Product Owner - Values, Principles, Values
This sub-topic is following Kent Beck's pattern that practices without values and principles are barren.
What we did was a mind map.
This mind-map is expressed simply in the outline below. We will also post a picture of the flip chart sheet (in mind-map form).
Values:
- Empowered decision maker
- Maintains vision of product
- Voice of the product
- Acts as a conduit between team and customer
- Humanity - focus on people
- Commit to Scrum process
Principles:
- Domain expert
- Optimize ROI
- Member of team
- Improve feedback
- Decisiveness
- Continuous improvement
- Continuous re-evaluation of project
- Amplify learning
Practices:
- Lead creation of initial product backlog
- Prioritizes product backlog
- Helps set clear, team goal
- Team goals – goals, conditions of satisfaction, project level, iteration level
- Explains PBI’s
- Decides when to release / continue / cancel
- Approves / disapproves the sprint review
- Manages / owns risks
- Synchronize customer expectations with the team
- Active participant in testing
- Visiting other teams and PO to get better
- Driving the vision
- Sits with team
- Explains business value
The original mind map: