Scrum Product Owner

Product Discovery is the iterative process of reducing uncertainty around the problem space as a product team. Here's how to stay on course.

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Writing good user stories can be hard, however these ten tips will help you create powerful stories that direct product delivery.

XP teams have to manage stories and tasks. The INVEST and SMART acronyms can remind teams of the good characteristics of each.

In Scrum, the Prioritized Product Backlog is a single requirements document that defines the project scope by providing a prioritized list of features of t...

In the past, the Scrum Guide consistently used the word "priority" for the Product Backlog or noted that the Product Backlog was “prioritized.” While the Product Backlog must be ordered, ordering by priority is only one many techniques — and rarely the best one at that.

The Scrum Guide talks about an ordered backlog, not a prioritized one. While order and priority are related, they are not the same, and understanding the difference and why people focus on one over the other can help your team be more effective at delivering business value.

The planning fallacy leads us to underestimate how much time it will take us to complete tasks. To avoid the problem, adopt one of these estimation techniques.

Poker planning is an agile estimating and planning exercise that uses Planning Poker cards for consensus-based estimating in Scrum.

Some agile teams estimate using a fixed set of values based on the Fibonacci sequence. Learn the science behind this approach and why it works so well.

Estimate inflation is when the estimate assigned to a product backlog item (usually a user story) increases over time. Triangulating prevents this.

What is a Product Vision statement? Learn more about Product Vision statements and other product management terminology in our resources library.

Download the Product Vision Boards to describe the vision and product strategy incl. target group, needs, key features, and business goals.

Explore the essentials of building an agile roadmap in this guide for product managers. Map out your product strategy in a flexible and adaptive manner.

As a Product Owner, you are responsible for Product Backlog management, stakeholder management and forecasting. Therefore, you will probably use a variety of tools and techniques to track progress, manage expectations and keep people informed. One of the tools that may come in handy for you is a product roadmap. Applying product roadmaps effectively can be challenging however. The concept of a product roadmap however, is that it is a high-level, strategic plan, that describes the likely development of the product over the next period of time.

Prioritization is a challenge for any product manager. How do you decide what to work on first? Here is a simple scoring system to help prioritize well.

A value proposition is a promise of value to be delivered. It’s the primary reason a prospect should buy your product.

Explore how teams can make choices that do a better job of maximizing value by considering the time it takes for leaders to make choices.

Business justification is first assessed prior to a project being initiated and is continuously verified throughout the project lifecycle. This is a very i...

There are two key elements of the Product Development cycle: Discovery and Delivery.

Learn the unique terminology used in Agile, Scrum and Kanban. This glossary is meant to represent an overview of Scrum, Agile, Kanban, XP and some other related terms.

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Doing Agile is about practices. Being Agile is about the Mindset. Most of the value comes from mindset or culture. Focus on that for results.

Agile selling is a concept that says that salespeople need to adapt their sales approach to meet their customers’ needs and buying process.

Don’t just provide customer support – meet expectations with agile customer service. With the ability to continuously improve processes, retail gets a

Learn the basics and definition of Agile HR by the pioneers of Agile and design thinking in HR. Agile HR infographic and introduction.

Blog post describing how traditional project manager responsibilities map onto the Scrum roles of product owner, ScrumMaster, and development team

Here are ten key factors that determine whether an agile transition will succeed. You don’t need all issues resolved before you begin. You just need to be aware

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