SPaMCAST 430 - Product Owner, The Complicated Role, The Thinker, Constraints

Published: Feb. 12, 2017, 10 p.m.

The Software Process and Measurement Cast 430 \xa0features an essay on product owners. \xa0The product owner role is nuanced, always complicated and sometimes hard. \xa0The essay will help you sort things out. \xa0 Steve Tendon brings another chapter in his Tame The Flow: Hyper-Productive Knowledge-Work Performance, The TameFlow Approach and Its Application to Scrum and Kanban, published by J Ross () to the cast. \xa0In this installment we talk about Chapter 15, Understanding the Impact of a Constraint. \xa0In our discussion Steve schooled me a bit on constraints. Gene Hughson brings his \xa0 (the same Gene, that Ryan Ripley called out on last week\u2019s cast) to the cast this week to discuss the third in his series on leadership. \xa0This week we discussed the antipattern Gene calls . \xa0Might sound good, but it isn\u2019t. Have you checked out ? If not please do. \xa0If you are an Agile for Humans listener visiting the Software Process and Measurement Cast for the first time, WELCOME. I hope you subscribe and make us part of your weekly ritual. Re-Read Saturday News This week \xa0we tackle Chapter 3 in Carol Dweck\u2019s : The New Psychology of Success (buy your copy and read along). In Chapter 3 Dweck provides a deep dive into how mindsets affect learning and teaching. \xa0The impact of mindsets on how we learn or how we teach is useful knowledge for anyone involved in coaching or transformation. Every week we discuss a chapter then consider the implications of what we have \u201cread\u201d from the point of view of someone pursuing an organizational transformation and also how to use the material when coaching teams. \xa0 Remember to buy a copy of Carol Dweck\u2019s and read along! Visit the to participate in this and previous re-reads. Next SPaMCAST In the Software Process and Measurement Cast we talk with Andrew Neitlich on leadership. \xa0We discussed whether leadership can be learned and if tech leadership is different than other kinds of leadership. \xa0Leadership is a core requirement for making Agile effective! Shameless Ad for my book! co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: \u201cThis book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, for you or your team.\u201d Support SPaMCAST by buying the book nglish and Chinese.