Product Owner Resources and References

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A/B Testing [TOP]

AA Testing (i.e. not A/B) http://kadavy.net/blog/posts/aa-testing/
Too Big to Fail: Running A/B Experiments When You’re Betting the Bank https://www.infoq.com/presentations/ab-testing-risks

Agile Contracts [TOP]

10 Contracts for your next agile project (slides) http://www.scrum-breakfast.com/2010/03/xp-day-suisse-10-agile-contracts-for.html
Agile contracts http://alistair.cockburn.us/Agile+contracts
Agile Contracts Primer http://www.agilecontracts.org/
Agile Contracts: InfoQ https://www.infoq.com/articles/agile-contracts
Agile Contracts: Money for Nothing and Your Change for Free http://www.scruminc.com/agile-contracts-money-for-nothing-and/
Agile Team Meets a Fixed Price Contract http://www.infoq.com/articles/agile-team-fixed-price-contract
An overview of Agile Contracts https://scrumology.com/an-overview-of-agile-contracts/
Contracting for Agile development projects http://www.twobirds.com/en/sectors/technology-and-communications/software-and-services/contracting-for-agile-software-development-projects
Contracting for Agile Software Projects http://agilesoftwaredevelopment.com/blog/peterstev/contracting-agile-software-projects
Create Flexible Contracts http://www.flexiblecontracts.com/
I’m Agile But My Contract Isn’t: How to Align Contracts with Agile Software Development Teams https://www.stridenyc.com/blog/im-agile-but-my-contract-isnt-how-to-align-contracts-with-agile-software-development-teams/
Published Patterns: Change for Free https://sites.google.com/a/scrumplop.org/published-patterns/value-stream/product-backlog/change-for-free
Published Patterns: Money for Nothing https://sites.google.com/a/scrumplop.org/published-patterns/value-stream/product-backlog/money-for-nothing
The Norwegian Computer Society’s contract standards http://www.dataforeningen.no/the-norwegian-computer-societys-contract-standards.4599105-146042.html
Agile Contracts Books

Anti-Patterns [TOP]

28 Product Backlog and Refinement Anti-Patterns https://age-of-product.com/28-product-backlog-anti-patterns/

Backlog Grooming/Refinement [TOP]

Backlog Grooming – Definition from Agile Alliance http://guide.agilealliance.org/guide/backlog-grooming.html
Backlog Grooming Bugs Me http://jpattonassociates.com/backlog-grooming-bugs-me/
Backlog Grooming: Who, When and How http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/05/backlog-grooming
Evidence for the Effectiveness of Good Backlog Refinement http://www.leadingagile.com/2013/06/visual-evidence-of-an-agile-release/
Grooming the Product Backlog http://www.romanpichler.com/blog/grooming-the-product-backlog/
How to Hold an Effective Backlog Grooming Session https://www.scrumalliance.org/community/articles/2011/march/how-to-hold-an-effective-backlog-grooming-session
How to improve Scrum Backlog Refinement? http://rinivansolingen.nl/how-to-improve-scrum-backlog-refinement/?lang=en
Scrum By Example – Product Backlog Refinement in Action https://agilepainrelief.com/notesfromatooluser/2014/05/scrummaster-tales-product-backlog-refinement-in-action.html
Scrum By Example: Ill Prepared going into to Sprint Planning. Consequences? https://agilepainrelief.com/notesfromatooluser/2011/07/the-scrummaster-tales.html#.VaaWQ_lViko
When Should Product Backlog Grooming Take Place? http://www.romanpichler.com/blog/when-should-product-backlog-grooming-take-place/

Business Analyst in Scrum [TOP]

Business Analysts in Scrum http://www.romanpichler.com/blog/business-analysts-in-scrum/
How Agile Helped Me Survive Being a Business Analyst https://www.leadingagile.com/2014/04/agile-helped-survive-business-analyst/
What is the Role of a Business Analyst in Scrum? http://www.scrum-breakfast.com/2012/11/what-is-role-of-business-analyst-in.html

Impact Mapping [TOP]

