This document discusses the role of product owners and techniques they can use. It emphasizes that product owners need authority, responsibility, knowledge, and availability to define the product vision and ensure the team delivers quality solutions that provide value to stakeholders. They are responsible for what is built, when, and getting sign-off from stakeholders. The document also presents several agile techniques product owners can use to define requirements and priorities, such as story mapping, personas, scenarios, and requirements dinosaurs.

1. Product Ownership
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3. DO WE
NEED
PRODUCT OWNERS?
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4. DESIRE
AUTHORITY
RESPONSIBILITY
KNOWLEDGE
(AVAILABILITY)
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5. ESSENTIAL ENABLERS
UNCOMPROMISING QUALITY
PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
ROBUST TESTING
SOFTWARE CRAFTSMANSHIP
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6. WHAT
WHEN
VISION
SIGN-OFF
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7. Traditional Development Approach
ANALYSE
DESIGN
BUILD
TEST
DEPLOY
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8. Organisational Waterfalls
ANALYSE
ANALYSTS
DESIGN ARCHITECTS
FEATURE
BUILD DEVELOPERS
COMPONENT
TEST TESTERS
DEPLOY OPERATIONS
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9. Pass the Bucket
http://catholicstudentleadership.com/2013/01/04/day-7-the-build-day-2/dsc02432/
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10. Traditional Approach Agile Approach
Quality - A
known risk to
be actively
managed
Quality of the
solution
agreed and
fixed
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11. Concept-to-Cash Business Flow
IDEA ANALYSE DESIGN BUILD TEST DEPLOY SUPPORT
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12. The Agile Anomaly
IDEA ANALYSE DESIGN BUILD TEST DEPLOY SUPPORT
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13. The Agile Anomaly
IDEA ANALYSE DESIGN BUILD TEST DEPLOY SUPPORT
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14. Distance, Resistance & Fragility
Water-Scrum-Fall. Forrester Report
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15. The Second Chasm of Agile
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_adoption_lifecycle
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16. Process Complexity Diagram
Far from
Agreement
Chaos
Requirements
Complex
Close to
Agreement Simple
Close to Technology
Far from
Certainty Certainty
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17. WORKING
ON THE FRINGES
OF REASON
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18. Business Culture
“The Reengineering Alternative”. William Schneider
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19. LEAN KANBAN
APPROACH TO CHANGE
START WITH WHAT WE DO NOW
AGREE TO PURSUE INCREMENTAL CHANGE
INITIALLY RESPECT ALL CURRENT ROLES
ENCOURAGE ACTS OF LEADERSHIP AT ALL LEVELS
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20. Do you know your stakeholders?
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21. Navigating Conflict
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22. PRODUCT
OWNER
TECHNIQUES
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23. As a…I Want to…So That…
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24. Product Vision Board
http://romanpichler.com/
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25. Product Persona
http://romanpichler.com/
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26. Product Canvas
http://romanpichler.com/
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27. Story Mapping
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49942291@N06/6307658357/
http://www.agileproductdesign.com/presentations/user_story_mapping/index.html
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28. Scenarios
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29. Requirements Dinosaur
http://yuvalyeret.com/2012/12/30/explaining-mvps-mvfs-mmfs-via-the-leanagile-requirements-dinosaur/
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30. @jose_casal
@radtacltd
@bcs_agile
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