The product development lifecycle is complex, but in order for it to run like a well oiled machine there needs to be solid product ownership at the heart.
The below video explains Agile Product Ownership incredibly well and covers:
- Velocity, delivery forecasting and burn up chart
- Product vision
- Prioritisation – value and effort
- Stakeholder management
- PBIs (Product Backlog Items) – user stories and unit tests
- WIP limit
- Product iterations
- Agile
- Communication and collaboration
- Context switching
- Problem solving
- Scrum
- Backlog grooming
- Risk
- Prototyping
- Tech debt
- Scaling agile
A typical Product Owner R&R would also be:
- Market analysis
- Competitor analysis
- Customer analysis
- Trends
- Product line strategy
- Product Vision
- Product Roadmap
- Backlog prioritisation
- Epic / feature scoping
- Epic breakdown to user stories
- Requirement workshops and documenting them
- User story definition
- Detailed acceptance criteria
- Backlog grooming
- Sprint planning
- Acceptance of user stories
- Retrospectives
- Daily stand-up
More info here on how to scale product when the time is right.
