The Product Owner role in Scrum is vital, but lacks comprehensive guidance. This talk presents the SMIQ Method (Single Most Important Question), derived from the "48 hour book method," empowering Product Owners and Managers to translate customer needs into software requirements. It simplifies complex techniques into user-friendly steps for effective requirements engineering. The speaker's success in using this method for writing books, organizing conferences, and developing software highlights…

Stoic practitioners know they cannot control circumstances, other people or rather... they know they cannot control anything outside of the realm of their own choices. So as a Stoic Product Leader you should stop focussing on outcome (!). Outcome is always outside of your control. However the CHOICES you need to make the product vision and goals ARE within your power, within your control. So the best thing you can do as a (product) leader is improving the quality of your decisions and teach your…

As Agile product people we are in a unique position to influence a sustainable value chain for the development of our products. What we do matters, how we build things and what we build, matters. Or what we don’t build. In this talk we will dive into some principles of circular economy and the (radical) economic theory of Degrowth and how to apply these principles and ideas in our daily work as product people. Principles like refuse (to build something new), reuse and recycle in our whole…