Agile Product Management With Scrum

  agile product management with scrum: Agile Product Management with Scrum Roman Pichler, 2010-03-11 The First Guide to Scrum-Based Agile Product Management In Agile Product Management with Scrum, leading Scrum consultant Roman Pichler uses real-world examples to demonstrate how product owners can create successful products with Scrum. He describes a broad range of agile product management practices, including making agile product discovery work, taking advantage of emergent requirements, creating the minimal marketable product, leveraging early customer feedback, and working closely with the development team. Benefitting from Pichler’s extensive experience, you’ll learn how Scrum product ownership differs from traditional product management and how to avoid and overcome the common challenges that Scrum product owners face. Coverage includes Understanding the product owner’s role: what product owners do, how they do it, and the surprising implications Envisioning the product: creating a compelling product vision to galvanize and guide the team and stakeholders Grooming the product backlog: managing the product backlog effectively even for the most complex products Planning the release: bringing clarity to scheduling, budgeting, and functionality decisions Collaborating in sprint meetings: understanding the product owner’s role in sprint meetings, including the dos and don’ts Transitioning into product ownership: succeeding as a product owner and establishing the role in the enterprise This book is an indispensable resource for anyone who works as a product owner, or expects to do so, as well as executives and coaches interested in establishing agile product management.
  agile product management with scrum: Agile Project Management with Scrum Ken Schwaber, 2004-02-11 The rules and practices for Scrum—a simple process for managing complex projects—are few, straightforward, and easy to learn. But Scrum’s simplicity itself—its lack of prescription—can be disarming, and new practitioners often find themselves reverting to old project management habits and tools and yielding lesser results. In this illuminating series of case studies, Scrum co-creator and evangelist Ken Schwaber identifies the real-world lessons—the successes and failures—culled from his years of experience coaching companies in agile project management. Through them, you’ll understand how to use Scrum to solve complex problems and drive better results—delivering more valuable software faster. Gain the foundation in Scrum theory—and practice—you need to: Rein in even the most complex, unwieldy projects Effectively manage unknown or changing product requirements Simplify the chain of command with self-managing development teams Receive clearer specifications—and feedback—from customers Greatly reduce project planning time and required tools Build—and release—products in 30-day cycles so clients get deliverables earlier Avoid missteps by regularly inspecting, reporting on, and fine-tuning projects Support multiple teams working on a large-scale project from many geographic locations Maximize return on investment!
  agile product management with scrum: The Professional Product Owner Don McGreal, Ralph Jocham, 2018-06-04 The Professional Product Owner’s Guide to Maximizing Value with Scrum “This book presents a method of communicating our desires, cogently, coherently, and with a minimum of fuss and bother.” —Ken Schwaber, Chairman & Founder, Scrum.org The role of the Product Owner is more crucial than ever. But it’s about much more than mechanics: it’s about taking accountability and refocusing on value as the primary objective of all you do. In The Professional Product Owner, two leading experts in successful Scrum product ownership show exactly how to do this. You’ll learn how to identify where value can be found, measure it, and maximize it throughout your entire product lifecycle. Drawing on their combined 40+ years of experience in using agile and Scrum in product management, Don McGreal and Ralph Jocham guide you through all facets of envisioning, emerging, and maturing a product using the Scrum framework. McGreal and Jocham discuss strategy, showing how to connect Vision, Value, and Validation in ROI-focused agile product management. They lay out 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. Define success from the “outside in,” using external customer-driven measurements to guide development and maximize value Bring empowerment and entrepreneurship to the Product Owner’s role, and align everyone behind a shared business model Use Evidence-Based Management (EBMgt) to invest in the right places, make smarter decisions, and reduce risk Effectively apply Scrum’s Product Owner role, artifacts, and events Populate and manage Product Backlogs, and use just-in-time specifications Plan and manage releases, improve transparency, and reduce technical debt Scale your product, not your Scrum Use Scrum to inject autonomy, mastery, and purpose into your product team’s work Whatever your role in product management or agile development, this guide will help you deliver products that offer more value, more rapidly, and more often. Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.
  agile product management with scrum: The Art of Agile Product Ownership Allan Kelly, 2019-09-27 Every product owner faces a complex and unique set of challenges within their team. This provides each individual the opportunity to fill the role with different ambitions, skills, and insights. Your product ownership journey can take a variety of paths, and The Art of Agile Product Ownership is here to be your guide. Author Allan Kelly, who delivers Agile training courses to major companies, pulls from his experience to help you discover what it takes to be a successful product owner. You will learn how you need to define your role within a team and how you can best incorporate ownership with strategy. With the Agile method, time is the key factor, and after using the lessons from this book you will confidently be able to synthesize features, functionality, and scope against delivery. You will find out how other team members such as the UX designer and business analyst can support and enhance your role as product owner, and how every type of company structure can adapt for optimal agility. The Art of Agile Product Ownership is a beacon for current product owners, programmers who are ready to take the next step towards ownership, and analysts transitioning into the product space. This book helps you determine for yourself the best way to fill the product owner role so that you utilize your unique combination of skills. Product ownership is central to a successful Agile team, and after reading this book, you will be more than ready for the challenge. What You Will LearnExplores activities the product owner needs to do in order to write good and valuable user storiesIdentifies skills product owners can learn from product managers and business analystsDemonstrates how to make decisions based on business and customer demand rather than technical needs and feasibility Who This Book Is ForThis is a book for anyone becoming a product owner: developers and programmers, who, after some years at the code-face, are ready to step up to the next stage to own the product that they have been coding. Business Analysts and Product Managers who see themselves transitioning into the a product owner role will find value in this book in understanding their new role and how the work is the same and how it is different
  agile product management with scrum: Agile Product Management Paul VII, 2016-10-18 Agile Product Management Just Got Easier Introduction Thank you and congratulations on taking this class, Agile Product Management: Product Manager vsScrum Product Owner. When you have taken this class, you will understand the similarities and differences between traditional Product Management and Scrum Product Ownership. In order to develop a product from original concept to working model, many factors must be taken into consideration. Clients and stakeholders might have a clear idea of what they want and when they want it. In such cases, it is the product owner's responsibility to clarify all of the details and enable the development team to generate the final product as quickly and inexpensively as possible. If the client and stakeholders are not as certain about what it is that they want, the product owner has the added responsibilities of helping them to figure out what they want and articulating this to the developers. In each segment of a development project the roles and responsibilities of product managers and product owners differ substantially. In each class, we will examine a component of product development and identify the different ways that these two roles approach them. In this class you will learn: An overview of the two product development methods How to manage requirements as a product owner as opposed to a traditional product manager How to plan a project as a product owner versus a traditional product manager How to schedule a project as a product owner as opposed to a traditional product manager Common methods for budgeting a project as a product owner versus that of a traditional product manager Tips for becoming a product owner in your team or business Now, let us move forward and let me help you to learn the differences between a traditional product manager and a scrum product owner. Table of Contents Introduction .........................................1 Understanding Product Development .........4 The Teams ..........................................9 Planning ............................................19 Product Life Cycle ...............................34 Budgeting ..........................................40 Requirements ......................................44 Schedule ............................................50 Advantages and Disadvantages ................56 Summary ...........................................64 Preview of 'The Scrum Master Mega Pack' ...69 Check Out My Other Books ......................74 Scroll Up To The Top Of The Page And Click The Orange Buy Now or Read For Free Icon On The Right Side!
