It is far too common for a newly appointed Product Owner to be left alone without any instructions or ideas of how to succeed than we care to imagine. The role of the Product Owner is different from traditional roles and in order to survive as a Product Owner new learning is necessary. In order to become a successful Product Owner you don’t only need a vision, you also need good tools, principles and practices.
In this session I will go through a number of principles, tools and practices that can help you to become more successful in your role regardless if you are new in the role or more experienced. After the session you will have a collection of principles, tools and practices to apply directly when returning home after the conference.
In this presentation you will learn:
Different ways of creating and communicating a product vision
Principles to follow in order to become a successful Product Owner
Tools and practices suitable for a Product Owner
I recently delivered a talk to product owners at Cisco. While I would normally cover this stuff over a period of two days, this was a 90 minute talk about some of the aspects of product ownership. None of this is my own creation - for I have learnt all this from the practitioner community, I am more than happy to share it with the community.
Note: If any attribution is missing, I will be happy to correct my mistake :)
The Product Owner is the keeper of the requirements. He or she provides the single source of truth for the Team regarding requirements and their planned order of implementation. The Product Owner role in an Agile product development organization requires the knowledge and skills of a product manager, business analyst, and project manager. This presentation focuses on providing easy to implement, bite-size, practices that product owners can utilize for efficiency in daily tasks.
The Product owner is the main stakeholder in any agile software development project. The product owner is one of the four roles (scrum master, agile team, Product Owner & stakeholder) of the scrum framework for agile project management.
As with everything else related to agile, the nature of the Product Owner role, and whether it is needed at all, depends a great deal on context. As teams discover this, it leads to some common questions:
What do Product Owners Really Do?
Do we even need Product Owners?
Join Kent to examine the Product Owner role and attempt to answer the above questions. He’ll share his experiences and give you a chance to share your perspectives with each other.
By the end of the session, you'll have more insight into the Product Owner role and how it applies (or not) to your situation. This includes an understanding of common organizational models for product owners (including what part of the organization they fit in), how to determine appropriate product ownership responsibilities for your situation, and whether you need Product Owners to have successful product ownership.
La comunicazione tra le persone è il primo valore dell’Agile. Trasmettere la vision di un’idea è molto difficile. Attraverso i Canvas è possibile non solo condividere la vision ma anche il viaggio che porterà alla realizzazione dell’intero prodotto.
Adottando i vari Canvas come il Business Model Canvas, il Lean Canvas e il Product Canvas è possibile definire e condividere le ipotesi iniziali, validarle sul mercato misurando i risultati e confrontarle con i risultati attesi. I Canvas quindi non solo ci aiutano nella parte iniziale del progetto ma ci accompagnano per tutto il ciclo di vita del prodotto evolvendo con esso.
Questi concetti non sono strettamente legati al software ma possono essere applicati in contesti differenti.
Durante questo workshop vedremo insieme come, partendo da un’idea, si possa realizzare un prototipo di applicazione mobile in meno di due ore… il tutto sotto forma di gioco.
I recently delivered a talk to product owners at Cisco. While I would normally cover this stuff over a period of two days, this was a 90 minute talk about some of the aspects of product ownership. None of this is my own creation - for I have learnt all this from the practitioner community, I am more than happy to share it with the community.
Note: If any attribution is missing, I will be happy to correct my mistake :)
The Product Owner is the keeper of the requirements. He or she provides the single source of truth for the Team regarding requirements and their planned order of implementation. The Product Owner role in an Agile product development organization requires the knowledge and skills of a product manager, business analyst, and project manager. This presentation focuses on providing easy to implement, bite-size, practices that product owners can utilize for efficiency in daily tasks.
The Product owner is the main stakeholder in any agile software development project. The product owner is one of the four roles (scrum master, agile team, Product Owner & stakeholder) of the scrum framework for agile project management.
As with everything else related to agile, the nature of the Product Owner role, and whether it is needed at all, depends a great deal on context. As teams discover this, it leads to some common questions:
What do Product Owners Really Do?
Do we even need Product Owners?
Join Kent to examine the Product Owner role and attempt to answer the above questions. He’ll share his experiences and give you a chance to share your perspectives with each other.
By the end of the session, you'll have more insight into the Product Owner role and how it applies (or not) to your situation. This includes an understanding of common organizational models for product owners (including what part of the organization they fit in), how to determine appropriate product ownership responsibilities for your situation, and whether you need Product Owners to have successful product ownership.
