I have participated in a two-day course on Product Owner. These are my notes on the course.
Day #1
- Prioritize v.s. Order
- There could be many priority ones, there could be only one at the top when ordering
- Task management, I have not heard that in Scrum.
- Change is not free, there is a cost associated with it from many different directions.
- Agility hopefully speeds up learning
- If no one is using your product, it is unsuccessful
- Product Manager v.s. Product Owner (in small organizations one person)
- Ideas
- come with an open mind, leave your daily life outside the door, at intervals lets go grab those and bring them in!
- “How is it in my life?” Board: To have a board for people to discuss and put ideas on how it is in their lives.
- Lean Canvas start with a problem, give them problems or a scenario or ask them to bring one of the challenges to the table
- Felt like you needed to have experience with Business Case to go through Lean Canvas.
- The more we work on Sth, the more we love it.
- Debrief
- What was that activity/conversation about?
- What was brought up in the conversation?
- Measurements are not to set the goal!
- EBMgmnt Values!
- Time to prototype ==> innovation metrics!
- Product Box
- Small space
- Everything on a box, no interactions
- Try to sell
- Pitch to get funded
- Large investment
- Interactions
- Lots of questions
- ROI Qs
 |
| Figure 1 – Reasons to Pursue Agility |
 |
| Figure 2 – Entrepreneurial Product Owner (&why it’s hard to be one) |
 |
| Figure 3 – Pin the Scrum! A great facilitation tool to teach Scrum |
 |
| Figure 4 – Pin the Scrum in action |
 |
| Figure 5 – Scrum in a nutshell |
 |
| Figure 6 – Various ways to sort requirements |
 |
| Figure 7 – Product Backlog with depth (top down, left right) i.e. Story Map |
Day #2
- Debrief
- How those conversations usually go?
- Stacey Matrix: 3 Pillar of product development
- Technology
- Requirement
- People
- Idea
- Thermostat/Temperature Exercise
- Keep at 37C
- What are the factors?
- Scrum Values:
- Courage
- Focus
- Commitment
- Respect
- Openness
- Stories to be easily consumable by the development team!
- Excellent PO
- Empathetic
- Listening
- Goot at debate
- Good negotiator
- Manage up
- Articulate well
- Work with people (customer)
- Say No
- Failed before and proud of it
- Clarify well
- Think & say what they want
- Able to trust people
- Do not attack people
- Ask Questions
- Decisiveness
- Critical Thinking
 |
| Figure 8 – Product Box 1 |
 |
| Figure 9 – Product Box 2 |
 |
| Figure 10 – Product Box 3 |
 |
| Figure 11 – Lean Canvas + Product Box 4 |
 |
| Figure 12 – Lean Canvas 2 |
 |
| Figure 13 – Lean Canvas 3 |
 |
| Figure 14 – Product Backlog |
