Deliver It Cast
158 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsDeliver It is a podcast for agile Product Owners. Hosted by Cory Bryan and guests bring their experience and ideas on how to improve the role and techniques they use to deliver value within an agile framework. The show brings together relevant news, discussion, around a central topic and your feedback in a fun and supportive way.
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[158] - Credit
July 05, 2023 16:31 - 14 minutes - 10.2 MBA common behavior that leads to agile team dysfunction is seeking credit. This takes away from the emphasis of teamwork and we should instead encourage people to focus on doing the right thing and telling the story of their work. Feedback: Twitter - email - Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - Support - Links:
[157] - Thinking out loud
June 07, 2023 16:12 - 13 minutes - 9.59 MBThinking out loud can help to improve collaboration, transparency, and co-creation in teams. By making one's work and thoughts more visible, it can lead to interesting discussions, corrections, and ultimately better ideas that help customers win. Feedback: Twitter - email - Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - Support - Links:
[156] - Q&A#?
May 24, 2023 16:47 - 12 minutes - 8.85 MBA quick grab bag of Q’s and A’s as I worked on some ideas for future shows. Feedback: Twitter - email - Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - Support -
[155] - The Problem
May 10, 2023 16:43 - 13 minutes - 9.42 MBFor product folks, how do you identify the core problem? How do you know when you've fixed enough small problems to start tackling the bigger picture? And do people who make things really love problems or is problem-solving just a necessary (and sometimes exhausting) part of the creative process? Feedback: Twitter - email - Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - Support - Links:
[154] - …so that…
April 26, 2023 16:23 - 10 minutes - 7.4 MBUnderstanding the reasons behind the needs of a story, a problem, or a question, helps you learn more about your customers and product. How can you find the deeper issues that exist, you can ask “So that”. Feedback: Twitter - email - Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - Support - Links:
[153] - Change your mind
April 12, 2023 21:00 - 15 minutes - 10.7 MBExploring the idea of what it takes to change your mind. How I changed my mind recently, how you can, and help others change theirs. Feedback: Twitter - email - Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - Support - Links:
[152] - Design Four
March 29, 2023 16:01 - 16 minutes - 11.1 MBThis episode talks about an idea that Product folks have some higher-level design goals when we are thinking about things. What are the 4 lenses or areas we are usually designing something for? Feedback: Twitter - email - Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - Support - Links: Kent Beck -
[151] - Order of Operations
March 15, 2023 18:13 - 10 minutes - 7.12 MBBack with a quick hit on why understanding your customers’ Order of Operations for their work is magical Feedback: Twitter - email - Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - Support - Links:
[150] - Back to Basics Part 3
September 28, 2022 16:01 - 28 minutes - 19.3 MBTaking this episode to stop and reflect on the current state of product owners, agility, and lots of other basic information. If you are just starting out, this is a great first episode. If not, it’s a good idea to review the basics and make sure you aren’t skipping anything. Also looking back on the last 50(ish) episodes and what main ideas came from each one. Feedback: Twitter - email - Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - Support - Links:
[149] - Sharpen your Saw
September 14, 2022 16:01 - 51 minutes - 35.5 MBOften times the lesson you need to learn is stuck in your head and only crystalizes when you’re ready. Such is the case for the notion of sharpening the saw that Bob Galen continually talks about. Now that I get it, I wanted to explore the idea more with him and get the background and tips about how to do that for PO’s. Feedback: Twitter - email - Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - Support - Links: Bob Galen - - -
[148] - Ever Finished?
September 01, 2022 16:01 - 8 minutes - 6.06 MBAfter hearing the word “finished” more and more over the last few weeks, I started to notice that it was bothering me. I wanted to explore why that was after looking over some notes and asking a better question. In product thinking terms, are we ever finished with something? Would it be such a bad thing if we never were finished? Experimented with a quick and simple way to think through that in this episode. Feedback: Twitter - email - Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - Support - ...
