PMI Central Indiana Chapter - Product Owner - Michael Nir - Slide deck

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The Agile Product Owner

PMICIC PDD, Indianapolis, 23rd October

2015

Michael Nir President Sapir Consulting

All rights reserved to Sapir Consulting


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Michael Nir

• President @ Sapir Consulting US LLC

• M.Sc. Engineering, PMP®, SAFe™ accredited

• Author of 11 bestseller business books

• Global clients - telecoms, hi-tech, software

development, R&D environments and petrochemical

& infrastructure

• Integrating the hard and soft parts of Business,

Development and more

cs.com-m.nir@sapir

The Agile PMO – great results NOW

Starting with the end in mind

• Professional Product Owners – crucial in

successful Agile/Scrum – where do we fail?

• This presentation follows a one day workshop:

The empowered Product Owner


mailto:[email protected]




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What will we discuss during the presentation?

AGENDA

The Business Analyst, Agile - the manifesto, and

the Product Owner

PO and BA differences and similarities

Three key differentiators for Product Owner

excellence

Business Analyst

PAIR EXERCISE

Capture on the handout:

What is the role of the BA?

What are the primary activities a BA

performs?


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Business Analyst

BABOK: BA – a practitioner of business analysis;

Business Analysis: the set of tasks and techniques to

work as a liaison among stakeholders in order to

understand the structure, policies, and operations of an

organization, and recommend solutions that enable the

organization to achieve its goals.

DEBRIEF - BABOK

Business Analyst

DEBRIEF - BABOK


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Agile approach

PAIR EXERCISE


What is Agile?

What are the Agile values?

Debrief – “Agile” – adaptive iterative…

Catch all phrase

Broad range of adaptive approaches

No single discrete approach, though Scrum seems to be the current winner

DEBRIEF


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Starting point

AGILE MANIFESTO

Source:

http://agilemanifesto.org/

Agile culture – 12 principles (1)

The Agile PMO


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Agile culture – 12 principles (2)

The Agile PMO

Agile approach - Scrum process

The Agile PMO


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Product Owner - sole value creator connecting business to development and operations

Product Owner

PAIR EXERCISE


What is the role of the Product Owner?

What are the primary activities a Product

Owner performs?


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The Product Owner is responsible for

maximizing the value of the product and the

work of the Development Team. How this is

done may vary widely across organizations,

Scrum Teams, and individuals.

Product Owner

DEBRIEF – SCRUM GUIDE

The Product Owner is the sole person responsible for managing the Product

Backlog:

Clearly expressing Product Backlog items;

Ordering the items in the Product Backlog to best achieve goals and missions;

Optimizing the value of the work the Development Team performs;

Ensuring that the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all, and

shows what the Scrum Team will work on next; and,

Ensuring the Development Team understands items in the Product Backlog to the

level needed.

Product Owner

DEBRIEF – SCRUM GUIDE


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BA – PO ; where’s the difference???

EMPOWERING THE PRODUCT OWNER

Some things are the same

Areas where the Scrum Product Owner is orthogonal to a

‘traditional’ Business Analyst

Areas where Product Ownership is missing

The context for the Product Owner – why reinvent the wheel

THE EMPOWERED PRODUCT OWNER

Product Owner ~ Business Analyst?


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Strategic value driven

THE EMPOWERED PRODUCT OWNER

Areas where we might enhance the Product Owner role

ROAD MAP TO PRODUCT OWNER EXCELLENCE

1. Portfolio steering + business case

2. Eliciting and analysis tools, and slicing

3. Traceability where required


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1. Product Owner portfolio steering – aligns and directs

ROAD MAP TO PRODUCT OWNER EXCELLENCE New

Opportunities

Business Case

Portfolio

1. SAFe is a relevant framework to consider



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1. Agile business case – make it valued


Are they going to read it ?

2. Analysis and modeling techniques



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3. Traceability


Elicited Analyzed Features

User Stories Backlog

Granularity analysis

Moscow analysis

Refined backlog Func. Spec?

Testing

Must have Should have Could have Won’t have

Areas where we might enhance impact the Business Analyst role

ROAD MAP TO BUSINESS ANALYSIS EXCELLENCE

1. Team interaction skills

2. Sole point of contact

3. Alignment with Agile values


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Leadership, Influence and soft skills

ROAD MAP TO EXCELLENCE

What are the prerequisites for prince-hood

ROAD MAP TO EXCELLENCE

1. Portfolio steering + business case

2. Eliciting and analysis tools

3. Traceability

4. Team interaction skills

5. Sole point of contact

6. Alignment with Agile values


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Take away

Table on page 4 of the handout

– complete the comparison and

define additional role and task

requirements

Next steps

SUMMARY

Focus on value rather than form

Make your Product Owners matter

Train them in BA where needed

Train BAs in PO and Agile values


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Thank You

Make your Product Owners count!


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