La comunicazione tra le persone è il primo valore dell’Agile. Trasmettere la vision di un’idea è molto difficile. Attraverso i Canvas è possibile non solo condividere la vision ma anche il viaggio che porterà alla realizzazione dell’intero prodotto.
Adottando i vari Canvas come il Business Model Canvas, il Lean Canvas e il Product Canvas è possibile definire e condividere le ipotesi iniziali, validarle sul mercato misurando i risultati e confrontarle con i risultati attesi. I Canvas quindi non solo ci aiutano nella parte iniziale del progetto ma ci accompagnano per tutto il ciclo di vita del prodotto evolvendo con esso.
Questi concetti non sono strettamente legati al software ma possono essere applicati in contesti differenti.
Durante questo workshop vedremo insieme come, partendo da un’idea, si possa realizzare un prototipo di applicazione mobile in meno di due ore… il tutto sotto forma di gioco.
Templates and methods and best practices are everywhere.
Most teams are dealing with a chaotic process that few understand. And yet, every organization is unique—so your planning process should be too. If it’s too complex to understand then it’s simply too complex.
Most organizations need a small number of living documents to guide product innovation and provide consistency in process. Simple one-page slides and spreadsheets result in a nimble planning process.
You don’t need 100 tools; you need only a few. You should be able to define a vision, share a plan, tell a story, and prioritize a backlog.
Steve Johnson from Product Growth Leaders discusses the templates he uses with every product team — from vision canvas to roadmap to problem story and prioritizing with the IDEA method.
About Steve Johnson
Steve Johnson is a product success coach focused on removing the chaos from product planning. He uses modern methods to guide product teams from idea to market in only a few weeks. His approach is based on the belief that minimal process and simple templates result in a nimble product team.
Steve is a former instructor and executive at Pragmatic Marketing and the co-creator of the popular QuartzOpen framework. Learn more at http://www.under10consulting.com
About ProductCamp DC
ProductCamp DC is a meetup community of over 740 product professionals that organizes monthly gatherings focused on product-related topics and best practices for designing, building, launching and marketing great products. We host monthly gatherings to connect, learn about leading methods and tools and share the latest techniques and experiences with like-minded product professionals.
ProductCamp DC was created to build our capability to conceive, build, and market great products through an open and collaborative community. Whether you are in a large enterprise, small business, startup, non-profit or government agency, this is the place you want to be to interact with the region's best and brightest product professionals. Get involved and get active!
We inspire modern product professionals to massively improve companies through the better management of their products.
Join us to connect, learn and grow from like-minded product executives and leaders.
For more information, contact Hector Del Castillo here: https://linkd.in/hdelcastillo
Every great product needs a clear, well-defined product roadmap. This Slideshare explains the whats, whys and hows of Product Roadmaps in plain English.
This 2017 talk gives an overview of Product Strategy and why it is needed for any type of product we build. Including an example of how Uber's product strategy has evolved over the years and why a product strategy should be iterative. The role of the product owner is to be the CEO of the product, validate it's business model, and provide differentiated value to customers against competitors.
From Product Vision to Story Map - Lean / Agile Product shapingJérôme Kehrli
A lot of Software Engineering projects fail for a lack of shared vision due to poor communication among people involved in the project.
A sound maintenance of the product backlog can only be achieved if all the people have a good understanding of what they have to do (common vision).
Roman Pichler, in a post originally written in Jul 16 2012, has proposed a really interesting approach: use various canvas to create and share product vision and product backlog creation and refinement.
This presentation is a drive through these various boards and canvas that should be designed in prior to any product development: the Product Vision, the Lean Canvas, The Product Definition and the Story Map.
Agile205: Intro to Agile Product ManagementRich Mironov
Product owner is a critical role for agile/scrum teams, as a key stakeholder and representative of users, customers or markets. Commercial software companies have a broader role -- product manager -- responsible for identifying market needs/opportunities, making product-level decisions about offerings/benefits/pricing/packaging/channels/financial goals, and managing sales/customer relationships on behalf of executives. Since products often span multiple scrum teams, some products have a mix of product owners and product managers. We'll introduce product owners, map that against software product managers, and talk through approaches to meet all of the product needs for a market-successful product.
Building a Product? the knowledge you will acquire will help with product management and the use of agile scrum to build products. The training provides fundamental guide to building the best solution in the world with some of the best tips, templates and guides in terms of leading trends. This will bring your IDEAS to Live.
In Agile/Scrum the skills of a BA are still needed, especially in more complex efforts. This describes BA skills applied in Agile. Should the BA be a Product Owner? On the scrum team?
