Author Allan Kelly, who delivers Agile training courses to major companies, pulls from his experience to help you discover what it takes to be a successful product owner. You will learn how you need to define your role within a team and how you can best incorporate ownership with strategy. With the Agile method, time is the key factor, and after using the lessons from this book you will confidently be able to synthesize features, functionality, and scope against delivery. You will find out how other team members such as the UX designer and business analyst can support and enhance your role as product owner, and how every type of company structure can adaptfor optimal agility.

Part 1: Meet the Product Owner.- Chapter 1: What Are You Building?.- Chapter 2: Why Have a Product Owner?.- Chapter 3: Who Is the Product Owner?.- Chapter 4: Requirements, Discover, and Demand.- Chapter 5: Every Product Owner Needs Four Things.- Chapter 6: Customers, Users, and Stakeholders.- Part 2: What Do Product Owners Do?.- Chapter 7: Scrum and the Product Owner.- Chapter 8: On-Stage Product Owner.- Chapter 9: Off-Stage Product Owner.- Chapter 10: The Busy Product Owner.- Chapter 11: Stop Doing.- Chapter 12: Specialist Help.- Part 3: Role Models.- Chapter 13: Product Owner as Entrepreneur.- Chapter 14: The Project Manager Role.- Chapter 15: What Do Project Managers Do?.- Chapter 16: Changes in Product Management.- Chapter 17: The Business Analyst Role.- Chapter 18: The Different Types of Business Analysts.- Part 4: Challenges.- Chapter 19: The Product Owner Refactored.- Chapter 20: Changing Hats.- Chapter 21: Mission Impossible.- Chapter 22: The End.- References.