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In this episode of the podcast I chat with Stephan van Maris, Product Owner of the Clang e-mail marketing platform at E-Village. Stephan has a technical background and developed himself from one of the core engineers to Product Owner who is now letting go of the technical details to focus on improving the product through customer collaboration. In the 5 parts to this interview (new experiment!) we discuss: 1. Introduction, path to current role, context (organization) and mandate level as a Product Owner; 2. Collaboration with the Scrum Team - Stephan shares how he works with the development team and scrum master, and tells a story of their approach for better alignment in developing and designing a new module, by collaborating as a team on the ideation and possible realization, resulting in the new module's backlog items as a team effort (instead of being a solo-PO act); 3. Stakeholder Management - Stephan discusses how he engages both the internal stakeholder field as well as the external stakeholders through regular contact & customer feedback events; 4. Value Steering - We discuss the current efforts to close the feedback loop by introducing metrics for value steering. Up till now Stakeholder discussions and subsequent decisions were based on hypothetical returns and gut feeling, but by implementing a low cost usage statistic tool (Piwik), now the backlog decisions are based on data and this is influencing decisions and discussions already; 5. Closing - We discuss how Stephan deals with technical debt, NFR's and the bouyscout rule used by the development team. Furthermore after mentioning culture a few times in the earlier parts, Stephan shares a Netflix presentation that gave him valuable insights for developing the E-Village culture. Please feel free to reach out to us if you have questions or comments, we love to share and learn! You can reach us on the links below. If you want to share your stories on the podcast please feel free to contact us. Links & Resources Stephan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/svmaris/ E-village: https://www.e-village.nl Clang: https://www.e-village.nl/clang Piwik: https://piwik.org/ Netflix Culture deck Slideshare: https://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664 Current Netflix culture description https://jobs.netflix.com/culture/ Busuness model canvas (mentioned) should be lean canvas (thx wilbert) https://blog.leanstack.com/why-lean-canvas-vs-business-model-canvas-af62c0f250f0 Product Owner Perspective: https://twitter.com/po_podcast Sjoerd: https://twitter.com/sjoerdly & https://www.linkedin.com/in/sjoerdkranendonk/

In this 5th podcast we chat with Matthias Orgler, a Product Development Expert & Agile Coach from Germany. He has experience working in startups in Silicon Vally and these days together with his colleagues at Dreimannzelt he helps businesses build awesome products. When he's not helping businesses, he can be found on stage with one of his bands, working on his book (How to Prioritize Stories) or teaching an Agile Project Management class. And according to Matthias, students have a knack for asking the really good questions. So, the challenge is set and we dive in to our really good questions! We discuss diverse topics relating to backlog management. Topics include sizing & prioritizing stories, applying focus & collaborating with the development team and stakeholders. Please enjoy this episode and feel free to follow up with me or Matthias via the below contact details. Special thanks to Michael Seidel for suggesting Matthias as a guest! We aim to continually improve this series, therefore we highly value your feedback. If you have any comments, tips, input, questions… Please contact us using one of the following: Feedback form: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2YC9ZJ7 Follow & tweet: @po_podcast https://twitter.com/PO_Podcast Email: Productownerpodcast@prowareness.nl Links & resources from this episode Matthias on Twitter: @morgler http://twitter.com/morgler Matthias on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/orgler Dreimannzelt: http://www.dreimannzelt.com/ Get updates on the book: http://prioritizestories.com Subscribe to the podcast & find previous episodes Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/productownerpodcast/ iTunes Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/nl/podcast/product-owner-podcast-powered/id1183369330?l=en&mt=2 TuneIn: http://tunein.com/radio/Product-Owner-Podcast-p941555/ Learn more about Product Ownership at the Prowareness Agile Academy Product Owner training: https://www.agileacademy.nl/training/?eventtitle=professional-scrum-product-owner-training Product Owner Advanced training: https://www.agileacademy.nl/training/?eventtitle=product-owner-advanced SAFe Product Management/Product Owner training: https://www.agileacademy.nl/training/?eventtitle=safe-product-management-product-owner-training

In this fourth episode of the podcast I chat with Wilbert Seele, my colleague at Prowareness. He’s an Agile Scaling expert and ‘Continuous Disruptor'. I asked him on the podcast not to discuss tips and tricks for the Product Owner, but to discuss the idea of a 'Chief' Product Owner and why he thinks that is a really bad idea or even a really, really, really bad idea. In this interview we also discuss the importance of knowing your problem, translating that into your process/product design and avoiding the sunk cost fallacy. And I diss accountants. To be sure: I do think there is value in doing proper accounting, as the right side of the manifesto: supporting the value adding activities and the individuals and interactions. So I meant it half-jokingly. And ironically we conclude our conversation with the advice to always take Product Ownership seriously! ;-) Since we aim to continually improve this series, we highly value your feedback. If you have any comments, tips, input, questions… Please contact us using one of the following: • Feedback form: https://www.research.net/r/ZPWTCK6 • Follow us @po_podcast https://twitter.com/PO_Podcast • Email: Productownerpodcast@prowareness.nl Links & resources from this episode • Wilbert on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wjseele/ • https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-i-dont-like-chief-product-owners-wilbert-seele • https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-i-dont-like-chief-product-owners-safe-work-version-seele • Read more about the Sunk Cost fallacy and other thinking traps in Thinking Fast & Slow by Daniel Kahneman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow Subscribe to the podcast • Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp8-sNr1WXp4qsXlFdsKfdZanL0Pq4Rj9 • Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/productownerpodcast/ • iTunes Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/nl/podcast/product-owner-podcast-powered/id1183369330?l=en&mt=2 • TuneIn: http://tunein.com/radio/Product-Owner-Podcast-p941555/ Learn more about Product Ownership at the Prowareness Agile Academy • Product Owner training: https://www.agileacademy.nl/training/?eventtitle=professional-scrum-product-owner-training • Product Owner Advanced training: https://www.agileacademy.nl/training/?eventtitle=product-owner-advanced • SAFe Product Management/Product Owner training: https://www.agileacademy.nl/training/?eventtitle=safe-product-management-product-owner-training

