williams

[112] - Simplicity

[111] - Security with Jeff Payne

[110] - Lonely PO with Todd Miller

[109] - Empiricism