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!
 
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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
 
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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

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#5 - Prioritizing Stories with Matthias Orgler (Dreimannzelt)

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/

#6 - Stephan van Maris (E-village)

Hey everybody! We're back with freshly recorded insights and practical tips for Product Owners. This time we chat with Robbin Schuurman who shares practical insights and tips from his own experience as a Product Owner, Professional Scrum Trainer and Agile Transformation Lead.  

This Episode is the first of a new experimental format: we have a longer, in depth audio recording, and somewhere in the middle of it, we put a short focused topic, which is also released as a video. 

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We aim to continually improve this series, therefore we highly value your feedback.

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Links & resources from this episode 
Robbin on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robbinschuurman
All Robbin's blogs: https://www.scrum.nl/author/prorobbinschuurman/

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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


Credits: 
Audio & Video recording at Prowarenss Studio Delft by Matthijs van Vliet
Audio Podcast editing by Sjoerd Kranendonk
Video editing and production by Matthijs van Vliet
Music from Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) under Creative Commons 'By Attribution 3.0 License'

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#9 Robbin Schuurman: Responsibilities of Product Owners and how to say NO

Sharing stories from real product owners working in agile teams. With tips, tricks and lessons learned from experience. Gain insight into how these Product Owners manage their stakeholders, their time and their backlogs to deliver the best possible value with their teams.

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