Product Owner Flashcards
What is the Product Owner responsible for?
The Product Owner accountability is held by one person. They are accountable for maximising the value of the product resulting from the work of the Scrum Team. How this is carried out will vary widely in practice.
How does the Product owner manage Product Backlog effectively?
The Product Owner is accountable for effective Product Backlog management. This includes:
- Developing and explicitly communicating the Product Goal.
- Creating and clearly communicating Product Backlog items.
- Ordering Product Backlog items.
- Ensuring that the Product Backlog is transparent, visible and understood.
What are the characteristics of effective Product Owners?
- They define and communicate the goal and strategy of the product they wish to build.
- They have a good understanding of customers, users, the business, the market place, the competition and of future trends for the product.
- They are effective communicators and facilitators, with the ability to enable groups of stakeholders to reach decisions, despite limited data or information.
- They are a decision-maker with the ability to say no, or not now, and explain why they have reached a decision.
Where is the value of Product Owner shown?
The value the Product Owner has helped create is made real and transparent via the Increment.
Why is being a product owner tough and how can they succeed in their role?
Being a Product Owner can be tough. If they make the wrong decision, we may build the wrong thing. Significant waste will result.
Product Owners need support from the Scrum Team and stakeholders to succeed.
Making information and decisions transparent combined with frequent inspection and adaptation around options and decisions will increase the probability of success.