  agile product management with scrum: Agile Excellence for Product Managers Greg Cohen, 2010 Agile Excellence for Product Managers is a plain-speaking guide on how to work with Agile development teams to achieve phenomenal product success. It covers the why and how of agile development (including Scrum, XP, and Lean, ) the role of product management, release planning, and more.
  agile product management with scrum: How to Lead in Product Management: Practices to Align Stakeholders, Guide Development Teams, and Create Value Together Roman Pichler, 2020-03-10 This book will help you become a better product leader. Benefitting from Roman Pichler's extensive experience, you will learn how to align stakeholders and guide development teams even in challenging circumstances, avoid common leadership mistakes, and grow as a leader. Written in an engaging and easily accessible style, How to Lead in Product Management offers a wealth of practical tips and strategies. Through helpful examples, the book illustrates how you can directly apply the techniques to your work. Coverage includes: * Choosing the right leadership style * Cultivating empathy, building trust, and influencing others * Increasing your authority and empowering others * Directing stakeholders and development teams through common goals * Making decisions that people will support and follow through * Successfully resolving disputes and conflicts even with senior stakeholders * Listening deeply to discover and address hidden needs and interests * Practising mindfulness and embracing a growth mindset to develop as a leader Praise for How to Lead in Product Management: Roman has done it again, delivering a practical book for the product management community that appeals to both heart and mind. How to Lead in Product Management is packed with concise, direct, and practical advice that addresses the deeper, personal aspects of the product leadership. Roman's book shares wisdom on topics including goals, healthy interactions with stakeholders, handling conflict, effective conversations, decision-making, having a growth mindset, and self-care. It is a must read for both new and experienced product people. ~Ellen Gottesdiener, Product Coach at EBG Consulting Being a great product manager is tough. It requires domain knowledge, industry knowledge, technical skills, but also the skills to lead and inspire a team. Roman Pichler's How to Lead in Product Management is the best book I've read for equipping product managers to lead their teams. ~Mike Cohn, Author of Succeeding with Agile, Agile Estimating and Planning, and User Stories Applied This is the book that has been missing for product people. Roman has created another masterpiece, a fast read with lots of value. It's a must read for every aspiring product manager. ~Magnus Billgren, CEO of Tolpagorni Product Management How Lead in Product Management is for everyone who manages a product or drives important business decisions. Roman lays out the key challenges of product leadership and shows us ways of thoughtfully working with team members, stakeholders, partners, and the inevitable conflicts. ~Rich Mironov, CEO of Mironov Consulting and Smokejumper Head of Product
  agile product management with scrum: Succeeding with Agile Mike Cohn, 2010 Proven, 100% Practical Guidance for Making Scrum and Agile Work in Any Organization This is the definitive, realistic, actionable guide to starting fast with Scrum and agile-and then succeeding over the long haul. Leading agile consultant and practitioner Mike Cohn presents detailed recommendations, powerful tips, and real-world case studies drawn from his unparalleled experience helping hundreds of software organizations make Scrum and agile work. Succeeding with Agile is for pragmatic software professionals who want real answers to the most difficult challenges they face in implementing Scrum. Cohn covers every facet of the transition: getting started, helping individuals transition to new roles, structuring teams, scaling up, working with a distributed team, and finally, implementing effective metrics and continuous improvement. Throughout, Cohn presents Things to Try Now sections based on his most successful advice. Complementary Objection sections reproduce typical conversations with those resisting change and offer practical guidance for addressing their concerns. Coverage includes Practical ways to get started immediately-and get good fast Overcoming individual resistance to the changes Scrum requires Staffing Scrum projects and building effective teams Establishing improvement communities of people who are passionate about driving change Choosing which agile technical practices to use or experiment with Leading self-organizing teams Making the most of Scrum sprints, planning, and quality techniques Scaling Scrum to distributed, multiteam projects Using Scrum on projects with complex sequential processes or challenging compliance and governance requirements Understanding Scrum's impact on HR, facilities, and project management Whether you've completed a few sprints or multiple agile projects and whatever your role-manager, developer, coach, ScrumMaster, product owner, analyst, team lead, or project lead-this book will help you succeed with your very next project. Then, it will help you go much further: It will help you transform your entire development organization.
  agile product management with scrum: AGILE PRODUCT MANAGEMENT WITH SCRUM ROMAN. PICHLER, 2024
  agile product management with scrum: Essential Scrum Kenneth S. Rubin, 2012 This is a comprehensive guide to Scrum for all (team members, managers, and executives). If you want to use Scrum to develop innovative products and services that delight your customers, this is the complete, single-source reference you've been searching for. This book provides a common understanding of Scrum, a shared vocabulary that can be used in applying it, and practical knowledge for deriving maximum value from it.
  agile product management with scrum: The Lean Product Playbook Dan Olsen, 2015-05-21 The missing manual on how to apply Lean Startup to build products that customers love The Lean Product Playbook is a practical guide to building products that customers love. Whether you work at a startup or a large, established company, we all know that building great products is hard. Most new products fail. This book helps improve your chances of building successful products through clear, step-by-step guidance and advice. The Lean Startup movement has contributed new and valuable ideas about product development and has generated lots of excitement. However, many companies have yet to successfully adopt Lean thinking. Despite their enthusiasm and familiarity with the high-level concepts, many teams run into challenges trying to adopt Lean because they feel like they lack specific guidance on what exactly they should be doing. If you are interested in Lean Startup principles and want to apply them to develop winning products, this book is for you. This book describes the Lean Product Process: a repeatable, easy-to-follow methodology for iterating your way to product-market fit. It walks you through how to: Determine your target customers Identify underserved customer needs Create a winning product strategy Decide on your Minimum Viable Product (MVP) Design your MVP prototype Test your MVP with customers Iterate rapidly to achieve product-market fit This book was written by entrepreneur and Lean product expert Dan Olsen whose experience spans product management, UX design, coding, analytics, and marketing across a variety of products. As a hands-on consultant, he refined and applied the advice in this book as he helped many companies improve their product process and build great products. His clients include Facebook, Box, Hightail, Epocrates, and Medallia. Entrepreneurs, executives, product managers, designers, developers, marketers, analysts and anyone who is passionate about building great products will find The Lean Product Playbook an indispensable, hands-on resource.
