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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 [...]



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 [...]



Prioritization – Key for a Scrum Product Owner




In any literature you would read about the concepts (and execution) of Scrum, you will find that one of the primary duties of the Scrum Product Owner is to have the Product Backlog maintained and ready to use at all points of time. What does this mean ? Well, it means that the Product Backlog [...]



Scrum Product Owner – Clear vision vs. evolving thought and adaptability




Scrum has been setup based on some principles that seek to map how modern software projects actually are, with the biggest basic principle being the fact that business requirements keep on changing. Hence, if there is a methodology that requires you to lock all your business requirements at the beginning of the cycle, and makes [...]