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Discord between the Scrum team and the Product Owner on the feature list priority




This particular post is more of an opinion rather than a stated part of the process (as far as the discussion that I have had with several Scrum Masters has led me to believe). The Scrum process outlines a role for the Product Owner to define the features of the product, and also to determine [...]



When executive apply pressure on the Scrum team to get a required number of features in




When a team is following Scrum, it means that the team decides the estimates, the number of features that are to be done per cycle (Sprint). The priority of features is as per the Product Owner, and it is the responsibility of the Product Owner to ensure that all the stakeholders are kept in the [...]



Scrum problem – when there are multiple Product Owners for the project, and they do not coordinate well




The problem that I am describing in this post does not happen for a large number of projects, where you have teams of around 5 – 10 people, with one Scrum team, and one Product Owner. In teams of this size, everything is self-contained and the team does not have any dependencies that cannot be [...]



Scrum problem – Making sure that the Product Owner is empowered to take decisions, especially the tough ones




In a typical organizational structure of a product development organization, the Product Manager has a fairly powerful role. It is the Product Manager who looks at the features that are to make it into the Product. This is done based on various factors such as competitor analysis, various interactions with customers and industry experts, analysis [...]