Deliver It Cast

Product Owners need our applications and services to have very high quality when they are released.  How can you help teams build in quality? A very good way is to make sure that test automation is a core part of how the product is built. Having the team spend time on automating most testing tasks for new stories and regression will allow you to be more confident in delivery. In this episode, Paul Merrill from Beaufort Fairmont and Reflection as a Service talks about some of the challenges, easy wins, and other reasons why PO’s should help drive this needed activity.

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Paul Merrill - @dpaulmerrill - http://beaufortfairmont.com/ - http://reflectionasaservice.com/

Paul Merrill - 9 Patterns in Automated Testing

Stefan Wolpers - 10 Proven Stakeholder Communication Tactics during an Agile Transition

Christin Gorman - 11 Things Your Dev Team Wants From You

Geoff Meyer - Large Scale Agile Test Automation Strategies in Practice

How do you as a Product Owner, know when a story is done? Really done. How does the team know when to stop? You know when the acceptance criteria have been met for that story. If it’s not done, then the team isn't done. So, make sure you pay special attention to it. In this episode we talk about the particulars around the criteria, what are some better examples, and the real reason they are there. That way when they start walking and talking, you know they are ready.

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Bob - PRODUCT OWNERS ... STOP BULLYING YOUR TEAMS

Clayton Christensen - The Innovator's Dilemma

Steve Povilaitis - Acceptance Criteria

Courtney - A Beginner's guide to acceptance criteria

Everything you do as a Product Owner needs feedback. The teams, customers, and even the product itself will give you information about it’s current condition. You will need to respond as well with your feedback, but what does that actually look like and what do you do with it once you have it? In this episode, we welcome John Culter to discuss the different types of feedback and what PO’s can and should be doing with them.

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John Culter - https://medium.com/@johnpcutler  Twitter - @johncutlefish

Henrik Kniberg - Spotify Rhythm – how we get aligned

John Culter - 44 Signs you are becoming a real PM/PO

Intercom (Sian Townsend) - Making sense of customer feedback

Intercom (Dan Ritzenthaler) - Product feedback you can act on

Anand Vishwanath - Continuous Feedback in Agile Teams

The evolution of Product Owner practices and techniques can seem like a large mountain to climb sometimes.  The ability to nail the basics, improve upon them, and then not need them at all is the concept of Shu Ha Ri.  In this episode, we welcome back Bob Galen to be our guide for helping understand how PO’s can apply the different levels to their own position. Then we expand upon how to keep climbing to gain a higher level and how hard that actually is.

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Bob Galen - Product Owner Agile Journey Index

Rich Morov - 8 Mistakes as a 1st time Product Manager

Arti  - Product Management and the middle way

Stefan Roock - The Shu Ha Ri of scrum

Alistair Cockburn - Shu Ha Ri

Being a Product Owner for a team is great, so what happens when you have 2 or 3 teams? What about 10 or 100 teams? In most situations today, PO’s will need to play together as a team and find ways to interact and focus on areas of the product they can truly own. How they might interact as the product scales is the focus today.  We look to some common practices, some organizational ideas, and a few things to keep in mind so you don’t hit a sour note for too long.

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Des Traynor - Rarely say yes to feature requests

Ken Norton - Product Managers please make yourselves uncomfortable

Roman Pichler - Scaling the Product Owner

Mike Cottmeyer - Why a Product Owner Team

If there is one thing that Product Owners are either doing or thinking about doing, it’s planning.  There are so many pieces that have to be done at many different levels. How do you know which one to do next? Which one are you doing right now? And how many levels of planning are there exactly? In this episode, we welcome Jeremy Jarrell to discuss what types of planning activities there are and when a PO should think about engaging in each one.

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Jeremy Jarrell - http://www.jeremyjarrell.com/  Twitter - @jeremyjarrell

Greig Cranfield -  Product Managers should growth hack

Melissa Perry - Finding the truth behind MVP's

Hubert Smits - Scaling Agile Process: Five levels of Planning

Tony Karrer - Common Misunderstanding in Agile Software Development ( Planning )

Roman Pichler - Product Vision Board

“I put that sh*t on everything” - I’m referring to kanban and how often I end up using it outside the team as well. There are so many different ways that kanban can help organize, share, and make it easier to show the dependencies and blockers in any process or activity.  The planning around the team and ability to make that work visible is a great way to make sure you can get stories “Really Ready” and teams to “Done Done”. This episode is a recap of a presentation I did at ProductCampRTP.

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Cory Bryan -  Product Owner Kanban - I put that sh*t on everything

John Cutler - Time Management Tips for PMs

Ron Lichty - How to get your developers to love you

https://kanbanize.com/blog/kanbanize-for-event-management/

Scrum is not the only agile

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Interested in joining a Product Owner camp with outstanding people? Started in Europe and now coming to the US, Cory talks to one of the counselors at the inaugural event, Ellen Gottesdiener.  We review the reasons to attend, camp outline, and what type of activities and learning you can look forward too. Think of it as a working vacation with the best program and even a few horror stories to keep it lively. Listen up for a special code to apply at registration just for our listeners. May 19 & 20 in Cambridge Massachusetts.

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Ellen - @ellengott / https://www.ebgconsulting.com

Product Owner Survival Camp USA - http://productownersurvivalcampusa.com/program/

Mark Smalley - Full Product Ownership

Brandon Chu - MVPM Minimum Viable Product Manager

Determining the length of the iteration gives you as a Product Owner, the pace of change. Knowing when to plan, be able to deliver something to customers, and when you can change your mind is all based around the sprints.  By keeping to the timebox, you can build toward some level of predictability and rhythm. While it’s not solely up to the PO to decide, you should have input and discussions with the team and stakeholders to make it work.

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Cory - https://dontyellatme.wordpress.com/2016/03/29/efficient-vs-effective/

Dave West - https://getbadges.io/blog/3-questions-about-being-a-product-owner

Mishkin Berteig - 21 tips on choosing a sprint length

Mike Cohn - Who picks the sprint length on a scrum team

Mike Levison - Choosing sprint length shorter trumps longer