Data-driven Product Delivery & Story Points on Everything (with James Rooney, Delivery Manager @ Discovery Inc.)

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!