What It Is Impact Mapping? https://www.kbp.media/impact-mapping/

Lean Startup [TOP]

A Pivot, preserve, kill decision http://neo.com/2015/06/15/the-story-of-spruce
Beyond the Basics of Lean Startup https://ecorner.stanford.edu/article/beyond-basics-lean-startup/
Lean Start-Up, and How It Almost Killed Our Company http://www.infoq.com/articles/lean-startup-killed
Product Discovery Tips https://www.romanpichler.com/blog/product-discovery-tips/
Putting Pivots Into Practice – CSP Fast Pass Case Study https://lookforwardconsulting.com/2016/07/05/putting-pivots-into-practice-csp-fast-pass-case-study/
Lean Startup Books

Minimum Viable Product (MVP) [TOP]

Enterprise Lean Startup Experiment Examples http://www.movestheneedle.com/blog/enterprise-lean-startup-experiment-examples/
Finding the Truth Behind Minimum Viable Products https://www.infoq.com/articles/truth-minimum-viable-products/
How to Choose the Right Product Validation Technique in Scrum http://www.romanpichler.com/blog/beyond-product-demo-validation-techniques-in-scrum/
Making sense of MVP (Minimum Viable Product) http://blog.crisp.se/2016/01/25/henrikkniberg/making-sense-of-mvp
Minimum Viable Product: a guide http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2009/08/minimum-viable-product-guide.html
Minimum Viable Products for Enterprises https://www.infoq.com/news/2013/01/enterprise-MVP
Straightforward Tactics for Testing Minimum Viable Products https://envato.com/blog/straightforward-tactics-testing-minimum-viable-products/
The Art of Prototypes and Building MVPs https://www.infoq.com/presentations/building-prototypes

PO Tools and Ideas [TOP]

12 Tips for Product Owners who want better performance from their Scrum Teams http://saat-network.ch/how-to/how-we-do-scrum/12-tips-for-product-owners-who-want-better-performance-from-their-scrum-teams/
Feature Injection a Tool for Product Owners http://www.infoq.com/articles/feature-injection-success
Learning and Exploration vs Execution http://www.romanpichler.com/blog/learning-and-execution-in-scrum/
Making the Product Backlog DEEP http://www.romanpichler.com/blog/making-the-product-backlog-deep/
Scrum By Example: Technical Items in the Product Backlog https://agilepainrelief.com/notesfromatooluser/2013/03/scrummaster-tales-technical-user-stories-team-pull-fast-product-owner.html#.VaaCD_lViko
Should we get rid of the Product Backlog? http://neilkillick.wordpress.com/2012/07/26/product-backlog-an-agile-anti-pattern/

Personas [TOP]

A Template for Writing Great Personas http://www.romanpichler.com/blog/persona-template-for-agile-product-management/
Approaches to Creating Personas http://boxesandarrows.com/files/banda/long-live-the-user/Mulder_TheUserIsAlwaysRight_Ch3.pdf [PDF warning!]
Five Approaches To Creating Lightweight Personas http://www.usabilitycounts.com/2013/09/10/five-approaches-creating-lightweight-personas/
Persona “How To & Tools” http://www.usability.gov/how-to-and-tools/methods/personas.html
Pragmatic Personas https://www.stickyminds.com/article/how-pragmatic-personas-help-you-understand-your-end-user
Tweaking the Persona http://eleganthack.com/tweaking-the-persona/

Portfolio Management [TOP]

Kanban Portfolio View https://agilepainrelief.com/notesfromatooluser/2015/02/kanban-portfolio-view.html#.VakbhPlViko
Kanban Portfolio View – Continued https://agilepainrelief.com/notesfromatooluser/2015/03/kanban-portfolio-view-continued.html#.VakbwvlViko
Managing an Agile Project Portfolio https://www.scrumalliance.org/community/articles/2007/july/managing-an-agile-project-portfolio
Portfolio Management https://agilepainrelief.com/notesfromatooluser/2015/06/portfolio-management.html#.Vakb4PlViko
Portfolio Management – IDLE TEAMS https://agilepainrelief.com/notesfromatooluser/2015/07/portfolio-management-idle-teams.html#.Vbk9TPlVikp
Using Blocker Clustering, Defect Clustering, and Prioritization for Process Improvement http://www.infoq.com/articles/blockers-defects-process-improvement
Visualize your Project/Product Portfolio using a Kanban Wall http://brodzinski.com/2011/11/project-portfolio-kanban.html
Portfolio Management Books

