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 - deliveritcast@gmail.com 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 - deliveritcast@gmail.com 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 - deliveritcast@gmail.com 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 - deliveritcast@gmail.com 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 Consta

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 - deliveritcast@gmail.com 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 - deliveritcast@gmail.com 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 - deliveritcast@gmail.com 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 - deliveritcast@gmail.com 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 - deliveritcast@gmail.com 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 Professi

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 - deliveritcast@gmail.com 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 

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 - deliveritcast@gmail.com 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 - deliveritcast@gmail.com 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 - deliveritcast@gmail.com 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 - deliveritcast@gmail.com 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 - deliveritcast@gmail.com 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 - deliveritcast@gmail.com 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'

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 - deliveritcast@gmail.com 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 Pro

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 - deliveritcast@gmail.com 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

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 - deliveritcast@gmail.com 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"  Bria

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 - deliveritcast@gmail.com 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"