Becoming a Product Owner | Role, Craft, Skills and Tools

1. Understand the role of Product Owner and difference between Product Owner and Product Manager
2. List the key qualities that a Product Owner has to possess in order to succeed in the role
3. Identify own strengths and weaknesses and define the plan to leverage strengths and improve on weaknesses
4. Understand the key principles of Agile product development
5. Plan and conduct customer research
6. Build simple customer personas and customer journeys
7. Develop product vision and product roadmap
8. Drive the product development process and stakeholders communication
9. Identify and fix issues with the team’s health
10. Understand the difference between outcomes, outputs and team’s health
11. Practice asking the right questions to ensure best product outcomes
12. Estimate work using story points and t-shirt sizes
13. Adjust to highly volatile and complex environment
14. Practice creativity and flexibility
15. Give actionable feedback that supports personal growth and is not faced with hostility
16. Receive feedback without hard feelings and achieve continuous personal growth
17. Facilitate meetings and events, ensuring the best outcomes
18. Understand the difference between Jira and Trello
19. Use advanced functionality of Miro, Zoom and Slack
20. Know what and when can and should be outsourced