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I'm glad you are here! I can't tell you how excited I am to launch Planet Product Owner 2.0! Welcome to a great community of what we call...

Some teams are diamonds, some teams are stone. Teams behave differently and we have to remember that everyone is on a different part of the journey. Some teams are cut out to become high performing, and others are not. Your goal as a product owner and leader is to create an environment for them to grow and 'own their stuff'. So the thing that comes to mind is intrinsic motivation. There are three parts to that: Purpose. If a team (and people) have a purpose, then they can get

A question from the listener is my favorite topic! “How to Gain Real Street Cred as a Product Owner” “How do I earn street cred so people finally listen to me?” Let me help you with 3 no-BS ways that have worked for me across decades of enterprise coaching. The Three Big Ideas Build Alliances with the “Old Dogs” (and everyone else) Find the boomer with 27 years of coffee stains — they know where the bodies are buried. Gen Xers (like Scott) will share excerpts from the “handy-

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, CST with Next Wave 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 will improve your facilitation, decision making and leadership as a cert

Why is it that agile execution or dev teams seem to be the only ones who MUST be on some kind of cadence? When I observe scaled organizations I see that we have all kinds of work thrown at an overwhelmed Product Owner or application development manager who happens to have a set of teams. It's interesting to me because often the work is not qualified, but folks want a commitment to how much time it will take you to deliver something without anything to go on and they want to u

It ALL starts with input. You've heard "dirty data in, dirty data out". We have all said or heard this. The Sprint Planning event is like...

One reason that I started the podcast was to help folks understand how to improve their practice while working under compromised...

Here at Planet Product Owner, my mission is simple. I'm here to help your agile practice grow by offering tips, tricks and thinking...

In the old days, I just kinda threw things together from sessions I held with people. Sometimes I was inspired by posts and comments from...