Leadership and ownership are seen as one of the most challenging skills by Product Owners. Easy to learn but hard to master. You need to show ownership to prevent the backlog from filling up and your team from losing focus. Show leadership by working towards or towards self-organization and encouraging collaboration, commitment and continuous improvement. It is also important for making the right decisions. Being able to say ‘no’ in a constructive way with focus on the end goal.

vWithout a clear point on the horizon, you don’t know where
you are going and what you need to do to achieve it. Defining your vision and strategy is therefore crucial, not only for creating a valuable product but also for motivating teams and creating support. What is the product vision? How do you create it and how do you you put it into practice.

Working data-driven provides better measurements of current situations, earlier identification of problems, better prevention of problems, and more certainty about adding value. How best to measure, what metrics do you use, and when is it a success?

The roadmap is the map to get to the right destination. A dynamic document that responds to change. In many environments, people see this as a permanent fixture or the place to put all the ideas for the future… How do you create a successful roadmap? How do you maintain a roadmap that is supported by the organization? How do you determine the priority and how do you ensure support?

Stakeholder management is something that many Product Owners see as a big challenge. Crowded backlogs, individual stakeholders disrupting the sprint, a plethora of meetings, sprint reviews that the right people are present. How do you make sure you manage stakeholders properly? Unfortunately, in most organizations we still have to deal with targets, egos and different interests. This sometimes makes it difficult to do your job as PO properly.

Engaging your stakeholders is the key to success, dive deeper into stakeholder management and learn what it takes to realize maximum value for your stakeholders.

Without transparency, no one knows what you are doing, including yourself. Something that usually results in more meetings, contact moments and lack of clarity. How can you ensure that your key stakeholders are kept informed of developments in an easy way and more importantly: how can you ensure that your stakeholders understand what the progress is in a simple way? Visualizing is an great way to create understanding and clarity.