Hone Agile Product Owner Behaviors that Lead to Marketplace Winners Organizations pour vast
resources into building new products and services. Yet too many are poorly conceived  don't
delight (or even satisfy) customers  and fail in the marketplace. The solution is more
effective agile product ownership and product management. This book is an expert guide to the
behaviors  stances  and practices of world-class agile product development  reflecting deep
in-the-trenches experience from world-renowned experts. Chris Lukassen and Robbin Schuurman
introduce powerful tools  ideas  and skills for delivering superior products and services  and
for avoiding pitfalls that keep you from seeing what customers really need and want. Learn
through a start-to-finish  Scrum-based case study  drawing on concepts the authors created for
their breakthrough Scrum.org Professional Scrum Product Owner-Advanced (PSPO-A) training
course. This innovative approach has already helped thousands of product owners excel--and it
can transform the way you create products. Replace negative product owner behaviors with
approaches that lead to excellence Represent customers more empathetically and effectively
Connect customers  values  and features more coherently Tell better stories  set clearer goals
and create more valuable roadmaps Innovate business models  run better experiments  and scale
products more successfully Make more successful decisions  involve the right people  and rely
on better data Become a great agile collaborator  across governance  budgeting  contracting 
and beyond Influence customers  users  stakeholders  and teams to improve your overall
effectiveness Optimize every organizational role related to product ownership Product owners 
managers  and team leads will find this guide indispensable along with Agile Scrum coaches 
consultants  and executives wanting to generate more value from product management across the
organization.