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The Art of Agile Product Ownership: A Guide for Product Managers, Business Analysts, and Entrepreneurs
Every product owner faces a complex and unique set of challenges within their team. This provides each individual the opportunity to fill the role with different ambitions, skills, and insights. Your product ownership journey can take a variety of paths, and The Art of Agile Product Ownership is here to be your guide.
Author Allan Kelly, who delivers Agile training courses to major companies, pulls from his experience to help you discover what it takes to be a successful product owner. You will learn how you need to define your role within a team and how you can best incorporate ownership with strategy. With the Agile method, time is the key factor, and after using the lessons from this book you will confidently be able to synthesize features, functionality, and scope against delivery. You will find out how other team members such as the UX designer and business analyst can support and enhance your role as product owner, and how every type of company structure can adapt for optimal agility.
The Art of Agile Product Ownership is a beacon for current product owners, programmers who are ready to take the next step towards ownership, and analysts transitioning into the product space. This book helps you determine for yourself the best way to fill the product owner role so that you utilize your unique combination of skills. Product ownership is central to a successful Agile team, and after reading this book, you will be more than ready for the challenge.
What You Will Learn
Explores activities the product owner needs to do in order to write good and valuable user stories
Identifies skills product owners can learn from product managers and business analysts
Demonstrates how to make decisions based on business and customer demand rather than technical needs and feasibility
Who This Book Is ForThis is a book for anyone becoming a product owner: developers and programmers, who, after some years at the code-face, are ready to step up to the next stage to own the product that they have been coding. Business Analysts and Product Managers who see themselves transitioning into the a product owner role will find value in this book in understanding their new role and how the work is the same and how it is different
Author Allan Kelly, who delivers Agile training courses to major companies, pulls from his experience to help you discover what it takes to be a successful product owner. You will learn how you need to define your role within a team and how you can best incorporate ownership with strategy. With the Agile method, time is the key factor, and after using the lessons from this book you will confidently be able to synthesize features, functionality, and scope against delivery. You will find out how other team members such as the UX designer and business analyst can support and enhance your role as product owner, and how every type of company structure can adapt for optimal agility.
The Art of Agile Product Ownership is a beacon for current product owners, programmers who are ready to take the next step towards ownership, and analysts transitioning into the product space. This book helps you determine for yourself the best way to fill the product owner role so that you utilize your unique combination of skills. Product ownership is central to a successful Agile team, and after reading this book, you will be more than ready for the challenge.
What You Will Learn
Explores activities the product owner needs to do in order to write good and valuable user stories
Identifies skills product owners can learn from product managers and business analysts
Demonstrates how to make decisions based on business and customer demand rather than technical needs and feasibility
Who This Book Is ForThis is a book for anyone becoming a product owner: developers and programmers, who, after some years at the code-face, are ready to step up to the next stage to own the product that they have been coding. Business Analysts and Product Managers who see themselves transitioning into the a product owner role will find value in this book in understanding their new role and how the work is the same and how it is different
166 pages, Paperback
Published September 28, 2019
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About the author
Allan Kelly
21 books16 followersAllan Kelly has held just about every job in the software world, from system admin to development manager by way of programmer and product manager. Today he works helping teams adopt and deepen Agile practices, and writing far too much. He specialises in working with software product companies and aligning products and processes with company strategy.
He is the author of three books: "Xanpan - reflections on agile and software development" (https://leanpub.com/xanpan), "Business Patterns for Software Developers" and “Changing Software Development: Learning to be Agile”; the originator of Retrospective Dialogue Sheets (http://www.dialoguesheets.com), a regular conference speaker and frequent contributor to journals.
More about Allan at http://www.allankelly.net and on Twitter as @allankellynet (http://twitter.com/allankellynet).
He is the author of three books: "Xanpan - reflections on agile and software development" (https://leanpub.com/xanpan), "Business Patterns for Software Developers" and “Changing Software Development: Learning to be Agile”; the originator of Retrospective Dialogue Sheets (http://www.dialoguesheets.com), a regular conference speaker and frequent contributor to journals.
More about Allan at http://www.allankelly.net and on Twitter as @allankellynet (http://twitter.com/allankellynet).
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December 25, 2022
This book isn't for me; it is basically an overview of agile with all its roles and the idea of Product Ownership.
I wish I had had a book like this when I started as a PO.
I'd recommend this book to senior management & owners - these folks are creating bullshit roles without knowing how the whole thing is supposed to work.
Then they tend to hire people based on stuff they read on agile once and... make them do the opposite, how they see fit.
This wastes time and psychic energy.
I was entrapped like these two already, I got myself into a servant-master BDSM relationship with HIPPO, and these people are not that bright, to say the least.
Gosh, I wish someone had explained how to spot those bogus agile companies, so I didn't have to manage paperweights and be that ugly ticket monkey. Amen!
I wish I had had a book like this when I started as a PO.
I'd recommend this book to senior management & owners - these folks are creating bullshit roles without knowing how the whole thing is supposed to work.
Then they tend to hire people based on stuff they read on agile once and... make them do the opposite, how they see fit.
This wastes time and psychic energy.
I was entrapped like these two already, I got myself into a servant-master BDSM relationship with HIPPO, and these people are not that bright, to say the least.
Gosh, I wish someone had explained how to spot those bogus agile companies, so I didn't have to manage paperweights and be that ugly ticket monkey. Amen!
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December 15, 2024
The Art of Agile Product Ownership: A Guide for Product Managers, Business Analysts, and Entrepreneurs is a comprehensive guide for anyone aspiring to be an effective product owner. The author - Allan Kelly - provides clear explanations, practical advice, and real-world examples to help you master the craft. Whether you're a seasoned professional or a newcomer to the Agile world, this book is a valuable resource.
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