  agile product management with scrum: Agile Product Management with Scrum Roman Pichler, 2010
  agile product management with scrum: Agile Scrum Scott Graffius, 2016-04-05 EXPANDED AND UPDATED Deliver Products in Short Cycles with Rapid Adaptation to Change, Fast Time-to-Market, and Continuous Improvement -- Which Supports Innovation and Drives Competitive Advantage Shifting customer needs are common in today's marketplace. Businesses must be adaptive and responsive to change while delivering an exceptional customer experience to be competitive. There are a variety of frameworks supporting the development of products and services, and most approaches fall into one of two broad categories: traditional or agile. Traditional practices such as waterfall engage sequential development, while agile involves iterative and incremental deliverables. Organizations are increasingly embracing agile to manage projects, and best meet their business needs of rapid response to change, fast delivery speed, and more. With clear and easy to follow step-by-step instructions, Agile Scrum helps you: - Implement and use the most popular agile framework -- Scrum - Deliver products in short cycles with rapid adaptation to change, fast time-to-market, and continuous improvement - Support innovation and drive competitive advantage Agile Scrum is for those interested or involved in innovation, project management, product development, software development or technology management. It's for those who have not yet used Scrum. It's also for people already using Scrum, in roles such as Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Development Team members (business analysts, solution and system architects, designers, developers, testers, etc.), customers, end users, agile coaches, executives, managers, and other stakeholders. For those already using Scrum, this guide can serve as a reference on practices for consideration and potential adaptation. Reactions to Agile Scrum have been incredibly positive. A superbly written and presented guide to team-based project management that is applicable across a broad range of businesses from consumer products to high-tech. - IndieBRAG Recommended. - The US Review of Books The book is excellent. - Readers' Favorite An all-inclusive instruction guide that is impressively 'user-friendly' in tone, content, clarity, organization, and presentation. - Midwest Book Review A-type personalities (those inclined to avoid instruction manuals) and non-readers will rejoice upon discovering this guide which makes getting started with Agile Scrum a breeze. - Literary Classics Book Reviews A must-have for a project manager wanting to introduce Scrum to the organization. - PM World Journal A clear and authoritative roadmap for successful implementation. - BookViral Agile Scrum has received 17 FIRST PLACE WINS in national and international competitions: 5th Annual Beverly Hills International Book Awards - Business-General category 5th Annual Beverly Hills International Book Awards -Technology category 2016 London Book Festival - Business category Fall 2016 Pinnacle Book Achievement Awards - Business category 2017 Feathered Quill Book Awards - Informational (Business) category 2016 New Apple Book Awards - Technology category 2017 Independent Press Award - Technology category 11th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards - Technology category 2017 Pacific Rim Book Festival - Business category 2017 Bookvana Awards - Green/Conscious Business category 2017 Book Excellence Awards - Technology category 14th Annual Best Book Awards - Business Reference category 2017 New York City Big Book Awards - Technology category 2017 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards - Science & Technology category 2017 Human Relations Indie Book Awards - Workplace category 2018 Florida Book Festival - Business category 2018 Pacific Book Awards - Business category Agile Scrum -- get your copy today!
  agile product management with scrum: A Scrum Book Jeff Sutherland, James O. Coplien, 2019-08-16 Building a successful product usually involves teams of people, and many choose the Scrum approach to aid in creating products that deliver the highest possible value. Implementing Scrum gives teams a collection of powerful ideas they can assemble to fit their needs and meet their goals. The ninety-four patterns contained within are elaborated nuggets of insight into Scrum’s building blocks, how they work, and how to use them. They offer novices a roadmap for starting from scratch, yet they help intermediate practitioners fine-tune or fortify their Scrum implementations. Experienced practitioners can use the patterns and supporting explanations to get a better understanding of how the parts of Scrum complement each other to solve common problems in product development. The patterns are written in the well-known Alexandrian form, whose roots in architecture and design have enjoyed broad application in the software world. The form organizes each pattern so you can navigate directly to organizational design tradeoffs or jump to the solution or rationale that makes the solution work. The patterns flow together naturally through the context sections at their beginning and end. Learn everything you need to know to master and implement Scrum one step at a time—the agile way.
  agile product management with scrum: Agile Project Management with Kanban Eric Brechner, 2015 With Kanban, every minute you spend on a software project can add value for customers. One book can help you achieve this goal: Agile Project Management with Kanban. Author Eric Brechner pioneered Kanban within the Xbox engineering team at Microsoft. Now he shows you exactly how to make it work for your team. Think of this book as {28}Kanban in a box.
  agile product management with scrum: Agile Product Management Paul VII, 2016-10-18 Product Owner - Your job Just Got Easier Introduction Thank you and congratulations on taking this class, Agile Product Management: Product Manager vsScrum Product Owner. When you have taken this class, you will understand the similarities and differences between traditional Product Management and Scrum Product Ownership. In order to develop a product from original concept to working model, many factors must be taken into consideration. Clients and stakeholders might have a clear idea of what they want and when they want it. In such cases, it is the product owner's responsibility to clarify all of the details and enable the development team to generate the final product as quickly and inexpensively as possible. If the client and stakeholders are not as certain about what it is that they want, the product owner has the added responsibilities of helping them to figure out what they want and articulating this to the developers. In each segment of a development project the roles and responsibilities of product managers and product owners differ substantially. In each class, we will examine a component of product development and identify the different ways that these two roles approach them. In this class you will learn: An overview of the two product development methods How to manage requirements as a product owner as opposed to a traditional product manager How to plan a project as a product owner versus a traditional product manager How to schedule a project as a product owner as opposed to a traditional product manager Common methods for budgeting a project as a product owner versus that of a traditional product manager Tips for becoming a product owner in your team or business Now, let us move forward and let me help you to learn the differences between a traditional product manager and a scrum product owner. Introduction Thank you and congratulations on taking this class, User Stories: How to capture, and manage requirements for Agile Product Management and Business Analysis with Scrum. In this class, you will be given proven methods to create, maintain and manage your requirements using user stories as part of an agile scrum team. I know you will get value from this class as it gives you a full introduction to the concept of agile user stories for managing product requirements. I then walk you step by step through everything involved in managing requirements using user stories including writing, combining and splitting complex user stories. Following this, I give you a complete overview of epics and themes and how they can be used to capture and group complex requirements in any team or business. Along the way, I give you plenty of examples and give you best practices for working with user stories within agile scrum. In this class, you will learn: What User Stories are and why they are so powerful for capturing requirements in complex projects Feel confident in writing user stories for any project Understand what a Requirements Spec is and Why they are less flexible than a Product Backlog built with Agile User Stories Explain what The Three Rs rule, Acceptance Criteria, the INVEST Principle, the Three Cs principle and Edge Cases are and how they will make you a better user story writer or agile practitioner Understand how and when to split and amalgamate stories Learn techniques to help you to split user stories when working in the real world Understand the difference between Epics and Themes and when each is used Learn who is responsible for writing user stories in agile and scrum So let's get started and let me teach you how to improve product backlog management. Scroll Up To The Top Of The Page And Click The Orange Buy Now or Read For Free Icon On The Right Side!
