Why Product Owner Guidebook?

Jim is a passionate people person.

He prefers to help the team so that teams become better.

Recently, Jim has been working as a Product Owner for a complex Digital solution.

He commenced functioning with the team and seeking to figure out how he could serve the teams to build a better product.

He has been wondering what the numerous aspects of product team coaching he should know to support the team so that team performance improves.

Team can do better product.

Jim is undergoing coaching sessions and classes and he has been experiencing many diverse types of challenges in team coaching.

Jim is struggling to help the teams in a legitimate manner.

He is trying to understand what the materials is he should study and be ready for team coaching.

All substance we are discussing in this "The Product Owner Guuidebook" is serving coaches like Jim to be ready for their assignment.

Benefits of “The Product Owner Guidebook”, book:

This book will help team coaches, team members, and team leaders: –

• Boosts your confidence as a product team player
• Enhance your Leadership knowledge related to product building
• Enhance your job durability for the next role
• Satisfies you to grow into a stronger human being
• Delivers the stronger result
• Maximizes your effectiveness and efficiency
• Enables you to develop into a better role model
• Reduces your anxiety
• Enhance you as a team coach
• Become a great Product coach

This book is for team members to reflect based on the presented situation and experiment with all these concepts and come up with readers’ own propositions and improve upon.

Eight Forces to stimulate the best product development

1.     What customer problems is this product solving?

2.     What technology enablement is taking place to deal with the customer problem?

3.     What process steps are implemented to figure out the customer problem?

4.     What are all marketing approaches adopted to reach the customer to work out their problem?

5.     How has the experience been designed to safeguard customer satisfaction?

6.     How the culture has been enabling to work out the customer problem.

7.     How teams are engaged to persuade adequate customer satisfaction.

8.     How leaders are driving to encourage all the stakeholders are aligned to work out the customer problem

This guidebook emphasizes a few practical challenges that a team member will encounter while performing a product development journey. There are no books available in the market which encompass Product development plus product coaching aspects!

This book is a guidebook for all those colleagues who are searching to re-examine some of the awesome product creation challenges and aspects to drive build better products or solutions.

I have shared many illustrations for the readers to pause and reflect on those images.

Articulate readers’ own narrative about how he/she can apply these concepts in their context

This book has many action sections that can be filled, and an individual can take action as per their context. The experience can be captured and shared with the larger community.

This Guidebook has many case studies that we can imagine and take action. Of course, there is no perfect and inaccurate answer. These case studies are real-time tales plucked from my personal life.

This guidebook has many mind maps, checklists which can be referred to as thinking purpose but not applied as it is.

A student gains knowledge more by acting than by listening. The educational philosophy of John Dewey is absolutely correct in stressing this generalization.

So too is the Chinese adage:

When I hear it, I forget it,

When I see it, I remember it,

When I do it, I know it,

“Tell me and I forget; teach me, and I may remember, involve me, and I learn” – Benjamin Franklin.

There is no formula in the complex zone. The more we experiment and are open-minded, we will be better equipped. This book will enable reader to perform better at complex zone.

When you apply for part of a product owner traits, all the below expectations will be set automatically.

Product Owners will be ready to deal with all these tasks effortlessly.

• Established background in launching software or services in association with engineering teams and a high degree of proficiency in prototyping, iterative development, and understanding of Agile principles

• Create the product vision and roadmap which accomplishes the goal of the vision.

• Accountable for the definition and realization of customer journey products and of the outcome of the teams and the dependent component teams

• Develops positioning for the product.

• Develops personas either alone or in partnership with a squad including user experience professionals.

• Define customer needs and the associated features to meet those needs.

• Define the scope and vision for minimum viable products and minimum marketable products based on customer needs, resolving the trade-offs and bridging the gap between customer, business, and tech considerations

• Represent the voice of the customer, constantly seek feedback from users and use the feedback, coupled with quantitative data to iterate rapidly

• Work with team to solve customer problems, create user stories to deliver Epics

• Monitor and track the team’s success metrics (e.g., % Lead and revenue growth) and prioritize work accordingly

• Advocates on behalf of the customer for the development team.

• Function as the owner of product functionality by the driving alignment between stakeholders

• Managing and making visible the product backlog, or the prioritized list of requirements for future product development.

• Write, own, and communicate user stories to the cross-functional team

• Develop a strong relationship with the tech team, partnering with them through the development process and holding them accountable for committed deliverables

• Collaborate with a cross-functional team with expertise in technology, quant research, operations and trading, marketing, and sales to create new solutions and solve unique problems

• Incorporate feedback to improve the product

• Create detailed product documentation and ensure documentation stays current as the product evolves

• Being available to the development team at all times to answer any questions team members have regarding the customer’s needs and the customer's views of how the team is implementing a product feature.

• Works closely with engineering and quality assurance to ensure the right customer problem is solved. This can involve sharing market research and competitive analysis with the team to best focus their efforts.

• Extensive Transformative change delivery: the ability to identify business outcomes, manage dependencies and deliver change in complex environments

• Stakeholder management: ability to manage and influence senior stakeholders with competing priorities and challenge the status quo where required

• Empathy for the customer uses customer feedback and data to understand and define problems, and tests potential solutions

• Participates in team demos and retrospectives. Works with other product owners to produce the system demo, delivers system demo for his scope to the business owner and product management team

• Work as a Technical advisor to the business proposing technical solutions to the business needs

• Drive for performance excellence and proactively identify improvement and harmonization opportunities.

• Work for the vendor relationship to support the quality delivery to the business. Follows the performance according to the agreed SLA (Service Level Agreement).

• Collaborate with Implementation and Customer Readiness for change awareness, and conduct training for successful releases

• Strong leadership, management, influencing, interpersonal, and communication skills, both written and verbal

• Strikes a good balance between managing business priorities and technical debt

• Experience successfully driving end-to-end delivery of data and intelligence solutions, including a wide variety of mechanisms, e.g., dashboards, APIs, real-time alerts, etc.

and many more to gain.....Coming sooon....