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Feb 2022
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Agile Product Owner Coaching - What is t...

Phill Akinwale, PMP, ACP, OPM3
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Product Owner Coaching: http://projectmanagementdoctor.com/productowner


Product Owner Training starts next week with Roy Schilling our Agile coach at: https://projectmanagementdoctor.com/p...

The keyword in the product owner role is value! We often refer to the product owner as the Chief Value Officer because they are accountable for maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the scrum team. 

This could be done in different ways across organizations, teams, and individuals. 

Although there is no prescriptive way, there are several good practices to be used by product owners. 

In this training, we will learn these good practices that product owners who are successful have used to deliver value to their customers and stakeholders.

We will learn about roadmapping, backlog preparation, backlog refinement, communicating the product goal, creating, and communicating product backlog items, ordering product backlog items, and how to make a backlog transparent, visible and understood.

For product owners to succeed in their work, the entire organization should respect their decisions. In order to be respected one must display confidence and knowledge and whatever one is talking about. 

The decisions that product owners make are visible in the content of the backlog and the ordering of the backlog. 

Also the increment at Sprint review serves as a good gauge of the effectiveness of decisions product owners make.

Because the product owner is one person and not a committee, their approach to work with the team is always on full display and very transparent. It is therefore important for product owners to possess key skills needed to work with stakeholders effectively craft the vision, road map, backlog, stories, and other artifacts on a case-by-case basis! Join us to learn all these things and more.

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