This is a podcast episode titled, Brendan Wovchko. The summary for this episode is: <p>Digital transformations can be a distraction from serving your customers well.</p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/wovchko/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Brendan Wovchko</a>, CTO at <a href="https://www.ramseysolutions.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ramsey Solutions</a>, joins us to share how he leads with simplicity while leveraging tools like Opportunity Solution Trees to optimize customer outcomes. He shares common problems he sees in product discovery, how his team has matured their product development practice, and how he empowers product teams.</p><p>We'd love to hear from you! Reach out to <a href="https://app.casted.us/account/62/shows/81b7557b-52e8-4ea3-87b9-a8f2cdaa00e4/episodes/9b8e5049-3269-4d01-a208-ec35aa12083d/podcast@sep.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">podcast@sep.com</a> to share your feedback on this show.</p><p>You can find more information about this podcast at <a href="https://app.casted.us/account/62/shows/81b7557b-52e8-4ea3-87b9-a8f2cdaa00e4/episodes/93ecce9c-0530-4661-a507-b77e2748f4ee/sep.com/podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">sep.com/podcast</a> and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Thanks for listening!</p>
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Brendan shares his view on how Ramsey approaches product alignment.
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Brendan explains how he approaches the idea of 'transformation'.
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Brendan discusses the importance of establishing a simple system.
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Brendan emphasizes the importance of having customers inform your Opportunity Solution Tree.
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Today's Host
Zac Darnell
|Host of Behind The Product & Principal at SEP
Today's Guest
Chris Shinkle
|Guest Host and Director of Innovation at SEP
Chris has been a thought leader and initiator of new ideas and continuous improvement at SEP since 1997. His experience comes from building products with many clients in a variety of industries, including aerospace, medical, healthcare, and finance. As SEP’s Director of Innovation, Chris leverages many community ideas to help SEP engineers and clients deliver better products.
Brendan is the CTO at Ramsey Solutions, where he leads a fast-growing team of 250 engineers, product managers, project managers, and Agile coaches. As an accredited Kanban Trainer, Brendan leads business, technical, and creative professionals in implementing Agile/Scrum — coaching teams to become self-organizing, cross-disciplinary, and delivery-minded.