#10:focus – Validated Learning board for tracking your Product development ideas – Edwin Wopereis (Kramp)

Product Owner Perspective

In this Focus topic, Sjoerd meets with Product Owner Edwin Wopereis to discuss the Validated learning board. Edwin is responsible for the Kramp Webshop. Kramp is a technical wholesalerand one-stop supplier of spare parts, technical services and business solutions to more than 40.000 dealers worldwide. Edwin works with multiple developments teams – located in the Netherlands & India – leading to interesting collaboration challenges. In this video Edwin shares his experience with the Validated Learning board to track and validate larger initiatives. He uses the board to help the team track and validate beyond the Sprint Review. It also helps challenge himself and stakeholders before starting development, to discuss how to know when you’re done.

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If you like this focus interview and would like to learn more about collaboration from Edwin, check out the half-hour Product Owner Perspective interview: http://sjoerdly.com/podcast/10-collaboration-and-ownership-in-the-scrum-team-edwin-wopereis-kramp/

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Links & resources from this episode

• Edwin on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edwinwopereis/
• Edwin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/edwinwopereis
• Kramp: https://www.kramp.com
• Working for Kramp (developers wanted): https://www.careeratkramp.com
• The focus video about the Validated Learning Board: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxSFw4Cu7XI
• Learn more about the Validated Learning Board: https://tval.nl/tools/vlb/
• The audio podcast episode on Product Owner – Team collaboration: http://sjoerdly.com/podcast/10-collaboration-and-ownership-in-the-scrum-team-edwin-wopereis-kramp/
• Product Owner of the Year (dutch): https://www.productowneroftheyear.com/uitreiking-terugblik/

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Learn more about Product Ownership at the Prowareness Agile Academy

• Product Owner training: https://www.agileacademy.nl/training/?eventtitle=professional-scrum-product-owner-training
• Product Owner Advanced training: https://www.agileacademy.nl/training/?eventtitle=product-owner-advanced
• SAFe Product Management/Product Owner training: https://www.agileacademy.nl/training/?eventtitle=safe-product-management-product-owner-training

Credits

• Audio & Video recording at Prowarenss Studio Delft by Matthijs van Vliet
• Audio Podcast editing by Sjoerd Kranendonk
• Video editing and production by Matthijs van Vliet
• Music from Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) under Creative Commons ‘By Attribution 3.0 License’