Outcome-based product roadmaps offer many benefits over traditional, feature-based ones including a strong focus on the value a product should create. But how can you introduce this new approach when an organisation is used to feature-based plans and stakeholders find it difficult to trust an outcome-based roadmap? To address this challenge, I intr…

Markets, products, and technologies change at an ever-faster pace, and product strategies are in danger of becoming quickly outdated if they are not being adapted. To help you address this challenge, I discuss continuous strategizing in this podcast episode—an approach that looks at strategy as an ongoing process rather than periodical work. What's…

OKRs—objectives and key results—are a popular goal-setting technique. But can and should you use OKRs on product roadmaps? What benefits does this approach offer and are there any drawbacks? These are the questions I’ll answer in this podcast episode.By Roman Pichler

For any business to succeed, it is crucial to make the right strategic decisions. To achieve this, you’ll benefit from using four different types of strategies: business, portfolio, product, and technology strategy. But that’s not enough. You’ll also have to successfully align the plans. To help you address these challenges, I have developed a new …

Being empowered can make all the difference in doing a great job. Sadly, not all product people have the authority they need. This observation is hardly new, though, and just wishing for more empowerment isn't enough. In this podcast episode, I explain what empowerment in product management really means. I help you determine how empowered you are, …

Products often don’t exist in isolation. Instead, they are part of a product portfolio. Think of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, which belong to Microsoft Office. Such a portfolio benefits from having a dedicated strategy—a product portfolio strategy. But what information should it contain? Which template can you use to describe it? How does it relate…

Product discovery has become increasingly popular in recent years as a way to determine the right solution. In this podcast episode, I explain why you need a product strategy to succeed with product discovery, how the strategy helps you determine the right outcomes and opportunities, and how you can use the Product Vision Board to build an Opportun…

Strong product leadership is crucial to offering successful products and enabling product-led growth. Unfortunately, there is disagreement and confusion about what exactly product leadership is and who should exercise it. Is product leadership limited to someone working as a head of product? Or can—and should—others lead in product management too? …

The GO Product Roadmap is a simple yet effective tool to help teams create goal-oriented, outcome-based roadmaps. Despite its simplicity, I find that it’s not always correctly applied. To address this challenge, I’ve created a checklist, which I share in this podcast episode and which you can download for free from my website.…

“Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team,” Steve Jobs once said. This insight also applies to product management: As product people, we can’t achieve product success on our own—we rely on the support of others including stakeholders and development teams. This episode shares my advice on how to foster collabora…

Hi folks. In today’s episode, I’m excited to be chatting with Jared Spool on the topic of Mastering UX. Jared has been a well-known and respected figure in the field of user experience for decades. He is an American writer, researcher, speaker, educator, and an expert about usability, software, design, and research. He is the… Continue reading Epis…

Hi everyone and welcome to another episode on the Agile Atelier podcast. My guest today is Karin Tenelius on the topic of Self-Managing Organizations. Karin has been experimenting with employee-driven organizations and self-managing teams since the nineties. While studying marketing in her twenties, Karin became interested in a leadership style tha…

As we wrap up with 2021, it’s my pleasure to be chatting today with Pia-Maria Thoren and Retrospecting on the Agile Manifesto, on the 20th year anniversary of the manifesto being written. Pia-Maria is an Agile People Coach, keynote speaker & author of Agile People – A Radical Approach for HR and Managers and Agile… Continue reading Episode 39: Retr…

Hi everyone and welcome to this episode on the Agile Atelier podcast. Today, I’ll be chatting with Roman Pichler on the topic of Scaling a Product. Roman Pichler is a product management expert specialised in digital products. He has helped advance product management over the past 10 years by developing new practices that help agile… Continue readin…

Hi fellow Agile enthusiasts and welcome to today’s episode, which is a very special one. I talk to Teresa Torres on the nuances of Continuous Discovery. Teresa is an internationally acclaimed author, speaker, and coach. She teaches a structured and sustainable approach to continuous discovery that helps product teams infuse their daily product deci…

Welcome to today’s episode where I’ll be chatting with Emily Bache on the topic of Technical Coaching. Emily is the author of the books Technical Agile Coaching with the Samman method and The Coding Dojo Handbook. She is also a Technical Agile Coach at ProAgile where she helps software development teams to get better at… Continue reading Episode 36…

Hi everyone and welcome to another episode on the Agile Atelier podcast. Today, I have the pleasure of chatting with Daniel Mezick about Open Space Agility. Daniel has coached executives and teams since 2006. He is also a ScrumAtScale Trainer, and an author and co-author of three books on organizational change: The Culture Game, The… Continue readi…

Hi everyone and welcome to episode 34 on the Agile Atelier podcast. Today, I have the pleasure of speaking with Felipe Castro on the topic of Using OKRs to Shift from Features to Outcomes. Felipe Castro is an OKR Trainer who helps organizations transform how they set goals with the help of the OKR framework.… Continue reading Episode 34: Using OKRs…

