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The Product Owner as the liason between the Product Management and the Engineering team (contd..)




In the previous article (Product Owner as liaison between Scrum team and Product Management), we discussed the concept of having a Product Owner who works closely with the Scrum team, is co-located with the Scrum team; this gives the Product Manager much more time to work with actual customers, with industry, and learn more about [...]



The Product Owner as the liasion between the Product Management and the Engineering team




The role of the Product Owner is one of the most complex roles in the concept of Scrum. As opposed to the earlier role of the Product Management in a waterfall (or non-Scrum and non-Agile) who would deliver the requirements and provide inputs to the team once in a while, the amount of interfacing with [...]



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 [...]