We’ve reached the half-way point in my top ten list of the core responsibilities for product owners in an Agile software development environment. We started with talking about the importance of strong communication between the product owner and the product manager. In an organization where these roles are played by two different people, tight teamwork… Continue reading Working with QA
As I have been writing about over the past few weeks, there are a number of key responsibilities that strong product owners carry. I’ve talked about communicating with the product manager who provides vital information from the market. I’ve talked about creating user stories as the best way to capture the reasons why we are… Continue reading Someone who knows the answers
In my current blog series on the primary responsibilities of Product Owners, I’ve talked already about the importance of regular communication with the Product Manager and the value of telling stories – specifically of generating user stories that prompt good conversations among the development team members about what users are trying to accomplish. I received… Continue reading Tend the backlog
I wrote last time about the key role of strong communication between product owners and product managers. As I continue with the second of my ‘top ten responsibilities of product owners’ I want to focus on telling stories. Great product owners translate the market knowledge gathered by product managers into concise stories that developers can… Continue reading Tell stories
I started this new set of blog postings about the top ten responsibilities of great product owners by talking about the role of strong product managers. I know that in some product organizations one person plays both of these roles, balancing her time and energy among the many strategic and tactical tasks that link engineers… Continue reading Communication is key
In a well-functioning Agile development team, the members of the team collaborate in multiple ways during a given development cycle or Sprint. Coders, testers, designers, and product owners work closely with each other to ensure that the most important features and fixes are worked on in the right way at the right time, also bringing… Continue reading Know your role
I know there are at least a couple of folks who read this blog because I get occasional comments from you in person, but I would love to know if there are more people who enjoy what I’m writing – or even any who find the content useful. If you wouldn’t mind and if you… Continue reading Quick check for feedback
The scrum team I work with – like the company that I am part of – is globally distributed. We have coders and testers spread across offices in Europe and South America as well as in our home office in the US. This means that our daily scrums involve video calls linking the team members… Continue reading Clear communiction is crucial
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