[147] - Uncomfortable
August 17, 2022 16:01 - 25 minutes - 17.5 MBWhat could you do to make yourself, a little more uncomfortable? In your work, practices, and thoughts even. In this episode, we will explore some ideas about why you should be uncomfortable, how to challenge yourself, and what benefits might be found outside your comfort zone. Feedback: Twitter - email - Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - Support - Links: Ken Norton - ** Positive Psychology - Michael Easter - Carol Dweck - Veritasium - Dan Benoni & Louis Xavier -
[146] - Optionality
August 03, 2022 16:01 - 22 minutes - 15.2 MBHow do you know that something will work ahead of time? What problems will come up when a customer uses your product? When can you double down on something that works? A simple way to handle those questions is to keep your options open. Then when you get new info, you have the ability to react intelligently. Feedback: twitter - email - Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - Support - Links: Signal v Noise - The Deep Dish - Kent Beck - Johanna Rothman - Drunk Agile - Simon Wardl...
[145] - Best Principles
July 20, 2022 16:01 - 25 minutes - 17.4 MBHow many discussions, debates, or other conversations do we get stuck in over practices and tools? What would happen if instead, we focused on the principles that those things are supposed to enable for us? In this episode, a review of some principles from different disciplines and areas that we can use to guide us. Which do you use already? Feedback: twitter - email - Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - Support - Links: Jens-Fabian Goetzmann - Mallory Kim -
[144] - Rule of 3
July 07, 2022 16:01 - 18 minutes - 12.6 MBThere seems to be something magical about the number 3. It appears to show up in many different places and in lots of useful ways. This episode examines a "Rule of 3" for the things we do in product, agile, and personal things. There are several other fields that have a similar structure, so why not for us as well? Feedback: twitter - email - [email protected] Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - Support - Links: Jessica Dubin - Dawn Bauman - Ameet Ranadive - Photutorial - ...
[143] - Boardroom Metrics with Stephanie Tanzar
June 22, 2022 16:01 - 47 minutes - 32.6 MBMore Metrics! Which ones are the most important ones for people that are at the top levels of your company? What areas do they care about to decide if investing more is worth it? In this episode, Stephanie Tanzar talks about the 3 that are leading the way to better outcomes in product-led organizations, and why they are becoming more relevant to boardrooms and leaders. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast https://twitter.com/deliveritcast email - [email protected] Support: Product Coachin...
[142] - Incentives
June 08, 2022 16:01 - 22 minutes - 15.5 MBExploring an idea around the 3rd root cause of failures I've seen in working in a more agile way, incentives. Many times, if the behavior and reasons don't make sense to you, take a look at how the person is being rewarded, or the lack of rewards, and see if you can understand it better. This can also be the secret key to changing how people work, change their incentives. If you have seen examples of this working against you, or altering them to work for you send it in! Feedback: twitter - ...
[141] - Degrees of No with Jen Fields
May 25, 2022 13:35 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MBA reminder that *the* most important word for a Product Owner, is "No." There are so many different ways, places, and people that need to be told no that can really be difficult. What about if someone tells you no as well? Revisiting the idea of all the different times, reasons, and ideas that Product Owners can use to say no successfully with guest Jen Fields. Feedback: twitter - email - deliveritcast @ gmail.com Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - Support - Links: Jen Fields - ...
[140] - Storynomics
May 11, 2022 16:42 - 22 minutes - 15.4 MBHow often do Product Owners find themselves telling stories? Stories about our customers, teams, and problems faced by both. In this episode, I wanted to share some things I've been reading that help to understand how to listen, gather, and tell better stories. If you are interested in seeing how the best storytellers refine their craft and how PO's can learn from them, listen up. Feedback: twitter - email - [email protected] Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - Support - Lin...
[139] - Budget-wise
April 27, 2022 16:01 - 21 minutes - 14.8 MBSometimes you find a way to hack a problem so well, that it affects most other things you do as well. In this episode, I share a hack I tried out recently and changed my mindset about a lot of things, work-related and beyond. If you are struggling with planning, thinking, or executing something, try using a budget for it and see what happens. Feedback: twitter - email - [email protected] Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - Support - Links: Debbie Madden - Ramsey Solutions ...
