HA #38: AMA session with Roman Pichler: The Product Owner | 58 minutes
Age Of Product | Feb 08, 2022
Abstract
Stefan Wolpers’ AMA session with Roman Pichler on the role of the Product Owner.
Speaker: Roman Pichler | Host: Stefan Wolpers
My Notes:
Product Owner = Accountable for maximizing the value of the product
(Scrum Guide 2020)
What is a Product? An asset that creates value for
The users and customers
The company developing & providing it
(Searching for a product online = feature, not product)
What does it mean to own a product? It means
Being empowered to make strategic and tactical product decisions (own a product holistically, cf. Full Stack ownership)
Being responsible for achieving product success
Ownership Depth
Vision = what we want to achieve
Strategy = approach to get there
Tactics = information in the product backlog
Scrum Product Owner = Full stack ownership Vision/Strategy/Tactics
Product Manager in an Agile Context or Agile Product Manager
Compare w/ Partial Ownership
(SAFe = example) Product Owner = more a tactical role => product backlog, more inward facing, close to the Dev Team => Only partial ownership
(SAFe = example) Product Manager = for the Vision & strategic role
3 Scaling options
How to make it work? Get together and discuss it
About the Business Analyst
Characteristics of a great Product Owner
Available/full-time
Professional PO (=> focus on the role of PO)
Committed to the Product, to the People, to the Process
Qualified
About the Right Leadership
Backlog Management
Product Goal => only items that serve the product goal
Not too big, not too fast
Tie product backlog to product roadmap
Sometimes easier to start from scratch than try to make sense of a too large backlog (like thousand+ items)
Goals
Big products => Cascading goals
Mission statement
Challenge = Formulate the right goals & connect them in a meaningful way
Authors = Roman Pichler & Stefan Wolpers