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A must read for any Product Owner
Review date: 2010-07-03 Rating: 10 out of 10

The role of the Product Owner is the arguably the most misunderstood role in Scrum, but equally the most pivotal to the success of any Scrum project. I see this book as a must read for anyone considering doing this role or needing help in doing it better. Roman's examples and analogies help clarify the role and responsibilites required to help teams and organisations build great products. The product owner role shouldn't be taken lightly and this book puts the required amount of emphasis on how applying that role effectively maximises the chances of Scrum succeeding in organisations.

An indispensable resource for Agile Product Owners/Managers
Review date: 2010-07-02 Rating: 10 out of 10

One of the best books on software product ownership or product management that I have come across. Certainly one of the most accessible. At around 160 pages there is enough detail to explain the concepts and provide some good examples from the Author's professional experience without labouring any of the points or digressing from the core subject matter.

Roman gives a well rounded and thorough overview of the Product Owner role within the SCRUM framework, covering the responsibilities and tasks in an appropriate level of detail. There is a lot of information about putting the concepts and principles of SCRUM into practise and getting the most from your team(s), with an appropriate emphasis on empowering the scrum team, the product owner and the stakeholders.

Thoroughly recommended for those new to the Product Owner role, but also as a reference to those who've been working this role for some time. I fully expect to keep referring back to this book during my work as a Product Owner.

Excellent guide for Scrum practitioners
Review date: 2010-05-21 Rating: 10 out of 10

Roman Pichler's guide to product ownership and creation is an excellent guide for Scrum practitioners, new or experienced.

He introduces the core characteristics and responsibilities of the product owner role, then examines each area of responsibility in depth covering the product vision, managing the product backlog, planning, and collaboration. He finishes by exploring how to go about transitioning into the role.

His simple, compact style is highly engaging and readable; the author gives you the right information and the right amount of information so you gain the insight and tools to do the job. Each chapter typically finishes with a collection of common mistakes, and a short section to summarize the key points and to encourage you to think about what you've learned and how you can apply it.

While focussed on product ownership, the author's experience and in-depth knowledge of Scrum and Agile shines through and provides an illuminating guide whatever your role.

Highly recommended.

A great book for Scrum practitioners
Review date: 2010-05-17 Rating: 10 out of 10

This is a great book for Scrum practitioners. As well as emphasising the previously much-ignored role of the product owner, it also makes great further reading for anyone who is using Scrum and wants to "grow up" with it more.

The book is written in an easy, readable and informative style. There is much anecdotal content, and refreshingly, Pichler doesn't avoid expressing opinions based on his obvious wealth of experience as a Scrum consultant and coach.

As a Scrum master I have been involved in many Scrum projects over the years, but I found this filled in some gaps, and answered some questions for me. The emphasis on the Scrum Product Owner means that there is a lot of advice in the book which is germane to product release. This after all is what Scrum is about, and although this should be essential reading for anyone wanting to be a product owner, I would highly recommend this book to anyone who has any role (or who is a stake holder) in a Scrum team.

Pichler tackles such issues as handling non-functional requirements and investigative tasks in the product backlog and sizing and detailing stories. He also discusses the large scale problems like having hierarchies of product owners, coping with dependencies across multiple Scrum teams and presenting product road maps to upper management, or customers, without violating the principles of Scrum. He also presents some interesting metric approaches for measuring velocity to address the "lack of predictability" problem that some teams find with Scrum.

There is good coverage of the importance of product visions, how much and how little to add, as well as recommending some techniques for verifying and creating them.

As well as clearly stated, sage advice throughout, there is also a list of anti-patterns or common mistakes at the end of each section, which will be all too familiar to anyone who has worked on a Scrum project. An excellent tool for pointing out to other team members that they are doing it wrong, without getting personal!

Absolutely required reading for any product owner wanting to ship successful products, and highly recommended for anyone who is using Scrum.

Product Details/Specifications

Authors:
Roman Pichler

Recording label: Addison Wesley
Manufacturer: Addison Wesley
EAN: 9780321605788
Binding: Paperback
Dewey decimal number: 005.1
ISBN: 0321605780
Number of items: 1
Number of pages: 160
Publication date: 2010-03-31
Language: English (Unknown)
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: English (Published)

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