Are your Product Owners truly empowered?
Product Owners: Are you concerned that the organization around you is not set up to support your success? Do you feel pressure due to conflicting expectations? If so, this session is for you.
Leadership: Do you feel your Product Owners are not as effective as you want them to be, no matter how much you support them? Then this session is also for you.
In this session, we will talk about the organizational challenges that often go unspoken but can make or break a Product Owner (PO). We’ll find those hidden challenges that escape a root cause analysis and manifest themselves in the form of missed commitments that often leave teams frustrated, wondering, “How did this happen?! I did everything right!”.
This session focuses squarely on the PO role and the critical factors to success. After this session, you will be able to clearly articulate how organizational culture is impacting the PO role and what leadership can do to positively influence it. Looking forward to seeing you there!
Outline/Structure of the Talk
Duration: 40 minutes, including 10 minutes of Q&A
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Section |
Duration (minutes) |
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Introductions |
2 |
|
PO Role (expectations, challenges) |
4 |
|
Factor 1: Knowledge – (3 sub factors and their impact) |
6 |
|
Strategies to address Knowledge related challenges |
4 |
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Factor 2: Empathy – (3 sub factors and their impact) |
6 |
|
Strategies to address Empathy related challenges |
4 |
|
Factor 3: Psychological Safety (2 sub factors and their impact) |
4 |
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Strategies to address Psychological Safety |
4 |
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Past survey results |
3 |
|
Recap |
3 |
|
Q&A |
10 |
This talk has been presented a few times in webinars and talk formats. In some instances, the audience interacted through surveys inserted in between sections. The data gathered from the surveys has been incorporated in the presentation to provide a real-world context of how people think their organizations are doing. This helps the audience build a connection with the topic. In the AgileDC 2022 presentation, the survey won't be run, only the results of prior surveys will be presented and discussed.
The presentation has evolved as I learned more about what captures audience interest each time I presented and received feedback on their experiences and concerns Materials and presentation content have been refined over time for a better flow. Additional content was added to give the audience some tangible ideas to take back and implement.
Learning Outcome
In this session, participants will see the Product Owner role from multiple perspectives. They will be able to:
- Describe how deeper organizational factors play a crucial role in the Product Owner's empowerment and success.
- Apply the strategies and tactical approaches discussed during the session to highlight and influence factors that affect Product Owner success
- Identify and avoid organizational agile anti-patterns that can have a detrimental impact on the team culture and morale
Target Audience
POs and program leadership primarily. All roles supporting agile organization can benefit from attending the session.
Prerequisites for Attendees
No prerequisites
Video
Links
This topic was published as 3 part series. Links below:
https://www.ccpace.com/are-your-product-owners-truly-empowered-part-1/
https://www.ccpace.com/are-your-product-owners-truly-empowered-part-2/
https://www.ccpace.com/are-your-product-owners-truly-empowered-part-3/
schedule Submitted 7 months ago
Recent Activities
Call for Proposals CLOSED
Ended on Aug 31 '22 11:59 PM EDT
Hello Community members,
You have probably missed the AgileDC conference over the last two years as much as we did. Today, we are excited to announce that we are inviting members from across our local and national Agile Community to submit a potential presentation for this year’s conference… a conference that will be somewhat different than in years’ past.
First and foremost, the physical conference will have a smaller footprint and we will only be accepting 36 presentations (roughly half of prior years).
Additionally, this year’s selection process is based on the work of Adam Cronkite, of Democracy Research, and Mike Lauer, of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), explored in the Revisionist History Podcast: The Powerball Revolution. Rather than rely exclusively on the organizing committee to determine who should be part of the program, this method randomizes the selection of submissions, which removes the potential for bias in the selection decision.
The process works as follows:
- First, the organizing committee will review submissions against the following criteria:
- Is the proposal related to Agile Software Development or the use of Agile principles in other fields?
- Does the proposal abstract and title sell the audience on attending your session?
- Is the proposal outline/structure clear and detailed enough including a description of the content, concrete examples, good time management, and balance theory and experience?
- Then, all submissions that meet the minimum proposal criteria will be added to a lottery for random selection;
- The randomly selected speakers will be asked to interview with one or more organizing committee members before the final schedule is determined.
The podcast is available here: Revisionist History Podcast: The Powerball Revolution.
All proposals submitted after July 26th and before August 24th will be considered for the final schedule. Each presentation timebox is a 45-minute session of which at least 10 minutes should be set aside for Q&A with session participants.
Speakers will be notified whether their presentation has been selected on or about September 2, 2022.
Good luck!
George Dinwiddie
Joe Fuqua
Stephanie Riccardino
James Porter
Bella Trenkova, ICP-ENT/CAT/ACC/ATF, SPC4, AWS-SAA/ML
