Deliver It Cast

[158] - Credit

05 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A common behavior that leads to agile team dysfunction is seeking credit. This takes away from the emphasis of teamwork and we should instead encourag...

[157] - Thinking out loud

07 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Thinking out loud can help to improve collaboration, transparency, and co-creation in teams. By making one's work and thoughts more visible, it can le...

[156] - Q&A#?

24 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A quick grab bag of Q's and A's as I worked on some ideas for future shows. Feedback: Twitter - @deliveritcast email - [email protected] Support...

[155] - The Problem

10 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For 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?...

[154] - …so that…

26 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Understanding 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 fi...

[153] - Change your mind

12 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring 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...

[152] - Design Four

29 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This 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 ar...

[151] - Order of Operations

15 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Back with a quick hit on why understanding your customers' Order of Operations for their work is magical Feedback: Twitter - @deliveritcast email - de...

[150] - Back to Basics Part 3

28 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Taking 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...

[149] - Sharpen your Saw

14 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Often 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 t...

[148] - Ever Finished?

01 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

After 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 wa...

[147] - Uncomfortable

17 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What could you do to make yourself, a little more uncomfortable? In your work, practices, and thoughts even. In this episode, we will explore some ide...

[146] - Optionality

03 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How 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 some...

[145] - Best Principles

20 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How many discussions, debates, or other conversations do we get stuck in over practices and tools? What would happen if instead, we focused on the pri...

[144] - Rule of 3

07 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

There 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 examin...

[143] - Boardroom Metrics with Stephanie Tanzar

22 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

More 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...

[142] - Incentives

08 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring 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 ...

[141] - Degrees of No with Jen Fields

25 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A 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 t...

[140] - Storynomics

11 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How often do Product Owners find themselves telling stories? Stories about our customers, teams, and problems faced by both. In this episode, I wanted...

[139] - Budget-wise

27 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sometimes 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 rece...

[138] - Product Habits with Andrew Stokzko

13 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

[137] - Before the Training with Todd and Ryan

30 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

There are lots of questions about certification and training for Product Owners. In this episode, we talk to scrum trainers Todd Miller and Ryan Riple...

[136] - Hybrid

16 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

[135] - Learning from Coaches with Bob Galen

27 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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...

[134] - Theory of Everything with Alyssa Knoll

13 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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...

[133] - Iterate

29 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

[132] - Speaking with Intent with David Marquet

15 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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, ourselve...

[131] - Waste

01 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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...

[130] - Perfection with Geoff Watts

18 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 jo...

[129] - What kind of...

04 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 conversati...

[128] - Measuring Things

21 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 ou...

[127] - Escape the Sprint Bubble

07 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 te...

[126] - Product at Gossip

23 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

[125] - Rethinking Teams

09 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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...

[124] - Start at the end

26 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 hap...

[123] - Empowered with Marty Cagan

12 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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...

[122] - What Customers Want with Tony Ulwick

28 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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...

[121] - Talking Trade-Offs

14 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Making decisions as a Product Owner is hard sometimes, mainly because each decision involves a trade-off. That makes people uncomfortable and hesitant...

[120] - Organizational Alignment with Janna Bastow

31 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 disc...

[119] - Scrum Guide 2020

17 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 nee...

[118] - Q&A

28 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Finishing 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 sho...

[117] - Speaking in Percentages?

14 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

EP117 [117] - Speaking in Percentages? When Product Owners start asking questions or talking about an activity, what type of questions do we ask? Are ...

[116] - PO Maturity with Bob Galen

30 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It'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 Ind...

[115] - Problem Depth with Ant Murphy

16 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

How 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...

[114] - Cognitive Bias

02 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The 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...

[113] - BA to PO with Lisa Williams

19 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A common career path when companies start to become more agile is Business Analysts looking to become Product Owners. Sometimes that's by choice and s...

[112] - Simplicity

05 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A lot of PO's, teams, and organizations struggle with the principles of the agile manifesto. One in particular causes so many issues, that of simplici...

[111] - Security with Jeff Payne

22 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Another 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, Produc...

[110] - Lonely PO with Todd Miller

08 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Even though you as a Product Owner are surrounded by teams, customers, and stakeholders, sometimes things can happen that leave you feeling like your ...

