Making the Agile Hat Trick: Product Owners, Managers, and Architects
Presentation Abstract
Content development organizations making the transition from waterfall processes to Agile Scrum are rarely allowed to recruit dedicated scrum masters, product owners, or Agile coaches. Individual writers may join existing scrum teams with dedicated scrum masters and product owners, but the content development groups themselves need to constitute Agile scrum teams and the roles associated with those teams from within. Staffing the all-important role of Agile product owner is the most challenging.
Based on my years of experience as a pubs manager, information architect, and Agile product owner, I plan to address the following questions:
- According to industry organizations promoting Agile Scrum, which skills are germane to the role of product owner?
- How do the skills typically associated with the roles of manger and information architect overlap with those of the product owner?
- If one person is functioning in multiple roles, what can they do to preserve the integrity of each role?
- How can people managers leverage the collective wisdom of other Agile leaders to mentor team members?
To illustrate these points, I will show attendees out-takes (screen shots) from our department scrum team backlogs and characterize how people in the roles of manager, architect, and product owner make distinct and positive contributions.
What can attendees expect to learn?
Agile Scrum consultants tend to ignore or underinvest in content development organizations when they shape an organizational migration to Scrum. Attendees should find this presentation dirt-practical — what do they need to do to support existing team members moving into or supporting the role of Agile product owner.
Meet the Presenter
Stan Doherty lives in the the Boston area and works as a technical publications manager at HPE-SimpliVity. He participates as a voting member of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee, serves as secretary for the OASIS DITA Adoption Technical Committee, and supports companies in New England considering DITA. Feel free to contact Stan if you are considering DITA, DITA tools, and DITA-aware CCMSs.
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