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Scrum – What are some of the important attributes of a successful Product Owner (contd..)




In the previous post on this topic (attributes of a successful Product Owner), I tried to list some down some of the properties that a successful Scrum Product Owner should have. In this post, I will continue on this line and try to put down some more properties that a Scrum Product Owner should have. [...]



Scrum – What are some of the important attributes of a successful Product Owner




When teams (or organizations) implement Scrum for the first time (or for the first few times), the changes required for Scrum involve some amount of re-thinking of their roles and responsibilities from the various stakeholders. Training can be conducted, but training can only do so much. Training can be an important pre-requisite for success, but [...]



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 – When the Product Owner does not have enough time for detailing the requirements




All those who work in a Scrum project are familiar with the concept of the Sprint Planning meeting where the Product Owner works through the various User Stories from the Product Backlog (reading off the prioritized list), details them out enough that the Scrum team can prepare estimates for these, and answers all queries that [...]