If you wonder what a Scrum Product Owner need to do, here’s the checklist (in form of a mind map) for you!
“As a, I want, So that” Considered Harmful
If you are working on an agile project, it is almost certain that you are using Stories to describe your backlog of work. It is another near-certainty that if you are using Stories, you write them down using this format:
“As a <user or stakeholder type>
I want <some software feature>
So that <some business value>”
As someone who cares about the state of agile practice, I want to offer some alternatives, so that agile teams remember that the point of the story is in the telling, not the template. The shared understanding comes from the conversation, not the card. By offering you different ways to ‘tell’ the story in its short written form, I hope you will be able to re-ignite a greater level of meaning, interest and engagement in your team’s discussions about the work they are doing to build great software that matters to people.
Agile Product Ownership in a nutshell
This is basically a 1 day product ownership course compressed into a 15 minute animated presentation.
Over a million views! Some call it “The best 15 minutes on the Internet” 🙂
There’s obviously more to product ownership than this, so see this is a high level summary.
- Here’s the complete drawing (.png format)
- Here’s a downloadable version of the video, in case you don’t want to stream (.mov format, 90 Mb)
Special thanks to Alistair Cockburn, Tom & Mary Poppendieck, Jeff Patton, Ron Jeffries, Jeff Sutherland, and Michael Dubakov for providing many of the models, metaphors, and ideas that I use in this presentation.
Translations: (see also the translation guide by Cédric Chevalerias)
- Chinese – simplified (subtitles)
- Chinese – traditional (subtitles)
- French(subtitles)
- French (voice)
- German (subtitles)
- German(voice)
- Italian (voice)
- Japanese (subtitles)
- Polish (voice)
- Portuguese – Portugal (voice)
- Portuguese – Brazil (voice)
- Russian (voice)
- Spanish (subtitles)
Below is a full transcript in english. But I recommend watching the video instead of reading the transcript. The video is 100% visual, the transcript is 0% visual…