One of the biggest things we can do as a product owner, and even as an organizational leader in the agile space is to value relationships over transactions. This episode should be a good one for anyone in agile leadership or execution as it will give some insight to the many challenges that the product owner and the agile development team face day-to-day. Challenges require a strategy to help overcome what we’re facing. Let’s revisit a few strategies that I’ve touched on in the past, but this time through a slightly different lens!?

The agile development team, the product owner, and the scrum master will benefit from this episode. Acceptance criteria with user stories is a popular topic in our community. In this episode, I would like to help you understand what makes for good acceptance, criteria, and some of the anti-patterns to avoid. The prize we seek is a shared understanding. So how can we prove that we got what we asked for? Tune in to this episode to get introduced to some thinking patterns around acceptance criteria and be sure to check out Planet Product Owner on YouTube and Patreon for a deeper dive! Spoiler: This episode will surely give you lots of “aha” moments from everything I’ve shared, mentored and covered thus far on your journey.

Let’s explore 3 areas of responsibility that relates to right-sized user stories, a few patterns to help and of course a little help with the INVEST model! Don’t forget to check out the new @planetproductowner YouTube channel! Tell a friend or two…!

Welcome to the journey my friends! Here to help the agile product owner, scrum master, dev team and leaders sharpen the skills and art of becoming more agile

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What are agile team working agreements? Why do we need them? And how do we put them together? I get this question a lot and I’m happy to talk about it in this relatively short episode. I’m also very happy to make an exciting announcement for the community and you don’t wanna miss it!

Agile or scrum product owners and scrum masters need to focus some time on coaching. Not just pushing items through the sprint or iteration. This episode outlines “3C’s” of coaching aspects to help promote the team. Of course, the “real world” examples are part of this episode. Remember to tell your friends and keep up the good work of encouraging listeners and subscribers!

This episode is primarily for the agile product owner and even leadership. Whether you are in some scaled agile environment like SAFe or non-distributed world, this episode may be helpful in understanding the great debate. Do I commit then write the stories, or do I write the stories, then commit? There’s probably a time for each method while on our journey, but there’s something bigger I don’t want you to miss. Tell a friend, subscribe and stay tuned as the journey unfolds. The planet is populated. Now we have to build it out and that is coming soon! Almost ready to introduce Phase 2 of this journey with even more than just audio!

Finding my groove again to help you with the good stuff. I hope this helps your practice! In this episode for agile product owners, we will talk through some things that we have to stop doing, and some things to maybe start doing. In the spirit of the retrospective, we always need to inspect and adapt in the effort to improve what we do and how we do it. There are more than just 3 things, but these are the big ones to me. Remember to tell 3 friends, subscribe, and follow!