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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 show through this crazy season with all the changes going on in your life and work.
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PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju
Douglas Squirrel and Jeffery Fredrick - Agile Conversations
Joshua Kerievshy - Why are component Teams still so popular?
 

 

EP117
[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 products. Would it help if we starting looking for more probabilistic or percentage-based answers? Could we really make some impactful changes by rephrasing our questions?
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PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju
David Perira - Why many companies will never hire a good Product Owner
Janna Bastow - Reframing backlogs and roadmaps for good
David Marquet - How to Avoid Groupthink - Leadership Nudge 228
David Marquet - Quality Questions - Leadership Nudge 214
David Marquet - Leadership Is Language
Gizmodo - What It Really Means When There's A 50 Percent Chance Of Rain

 

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 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.
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PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju
Bob Galen - Twitter - Blog - www.rgalen.com
Bob's Model - Scrum Product Ownership AJI
Scotch Whisky - How do you define maturity in whisky?
Jim, Kim, Bob - Organizational Agility Unleashed - Getting work done in an increasingly Complex Digital World
Marty Cagan - Discovery - Judgment

 
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 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 more? Our products will be better for it, users of our applications happier with it, and business will benefit more from it.
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PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju
Ant Murphy - Twitter - Blog
Ant's Sketch - "Depth of Problem"
Joe Van Os - The Art of the Strategic Product Roadmap
AilgeLeanLife - The 5 Whys technique – dig deep to find the root cause of any problem
InfoQ - How Lean Problem Solving Increases Agile Team Productivity: a Mobile Applications Startup Example
Alistair Cockburn - How I saved Agile and the Rest of the World
Maryanna Quigless - PURSUIT: Framework for your next great product idea



 
 

 
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 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 that you struggle with? Send it in.
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PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju
Very Well Mind - 10 Cognitive Biases That Distort Your Thinking
Buster Benson - You are almost definitely not living in reality because your brain doesn’t want you to 
PhD Insights - 4 Cognitive Biases Every Product Manager Needs to Combat 
Gil Bouhnick - 84 cognitive biases that will help you design better-converting products 
Brad Wray - Cognitive Bias Song 
Jeff Payne - Why Setting Priorities Is a Core Agile Practice
Savage Books - The Incredibles- Pixar's Dark Magnum Opus

 
 

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 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 agile or scrum teams successfully. Have any examples? Send them in.
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PO Coaching and Consulting - seek taiju 
Lisa Williams - @lcw927 - LinkedIn 
Jacqueline Sanders-Blackman - The Yin and Yang of the Business Analyst and Product Owner Roles
IPL - Moving from a Business Analyst to a Product Manager role
David Pereira- The road from Business Analyst to Product Owner 
Angela Wick - https://www.ba-squared.com/
Simon Bates - Scrum in practice: the role of the Business Analyst
Adrian Howard - Scrum doesn’t say…
David Hoang - Zoom out of Zoom