  agile product management with scrum: Agile Scrum Crash Course Umer W., 2020-05-31 A Step by Step Guide to Agile Project Management, Scrum, and the PSM 1 Scrum Master Certification Agile Scrum Crash Course is a quick and complete guide on all you need to know to learn the essentials of Agile Project Management and Scrum. It will also help you prepare for the Professional Scrum Master Certification, PSM 1 and pass on your first attempt. Written in simple language with easy to understand examples, it has been especially written for beginners. No matter what your industry background is, you will be able to quickly learn the fundamentals of Agile and Scrum and start using them on your projects. Complete Overview of Agile project management and Scrum Pass the PSM 1, Scrum Master Certification on your first try Learn Agile Values and the Agile manifesto The Difference between Waterfall and Agile Project Management What is a Sprint - A Step by Step Walkthrough Learn the concepts of the Official Scrum Guide in simple language Learn about Scrum Roles, Scrum Events, and Scrum Artifacts Scrum Roles - Product Owner, Scrum Master, Development Team Scrum Events - Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Retrospective, Sprint Review Scrum Artifacts - Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment And more - User stories, Story Points, Definition of Done
  agile product management with scrum: Scrum Product Ownership -- Balancing Value from the Inside Out Robert Galen, 2009-04-01 One of the least discussed and most challenging roles in the Scrum Agile Methodology is that of Product Owner. Quite often Product Owners are selected from the ranks of Product Managers or Business Analysts and simply thrown into the role. While these backgrounds can lead to successful product ownership, often there are fundamental understanding and large skills gaps that need to be crossed in order to be truly successful. This book takes a unique look at the role of Scrum Product Owner with a focus on how the role needs to interact with their Scrum team first--thus the inside out. We review all of the nuance and requisite habits that allow the Scrum Product Owner to drive their teams towards creating high quality products that provide great customer value.
  agile product management with scrum: The Scrum Field Guide Mitch Lacey, 2015-12-22 Thousands of organizations are adopting Scrum to transform the way they execute complex projects, in software and beyond. This guide will give you the skills and confidence needed to deploy Scrum, resulting in high-performing teams and satisfied customers. Drawing on years of hands-on experience helping companies succeed, Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) Mitch Lacey helps you overcome the major challenges of Scrum adoption and the deeper issues that emerge later. Extensively revised to reflect improved Scrum practices and tools, this edition adds an all-new section of tips from the field. Lacey covers many new topics, including immersive interviewing, collaborative estimation, and deepening business alignment. In 35 engaging chapters, you’ll learn how to build support and maximize value across your company. Now part of the renowned Mike Cohn Signature Series on agile development, this pragmatic guide addresses everything from establishing roles and priorities to determining team velocity, setting sprint length, and conducting customer reviews. Coverage includes Bringing teams and new team members on board Creating a workable definition of “done” Planning for short-term wins, and removing impediments to success Balancing predictability and adaptability in release planning Running productive daily scrums Fixing failing sprints Accurately costing projects, and measuring the value they deliver Managing risks in dynamic Scrum projects Prioritizing and estimating backlogs Working with distributed and offshore teams Institutionalizing improvements, and extending agility throughout the organization Packed with real-world examples straight from Lacey’s experience, this book will be invaluable to anyone transitioning to Scrum, seeking to improve their early results, or trying to get back on track.
  agile product management with scrum: Strategize: Product Strategy and Product Roadmap Practices for the Digital Age Roman Pichler, 2022-09-07 Create a winning game plan for your digital products with Strategize: Product Strategy and Product Roadmap Practices for the Digital Age, 2nd edition. Using a wide range of proven techniques and tools, product management expert Roman Pichler explains how to create a winning product strategy and actionable roadmap. Comprehensive and insightful, the book will enable you to make the right strategic decisions in today’s dynamic digital age. If you work as a product manager, Scrum product owner, product portfolio manager, head of product, or product coach, then this book is for you. What you will learn: * Create an inspiring vision for your product. * Develop a product strategy that maximises the chances of launching a winning product. * Successfully adapt the strategy across the product life cycle to achieve sustained product success. * Measure the value your product creates using the right key performance indicators (KPIs). * Build an actionable outcome-based product roadmap that aligns stakeholders and directs the product backlog. * Regularly review the product strategy and roadmap and keep them up-to-date. Written in an engaging and easily accessible style, Strategize offers practical advice and valuable examples so that you can apply the practices directly to your products. This second, revised, and extended edition offers new concepts, more tools, and additional tips and examples. Praise for Strategize: Strategize offers a comprehensive approach to product strategy using the latest practices geared specifically to digital products. Not just theory, the book is chock-full of real-world examples, making it easier to apply the principles to your company and products. Strategize is essential reading for everyone in charge of products: product executives, product managers, and product owners. Steve Johnson, Founder at Under10 Consulting. Whether you are new to product management or an experienced practitioner, Strategize is a must read. You are guaranteed to get new ideas about how to develop or improve your product strategy and how to execute it successfully. It’s an essential addition to every product manager’s reading list. Marc Abraham, Senior Group Product Manager at Intercom.
  agile product management with scrum: Scrum Shortcuts Without Cutting Corners Ilan Goldstein, 2014 In Scrum Shortcuts without Cutting Corners, Scrum expert Ilan Goldstein helps the reader translate the Scrum framework into reality to meet the Scrum challenges formal training never warned about. Drawing on his extensive agile experience in a wide range of projects and environments, Goldstein presents thirty proven, flexible shortcuts for optimizing Scrum processes, actions, and outcomes. Each shortcut walks the reader through applying a Scrum approach to achieve a tangible output. These easy-to-digest, actionable patterns address a broad range of topics including getting started, quality and metrics, team members and roles, managing stakeholders, estimation, continuous improvement and much more.
