The Agile Fundamentals for Scrum Master? – The Agile Fundamentals – Part 12

The product owner

The product owner is the owner of the product as the name implies. The product owner “maximises the value of the product and the work of the development team”. He is the only responsible person for the product and the product backlog. He has the vision of the product. He is the connection point between the development team, customers and the rest of the organization and communicates with different groups engaged in the product. Hence, communication is an important aspect of this role.  He guarantees the visibility and transparency of the product backlog items and makes sure that they are clear to all team members. Having a product owner as the single point of information helps the team focusing on their direction. He is also the single point of responsibility for the product in the eyes of the rest of the organization.

The Product owner identifies and creates the product backlog items and maintains the product backlog over the evolution of the product. He is also responsible for product backlog prioritisation consisting of splitting and prioritizing user stories before sprint planning session. He must have some idea of the value of each story, as well as the size. In this regard, he takes the feedback from development team for a more accurate estimation. The Product owner continuously talks to the team to find out what they think of user stories in product backlog, in terms of implementation effort, satisfying the first value of Agile manifesto (valuing individuals and interactions over processes and tools). Though the product owner is responsible for the product backlog items, it is the development team who estimates the implementation effort for each item, thus the autonomy of the team is satisfied. For continuous and early delivery of the software, he splits the stories into pieces. Then he priorities the user stories for the development team based on the defined importance metrics such as business value or risk.

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