The Agile Fundamentals – Part 12
The product owner
The product owner is the owner of the product as the name implies. The product owner “maximises the value of the product and the work of the development team”. He is the only responsible person for the product and the product backlog. He has the vision of the product. He is the connection point between the development team, customers and the rest of the organization and communicates with different groups engaged in the product. Hence, communication is an important aspect of this role. He guarantees the visibility and transparency of the product backlog items and makes sure that they are clear to all team members. Having a product owner as the single point of information helps the team focusing on their direction. He is also the single point of responsibility for the product in the eyes of the rest of the organization.
The Product owner identifies and creates the product backlog items and maintains the product backlog over the evolution of the product. He is also responsible for product backlog prioritisation consisting of splitting and prioritizing user stories before sprint planning session. He must have some idea of the value of each story, as well as the size. In this regard, he takes the feedback from development team for a more accurate estimation. The Product owner continuously talks to the team to find out what they think of user stories in product backlog, in terms of implementation effort, satisfying the first value of Agile manifesto (valuing individuals and interactions over processes and tools). Though the product owner is responsible for the product backlog items, it is the development team who estimates the implementation effort for each item, thus the autonomy of the team is satisfied. For continuous and early delivery of the software, he splits the stories into pieces. Then he priorities the user stories for the development team based on the defined importance metrics such as business value or risk.
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This ‘Master of Agile – Agile Scrum Developer With 59 Seconds Agile (Video Training Course)’ provides an in-depth understanding of the Agile Scrum Developer roles and responsibilities
You will explore the Agile Scrum project life-cycle, including how an Agile User Story is created, to how we know when it is ‘done’
This course is aimed at those with or without prior knowledge and experience of the Agile values and principles
During this course you will learn the tools needed to succeed as an Agile Scrum Developer
What will you learn?
You will gain an in-depth understanding of the Agile Scrum Developer roles and responsibilities, and you will be able to
- Fully understand the role of the Agile Scrum Developer
- Understand the roles involved in an Agile project
- Create an effective Product Backlog
- Effectively participate in Scrum Meetings such as the Daily Stand-up, Sprint Review and Retrospective
- Identify the roles involves in the Scrum Team
What topics are covered within this course
You will cover the following topics during this course:
- An Introduction to Agile Project Management (Developer)
- The 12 Agile Principles (Developer)
- Introduction to Scrum (Developer)
- Scrum Project Roles (Developer)
- The Agile Project Life-cycle (Developer)
- Acceptance Criteria and the Prioritised Product Backlog (Developer)
- Initiating an Agile Project (Developer)
- Forming the Scrum Team (Developer)
- Epics and Personas (Developer)
- User Stories and Tasks (Developer)
- Implementation of Scrum (Developer)
- The Daily Scrum (Developer)
- The Product Backlog (Developer)
- Scrum Charts (Developer)
- Review and Retrospective (Developer)
- Validating a Sprint (Developer)
- Retrospective Sprint (Developer)
- Releasing the Product (Developer)
- The Communication Plan (Developer)
- Formal Business Sign-off (Developer)
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