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So the whole world is going to fall apart if we don't handle this emergent or urgent work! At least, that is what they say. What actually happens is something completely different. For the scrum team, we already have one WIP Limit in place. That is what we believe it will take to reach the Sprint Goal and we establish that during Sprint Planning. For the Kanban team, we limit our WIP and classify…
Hey Scrum Master, Product Owner and Dev team! If you experience rollover, items not getting done, or just want to optimize your workflow, this episode may help. Of course, it may not...?! I have observed and experienced the top 3 reasons why teams rollover work from sprint to sprint and of course, we'll dive in to the first one here and give you some practical tips on overcoming that nasty,…
Let's talk about those dang old same 3 questions we ask in the daily standup and why they hold you back. The Daily sync is sunk, the standup is everyone sitting down, the daily scrum is daily scum. We have to get away from this pattern and have better engagement. If you are a product owner, scrum master, agile dev team member who seems to be NOT getting value out of your daily scrum, sync,…
What you are bringing into PI or quarterly planning is the input needed for you and the team to make your commitments. How you qualify that input is a critical step that lots of teams miss. I'm not talking definition of ready on a micro-level in this episode, but I am talking about the macro-level on making sure you have a smoother large-room planning event. Tune in for ScottyG's 3 keys to…
First time interview episode with a good friend! Interview audio may not be pristine, but a good chat! Contact my friend Kert Peterson at kert@nextwaveagility.com https://www.nextwaveagility.com/
A good friend of our community is offering a 2 day virtual KSD certification and course soon! https://kanban.university/kuapps/#/course/view/20910 Mar-16-2026 to Mar-17-2026 Contact Kert for special promos! kert@nextwaveagility.com Tell him ScottyG at Planet Product Owner sent ya!
I see the need to help you defend against all kinds of hijackers. Today's episode we will walk through how to keep the hijackers away from your team because hey, we need a stable agile team and we are doing just fine without you coming in and splitting us up. In fact, we don't even want your help adding new people unless we ask you to do it! I see this alot, in a scaled agile world particularly.…
I see teams struggle with the flow of value because they are either bogged down in the stories and tasks or they don't have a candle in the dark room. Hey Product Owner, you have to light that candle and show them the way. If prioritization seems like a never-ending battle or even worse you are prioritizing the wrong backlog - yes - you know the one...Then this episode is for you! This episode is…
Often times Product Owners and Agile Dev Teams get confused on who owns what when it comes to the product backlog and the sprint backlog. I want to help you figure that part out, but I also want to share some practical ways that you, as a product person, can grow your practice and work in the right backlog. Maybe you are not sure about how much detail to put into this story, or maybe you are not…
Season 8 - crazy! Agile leadership comes from all over your organization, not just with suits, C level folks or executives. Today's episode will help set the foundations for any agile team leader to get that team and your product to a level of high performance. Whether you are a scrum master, flow coach, product owner / manager or any kind of leader in your organization, there is a foundation that…
Building street cred is a valuable skill for any aspiring agile leader. I'll give you 3 ways to start building it and 3 sets of activities to help you get this going in the New Year! Agile leadership coaching is not dead. Folks still want to understand how to make things work and and do them better. This podcast will NEVER go away! I may run out of audio topics for Agile or Scrum Product Owners,…
What is value and how does that inform what we are actually working on? A product owner can't maximize the value of the product without first defining what is valuable. Let's dive in! Today's session is great for agile leadership, Product Owner, Product Management and anyone really in the organization helping to move the needle! Don't forget to sign up for the 2 day virtual CSPO Certification…
If you or someone you know are looking for a great product owner certification course, friends, you're in luck! I'll be co-teaching with a friend of mine named Kert Peterson with NextWave Agility on December 18-19. This virtual 2 day CSPO certification course will be a great way not only for us to meet and do more than what we can on audio together, but also make sure you walk away with tools that…
Sometimes surviving agile at scale feels like a never-ending cycle of defeat. There are ways to get through it and there’s light at the end of the tunnel. It doesn’t always have to be a train wreck. Some agile coaches believe that scaling agile is not even agile but there are tons of frameworks that help address the issues. If there’s one thing that SAFe, LeSS, etc. have in common, it is to…
