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Mission Impossible: The Product Owner
Allan KellyOredev – November 2019
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Any Product Owners here?
Anyone work with Product Owners?
Anyone work with an excellent Product Owner?
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Do we set Product Owners up to fail?
My hypothesis:• Product Owner is the most important role• The Product Owner role is almost impossible to fill well• We (Scrum) asks too much of one person• Organizations ask too much of Product Owners • Organizations don’t support PO enough
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Scrum says… The Product Owner
"One person is responsible for managing and controlling the Product Backlog. That person is referred to as the Product
Owner. ... The Product Owner is one person not a committee. ... only one person is responsible for
maintaining and sustaining the … a Single Product Backlog.".
Schwaber & Beedle, Agile Software Development with Scrum, 2002
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Scrum says… The Team
Sutherland & Schwaber, Scrum Guide, 2013
"The Scrum Team consists of a Product Owner, the Development Team, and a Scrum Master.
Scrum Teams are self-organizing and cross-functional. Self-organizing teams choose how best to accomplish their work,
rather than being directed by others outside the team. "
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Team is responsibleTeam are equalsBut…The Product Owner can tell the team what to do
Is that a conflict?
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What do Product Owner do?
Product Owners:All about the WHAT
Features People
Time
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What shall we build (next)?
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Product Manager
Working Software comes out
Business Analysis
Requirements go In
Subject Matter Expert
Product Owner
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Once upon a time…
Once, a Product Owner was • A Subject Matter expert•Or a Business Analyst•Or a Product Manager•Or … some other specialist …
Today, a Product Owner is A Subject Matter Expert and a Business Analysts and a Product Manager and more
$ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ The market has
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4 Things
1. Skills: Product Owners need the skills to do the job
2. AuthorityFrom organization to say what is to be done (at least for the next 2 weeks)
3. LegitimacyRecognition from team & peers to do the work
4. TimeTo do be in the team, in the scrum and do homework
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Skills
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Scrum PO skills are only a start
Scrum Product Owner skills
Product Owner courses:• Scrum/Agile Values & Principles• Epics & Stories• Defining backlog• Writing User Stories• Prioritising user Stores• Estimation• Plan (a project)
How do you know what is wanted?
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… of a Product Manager
… a Subject Matter Expert
How do you know what is wanted?
… of a Business Analyst
HomeworkProduct Owner needs skills of …
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Skills
Scrum Product Owner skills
Business Analysis
skills
Product Management
skills
Subject Matter
expertise
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Product Owner is NOT a Project Manager
• Product Owner is all about the WHAT• Project Managers are about the WHEN
Product Owners who spend all their time thinking about WHEN are merely
Backlog Administrators
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Skills
Scrum Product Owner skills
Business Analysis
skills
Product Management
skills
Subject Matter
expertise
Delivery / Project
Management skills
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Product Owner as Entrepreneur
Who do you think of?
Brandon photo CCL RogDel from WikiCommonsMusk photo CCL Stemoc from WikiCommons
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Skills
Scrum Product Owner skills
Business Analysis
skills
Product Management
skills
Subject Matter
expertise
Delivery / Project
Management skills
Skills of Entrepreneur
Business & Marketing
Interpersonal skills
Facilitation skills
What else?
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Product Owner or Super Hero?Where do we find
SuperHero Product Owners?
Is this too much to expect from one person?
Do our companies provide support?
Training? Premium pay?
Are we expecting too much?
Are they set up to fail?
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4. Time: PO needs to …
Talk to customers (outside) and understand needs and valueTalk to users (inside) and understand needsTalk to stakeholders and understand requestsAttend stand-ups, planning meetings, retrospectives, …Write user stories, break down user stories, refine user stories, set acceptance criteria, …Work with codes & testers on storiesMaintain business case and understand marketForecast completion datesReport upwards & peers
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Product Owners are people too
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Skills – easy!
Spend the money
Make the time
Buy the training
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Time – the hardest fix
Product Owners - STOP• Coding• Line manager teams• Being amateur UX designersAnd STOP writing documents
(they don’t work anyway)
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Get help
Product Marketing is another jobHire a UX designerHire pre-sales consultantsLean on Project Manager/Dev Manager/Scrum MasterUse the Team
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Product Owner refactored
Gets out and meets customers (lots)Works with development team (less)Long termProduct & Business Strategy
Works with development team (lots)Gets out and meets customers (less)Near term, next release or two
SPO - Strategic Product Owner TPO - Tactical Product Owner
One voiceOne voice
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Finally…
Don’t be a dogs body
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Allan Kelly
New: The Art of Product OwnershipLittle Book of Requirements & User StoriesBusiness Patterns for Software Developers
[email protected]@allankellynet