As a Product Owner you have chosen a challenging and worthy path! This book will make the trip smoother by pointing out important waypoints. In base camp you find what you need to know about Agile & Scrum itself, before we head out to cover topics from Product Management. You’ll be much more effective as a PO if you can help people talk to each other and collaborate. That’s why we cover Facilitation next. We end our journey on a mountain top looking at useful concepts from surrounding areas.

Role of the PO

Agile & Scrum

· Agile Manifesto

· Agile Principles

· Agile Mindset

· Agile “Laws”

· Scrum Roles

· Scrum Events

· Scrum Artifacts

· Emotions during Change

· SCARF Model of Social Needs

· Agile Adoption Patterns

· Retrospectives

· Sprint Goal

· Definition of Done

· Definition of Ready

· Tuckman’s Team Stages

· Technical Self-Assessment

Product Management

· Saying "No"

· User Stories

· INVEST

· Story Mapping

· Minimum Viable Product

· Design the Box

· Elevator Pitch Template

· Kano Model

· Planning Origami

· Hallway Usability Tests

· Design Studio

· 3 Horizons

· Pioneers, Settlers, Town Planners

· PO Coaching Cards

Facilitation

The best Product Owners are also great facilitators. As great communicators know how messy human interaction is and act accordingly.

· Ways to Vote

· Open Space

· Lean Coffee

· SMART Criteria

· Brainstorming

· Meeting Checklist

· Silence a Room

· Hand Signals for Discussions in Large Groups

· Powerful Questions

· Solution Focus

· 4 Sides of a Message

· Glasl's Stages of Conflict Escalation

· Fancier Sketchnotes

· Writing Well

Beyond Scrum

Knowing about approaches outside of Scrum will make you a more well-rounded Product Owner, someone who is able to pull ideas from many different sources.

· Value Stream Mapping

· Kanban· Cumulative Flow

· Japanese Terms in Lean

· Lean Startup Principles

· DevOps· Cognitive Bias

· Master Any Skill

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