0:25 Bonus Episode Intro

1:10 Chad and Jeff Intros on Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast

2:37 From Frantic and Stressful to Strategic and Focused Backlogs

4:19 Task-based backlogs...

5:53 Focused and strategic backlog

9:40 Moving from tasks to impacts  and outcomes (product goals)

10:37 Decomposition or recomposition?

12:45 Scrum teams are expensive

14:34 Why do we do product backlog refinement?

15:30 REFINEMENT TIP: Talk time

16:03 REFINEMENT TIP: Questions and summaries

16:40 REFINEMENT TIP: Diverge/merge cycles

17:30 Practical facilitation for refinement session

19:56 Tools for strategic product ownership

24:21 Strategy, focus, tradeoffs

28:30 Solution vs problem statements

30:47 Track dependencies

33:00 Flat product backlog

33:54 Impact and outcome statements

39:05 The Agile Wire

39:39 Agile Songs

40:50 The Lean Startup

41:50 Product Owner Summit (https://productownersummit.org)

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Chad Beier

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0:00 Intro

0:15 And we're recording...Jeff Maleski's OUT

1:37 New host - Chad Beier is IN

11:24 Innovation Centers - pros and cons

27:34 Innovation options: startups, innovation centers, embedded in culture

37:21 Incentives and shared risk and reward

41:46 Vendor partners - buy, build, or buy AND build?

52:41 Wrapup - Jeff is OUT

52:51 Outro - Jeff and Jeff introductions over the years

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Jeff Maleski

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We covered a lot of topics with Veronica! Here are some of the themes from our conversation:

Life coaching

Friday night every day at work

Survive and thrive

No such thing as strategic planning

Comfortable with the unknown

Thinking fast and slow

Upper brain vs lower brain thinking

Energy

Business schools

Medicine 2.0 vs 3.0

Shark tank

Orgs and survival and culture and valuation

Cost of scrum teams

Household ownership and accountability and company ownership and accountability

Does control kill creativity?

Gamblers

You come to Vegas, you will lose money, but what did you learn (company analogy)

Product Development is probabilistic, not deterministic

Thriving - holistic and transparency

Tesla - optimizes for time with high level of transparency

Deliver frequently

Employee experience

Great resignation

Time is important for companies, but also for employees!

Recession

Is survival mode appropriate now? Is it prudent?

Stock market - buy when stocks are down

Companies - invest when times are tough

Pragmatic people will be pragmatic

Experimenters will always be experimenting

Change rates and energy

5th discipline - rubber band effect

Personality profiles - strengths finder, DISC

GC index

Marcus Buckingham (strengths finder)

Talent but no joy

What’s the solution - balance!

Surviving in 2023 - people who think different

Most of us collect a paycheck and are detached from ownership mentality (shark tank)

As startups grow, ownership mentality fades, and thriving shifts to surviving 

Lack of financial intelligence transfers into work

Layoffs

Very few people in an org understand why the layoffs are actually happening

Parenting and analogy to leadership

I’m learning every single day because I only know what I know

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Josh Seiden is the author of LeanUX, Sense and Respond, and Outcome over Outputs.

YouTube: https://youtu.be/PQfvR_UKwJE

Stephan is the CEO of Noomii.com & Zarango.com who specializes in Psychological Safety training. Check out the full show notes at TheAgileWire.com

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Dan Vicanti & Prateek Singh are Professional Kanban trainers and the hosts of Drunk Agile. Check out the full show notes at TheAgileWire.com

YouTube: https://youtu.be/1YoV942b_wY

Sander Dur is a Professional Scrum trainer with Scrum.org and the host of Mastering Agility.

YouTube: https://youtu.be/9zaaxeWzlFc

Joe is an amazing change agent who has helped influence organizations like Amazon, Toyota, Tesla, Apple, and leads WIKISPEED. Check out the full show notes at TheAgileWire.com.

YouTube: https://youtu.be/iG3B3e52IAA

Sander Dur is a Professional Scrum trainer with Scrum.org and the host of Mastering Agility. Check out the full show notes at TheAgileWire.com

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Fred Fowler is an Author and one of the few to hold the PSM III certification through Scrum.org. Check out the full show notes at TheAgileWire.com

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