Deliver It Cast

Do Product Owners need to have estimates? If you’re like most people, it’s been an assumption we’ve had for a long time that of course, we need estimates. There is, however, a growing movement to get away from being estimate driven and to focus on more valuable things.  So what exactly is the #NoEstimates crowd on about, and what might we PO’s need to do to understand and support it? On this episode, we welcome Ryan Ripley from Agile for Humans to talk about his view of what it means to not be led by estimates and how to get there.

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Ryan Ripley - Twitter - @RyanRipley - https://ryanripley.com/  - Twitter - @agileforhumans

Ryan Ripley - AFH 020: #NoEstimates with Vasco Duarte

Ryan Ripley - The #NoEstimates Movement - #Path17

Barry Overeem - The #NoEstimates Movement

Matthew Heusser - Why your execs don't get agile and what you can do about it

Don Reinertsen- The Principles of Product Development Flow

Are you a certified Product Owner? Do you need to be? There are many different certifications out there, all asking for various amounts of your money, time, and attention.  If certification is something you are interested in now or in the future, this quick episode will discuss some of the competing ones and which ones you should take more seriously than others. Then you too can summon the vast powers of certification.

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Melissa Perri - Product Manager vs Product Owner

Jason Fried - Why we choose profit

Scrum Expert - Product Owner Certifications

Kym Gilhooly - Agile certifications: Are they worth the price?

What kind of career can a Product Owner have? How do you become one and how do you grow in the role and beyond it? In this episode, we address some ways to get started if you’re interested, ways to look at different opportunities to grow once you’ve started, and what you can do to continue past the role to have a larger or lasting impact.  

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Adam Conner, Aaron Irizarry - Discussing Design

Bob Galen - Certified Agile Leadership

KnowledgeHut - Career Path of a Product Owner

Scott Dunlap - Best Way For A Product Manager To Get A Director Or VP Job At A Start-Up?

Mike Cohn - Career Path of a Scrum Master

Product Owners have you ever caught yourself saying “Where did my time go”?  No doubt you meant to get to that important customer or accept that story, or maybe even try out that new tool everyone is talking about. But something happened on the way to those items, and you’re not quite sure what. You thought you had the time, but it disappeared on you. How did that happen? This episode we address some strategies about better managing your time and share some stories about how you can make better use of the time you do have.

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Wade Shearer - Product Owner vs Manager

First Round - Dear PMs it’s time to rethink agile at enterprise startups

Etienne Garbugli - 26 Time Management Hacks I Wish I'd Known at 20

Henrik Kniberg - Slack

Product Owners have a natural leadership role on agile teams.  We are also leaders in the organization trusted to make decisions, engage with teams and with their help, deliver on a vision for our customers. Many times, it can be the hardest part of the role as well.  To help set up some structure around how to make that vision a reality and to talk about many other aspects of Product Leadership, Steve Johnson from Under10 playbook joins Cory to talk about it and his latest book “Turn Ideas into Product”.   

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Steve Johnson - @sjohnson717

                     - https://www.under10playbook.com/

                     - Turn Ideas into Products

Howard Yu - How Amazon stays more agile than most startups

Ross Johnson - Ten laws to design by

Getting to done is an important step for Product Owners and teams.  Finishing a story, making sure it’s done and then the act of acceptance is a great way to celebrate little goals.  We have talked about items around the way a PO should accept a story and this time, that’s the focus.  If you are interested in the “How”, “When”, and “Why” around on putting the last piece together for a story, listen up and enjoy.

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Joshua Kerievsky - Modern Agile

Jamie Edwards - What Is Customer Effort Score and How Do You Measure CES?

Matt Anthes-Washburn -  When is a user story done

Ram Santhanam - User Story Life Cycle

https://www.quora.com/How-do-product-owners-accept-reject-user-stories

Hearing from other Product Owners is a great way to learn more about the role. There are a great many techniques and strategies that you might want to try or see what works for others.  In the first opportunity to talk with another PO about how they do their job and some potentially new ideas, we welcome Andrew Blue to the show to discuss how “The Dude” aka Dude Solutions, does Product Ownership.   

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Dude Solutions -The Agile Donut

Jason Fried -Don't Promise

First Round -Why Soldiers and Chefs make the best Product Managers

Often on the journey to becoming agile, Product Owners will need to deal with accounting and costs. Determining how much a story costs and how the value related to that story can be recognized is a great topic for PO’s to learn more about.   There’s also some great resources that help us frame discussions with our stakeholders in financial terms.  This episode explores some basic calculations and theories for better agile accounting.  

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Mike Cohn - Why getting to done is so important

Abhishek Madhavan - Why the best product managers don't build the features their users ask for

Steven Lowe - The move to lean accounting

Tom Breur - Agile Business Intelligence - accounting for progress

Michael Stal - Throughput Accounting and the Theory of Constraints

A common theme for Product Owners is how do I get better? The best answer is to get better at the basics.  Inspired by another show that looks at its core purpose every so often, this episode looks at what the basics are since our initial podcast, what might have changed, and also serves as a reflection point for what we’ve covered in our first 50 shows. If you’re a PO who’s new to the show, this is a great place to start.

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Eli Goldratt - The Goal: A process of ongoing improvement

Mike Cottmeyer - The Executive's Guide to Leading a Large-Scale Agile Transformation

Henrik Kniberg - Agile Product Ownership in a Nutshell

Bob Galen - Scrum Product Ownership: Balancing Value from the Inside Out

Geoff Watts - Product Mastery: From Good to Great Product Ownership

In order for Product Owners to help teams deliver value to our customers, the product has to actually be delivered.  The teams must perform some level of effort to get the code deployed and out the door. For that to be easy for everyone, DevOps is a set of skills and practices that allow that process to be automated, error-free, and turn delivery into a routine event.  In this episode, Lee Eason joins to discuss what a PO needs to know about DevOps, why you should insist on it, and what you can do to help the teams achieve it.  

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Lee Eason - @leejeason - Deployability - The NPS of development team health

Steve Blank - The no excuses culture

DevOps Guys - DevOps and the Product Owner

Suzie Prince - The Product Managers’ Guide to Continuous Delivery and DevOps