Episode 17 – Product Owner “Must Ask” Interview Questions – FOBO

Episode 17 - Product Owner "Must Ask" Interview Questions - FOBO

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Welcome to Fear of Becoming Obsolete, presented by Auld Consulting. Career advice with a heavy dose of pop culture, because we learn more when we are laughing.

Fear of becoming obsolete (FOBO) turns our focus to my favorite role (since that is my role), the Product Owner. This crucial role is misunderstood, underutilized and undeserved by most companies.

So how do you find the right product owner for you? We have isolated the “Top 5 must ask interview questions questions” for you to use in your next search.

BEWARE! This episode of FOBO is going to conduct an experiment and we desperately want your feedback. Keep an eye out for it and let us know your thoughts.

Join Chief Product Owner and Founder of Auld Consulting, Thomas (Tom) Auld shares his 25+ years of business insight, 20 years practicing agility, and is a survivor of 10 business agility transformations.

This week’s pop culture references include: Press Your Luck and the Whammy, Wolverine, @Henrikkniberg, Tommy Boy wanting a wingy, Sheldon Cooper, Ron Swanson, my elementary school film projector, the “funny dad” on Full House, Dave Coulier, and hear me say the words “jammy pants” way more than a person should say, along with many, many more.

Want the list of the “Top 5 Questions to ask before hiring a product owner?”. Email Tom@AuldLLC.com

We look forward to your comments, questions, and pop culture references we should have used.

New scrum and agile training dates are set for 2023. Sign up for training with Tom today and stay relevant at work.

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Tom is one of the only trainers in the world certified as both a Registered Scrum Trainer™ & Registered Scrum at Scale Trainer™. Combined with Tom’s 25 years of experience, including 10 agile business transformations, makes his training class the most interactive and relevant training in the market.

Nothing beats the power of face-to-face training.

Please connect with me at Tom@AuldLLC.com if there is anything I can do for you.

Have a valuable week!

Tom

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- T.L.

VP, Manufacturing R&D Team

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- L.R., EVP

Digital Transformation Retail Organization

“In 90 days we followed the Product Owner Blueprint for 16 Product Managers in our Team. This helped us instantly see where our lack of focus was costing us money on a daily basis. By adjusting our focus to fewer products at a time, it led to 4 product releases in 4 months. More than we have EVER had. This is awesome!”

- A.S., SVP

Product Development; Financial Services

“Auld Consulting gave me the coaching, training and tools to build our approach to agility.”

- R.S., Agile Leadership Coaching VP

Consulting Firm

“After 18 months, $1.5MM spent, and zero results, Agile12™ delivered our product in 6 months for $300K.”

- H.H., Product Owner Blueprint SVP

Financial Services

“I was nervous that my team would find it hard to focus for 3 days of training. Tom’s approach kept us physically moving and mentally engaged. We learned a new technique and then instantly translated it to our daily work. The team overwhelmingly agreed that the training instantly added value to our team.

- T.L., VP, Manufacturing R&D Team

“Auld Consulting created the framework to create a globally successful product from a speck of an idea.”

- H.T., Agile12 Director, Energy Company

“Agile12 took a team that was struggling to get anything done to a team that was releasing a product update every 4-5 days! Our customers can’t believe all of the new functionality we have given them in the last two months.”

- L.R., EVP, Digital Transformation Retail Organization

“In 90 days we followed the Product Owner Blueprint for 16 Product Managers in our Team. This helped us instantly see where our lack of focus was costing us money on a daily basis. By adjusting our focus to fewer products at a time, it led to 4 product releases in 4 months. More than we have EVER had. This is awesome!”

- A.S., SVP, Product Development, Financial Services

Auld Consulting gave me the coaching, training and tools to build our approach to agility.”

- R.S., Agile Leadership Coaching VP, Consulting Firm

“After 18 months, $1.5MM spent, and zero results, Agile12™ delivered our product in 6 months for $300K.”

- H.H., Product Owner Blueprint SVP, Financial Services

“Everybody is on the same page because we are all working off of the same list of work items.”

Product Owner for a Retail Company

“Team members go out of their way to help each other because Tom helped them understand how important that was for our company.”

Product Owner for an Energy Company

“Defects are down, which is massive for our profitability.”

QA Manager

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Senior Director

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- CFO

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– CTO

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- COO

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- Designer

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- Designer

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- Designer

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- Designer

“I was nervous that my team would find it hard to focus for 3 days of training. Tom’s approach kept us physically moving and mentally engaged. We learned a new technique and then instantly translated it to our daily work. The Team overwhelmingly agreed that the training instantly added value to our Team.”

- T.L., VP, Manufacturing R&D Team

“Auld Consulting created the framework to create a globally successful product from a speck of an idea.”

- H.T., Agile12 Director, Energy Company

“Agile12 took a team that was struggling to get anything done to a team that was releasing a product update every 4-5 days! Our customers can’t believe all of the new functionality we have given them in the last two months.”

- L.R., EVP, Digital Transformation Retail Organization

“In 90 days we followed the Product Owner Blueprint for 16 Product Managers in our Team. This helped us instantly see where our lack of focus was costing us money on a daily basis. By adjusting our focus to fewer products at a time, it led to 4 product releases in 4 months. More than we have EVER had. This is awesome!”

- A.S., SVP, Product Development, Financial Services

“Auld Consulting gave me the coaching, training and tools to build our approach to agility.”

- R.S., Agile Leadership Coaching VP, Consulting Firm

“After 18 months, $1.5MM spent, and zero results, Agile12™ delivered our product in 6 months for $300K.”

- H.H., Product Owner Blueprint SVP, Financial Services

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