Uploaded March 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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0:25 Bonus Episode Intro
1:10 Chad and Jeff Intros on Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast
2:37 From Frantic and Stressful to Strategic and Focused Backlogs
4:19 Task-based backlogs...
5:53 Focused and strategic backlog
9:40 Moving from tasks to impacts and outcomes (product goals)
10:37 Decomposition or recomposition?
12:45 Scrum teams are expensive
14:34 Why do we do product backlog refinement?
15:30 REFINEMENT TIP: Talk time
16:03 REFINEMENT TIP: Questions and summaries
16:40 REFINEMENT TIP: Diverge/merge cycles
17:30 Practical facilitation for refinement session
19:56 Tools for strategic product ownership
24:21 Strategy, focus, tradeoffs
28:30 Solution vs problem statements
30:47 Track dependencies
33:00 Flat product backlog
33:54 Impact and outcome statements
39:05 The Agile Wire
39:39 Agile Songs
40:50 The Lean Startup
41:50 Product Owner Summit (https://productownersummit.org)

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