Hi everyone and welcome to this episode on the Agile Atelier podcast. Today, I’ll be talking to Heidi Helfand about Dynamic Reteaming, which is also the title of the book she has authored. Heidi coaches software development teams using practical, people-focused techniques, with the goal of building resilient organizations as they double and triple …

Hello to all listeners. Welcome to today’s Agile Atelier episode, where I chat with L. David Marquet on the topic of Servant Leadership. David is a retired United States Navy captain and bestselling author of Turn the Ship Around and Leadership is Language. He was the commander of the submarine USS Santa Fe, a submarine… Continue reading Episode 32…

Agile Atelier podcast listeners! Welcome to the first episode of the year! I hope 2021 finds you well and ready for some fascinating topics and guest speakers that we have in store for you in this new year. Today, I have the pleasure of speaking to Niels Pflaeging on the topic of Organizational Complexity and… Continue reading Episode 31: Organizat…

Welcome to yet another episode on the Agile Atelier podcast! Today’s topic is Lean Software Development, I have the pleasure of chatting with two special guests – Mary and Tom Poppendieck. Mary and Tom are best known for their book Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit. Mary started her career as a process control programmer,… Continue readin…

Agile Atelier listeners! Welcome to another special episode today, where I talk to Jeff Patton on the different levels of planning seen in agile and non-agile environments. Jeff is most well-known for his book, User Story Mapping. He has designed and developed software for the past 20 years on a wide variety of projects from… Continue reading Episo…

This episode of Agile Atelier continues with the Product theme, that the last couple of episodes has featured. Today, I have the pleasure of speaking with Alan Klement, co-developer of the Jobs to be Done theory and author of When Coffee and Kale Compete. His own experience as a successful innovator and entrepreneur are what… Continue reading Episo…

In today’s Agile Atelier podcast episode, I am chatting with Product Management coach and consultant Tim Herbig. Before going independent, Tim was the Director of Product for the Enterprise-level A/B Testing tool iridion. Tim is also a published author of the book Lateral Leadership. Tim’s workshops, talks and online courses are a result of 10+… Co…

Agile Atelier listeners! Welcome to a very special episode today, where I talk to Marty Cagan about Empowered Engineers on Product Teams. Widely recognized as the primary thought leader for technology product management, Marty is the founder of the Silicon Valley Product Group (SVPG). He served as an executive responsible for defining and building …

Welcome back, listeners of the Agile Atelier podcast! Our guest today, Marshall Guillory, and I discuss the nuances of the scaled Agile framework, or SAFe. Marshall currently works as a senior consultant and enterprise agility coach with Agile Rising. He has over twenty-five years of business experience in software development, information technolo…

This episode’s topic is Agile HR with our guest speaker Natal Dank. With the aim of disrupting HR for the good of humans, Natal combines her extensive background in HR, organizational development and workplace learning with innovative Agile practices, to offer a truly unique and transformative approach. She works hands-on with HR teams and leaders……

I am excited to bring you a round two episode (read about and listen to our first episode here) with Jeff Gothelf. Jeff is the author of the recently published Forever Employable, Lean UX , and Sense & Respond. He is also the co-founder of Sense & Respond Press, and a well-known public speaker, consultant… Continue reading Episode 23: The Career of…

Today, I’ll be speaking with the UK’s leading Agile Coach and author of several books, Geoff Watts on Organic Agility and Change Management. Geoff’s mission is to help individuals create great teams by developing a culture of reflection, empowerment and engagement. Having started using Scrum at British Telecom, one of the first large-scale Agile ad…

Today, I’ll be chatting with Samantha Laing, a New-Zealand based Agile consultant and coach whose passion is helping people work and live with purpose, meaning and joy. Most of Sam’s career has been in the IT industry, specifically software development. She co-founded Growing Agile and spends most of her time guiding and mentoring others with… Cont…

Welcome to yet another episode on the Agile Atelier podcast. In this episode about Feedback Loops, I chat with Colleen Johnson, who helps organizations apply a systems thinking approach to aligning agile methodologies across the enterprise. She works with clients to apply the right cultural and context-driven practices to create sustainable agility…

It’s a pleasure to bring you the first episode of 2020 – Scaling Kanban. Our guest today, Dimitar Karaivanov, is a Lean-thinker and a Kanban practitioner with background in the areas of software development and process improvement. He has more than 15 years of experience at companies like Johnson Controls, SAP and Software AG. He… Continue reading …

I am absolutely thrilled to bring you this episode with one of the foremost gamification experts in the world, Yu-kai Chou. Yu-kai is an author and international keynote speaker on Gamification and Behavioral Design. He is the original creator of the Octalysis Framework, and the author of Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderbo…

