Material from Certified Scrum Product Owner Training

• The New New Product Development Game – Article having great influence on the definition of Scrum
• A Leaders Framework for Decision Making (Cynefin) – Excellent reading for managers

How to be a Great Product Owner

• 10 things you must do to build high-performing Scrum Teams as a Product Owner – Article by Maarten Dalmijn

Agile contracts

• Agile Contracts – Chapter from “Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile” by Craig Larman and Bas Vodde
• 10 examples of Agile Contracts created by Peter Stevens
• Collected ideas for Contracts on Agile projects 

Relative estimation

• It’s effort, not complexity

Enabling Specifications

• Enabling Specifications – The Key to Building Agile Systems

Feature Teams

• Feature Teams – Chapter from “Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile” by Craig Larman and Bas Vodde

Tools

• Summary of Scrum tools with a list of pros and cons

Canvases

• Business Model Canvas
  • The Business Model Canvas
  • Business Model Canvas Explained
• Value Proposition Canvas
  • The Value Proposition Canvas
  • The Value Proposition Canvas in 5 minutes
• Lean Canvas
  • How to Formulate Your Unfair Advantage Strategy with a Lean Canvas – definition by Ash Maurya
  • Why Lean Canvas vs Business Model Canvas?
  • Don’t Write a Business Plan. Create a Lean Canvas Instead.
  • Create a new Lean Canvas
  • Canvas Model – Lean Canvas
  • Capture Your Business Model in 20 Minutes – Lean Canvas video
  • Unfair Advantage – examples

Product Market Fit

• Article on Forbes.com giving background and definition
• Survival of the fittest – blog post from the people behind Value Proposition Canvas and Business Model Canvas discussing three different kinds of fit.

Definition of Done

• Definition of Done by Mitch Lacey
• The Power of Done
• Definition of Done in LeSS
• How to Create a Definition of Done
• Examples of Definition of Done
• Other examples of Definition of Done

Product Discovery

• Discover to Deliver
• Gamestorming – A toolkit for innovators, rule-breakers and changemakers
• Summary of Innovation Games
• Innovation Games
  • Buy a feature
• The New York Times Product Discovery Activity Guide explained
• Download NYT Product Discovery Activity Guide
• Using Personas – or NOT? What do Prince Charles and Ozzy Osborne Have in Common? Three Ways to Leverage your Personas

Kano Analysis

• Kano Analysis – description and template

Impact Mapping

• What is impact mapping?
• Example impact map
• Impact Mapping – Sample from the book
• Lead an agile transformation with Impact mapping
• Problem Solving with Impact Mapping
• Impact Mapping Cheat Sheet
• The Art of Impact Mapping – short video

Sprint Goal

• Using the Sprint Goal, Technical Excellence & Delivering Value – Article by Jurgen De Smet
• The 11 Advantages of Using a Sprint Goal – by Barry Overeem
• The Product Owner’s Guide to Effective Sprint Goals – Blog post by Roman Pichler
• The Sprint Goal Template – by Roman Pichler
• A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF… The Sprint Goal – Blog post by Sjoerd Nijland
• Apply FOCUS to set great Sprint Goals – Blog post by Maarten Dalmijn
• Examples of Real Sprint Goals – Blog post by Christian Verwijs
• SMART goals – How to do SMART goal setting

User Stories

• The Forgotten Agility of User Stories

Story Mapping

• User Story Mapping
• How you slice it
• Story Map Concepts and Process
• Video to illustrate how written instructions can be misinterpreted

Anatomy

• Innovation in Project Management
• New (yet not so new) techniques for managing complexity in projects

Product Goal

• What are Product Goals in Scrum? – info on Scrum Alliance website

Product Backlog

• Seven Product Backlog Mistakes to Avoid – post by Roman Pichler

Product Playbook

• Great Products Don’t Happen By Accident – Using playbooks for designing and building products
• The Typeform Product Playbook

