Author: agile-to-agility

Anu

Smalley

12:15 PM to 1:00 PM EST

We often talk about what the Product Owner Must “DO” – they must own the Product Backlog, they must manage the product backlog and the priorities, they must refine the backlog, they must answer the team’s questions. Let’s focus on what a Product Owner must BE? What are some traits that will help us become effective PO’s?

Based on these traits we will work through how to rate yourself or your Product Owners on each trait. We will see where your PO’s need to focus on to become more effective. We will review what a Product Owner does? What is your PO doing now? How can our PO’s be more effective in creating value in the product, in engaging with customers and stakeholders and in working with the Scrum Teams. We will wrap the talk with a conversation to address questions around the role of the PO.

• Identify what is a Product Owner
• Understand the 6 basic traits of an effective Product Owner
• Learn how to use these 6 traits to assess the effectiveness of your Product Owner
• Use these traits to improve Product Owner interactions
• Document the things a Product Owner must DO
• Take Away Action Items

About Anu

Anu is the President and Founder of Capala Consulting Group, LLC where she specializes in Executive coaching and Agile Transformations. She is Scrum Alliance accredited Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC), Certified Agile Leadership-Educator (CAL-E), Certified Path to CSP educator, Coactive Professional Certified Coach (CPCC) and International Coaching Federation Associated Certified Coach (ICF-ACC) Anu has helped companies in Banking, Insurance and Reinsurance, Travel, Gaming Software, Legal, Benefits Management, Software Consulting, HealthCare. She has more than 13 years of Agile implementation, coaching, and transformation experience. As a community leader, Anu has chaired Scrum Alliance Global Scrum Gatherings for four years, speaks frequently at conferences and meetups around the world and actively contributes to Women in Agile and other volunteer initiatives within Scrum Alliance.

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John

Miller

October 25, 2022
2:30 PM to 3:15 PM EST

We talk a lot about maximizing value for customers. But, ask someone exactly what value is….and you will often come up empty. Or abstract platitudes, like, “Faster, cheaper, easier.” Or worse, things that have nothing to do with customer value, such as “Number of subscribers, conversion rate, ROI.” These metrics are business value, not customer value.

In this session, we will explore an underutilized and very practical technique from Jobs To Be Done theory, called Customer Outcome Mapping. You will learn practical ways to discover, define, measure, and validate value. Giving you the data so you can ruthlessly prioritize, spend less time pivoting, and deliver more of what actually matters.

About John

“Sanity Before Agility” is John Miller’s mantra as a product and organizational coach. John has been a Product Owner for many years with the scars to prove it. Which has led him to provide practical yet enlightening advice and coaching to hundreds of Product Owners and teams, from big tech to nonprofits. Join John to cure the insanity and make work sane, safe, and successful.

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Ralph

Jocham

October 25, 2022
2:30 PM to 3:15 PM EST

With all the different scaling options that exist today, it may seem like there is very little agreement on how to scale the Product Owner role. Ralph, co-author of the best selling The Professional Product Owner book, will introduce five Product Owner Delegation Models that can guide you regardless of what scaling framework may be in place. Depending on your context, they can be implemented individually or combined. You will leave with a better understanding of the role of Product Owner and what their true focus should be, especially at scale. You will also leave with a way to map each model to your existing structure. This session takes a scaling framework agnostic approach to the Product Owner role. This is done by introducing Five Ts Delegation Models (5Ts).

About Ralph

Ralph is a change agent, author and a Scrum.org trainer since 2010. He has been agile for over 20 years and worked extensively with Ken Schwaber on many Scrum related topics. For many years he was the steward for the Professional Scrum Product Owner training at Scrum.org. He also authored the best-selling book about product ownership ‘The Professional Product Owner’ and gives guest lectures at universities. After an international career, he calls Switzerland his home where he founded effective agile, an agile training and consulting company, teaching over 7000 people on four continents.

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Angela

Wick

October 25, 2022
3:30 PM to 4:10 PM EST

Great products need great analysis, and in this session, we will look at some common analysis techniques and team patterns your team might be missing. We will look at how to incorporate them into your team’s work to get to great products without slowing the team down!

About Angela

Angela Wick is passionate about modern analysis practices and incorporating them into business agility practices! She is the Founder and Principal Trainer: BA-Cube.com, and a LinkedIn Learning Author/Instructor (1Million+ Learners). Angela is experience working with 100s of companies (Fortune 500, Gov, Startups) building their analysis and product ownership practices with 25+ years of hands-on experience doing business analysis and product ownership work.

Angela is also on the Lead Author Team, BABOK v3 Core Team. She is an Expert Reviewer on IIBA’s Agile Ext to the IIBA BABOK, on PMI’s Guide to Business Analysis, and on PMI’s Requirements Management Practice Guide. Angela is also the author of the ebook Agile Product Ownership: Maximizing The Role and Accelerating Success, of the ebook 3 Agile BA Myths We Need To Challenge, of Career Models chapter in IIBA’s Managing Business Analysts book (2012), and of the industry’s first agile analysis survey (2019).

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Stuart

Young

October 25, 2022
3:30 PM to 4:10 PM EST

Agility alone is not enough; Product Owners must bake in time for continuous innovation by demonstrating the key attributes of storytelling, exploring and influencing. During this talk I will take people on a limitless journey from discovery, delivery and validation whilst introducing the metamorphic state of your Product DNA that sits at the core of a product innovation cycle. Learning Objectives:

1. Identify the key Product Owner qualities that lead to successful Product innovation
2. Learn how to apply methods of Design Thinking and Visual Storytelling to unearth problems, gain shared understanding and validate product ideas
3. Understand why Product Owners need to balance discovery and delivery whilst keeping the Product DNA at the core of everything they do

Stuart is a Certified Scrum Trainer and Visual Storyteller with a deep-rooted appreciation for methods of Design Thinking and Agile Ways of working. As a Visual Thinking thought leader and practitioner within the Agile Community and beyond Stuart endorses the use of Visual Thinking and Visual Storytelling to engage stakeholders, address customer needs, enhance team collaboration and accelerate learning. Facilitating a suite of Design Thinking, Visual Thinking and Agile ways of working workshops Stuart encourages teams to work more visually, making the intangible tangible, catalysing customer centric creativity and driving product innovation.

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Pawel

Huryn

October 25, 2022
12:15 PM to 1:00 PM EST

I’ll show you how to identify opportunities and test ideas before they are selected for the Sprint.

Learning by delivering is expensive. According to Marty Cagan, most of the ideas are not going to work. Those which work typically require several iterations before they deliver the expected outcomes. I’ll show you: – What are the best ways to identify new opportunities? – Why shouldn’t you let your customers design solutions? – What do customers really care about? – The best way to minimize risk and eliminate waste. My presentation is inspired by the authors like Marty Cagan, Teresa Torres, Eric Ries, Melisa Perri, Dan Olsen and others.

Every week I talk to dozens of professionals. I see many unsolved problems almost everywhere. Companies do not want to empower their teams, leaders don’t understand empiricism, product discovery is neglected, departments dig into silos, and feature factories are a real epidemic. I have found myself in such a situation many times. I decided to change it. Since 2014, I have been helping organizations build great products and strong product teams. My free content has helped hundreds of aspiring PMs progress in their careers. I’m also one of the 300 PSPO III worldwide (the highest Scrum.org certification).

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