PO Links
Here is a link collection for those of you that have attended a Certified Product Owner class by Hans Brattberg and Reza Farhang.
The Product Owner Role
| Product Owner Checklist | A mind-map by Hans Brattberg that sums it up | http://blog.crisp.se/2015/03/27/hansbrattberg/a-scrum-product-owner-checklist |
| The evolving product manager role | Trends within the role of the PO | https://medium.com/@johnpcutler/the-evolving-product-manager-role-6f288bbc3cda |
| Product Owner in a nutshell | By our colleague Henrik Kniberg. Säger inget om innehållet men allt om hur man jobbar. |
http://blog.crisp.se/2012/10/25/henrikkniberg/agile-product-ownership-in-a-nutshell |
| Agil Podden #92 In Swedish |
A podcast by Hans & Reza | https://agilpodden.podbean.com/e/92-agil-produktagare/ |
| How, What, and Why | Ted talk for POs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4ZoJKF_VuA |
Scrum
| The official scrum guide | In a lot of different languages! | https://www.scrumguides.org/download.html |
| New changes in Scrum 2017 -> 2020 |
For those of you that already know scrum, but wants to know the newest changes | https://medium.com/serious-scrum/whats-new-in-the-2020-scrum-guide-update-6e346b9d788a |
| The Worst Daily Scrum Ever | Fun and inspring! | http://www.tobiasfors.se/worst-daily-scrum-ever/ |
| Bygga bilar med Scrum | Thought-provoking of Scrum and Hardware More in-depth
And a now one that show how Tesla does this |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8jdx-lf2Dw |
| What Makes Scrum Teams Effective? | Scientific research on what makes Scrum work | https://medium.com/the-liberators/what-makes-scrum-teams-effective-7ca9f56a82c7 |
Forums
| A Swedish Facebook forum for Product owners & agile coaches. | In Swedish | https://www.facebook.com/groups/2071273956517567 |
Book tip
| Overview of a lot of books | Lots of good books | https://www.delibr.com/post/visual-guide-to-the-best-books-on-product-management |
| Jennie Discovers | A comic book about how a PO could work In Swedish, English, German, and French |
https://leanpub.com/jennie_upptacker
https://leanpub.com/jenniediscovers |
| User Story Mapping by Jeff Patton | This is about Product Ownership in general, much more than User Story Mapping | https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/user-story-mapping/9781491904893/ |
| Epic Alignment | Free! | https://www.delibr.com/ebook |
| Flow av Donald Reinertsen | ”quite simply the most advanced product development book you can buy” A fantastic book even though it is a bit old. Still relevant! |
http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Product-Development-Flow-Generation-ebook/dp/B00K7OWG7O/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1415998230&sr=8-1&keywords=flow+donald |
| Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights |
Tips from our colleague Marcus Castenfors. | https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CEKR872/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 |
| A Zero Bug Policy | En pixi bok av vår kollega Yassal Sundman | https://leanpub.com/fixitnowordeleteit |
| Beyond Budgeting | Agila principer inom finnans och styrning. | https://www.adlibris.com/se/bok/implementing-beyond-budgeting-9781119152477 |
| Working effectively with legacy code | Några år på nacken men fortfarande väldigt relevant | https://www.bokus.com/bok/9780132931755/working-effectively-with-legacy-code/?source=googleps&gclid=CjwKCAjwhMmEBhBwEiwAXwFoER3_cCNFnpKEwFn9KOL3yHoWkgGp0Nn_UmRLFK319kxyRZ_VHbC5TxoCHmsQAvD_BwE |
| Non violent communication | Suveränt bok om hur man kan lära sig att uttrycka sig på ett sätt som göra att mottagaren inte hamnar i förstvars/konflikt mode. | https://www.adlibris.com/se/bok/nonviolent-communication-ett-sprak-for-livet-9789187489488?gclid=CjwKCAjwrPCGBhALEiwAUl9X0ysZ_JVfnA1WRMzHvDiK5DtHPQnBDN3m8n2fyGZ4UDZe-ZSAgtG7PRoCvD0QAvD_BwE |
| User Stories Applied – Mike Cohn | A basic book about User Stories | http://www.bokfynd.nu/0321205685.html |
| Don’t Make Me Think – Steve Krug | Has a great chapter on User Testing | http://www.bokfynd.nu/0321344758.html |
| Lean Analytics | How to measure your product | http://leananalyticsbook.com/ |
| How to measure anything | My favorite book about how to think to measure what you want to measure instead of measure what you can | http://www.hubbardresearch.com/publications/how-to-measure-anything-book/ |