Refactorisation de code : comment l’intégrer à sa roadmap Produit ?Thiga
MOBILE PRODUCT MANAGEMENT : https://www.meetup.com/fr-FR/mobilepm/
Pourquoi le faire & quels sont les impacts sur le mobile ? Videdressing nous fait un retour d'expérience sur son projet de refonte technique de ses briques de paiement & cycle de vie de la commande.
Talk par Jérôme Joly - Product Manager @VideDressing
Product Managers, Product Owners, and Need for Real End User ValidationRich Mironov
for Agile Summit Greece (Sept 2018), a talk on barriers for product folks to validate problems and solutions DIRECTLY with end users/customers rather than through stakeholders and intermediates
Webinar - Are We Equipped to Market Our Product Online? - A Possible Approach!Pinkesh Shah
Institute of Product Leadership in association with Adaptive Marketing take great pleasure in inviting you to the monthly webinar series for Product Professionals. Our theme for this webinar will be about "Are We Equipped to Market Our Product Online? - A Possible Approach! "
Most of us believe that Online is exploding.
Most of us, marketers, believe that Online is the only way to market our products.
Are we equipped enough to LEVERAGE online channel for our PRODUCT marketing & its objectives?
Please come over to the Webinar and find some possible approaches.
Welcome!
Speaker
RatanKK is an experienced eMarketer on a mission to deploy cutting edge eMarketing Solutions. Executions of these tactics help Clients to acquire paying customers & to increase their Revenues & Cash flows.
In this endeavour, through his company GutsGo eMarketing, he conducts training programs and workshops in the core areas of eMarketing viz., SEO, PPC, Social Media, Web Analytics, eMail. In the last 3 years, he has trained more than 850 marketing professionals. He has conducted workshops at DuPont (Integrated eMarketing – SEO, PPC, SMM), GlaxoSmithKline (SMM), AOL (Integrated eMarketing - Banner Advertising & Web Analytics). He is a Visiting Professor for eMarketing Elective at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
Practical roadmap for value driven product owner excellence
The product owner is vital for the effective transformation of the organization. This presentation provides a practical roadmap to product owner excellence. We discuss BABOK framework and a business analysis approach for product owners - defining key concepts and methods for success. We touch on:
The Business Analyst, Agile - the manifesto, and the Product Owner;
PO and BA differences and similarities;
Three key differentiators for Product Owner excellence.
Professional Product Owners - pivotal in leading organization growth
Our Journey towards User Experience Work & Challenges of Applying UX Processes
- Shu Ha Ri
- Trends in UX
- Working with Legacy Systems
Presented in Singapore on Nov 2016 for
- NUS:ISS Master Class
Presented in Bandung on April 2017 for
- Walden Global Services
- Gits
The Cultural Changes of Feature FlaggingLaunchDarkly
Edith Harbaugh, CEO LaunchDarkly discusses the cultural changes that happen - not just in engineering but across the organization - when you add feature flagging to your development cycle and stop relying on long-lived branching. This presentation is from DefragCon 2016.
Templates and methods and best practices are everywhere.
Most teams are dealing with a chaotic process that few understand. And yet, every organization is unique—so your planning process should be too. If it’s too complex to understand then it’s simply too complex.
Most organizations need a small number of living documents to guide product innovation and provide consistency in process. Simple one-page slides and spreadsheets result in a nimble planning process.
You don’t need 100 tools; you need only a few. You should be able to define a vision, share a plan, tell a story, and prioritize a backlog.
Steve Johnson from Product Growth Leaders discusses the templates he uses with every product team — from vision canvas to roadmap to problem story and prioritizing with the IDEA method.
About Steve Johnson
Steve Johnson is a product success coach focused on removing the chaos from product planning. He uses modern methods to guide product teams from idea to market in only a few weeks. His approach is based on the belief that minimal process and simple templates result in a nimble product team.
Steve is a former instructor and executive at Pragmatic Marketing and the co-creator of the popular QuartzOpen framework. Learn more at http://www.under10consulting.com
About ProductCamp DC
ProductCamp DC is a meetup community of over 740 product professionals that organizes monthly gatherings focused on product-related topics and best practices for designing, building, launching and marketing great products. We host monthly gatherings to connect, learn about leading methods and tools and share the latest techniques and experiences with like-minded product professionals.
