Deliver It Cast

Even though it’s a team meeting, the stand up gives the Product Owner a great opportunity to learn and listen to the work in progress. As PO’s, we should be looking for the chance to discuss the why, clarify what you meant, or approve of a story that is done. Today’s episode has some strategies you can use to contribute to the meeting, tips to make sure you don’t take it over, and tricks to make sure the focus stays on the team.  

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Links:

Co-host Post - http://deliveritcast.com/looking-for-a-new-co-host

Jason Yip - http://martinfowler.com/articles/itsNotJustStandingUp.html

Tom Cagley - https://tcagley.wordpress.com/2016/03/15/beginning-agile-active-passive-and-inattentive-listening/

Debbie Madden - 4 tips for launching minimum viable products inside big companies

Dr Jim - http://theaccidentalpm.com/z-product/how-do-you-manage-a-product-that-is-a-massive-hit

As a Product Owner, you need the ability to move fast, change things, and experiment with new ideas. Having a robust testing culture and skill set on the team allows you to be able to accomplish that.  Testers give you the confidence to deliver, the ability to let you know when something is going wrong, and any areas you need to focus more on.  On this episode, Mary Thorn joins me to discuss how PO’s can partner and collaborate better with testers and test managers and how we can support them.

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Links:

Co-host Post - http://deliveritcast.com/looking-for-a-new-co-host

Mary Thorn - @maryhthorn

Mary’s Book - http://www.amazon.com/Three-Pillars-Agile-Quality-Testing/dp/0988502631

Donald Sull - Simple Rules Thrive Complex World

Scott Pobiner - A letter to all founders product owners

Bob Galen - A testers guide to collaborating with product owners

Like it or not, Product Owners need to have some kind of estimate.  Understanding the complexity, size, and when something can be delivered to your customers takes some effort to create. Helping the team get to a point where they are knowledgeable and comfortable giving their best guess is the topic of this episode.  It’s often a challenging process to get kicked off and improve. It doesn't matter if its numbers, animals, or t-shirt sizes, you have to play the estimation game.

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Co-host Post - http://deliveritcast.com/looking-for-a-new-co-host

Mahesh Singh - http://blog.digite.com/kanban-the-product-manager-owners-bff/

Jim Bowes - https://manifesto.co.uk/agile-concepts-estimating-planning-poker/

David Green - http://www.sitepoint.com/make-7-mistakes-agile-estimation/

Olga Kouzina - https://www.targetprocess.com/blog/2014/07/why-agile-estimates-dont-work-part-1/

One of the most important relationships for a Product Owner, is that of a ScrumMaster or Coach.   This is your main partner in helping the team build awesome products and continually improve.  The healthy tension and focus that a seasoned ScrumMaster brings to the table will amplify the team and help support the product organization. In this episode, your hear from an experienced ScrumMaster and coach Maureen Green, as she talks about how she collaborates with PO’s and how we can complement them.

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Co-host Post - http://deliveritcast.com/looking-for-a-new-co-host

Gojko Adzic - https://gojko.net/2016/02/01/potentially-shippable/

Henrik Kniberg - http://blog.crisp.se/2016/01/25/henrikkniberg/making-sense-of-mvp

Mike Cohn - https://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/blog/scrummasters-should-not-also-be-product-owners

Roman Pichler - http://www.romanpichler.com/blog/every-great-product-owner-needs-great-scrummaster/

There are many decisions a Product Owner needs to make in the service of working with teams and stakeholders to make amazing products. The ability to confidently make decisions depends on the authority you are given and the ability to align the goals and vision across all interested parties.  Sparked by a post from Bob Galen, this episode digs into the decision-making process with some strategies, frameworks, and ideas to help.

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Co-host Post - http://deliveritcast.com/looking-for-a-new-co-host

Nir Eyal - Hooked https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDtycnZgCfY

Geoff Watts - https://inspectandadapt.com/blog/mastering-yourself-product-owner/

Bob Galen - http://rgalen.com/agile-training-news/2015/12/10/decisions-decisions-decisions

Lindsey Scott - Three things project managers need to make better decisions/

One of the many specialists that a Product Owners needs to create amazing products is a Designer or UX team.  The expertise and creativity that they bring to the effort will make your results much more successful.  In this episode, you’ll hear from Sarah Kahn, a UX designer as we discuss some of the ways POs can help designers out, work better together, and deliver the best products we can.