| Scrum & XP from the Trenches – Henrik Kniberg | The de facto “standard” of how you used to do scrum 15 years ago. But with “directors cut” comments by the author. | https://www.crisp.se/bocker-och-produkter/scrum-and-xp-from-the-trenches |
| Prioritera, fokusera, leverera – Hans Brattberg, Tomas Björkholm | A book by me, Hans that you can use as an encyclopedia, in Swedish | https://www.crisp.se/bocker-och-produkter/prioritera-fokusera-leverera |
| Kanban and Scrum – Henrik Kniberg, Mattias Skarin | Combine Kanban and Scrum, they solve similar problems! | http://www.infoq.com/minibooks/kanban-scrum-minibook |
Goal goals goals
| Product goals in Scrum | https://www.romanpichler.com/blog/product-goals-in-scrum/ | |
| Produkt goal with a Canvas | A more extensive one than the shorter we used in the training | https://www.romanpichler.com/blog/the-product-canvas/ |
| Sprint goals | Template with instructions | https://www.romanpichler.com/blog/effective-sprint-goals/ |
| Hoshi Kanri X matrix | The Japanese version of OKRs | http://www.shmula.com/hoshin-kanri-x-matrix-template-for-lean-policy-deployment/13775/ |
| How to measure anything, by Douglas W. Hubbard | A youtube video introduction to one of my favorite books /Hans | https://youtu.be/w4fHGTsZZD8 |
Outcome vs Output
| Great Product Managers are “Outcome Thinkers” | This is how a PO should think and work | https://productcoalition.com/great-product-managers-are-outcome-thinkers-66fa5d69cfac |
| 12 Signs You’re Working in a Feature Factory | Not like this 🙂 | https://hackernoon.com/12-signs-youre-working-in-a-feature-factory-44a5b938d6a2 |
Discovery – Experiment, assumptions, and prototypes
| Martins MVP/Rat guide | Different types of experiments that you should do to validate your assumptions | https://www.crisp.se/ratguide |
| The Agile Inception Deck | When starting on something new bigger thing | https://agilewarrior.wordpress.com/2010/11/06/the-agile-inception-deck/ |
| Prototype tools | User Interface prototypes that users dare to give feedback on | https://balsamiq.com/ |
| Prototypverktyg | Another tool | https://marvelapp.com/ |
| Agile Contracts | If you outsource your development or are the target of an outsourcing | https://www.agilesoftwaredevelopment.com/posts/10-agile-contracts/ |
| Agile Contracts, Swedish | A whole site dedicated to the topic, in Swedish | https://agilakontrakt.se/ |
DoR och DoD
| Definition of Ready – DoR | Part 1 | https://xebia.com/blog/the-definition-of-ready/ |
| Part 2 | https://xebia.com/blog/flow-to-ready-iterate-to-done/ | |
| Definition of Done – DoD | Understanding Definition of Done | https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/done-understanding-definition-done?gclid=Cj0KCQiAys2MBhDOARIsAFf1D1eBsFtQQbnqjJMlrG7nKfRG-Ilp4efL5Ts_q289ThAaZ0xpo7TwC5UaApenEALw_wcB |
Ordering and Prioritization
| Different strategies in how to prioritize between features | http://www.productplan.com/strategies-prioritize-product-features/ |
Slicing
| Slicing | Different slicing strategies, a poster. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N8HqYyGHx-loHCtWQ-ZY9f3eRDKlgSWh/view |
| MVP – Minimal Valuable Product | By our colleague Henrik Kniberg | https://blog.crisp.se/2016/01/25/henrikkniberg/making-sense-of-mvp |
| Slicing Agile Requirement for Success | Different dimensions of slicing | http://www.ebgconsulting.com/Pubs/Articles/SlicingRequirementsForAgileSuccess_Gottesdiener-Gorman_August2010.pdf |
| How to split user stories | And another one | http://agileforall.com/new-story-splitting-resource/ |
| More inspiration | And yet another one | https://xp123.com/articles/twenty-ways-to-split-stories/ |
User Stories, User Story Map, Road Map
| User Story | https://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/agile/user-stories | |
| User Story Mapping | From Jeff Patton, the creator of User Story Map |
https://www.jpattonassociates.com/story-mapping/ |
| Story map online tool | I use User Story Map as a Road map + Keynote with release targets /Hans | http://storiesonboard.com/ |
| User Story Map Workshop | How to run a WS | http://jpattonassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/story_mapping.pdf |
| Personas | Introduction | https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/personas-why-and-how-you-should-use-them |
Stakeholder
| Stakeholder analysis | Are you new to your job? Or thinking about who to listen to and who to ignore? | What is Stakeholder Analysis? | Definition and Overview |
| Agile contracts In Swedish |
Contracts that foster cooperation instead of requirement lists.