[138] - Product Habits with Andrew Stokzko
April 13, 2022 16:01 - 50 minutes - 34.5 MBWhat 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 - email - [email protected] Support: Product Coaching and Consulting - Support - Links: ...
[137] - Before the Training with Todd and Ryan
March 30, 2022 16:01 - 50 minutes - 34.4 MBThere 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 - email - [email protected] Support: Product Coa...
[136] - Hybrid
March 16, 2022 16:01 - 24 minutes - 16.9 MBMore 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 - email - [email protected] Support: Product Coaching and Consulting...
[135] - Learning from Coaches with Bob Galen
October 27, 2021 16:01 - 56 minutes - 44.9 MBProduct 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 - deliv...
[134] - Theory of Everything with Alyssa Knoll
October 13, 2021 16:01 - 54 minutes - 43.5 MBNo 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 - [email protected] Links: PO Coaching and Cons...
[133] - Iterate
September 29, 2021 16:01 - 21 minutes - 16.8 MBAll 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 - [email protected] Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - SmartSheet - Jeff Patton - Troubleshooting Agile Podcast - Jens-Fabian Goetzmann - Rich Miron...
[132] - Speaking with Intent with David Marquet
September 15, 2021 16:01 - 49 minutes - 37.3 MBThe 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:...
[131] - Waste
September 01, 2021 16:01 - 24 minutes - 18.4 MBProduct 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 importan...
[130] - Perfection with Geoff Watts
August 18, 2021 16:01 - 50 minutes - 40.5 MBHave 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 - [email protected] Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Geoff Watts - on twitter...
[129] - What kind of...
August 04, 2021 16:01 - 21 minutes - 16.1 MBThe 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 - [email protected] Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - Paul Akers - Justin Pot - r Marty Cagan - Forbes -
[128] - Measuring Things
July 21, 2021 16:01 - 26 minutes - 19.9 MBWhat 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 - [email protected] Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - D...
[127] - Escape the Sprint Bubble
July 07, 2021 16:01 - 57 minutes - 40.4 MBA 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 - [email protected] Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - Maarten Dalmijn - on twi...
[126] - Product at Gossip
June 23, 2021 16:01 - 51 minutes - 38.1 MBIn 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 - [email protected] Links...
[125] - Rethinking Teams
June 09, 2021 16:01 - 25 minutes - 19.5 MBProduct 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 - [email protected] Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - Team...
[124] - Start at the end
May 26, 2021 16:01 - 20 minutes - 15.2 MBOccasionally 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 - [email protected] Links: PO Coaching and...
[123] - Empowered with Marty Cagan
May 12, 2021 16:01 - 1 hour - 47.2 MBSo 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 ...
[122] - What Customers Want with Tony Ulwick
April 28, 2021 16:01 - 56 minutes - 43.5 MBSuch 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...
[121] - Talking Trade-Offs
April 14, 2021 16:01 - 24 minutes - 18.5 MBMaking 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 ...
[120] - Organizational Alignment with Janna Bastow
March 31, 2021 16:01 - 53 minutes - 38.5 MBWhen 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 m...
[119] - Scrum Guide 2020
March 17, 2021 16:01 - 27 minutes - 20.7 MBKicking 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 - [email protected] Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju Scrum Guide 2020 - https://scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html Dave West - Agile for Humans - Roman Pichler - Nat ...
[118] - Q&A
October 28, 2020 16:01 - 29 minutes - 22.3 MBFinishing up Season 6 with a Q&A session. Any/all questions on PO, Product, Agile, Podcast, anything really. Thank you everyone who stuck with the show through this crazy season with all the changes going on in your life and work. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - [email protected] Links: PO Coaching and Consulting - Douglas Squirrel and Jeffery Fredrick - Joshua Kerievshy -
[117] - Speaking in Percentages?
October 14, 2020 16:01 - 29 minutes - 22.8 MBEP117 [117] - Speaking in Percentages? When Product Owners start asking questions or talking about an activity, what type of questions do we ask? Are they open-ended, exploratory or curious ones, or are they binary quick answers with little to no requests for information? In this episode, we'll explore a small section of David Marquet's latest book and the implications it might have on how the PO's can change the way we search for better connections and data with our teams, customers, and pro...
