Allan Kelly
Its all software
London, United Kingdom
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Allan partners with businesses to enhance effectiveness and efficiency by leveraging agile approaches combined with OKRs. He coaches managers and specialist to improve workflow and product focus to accelerate delivery.
He has written multiple books including the best selling "Succeeding with OKRs in Agile" as well as "The Art of Agile Product Ownership" and "Business Patterns for Software Developers".
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Mission Impossible: The Product Owner (long)
In an agile team, have you ever worked with an excellent product owner? One who had enough time to be with the team, visit customers, analyse the market, talk to UXD, marketing and upper management? Worked at a sustainable pace and still had time for their kids?
A product owner who could tell the team what to do without impinging their autonomy? A product owner who could write user stories and roadmaps, do story and impact mapping, define the details of acceptance criteria and the big picture of product strategy?
One who can design experiments and MVPs, refine the backlog, set priorities, understand a CfD, calculate weighted lead time, cost of delay and still tell you when it will be done?
In short: Do we ask too much of product owners? Is the role set up to fail?
In this presentation Allan Kelly will look at the work we expect a product owner to do, look at what makes a good product owner and look at some of the problems Product Owners face... and throiugh it all he'll try to make some useful suggestions.
Honey, I shrunk the backlog
The backlog was a great idea, until it wasn't. Backlogs don't scale, never ending backlogs get in the way of delivering real benefits and true agility. We need to wipe the slate clean, think about real goals and create just-in-time story generating machines to use instead. And we need to be brave enough to keep resetting that process regularly.
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