When I had big shoes to fill – my story of replacing a star PO

Amoli UpadhyeTata Consultancy Services

My story begins…

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Project 1

• Was short and smooth

• Thought added value

Project 2

• Was chaotic

• Built a coffee pot

Coffee pot of Masochists

Why talk about my experience?

• Explore scope for PO’s to – o Function in a structured

mannero Improve infinitely

Baby steps…

• Project 3, under seasoned PO

• Structured releases, stories

• Felt confident each day

• Signature mark

Parting gift

• Tools help

• But are no substitute for sound business judgment

• No classes teach that

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What did I learn and found helpful?

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Lesson 1

Be a great communicator

Lesson 2

Rock requirements

engineering

Lesson 3 Build water tight stories

Lesson 4

Watch your babies

while they play

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Right communication strategies• Structure your message• Apply 80 – 20 rule

• User persona• Storyboarding

Lesson #1 – Be a great communicator

• Add dimension to product requirement

Lesson #2 – Rock requirement engineering

• Adopt timely paper prototyping

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Lesson #3 – Build water tight stories

• Strategy• Scope• Structure• Skeleton• Surface

Stories

• Acceptance criteria

• Sizing• Testable

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Effective release planning

• Analytics

Lesson #4 – Watch your babies while they play

• Support tickets

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new users ….

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CR # 1

My journey continues …

• Drive empirical decisions

• Lend structure

• Facilitate improvement in PO areas

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Thank you

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Sample user persona

• Name – Mrs. Smith, age 30

• Goals – o Is a homemaker, lives with a family of 5o Stocks groceries, vegetables, fruits

on a weekly basis (Sunday’s) o Shops at departmental stores (is loyal to D’Mart)o Her checklist and offers running (eg. free gifts) at the

stores fill her shopping carto Doesn’t mind looking at new products on stands

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Paper prototyping

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Paper prototyping cont…

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Effective story boarding

Ant peacock brush air scene card doctor also goat keys greece king lion monkey parrot more main tiger Tennis gold silver lawn bakery cake donut

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• Air , also, Ant

• Brush, Bakery

• Cake, Card

• Doctor, Donut

• Goat, Gold, greece

• Keys, King

• Lawn, Lion

• Main, Monkey, More

• Parrot, Peacock

• Scene, silver

• Tennis, tiger