[109] - Empiricism

24 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Looking 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, t...

[108] - Obviously Awesome with April Dunford

10 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As Product Owners, we've helped to understand the customers' goals and found ways to collaborate with the team to build what is needed. One step that ...

[107] - Impediments

27 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Look at it, it's staring your poor Product Owner eyes down. It's relentless, unmoving, and completely in your way. You might be able to get around it ...

[106] - Loops with J Cornelius

13 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As with most loops, things come back around. In this case, some of the research for an earlier episode led to the book called Loops by J Cornelius whi...

[105] - Stay Organized

29 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

When you think of all the things you need to do as a Product Owner, how do you structure your day, your systems, and your needs? For some POs, it's on...

[104] - Defining Product

15 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What do you think of when someone asks about your Product? How do you describe it to any new members of the team, potential customers, or even relativ...

[103] - PO ? PM

01 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Every so often the great debate, misunderstanding, or downright wrong theory is put forward about what do we have/call people, Product Owners or Produ...

[102] - Fixing Your Scrum

18 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Sadly a lot of attempts at using agile or scrum fail. In many of those cases, there were things a Product Owner, Scrum Master, team, or company could ...

[101] - Back to Basics part 2

04 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

From time to time it's good to reset where you are at and see how the basics are doing. It is that time again for the show to reevaluate the first ste...

EP100 - Retrospective & Questions

30 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

100 Episodes of Product Owner goodness are wrapping up with a retrospective and open questions. So much to be thankful for, so much amazing informatio...

EP99 - Product Operations with Christine Itwaru

16 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Something that Product Owners have likely seen a substantial amount of in the last few months is the idea of "ProductOps". It appears there is a big p...

EP98 - Multiple Backlogs

02 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

How do Product Owners handle having multiple backlogs for a single team? That was the question from a listener and in this episode, there will be some...

EP97 - Product Organizations with Josh Anderson

18 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

How do Product Owners, and other product people, fit into our company's structure? How does that structure work with the other parts of the organizati...

EP96 - Business Agility with Bob Galen

04 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Lately, Product Owners and others have been seeing and hearing a lot about "Business Agility". What does that really mean? To help explain and explore...

EP95 - Defining Done with Tom Schwendler

21 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

When Product Owners hear or when we tell anyone "It's done". What does that mean? Do we mean it's mostly done, or done except for a few things we have...

EP94 - The Loop

07 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Product Owners often get focused on what or how we are doing things for our applications and teams, and not how often. When you take a look at when yo...

EP93 - Empathy Mapping

24 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Gaining a deeper understanding of the users of our products should be high on a Product Owners to-do list. Building knowledge, information, and empath...

EP92 - MVP

10 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

When Product Owners start hearing about MVPs, we really need to pay attention to who's talking and what they mean. MVP the term has definitely grown b...

EP91 - Product Experiments with Trevor and Dave from Split

26 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

How do teams and Product Owners know if what they are delivering is the right thing? Most of the time, you don't, unless they are specifically treatin...

EP90 - Agile Architecture with Allen Holub

12 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Product Owners need to understand that a significant component of how well the team is able to deliver, depends on their product architecture. In fact...

EP89 - Value Stream Mapping

29 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Ok Product Owners, how well do you know your flow? How well can you describe it to others? What's the limiting factor in your product, delivery, and e...

EP88 - Working Software

15 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It's one of the core tenants of creating products in an agile way, and something Product Owners need to be keenly aware of, but what exactly is "worki...

EP87 - Feeling Stressed with Geoff Watts

01 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

There is almost an incalculable number of ways a Product Owner can feel stressed. It can be overwhelming if you do not find strategies and mindsets to...

EP86 - Other Story Types

17 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

When Product Owners are communicating with stories, the way they are written and told can help establish some clarity. The stories are only part of th...

EP85 - Escaping the Build Trap with Melissa Perri

03 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

There are a lot of Product Management skills that a great Product Owner needs to learn about. One of the best teachers of those skills is ProduxLabs C...

EP84 - Something Epic

20 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

What is a Product Owner to do when a story is too big to fit into a sprint? Or what about when a PO is working with an idea that will take some time t...

