Product Owners
Top 10 Tips To Becoming A Better PO
Seasoned PO’s (Product Owners) share a certain kinship bred from their time spent navigating the PO world; a world full of balancing, prioritizing and clarifying. We decided to capture their PO knowledge and ask them, “What do you know now that you wish you had known when you were a new PO?” From this question came a glut of useful, real-world tips that we offer to you. We present to you, our top 10 tips to becoming a better PO.
Read MoreThe PO and SM: A Match Made in Agile
Every year as the middle of February approaches, our world is taken over by little red hearts, cherubic cupids hoisting arrows and foil wrapped drugstore chocolates. The heavily scented fragrance of Valentine’s Day is in the air. For us at 3Back, even though the holiday has come and gone, our thoughts turn to partnerships that stand the test of time; a Scrummy yin and yang where complementary forces interact to create something great. We think we found it.
Read More4 Valid Reasons (And 1 Big Invalid Reason) the Product Owner Might Cancel a Sprint
The Product Owner may quit or cancel a Sprint at any time. This is no big deal, and there are lots of valid reasons the Product Owner may want to do it. There is also one BIG invalid reason to do so.
Read MoreShould Your Product Manager Be Your Product Owner?
Assume that you are on a Scrum Team doing development; your Team actually builds Product. Many people, including many Coaches and Trainers, would suggest that the Product Manager for that Product is your Team’s Product Owner.
Read MoreThe PO and SM: A Match Made in Agile
In Scrum, there’s no better example of companion roles than that of the Product Owner and ScrumMaster.
Read MoreProduct Ownership is Hard
Scrum’s Product Owner has had an interesting journey over the years. At first, the Product Owner was a person outside the Scrum Team who had big responsibilities: The Product Owner “is the person who is officially responsible for the project”
Read MoreThe Product Owner Dilemma
The following blog post was originally published on Scrum Alliance’s website in the Community Member Articles section. Please take a moment to join the conversation on Scrum Alliance and rate our infographic! Struggling to find some solid footing as a product owner? The PO role means balancing the push and pull of product management. That’s…
Read MoreTop 10 Tips To Becoming A Better PO
Seasoned PO’s (Product Owners) share a certain kinship bred from their time spent navigating the PO world; a world full of balancing, prioritizing and clarifying. We decided to capture their PO knowledge and ask them, “What do you know now that you wish you had known when you were a new PO?”
Read MoreAnother Kind of Overloaded Product Owner
We all know that basic Scrum looks like this: I like to refer to this kind of Scrum as the “five people in a garage” kisnd of Scrum. In this metaphor, imagine the Team is all together in a garage, the Stakeholders live next door, and the Product Owner is talking to them over the…
Read MoreProduct Ownership and ‘Overloaded’ Product Owners
In this blog post I show that doing Scrum with an overloaded Product Owner may require two people. This has been done (in practice) for years, and I want you to know that it’s not a violation of Scrum — there is no need to apologize for it… 🙂
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