The Art of Agile Product Ownership: A Guide for Product Managers, Business Analysts, and Entrepreneurs

by Allan Kelly

Part 1: Meet the Product Owner.- Chapter 1: What Are You Building?.- Chapter 2: Why Have a Product Owner?.- Chapter 3: Who Is the Product Owner?.- Chapter 4: Requirements, Discover, and Demand.- Chapter 5: Every Product Owner Needs Four Things.- Chapter 6: Customers, Users, and Stakeholders.- Part 2: What Do Product Owners Do?.- Chapter 7: Scrum and the Product Owner.- Chapter 8: On-Stage Product Owner.- Chapter 9: Off-Stage Product Owner.- Chapter 10: The Busy Product Owner.- Chapter 11: Stop Doing.- Chapter 12: Specialist Help.- Part 3: Role Models.- Chapter 13: Product Owner as Entrepreneur.- Chapter 14: The Project Manager Role.- Chapter 15: What Do Project Managers Do?.- Chapter 16: Changes in Product Management.- Chapter 17: The Business Analyst Role.- Chapter 18: The Different Types of Business Analysts.- Part 4: Challenges.- Chapter 19: The Product Owner Refactored.- Chapter 20: Changing Hats.- Chapter 21: Mission Impossible.- Chapter 22: The End.- .-

186 pages, Paperback

Published October 2, 2019

About the author

Allan Kelly has held just about every job in the software world, from system admin to development manager by way of programmer and product manager. Today he works helping teams adopt and deepen Agile practices, and writing far too much. He specialises in working with software product companies and aligning products and processes with company strategy.

He is the author of three books: "Xanpan - reflections on agile and software development" (https://leanpub.com/xanpan), "Business Patterns for Software Developers" and “Changing Software Development: Learning to be Agile”; the originator of Retrospective Dialogue Sheets (http://www.dialoguesheets.com), a regular conference speaker and frequent contributor to journals.

More about Allan at http://www.allankelly.net and on Twitter as @allankellynet (http://twitter.com/allankellynet).

Reviews

[Jeno · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book isn't for me; it is basically an overview of agile with all its roles and the idea of Product Ownership.
I wish I had had a book like this when I started as a PO.

I'd recommend this book to senior management & owners - these folks are creating bullshit roles without knowing how the whole thing is supposed to work.
Then they tend to hire people based on stuff they read on agile once and... make them do the opposite, how they see fit.
This wastes time and psychic energy.
I was entrapped like these two already, I got myself into a servant-master BDSM relationship with HIPPO, and these people are not that bright, to say the least.
Gosh, I wish someone had explained how to spot those bogus agile companies, so I didn't have to manage paperweights and be that ugly ticket monkey. Amen!

[Emin · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Art of Agile Product Ownership: A Guide for Product Managers, Business Analysts, and Entrepreneurs is a comprehensive guide for anyone aspiring to be an effective product owner. The author - Allan Kelly - provides clear explanations, practical advice, and real-world examples to help you master the craft. Whether you're a seasoned professional or a newcomer to the Agile world, this book is a valuable resource.