Product Owners Community
Product Owners
Community
Professional education and preparation of internal standards for Product Owners. Customization of agile product ownership practices to the organization’s needs.
For whom
Organizations with communities of Product Owners.
Duration
Typically 12 meetings with community.
Form
Personal mentor support onsite and online at agreed-upon intervals.
Our approach
Development
Community of Product Owners
Build an active community of Product Owners with the help of a community development program. We will add content focused on product strategy, ongoing preparation, and product delivery to your meetings.
We will provide your community with pre-prepared materials for development, case studies, templates, tips for further education, references to literature, and videos.
Product Owners Community
Thematic areas
Topic
Setting up
Role
Setting the responsibilities of the Product Owner role in the organization.
Identification of product types.
Levels of product ownership.
Minimum competencies of a Product Owner in the organization.
Relationship to stakeholders, architecture, operations, management, team members, among Product Owners, and to the customer.
Topic
Process
Ongoing Requirement Preparation
How to make the requirement preparation process transparent with a Portfolio Kanban board.
Definition of the company’s requirement preparation process.
Involvement of stakeholders in the preparation.
Measuring delivery flow.
Seven types of waste.
Case studies.
Setting up tools for project management.
Topic
Requirements
Requirements Breakdown
Proper breakdown of requirements. Case studies from your organization.
Collaborative requirement preparation and sharing within the community.
Lessons learned.
Building a case catalog.
Topic
Requirements
Requirements entry
Meaningful requirements writing. User story, Job story formats
Writing of acceptance criteria.
How to identify epics.
Tips for easier writing. What not to write in requirements.
Collaboratively reframing your requirements into a more structured form increasing productivity for the whole team.
Typical antipatterns and mistakes.
How to set up JIRA for effective requirements writing.
We’ll work with your specific requirements, not just examples.
Topic
Product
Product Definition
How to properly prepare a product definition.
Minimum Viable Product.
Business modeling.
Value proposition.
Searching for requirements.
Handling non-functional requirements.
Personas.
Topic
Product
Objectives & Key Results
Setting goals and key results.
Hierarchy of goals at the organization, portfolio, program, product, team, and personal levels.
Process of defining and evaluating goal status.
Linking goals to the product backlog.
Topic
Product
Prioritization
Prioritization perspectives.
Rules and process of prioritization.
Agreements on resolving potential conflicts of priorities.
Various techniques for prioritizing requirements.
Topic
Case study
Dysfunctions of Product Owners
Identifying your dysfunctions using a case study.
Identifying areas for improvement, alignment, and defining standards.
Topic
Process
Metrics
Selection and validation of metrics used. Adding meaning to metrics.
Setting up electronic tools for metric automation.
How to collect feedback and evaluate it.
Customer and team satisfaction.
Tool
Setting up
JIRA
Analysis and setup of JIRA. Simplification.
Identifying incorrect or insufficient use of tools.
Typical errors in tracking. Delivery tracking.
Customizing JIRA.
Topic
Process
Budgeting
Analysis and setup of JIRA. Simplification.
Identifying incorrect or insufficient use of tools.
Typical errors in tracking. Delivery tracking.
Customizing JIRA.
Topic
Scaling
Portfolio Management
Management of multiple products in the portfolio.
Identifying value streams.
Process of preparing the product portfolio.
Monitoring implementation.
Dependency coordination.
Working with vendors.
Portfolio status review.
Planning program increments. Portfolio metrics.
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