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Product Ownership. Agile Delaware January 2014 Don MacIntyre, CSC, CSPO, CSP, CSM, SPC Director of Agile Development Lockheed Martin [email protected]. Agile Product Ownership in a nutshell – Henrick Kniberg. First let’s watch this great video from Henrick Kniberg - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Product Ownership
Agile Delaware January 2014
Don MacIntyre, CSC, CSPO, CSP, CSM, SPCDirector of Agile Development
Lockheed [email protected]
Agile Product Ownership in a nutshell – Henrick Kniberg
First let’s watch this great video from Henrick Kniberg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=502ILHjX9EE
The Product Owner is the single individual who is responsible for drawing out the most valuable possible product by the desired date.
This is done by managing the flow of work into the team, selecting and refining items from the Product Backlog.
Scrum Role: Product Owner
http://agileatlas.org/atlas/scrum
The Product Owner maintains the Product Backlog and ensures that everyone knows what is on it and what the priorities are. The Product Owner may be supported by other individuals but must be a single person.
Scrum Role: Product Owner
Scrum Role: Product Owner
Certainly the Product Owner is not solely responsible for everything.
The whole Scrum Team is responsible for being as productive as possible, for improving their practices, for asking the right questions, for helping the Product Owner, and so on.
Scrum Role: Product Owner
The Development Team is responsible for determining how much work will be taken on in a Sprint, and for producing a usable Product Increment in every Sprint.
Nonetheless, the Product Owner, in Scrum, is in a unique position.
Scrum Role: Product Owner
The Product Owner is typically the individual closest to the "business side" of the project.
The Product Owner is typically charged by the organization to "get this product out", and is typically the person who is expected to do the best possible job of satisfying all the stakeholders.
Scrum Role: Product Owner
The Product Owner does this by managing the Product Backlog, and by ensuring that the Product Backlog, and progress against it, is kept visible.
The Product Owner, by choosing what the Development Team should do next and what to defer, makes the scope versus schedule decisions to lead to the best possible product.
Product Owner must haves• Requirements gathering• Release Planning• Sprint Planning• Demonstrations• Scrums• Customers• Stakeholders• And, most importantly, for Team
Vegas baby!Availability
Product Owner must haves
Authority• Legal
• Traditional
• Charismatic
Yes!
Product Owner must haves
Decisiveness• Willingness
• Ability to say NO
Let me get back to you on that…
Product Owner must haves
Ability to satisfy (and manage) Stakeholders
Consensus?
Product Owner must haves
Knowledge
They must have a clue about • Product / Domain• Agile / Scrum
Scrum?
Product Owner must haves
Business SenseThe ability to maximize value and consider scope verses scheduleThe understanding that they cannot have it all
ROI
Product Owner must haves
Communication They should provide feedback to the business and to the teamThe should communicate fairly and accuratelyThe should be transparent and visible
NiceWork!
Product Owner must haves
What else?
Discussion• Have you ever been a Product Owner?• What has been your experience with Product
Owners? • Are you experiencing any Product Ownership
challenges at the moment?• Have you ever worked with an awesome Product
Owner?• Should the agile community be doing more to
reach out to, and support, Product Owners?