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

 

Transparency | Glossary

Definition

Transparency is one of the most important core values of Agile. It is critical regarding Organizations adopting Agile. It refers to the ‘openness’ of communication between the members of the team, and a free flow of information between the senior and junior members of the team. Scrum involves aspects like Daily Standup, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Retrospective meetings.

The  more quickly an organization adapts to Transparency, the more chances  will raise for it’s success regarding Agile. A lack of Transparency in the long run, can hurt an Agile team,as well the organization overall. Without Transparency:

  • Product Owner may lost trust
  • There might be office politics
  • Team Morale can go down
  • Estimating future work can be an issue
  • Team’s true velocity can’t be known.

Further Reading

  •  “Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum” (book), by Mike Cohn.