  agile product management with scrum: Large-Scale Scrum Craig Larman, Bas Vodde, 2016-09-30 The Go-To Resource for Large-Scale Organizations to Be Agile Rather than asking, “How can we do agile at scale in our big complex organization?” a different and deeper question is, “How can we have the same simple structure that Scrum offers for the organization, and be agile at scale rather than do agile?” This profound insight is at the heart of LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum). In Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS, Craig Larman and Bas Vodde have distilled over a decade of experience in large-scale LeSS adoptions towards a simpler organization that delivers more flexibility with less complexity, more value with less waste, and more purpose with less prescription. Targeted to anyone involved in large-scale development, Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS, offers straight-to-the-point guides for how to be agile at scale, with LeSS. It will clearly guide you to Adopt LeSS Structure a large development organization for customer value Clarify the role of management and Scrum Master Define what your product is, and why Be a great Product Owner Work with multiple whole-product focused feature teams in one Sprint that produces a shippable product Coordinate and integrate between teams Work with multi-site teams
  agile product management with scrum: Agile Project Management Andy Vickler, 2021-06-05 The Kanban paradigm of project management is getting more and more popular, and this book aims to bring people ahead of the curve and understand a concept that very soon may take over the industry. People entering the professional industry are always bombarded with confusing words that are hard to get their minds around, but it's important to know those terms to survive and thrive in the corporate world. In this book you'll discover... - Simple and easy to understand terminology that steers clear of jargon so you won't struggle to understand the fundamental concepts and you'll be able to apply them instantly. - A simple, detail-oriented layout. Even individuals without a background in project management will be able to understand it and learn from it. - A step-by-step approach. The topics are divided into segments, and each latter segment is built upon the concept learned in the previous one to provide cohesion to the learning process. - Real-life test cases and examples that will be helpful once you start applying Kanban in your office or workspace. Topics include: - Kanban principles and practices - Tools for efficient Kanban processes - Implementing and transitioning to Kanban - Combining Kanban with other methodologies - The future of Kanban and much more! By the time you complete this book, you will be set to be a Kanban project manager or work in a Kanban working environment. This book will also open other dimensions of study and introspection that you can further enhance your knowledge and expertise on the subject of Kanban and of project management methodologies.
  agile product management with scrum: Scaling Software Agility Dean Leffingwell, 2007-02-26 “Companies have been implementing large agile projects for a number of years, but the ‘stigma’ of ‘agile only works for small projects’ continues to be a frequent barrier for newcomers and a rallying cry for agile critics. What has been missing from the agile literature is a solid, practical book on the specifics of developing large projects in an agile way. Dean Leffingwell’s book Scaling Software Agility fills this gap admirably. It offers a practical guide to large project issues such as architecture, requirements development, multi-level release planning, and team organization. Leffingwell’s book is a necessary guide for large projects and large organizations making the transition to agile development.” —Jim Highsmith, director, Agile Practice, Cutter Consortium, author of Agile Project Management “There’s tension between building software fast and delivering software that lasts, between being ultra-responsive to changes in the market and maintaining a degree of stability. In his latest work, Scaling Software Agility, Dean Leffingwell shows how to achieve a pragmatic balance among these forces. Leffingwell’s observations of the problem, his advice on the solution, and his description of the resulting best practices come from experience: he’s been there, done that, and has seen what’s worked.” —Grady Booch, IBM Fellow Agile development practices, while still controversial in some circles, offer undeniable benefits: faster time to market, better responsiveness to changing customer requirements, and higher quality. However, agile practices have been defined and recommended primarily to small teams. In Scaling Software Agility, Dean Leffingwell describes how agile methods can be applied to enterprise-class development. Part I provides an overview of the most common and effective agile methods. Part II describes seven best practices of agility that natively scale to the enterprise level. Part III describes an additional set of seven organizational capabilities that companies can master to achieve the full benefits of software agility on an enterprise scale. This book is invaluable to software developers, testers and QA personnel, managers and team leads, as well as to executives of software organizations whose objective is to increase the quality and productivity of the software development process but who are faced with all the challenges of developing software on an enterprise scale.
  agile product management with scrum: Get Agile! Pieter Jongerius, 2013-03-26 Scrum introduction, advanced skills and everyday handbook in one.
  agile product management with scrum: Agile Product Management Paul VII, 2016-11-04 Agile Product Management Just Got Easier Thank you and congratulations on taking this class, Scrum Product Owner: 21 Tips for Working with your Scrum Master.In this class, you will be given a complete set of tips for maximizing and improving your working relationship with your Scrum Master. This will in turn boost the productivity of yourself and your Scrum Master as part of an agile scrum team. In this class I give you a concise overview of the Product Owner and Scrum Master roles to avoid any confusion. I then give you examples of what to expect and not to expect from your Scrum Master. Following this I teach you about common issues that arise in scrum teams between the Scrum Master and Product Owner and give you tips on how to resolve them. As usual, I give you plenty of examples and best practices along the way. In this class, you will learn: A brief recap of agile and scrum principles A comparison of the duties of the Product Owner and a Scrum Master What to expect and not to expect from a Scrum Master on the job How to deal with common issues or points of conflict between a Scrum Master and a Product Owner Concise tips for getting the most out of the working relationship with your Scrum Master So let us get started right away, so you can improve working with your Scrum Master now! Introduction Thank you and congratulations on taking this class, Product Management: 21 tips to create and manage the Product Backlog. In this class, you will be given a multitude of proven tips to manage your product backlog as part of an agile scrum team. I know you will get value from this class as it gives you a full introduction to the concept of the product backlog. I then walk you step by step through the steps involved in managing a backlog. Following this, I give you tips for improving product backlog management in your team or business from the ground up. Along the way, I give you plenty of examples and give you best practices for product backlog management within agile scrum. In this class, you will learn: A brief recap of agile and scrum principles What is a product backlog and how is it different from traditional requirements documents How to create a product backlog from a product vision What user stories are and how they are simpler for managing requirements Concise techniques for improving your product backlog management So let's get started and let me teach you how to improve product backlog management. Scroll Up To The Top Of The Page And Click The Orange Buy Now or Read For Free Icon On The Right Side!
  agile product management with scrum: User Story Mapping Jeff Patton, Peter Economy, 2014-09-05 User story mapping is a valuable tool for software development, once you understand why and how to use it. This insightful book examines how this often misunderstood technique can help your team stay focused on users and their needs without getting lost in the enthusiasm for individual product features. Author Jeff Patton shows you how changeable story maps enable your team to hold better conversations about the project throughout the development process. Your team will learn to come away with a shared understanding of what you’re attempting to build and why. Get a high-level view of story mapping, with an exercise to learn key concepts quickly Understand how stories really work, and how they come to life in Agile and Lean projects Dive into a story’s lifecycle, starting with opportunities and moving deeper into discovery Prepare your stories, pay attention while they’re built, and learn from those you convert to working software
  agile product management with scrum: EMPOWERED Marty Cagan, 2020-12-03 Great teams are comprised of ordinary people that are empowered and inspired. They are empowered to solve hard problems in ways their customers love yet work for their business. They are inspired with ideas and techniques for quickly evaluating those ideas to discover solutions that work: they are valuable, usable, feasible and viable. This book is about the idea and reality of achieving extraordinary results from ordinary people. Empowered is the companion to Inspired. It addresses the other half of the problem of building tech products?how to get the absolute best work from your product teams. However, the book's message applies much more broadly than just to product teams. Inspired was aimed at product managers. Empowered is aimed at all levels of technology-powered organizations: founders and CEO's, leaders of product, technology and design, and the countless product managers, product designers and engineers that comprise the teams. This book will not just inspire companies to empower their employees but will teach them how. This book will help readers achieve the benefits of truly empowered teams--
  agile product management with scrum: Practical Product Management for Product Owners Chris Lukassen, Robbin Schuurman, 2023-03-10 Hone Agile Product Owner Behaviors that Lead to Marketplace Winners Organizations pour vast resources into building new products and services. Yet too many are poorly conceived, don't delight (or even satisfy) customers, and fail in the marketplace. The solution is more effective agile product ownership and product management. This book is an expert guide to the behaviors, stances, and practices of world-class agile product development, reflecting deep in-the-trenches experience from world-renowned experts. Chris Lukassen and Robbin Schuurman introduce powerful tools, ideas, and skills for delivering superior products and services, and for avoiding pitfalls that keep you from seeing what customers really need and want. Learn through a start-to-finish, Scrum-based case study, drawing on concepts the authors created for their breakthrough Scrum.org Professional Scrum Product Owner-Advanced (PSPO-A) training course. This innovative approach has already helped thousands of product owners excel--and it can transform the way you create products. Replace negative product owner behaviors with approaches that lead to excellence Represent customers more empathetically and effectively Connect customers, values, and features more coherently Tell better stories, set clearer goals, and create more valuable roadmaps Innovate business models, run better experiments, and scale products more successfully Make more successful decisions, involve the right people, and rely on better data Become a great agile collaborator, across governance, budgeting, contracting, and beyond Influence customers, users, stakeholders, and teams to improve your overall effectiveness Optimize every organizational role related to product ownership Product owners, managers, and team leads will find this guide indispensable along with Agile/Scrum coaches, consultants, and executives wanting to generate more value from product management across the organization.
