Deliver It Cast

What is it about measurements that cause so much grief? There's a great number of things that we should be measuring in our product, our teams, and our companies that would benefit us to look at. Product Owners need to be in a position to help see, understand, and explain all the different things that are being measured. If important things are not being measured, find some way to start. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - [email protected] Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Douglass Hubbard - How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business Freakonomics - Will Work-from-Home Work Forever? (Ep. 464) A Solution to Podcast Note-Taking? Look to the Airr App David Pereira - Agile manifesto is long gone! We need a product manifesto! Zach Bonaker - Truth, Lies, and Agile

A common anti-pattern is when Product Owners are too focused on doing things only in the current iteration. Maarten Dalmijn has written a lot about teams and PO's that find themselves stuck in their sprint bubble and joins this episode to discuss some signs that you're stuck, some ideas to break out, and ways to make sure sure you don't find yourself there again. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - [email protected] Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Maarten Dalmijn - @mdalmijn on twitter - https://mdalmijn.com/ 14 Signs you're working in a Scrum Feature Factory Product Owners are great when their team doesn't need them How to escape your Scrum prison Bill Skeet - If you Love Design, it's Time to Stop Liking it Kristen Berman - 4 ways a Behavioral Scientist can help PMs

In this episode, you can hear a chat with Vitalik Demin the Chief of Product at Gossip, a voice-based social network app about how he became involved in the startup and how they are approaching all things product there. It's a great chance to hear how small start-ups get their initial product experiments and learnings done quickly, and what issues life throws at you as you try and get your product delivered to customers. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - [email protected] Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Vitalik Demin - @VitalikGDemin on twitter - "What's The Gossip App and Why I Love Building and Using It" Gossip App - https://thegossip.app/ First Round - Don't Serve Burnt Pizza (And Other Lessons in Building Minimum Lovable Products) Marty Cagan - The CSPO Pathology Adam Bennett - Effective steps you can take to create a winning product strategy

Product Owners will have the most success working with well-formed and happy teams. Creating those teams requires a lot of people working together and figuring out how best to enable them to succeed. Teams and the thinking around them have evolved in the last few years so in this episode there's some new information, some common challenges, and suggestions for how to look at teams now. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - [email protected] Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Team Topologies - https://teamtopologies.com/ GitLab - Embracing asynchronous communication FASTAgile - https://www.fastagile.io/method Bob Galen - Elastic Teams Melissa Perry - Product Thinking podcast with Jeff Patton Isaac Sacolick - 5 Powerful Digital Transformation Storytelling tips

Occasionally as a Product Owner, we'll get stuck trying to decide something. How to write a story, come up with a goal, or see when things need to happen. We are stuck trying to look forward into an unknown future. One way to change the outlook on something is to reverse it and start at the end. The reasons why you might want to do that and what you might want to do it on, are covered in this episode. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - [email protected] Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Dan Charnas - Work Clean Jacob Thomas - Begin With the End In Mind: The "What," "Why," and "How" of This Powerful Philosophy Shreyas Doshi - Pre-Mortem Meeting Ibrahim Bashir - Onboarding Artifacts Rob Fitzpatrick - The Mom Test

So often the amount of success that Product Owners will have is dependent upon the organization they work in. How they are built, what they value, how they lead and treat their teams and individuals. In this episode, the amazing author of "Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Result" Marty Cagan joins the show to discuss some of the ideas in the book, what he sees as trends in the industry, what is a higher purpose than any agile practice, and why he sees two different worlds of product out there. Even if PO's won't benefit from this where they are at now, you can be encouraged that there are better organizations out there. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - [email protected] Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Marty Cagan - @Cagan - Silicon Valley Product Group EMPOWERED: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products AgileCamp 2019 - Empowered - Ordinary People, Extraordinary Results Todd Lanford - I can't sell Agile to you (And nobody else can either) Movies Insider - How Pixar's Movement Animation Became So Realistic

Such a simple and fundamental question. What do customers want? How much time and energy do we spend on this most important of topics. Tony Ulwick has been thinking about that very thing for a long time, and written several books about it. In this episode Tony joins to show to talk a bit about how deretmining what those customers needs are is the key to so many things that make the Product Owners job of delivering value a bit easier. If you don't start with those needs, how difficult it is to find them out, and why your product may not be successful. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - [email protected] Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Tony Ulwick - @Ulwick on twitter - Strategyn "What Customers Want: Using Outcome-Driven Innovation to Create Breakthrough Products and Services" "Jobs to be Done: Theory to Practice" "The Outcome-Driven Innovation Process - Overview" Michelle Yick - "How to spot a product led company" Maarten Dalmijn - "How to deal with an absolute unit of a Product Backlog?"

Making decisions as a Product Owner is hard sometimes, mainly because each decision involves a trade-off. That makes people uncomfortable and hesitant since trade-offs are difficult to work through. You can't make everyone happy, and because you picked an option, that means the other choices won't happen. Such is life. In this episode, we'll go through that process of trade-offs, how to recognize them, make them better, and learn from them. PO's need to help your teams and organizations deal with these necessary sacrifices, big and small, so let's figure out how. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - [email protected] Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Annie Duke - How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices Erin Wilkinson - Using Product Principles to Guide Your Decision-Making Tyler Sax - The Value of Making Smart Trade-Offs by Airbnb Product Manager Mike Cohn - Schedule vs. Cost: The Tradeoff in Agile Jeff Gothelf - Do OKRs Work with Jobs To Be Done? Ruden Ugarte - Data Driven Decision Making is an Oxymoron. Here's Why

When your organization isn't pointed in the same direction, it's really hard for a Product Owner to work effectively. You can end up in pointless discussions, working on the wrong thing, and lacking a focus on real customer value. How can we help our teams and others get aligned with the same goals and visions of the company? In this episode, Janna Bastow of Mind the Product and ProdPad joins the show to discuss some of her thoughts and experience with helping achieve an organization become more aligned and ways to check in regularly to see how it is progressing. How do you work toward making sure all your ducks are in a row? Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - [email protected] Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju http://seektaiju.com/index.html Janna Bastow - @simplybastow on twitter - http://www.simplybastow.com/about/ Janna Bastow - "Product Leadership: Autonomy, Alignment, and Psychological Safety" Marc Kadish - "Collaborative Alignment – the 'Auftragsklarung' framework" Brian O'Fallon - "Organizational Alignment Will Make Or Break Your Agile Transformation" Russell Olsen - "Shipped Is Only the Beginning: The 10/10/10 Approach to Product Rollouts" David Harris/Tom Croonesgorghs - "Bayesian Product Ranking at Wayfair"

Kicking off Season 7 with a look at the updated Scrum Guide that launched in November of 2020. What's new, changed, or removed that Product Owners need to be aware of. If you are following scrum that is. If not, maybe there's an idea or two to use in your own process. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - [email protected] Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Scrum Guide 2020 - https://scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html Dave West - "Scrum is about Value not Work. Reflections from Scrum Guide Update" Agile for Humans - "What's brewing in the 2020 Scrum Guide Updates" Roman Pichler - "Product Goals in Scrum" Nat Green - "Stop Guessing - 9 Behaviors of great problem solvers" David Pereira - "10 Attitudes of outstanding Product Owners"