Today I’ll be speaking with Karl Scotland on the synergy between Agility and Strategy. Over the last 15 years he has been an advocate of Lean and Agile approaches, working with companies including the BBC, Yahoo!, EMC Consulting, Rally Software, Cisco and Legal & General. During this time, Karl has been a pioneer of using… Continue reading Episode …

In today’s episode, I’ll be speaking to Cheryl Tansey, all the way from New Zealand, on the art of coaching. I met Cheryl at a conference in Amsterdam where she was one of the speakers. I was really impressed with her content and presentation and knew that I had to get her on the podcast.… Continue reading Episode 16: The Art of Coaching with Chery…

Hello Agilists! Wow, what a privilege it was to have this extended conversation with Elena Astilleros on Transformations, mindset, leadership, and so many more things in between. Elena’s talent is to create the systems that support people and teams to show up in a way that fosters respect and collaboration. Her goal is to create… Continue reading E…

Welcome to yet another episode on the Agile Atelier podcast. In this episode, I chat with Kai Stevens, a product owner driven to build game-changing software products together with inspiring people. In the past years, Kai has worked with several development teams on challenging products. He has over a decade of experience in product ownership.… Con…

Welcome to episode 13 on the Agile Atelier podcast. Today’s topic is Evidence Based Management (EBM), a framework inspired by scrum.org trainers and our guests for today, Patricia Kong and Kurt Bittner. Patricia Kong is the Product Owner of the Scrum.org enterprise solutions program which includes the Nexus Framework, Evidence-Based Management, Scr…

Welcome to another episode on the Agile Atelier podcast. Today, I’ll be speaking to Mike Burrows on using the right terminologies for Agile. Mike is the author of Kanban from the Inside, Agendashift: outcome-oriented change and continuous transformations, as well as Right to Left: the digital leader’s guide to Lean and Agile. Mike is recognised… Co…

Welcome to a very special episode 11. Our guest today needs very little introduction. Jeff Gothelf is the author of Lean UX and Sense & Respond, co-founder of Sense & Respond Press, and a well-known public speaker, consultant and coach. Today, we’ll be talking about the intersection of Agile, Lean and Design Thinking and really… Continue reading Ep…

Welcome to Episode 10 of the Agile Atelier podcast, and today we’ll be talking about Zombie Scrum with the caped crusader who spends his time fighting it. Christiaan Verwijs, along with Barry Overeem, is one of the co-founders of The Liberators, an organization that aims to liberate individuals, teams, and organizations from de-humanizing and ineff…

Welcome to episode 9 of the Agile Atelier podcast. Today’s guest is Claudio Perrone . Claudio is a well-known Lean & Agile management consultant, entrepreneur and startup strategist with over 20 years of commercial experience and a strong focus on leadership, agility and operational excellence. His journey in the Agile world started in 2001. And… C…

I recently read a very well written blog post about using Domain driven design to determine whether teams should be set up in a feature or component-based teams. Philippe Bourgau, the author of the blog was kind enough to spare a few minutes and come on to talk to us about eXtreme Programming (XP) and… Continue reading Episode 8: Is XP the middle c…

Welcome to episode 7 of Agile Atelier. Today’s guest is Jacopo Romei, a freelance strategy consultant. Jacopo has written a few books: “Pro PHP Refactoring”, a TDD chapter in “PHP Best Practices” and “Extreme Contracts” in 2017, on contracts and negotiation in knowledge work. He also contributed to a couple of books written by Jurgen… Continue read…

Welcome to episode number 6. In this episode, I’ll be speaking to Akshita Joshi. Akshita is an agile trainer and coach who has seen agile in action at digital native companies like Facebook, where she spent a number of years pre and post IPO. Since then she has applied agile principles to more traditional companies… Continue reading Episode 6: Scru…

Today, I’ll be speaking to Vasco Duarte about using tools over generic frameworks. Product Manager, Scrum Master, Project Manager, Director, Agile Coach are some of the roles that he's taken in software development organizations. Vasco's mission is to transform product development organizations into product business organizations. He does that by f…

In this episode, I’ll be speaking to Augusto Evangelisti, a business Agility coach based in Ireland. I had a lot of fun recording this episode. Gus, as he likes to be called, is a fun and engaging speaker, who is extremely honest and down-to-earth about his philosophies and teachings. This episode’s topic is Collaboration and… Continue reading Epis…

Nils Schnell is a new work expert, leadership coach, facilitator, trainer and founder at Mowomind (mowomind.com), an organization whose goal is to help companies set up inspiring ways of working with each other and train inhouse facilitators to spread the expertise of facilitation. At the moment, Nils is on a #modernworktour, meeting with inspiring…

Today I’ll be speaking to Colm O Heocha, an Agile Transformation consultant and trainer. This episode’s topic is Kanban and Flow. Colm and I start off with talking about the nuts and bolts of what Kanban and Flow are. We then move on to discussing measurements like Cycle Time and Lead Time with examples, and… Continue reading Episode 2: Kanban and …