ProductCamp DC was created to build our capability to conceive, build, and market great products through an open and collaborative community. Whether you are in a large enterprise, small business, startup, non-profit or government agency, this is the place you want to be to interact with the region's best and brightest product professionals. Get involved and get active!
We inspire modern product professionals to massively improve companies through the better management of their products.
Join us to connect, learn and grow from like-minded product executives and leaders.
For more information, contact Hector Del Castillo here: https://linkd.in/hdelcastillo
Every great product needs a clear, well-defined product roadmap. This Slideshare explains the whats, whys and hows of Product Roadmaps in plain English.
This 2017 talk gives an overview of Product Strategy and why it is needed for any type of product we build. Including an example of how Uber's product strategy has evolved over the years and why a product strategy should be iterative. The role of the product owner is to be the CEO of the product, validate it's business model, and provide differentiated value to customers against competitors.
From Product Vision to Story Map - Lean / Agile Product shapingJérôme Kehrli
A lot of Software Engineering projects fail for a lack of shared vision due to poor communication among people involved in the project.
A sound maintenance of the product backlog can only be achieved if all the people have a good understanding of what they have to do (common vision).
Roman Pichler, in a post originally written in Jul 16 2012, has proposed a really interesting approach: use various canvas to create and share product vision and product backlog creation and refinement.
This presentation is a drive through these various boards and canvas that should be designed in prior to any product development: the Product Vision, the Lean Canvas, The Product Definition and the Story Map.
Agile205: Intro to Agile Product ManagementRich Mironov
Product owner is a critical role for agile/scrum teams, as a key stakeholder and representative of users, customers or markets. Commercial software companies have a broader role -- product manager -- responsible for identifying market needs/opportunities, making product-level decisions about offerings/benefits/pricing/packaging/channels/financial goals, and managing sales/customer relationships on behalf of executives. Since products often span multiple scrum teams, some products have a mix of product owners and product managers. We'll introduce product owners, map that against software product managers, and talk through approaches to meet all of the product needs for a market-successful product.
Building a Product? the knowledge you will acquire will help with product management and the use of agile scrum to build products. The training provides fundamental guide to building the best solution in the world with some of the best tips, templates and guides in terms of leading trends. This will bring your IDEAS to Live.
In Agile/Scrum the skills of a BA are still needed, especially in more complex efforts. This describes BA skills applied in Agile. Should the BA be a Product Owner? On the scrum team?
Refactorisation de code : comment l’intégrer à sa roadmap Produit ?Thiga
MOBILE PRODUCT MANAGEMENT : https://www.meetup.com/fr-FR/mobilepm/
Pourquoi le faire & quels sont les impacts sur le mobile ? Videdressing nous fait un retour d'expérience sur son projet de refonte technique de ses briques de paiement & cycle de vie de la commande.
Talk par Jérôme Joly - Product Manager @VideDressing
Product Managers, Product Owners, and Need for Real End User ValidationRich Mironov
for Agile Summit Greece (Sept 2018), a talk on barriers for product folks to validate problems and solutions DIRECTLY with end users/customers rather than through stakeholders and intermediates
Webinar - Are We Equipped to Market Our Product Online? - A Possible Approach!Pinkesh Shah
Institute of Product Leadership in association with Adaptive Marketing take great pleasure in inviting you to the monthly webinar series for Product Professionals. Our theme for this webinar will be about "Are We Equipped to Market Our Product Online? - A Possible Approach! "
Most of us believe that Online is exploding.
Most of us, marketers, believe that Online is the only way to market our products.
Are we equipped enough to LEVERAGE online channel for our PRODUCT marketing & its objectives?
Please come over to the Webinar and find some possible approaches.
Welcome!
Speaker
RatanKK is an experienced eMarketer on a mission to deploy cutting edge eMarketing Solutions. Executions of these tactics help Clients to acquire paying customers & to increase their Revenues & Cash flows.
In this endeavour, through his company GutsGo eMarketing, he conducts training programs and workshops in the core areas of eMarketing viz., SEO, PPC, Social Media, Web Analytics, eMail. In the last 3 years, he has trained more than 850 marketing professionals. He has conducted workshops at DuPont (Integrated eMarketing – SEO, PPC, SMM), GlaxoSmithKline (SMM), AOL (Integrated eMarketing - Banner Advertising & Web Analytics). He is a Visiting Professor for eMarketing Elective at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
Practical roadmap for value driven product owner excellence
The product owner is vital for the effective transformation of the organization. This presentation provides a practical roadmap to product owner excellence. We discuss BABOK framework and a business analysis approach for product owners - defining key concepts and methods for success. We touch on:
The Business Analyst, Agile - the manifesto, and the Product Owner;
PO and BA differences and similarities;
Three key differentiators for Product Owner excellence.
