1. So You Want to Be a Product Owner
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2. So You Want to Be a Product Owner
Agenda
Scrum 101
Product Owner level set
Product Owner responsibilities
Product Owner and the team
PMF organization
PMF setup
PMF use

3. Scrum Product Owner Focus
Scrum Product Owner - Refresher
Resource assigned to managing the Product Backlog
Primary function is to add, delete, modify and prioritize items on the backlog (user stories).
Responsible for adding details to any of the backlog items if the Scrum team requires it.
Responsible for calculating the “Return” for each User Story and how it will be realized based on the prioritization of the Product Backlog items.
The Product Owner can rely on others to help enter or refine backlog items, but it is the Product Owners responsibility to accept, reject and prioritize.

4. Scrum Product Owner Activities
Current Sprint
Assist with design
Assist with acceptance tests
Monitor progress
Receive playbacks
Clarify current committed stories
Provide playbacks
Action feedback from stakeholders
Sprint review
Future Sprints
Identify features for next iteration
Conceptual model for future iterations (release planning)
DCO sessions
Create new stories
UI sketches
Help write tests
High level estimates for next iteration
Prioritize stories
Sprint planning

6. Scrum Product Owner Focus
3 + 3
User/Customer/Management
PO/SM/Dev Team
PO is conduit for stakeholders

7. Scrum Product Owner Focus

8. PMF Up until now, stories have been captured outside of PMF
PMF Provides
Organization
Communication / Collaboration
Single source of truth

9. PMF Organization Entities Product Project (Team) Release
Product, Goals, Backlog, Epics, Stories, Projects, Sprints, Tasks, Releases
Product
Goals
Backlogs
Epics
Stories
Project (Team)
Sprints
Stories
Tasks
Release
Backlogs
Stories

10. PMF - HowTo How set up for Census
Detailed review & how to interact with PMF
Epics
User stories
Backlogs
Pulse
Dashboards
Reports

11. PMF – User Stories User story workflow
Communicates status of story to all (lists, graphs, charts, etc)
new, pending-details, pending-sizing (and resizing), open-ready
Typical use
New: idea, no details, DCO’d on the fly
Pending-details: accepted by PO as viable story – in process of being fleshed out
Pending-sizing: PO believes implementable
Open-ready: Sized by dev team, accepted as implementable
How does this work for Org? Changes?

12. PMF - Sprints Sprint process
During sprint planning, sprint loaded with stories at top of backlog
Up to sprint capacity
Must be 2 sprints worth of open-ready stories

13. Scrum 101 – Questions

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