Deliver It Cast

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, company, products, and ourselves. Andrew Stokzko joins the show to discuss his ideas and experience. Got a good or bad habit you want to share with us? Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - [email protected] Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Support - Buy me a Coffee Links: Andrew Skotzko @askotzko Make things that matter - Podcast Andrew Skotzko - How to know if you're interviewing at a product-led company James Clear - Atomic Habits BJ Fogg - Tiny Habits Toby Sinclair - Tiny Habits vs Atomic Habits, Which should you read? Sachin Rekkhi - Atomic Habits for Product Managers Rich Mironov - Prioritization is a Political Problem as Much as an Analytical Problem

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 to take a class or get your certification, what should you read, watch, and do ahead of the class. We also discuss some of the tougher aspects of scrum that people need help with. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - [email protected] Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Support the show - Buy me a Coffee Links: Twitter - Ryan Ripley Todd Miller Agile for Humans - Community PSM II: A Trainer's Perspective - Article Evidence-Based Management - Free EMB Training Course Scrum.org - Product Owner Learning Path Deliver It [102] - Fixing your scrum Deliver It [46] - Metrics Madness

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, or should you abandon all hope if you start hearing this word a lot? In this episode, you'll learn what most places mean by hybrid and some tips on how to do something useful to deliver value. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - [email protected] Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Buy me a Coffee Links: John Cutler - Journey to Product Teams (Infographic) Case Study: How To Eliminate Flaws Of Waterfall And Agile Development Processes Using A Hybrid Model Matt Wallart - Start at the end - How to build products that create change Katelyn Burgoin - The trigger technique

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 use that coaches do exceptionally well that can help us to improve our work. If you worked with a coach and carried forward something they did that was useful, tell us about it! Thank you listeners for a great season 7! Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - [email protected] Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Work Blog - http://seektaiju.com/blog.html Personal Blog - https://corybryan.substack.com/ Support the show - Buy me a Coffee https://rgalen.com/ - https://www.agile-moose.com/blog - Twitter@Bobgalen https://www.zenergytechnologies.com/ Qualities of Great Agile Coaches Niall McShane - Three tensions agile coaches learn to navigate BeLiminal - Agile Coaching Growth Wheel Guidance Mishkin Berteig - Powerful Questions for Agile Coaches Giff Constable - 10 Lessons on Making Software Katelyn Bourgoin - Trigger Technique

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 this episode, she joins the show to discuss the idea, the post she wrote detailing it, and some things that she's learned since then. What way have you seen this theory put into practice? Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - [email protected] Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Alyssa Knoll - https://productnerdsonly.com - https://www.linkedin.com/in/alyssa-knoll/ - https://mixir.io "What" and "How": The Theory of Everything Jeff Gothelf - Output, Outcomes, Impact and KPIs Marty Cagan - Team Objectives – Empowerment Spine Model - Intro Ron Jefferies - A Satirical Website Raises Hackles David Pereira - 7 Characteristics of Weak Product Management

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 tips or tricks to make sure that you are iterating towards success? Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - [email protected] Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju SmartSheet - The Power of Iterative Design and Process Jeff Patton - Don't Know What I Want, But I Know How to Get It Troubleshooting Agile Podcast - https://agileconversations.com/troubleshooting-agile-podcast/ Jens-Fabian Goetzmann - The Iteration Imperative Rich Mironov - Selling Problems (and Then Solutions) Instead of Philosophy Jens-Fabian Goetzmann - Product Teardowns at Yammer

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 he successfully used "Intent" as the driver of change on his submarine and when working in other areas as well. In this episode, we take a look at some of the great advice from his books and leadership nudges to move more towards speaking with intent. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - [email protected] Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Daivd Marquet - @ldavidmarquet on twitter - https://intentbasedleadership.com/ Turn the Ship Around! A True Story of Turning Followers Into Leaders Leadership Is Language: The Hidden Power of What You Say - and What You Don't Leadership Nudges - YouTube Ken Sandy - Something Is Not Right in Modern Product Management Simon Kneafsey - The 2 Best Product Owner I Ever Worked With – The Empowered Product Owner

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 to get others to know and look for the waste as well. In this episode we will look at what are the 8 wastes from a Lean perspective and what can you do about them. Check out some of the great materials in the links for ways to learn to see the waste and why seeing it is so important. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - [email protected] Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Paul Akers - 2 sec lean Kent Beck - XP Explained Fluid UI - 21 perfect examples of waste in Lean Product Development Learnovative - How to manage the 7 wastes if agile software development Alyssa Knoll - The power of good enough Scrum Alliance - In search of the perfect product owner

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 in our work and with our teams. Also, we discuss some areas where it might be a good thing and how POs can leverage it for a benefit. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - [email protected] Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Geoff Watts - @geoffcwatts on twitter - https://www.inspectandadapt.com/ Geoff Watts and Kim Morgan - The Coach's Casebook Sean Durham - Why Your Progress is more Important than Perfection Kevin Wang - The Product Manager's Guide to Combating Perfectionism Elizabeth Scott - Perfectionist Traits: Do These Sound Familiar? Julian Treasure - How to speak so that people want to listen John Cutler - The Form That Stole 20,531,250 Seconds James Hoffman - Understanding The AeroPress (Episode #2) with Triangle Test Society of Sensory Professionals - Triangle Test

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 this reveals things that aren't great and can give a direction for PO's to head in to make things better. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - [email protected] Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Paul Akers - Banish Sloppiness Justin Pot - 'I don't know' is the best phrase for your career Marty Cagan - The Best vs. The Rest Forbes - Why Every Company Is A Technology Company