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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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Please change the
form to register
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