Professional Product Owners - pivotal in leading organization growth
Our Journey towards User Experience Work & Challenges of Applying UX Processes
- Shu Ha Ri
- Trends in UX
- Working with Legacy Systems
Presented in Singapore on Nov 2016 for
- NUS:ISS Master Class
Presented in Bandung on April 2017 for
- Walden Global Services
- Gits
The Cultural Changes of Feature FlaggingLaunchDarkly
Edith Harbaugh, CEO LaunchDarkly discusses the cultural changes that happen - not just in engineering but across the organization - when you add feature flagging to your development cycle and stop relying on long-lived branching. This presentation is from DefragCon 2016.
An oft heard conversation around coffee tables -
How can activity metrics in a web execution go down while those on mobile go up for the same experiment? There is something wrong with the data, lets go to the Analytics team and check up!
And thus begins the march to the analytics teams of many professionals. Why that team? Because they are the custodians of something valuable and something that has changed the way companies work in the past 24 months. That something is ‘Big Data’!
Why is Big Data getting “Bigger”
Big data was something that companies started getting comfortable with in 2013. Last year was where Big Data truly started going mainstream with a lot of experiments getting done both on Web and Mobile on the back of Big Data. I have captured all of that and more in the Infographic below. Do check the same and express your views
Originally posted on http://strat.in/2015/01/big-data-analytics-trends-2015/
Becoming Successful Product Owner : Presented by Arne AhlanderoGuild .
It is common for new Product Owners to be left without instructions or ideas of how to succeed. The role of the PO is different from traditional roles and in order to survive as a PO new learning is necessary. In order to become a successful PO you don’t only need a vision, you also need good tools, principles and practices.
Here Arne presents principles, tools and practices to help you become more successful in your role regardless if you are new or more experienced.
Google Product Ads & Killer Landing Page Tipspointit
http://www.pointit.com - This presentation examines product listing ads (PLAs) and compares them to extensions. You'll learn the advantages of PLAs, setup, and best practices for landing pages.
Principles of Website Design - Customer Experience and Usability IDMDigitangle
Part of the IDM Professional Diploma in Digital Marketing from The Institute of Direct and Digital Marketing: The IDM
Delivered by Katrina gallagher of Digitangle.co.uk March 2014.
Marketing for Tech Start-Ups – Getting the fundamentals right - Entrepreneurs...MaRS Discovery District
Learn some of the fundamental concepts and principles of marketing for early-stage start-ups. We address the unique challenges of marketing technology products including:
Knowing when to begin marketing
Recognizing which marketing activities to do first
Identifying the goals of your early marketing activities
Syncing marketing with product development
Using marketing to fine-tune your business model
Multi-team Release Planning, as it is often executed, fails to bring alignment beyond one-time inter-team coordination. This hands-on session teaches the techniques and exercises for a Product Wall Release Planning Workshop. The Product Wall Release Planning Workshop brings together all the elements of business needs, user experience, value proposition, dependency resolution, risk mitigation and user story planning. By combining various Agile collaboration techniques in a guided sequence, your multi-team Release Planning can create alignment through learning together and building together a clear path to success, from the release vision all the way to Sprint Backlogs.
Alan Dayley brings more than 25 years of software engineering experience to his Agile Coaching practice. Agile Coach, CSM, CSPO, CSP. Alan works to strengthen the people side of creative work. Alan loves to help people learn and create innovation in their life. Besides Agile coaching, he spreads this passion as a founding member of the Phoenix Scrum User Group and speaker coach for the Ignite Phoenix series of events.
Demystifying Agile Product Management - By Rich MironovSynerzip
This webinar discusses, in depth, the product manager and product owner role in Agile.
We’ll unpack goals, roles, and the skills needed to deliver great products with revenue impact.
Read more at https://www.synerzip.com/webinar/demystifying-agile-product-management-webinar-january-2014/
Agile2016: Intro to Agile Product ManagementRich Mironov
Product owner is a critical role for agile/scrum teams, as a key stakeholder and representative of users, customers or markets. Commercial software companies have a broader role - product manager - responsible for identifying market needs/opportunities, making product-level decisions and managing sales/customer relationships on behalf of executives. This talk maps out product owners and software product managers, with approaches to meet all of the product needs for a market-successful product. (reprise from Agile2015)
Self-Organization is the key to success in Agile. In this presentation we will investigate what is needed in order to excel at Self-Organization. Prerequisites for Self-Organization as well as a possible roadmap to Self-Organization will be presented. Finally, we will discuss some enablers and building blocks for Self-Organization.
