We’ve come at last to number ten on my top ten list of the core responsibilities of effective product owners in an Agile software development environment.  In this set of posts I have talked about the image of product owners as bridges connecting the intelligence of the market with the resources of technology to create… Continue reading Know your product intimately

In my last blog post I wrote about how the product owner facilitates good decision-making when the team faces the need to make tradeoffs. This time I want to talk about another challenging responsibility for strong product owners: protecting the development team from unhelpful distractions. Anyone who has been reading this blog knows that perhaps… Continue reading Protect the team