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Exploring the controversy around SAFe’s approach to Product Ownership

By |2023-05-08T18:22:55-04:00May 8, 2023|Agile Theater, Blog, Product Ownership, SAFe, Scrum|

Exploring SAFe’s Approach to Product Ownership What is SAFe’s perspective on the Product Owner role? How does it differ from the Scrum Guide? Why is Product Ownership split to Product Owner and Product Manager in SAFe? SAFe’s approach to Product Ownership draws quite a bit of criticism. As a Professional Scrum Trainer who’s also a SAFe Fellow/SPCT, here’s my perspective…   Product Ownership is a crucial element in improving Outcomes SAFe and Scrum both consider product ownership crucial to maximizing [...]

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Advanced Scrum Product Ownership — Riding Dinosaurs

By |2022-12-14T17:21:04-05:00July 2, 2020|Lean Startup, Product Ownership, Scrum|

What does Scrum Product Ownership have to do with Dinosaurs?We typically say that Scrum Masters get to herd cats. But Scrum Product Owners actually need to learn how to ride a Dinosaur! With the click-bate established, what does that even mean?I’ve been using a visualization that people find useful for understanding the relationship between the various Lean/Agile requirement containers. Some people call the full model a dinosaur. Others are reminded of the snake who ate an elephant from “The Little [...]

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Explaining MVPs, MVFs, MMFs via the Lean/Agile Requirements Dinosaur

By |2012-12-30T21:53:46-05:00December 30, 2012|Agile, Lean Startup, Product Ownership|

In the last few weeks I've been using a new visualization that people find useful for understanding the relationship between the various Lean/Agile requirement containers. Some people call the full model a dinosaur. Others are reminded of the snake who ate an elephant from "The Little Prince". (I'm sure there is a good connection to elephant carpaccio somewhere in here ...)     The first step is to understand that for a new product there is a unique value proposition [...]

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Explaining MVPs, MVFs, MMFs via the Lean/Agile Requirements Dinosaur

By |2022-12-03T20:02:21-05:00December 30, 2012|Agile, Product Ownership, Scrum|

I’ve been using a visualization that people find useful for understanding the relationship between the various Lean/Agile requirement containers. Some people call the full model a dinosaur. Others are reminded of the snake who ate an elephant from “The Little Prince”. (I’m sure there is a good connection to elephant carpaccio somewhere in here …) The first step is to understand that for a new product there is a unique value proposition hypothesis. This is the area where your product/service will [...]

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Kanban Networks Exercise

By |2012-02-22T21:47:32-05:00February 22, 2012|Games, kanban, Product Ownership, Visibility|

One of the approaches I've been using lately with clients is starting with whole system Kanban, focusing on Discovery and Delivery, and then potentially zoom into Team Agile in some/all streams as the organization understands the concepts of Flow, Stop Starting Start Finishing, Inspect and Adapt etc. It IS typically necessary to go to smaller batches earlier on so I recommend setting up Lean/Agile Discovery processes that pull market/product demand and create Features, MMFs and Stories from it. I want [...]

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Explore Product Owner / Team responsibilities Exercise

By |2012-01-31T22:57:41-05:00January 31, 2012|Games, Product Ownership|

I wanted to share an exercise I created in a workshop last week One of the topics we wanted to explore was the responsibilities/activities of Product Owners and the Agile Team and how do they relate. The objective of the exercise was to understand the various activities and how they map in the continuum between PO and Team and across the product development life cycle. The steps of the exercise are the following: Map all the activities related to the [...]

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What do I need to know to start being a Product Owner?

By |2011-01-05T20:36:31-05:00January 5, 2011|Agile, Product Ownership|

  What is the basic role of the Product Owner? http://blog.crisp.se/2012/10/25/henrikkniberg/agile-product-ownership-in-a-nutshell (New) http://scalingsoftwareagility.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/ch-11-role-of-the-product-owner-rev-12.pdf http://www.agileproductdesign.com/downloads/patton_product_owner_role.ppt Starting with user stories: User stories are the most common way to handle requirements in the agile world. One of the first things you'll need to do as a product owner is familiarize yourself with them, and start to provide them to the delivery team. Mike Cohn on Effective User Stories - http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/presentations/42-effective-user-stories-for-agile-requirements User Stories Primer http://trailridgeconsulting.com/files/user-story-primer.pdf Recommended Book - User Stories Applied by Mike Cohn http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/books/2 User Stories Advanced [...]

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