Presented at Global Scrum Gathering in Vienna 2017 #SGVIE
In the session we took a look at different approaches to the coaching of a team dependent on which development phase the team is in.
We learned how ScrumMasters can use knowledge of team dynamics as driver for team coaching and enhancement of self organization.
Have you seen teams go through phases in their development and maturity as a team? Have you had trouble how to best support a team in different situations?
A great ScrumMaster needs to be able to handle situations like the above. This is often done by observing the team and deciding how to best coach it to become self organized.
Presented during a webinar with Discuss Agile, August 9, 2018.
I’ve met many ScrumMasters. Some of them have been full time dedicated ScrumMasters, but far from all.
In this webinar we will discuss the benefits of having a full time and dedicated ScrumMaster, and the challenges getting there.
When you register, we encourage you to list your ideas of why it is good to have a full time dedicated scrum master and the challenges you have faced.
We will also reveal and discuss an often forgotten responsibility of a ScrumMaster. Which, if addressed, may help the development team and the rest of the organization dramatically.
Use knowledge of team dynamics as driver for team coaching and enhancement of self organization.
Have you seen teams go through phases in their development and maturity as a team? Have you had trouble how to best support a team in different situations?
A great ScrumMaster needs to be able to handle situations like the above. This is often done by observing the team and deciding how to best coach it to become self organized.
In this session we will take a look at different approaches to the coaching of a team dependent on which development phase the team is in.
Scrum meets Management 3.0 - how to apply the latest management ideas to stre...Arne Åhlander
Many Scrum implementations suffer from poor management understanding and support. In this presentation you will learn how ideas and practices from Management 3.0 can be used and applied to strengthen Scrum.
We will take a look at how the six views views on organizations from Management 3.0 (energize people, empowering teams, align constraints, develop competence, grow structure and improve everything) can be used to deliberately strengthen a Scrum implementation.
A good advice to any ScrumMaster is ”Ask the team!”. In order to do so a ScrumMaster needs to be equipped with knowledge in the art of powerful questions. A ScrumMaster also needs to be equipped with good listening skills.
With strong listening skills the ScrumMaster can empower the team and let it have the voice and own the problem. This presentation will help readers take further steps towards perfection of their listening skills.
These are slides I used for a workshop at the Scrum Gathering in Paris, September 24, 2013.
The purpose of the workshop was to discuss how ideas from management 3.0 can be used to strengthen a Scrum implementation.
Today many teams and companies are turning to Agile product development. Scrum is among the most popular choices. The promises from Agile are several. Still it is good advice to do a couple of things before you go Agile. In the following I will list and discuss five things to do before you go Agile.
Scrum is about continuous improvement among other things.
When discussing continuous improvement many think about Kaizen. In this presentation you will get the opportunity to discuss Kaizen and Kaikaku, another Lean approach to improvement, their suitability, benefits, and pitfalls.
In this presentation I will discuss how to manage high ROI software development. In order to do so I will start by addressing the biggest challenges and then covering how to meet those challenges in a good way. I will draw from my experiences from managing consultants, managing products and managing people in a product management department. I will also make use of my experiences from coaching organizations working according to Scrum. Including teams, scrummasters, product owners, managers and stakeholders.
What are the biggest challenges in managing high ROI software development and how are they best met. Participants in this seminar will get the opportunity to discuss management challenges and how to overcome them.
Artificial intelligence (AI) offers new opportunities to radically reinvent the way we do business. This study explores how CEOs and top decision makers around the world are responding to the transformative potential of AI.
The case study discusses the potential of drone delivery and the challenges that need to be addressed before it becomes widespread.
Key takeaways:
Drone delivery is in its early stages: Amazon's trial in the UK demonstrates the potential for faster deliveries, but it's still limited by regulations and technology.
Regulations are a major hurdle: Safety concerns around drone collisions with airplanes and people have led to restrictions on flight height and location.
Other challenges exist: Who will use drone delivery the most? Is it cost-effective compared to traditional delivery trucks?
Discussion questions:
Managerial challenges: Integrating drones requires planning for new infrastructure, training staff, and navigating regulations. There are also marketing and recruitment considerations specific to this technology.
External forces vary by country: Regulations, consumer acceptance, and infrastructure all differ between countries.
