Visual Product Owner Flow

As a product owner, you certainly met some these challenges before:

• How to start my program/project with as little upfront analysis as possible, whithout losing project controll?
• How can I manage "big" projects or programs in an agile way: is that possible with a simple backlog?
• In Scrum the team benefits most of the Scrum board - How can I organise myself as a PO?
• How can I keep my valuable & implementable increments small?

Are you still looking for best practises to deal with such challenges, and/or do you want to share your experiences? Join for an extremely intresting session.

Through this session, you will not only have a formal introduction in how to approach a number of these challenges, it is the purpose to discuss with colleages how they have found ways to deal with.

You will be able to work with considerations like:

• business cases in agile environments
• attention points when organising (scope) kick-off workshops
• the benefits of visual scope management
• insights in PO flow & how you may organise yourself
• some help how you will be able to keep an end-to-end view in your user stories

You will not receive silver bullets, but rather you will receive some best practises how coaches and POs have managed these situations. You will most likely go home with at least 1 idea that you want to try the next day...

• Everybody involved with product ownership:
  • product owners
  • program managers
  • business/functional analysts
  • scrum masters who feel concerned with the challenges of their PO colleagues.
• Project managers who believe that managing a larger projects allways involve more analysis upfront are more than welcome to become inspired.

1. Business Case & kick-off workshop(s)
2. Visual management: backlog + PO flow
3. Managing user stories end-to-end

Peter Janssens is an expert in managing software development teams and projects to convert business request into valuable solutions flexibly and efficiently.

He focuses on the link with core business activities: integrating IT into business strategies, program management, communication, project management, product management.

He therefore relies on a broad basis of knowledge and expertise in project methodologies and has impressive practical organisational skills, mainly inspired by lean management principles and successfully proven agile software development practices.

Peter is a Certified Scrum Practitioner, Certified Scrum Master, but he is also Prince2 certified. Also, he is familiar with supporting projects in PMI/PMBOK structures.

With over 11 years of experience in projects and managerial functions at Tele Atlas, SD Worx, Bloso, DKV, Dexia, KPMG, AGFA Gevaert, Reynaers Aluminium and Elsevier/IP, Peter guarantees business reliability & efficiency.

Free!

• 17:30 Welcome
• 18:00 Introduction & Welcome
• 20:00 Closure + after-drink> you will be able to go home by 20:00

• Monday 14 September 2009 in Kontich

Language will be adapted to the public (mostly English or Nederlands)
Sandiches & drinks will be available.

Session material

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