Can be used internally in organizations too. |
http://agilakontrakt.se/ |
Communication
| Different types of communications | Av Alistair Cockburn, en av de ursprungliga Agile Manifesto deltagarna | http://www.agilemodeling.com/essays/communication.htm#:~:text=Modes%20of%20Communication.,%2C%20paper%2C%20or%20index%20cards. |
| Willo’s law | How all human communication fails, except by accident, | https://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/wiio.html |
| Non-violent communication | Youtube intro to the book. How to communicate to avoid conflicts just by using the wrong words. One of my favorite topics 🙂 /Hans |
Youtube intro, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgaeHeIL39Y Bok, http://www.adlibris.com/se/bok/nonviolent-communication-ett-sprak-for-livet-9789187489327 |
Verktyg
| Distance – Mural | A shared tool for collaboration | https://www.mural.co/ |
| Distance – Miro | Another one. I prefer Mural, due to it is not perfect, which fosters communication. Miro has a tendency to look too good /Hans |
https://miro.com/ |
| Distance – Google docs | This document is written in this tool | https://www.google.com/docs/about/ |
| Sharpies, a Swedish store | Excellent pens for writing on post-it notes | https://penstore.se/sharpie/fine-marker |
| Post-it, Swedish store | Super Sticky | https://www.officedepot.se/produkter/papper-block-2334/notisar-2502/post-it-super-sticky-gul-76-x-76-mm-12-st-fp-2631260 |
Estimation
| Blink Estimation | A quick and fairly accurate estimation of bigger projects and modules | http://dannorth.net/2013/08/08/blink-estimation/ |
| Bucket Estimation | How to estimate really large backlogs | https://blog.crisp.se/2018/06/03/mathiasholmgren/bucket-estimation-how-to-estimate-a-really-large-backlog |
| Time vs Story point estimation | Why Story points usually work better | https://blog.crisp.se/2014/04/23/perlundholm/time-vs-story-points-estimation |
Scrum scale to multiple teams
| Doing Scrum with Multiple Teams: Comparing Scaling Frameworks | A comparison between different scaling frameworks, by Hans and a few more | http://blog.crisp.se/2017/03/12/tomasbjorkholm/doing-scrum-with-multiple-teams-comparing-scaling-frameworks |
| Scaling Agile @ Spotify | By our colleague Henrik Kniberg |
https://blog.crisp.se/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/SpotifyScaling.pdf |
| SAFe
Learnings from SAFe @ LEGO |
By our colleague Mattias Skarin | https://vimeo.com/146522457 |
Exercises and Workshops
Leadership
| Drive | What really motivates us | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc |
| How great leaders inspire action, How, why, what | Reza’s favorite |
https://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action |
| How to get rid of time reports | A fun and inspiring blog | https://www.scruminc.com/henrik-kniberg-on-time-reports/ |
| How Crisp works | How we run our business without bosses | https://dna.crisp.se |
Scrum Master things
| Retro Wiki | Some way to run your retros | http://retrospectivewiki.org/index.php?title=Agile_Retrospective_Resource_Wiki |
| Retrospective generator | A lot of variations of your retro | https://plans-for-retrospectives.com/en/?id=122-47-113-24-92 |
| Book tip | https://www.amazon.com/Agile-Retrospectives-Making-Pragmatic-Programmers-ebook/dp/B00B03SRJW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1513351449&sr=8-1&keywords=retrospective | |
| 5 whys | How to get to the root cause of a problem | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys |
| Tech Skills | Skills for the team to have in order to work with Scrum | https://ronjeffries.com/articles/019-01ff/tech-skills/ |
| Spotify Engineering Culture | How to find alignment | https://labs.spotify.com/2014/03/27/spotify-engineering-culture-part-1/ |
Misc
| Big room planning | Planning as a social event | http://blog.crisp.se/2016/12/30/henrikkniberg/agile-lego |
| Group Genius | Innovation is not a one-man show. One of Hans many favorite books | https://www.amazon.com/Group-Genius-Creative-Power-Collaboration/dp/0465096638 |
| Cynefin | A model for understanding the problem domain | http://blog.crisp.se/2017/04/28/hansbrattberg/cynefin-pa-svenska/cynefin_svenska-2 |
| Penns we used during class | Reza loves these! | https://eu.neuland.com/markers-more/neuland-markers/neuland-no.one-outliner-wedge-nib-2-6-mm.html |