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The Product Owner (PO) is a member of the Agile Team. He / she is the representative of all stakeholders. His / her focus is the business side of the product. He / she carries the product vision to the team. He / she formalizes a specific, measurable and reasonable Team (Product) Backlog and prioritizes it by business value.
The Product Owner role was created to address challenges that (development) Teams had with multiple, conflicting directions, or no direction at all with respect to what to build. This single source of “the need, in priority order” keeps the Team focused and reduces churn which is the result of waiting for answers, or conflicting priorities.
Without a Product Owner organizations often have a number of problems:
The main responsibilities of a Product Owner are:
The basic answer is that the person is Business oriented person that can provide leadership for the team(s). Characteristics include:
Note: A lot of this text was developed by reading other web sites but it was done a long time ago and so I have lost the references. If you can provide information on sources I would be happy to attribute.
The Product Owner is involved in the following events:
Note: “Leads” does not mean Product Owner has to be the facilitator. Often the Scrum Master will facilitate the session freeing up the Product Owner to focus on the work of the meeting and results needed.
The Product Owner is typically sourced from a discipline that has a level of domain expertise for the Product they are working. Potential sources include:
If the domain expertise is not available then the person needs to have “Domain curiosity”; a willingness to dig in deeply to understand the (potential) customers.
In general, it is easier to train someone with domain experience how to be a Product Owner than it is to teach a generic Product Owner the domain.
Here are some tips and tricks to help you become a successful Product Owner:
A Product Owner is operating successfully when:
A Product Owner is not operating successful we when they: