Scaling Agile Product Ownership - Nitin Ramrakhyani | Head of Products | TESCO

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TESCO Agile Day, 2016

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Source : Versionone State of Agile Survey 2015

Source : Versionone State of Agile Survey 2015

We now know “How to Build” awesome software…

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Defines “What to build”?

Knows we are building the “right” stuff?

“THE” PRODUCT OWNER

Understands Customers / End users Understands and manages stakeholders Has required domain Knowledge Knows “What” the customer wants , “Sequence” in which customer wants it “When” the customer wants it. Can “Effectively” translate what he knows into what

dev team can understand. Know the “business value” of the work being

delivered Ensures the Development Team understands items

in the Product Backlog to the level needed.

PO Knows It All..

Really?

Source: Strategic Product Management

PO Focus Area in Scrum Team

WHAT TOOLS AGILE PO’S GOT? Writing User Stories Writing Definition of Done Being Co-located? ( really?) Sprint/Release Planning

Anything else that they get trained on?

And we expect them to win the war?

Agile’s focus is on “How”, assuming “Why/What” is figured!

Information SilosUnclear AccountabilityDependencies/Bottlenecks

Slow Decision MakingExpectation Mismatch

How do we enable POs to “really own” the product?

Scaling Product Ownership

Structure Tools Frameworks Skills

#1. Structure

#2. PO Tools/ New Weapons

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User Story Delivered ≠ Value Delivered

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#Minimum Viable Products

#Lean Canvas

#Better Prioritization

#Impact Mapping

#3. Frameworks

#SAFe

#LeSS

#4. Skills

SUMMARY• Focus not just on “How”, but also “Why” & “What”• Break Products into smaller, manageable chunks

based on Customers/ Modules/ Components and assign Product ownership.

• Have clear end-2-end accountability.• Enable POs to take up higher challenges using

– Right Product Management structures & mentoring– Lean Tools– Enterprise Agile Frameworks – SAFe/DAD/LeSS etc– Skills ( Behavioral, Collaboration & Functional)

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