[116] - PO Maturity with Bob Galen
September 30, 2020 16:01 - 58 minutes - 41.5 MBIt's time for an updated look at a PO Maturity index. In this episode, Bob Galen returns to review the recent changes he made to his Agile Journey Index Maturity Model" and discuss why some of those changes happened. There's some feedback, some challenges, and some learning that we discuss along the way. Grab a sufficiently mature whisky and follow along. Maybe you and your organization can learn a thing or two about Product Ownership. Feedback: twitter - @deliveritcast email - deliveritcast@...
[115] - Problem Depth with Ant Murphy
September 16, 2020 16:01 - 57 minutes - 39.7 MBHow much time do you, as a Product Owner, spend thinking about your user's core problem? How much time does the rest of the team spend exploring ideas and different approaches to solving them? Why don't you spend more time doing that? In this episode, we talk with Ant Murphy about some of the reasons that we need to spend more time, effort, and energy on the depth of our problem-solving. What would it look like if PO's and companies did go deep on understanding, iterating, and experimenting...
[114] - Cognitive Bias
September 02, 2020 16:01 - 26 minutes - 20.2 MBThe Product Owner's brain is a complicated thing. Some of the practices and patterns that we try to make it easier, can also cause us to miss some key elements or information. These Cognitive Biases show up in our shortcuts or established ways of thinking every day. It's important to understand, acknowledge, and find ways to counter those biases when needed. In this episode there are some of the main ones PO's might have themselves, see in others, and deal with during your work. Have one th...
[113] - BA to PO with Lisa Williams
August 19, 2020 16:01 - 50 minutes - 38.5 MBA common career path when companies start to become more agile is Business Analysts looking to become Product Owners. Sometimes that's by choice and sometimes that is how the organization and teams first move towards using agile methods and practices. In this episode, we welcome Lisa Williams to the show to talk about how she went through that transition and how she has worked with teams and companies to move other BA's into the PO role. There might still be some places where BA's can work on...
[112] - Simplicity
August 05, 2020 16:01 - 32 minutes - 24.4 MBA lot of PO's, teams, and organizations struggle with the principles of the agile manifesto. One in particular causes so many issues, that of simplicity. Adding instead of removing, more instead of less, trivial many over the essential few. In our products, systems, and structures you've seen the added parts that build more and more complexity and complications. Why do we collectively do that? What can you do to help simplify some of those items or start with a simple item to begin with. In t...
[111] - Security with Jeff Payne
July 22, 2020 16:01 - 55 minutes - 38.4 MBAnother technical topic that PO's either get drafted into or need to know more about, is Security. In all its various forms, needs, and issues, Product Owners need more information about how to work with the team, organization, and users on having a solid baseline and making improvements. In this episode, Coveros CEO Jeff Payne joins to talk about how he has seen the PO help and hurt security efforts, some things to think about during planning and daily activities, and who to partner with to ...
[110] - Lonely PO with Todd Miller
July 08, 2020 16:01 - 49 minutes - 39.2 MBEven though you as a Product Owner are surrounded by teams, customers, and stakeholders, sometimes things can happen that leave you feeling like your all alone. It's a nasty feeling and not knowing who to turn to, who can help, and what to do next. A situation of isolation is something that POs can find themselves in for one reason or another. Todd Miller is back on this episode to share his stories and examples of when he was Lonely as a PO and what he did to find his way through that. We al...
[109] - Empiricism
June 24, 2020 16:01 - 27 minutes - 20.6 MBLooking back at the scrum guide is a good idea for a Product Owner. One of the foundational elements of scrum is the philosophy that it is built on, that being empirical process controls. What is empiricism and how can POs and others benefit from it? In this episode, some of the ideas around empiricism are explored and why they are important. Also some of the related and competing concepts are recognized for thought. If you have any favorite stories or empirical examples please share so we ca...