The goal of the Product Ownership Responsibility Mapping Workshop is to have a healthy discussion between a projects to-be product owner and one of the experienced leads to decide which responsibilities lie with the product owner to be and which responsibilities are carried out by the lead in (as co-productowner or delegated product owner)
Attendees
- Client Product Owner to-be
- applicable to broad range of product owners, from just getting started to very experienced
- Product Team Lead
- e.g. senior solution designer
- e.g. technical lead
Topics
- Vision
- how well developed, explicit and reproducible is the vision of product and it's future
- Environment
- what is the product owners environment like in terms of seniority and weight compared to the product owners seniority and weight
- what is the mental and vocal ability to report out and push back to stakeholders
- KPI’s
- is there a deep knowledge of company kpi's, product kpi's and team kpi's
- Mandate
- is there a mandate to make decision about the product and related teams
- is there mandate to make decisions that affect budgets
- Performance and Quality inspection
- does the product owner have the ability to objectively measure team and products performance and quality
- is the product owner able to define a definition of done and verify if definition of done is met
- Product Development Processes
- does the productowner have knowledge about the processes required to meet definition of ready (solution design, product design, prototyping, validation, development, devops)
- is the productowner able to govern and order these processes to produce roadmap
- Stakeholder Alignment
- does the product owner have the interpersonal skills and network to get technical leads, design leads and stakeholders involved in preparation of backlog
- Input Triage
- doest the product owner have pragmatic experience of maintaining backlog and triaging incoming flow of input/feedback
Report out
- debrief of findings per topic and assignment of responsibility to either product owner or project lead (as co-productowner)
- define next steps and schedule review of responsibilities
Research / Homework
- schedule mapping workshop