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Links:

Co-host Post - http://deliveritcast.com/looking-for-a-new-co-host

Sarah Kahn - @aarahkahak - kahnlab.com - @gdirdu

Bob Galen - http://rgalen.com/agile-training-news/2015/12/10/decisions-decisions-decisions

Fabrice Wegner - Vicious Circle of Preparation

Harish Venkatsan - http://www.mindtheproduct.com/2015/08/4-design-skills-every-product-manager-should-have

Design Thinking - https://hbr.org/2015/09/design-thinking-comes-of-age

Design Thinking and Product Management - DT & PM

With so many things to do and keep running as a Product Owner, it can be hard sometimes to know where you are succeeding or need some work. Lists are nice and reflection is helpful, but   sometimes you need an objective assessment of how you are doing.  In this episode, you will hear about 3 different ways a PO can rate/review their progress and get some pointers on what to focus on to become better.

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Co-host Post - http://deliveritcast.com/looking-for-a-new-co-host

Leading Agile - https://soundcloud.com/leadingagile/it5-meausring-value-adam-asch

John Dobson - http://blog.celerity.com/two-ways-for-product-owners-to-prioritize-a-backlog

Bob Galen - http://rgalen.com/s/Product-Owner-centric-Agile-Journey-Index-DRAFT-v5.pdf

Cory Bryan - http://www.slideshare.net/CoryBryan/measuring-success-as-a-product-owner

SAFe - http://scalingsoftwareagilityblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/team-agility-assessment-in-pdf.pdf

Working with the delivery team and customers is not all a Product Owner has to do.  There are other people who are interested, invested, or yes even paying for the product you are trying to build.  Their buy-in and questions are key to getting and sustaining any agile product efforts.  Managing the stakeholders needs and expectations is an important piece to get right. In this episode, there are some tricks, priorities, and ideas to explore with stakeholders to keep them happy and you sane.      

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Links:

Co-host Post - http://deliveritcast.com/looking-for-a-new-co-host

Jeremy Jarrell - Evil User Stories

Derek Sivers - https://sivers.org/hellyeah

Elizabeth Hendricksen - http://testobsessed.com/2015/05/i-prefer-this-over-that/

Roman Pichler - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/stakeholder-analysis-power-interest-grid-roman-pichler

Agile Modeling - http://agilemodeling.com/essays/activeStakeholderParticipation.htm

When the Product Owner and team are ready for it, you can work with multiple teams on the same product.  How do you change to be ready for the meetings, backlogs, and increased work that this brings with it? Cory and Kim talk about some of the logistics and things that need to be done when challenged with multiple teams and ways to calm the madness.  

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Co-host Post - http://deliveritcast.com/looking-for-a-new-co-host

Henrik & Lars - Is SAFe evil?

Jean Tabaka - https://www.rallydev.com/blog/agile/78-things-ive-learned-9-years-agile-coaching

Scrum Institute -  Multiteam Coordination and Planning

All about Bob

On this special episode, we welcome Bob Galen to the show. Bob discusses the ideas behind his recent “Product Owner 2.0” class and his lessons learned from it.  We talk about what core PO skills still need polish and focus, what soft skills are the most important, and what analogies we can use for inspiration for the teams that we work with. There was even some time to have some fun and discover some things he has on his personal backlog.      

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Co-host Post - http://deliveritcast.com/looking-for-a-new-co-host

Jonathan Scher - http://assurity.co.nz/community/big-thoughts/three-lessons-learned-as-a-product-owner/

Bob Galen

twitter - @bobgalen

http://www.rgalen.com/

http://rgalen.com/agile-training-news/2015/8/26/certified-scrummaster-and

http://www.amazon.com/Scrum-Product-Ownership-Balancing-Inside