Agile Product Owner Role: Foundations

Course details

Learn what it takes to be the product owner on an agile project team. This course clarifies the role of the product owner and looks at the mindset, techniques, and competencies critical to being successful in the job. Angela Wick defines the typical collaborators, the product roadmap and minimum viable product, and your touch points in the agile workflow, including planning, prototyping, user research, sprints, and backlog refinement. Plus, learn about the average day in the life of a product owner and get clarity on common myths: that planning, a clear scope, and documentation get in the way of agile development.

Topics include:
Identify the goals of a product owner on an agile team.
Explore the essentials of an agile roadmap.
Examine the elements of an agile planning overview.
Identify key agile product owner competencies.
Recognize the fundamentals of the experimenting and prototyping phase of agile planning.
Discover common myths of agile product ownership.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - The key to creating better agile results

1. Product Owner Role

02 - Product owner goals on an agile team
03 - Product owner's typical background
04 - The mindset of a successful product owner
05 - Who the product owner collaborates with
06 - Concept of product ownership as a team

2. Define a Valuable Product

07 - Agile product vision
08 - Agile product roadmap
09 - Analyze a roadmap's value and risk
10 - Understand minimum viable product (MVP)
11 - The initial product backlog

3. Agile Planning

12 - Agile planning overview
13 - Creating an agile release plan
14 - Experimenting and prototyping
15 - Themes, features, epics, and user stories
16 - Refining the backlog

4. Agile Product Owner Expectations

17 - Day in the life of an agile product owner
18 - Key agile product owner competencies
19 - Common myths of agile product ownership

Conclusion

20 - Providing strong leadership