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Product Owner in Scrum – the mismatch between being the voice of the customers and working closely with the team




I work for an organization that has a mix of teams using Scrum, using Waterfall, using iterative, and other software development methodologies. Corresponding to this, we have a Product Management team that works on the different projects that are in execution; these Product Managers are responsible for the various projects that we are doing for [...]



Problems when the Product Owner is not able to specify a priority list of requirements




In many posts in the past, we have talked about one of the primary responsibilities for the Product Owner (Product Management) being the need to maintain a Product Backlog, that has all the requirements, converted into User Stories, in prioritized order. And this is an area where there are a lot of issues. We have [...]



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 [...]