In this podcast I had the pleasure to chat with Dave West, Product Owner & CEO for scrum.org. After discussing his road towards becoming a Product Owner (which includes a well known three letter acronym), we go in to the three most important things a Product Owner should master. Along the ride we gain insights into the vision for Scrum.org in the coming years. We touch on the interactions between Product Owner and his Stakeholders, among which all the Professional Scrum Trainers who sometimes are even more demanding than Ken and Jeff combined. We also discuss scaling situations and how this affects the PO role, make a small sidestep into using Scrum in non-software development since Scrum is used at scrum.org too, and even discuss 'new' concepts like Scrum Studio and EBMT, which is a set of practices all Product Owners should pay attention to. We round off with a load of practices and tools Product owners can employ to gain insights in the problem we're trying to solve. Make sure to watch/listen to discover his favorite technique! Please enjoy this episode and feel free to follow up on any of the many interesting topics with me or Dave via the below contact details. Since we aim to continually improve this series, we highly value your feedback. If you have any comments, tips, input, questions… Please  contact us using one of the following:  Feedback form: https://www.research.net/r/ZPWTCK6  Follow us @po_podcast https://twitter.com/PO_Podcast  Email: Productownerpodcast@prowareness.nl  Links & resources from this episode  Dave on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidjustinwest Dave on twitter: https://twitter.com/davidjwest Email Dave at: Dave.west@scrum.org Find Dave at conferences all over the world, Scrum Face2Face meetings and more… Start at https://www.scrum.org/Community/Community-Events Read more on the motivation for becoming Scrum.org Product Owner: http://blog.scrum.org/why-i-joined-scrum-org/ Subscribe to the podcast  Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/productownerpodcast/  iTunes Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/nl/podcast/product-owner-podcast-powered/id1183369330?l=en&mt=2  TuneIn: http://tunein.com/radio/Product-Owner-Podcast-p941555/  Learn more about Product Ownership at the Prowareness Agile Academy  Product Owner training: https://www.agileacademy.nl/training/?eventtitle=professional-scrum-product-owner-training  Product Owner Advanced training: https://www.agileacademy.nl/training/?eventtitle=product-owner-advanced  SAFe Product Management/Product Owner training: https://www.agileacademy.nl/training/?eventtitle=safe-product-management-product-owner-training

In this second episode of the Product Owner Podcast, we have the honour to chat with Patrick de Groot, Product Owner for Politie.nl and other online services. Politie.nl is one of the largest Government websites. Their continuous drive to deliver true value for the Dutch public has been rewarded two years in a row with the 'Website van het Jaar' award, a government first. Patrick shares his experience and insights in working with the Scrum Team and Stakeholders. Specifically about his collaboration with UX specialists, Project Managers & Program Managers; roles you might encounter in your organization. This podcast was recorded as a video, see the original video here: https://www.prowarenessondemand.nl/product-owner-podcast-december-2016-episode-2-patrick-de-groot-politie-nl/ Please enjoy this episode, and let us know what you think! If you have any comments, tips, input, questions… Please  contact us using one of the following:  Feedback form: https://www.research.net/r/ZPWTCK6  Follow us @po_podcast https://twitter.com/PO_Podcast  Email: Productownerpodcast@prowareness.nl Links & resources from this episode  Patrick on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickdegrootprr Patrick on Twitter: http://twitter.com/paddylegrand The award winning website: https://www.politie.nl Mobile Media Lab on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MobileMediaLab Story Mapping / Walking Skeleton: http://jpattonassociates.com/user-story-mapping/ Subscribe to the podcast  Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/productownerpodcast/  iTunes Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/nl/podcast/product-owner-podcast-powered/id1183369330?l=en&mt=2  TuneIn: http://tunein.com/radio/Product-Owner-Podcast-p941555/

In this first ever episode of The Product Owner Podcast, we meet with Kai Stevens, Product Owner & Coach at Enrise. Kai takes us along to learn about his work; how he helps Product Owners grow into their role and what tools and practices he finds essential in working with remote product owners in a contracting environment. Kai works at Enrise where he helps the teams and customer build great products together. This often involves Kai being an interim Product Owner at the start of engagements, then coaching the client Prodcut Owner to take on their role as Stakeholder manager and Value optimizer. Learn more about Kai: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaistevens https://enrise.com/author/kai/ Roman Pichler's Product Owner tools we discussed: http://www.romanpichler.com/tools/ Since this is our first podcast, please let us know what you think and what topics you would like to hear more about in the follwing Product Owner podcasts.