Prioritization Techniques and Models [TOP]

20 Product Prioritization Techniques: A Map and Guided Tour http://foldingburritos.com/product-prioritization-techniques/
An Introduction to Cost of Delay http://www.leadingagile.com/2015/06/an-introduction-to-cost-of-delay/
Business Value Game (or Poker) http://www.agile42.com/en/agile-coaching-company/agile-scrum-tools/business-value-game/
Collaborative Prioritization Exercise http://allaboutproductmanagement.blogspot.ca/2013/05/process-for-prioritising-product-backlog.html
Cost of Delay http://blackswanfarming.com/cost-of-delay/
How Kano model helps to agile product backlog prioritization http://www.scrumdesk.com/how-to-kano-model-helps-in-agile-product-backlog-prioritization/
How Pandora used the “Buy A Feature Game” to make choices among too many options https://firstround.com/review/This-Product-Prioritization-System-Nabbed-Pandora-More-Than-70-Million-Active-Monthly-Users-with-Just-40-Engineers/
Innovation Games – Buy a Feature http://www.innovationgames.com/buy-a-feature/
Teach Someone to Prioritize Using Psychological Distance https://hbr.org/2015/03/teach-someone-to-prioritize-using-psychological-distance
The Problems with Estimating Business Value http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/blog/the-problems-with-estimating-business-value
Wiegers’ Relative Weighting Model http://www.processimpact.com/articles/prioritizing.html
Kano
Kano https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kano_model
Kano Model Analysis http://people.ucalgary.ca/~design/engg251/First%20Year%20Files/kano.pdf [PDF warning!]
Understanding the Kano Model – A Tool for Sophisticated Designers https://articles.uie.com/kano_model/
MoSCoW
MoSCoW Prioritisation https://www.agilebusiness.org/content/moscow-prioritisation-0
WSJF
Problems with WSJF http://jchyip.blogspot.ca/2012/12/problems-i-have-with-saf-style-wsjf.html

Product Discovery [TOP]

How Much Time Should You Spend in Product Discovery? https://www.producttalk.org/2018/04/time-in-product-discovery/
Skateboards vs. Cars Revisited https://svpg.com/skateboards-vs-cars-revisited/

Product Owner Role [TOP]

Demystifying the Product Owner Role http://www.romanpichler.com/blog/demystifying-the-product-owner-role/
Every Great Product Owner Need a Good ScrumMaster http://www.romanpichler.com/blog/every-great-product-owner-needs-great-scrummaster/
Evolution of the PO and UX roles on team: The Overlap https://medium.com/@johnpcutler/the-overlap-puxeng-56dcfd33875b#.e4cco3upm
One Page Product Owner http://www.romanpichler.com/blog/roles/one-page-product-owner/
Product Owner isn’t just a Business Analyst on Steriods https://agilepainrelief.com/notesfromatooluser/2012/10/product-owner-isn-business-analyst-steroids.html#.Vbo8APlVikp
Product Owner Responsibilities http://www.romanpichler.com/blog/the-product-owner-responsibilities/
Product Owner Video from Henrik http://blog.crisp.se/2012/10/25/henrikkniberg/agile-product-ownership-in-a-nutshell
The Product Owner’s Guide to the Sprint Retrospective http://www.romanpichler.com/blog/product-owner-sprint-retrospective/
We Don’t Hire Product Owners Here http://www.mironov.com/pohire/
Which UX Skills should Product Owners and Product Managers Have? http://www.romanpichler.com/blog/ux-skills-for-product-owners-and-product-managers/
Product Owner Role Books

Roadmaps and Strategy [TOP]

