Government PO What to expect when they are expecting
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The document discusses the product owner role in an agile context, particularly for government organizations. It describes the traditional product owner responsibilities of managing the product backlog. However, it notes that the role may need to evolve for government settings, where a "value team" approach with multiple stakeholders facilitating decision making could be more effective than a single product owner. The document explores how organizational structures and value team configurations may need to adapt for government agencies.
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Government PO What to expect when they are expecting
- 1. Government Product Owner What to expect when they’re expec7ng
- 2. The Telephone Game Rules 1. Do not ask a person to repeat the phrase. 2. Do not purposely communicate the wrong phrase as doing so would ruin the fun.
- 3. What role are you playing? Agile experience? 1. What is agile? 2. I heard of it 3. I read about it 4. I pracAce it 5. I can teach it
- 4. Salah Elleithy @selleithy Darren Hoevel @agilefairy Pliant Solutions Entrepreneur, Coach, Product Evangelist, Agile Junkie, Adventurer etc.. ! A pragmatic, non-prescriptive kaizen enabler with a passion for leveraging Agile practices to consistently deliver exceptional results, great products and “delighted customers” to evolving organizations. ! Industry expertise: Technology, Education, Software, Semiconductor, Retail, Education, Start-up, Healthcare (HIX), State & Federal Government. ! Agile Community: AgileDC (AgileDC.org) Organizing Board Member, Agile 2013-14 Participant, Agile Meetup junkie, Coaching Clinic Volunteer, ICAgile Training Partner, SAFe Trainer ! Passionate about enabling and sustaining enterprise agility with a focus on organizational development. ! Managing Partner with ReadyforAgile, an enterprise assessment analytics tool for scaling agility. ! Trainer & Learning Facilitator with SparkAgility ! Organizer & Learning Facilitator at Agile NOVA ! ICAgile Member Trainer ! Certified Trainer in Training from the BACK of the Room (An approach to Accelerated Learning) ! Linkedin.com/in/selleithy SparkAgility Agile Coach & Learning Facilitator
- 5. Session Outline What is the product owner role? Is it different in the federal space and the commercial space? What are the challenges that the PO face? Group exercise -‐ If we were to define a PO persona, what would it look like? Would a convenAonal PO role work in the government? What are the limitaAons? Group exercise -‐ What could be changed for it work in the government? How would the PO role apply in the government seNngs? Group exercise -‐ Does the organizaAonal structure affect the PO role? Q&A
- 6. Gulf of Evalua7on IKIWISI (I’ll know it when I see it) How it all started?
- 7. What is the product owner role?
- 8. The Product Owner is the sole person responsible for managing the Product Backlog. (Source: The Scrum Guide. Scrum.org) What is the Product Owner role?
- 9. What does “managing the backlog” entail? Product Owner The Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of the product and the work of the Development Team. Clearly expressing Product Backlog items Priori7ze Product Backlog items Ensure business value is being delivered Ensure Backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all Ensuring the Team understands items in the Backlog to the level needed
- 10. Func7onal Matrix Agile Product Owner role evolved
- 13. Quali7es of a Product Owner
- 14. What we like to think of PO? What REALITY looks like?
- 15. Where do Product Owners come from? • Business Stakeholders • Program Managers • Project Managers • Subject Ma[er Experts • End Users • System Owners
- 16. What are the challenges Product Owners face?
- 17. What are the top 3 challenges facing Product Owners at your organizaAon?
- 18. Is the Product Owner role different? Government Commercial
- 19. How does the Product Owner role apply in the government seUngs?
- 20. From “Superhero” Product Owner to Value Team
- 21. What are Value Teams? A team that has everyone and everything they need to iden7fy, priori7ze and slice business value increments, and to make decisions about funcAonality and prepare the informaAon needed by the development team(s) to deliver a feature/story. Source: Dr. Ahmed Sidky Product Owner Subject MaYer Experts Governance
- 22. Organiza7onal Structure (Agile) Subject MaYer Experts Governance Business Stakeholders Project Managers IT Business Analysts Developers Testers Scrum Master Product Owner Users/ Customers The Delivery Team (aka the Development Team)
- 23. The Value Team Governance Users/Customers Testers Developers Business Analysts The Value Team evolved Source: Dr. Ahmed Sidky SMEs Project Managers The Delivery Team (aka the Development Team)
- 24. The Value Team Value Team Facilitator (Previously known as Product Owner) The Delivery Team Governance Delivery Team Facilitator Users/Customers Testers Developers Business Analysts Possible Value Team Configura7on Source: Dr. Ahmed Sidky SMEs Project Managers
- 25. The Value Team Value Team Facilitator [Product Owner - SCRUM] The Delivery Team Governance Delivery Team Facilitator [SCRUM] Users/Customers Testers Developers Business Analysts Another possible configura7on Source: Dr. Ahmed Sidky SMEs Project Managers Support Sponsor?
- 26. Design your Value Team • Who needs to be on your value team? • What would need to change to support the Value Team at your organizaAon?
- 27. The Value Team Value Team Facilitator (Previously known as Product Owner) The Delivery Team Governance Delivery Team Facilitator Users/Customers Testers Developers Business Analysts What does Facilita7on got to do with Value Teams? Source: Dr. Ahmed Sidky SMEs Project Managers Support
- 28. What is Facilita7on? Facilita7on is the art of leading people through processes toward agreed-‐upon outcomes in a manner that encourages parAcipaAon, ownership and creaAvity of all involved. -‐ The Grove Consultants InternaAonal
- 29. What would make Value Teams successful? • Ownership of vision • FacilitaAon • Responsibility
- 30. Tweetable takeaways! • Product Ownership over Product owners • Value Teams will work when decision makers or their representaAves are part of it • FacilitaAon is as important to Value teams as oil is to an engine. #agile2015 #GovyPO #ValueTeams ~@selleithy @agilefairy
- 31. Con7nue the conversa7on • Agile coaches clinic • outside of Potomac • Use #GovyPO #ValueTeams #Agile2015 • Join Agile meetups • Agile DC OrganizaAonal Agility PracAAoners • Agile NOVA