Deliver It Cast

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 product thinking terms, are we ever finished with something? Would it be such a bad thing if we never were finished? Experimented with a quick and simple way to think through that in this episode. Feedback: Twitter - @deliveritcast email - [email protected] Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Support - Buy me a Coffee Links: The Myth of The Finished Product Software is never finished, only released Does the pursuit of 'finished' destroy efficiency?

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 be found outside your comfort zone. Feedback: Twitter - @deliveritcast email - [email protected] Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Support - Buy me a Coffee Links: Ken Norton - **Product Managers: Please Make Yourself Uncomfortable** Positive Psychology - How to Leave Your Comfort Zone and Enter Your 'Growth Zone' Michael Easter - The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self Carol Dweck - Mindset: The New Psychology of Success Veritasium - The 4 things it takes to be an expert Dan Benoni & Louis Xavier - Growth.Design Case Studies

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 keep your options open. Then when you get new info, you have the ability to react intelligently. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - [email protected] Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Support - Buy me a Coffee Links: Signal v Noise - Options, Not Roadmaps The Deep Dish - 10 Principles of Optionality For an Uncertain World Kent Beck - Decisions, Decisions or Why Baskets of Options Dominate Johanna Rothman - Consider Product Options with Minimum Outcomes Drunk Agile - Episode 48 Observations of Flow Simon Wardley - Wardley Mapping quick intro How to build your first Wardley Map with Miro

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 of some principles from different disciplines and areas that we can use to guide us. Which do you use already? Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - [email protected] Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Support - Buy me a Coffee Links: Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit - Mary and Tom Poppendieck ModernAgileShow#26 | Interview with Mary and Tom Poppendieck Jens-Fabian Goetzmann - Seven Product Management Principles Mallory Kim - 12 Principles for better UX How Lean and Agile Relate and How You Can Win by Using Both https://www.hq-digital.com/blog/7-psychology-principles-to-influence-user-and-customer-behavior 20 Psychological Principles That Will Help Your Students Learn More Effectively SAFe Lean-Agile Principles YDS: What are the Principles of the Scrum Framework? What Is Kanban? Explained for Beginners. 5 Principles Of Cooking That Will Give You A Solid Culinary Foundation

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, and personal things. There are several other fields that have a similar structure, so why not for us as well? Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - [email protected] Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Support - Buy me a Coffee Links: Jessica Dubin - 7 ways to use the Rule of Threes to build great products Dawn Bauman - How to Use the 'Rule of Three' to Jazz Up Your Writing in 2022 Ameet Ranadive - The Rule of 3 Photutorial - What is Rule of Thirds? Sandra Forgues - User Story Mapping: what it is, how it works Tim Ottinger - Waste Snake Ron Jeffries - Do you want crappy agile ( metrics, maybe we should just say no )

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 about the 3 that are leading the way to better outcomes in product-led organizations, and why they are becoming more relevant to boardrooms and leaders. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast https://twitter.com/deliveritcast email - [email protected] Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Support - Buy me a Coffee Links: Stephanie Tanzar - Twitter @steffitanner LinkedIn Pendo - Product Engagement Score (PES) Overview Pendo - The journey to a better Product Engagement Score Pendo - Glossary for Product Engagement Score (PES) Gainsight - Product Metrics Your Board Members Care About Echometer - 9 agile KPIs that executives should know Gojko Adzic - Redefining software quality Deliver It Cast 88 - Working Software Lenny Rachitsky - Lenny's Podcast Mike Cohn & Brian Milner - Agile Mentors Podcast Ogilvy Consulting - NudgeStock 2022

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 being rewarded, or the lack of rewards, and see if you can understand it better. This can also be the secret key to changing how people work, change their incentives. If you have seen examples of this working against you, or altering them to work for you send it in! Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - [email protected] Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Support - Buy me a Coffee Links: The Agile Angle - Agile Team Reward System Shane Parrish - The Power of Incentives: The Hidden Forces That Shape Behavior Mike Bedard - Plato's Allegory of the Cave Art Bryne - What Incentives and Bonus Programs Best Support Lean? Marty Cagan and Jon Moore - Transformation Defined Rich Mironov - Product Waste and the ROI of discovery

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 as well? Revisiting the idea of all the different times, reasons, and ideas that Product Owners can use to say no successfully with guest Jen Fields. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - deliveritcast @ gmail.com Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Support - Buy me a Coffee Links: Jen Fields - LinkedIn Bob Galen - Moose Herd Deliver It Cast - E7 Prepare to say no Saeed Khan - How to say 'No' as a Product Manager Adam S - The Art of Saying No as a Product Owner Dawn Ulmer - 7 Reasons why we don't say no and how to fix them Sara McCord - 4 Completely Inoffensive Ways to Say "No" at Work (Because "Yes" Isn't Always an Option) Leo Babauta - The Gentle Art of Saying No for a Less Stressful Life Chris Voss - Never split the Difference John Cutler - Mandate Levels Matt Barcomb - Who needs a Product Vision Anyway?

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 tell better stories. If you are interested in seeing how the best storytellers refine their craft and how PO's can learn from them, listen up. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - [email protected] Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Support - Buy me a Coffee Links: Robert McKee Books: Storynomics: Story Driven Marketing in the Post-Advertising World Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting Michael Tucker - Lessons from the screenplay Sritama Sarkar - Is it necessary for Product Managers to love their products? Ant Murphy - Why Product Managers Don't Need Domain Knowledge to be Effective

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 things, work-related and beyond. If you are struggling with planning, thinking, or executing something, try using a budget for it and see what happens. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - [email protected] Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Support - Buy me a Coffee Links: Debbie Madden - Your Agile Project Needs a Budget, Not an Estimate Ramsey Solutions - 15 Practical Budgeting Tips Ami Vora - It's not prioritization until it hurts EP51 - Accounting for PO's EP55 - Time Management for POs Jeff Gothelf - 7 Things I've learned from two years working from home Bruce McCarthy - How to Ignore Customer Requests