The Art of Agile Product Ownership

Discover what it takes to be a successful product owner, how product owners need to define their own role within their teams, and how product owners learn from, and work with, product managers, business analysts and UX designers. This book answers the questions: what does the product owner do? What should they be doing? Why are they so central to agile efforts?

Product ownership is more than just a single role on a team. Product ownership is a set of skills. Every team should have a product owner, and each team member should learn the skills of product ownership. Agile involves a constant trade off of features, functionality, and scope against time and delivery. Agile requires the constant incorporation of feedback. This book teaches product owners to incorporate ownership with strategy.

What You Will LearnExplores activities the product owner needs to do in order to write good and valuable user storiesIdentifies skills product owners can learn from product managers and business analystsDemonstrates 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