Succeeding as a Product Owner
Optimizing Your Product Backlog
Great Product Owners create user stories that deliver optimum value, sequence the product backlog to maximize value, and quantify success and share that with the team.
Great Product Owners master these skills
You’ll learn them all in Optimizing Your Product Backlog and why they’re important. You can also review your core skills or go even further in our other programs.
Topics at a glance
Before your program starts
Find your Product Owner strengths/weaknesses
Send epics/features from your current backlog
Meet with your mentor and review
Exploring user needs
Impact mapping
Prioritize benefits before prioritizing features
User story mapping
Using user story mapping to find a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) or solution
Tips and techniques for creating a user story map
Using measurable goals
Describing measurable goals
Using target ranges to capture successful outcomes
Using target ranges to capture quality requirements
Ordering the backlog for optimal ROI
Minimum Viable Product (MVP) or Solution
The Kano Model
Prioritizing with t-shirt sizing
Prioritizing with CD3 (Weighted Shortest Job First)
Incremental value delivery
Decomposing features and epics to support incremental value delivery
Lean Startup and the minimum viable experiment
How do you involve the users and adapt based on their feedback?
Why are our Learning Programs so effective?
We interviewed more than 400 software leaders around the world and what did they request?
Customized, minimally disruptive virtual sessions that focus on real-world results through a balanced mix of coursework, self-study, and expert mentoring.