10 Tips for Creating an Agile Product Roadmap http://www.romanpichler.com/blog/10-tips-creating-agile-product-roadmap/
A 3x3x3 Perspective for getting your Vision, Strategy, and Product aligned https://blog.leanstack.com/a-3x3x3-perspective-for-getting-your-vision-strategy-and-product-aligned-46aaa3b48922
Journey Mapping 101 https://www.nngroup.com/articles/journey-mapping-101/
What does an agile product roadmap look like? https://medium.com/@jboogie/what-does-an-agile-product-roadmap-look-like-cf0dbe5be4ef
Story Mapping and Impact Mapping
How to create a User Story Map http://winnipegagilist.blogspot.ca/2012/03/how-to-create-user-story-map.html
Introducing Example Mapping https://cucumber.io/blog/2015/12/08/example-mapping-introduction
It’s ALL In How You Slice http://www.agileproductdesign.com/writing/how_you_slice_it.pdf [PDF warning!]
Learning Story Mapping Through Exercises https://agilepainrelief.com/notesfromatooluser/2013/04/learning-story-mapping-exercises.html#.VaaZgvlViko
Story Map Concepts https://www.jpattonassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/story_mapping.pdf [PDF warning!]
Story Mapping Presentation (Original source for Story Mapping on the web) http://www.agileproductdesign.com/presentations/user_story_mapping/index.html
The new user story backlog is a map http://www.jpattonassociates.com/the-new-backlog/
Working with User Story Mapping http://blog.piecemealgrowth.net/working-with-user-story-mapping
Story Mapping and Impact Mapping Books
Video
User Story Mapping in Practice http://www.infoq.com/presentations/user-story-map
Full Blown Story Mapping Tools
CardBoard https://cardboardit.com/
FeatureMap https://www.featuremap.co/en
Realtime Board https://realtimeboard.com/templates/user-story-map/
StoriesOnBoard https://storiesonboard.com/
Collaborative Post-It Style Tools
Boardthing https://boardthing.com/
Lino http://en.linoit.com/
NoteApp https://noteapp.com/
Roadmaps and Strategy Books

Specification by Example [TOP]

Acceptance Test Driven Development from the Trenches http://www.infoq.com/articles/atdd-from-the-trenches
BDD and User Story Specification: Examples https://www.targetprocess.com/blog/bdd-and-user-story-specification-examples/
BDD in the Finance Sector https://cucumber.io/blog/2015/07/01/bdd-in-the-financial-sector
Introducing Example Mapping https://cucumber.io/blog/2015/12/08/example-mapping-introduction
Scrum By Example – The Team Collaborate on Acceptance Criteria https://agilepainrelief.com/notesfromatooluser/2013/02/scrummaster-tales-team-collaborate-acceptance-criteria.html#.Vbo_AflVikp
The beginner’s guide to BDD https://inviqa.com/blog/bdd-guide
Thoughtworks – Specification by Example https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/specification-example
Wikipedia on Specification By Example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specification_by_example
Specification by Example Books

UX [TOP]

Managing UX in Scrum Project http://futurice.com/blog/managing-ux-in-scrum-project
Lean UX
Book review: “Lean UX” https://marcabraham.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/book-review-lean-ux/
Book review: Lean UX — Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience http://www.elezea.com/2013/03/lean-ux-review/
How FreshBooks democratizes technical design by applying lean UX principles https://medium.com/building-freshbooks/how-freshbooks-democratizes-technical-design-by-applying-lean-ux-principles-873a020dd790#.qasd8uglr
Lean UX Explained http://www.infoq.com/interviews/lean-ux-explained-jeff-gothelf
Lean UX in the Enterprise: 5 hills to climb http://blog.crisp.se/2013/03/24/jeff-gothelf/lean-ux-in-the-enterprise
Lean UX: Getting Out Of The Deliverables Business http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/03/07/lean-ux-getting-out-of-the-deliverables-business/
Summary of Lean UX talk by Jeff Gothelf in Barcelona https://www.drivetoimprove.com/blog/summary-lean-ux-talk-jeff-gothelf-barcelona/
Why Lean Enterprise Transformation is Hard https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/why-lean-enterprise-transformation-hard
Lean UX Books
UX Books