  agile product management with scrum: Agile Product Management Paul VII, 2016-11-04 Agile Product Management Just Got Easier Introduction Thank you and congratulations on taking this class, Scrum Product Owner: 21 Tips for Working with your Scrum Master.In this class, you will be given a complete set of tips for maximizing and improving your working relationship with your Scrum Master. This will in turn boost the productivity of yourself and your Scrum Master as part of an agile scrum team. In this class I give you a concise overview of the Product Owner and Scrum Master roles to avoid any confusion. I then give you examples of what to expect and not to expect from your Scrum Master. Following this I teach you about common issues that arise in scrum teams between the Scrum Master and Product Owner and give you tips on how to resolve them. As usual, I give you plenty of examples and best practices along the way. In this class, you will learn: A brief recap of agile and scrum principles A comparison of the duties of the Product Owner and a Scrum Master What to expect and not to expect from a Scrum Master on the job How to deal with common issues or points of conflict between a Scrum Master and a Product Owner Concise tips for getting the most out of the working relationship with your Scrum Master So let us get started right away, so you can improve working with your Scrum Master now! Introduction Thank you and congratulations on taking this class, User Stories: How to capture, and manage requirements for Agile Product Management and Business Analysis with Scrum. In this class, you will be given proven methods to create, maintain and manage your requirements using user stories as part of an agile scrum team. I know you will get value from this class as it gives you a full introduction to the concept of agile user stories for managing product requirements. I then walk you step by step through everything involved in managing requirements using user stories including writing, combining and splitting complex user stories. Following this, I give you a complete overview of epics and themes and how they can be used to capture and group complex requirements in any team or business. Along the way, I give you plenty of examples and give you best practices for working with user stories within agile scrum. In this class, you will learn: What User Stories are and why they are so powerful for capturing requirements in complex projects Feel confident in writing user stories for any project Understand what a Requirements Spec is and Why they are less flexible than a Product Backlog built with Agile User Stories Explain what The Three Rs rule, Acceptance Criteria, the INVEST Principle, the Three Cs principle and Edge Cases are and how they will make you a better user story writer or agile practitioner Understand how and when to split and amalgamate stories Learn techniques to help you to split user stories when working in the real world Understand the difference between Epics and Themes and when each is used Learn who is responsible for writing user stories in agile and scrum So let's get started and let me teach you how to improve product backlog management. Scroll Up To The Top Of The Page And Click The Orange Buy Now or Read For Free Icon On The Right Side!
  agile product management with scrum: The Scrum Field Guide Mitch Lacey, 2012 Thousands of IT professionals are being asked to make Scrum succeed in their organizations-including many who weren't involved in the decision to adopt it. If you're one of them, The Scrum Field Guide will give you skills and confidence to adopt Scrum more rapidly, more successfully, and with far less pain and fear. Long-time Scrum practitioner Mitch Lacey identifies major challenges associated with early-stage Scrum adoption, as well as deeper issues that emerge after companies have adopted Scrum, and describes how other organizations have overcome them. You'll learn how to gain quick wins that build support, and then use the flexibility of Scrum to maximize value creation across the entire process. In 30 brief, engaging chapters, Lacey guides you through everything from defining roles to setting priorities to determining team velocity, choosing a sprint length, and conducting customer reviews. Along the way, he explains why Scrum can seem counterintuitive, offers a solid grounding in the core agile concepts that make it work, and shows where it can (and shouldn't) be modified. Coverage includes Getting teams on board, and bringing new team members aboard after you've started Creating a definition of done for the team and organization Implementing the strong technical practices that are indispensable for agile success Balancing predictability and adaptability in release planning Keeping defects in check Running productive daily standup meetings Keeping people engaged with pair programming Managing culture clashes on Scrum teams Performing emergency procedures to get sprints back on track Establishing a pace your team can truly sustain Accurately costing projects, and measuring the value they deliver Documenting Scrum projects effectively Prioritizing and estimating large backlogs Integrating outsourced and offshored components Packed with real-world examples from Lacey's own experience, this book is invaluable to everyone transitioning to agile: developers, architects, testers, managers, and project owners alike.
  agile product management with scrum: ADKAR Jeff Hiatt, 2006 In his first complete text on the ADKAR model, Jeff Hiatt explains the origin of the model and explores what drives each building block of ADKAR. Learn how to build awareness, create desire, develop knowledge, foster ability and reinforce changes in your organization. The ADKAR Model is changing how we think about managing the people side of change, and provides a powerful foundation to help you succeed at change.
  agile product management with scrum: Deliver Great Products That Customers Love Valerio Zanini, 2018-10-10 Great products are built upon the three pillars of strong customer focus, a culture of agility, and team empowerment. This book explains how to drive product innovation and deliver products that customers love. It's a guide for innovators, leaders, and entrepreneurs, and it includes several interviews with startup CEOs and real-life use cases.
