SPaMCAST 729 - Product Owners, Not The More The Merrier, Syncing Agile and Waterfall Requirements, Essays and Conversations

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This week we go back to basics and answer a listener’s question (name and a bit of the context changed to protect the involved parties). In the essay this week we discuss why it is a rotten idea to have a functional product owner and a technical product owner. When it comes to product owners the old adage, “the more the merrier," does not hold.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Also, we have an installment of Tony Timbol’s “To Tell A Story” column. In this installment, Tony discusses how to synchronize team-level agile with a waterfall requirements process. This is one of those scenarios that when you run into it you will need to find a way to deal with it until more of the organization embraces agile. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Re-read Saturday News</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This week we re-read Chapter 2 of</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3RrmE2a"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Extraordinarily Badass Agile Coaching: The Journey from Beginner to Mastery and Beyond</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">(Amazon Associate Link). Chapter 2, T</span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">he Mindset of the Badass Agile Coach</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, focuses on the most important part of a coach's arsenal of superpowers: their mindset. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This Week:</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Week 3:</span> <a href= "http://bit.ly/3Eu0qJu"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Mindset of the Badass Agile Coach</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">-</span> <a href= "http://bit.ly/3Eu0qJu"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">http://bit.ly/3Eu0qJu</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Previous Weeks:</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Week 1:</span> <a href= "https://bit.ly/3zoAYlx"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Logistics and Forewords</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">-</span> <a href="https://bit.ly/3z