Product Owner Perspective

On November 18th 2020, a fully rewritten Scrum Guide was released to the world, bringing many updates to the description of the Scrum Framework. The guide is leaner, less prescriptive, and more clear. Scrum Facilitators Jasper Alblas & Sjoerd Kranendonk join Scrum Coaches Andy Hiles & Steve Trapps for an informal chat about the changes. […]

In this Focus topic, Sjoerd meets with Product Owner Edwin Wopereis to discuss the Validated learning board. Edwin is responsible for the Kramp Webshop. Kramp is a technical wholesalerand one-stop supplier of spare parts, technical services and business solutions to more than 40.000 dealers worldwide. Edwin works with multiple developments teams – located in the Netherlands & India – […]

In this episode we meet with Product Owner Edwin Wopereis. Edwin is responsible for the Kramp Webshop. Kramp is a technical wholesaler and one-stop supplier of spare parts, technical services and business solutions to more than 40.000 dealers worldwide of agricultural machines, forest & grasscare machines, construction machines and in the OEM and MRO industry. Edwin […]

Hey everybody! We’re back with freshly recorded insights and practical tips for Product Owners, this time discussing two ways to say ‘No’. In this chat with Robbin Schuurman, he shares practical insights and tips from his own experience as a Product Owner, Professional Scrum Trainer and Agile Transformation Lead. One of the most important skills […]

Hey everybody! We’re back with freshly recorded insights and practical tips for Product Owners. This time we chat with Robbin Schuurman who shares practical insights and tips from his own experience as a Product Owner, Professional Scrum Trainer and Agile Transformation Lead.   In this video we discuss one of the most important skills of […]

Hey everybody! We're back with freshly recorded insights and practical tips for Product Owners. This time we chat with Robbin Schuurman who shares practical insights and tips from his own experience as a Product Owner, Professional Scrum Trainer and Agile Transformation Lead.

This Episode is the first of a new experimental format: we have a longer, in depth audio recording, and somewhere in the middle of it, we put a short focused topic, which is also released as a video.

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Learn more about Product Ownership at the Prowareness Agile Academy 

Product Owner training: https://www.agileacademy.nl/training/?eventtitle=professional-scrum-product-owner-training 

Product Owner Advanced training: https://www.agileacademy.nl/training/?eventtitle=product-owner-advanced 

SAFe Product Management/Product Owner training: https://www.agileacademy.nl/training/?eventtitle=safe-product-management-product-owner-training

Credits:

Audio & Video recording at Prowarenss Studio Delft by Matthijs van Vliet

Audio Podcast editing by Sjoerd Kranendonk

Video editing and production by Matthijs van Vliet

Music from Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) under Creative Commons 'By Attribution 3.0 License'

Kim Bosman is the Value Stream Owner @ Schiphol Airport Control (part of Schiphol’s Digital Airport Programme) and an independent Agile Strategist. As a Value Stream owner Kim acts as an enabler and leader for a group of Scrum teams. This way the Product Owners, Development Teams and Scrum Masters are given the trust and space […]

In this episode of the podcast I chat with Stephan van Maris, Product Owner of the Clang e-mail marketing platform at E-Village. Stephan has a technical background and developed himself from one of the core engineers to Product Owner who is now letting go of the technical details to focus on improving the product through customer collaboration. In the 5 parts to this interview (new experiment!) we discuss:

1. Introduction, path to current role, context (organization) and mandate level as a Product Owner;

2. Collaboration with the Scrum Team - Stephan shares how he works with the development team and scrum master, and tells a story of their approach for better alignment in developing and designing a new module, by collaborating as a team on the ideation and possible realization, resulting in the new module's backlog items as a team effort (instead of being a solo-PO act);

3. Stakeholder Management - Stephan discusses how he engages both the internal stakeholder field as well as the external stakeholders through regular contact & customer feedback events;

4. Value Steering - We discuss the current efforts to close the feedback loop by introducing metrics for value steering. Up till now Stakeholder discussions and subsequent decisions were based on hypothetical returns and gut feeling, but by implementing a low cost usage statistic tool (Piwik), now the backlog decisions are based on data and this is influencing decisions and discussions already;

5. Closing - We discuss how Stephan deals with technical debt, NFR's and the bouyscout rule used by the development team. Furthermore after mentioning culture a few times in the earlier parts, Stephan shares a Netflix presentation that gave him valuable insights for developing the E-Village culture.

Please feel free to reach out to us if you have questions or comments, we love to share and learn! You can reach us on the links below. If you want to share your stories on the podcast please feel free to contact us.

Links & Resources

Stephan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/svmaris/

E-village: https://www.e-village.nl

Clang: https://www.e-village.nl/clang

Piwik: https://piwik.org/

Netflix Culture deck Slideshare: https://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664

Current Netflix culture description https://jobs.netflix.com/culture/

Busuness model canvas (mentioned) should be lean canvas (thx wilbert) https://blog.leanstack.com/why-lean-canvas-vs-business-model-canvas-af62c0f250f0

Product Owner Perspective: https://twitter.com/po_podcast

Sjoerd: https://twitter.com/sjoerdly & https://www.linkedin.com/in/sjoerdkranendonk/

In this episode of the podcast I chat with Stephan van Maris, Product Owner of the Clang e-mail marketing platform at E-Village. Stephan has a technical background and developed himself from one of the core engineers to Product Owner who is now letting go of the technical details to focus on improving the product through […]

In this 5th podcast we chat with Matthias Orgler, a Product Development Expert & Agile Coach from Germany. He has experience working in startups in Silicon Vally and these days together with his colleagues at Dreimannzelt he helps businesses build awesome products. When he's not helping businesses, he can be found on stage with one of his bands, working on his book (How to Prioritize Stories) or teaching an Agile Project Management class. And according to Matthias, students have a knack for asking the really good questions. So, the challenge is set and we dive in to our really good questions! We discuss diverse topics relating to backlog management. Topics include sizing & prioritizing stories, applying focus & collaborating with the development team and stakeholders.

Please enjoy this episode and feel free to follow up with me or Matthias via the below contact details. Special thanks to Michael Seidel for suggesting Matthias as a guest!

We aim to continually improve this series, therefore we highly value your feedback. If you have any comments, tips, input, questions… Please contact us using one of the following:

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Links & resources from this episode

Matthias on Twitter: @morgler http://twitter.com/morgler

Matthias on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/orgler

Dreimannzelt: http://www.dreimannzelt.com/

Get updates on the book: http://prioritizestories.com

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Learn more about Product Ownership at the Prowareness Agile Academy

Product Owner training: https://www.agileacademy.nl/training/?eventtitle=professional-scrum-product-owner-training

Product Owner Advanced training: https://www.agileacademy.nl/training/?eventtitle=product-owner-advanced

SAFe Product Management/Product Owner training: https://www.agileacademy.nl/training/?eventtitle=safe-product-management-product-owner-training