Story splitting

• Richard Lawrence has written lots about Story Splitting
  • The Humanizing Work Guide to Splitting User Stories
  • Story Splitting Cheat Sheet
• Lasse Koskela has written:
  • Ways to Split User Stories
• Gojko Adzic
  • Splitting user stories: the hamburger method
• J. B. Rainsberger
  • Three Steps to a Useful Minimal Feature
  • A walk through example
• James Grenning
  • Story Weight Reduction Toolkit
• Bill Wake
  • Twenty Ways to Split Stories
  • Summary sheet
• Tim Ottinger & Jeff Langr
  • Breaking Down Larger Stories (Agile in a Flash)
• Joshua Kerievski
  • Evolutionary Design
• OKR Quickstart
  • How to breakdown User Stories to deliver value sooner
• Lean Agile Training
  • Breaking Down User Stories – some resources

Architecture & Design

• Evolutionary Design
• Simplicitly Before Generality, Use Before Reuse

Patterns

• Scrum Patterns
• Scrum Anti-Patterns: Large Product Backlog
• Anti Patterns Catalog

Scaling Scrum

• My thoughts in a blogpost from 2015 (still valid)
• LeSS – Large Scale Scrum
  • A short 3 minutes video on the basics of LeSS by Michael James
  • An 8 minutes Introduction to LeSS video
• Three pieces on descaling your Scrum by Jim Coplien (published with permission)
  • DescalingYourScrum_part_1
  • DescalingYourScrum_part_2
  • MassProduction
• SAFe – Scaled Agile Framework
• Scrum@Scale®

Technical debt

• Technical debt – video clip of  Ward Cunningham about the metaphor technical debt
• Technical Debt Quadrant – Martin Fowler’s thoughts on what kinds of design flaws should or shouldn’t be classified as Technical Debt

Scrum in hardware

• Applying Agile To Hardware Development
• Agile in Hardware – Blogpost by Kenny Rubin
• Application of Scrum Methods to Hardware Development
• Agile Hardware – list of resources by Agile Pain Relief

More to download

• Business Value Game
• A Use Case is to a User Story as a Gazelle to a Gazebo – Article comparing Use Cases and User Stories

Videos

• Agile Product Ownership in a Nutshell
• Harmful Misconceptions About Product Owner Role
• Coordination Chaos

Introducing Agile and Scrum

• OpenSpace Agility
• Agile Methodology Design Principles by Jim Highsmith

Scrum or Kanban

• 5 Right Reasons to Apply Kanban
• 5 Wrong Reasons to Apply Kanban
• Why switching to Kanban won’t solve your problems

List of Literature and Recommended Reading

Scrum

• Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process, (Kenneth S. Rubin) https://a.co/d/chszu1d
• Succeeding with Agile, (Mike Cohn) http://bit.ly/VAHvj
• Agile Retrospectives – Making Good Teams Great, (Esther Derby and Diana Larsen) http://tinyurl.com/8amwq6
• Agile Software Development with Scrum, (Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle) http://tinyurl.com/9otcge
• Agile Project Management with Scrum, (Ken Schwaber) http://tinyurl.com/8gxw5b
• The Enterprise and Scrum, (Ken Schwaber) http://tinyurl.com/8rdsp3
• A Scrum Book: The Spirit of the Game https://amzn.to/3tbVSR9

Product Owner related

• Agile Product Management with Scrum, (Roman Pichler) http://tinyurl.com/38z2o25
• Software by Numbers, (Mark Denne, Jane Cleland-Huang) http://tinyurl.com/ygcrz36
• Managing the Design Factory (Donald Reinertsen) http://tinyurl.com/bmgnj7
• Crossing the Chasm, (Geoffrey A. Moore) http://tinyurl.com/3ysekq
• Lean Architecture: for Agile Software Development, (James Coplien) http://tinyurl.com/2wq8u7t
• The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development,
  (Don Reinertsen) http://tinyurl.com/3348ytu
• Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love (Marty Cagan) https://a.co/d/gwUz6bm
• User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product (Jeff Patton et al.) https://a.co/d/2pt0sYO
• Strategize: Product Strategy and Product Roadmap Practices for the Digital Age (Roman Pichler) http://a.co/9NXYEoA
• The Lean Startup, (Eric Ries) https://a.co/d/fnV4iOP
• The Four Steps to the Epiphany, (Steven Gary Blank) https://a.co/d/07TucqP
• Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers,
  (Alexander Osterwalder) https://a.co/d/3osoLWi
• Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want,
  (Alexander Osterwalder et al.) https://a.co/d/gbrdKbN
• Testing Business Ideas: A Field Guide for Rapid Experimentation, (David J. Bland, Alex Osterwalder) https://amzn.to/3j8QS9I
• Innovation Games: Creating Breakthrough Products Through Collaborative Play, (Luke Hohmann) http://a.co/bPwDVE7
• Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers, (Dave Gray et al.) http://a.co/936Usln
• Discover to Deliver: Agile Product Planning and Analysis, (Ellen Gottesdiener et al.) http://a.co/4tc0e2e
• Impact Mapping: Making a Big Impact with Software Products and Projects, (Gojko Adzic) https://a.co/d/3xSkRH2
• The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback,
  (Dan Olsen) http://amzn.eu/g03pzvV

