Product Agility
Less Method. More Meaning.
The world of Product Discovery and Creation is becoming increasingly challenging due to mistakes and missed opportunities that are prevalent in agile teams, large-scale Scrum and all other agile frameworks. History has shown that when organisations try and scale their product development to more than one cross-functional team, mistakes are made that cut short many chances of getting all possible benefits.
The route of this for many is the need for more attention paid to the incredible advancements in Product Management driven by hordes of professional Product People who prove that making their customers happier is not a pipe dream but a hard and fast reality.
This podcast exists to explore all topics related to Product and Agility and Coaching.
How do you marry the agile principles with Product discovery?
Is it really possible to have hundreds of cross-functional teams (or Product Teams) all working from an effectively prioritised single Product Backlog and a dedicated Product Owner?
How can you embrace continuous improvement and empirical process control for your product, people and processes?
Ever wondered how to overcome the problems people face when trying to scale the Product Owner role and how it relates to Product Management and Product Teams?
Baffled by how to define a product in such a way that enables Feature Teams (aka Product Teams) and why doing wrong means you will only ever be stuck with technical teams?
Scrum Teams are not compatible with modern product management techniques.
Want to know what Product Focus means and how the right focus makes creating a shippable product less painful?
Need to get your head around how to blend modern product management techniques with Sprint Planning and Sprint Reviews to achieve Product Increments that cover the entire product?
This podcast's original focus was on Scaling Scrum vs Single-Team Scrum and how organisations can reap the benefits of Scrum when working on a larger product but still keeping a single product backlog. We found many Product People liked what we said, and then the penny dropped. This isn't a podcast about scaling Scrum or the limitations of single-team Scrum.
This podcast is for Product People & agile advocates who coach or get their hands dirty with Product creation.
We promise there is no Taboo topic that we will not explore on your behalf.
We aim to transcend the conversations about a single team, Daily Scrums, Scrum Masters and the double-diamond and bring everyone together into responsible teams dedicated to working on the entire product to make their customers happier and their lives more fulfilling.
Come and join us on our improvement towards perfection, and give us your feedback (we have a strong customer focus, too), and who knows, perhaps we will discover the magic wand that we can wave over all the broken agile and sudo-products to create a more resilient and adaptable future by bringing the worlds of Product, Agility and coaching together.
This podcast has the conversations and insights you need.
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 24 minutes
- Episodes
- 272
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Karim Harbott (6 Enablers of Business Agility Author), Certified LeSS Trainer Interview
How has Karim Harbott been so immensely successful?
Is it his charm, his looks or his ridiculously in-depth knowledge of all things agility?
Well, you can be the judge. In this episode, K…
Professional Coach Vs. Agile Coach
The role of the Agile Coach is complicated when compared to that of a professional coach.
Thie episode is short (like this description) and in it, I dispel some myths and give you what …
Nisha Joshi - Inductive vs Deductive Reasoning (and why Ben hates a lot of books)
There is so much in the agile world (and beyond) that is hinged upon ideas that someone has had that are then followed by them looking for evidence that they are correct.
Confirmation bi…
Organisational Systems and Realtionships
Host Bio
Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & a…
Nisha Joshi - Disco Krankies and Starting Small
⚠️⚠️THIS PODCAST COMES WITH A WARNING⚠️⚠️
It's not because we explain "Why to start small when beginning a transformation journey"
Oh No (I feel that I should have edited it a bit more re…
Nisha Joshi, how can we determine a clients agile readiness?
Nisha Joshi and I have been friends for a while and that chemistry seeps out of this podcast by the bucket load (IMO)
We went straight in there with a meaty (or non-meat substitute) ques…
Communities Matter In LeSS
Host Bio
Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & a…
Why go from Projects to Products?
Host Bio
Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & a…
What does the term Product Really Mean?
Products here, products there, products are seemingly everywhere.
And this is part of the problem.
SAFe (The Scale Agile Framework) would seem to imply that a Product could be anything b…
The Role of a Manager in a LeSS Environment
Why I Prefer LeSS over SAFe
I (Ben here) have never really enjoyed telling me what to do.
It has served me well over the years by gifting me with a very enjoyable, zig zagging career path and the freedom to spend t…
Jürgen De Smet (Your Chief Simplification Officer), Certified LeSS Trainer Interview - Part 2
Welcome to part 2! This is the best 2nd episode for one LeSS Trainer conversation we have ever published!! (and the first ;-) )
Last time we spoke about Potty Training (or at least I di…
The Role of a Project Manager in an Agile Environment
You often find that newly minted #scrummasters are incredibly enthusiastic about the idea that #projectmanagers don't have the same kind of authority or power as they do in a traditiona…
Jürgen De Smet (Your Chief Simplification Officer), Certified LeSS Trainer Interview - Part 1
How does Jurgen greet CEO's in an elevator?
By saying "Do you also find that this is a real mess out here!?" An unorthodox approach perhaps, but the way he delivers it must be heard!
I…
Jürgen De Smet (Your Chief Simplification Officer) Interview Teaser
Host Bio
Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & a…
Bas Vodde Co-Creator of Large Scale Scrum Interview
I was stoked that Bas Vodde, co-creator of the LeSS (Large Scale Scrum, www.LeSS.works) framework, agreed to come on the show and answer my favourite questions that I aim to ask every L…
Robert Briese - Did you choose LeSS or did LeSS choose you?
Each person finds their way in the #agile world through a complex combination of training, coaching, mentorship and the experiences they gained working in #scrum environments.
In the wor…
Bas Vodde - If you could change one thing about LeSS what would it be?
As the co-founder of #LeSS (Large Scale Scrum), Bas Vodde played a crucial role in the development and refinement of the #agile framework used to scale #scrum.
It's been successfully ado…
Robert Briese - What would you change about LeSS?
Large Scale Scrum or #LeSS is one of the most proven scaling frameworks for #scrum.
It has been successfully adopted around the world in a myriad of different applications, markets, and …
Product Owner = Gambler?!
In the traditional #waterfall style of project management, a #projectmanager will try and identify the scope of the #project upfront. They invest a great deal of time and effort in iden…