There are so many great resources to support Product Owners. Below are but a few of my favorites.
If you only have 10 minutes and want to understand what it means to be a great Product Owner…
Watch Henrik Kniberg’s 15-minute video at 1.25x speed!
Then spend the rest of your Agile Product Owner career absorbing from below…
Here’s a nice “nutshell” on Agile Product Ownership from Dandy People:
Front Row Agile / Mt. Goat Product Owners and Scrum
- The Role of a Product Owner: Responsibilities & Characteristics
- The Role of a Product Owner (Part 2): Life in the Fast Lane
- The Role of a Product Owner (Part 3): Anti-Patterns
- Mt. Goat Online Training for Product Owners
- Ultimate Product Owner: Optimising Product Delivery
- Better User Stories
- Write Better User Stories in Less Time With Less Aggravation
BDD (Behavior Driven Development)
- Behavior-Driven Development for Product Owners
- Read Specification by Example – “the closest I’ve seen to a ‘BDD book’ (as a treatment of methodology)” says Dan North
HDD (Hypothesis Driven Design)
- https://www.mindtheproduct.com/2017/09/understanding-design-thinking-lean-agile-work-together/
- https://youtu.be/6GJs011eeKA
- https://youtu.be/By5OfgWVBG8
- https://youtu.be/18JCZ7Us1HQ
- https://medium.theuxblog.com/hypotheses-driven-ux-design-c75fbf3ce7cc
Scrum Alliance on Effective Product Owners
Roman Pichler – Product Ownership in Agile
- Read all of Roman Pichler’s stuff
- Take at least two of his courses
- http://www.romanpichler.com/blog/books/strategize/
- http://www.romanpichler.com/blog/the-product-owner-responsibilities/
Stefan Wolpers on Scrum Product Owners
- 28 Product Backlog and Refinement Anti-Patterns
- If you like to learn by learning what NOT to do, check out Stefan’s “How to Sabotage A Product Owner — 53 Anti-Patterns from the Trenches” which includes such gems as
- Insist on all projects being accomplished within a fixed time, scope, and budget setting.
- Use the Daily Scrum to check on progress and hold the Product Owner accountable for not meeting your targets.
- Enforce proprietary and obscure metrics useless to the Scrum team.
Marty Cagan – SVPG Silicon Valley Product Group
“Find out how great products are built”
Love the approach to exploring four types of risk:
- value risk (whether customers will buy it or users will choose to use it)
- usability risk (whether users can figure out how to use it)
- feasibility risk (whether our engineers can build what we need with the time, skills and technology we have)
- business viability risk (whether this solution also works for the various aspects of our business)
More Resources for Agile and Scrum Product Owners
- https://hackernoon.com/product-owner-anti-patterns-22ed1f989867
- R Galen
- A podcast with a guy named Cory…..(http://www.deliveritcast.com)
- Scrum Product Ownership: Balancing Value from the Inside Out
- http://www.mckinsey.com/industries/high-tech/our-insights/product-managers-for-the-digital-world
- 10 Must Read Books for Product Owners
- Why Spotify Squads Are a Popular Failure for Product Teams
Podcasts for Product Owners
Amplitude’s List of Best Product Manager Podcasts for 2019: Design, Marketing, Analytics and More.
Books for Product Owners and Product Managers
- Emma Butler has a nice post “Best Product Management Books 2019 For Newbies to Seasoned Vets & From Roadmapping to Design”
- David Pereira published The 10 books that transformed my mindset as a Product Owner
Thanks for mentioning my Product Ownership book Andy. I appreciate it.
As an FYI, folks can join my mailing list at http://www.rgalen.com and get access to a free PDF copy of the book. They can also get access to a Product Ownership maturity assessment tool I developed as well.
Keep up the great work!
Bob Galen
https://www.amazon.com/Scrum-Product-Ownership-Balancing-Inside/dp/0988502623/
Dear Andy , thanks for sharing this great resource list, i will searhing my reserch paper some documents so i came across to your blog, HDD materials is great to share.
Thank you again.
Have a nice days.
Thank you Andy for sharing our Product ownership poster, and what great company with all that goodness 😀 We have also recently published a digital training and toolbox to support Agile product management that might be worth checking out.
https://www.agileonlinetrainings.com/agile-product-development-process-organization-training
Have a great weekend 🙋🏼♀️