  agile product management with scrum: The Enterprise and Scrum Ken Schwaber, 2007-06-13 It’s time to extend the benefits of Scrum—greater agility, higher-quality products, and lower costs—from individual teams to your entire enterprise. However, with Scrum’s lack of prescribed rules, the friction of change can be challenging as people struggle to break from old project management habits. In this book, agile-process revolution leader Ken Schwaber takes you through change management—for your organizational and interpersonal processes—explaining how to successfully adopt Scrum across your entire organization. A cofounder of Scrum, Ken draws from decades of experience, answering your questions through case studies of proven practices and processes. With them, you’ll learn how to adopt—and adapt—Scrum in the enterprise. And gain profound levels of transparency into your development processes. Discover how to: Evaluate the benefits of adopting Scrum in any size organization Initiate an enterprise transition project Implement a single, prioritized Product Backlog Organize effective Scrum teams using a top-down approach Adapt and apply solutions for integrating engineering practices across multiple teams Shorten release times by managing high-value increments Refine your Scrum practices and help reduce the length of Sprints
  agile product management with scrum: Software Product Management Hans-Bernd Kittlaus, Samuel A. Fricker, 2017-05-23 This book gives a comprehensive overview on Software Product Management (SPM) for beginners as well as best practices, methodology and in-depth discussions for experienced product managers. This includes product strategy, product planning, participation in strategic management activities and orchestration of the functional units of the company. The book is based on the results of the International Software Product Management Association (ISPMA) which is led by a group of SPM experts from industry and research with the goal to foster software product management excellence across industries. This book can be used as textbook for ISPMA-based education and as guide for anybody interested in SPM as one of the most exciting and challenging disciplines in the business of software. Hans-Bernd Kittlaus is the Chairman of ISPMA and owner and managing director of InnoTivum Consulting, Germany. Samuel Fricker is Board Member of ISPMA and Professor at FHNW, Switzerland.
  agile product management with scrum: Agile Product Management Paul VII, 2016-10-18 Product Owner - Your job Just Got Easier Introduction Thank you and congratulations on taking this class, Agile Product Management: Product Manager vsScrum Product Owner. When you have taken this class, you will understand the similarities and differences between traditional Product Management and Scrum Product Ownership. In order to develop a product from original concept to working model, many factors must be taken into consideration. Clients and stakeholders might have a clear idea of what they want and when they want it. In such cases, it is the product owner's responsibility to clarify all of the details and enable the development team to generate the final product as quickly and inexpensively as possible. If the client and stakeholders are not as certain about what it is that they want, the product owner has the added responsibilities of helping them to figure out what they want and articulating this to the developers. In each segment of a development project the roles and responsibilities of product managers and product owners differ substantially. In each class, we will examine a component of product development and identify the different ways that these two roles approach them. In this class you will learn: An overview of the two product development methods How to manage requirements as a product owner as opposed to a traditional product manager How to plan a project as a product owner versus a traditional product manager How to schedule a project as a product owner as opposed to a traditional product manager Common methods for budgeting a project as a product owner versus that of a traditional product manager Tips for becoming a product owner in your team or business Now, let us move forward and let me help you to learn the differences between a traditional product manager and a scrum product owner. Introduction Thank you and congratulations on taking this class, Product Management: 21 tips to create and manage the Product Backlog. In this class, you will be given a multitude of proven tips to manage your product backlog as part of an agile scrum team. I know you will get value from this class as it gives you a full introduction to the concept of the product backlog. I then walk you step by step through the steps involved in managing a backlog. Following this, I give you tips for improving product backlog management in your team or business from the ground up. Along the way, I give you plenty of examples and give you best practices for product backlog management within agile scrum. In this class, you will learn: A brief recap of agile and scrum principles What is a product backlog and how is it different from traditional requirements documents How to create a product backlog from a product vision What user stories are and how they are simpler for managing requirements Concise techniques for improving your product backlog management So let's get started and let me teach you how to improve product backlog management. Scroll Up To The Top Of The Page And Click The Orange Buy Now or Read For Free Icon On The Right Side!
  agile product management with scrum: Escaping the Build Trap Melissa Perri, 2018-11-01 To stay competitive in today’s market, organizations need to adopt a culture of customer-centric practices that focus on outcomes rather than outputs. Companies that live and die by outputs often fall into the build trap, cranking out features to meet their schedule rather than the customer’s needs. In this book, Melissa Perri explains how laying the foundation for great product management can help companies solve real customer problems while achieving business goals. By understanding how to communicate and collaborate within a company structure, you can create a product culture that benefits both the business and the customer. You’ll learn product management principles that can be applied to any organization, big or small. In five parts, this book explores: Why organizations ship features rather than cultivate the value those features represent How to set up a product organization that scales How product strategy connects a company’s vision and economic outcomes back to the product activities How to identify and pursue the right opportunities for producing value through an iterative product framework How to build a culture focused on successful outcomes over outputs
  agile product management with scrum: Agile Product Management Paul VII, 2016-07-10 Introduction Thank you and congratulations on taking this class, User Stories: How to capture, and manage requirements for Agile Product Management and Business Analysis with Scrum.In this class, you will be given proven methods to create, maintain and manage your requirements using user stories as part of an agile scrum team.I know you will get value from this class as it gives you a full introduction to the concept of agile user stories for managing product requirements. I then walk you step by step through everything involved in managing requirements using user stories including writing, combining and splitting complex user stories. Following this, I give you a complete overview of epics and themes and how they can be used to capture and group complex requirements in any team or business. Along the way, I give you plenty of examples and give you best practices for working with user stories within agile scrum. In this class, you will learn:* What User Stories are and why they are so powerful for capturing requirements in complex projects* Feel confident in writing user stories for any project* Understand what a Requirements Spec is and Why they are less flexible than a Product Backlog built with Agile User Stories* Explain what The Three Rs rule, Acceptance Criteria, the INVEST Principle, the Three Cs principle and Edge Cases are and how they will make you a better user story writer or agile practitioner* Understand how and when to split and amalgamate stories* Learn techniques to help you to split user stories when working in the real world Table of ContentsAgile Product Management: User Stories: How to Capture Requirements for Agile Product Management and Business Analysis with ScrumIntroductionSECTION 1: The World Before User Stories (why do we need user stories anyway)...................................................1The History: Traditional Requirements Documents..........1Intro to Scrum and The Birth of User Stories.....................4What is Agile Scrum? ..........................................................4Scrum Theory.......................................................................6Product Backlog.................................................................16SECTION 2: User Story Principles.....................................22The INVEST Principle........................................................22The Three Cs Formula........................................................25SECTION 3: User Story basics (capturing a requirement) .............................................................................................29How to write a User Story Description (using The Three Rs) ......................................................................................29Who writes user stories? ...................................................29User Stories - The Three Rs..............................................29How to write Acceptance Criteria (capturing the detail and any edge cases) ...................................................................31Acceptance Criteria.............................................................31SECTION 4: Epics and Themes (capturing large or vague requirements) ....................................................................35What is an Epic? ................................................................35What is a Theme? ...............................................................37When to split user stories...................................................39How to split User stories.....................................................41BONUS: Example Backlog.................................................49Final Words........................................................................50Conclusion..........................................................................53Free Scrum Ebook..............................................................54Preview of ''The Scrum Master Mega Pack''........................55Check Out My Other Books............................................60 Scroll Up To The Top Of The Page And Click The Orange Buy Now or Read For Free Icon On The Right Side!
