72: Agile Product Management with John Cutler
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"When they can't see the impact, it really does have an effect. Well we did a product demo. And so it was really like a release with the customer in the room," he says. "You couldn't pull people away from these screens if you tried."
John Cutler (@johncutlefish) and Amitai Schleier (@schmonz) joined Ryan Ripley (@RyanRipley) to discuss feature factories, outcomes, and excellent agile product management.
[featured-image single_newwindow=”false”]Product Manager John Cutler presenting his agile product management insights.[/featured-image]
John Multiple hat-wearer. Product development nut. He loves wrangling complex problems and answering the why with qualitative and quantitative data. John blogs on Medium here. John is currently Senior Product Manager for Search and Relevance at Zendesk. He has a perspective that spans individual roles, domains, and products. John knows agile product management and frequently shares his knowledge on Twitter.
Amitai is a software development coach, speaker, legacy code wrestler, non-award-winning musician, award winning bad poet, and the creator of the Agile in 3 Minutes podcast. He blogs at schmonz.com and is a frequent guest on Agile for Humans. Amitai has published many of his agile observations and musings in his new book – Agile in 3 Minutes on Lean Pub.
In this episode you’ll discover:- Why a feature factory models work in the short term and fail in the long term.
- How to empower and engage your teams with customer collaboration
- When to change roles in order to gain insights and empathy
- John’s Blog on Medium
- Amitai’s Blog
- Roots of the Feature Factory by John Cutler
- To the Drifters, Why Askers, and System Thinkers by John Cutler
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[reminder]Which topic resonated with you? Please leave your thoughts in the comment section below.[/reminder]
Want to hear another podcast about the life of an agile coach? — Listen to my conversation with Zach Bonaker, Diane Zajac-Woodie, and Amitai Schlair on episode 39. We discuss growing an agile practice and how coaches help create the environments where agile ideas can flourish.
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Check out the entire program at adceast.techwell.com. You’ll notice that I’m speaking there again this year. Attendees will have a chance to participate in my Aligning Toward Business Agility–360° of Freedom Leadership Summit presentation, along with my half day sessions on advanced scrum topics called Scrum: Answering the Tough Questions, as well as Rethinking Your Retrospectives.
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