Agile Requirements and Product Ownership

Agile Requirements & Product Ownership

Length: 1 day
PDUs: 7
PMI Activity ID#: TBA

Software Projects Require More Than Traditional Project Management Skills
This workshop explores the dynamics of the Scrum Product Owner role, writing effective requirements (User Stories) and the interplay between the two. It’s for any Product Manager, Business Analyst, Software Tester, or Product Owner who is looking to better understand and engage their agile teams with improved requirements. It also explores aspects of Release Planning and Road-mapping of stories for better forecasting and business planning.

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

Describe the basic roles and responsibilities of the Agile Product Owner / Product Manager
Explore the dynamics of creating and maintaining an active, real-time Product Backlog
Examine the various workflows or technical threads that are captured in effective backlogs
Also examine the various workflows or quality and value threads that permeate high-value backlogs
Understand backlog similarities to WBS and traditional planning and how to drive agile Release & Blitz Planning towards milestones

Course Outline

1) The Challenging Role of the Product Owner

Describe key aspects of Scrum Product Ownership

Explore the relationship between the PO, Team and Scrum Master

Explore the Pragmatic Marketing universe of responsibilities

2) Nuance of the Product Backlog

Describe key aspects of managing a Product Backlog

How to factor in Architecture and Technical Debt

How to factor in Quality

Other threads of execution; remember it's really a WBS

3) Advanced User Story Writing

Explore the Aspects of a User Story Writing workshop - preparation, running, and outcomes

How to write acceptance tests; what to focus on

ATDD practices, why they're important

Understand the activity of Continuous Grooming

4) Blitz Planning, Release Planning, and Story-Mapping

Explore Crystal’s Blitz Planning as an exercise for end-to-end plans

XP Release planning as an alternative

How to map Release Planning over your Backlog; iterate feedback on priority

Leverage Story Mapping to highlight your various flows of execution

How does priority REALLY fit into and change in your Backlogs

5) A “Day in the Life” of a Product Owner

Explore the activities, focus points, challenges that face the product owner on a daily basis. Answering - what does being a "good" Product Owner mean?

6) Exercise(s)

a. You will be exposed to a user story writing session where we’ll decompose a Google application into user stories. Exploring the mechanics of story writing, decomposition, roles, and themes.

b. Throughout the day, we'll add nuance to your stories exploring Story Mapping to understand critical threads and Blitz & Release Planning as a means of discovering execution dependencies.

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