  agile product management with scrum: Agile Product Management Paul VII, 2018-09-15 Agile Product Management Just Got Easier Introduction Thank you and congratulations on taking this class, User Stories: How to capture, and manage requirements for Agile Product Management and Business Analysis with Scrum. In this class, you will be given proven methods to create, maintain and manage your requirements using user stories as part of an agile scrum team. I know you will get value from this class as it gives you a full introduction to the concept of agile user stories for managing product requirements. I then walk you step by step through everything involved in managing requirements using user stories including writing, combining and splitting complex user stories. Following this, I give you a complete overview of epics and themes and how they can be used to capture and group complex requirements in any team or business. Along the way, I give you plenty of examples and give you best practices for working with user stories within agile scrum. In this class, you will learn: - What User Stories are and why they are so powerful for capturing requirements in complex projects - Feel confident in writing user stories for any project - Understand what a Requirements Spec is and Why they are less flexible than a Product Backlog built with Agile User Stories - Explain what The Three Rs rule, Acceptance Criteria, the INVEST Principle, the Three Cs principle and Edge Cases are and how they will make you a better user story writer or agile practitioner - Understand how and when to split and amalgamate stories - Learn techniques to help you to split user stories when working in the real world - Understand the difference between Epics and Themes and when each is used - Learn who is responsible for writing user stories in agile and scrum So let's get started and let me teach you how to improve product backlog management. Introduction Thank you and congratulations on taking this class, Scrum: A Cleverly Concise and Agile Guide. In this class, you will be given an exceedingly concise guide yet still a wealth of information to allow you to fully understand how to use agile scrum. I know you will get value from thisas it contains the exact methods I have used to deliver projects on time and to a high degree of quality using scrum. I then walk you step by step through the key rules, roles and events used in scrum so that you have an excellent foundation. In this class, you will learn: - Learn what scrum is and why it is so powerful for delivering even the most complex project on time. - Explain the difference between roles, events and artifacts - Understand techniques to deliver your project on time - Explain the difference between Agile and Scrum - Explain what the Waterfall Model is and Why it is less flexible than Agile So let's get started and let me help you to understand and use agile scrum. Scroll Up To The Top Of The Page And Click The Orange Buy Now or Read For Free Icon On The Right Side!
  agile product management with scrum: Agile Project Management Jim Highsmith, 2009-07-10 Best practices for managing projects in agile environments—now updated with new techniques for larger projects Today, the pace of project management moves faster. Project management needs to become more flexible and far more responsive to customers. Using Agile Project Management (APM), project managers can achieve all these goals without compromising value, quality, or business discipline. In Agile Project Management, Second Edition, renowned agile pioneer Jim Highsmith thoroughly updates his classic guide to APM, extending and refining it to support even the largest projects and organizations. Writing for project leaders, managers, and executives at all levels, Highsmith integrates the best project management, product management, and software development practices into an overall framework designed to support unprecedented speed and mobility. The many topics added in this new edition include incorporating agile values, scaling agile projects, release planning, portfolio governance, and enhancing organizational agility. Project and business leaders will especially appreciate Highsmith’s new coverage of promoting agility through performance measurements based on value, quality, and constraints. This edition’s coverage includes: Understanding the agile revolution’s impact on product development Recognizing when agile methods will work in project management, and when they won’t Setting realistic business objectives for Agile Project Management Promoting agile values and principles across the organization Utilizing a proven Agile Enterprise Framework that encompasses governance, project and iteration management, and technical practices Optimizing all five stages of the agile project: Envision, Speculate, Explore, Adapt, and Close Organizational and product-related processes for scaling agile to the largest projects and teams Agile project governance solutions for executives and management The “Agile Triangle”: measuring performance in ways that encourage agility instead of discouraging it The changing role of the agile project leader
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This book offers compelling agile product management theories and practices that guide product owners, Scrum team members, and executives in delivering innovations.

Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products that …
The book provides clear guidance and rich examples on how to become an agile product manager and a successful prod-uct owner, and, further, how to lead with a strong vision. This book is a must read for product managers new to Scrum, product owners new to product management, and any product manager who wants to get the most out of Agile.”.

A Lightweight Guide to the Theory and Practice of Scrum
Scrum packages proven product-development concepts in a simple framework, including: real teams, cross-functional teams, self-managing teams, short iterative full-cycle feedback loops, and lowering the cost of change. These concepts increase agility and feedback, enable earlier ROI, and reduce risk.

Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process
This chapter provides an overview of the Scrum framework with a primary focus on its practices, including roles, activities, and artifacts. Subsequent chapters will pro-vide a deeper treatment of each of these practices, including an in-depth look at the principles that underlie the practices.

SCRUM in Agile - Scrum Alliance
Scrum consists of 3 roles: product owner, ScrumMaster, and development team/engineering team. Roles and responsibilities of each role will be elaborated in the following sections. Scrum uses fixed-‐length iterations called sprints ranging from one Week four weeks (or 30 days long).

AGILE PLAYBOOK - Agile Alliance
8 Dec 2018 · best. We use Scrum, Kanban, waterfall, spiral, and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), as well as hybrid approaches. But we embrace agile as our default approach, and Scrum speci «cally as our foundational method, if it ts the scope and nature of the work. + One team, multiple focuses. Throughout this playbook, we explicitly

Mastering the Product Backlog A Comprehensive Guide to Agile …
A product backlog is a prioritized list of tasks, features, enhancements, and fixes that serve as a comprehensive repository for all the requirements for a product in various stages of development. It's a core component of agile project management …

Agile Project Management with Scrum - pearsoncmg.com
We simulate vehicle behavior during car design to discover the best slope of the hood and best distribution of weight. Virtually all process-improvement programs use some version of the Deming cycle to study a problem, experiment with a solution, measure the results, and adopt proven improvements.

Agile Project Management 101 - Smartsheet
In this e-book, we’ll take a look at the Agile project management philosophy. We’ll give an overview of the top Agile methods, provide the advantages and disadvantages of each, and tell you how you can get started implementing Agile practices to ensure your next project is a success. Everyone manages projects whether they’re a certified

The Agile Requirements Refinery: Applying SCRUM Principles to …
describe in which way software product management can be performed in a SCRUM development context. The research described in this paper proposes an agile SPM method based on SCRUM, which improves the ability to handle large-scale requirements in an agile environment. Furthermore, a case study was performed at a product software company located

Introduction to Scrum - The Agile Director
THE AGILE MANIFESTO. The “Agile Software Development Manifesto” was developed in February 2001, by representatives from many of the fledgling “agile” processes such as Scrum, DSDM, and XP. The manifesto is a set of 4 values and 12 …

INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL AGILE PRODUCT OWNER FOUNDATION - Scrum
The Product Owner is responsible for ensuring clear communication of product or service functionality requirements to the Scrum Team, defining Acceptance Criteria, and ensuring those criteria are met.

The Scrum Guide
The Scrum Master serves the Product Owner in several ways, including: Finding techniques for effective Product Backlog management; Helping the Scrum Team understand the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items;