Product Owner Resources & 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

Agile Contracts: Creating and Managing Successful Projects with Scrum - Andreas Opelt,‎ Boris Gloger,‎ Wolfgang Pfarl,‎ Ralf Mittermayr [AMAZON]

Valuing Agile: The Financial Management of Agile Projects - Alan Moran [AMAZON]

Lean Startup Books

The Lean Entrepreneur: How Visionaries Create Products, Innovate with New Ventures, and Disrupt Markets - Brant Cooper, Patrick Vlaskovits [AMAZON]

Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works - Ash Maurya [AMAZON]

The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses - Eric Ries [AMAZON]

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

Using Structured Conversations to Discover Your MVP https://www.infoq.com/articles/structured-conversations-mvp

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/

4 Product owner assessments to help you focus your learning efforts https://www.kbp.media/product-owner-assessments/

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

Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects - Johanna Rothman [AMAZON]

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

Listening Practices For Product People https://www.romanpichler.com/blog/listen-to-understand-listening-practices-for-product-people/

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

Innovation Games: Creating Breakthrough Products Through Collaborative Play - Luke Hohmann [AMAZON]

Escape Velocity: Free Your Company’s Future from the Pull of the Past - Geoffrey A. Moore [AMAZON]

Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love - Marty Cagan [AMAZON]

Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers - Dave Gray, Sunni Brown [AMAZON]

Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products that Customers Love - Roman Pichler [AMAZON]

Scrum Product Ownership – Balancing Value From the Inside Out - Robert Galen [AMAZON]

Project vs. Product [TOP]

Products Over Projects https://martinfowler.com/articles/products-over-projects.html

Project Focus Is An Impediment to Long-Lived Teams https://innolution.com/blog/project-focus-is-an-impediment-to-long-lived-teams

Project Work vs. Product Work https://dzone.com/articles/project-work-vs-product-work

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

Complexity and Strategy https://hackernoon.com/complexity-and-strategy-325cd7f59a92

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

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 https://www.jpattonassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/JPA_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 Books

Impact Mapping: Making a big impact with software products and projects - Gojko Adzic

User Story Mapping Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product - Jeff Patton

Impact Mapping

Getting the most out of impact mapping https://www.infoq.com/articles/most-impact-mapping

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

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

Impact Mapping: Making a big impact with software products and projects - Gojko Adzic

User Story Mapping Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product - Jeff Patton

Specification by Example [TOP]

Specification By Example Summary on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specification_by_example

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

Specification by Example - Gojko Adzic

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

The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web and Beyond - Jesse James Garrett [AMAZON]

The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity - Alan Cooper [AMAZON]

Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability - Steve Krug [AMAZON]

UX Books

The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web and Beyond - Jesse James Garrett [AMAZON]

The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity - Alan Cooper [AMAZON]

Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability - Steve Krug [AMAZON]

User Stories [TOP]

Alternative formats for User Stories http://blog.crisp.se/2014/09/25/david-evans/as-a-i-want-so-that-considered-harmful

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

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

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

User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development - Mike Cohn [AMAZON]

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/

How to get your project started on the right foot https://www.kbp.media/portfolio/start-a-project/

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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Product Owner Resources and References

A/B Testing [TOP]

Agile Contracts [TOP]

Anti-Patterns [TOP]

Backlog Grooming/Refinement [TOP]

Business Analyst in Scrum [TOP]

Lean Startup [TOP]