User Stories [TOP]

Agile Atlas on User Stories http://agileatlas.org/articles/item/user-stories
Alternative formats for User Stories http://blog.crisp.se/2014/09/25/david-evans/as-a-i-want-so-that-considered-harmful
An Alternative Concise Description of User Stories http://trailridgeconsulting.com/files/user-story-primer.pdf [PDF warning!]
Another Alternative User Story Format https://jkwerner2.wordpress.com/2010/03/23/so-that-so-what/
Conversational Stories http://martinfowler.com/bliki/ConversationalStories.html
Life Cycle of a User Story https://agilepainrelief.com/notesfromatooluser/2013/11/lifecycle-of-a-user-story.html#.VaaWbvlViko
Story Slicing: A Real Life Example http://rwiersma.blogspot.ca/2017/12/story-slicing-real-life-example.html
User Stories Presentation from Mike Cohn http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/presentations/introduction-to-user-stories
Using Vertical Slicing and Estimation to make Business Decisions at Adobe http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/blog/using-vertical-slicing-and-estimation-to-make-business-decisions-at-adobe
Vision to User Stories – What is the Best Flow? https://agilepainrelief.com/notesfromatooluser/2015/07/vision-to-user-stories-what-is-the-best-flow.html
What if the User Story is too Big for the Team? http://goodrequirements.com/2012/too-big/
Story Splitting
More questions for your User Stories http://tynerblain.com/blog/2013/06/25/cargo-cult-requirements/
Original Article on Story Splitting http://xp123.com/articles/twenty-ways-to-split-stories/
Patterns for Splitting User Stories http://www.agileforall.com/2009/10/patterns-for-splitting-user-stories/
Splitting stories into small, vertical slices http://blogs.adobe.com/agile/2013/09/27/splitting-stories-into-small-vertical-slices/
Splitting User Stories with Acceptance Criteria http://www.agilelearninglabs.com/2013/04/user-story-splitting-three/
Splitting User Stories with Generic Words http://www.agilelearninglabs.com/2013/04/user-story-splitting-two-%E2%80%8E/
Splitting User Stories with Timeline Analysis http://www.agilelearninglabs.com/2013/05/user-story-splitting-four/
Story Slicing: A Real Life Example http://rwiersma.blogspot.ca/2017/12/story-slicing-real-life-example.html
Story Splitting Poster http://www.agileforall.com/2012/01/new-story-splitting-resource/
Story Splitting with Examples https://agilepainrelief.com/notesfromatooluser/2010/12/more-notes-on-story-splitting.html#.VaaKUPlViko
Why Split User Stories https://agilepainrelief.com/notesfromatooluser/2010/09/story-slicing-how-small-is-enough.html#.VaaJ-vlViko
Acceptance Criteria
User Stories And Acceptance Criteria In The House http://www.lostconsultants.com/2016/05/11/user-stories-acceptance-criteria-exercise/
INVEST
Demonstrating the INVEST Criteria https://paulmboos.com/2015/09/17/demonstrating-the-invest-criteria/
User Stories Books

Vision and Visioning Tools [TOP]

8 Tips for Creating a Compelling Product Vision http://www.romanpichler.com/blog/tips-for-writing-compelling-product-vision/
Agile Product Planning: Vision, Strategy, and Tactics http://www.romanpichler.com/blog/agile-product-planning-vision-strategy-tactics/
Agile Scenarios and Storyboards http://www.romanpichler.com/blog/agile-scenarios-and-storyboards/
Innovation Game – Product Box http://www.innovationgames.com/product-box/
Product Canvas – beyond the Product Backlog http://www.romanpichler.com/blog/the-product-canvas/
The Business Model Canvas http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com/canvas/bmc
The Product Vision Board http://www.romanpichler.com/blog/the-product-vision-board/
Why Lean Canvas vs. Business Model Canvas? http://leanstack.com/why-lean-canvas/
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