The Professional Product Owner: Leveraging Scrum as a Competitive Advantage | Book Series

Overview:

The role of a product owner is crucial in an organisation. Authors explains how to identify where value can be found, measure it, and maximize it throughout your entire product lifecycle. The Professional Product Owner will help product owners and their organizations refocus on value as the primary objective. McGreal and Jocham describes strategy showing how to connect Vision, Value, and Validation in ROI-focused agile product management.

Author focuses on Scrum best-practices for managing complexity and continuously delivering value, and they define the concrete practices and tools you can use to manage Product Backlogs and release plans, all with the goal of making you a more successful Product Owner. Throughout, the authors share revealing personal experiences that illuminate obstacles to success and show how they can be overcome.

Author:

Don McGreal

Published In:

2018

 

Fragile | Glossary

Definition

In the last few decades, Agile has become the most prominent  approach for modern day Product Development. However, it’s core values are often misrepresented and abused. This is such a commonplace practice, that there is an official name for it aka ‘Fragile’ (or frAgile). It’s meant as a warning shot for developers to handle their software product with care, else it’s crash and burn and cause detrimental impact to the entire team.

Elements like Technical Debt, and teams consistently carrying over their work on to the next sprint, Product Manager/ Leader who is quitting, or any miscommunications with customers etc. makes a Software product ‘Fragile’, and must be avoided at all costs.

Further Reading

  •  “Agile Project Management”(book), by James Shore.