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Episode 33 - Data-driven Product Delivery & Story Points on Everything (with James Rooney, Delivery Manager @ Discovery Inc)
Product Delivery
Product Ops
Product Principles
Episode 33: Data-driven Product Delivery & Story Points on Everything
James Rooney, Delivery Manager @ Discovery Inc10 Feb 2021
10 Feb 2021
About the Episode
James is a Delivery Manager for Discovery Inc., a VOD entertainment platform. James is a passionate advocate for using story points for just about everything, and using data to inform delivery decisions. We speak about a few topics, including:
- How to bring delivery together across multiple technical streams for a big media company
- The interplay between Delivery and Product and the importance of a good Product Manager
- How to get Product, Delivery & Engineering to work harmoniously
- How story points can save the world and how to use them properly
- Whether Scrum is any good and some of the ways to make it work for your business
- The tricky balance between Product Delivery and fixing tech debt
- How to use the data you already have to help inform future delivery decisions
- How to use data to sell your message to the leadership team
- How running a band and running Product Delivery are pretty similar
And much more!
Contact James
You can reach out to James on LinkedIn.
Related episodes you should like:
- Escaping the Build Trap with Product Operations and Strong CPOs (Melissa Perri, Product Management Leader, Educator & Author "Escaping the Build Trap")
- Achieving Product Excellence with the Product Operations Manifesto (Antonia Landi, Product Ops Consultant & Co-Author "Product Operations Manifesto")
- Embracing Change to Innovate in Product Management (Greg Coticchia, CEO @ Sopheon)
- Breaking Down Silos in Product Development (Sigurd Seteklev, Co-founder @ Kitemaker)
- Scaling your Product Team with Product Operations (Christine Itwaru, Director of Product Operations @ Pendo)
- Optimising Product Planning with the Quartz Open Framework (Steve Johnson, Product Coach)
- Transforming your Organisation to the Product Operating Model (Marty Cagan, Author "Inspired", "Empowered" and "Transformed")
- Applying Product Management Principles to Life (Miloš Belčević, Author "Build Your Way")