EP83 - Idea Funnel

06 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Many times as Product Owners we are asked to do more than the team can handle. Having a way to sort through all of the ideas, problems, and yes even r...

EP82 - Question Round Up

31 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

I truly hope that the Product Owners and people who care about them got a lot out of this season. We've had some wonderful quests, great topics, and l...

EP81 - Interviewing Customers with Jessica Ivins

17 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Product Owners can learn a lot about getting feedback from users by picking up some UX practices. One of the better ways to do that is with a focused ...

EP80 - Products or Projects?

03 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What mode are you working in as a Product Owner? Are you and the team working on projects? Or products? What is the way you're organized, measured, or...

EP79 - Tools

19 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Product Owners should really like our individual conversations and interactions with people, sometimes we also need useful tools to help do our job. W...

EP78 - Multiple Product Owners

05 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

If you are a Product Owner working on a large product, then there likely multiples of you. Many PO's working with various teams to achieve different g...

EP77 - 5 things to fix Product Ownership with Jeff Patton

22 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Does Product Ownership need fixing? Are some of the common agile and scrum practices screwed up? Jeff Patton thinks so and has a really compelling tal...

EP76 - Product CEO?

08 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A common pitfall that Product Owners need to be aware of is behaving with authority they don't have. A lot of people refer to this as PO's and PM's th...

EP75 - New Team

25 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Very rarely does a Product Owner get to work with a newly formed team. Getting started is a very important step so that the team understands what the ...

EP74 - Paul's PO Journey

27 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Hearing from fellow Product Owners is a good way to learn more about the role. Having others share their experience and journey can give you ideas, in...

EP73 - Reducing Risk

13 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Being comfortable with risk and uncertainty is a hallmark of a great Product Owner. Understanding how to deal with unknowns or potential issues can he...

EP72 - I'm Listening

30 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In order to communicate effectively, PO's need to be excellent listeners. We must be able to understand and relate to what the person or group we are ...

EP71 - Communication Issues with John Cutler

16 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

One of the basic Product Owner skills is communication. Delivering, receiving, and improving how and what we are communicating can make or break our e...

EP70 - Impact Mapping with Gojko

02 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Product Owners think a lot about delivering value and how best to do that. One way that can help focus those efforts is a technique from Gojko Adzic c...

EP69 - Kaizen

18 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Product Owners should always work on trying to become better. Looking for areas to improve, selecting a few and then working on ways to make them succ...

EP68 - Missed It?

04 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

At some point as a PO, will you "miss" an ask, you might even actually miss something important. It might be a small part of a larger story or even a ...

EP67 - POs in the Nexus with Dave West

21 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

When your product gets really big and you need to work with teams at scale, what options do Product Owners have? In this episode, Dave West joins the ...

EP66 - Finding Balance

07 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

One of the hardest parts of being a Product Owner is to find the required balance between so many seemingly competing directions and demands. However,...

EP65 - Laurie's PO Story

01 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Hearing how other people are successful in the PO role is a great way to learn new ideas. We've been lucky to bring a few stories forward and happy th...

EP63 - PO Book v3 with Bob Galen

18 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The best resource for Product Owners is Bob Galen's Scrum Product Ownership book. It's a great reference and source of information for how to do the r...

EP63 - PO Journey with Jamie Collins

04 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Moving from dev to Product Owner with your team is something that is quite difficult to do. There are a bunch of new skills, hats, and behaviors you h...

EP62 - Product Discovery with David Hussman

20 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Where should Product Owners look to engage with others in Product Discovery? The notion of not "knowing" what should be done can be uncomfortable or s...

EP61 - Let it Flow

06 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Should Product Owners be concerned about flow? Is flow a part of what a PO needs to focus on from time to time? That thought, and the response to it, ...

EP60 - PO's in the Scrum Guide

23 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Product Owner role is established in the Scrum Guide. The behaviors, activities, and definitions of what a PO is supposed to do come mainly from t...

EP59 - Shipping Smaller Stories

09 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Something that Product Owners can continually get better at, is making the stories we tell, and ask for teams to work on, smaller. Smaller stories pro...