Agile

• Agile Estimating and Planning, (Mike Cohn) http://tinyurl.com/39memw
• User Stories Applied, (Mike Cohn) http://tinyurl.com/9tl6w7
• Agile Software Development – The Cooperative Game, (Alistair Cockburn) http://tinyurl.com/7kyfp4
• Agile Adoption Patterns, (Amr Elssamadisy) http://bit.ly/11SPnU
• Project Retrospectives, (Norman Kerth) http://tinyurl.com/74oatu
• The Software Project Manager’s Bridge to Agility, (Michele Sliger, Stacia Broderick) http://amzn.to/awCcxx
• Changing Software Development: Learning to become Agile, (Allan Kelly) http://tinyurl.com/7srecg
• The Art of Agile Development, (James Shore) http://tinyurl.com/8qx4ld
• Agile Methodology Design Principles, by Jim Highsmith

Management and leadership

• Joy, Inc.: How We Built a Workplace People Love, (Richard Sheridan) https://a.co/d/5LJFYCW
• Chief Joy Officer: How Great Leaders Elevate Human Energy and Eliminate Fear, (Richard Sheridan) http://a.co/d/21cQZSI
• Management 3.0: Leading Agile Develepors, Developing Agile Leaders, (Jurgen Appelo) http://tinyurl.com/6gt8b72
• Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management, (Johanna Rothman, Esther Derby) http://tinyurl.com/7qowon
• Turn the Ship Around, (David Marquet) https://a.co/d/4vKV54F

Scrum and hardware

• Scrum for Hardware, (Paolo Sammicheli) https://leanpub.com/Scrum-for-Hardware

Scaling Scrum

• Scaling Lean & Agile Development, (Craig Larman, Bas Vodde) http://bit.ly/hJT8E

Other good stuff

• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, (Patrick Lencione) http://tinyurl.com/a8eaty
• Death by Meeting, (Patrick Lencioni) https://a.co/d/bxHCI8T
• Work Together Anywhere: A Handbook on Working Remotely—Successfully—for Individuals, Teams, and Managers, (Lisette Sutherland) https://amzn.to/2EjPeS2
• Lean Software Development – An Agile Toolkit, (Mary Poppendieck) http://tinyurl.com/8lsc4v
• Implementing Lean Software Development, (Mary Poppendieck) http://tinyurl.com/835wae
• Inviting Leadership: Invitation-Based Change™ in the New World of Work, (Daniel Mezick, Mark Sheffield) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0984875352
• The OpenSpace Agility Handbook, (Daniel Mezick et al) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0984875336
• The Mythical Man-Month, (Frederick P. Brooks) http://tinyurl.com/yajg6uy
• The Goal, (Eli Goldratt) https://a.co/d/jerwx88
• It’s not luck, (Eli Goldratt) https://a.co/d/ixZo0Tc
• Tur är det inte (“It’s not luck” in Swedish), (Eli Goldratt) http://tinyurl.com/dxvhkc
• Are Your Lights On?: How to Figure Out What the Problem Really Is, (Donald C. Gause and Gerald M. Weinberg) http://tinyurl.com/9ykknv
• Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos, (M. Mitchell Waldrop) http://tinyurl.com/83jnkn
• 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts
• 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts
• This is Lean – Resolving the Efficiency Paradox, (N. Modig, P. Åhlström) https://a.co/d/chszu1d
• Detta är Lean – lösningen på effektivitetsparadoxen (“This is Lean” in Swedish), (N. Modig, P. Åhlström) http://tinyurl.com/cxakwhk