Better ways of working - using Agile to manage your demand and workflow
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This document discusses the role of the product owner in Agile development. It explains that the product owner is responsible for understanding customer needs, prioritizing the product backlog, managing stakeholders, accepting or rejecting work, and planning releases. It also outlines how the product owner interacts with various stakeholders like management, users, and the development team. It provides tips for product owners on establishing prioritization criteria and managing stakeholders to jointly prioritize the backlog.
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- 1. Using Agile to manage your demand and workflow Katrina Kolt Agile Coach, GE Capital
- 2. TO DO IN PROGRESS DONE As a Mother, I want you teenagers to pick up wet towels from the floor, so that I don’t go off at you. As a Mother, I want you teenagers to stack breakfast bowls in the dishwasher, so that the cat doesn’t jump onto the bench to lick them clean.
- 3. TO DO IN PROGRESS DONE As the teenagers in this house, we want dinner cooked that isn’t a re-heated frozen meal, so that we can actually eat it. As the cat in the house, I want you to remember to get to the supermarket, so that I don’t have to have leftover frozen human meals for my dinner.
- 4. The Product Owner 4 Is the domain or product expert Understands customer and other stakeholder needs Manages stakeholders/sponsors Owns and orders the Product Backlog Is available for the team and makes timely decisions Is responsible for budget and profitability Accepts or rejects work Responsible for release planning Agile Fundamentals | Feb/March 2015 | GE Confidential
- 5. Product Owner Interactions 5 Product Owner Senior management Related projects Internal stakeholders End Users BAs Uxers/Designers Architects Developers Scrum Master Based on: Goldstein, Ilan and Tan, Colin. Axis Agile Certified Product Owner Training.
- 6. Product Owner Stakeholder 1 Stakeholder 2 Stakeholder 3 3 x backlogs?
- 7. Product Owner Stakeholder 1 Stakeholder 2 Stakeholder 3 Single backlog?
- 8. Product Owner Stakeholder 1 Stakeholder 2 Stakeholder 3 Who’s shouting loudest?
- 9. Product Owner Stakeholder 1 Stakeholder 2 Stakeholder 3 Wait your turn!
- 10. Prioritisation Criteria • Acquisition of students • Retention of students • Improved student & staff experience • Legal and regulatory requirements
- 11. Who’s deciding around here? Real Stakeholders Dummy Stakeholders
- 12. Establish Business value criteria • Acquisition of customers • Retention of customers • Revenue uplift • Cost reduction • Legal or regulatory compliance • Improved user experience Identify the right stakeholders for decision making Wrangle stakeholders at regular intervals to jointly prioritise your Product Backlog Summary
- 13. TO DO IN PROGRESS DONE Form validation Error messages Phone number field Personal details Privacy statement Terms & conditions SCRUM: Work time-boxed over a sprint Training
- 14. TO DO IN PROGRESS DONE Form validation Error messages Phone number field Personal details Privacy statement Terms & conditions Kanban: Work in Progress (WIP) limit Error messages Documentation Training
- 15. Advantages Reduced context switching Operational work done quickly Patterns emerged > improved processes Improved outcomes on projects Stakeholders happy that operational tasks completed
- 16. Headline sponsor Gold sponsor University partner Melbourne - 16 March 2015 - 1stconf.com - @1stconf Supporters 1st Conference