Demographics matter: Younger generations might be more receptive to drone delivery, while older populations might have concerns.
Stakeholders for Amazon: Customers, regulators, aviation authorities, and competitors are all stakeholders. Regulators likely hold the greatest influence as they determine the feasibility of drone delivery.
Senior Project and Engineering Leader Jim Smith.pdfJim Smith
I am a Project and Engineering Leader with extensive experience as a Business Operations Leader, Technical Project Manager, Engineering Manager and Operations Experience for Domestic and International companies such as Electrolux, Carrier, and Deutz. I have developed new products using Stage Gate development/MS Project/JIRA, for the pro-duction of Medical Equipment, Large Commercial Refrigeration Systems, Appliances, HVAC, and Diesel engines.
My experience includes:
Managed customized engineered refrigeration system projects with high voltage power panels from quote to ship, coordinating actions between electrical engineering, mechanical design and application engineering, purchasing, production, test, quality assurance and field installation. Managed projects $25k to $1M per project; 4-8 per month. (Hussmann refrigeration)
Successfully developed the $15-20M yearly corporate capital strategy for manufacturing, with the Executive Team and key stakeholders. Created project scope and specifications, business case, ROI, managed project plans with key personnel for nine consumer product manufacturing and distribution sites; to support the company’s strategic sales plan.
Over 15 years of experience managing and developing cost improvement projects with key Stakeholders, site Manufacturing Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Maintenance, and facility support personnel to optimize pro-duction operations, safety, EHS, and new product development. (BioLab, Deutz, Caire)
Experience working as a Technical Manager developing new products with chemical engineers and packaging engineers to enhance and reduce the cost of retail products. I have led the activities of multiple engineering groups with diverse backgrounds.
Great experience managing the product development of products which utilize complex electrical controls, high voltage power panels, product testing, and commissioning.
Created project scope, business case, ROI for multiple capital projects to support electrotechnical assembly and CPG goods. Identified project cost, risk, success criteria, and performed equipment qualifications. (Carrier, Electrolux, Biolab, Price, Hussmann)
Created detailed projects plans using MS Project, Gant charts in excel, and updated new product development in Jira for stakeholders and project team members including critical path.
Great knowledge of ISO9001, NFPA, OSHA regulations.
User level knowledge of MRP/SAP, MS Project, Powerpoint, Visio, Mastercontrol, JIRA, Power BI and Tableau.
I appreciate your consideration, and look forward to discussing this role with you, and how I can lead your company’s growth and profitability. I can be contacted via LinkedIn via phone or E Mail.
Jim Smith
678-993-7195
jimsmith30024@gmail.com
Oprah Winfrey: A Leader in Media, Philanthropy, and Empowerment | CIO Women M...CIOWomenMagazine
This person is none other than Oprah Winfrey, a highly influential figure whose impact extends beyond television. This article will delve into the remarkable life and lasting legacy of Oprah. Her story serves as a reminder of the importance of perseverance, compassion, and firm determination.
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7. Possible content
• A list of important stakeholders
• Product Vision
• Product Roadmap
- Release information
• Product Backlog
• Definition of Ready
• Definition of Done
11. Common Template
For (target customer)
Who (statement of the need or
opportunity)
The (product name) is a (product
category)
That (key benefit, compelling
reason to buy)
Unlike (primary competitive
alternative)
Our product (statement of primary
differentiation)
Source: Geoffrey Moore – ”Crossing the Chasm”
12. Example
For bikeriders who want to buy a custom bike the
YourBikey.com site is a marketplace that let
constructors provide custom bikes for sale Unlike
a traditional bike store where standard bikes are
sold, our solution support purchase of
individually and custom designed bikes.
Is this the way you would like it if you start as a new Product Owner?
In many cases this is exactly what happens. You are asked to become Product Owner, you accept and you are left without support.
In this session my aim is to give ideas on principles to follow and tools to use in order to become a succesful Product Owner.
My hope is to give some guidance through the Product Owner labyrinth.
So, let’s take a look at the empty desktop again.
What I believe would be greate to have on it is the following: A Product Owner Playbook
A Product Owner Playbook is
a collection of tools, templates, and training customized to your organization
a document that summarizes the most important aspects of the product and serves as a high-level overview of all things necessary to know for a Product Owner to be successful
a guide to be and continue to be a succesful Product Owner
A Product Owner Playbook is
to what sport teams uses to describe the different plays they want to do.
