Episodes
Product owner let’s look at your flow. Why are you not flowing? Let’s get you going! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/planetproductowner/message
Published 02/03/24
Published 02/03/24
Season five unbelievable. Everybody needs a good retrospective for the team and I do as well. This episode is for scrum masters, and product owners. In this episode, I’ll share a quick retrospective and insight to the upcoming season 6 of Planet Product Owner. I’ll also recap and summarize a previous episode for the 3 C’s of coaching for the scrum master, Amd finally, I’ll introduce three focus areas for the product owner. Product Owners can have lots of distractions that take away from...
Published 11/21/23
This episode will be helpful to agile product managers and product owners when figuring out a plan on how to slice the feature, epic or larger body of work. One of the challenges I see alot with teams is the never-ending story. The other big challenge is not understanding the scope of testing. We need quality checks that are built in and the agile development team needs to understand a few things about this body of work when they are testing the solution. --- Send in a voice message:...
Published 10/30/23
Does your agile team need a definition of ready? Let's explore some things to consider first because we don't want to over-process anything. Maybe you need it, maybe you don't. You be the judge. If you decide that it may be of benefit, here are some tips on what to look for, including some 'artful' ideas as well. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/planetproductowner/message
Published 10/20/23
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...
Published 09/15/23
Do you have that feeling that you are losing the team or worse...you've lost the team? The Agile Product Owner and Scrum Master can help pull the engagement up to all time highs if we know what to look for! This episode is for everyone in the agile team makeup and I hope it helps you! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/planetproductowner/message
Published 08/16/23
Stick to audio or move to video? That is the question I have for you guys. I have a good start on some videos already to help take this journey a little deeper so I am only testing this one. I would love your feedback. Remember, Patrons get access to ALL the video content as well as the files I use for templates to accompany the videos that are published. I look forward to your feedback and your continued support! --- Send in a voice message:...
Published 07/28/23
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...
Published 07/21/23
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…! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/planetproductowner/message
Published 07/05/23
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 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/planetproductowner/message
Published 05/22/23
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! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/planetproductowner/message
Published 05/20/23
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! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/planetproductowner/message
Published 05/08/23
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...
Published 04/18/23
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! --- Send in a...
Published 03/10/23
Code sitting on the shelf means we’re not getting the value. Value is in the hands of the customer. This episode targets agile product owners and leaders to help them limit code that sits in the shelf. Agile development is sometimes a complex system, but are we making it harder than it should be? Of course, this episode gives you 3 considerations to help you plan better and prevent code that sits on the shelf. Tell 3 friends about the Planet Product Owner podcast! Thank you for sharing,...
Published 02/14/23
Don’t scroll past. This is a really good episode for the agile product owner, scrum master and team. Even the managers will like it. For one or more reasons you are not getting value from your daily scrum or daily standup. Let’s get some ideas around how to extract more value from this critical feedback loop. This episode speaks to some ways to leverage the daily standup and get some big time results out of your team work, collaboration and delivery! Reorientation is important and we can...
Published 02/01/23
Along our journey we find ourselves needing to “safely” transition work items at the scaled agile program level. This episode provides some insight and thinking patterns to help you move work from left to right. This episode should help the agile or scrum product owner, product manager and scrum master with some ways to effectively manage the transitions of the work for the program, PLUS a special message from your host! Thank you again for the support! --- Send in a voice message:...
Published 01/12/23
I’ve learned many things that successful agile product owners do. I’ll share my top 10 list of things to help you with so you can become a successful Product Owner in the agile and scrum arena. I know that you have your own list too and I hope to get your feedback on that! Happy Holidays and I hope you enjoy this episode! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/planetproductowner/message
Published 12/05/22
This is part two of what we started in the last episode to help the overwhelmed agile or scrum product owner. This episode is beneficial for scrum masters, product owners, and scrum team. There is also quite a bit of insight for agile transformation leaders and upper management as well. Let’s talk about the scrum guide, what we are accountable for, what we’re responsible for and of course, we learn more about the art of all of these things as we continue our journey. This episode contains...
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Published 05/04/22