Agile encourages a significant reduction in the quantity of documentation that describes product requirements. It is therefore extremely important Product Owners can quickly and effectively measure the quality of the limited material that they produce.
Product Owner audits help manage the increased responsibilities that Product Owners have gained, whilst ensuring they meet one of the primary objectives of Agile manifesto, the very limited creation of documentations.
Dedicated Product Owner audits cover the following key topics:
- Business Profile
- Product Profile
- User Profile
On-demand availability of individual audits enables the Product Owner to collaborate with the Sprint Team, Customers, Suppliers and Stakeholders to quickly determine the suitability of the documentation that is produced.
Product Owner Audits occur at key Sprint milestones requiring less than 5 minutes of the Product Owners's time to administer and a few minutes to solicit the input from team members and stakeholders. A series of on-demand tools provide direct access to the necessary preconfigured knowledge enables real-time analysis to identify best practices that should be employed.
Step 1 - Configure
A wizard helps the Product Owner to: I. Tailor individual audits to accommodate unique product characteristics II. Nominate audit participants III. Trigger individual audit workflows that request participants to respond via a web based application � having received a notification via email.
Step 2 - Capture
In most instances recipients provide feedback to an individual audit question using a scaling 1 to 5, e.g. In your view how well do you agree with the following statement? The primary user of the product will be a Help Desk Support person within a Legal or Financial organisation.
Step 3 - Diagnose
Project weaknesses are identified following an analysis of the audit results. Poor resulst are defined by a low capabilities score (against best practices) and a large distribution of responses to a single audit question. An online root cause analysis tool ensures rapidly diagnosis of underlying process, tool and resources issues.
Step 4 - Optimise
Product Owner works with a preconfigured set of corrective measures that effectively address weaknesses and help promote best practices across the organisation.