One thing lots of agile or scrum teams have in common is that they experience carry over work. Sometimes, we can do it and still survive and meet our goals. But if carry over work becomes the norm and we are unable to get out of the trend, it is problematic for us. There are several different culprits that lead to carry over work, but none is worse than the backlog hijacker. This episode is great…
Helpful hints are always what you get on the Planet Product Owner Podcast! Journey today to see how an agile or scrum product owner can help kick off Sprint Planning and establish the expectations for what I believe to be the most important feedback loop in our practice. Today's episode should help you with a pattern that I've found to be successful in this little adventure, helping to navigate…
Just because we are agile, it doesn't mean we don't plan. If you are a scrum or Agile Product Owner or Product Manager, remember that the team needs your input for the sprint planning event. This episode gives you some practical tips and guidance to help your sprint planning event go smoothly. Remember to subscribe to the podcast, tell a friend and let me know how I can help!…
It’s the final round folks! This episode will help the product owner and the Dev team put all three parts of the sprint backlog together in the full cycle! How exciting! How do we know what a product backlog item looks like and how do we know if we’re giving the team the right information to have the right conversations? This episode will explore some of those details and help you with some think…
This episode will wrap up the three parts of the Sprint Backlog. I hope the agile team and product owner are honoring all 3! If not, make sure you check out the series and get caught up! There are some serious ideas in this episode for you to connect behaviors to theory. May we allow principles and values be our guide as we journey together! If I say so myself, this is probably one of the best…
Too many times product owners overdo it when it comes to the Sprint backlog. The sprint backlog is owned by the dev team, not by the product owner. This episode will focus on one or two ideas that may help you back into the product backlog. Remember, the product backlog serves as an input for the team and that input goes into a process, which in this case allows the team to create a sprint goal.…
Following up on the previous episode, let’s dive into to the sprint backlog. Did you know there are three parts to the sprint backlog? Often times product owners and agile or scrum teams forget about that part. These three basic elements make up the full cycle, so we’re gonna decompose some stuff today! Help me stay Ad-Free! https://coff.ee/planetproductowner
Glad to be back with this episode! And yes, I. AM. BACK ! The agile mirror is one that we often take for granted. Sometimes it’s nice just to reset, realign and just get back to the center. This episode will set up the next 3 to 5 episodes for the product owner, scrum master, team member and even leadership to help reorient and get back to the center. Why are we even doing agile development? Have…
We are in the business of exploring, defining and solving the unknown. But that does not mean we blindly commit to work. How can we help the product owner and product manager in the agile development space to become more proactive? How can we better qualify what we’re asking the team to do? How can we shore up our commitments? Today, let’s focus on three topics that we need to address as a product…
Too many times we fall into habits that we carry over from the days of old. There’s nothing wrong with the days of old, in fact, we can learn a lot from the old days. But what we want to learn from the past and we are actually apply new techniques from thinking patterns we develop. This episode is beneficial for the agile product owner, product manager, agile team, and anyone in your release train…
In this episode I’ll wrap up and summarize the six keys for a successful practice. If you are a product owner or a product manager in the agile space, this episode will summarize the skills covered with a reminder of why we want to develop them and how to tie them back to protect your team, your backlog and the health of your practice.
With this episode, we are finally through the six keys of success for the product owner or product manager in the agile development and delivery space. Hooray! This episode will close out those six keys that we talked about. Sometimes you can equate the skills to more than just product, owner and product manager roles. We just wanna make sure that we are working on the right thing and that we are…
The old saying for the agile or scrum team is to be close to the work. We hear this a lot, but what does that really mean? Especially if we are a product owner or a product manager trying to understand what problems we want to solve. When we were in the business of discovering the unknown and solving problems, we really need to understand what it is we are actually doing. By developing and…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
