Planet Product Owner

This episode turns the corner for us as we journey through the last 3 of 6 keys for success in your practice. If you are struggling with getting alignment with the team during their working iteration or sprint, this key to success will help you keep that front porch clean! It is important for the agile product owner or product manager to continually refine and master some skills that will make you...

Key #3 of the 6 keys to having a successful agile product practice! How do we ensure that we are getting what we want? Putting the six keys together will definitely help us on the journey to becoming a better product owner or product manager in the practice of agile development. What are we focusing on? When we’re in a large scale development effort or even smaller ones, there are a few things tha...

Being a successful agile product owner or product manager takes a little work. It’s not just doing what is in the book or described in the certifications. In my experience, there are 6 keys to success. This is key #2!

Well, I’m committed to going old-school Scott on the journey for the agile product owner and scrum team with this podcast. My plan is to teach, coach and mentor in a way that makes sense to you. I’m committed to getting back to the roots of this podcast and why it was successful to begin with. I’ll be your agile coach, your source of entertainment and your pal. I hope you like today’s episode that...

It’s a new format, it’s a new season, it’s still the Planet Product Owner podcast, which happens to still be the best coaching and training podcast for agile teams and of course the agile product owner. I’ve listened to your feedback and I’m re-factoring what I’m doing here. I’m getting back to the roots of the storytelling now and finally finding my groove. So if it’s been a while since you’ve be...

Sprint planning is probably one of the most underutilized ceremonies that we have in our toolbelt. This episode will focus on the inputs and output of sprint planning and would be a great episode for the entire agile scrum team to listen to. I’ll share some thoughts around the format of the event, some tips for agility and some interesting ways to help you set and manage expectations.

Often times we overprocess our sprint. This episode will explain more detail about what the sprint really is, why we have it, and how we can improve it. We all run into similar issues from what I have seen. I’d like to share some of the same issues that you have And obviously give you some insight and some helpful tips to help you make the most of your sprint. This is probably for agile or scrum p...

Product owner let’s look at your flow. Why are you not flowing? Let’s get you going!

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 ar...

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 over...

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...

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…!

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!

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!

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 wa...

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 thes...

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...

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 resu...

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...

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!

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 lear...

Part one of the overwhelmed agile product owner. Let’s talk about how the scrum team can alleviate some pressure from the product owner, how to impact delivery and how the agile team developers can help the most! I’m giving a lot of love to the agile or scrum development team today because I just don’t give them enough. Many hands make light work, they say. We will talk about three metrics that th...

How do we apply behaviors that prove we are actually valuing “Individuals and Interactions OVER Processes and Tools”? Today’s episode explores some things that product owners can do to help us demonstrate that value. Take your hands off the hand offs.

As a product owner I want to create stories that paint a picture so that my development team can produce the right thing. Product owners and anyone in the agile space should enjoy this episode as we get back to fundamentals about user stories. Today’s episode will cover some of the good attributes of user stories as well as some traps or anti-patterns to defend yourself against. I’m certainly glad...

Hey agile Product Owner and Scrum Master! Does your burn down chart look like a cliff or a slope? This is episode we put on our explorer and captain hats and try to figure out how to avoid the cliff in our burndown chart by looking at causes, implications and solutions.