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Product Owner And Product Manager, Brothers In Arms

A lot of words have been spoken, written or recorded about the role of Product Owner (PO). So many that it’s hard to imagine that there is an empty spot for a new word or thought. However, when I interview people for the PO position more often than not, I’m faced with solid knowledge of Scrum roles, artefacts and ceremonies, skills in Jira or other tools, but very limited to none experience in product creation and management.

Is that how things should be?
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Product Owner, role and prejudice – Part 2

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Here’s a blog post from October 2018 that I wrote for the Agile Serbia blog about the role of Product Owner (PO) in Scrum.

In the second part of this blog post, I analyze different types of Product Owners and the ways how to help them evolve into a full-fledged, independent PO.

With it, most common challenges that Product Owners meet in their job are given here, together with ideas how to overcome them.

At the end I give my perspective on where in the organizational structure should a PO role sit.

Enjoy reading!

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