Product Owner

Main Objective:

The product owner will be the sole point of contact between the stakeholder community and the Scrum Team, accountable for managing the product backlog and optimizing the value of the work performed by the Development Team.

Main responsibilities and duties:

• Gathering feedback from key stakeholders across the board and communicating a cohesive vision for the development of projects to the Product Development Team
• Ensuring the Backlog’s items are clear, visible and transparent to all involved and organizing what each role needs to achieve within the next sprint
• Prioritizing needs according to the stakeholders’ objectives taking into consideration the triangle of time, budget and scope and determine how items will be assigned across teams
• Creating strategic plans and taking major decisions for the developers of the product to make sure that their work meets all the acceptance criteria
• Refinement of the process and identifying parts for improvement to keep planning aligned with deliverables and next steps required
• Taking into consideration the above, an agile product owner wears the hats of a customer liaison, product designer, business strategist, market analyst, and project manager. No, he is not a committee, he is an individual accountable for all the above and in order for an organization to succeed, his decisions need to get respected. Imagine owning a restaurant, he would definitely be your chef in charge!