Possible content of a Product Owner Playbook is:
A list of important stakeholders
Product Vision
Product Roadmap
with Release information
Product Backlog
Definition of Ready
Definition of Done
The list can be made much longer. The things that you choose to put on your list should be relevant for your product, your company and your specific situation.
Product Vision gives us direction and focus
it should guide the team/s
it should he lp the team to focus
it should align stakeholders
A Product Vision should cover who, what and why
Having a Product Vision is proved valuable.
A good Product Vision is
Shared
Stable
Clear
Broad and engaging
Concise
Different ways of creating a Product Vision
Product Vision Box
Elevator Pitch
This example is from one of my Certified Scrum Product Owner classes
Discovery (How to understand the right product to build)
Product Discovery - Defines WHY something shoud be built, for WHOM and WHAT
Tips from Marty Cagan in his book Inspired:
Focus on Misery, not on Technology
Enlist your Developers Early
Use Prototypes over Product Requirement Documents
Lead by Objective, Not Instruction
Manage by Wandering Around
Build a Team With a Core of Passion, Integrity, Empathy
Succesful Product Owners are able to visualize things for themselves and others.
We want to visualize the things that are easily hidden if not fokused on.
Like values, strategic decisions, reasons why we prioritize in a certain order, understanding of customer segments, etc.
Good thinking tools that also can help us visualize our understanding are different types of canvases. I will talk more about Value Proposition Canvas, Business Model Canvas and Lean Canvas.
Other canvases that I know of are Product Scorecard and Product Vision Board. Both presented by Roman Pichler.
A Value Proposition Canvas is a tool to visualize two basic things:
A. The Customer Segment that you are focusing on creating value for
B. The Value Proposition that you believe will make your customers wanting to buy your product or use your service
You should aim to show the fit between what you offer and what customers want.
Customer segment profile. The term customer segment is used to describe who we aim to support and please. Customer to me is potential customer. It can of course be current customers as well.
Jobs - describe the important issues your customers are trying to solve (tasks, problems, needs)
(crucial, trivial)
Pains - cost, emotions, risks, frustrations currently experienced by your customers
Gains - outcomes, benefits, desire to have
The above is all about observing.
The left part of the canvas is about designing the product or service to be attraktive and valuable to the selected customer segment.
The Value Propostion Canvas fits well into the Business Model Canvas. Both invented by Alex Osterwalder and described in the books Business Model Generation and Value Proposition Design.
https://strategyzer.com/canvas
Business Model Canvas
Lean Canvas created by Ash Maurya.
http://practicetrumpstheory.com/why-lean-canvas/
Product Owners should be interested in getting early feedback on their products.
Lean Startup and MVP, Minimum Viable Product is an approach that fits well for many Product Owners.
Lean Startup by Eric Ries is the ultimate source. http://theleanstartup.com/
A Product Owner is responsible for maximizing return on investment for the product. By creating, rupdating and refining the Product Backlog the PO can take steps in the right direction.
In the context of the Product Backlog it is a benefit to define a Definition of Ready in order to be able to have the Product backlog in a Ready state in time for each Sprint planning.
Definition of Ready addresses what state the top items on the Product Backlog need to be in to make it possible for the development team to plan the Sprint and start implementation at once after Sprint Planning
In the similar way as the Definition of Ready we benefit from having a Definition of Done (DoD).
DoD tells us about the current capability of the development team. Ideally we want it to be possible to release the product increment directly after the Sprint. That is not always possible due to lack of capability of the development team. My favorite example is regression testing. It may not be possible to do regression test within a Sprint if we are using manual regression testing. Therefore the current DoD is without regression testing. Of course we need to do regression testing before we choose to release the product increment. And, the development team may be able to automats regression testing thus being able to expand thier capabilities and their DoD.
Some Product Owner choose to perform Release Planning.
One possible tool to support defining the scope for a release is Kano analysis to guide the Product Owner when deciding which features to include in the scope of the rerlase. Good advoce is to include not only must have features, but also some linear and some delighter functionality. Delighters are features customers and users didn’t even know they wanted before they saw them. Delighetrs tend to become must haves over time. E.g. color screen on a mobile phone.
The principles I’ve talked about are:
Product Discovery
Definition of Ready
Definition of Done
Getting Early Feedback (Inspect & Adapt)
The tools I’ve discussed are:
Product Owner Playbook
Product Vision and Product Vision Box
Value Proposition Canvas
Business Model Canvas
Lean Canvas
Lean Startup and MVP
Releas Planning and Kano analysis