The Agile Fundamentals For Product Owners – Part 2
The product owner is the owner of the product as the name implies. The product owner “ maximizes the value of the product and the work of the development team”. He is the only responsible person for the product and the product backlog. He has the vision of the product. He doesn’t know the details of the product but has a good understanding of the whole product. He is the connection point between the development team, customers and the rest of the organization and communicates with different groups engaged in the product.
Hence, communication is an important aspect of this role. He guarantees the visibility and transparency of the product backlog items and makes sure that they are clear to all team members. Having a product owner as the single point of information helps the team focusing on their direction. He is also the single point of responsibility for the product in the eyes of the rest of the organization.
The Product owner identifies and creates the product backlog items and maintains the product backlog over the evolution of the product. He is also responsible for product backlog prioritization consisting of splitting and prioritizing user stories before sprint planning session.
He must have some idea of the value of each story, as well as the size. In this regard, he takes the feedback from development team for a more accurate estimation. The Product owner continuously talks to the team to find out what they think of user stories in the product backlog, in terms of implementation effort, satisfying the first value of Agile manifesto (valuing individuals and interactions over processes and tools). Though the product owner is responsible for the product backlog items, it is the development team who estimates the implementation effort for each item, thus the autonomy of the team is satisfied.
For continuous and early delivery of the software, he splits the stories into pieces. Then the product owner priorities the user stories for the development team based on the defined importance metrics such as business value or risk.
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- Fully understand the role of the Scrum Product Owner
- Understand the roles involved in an Agile project
- Create an effective Product Backlog
- Effectively participate in Scrum Meetings such as the Daily Stand-up, Sprint Review and Retrospective
- Identify the roles involves in the Scrum Team
What topics are covered within this course?
You will cover the following topics during this course:
- An Introduction to Agile Project Management (Product Owner)
- The 12 Agile Principles (Product Owner)
- The Declaration of Interdependence (Product Owner)
- Introduction to Scrum (Product Owner)
- Scrum Project Roles (Product Owner)
- The Agile Project Life-cycle (Product Owner)
- Acceptance Criteria and the Prioritised Product Backlog (Product Owner)
- Epics and Personas (Product Owner)
- Sprint Planning (Product Owner)
- User Stories (Product Owner)
- The Daily Scrum (Product Owner)
- The Product Backlog (Product Owner)
- Scrum Charts (Product Owner)
- Review and Retrospective (Product Owner)
- Validating a Sprint (Product Owner)
- Releasing the Product (Product Owner)