About two years ago I, Jesse Houwing, have had our bathroom renovated. Even as a Professional Scrum Trainer I approached this mostly as a waterfall project. Draw the desired end state, order stuff, rip out the old bathroom, install the new one, done. Boy was I wrong. I've learned a lot about bathrooms in a short period of time, about old houses, our beautiful legacy house was built in 1889 and had a bit of technical debt here and there. I've also picked up a lot of insights on ways to deliver continuous value and how constraints shape the options, alternatives and even the approach to the work that needed to be done.

These lessons translate well to the job of being a product owner or coaching one. Translating the needs and those of my stakeholder(s), anticipating the future needs and more. I also learned where software is the same and where it differs from a physical product, such as a bathroom. There is more in common than you may think. With a number of exercises we'll be looking at how this project went, insight gleamed, opportunities found or missed and the final result, which is of course what counts. But not by me telling you my experiences, but by you taking alternating roles between product owners and scrum masters/coaches and searching for these insights together.

* 18:00 dinner
* 18:30 Jesse on PO done right and coached right
* 20:30-21:00 drinks