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The LeSS product owner

The LeSS product owner

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The LeSS product owner

- The product owner is one of the most important roles on any agile team. They set direction and also feed the team the highest value work. They're the one who is ultimately responsible for whether or not the product meets the customer's expectations. LeSS takes this product owner role and upsizes it to even greater importance. Instead of just one team, the product owner will oversee several different teams. Instead of just working with one set of customers, the LeSS product owner will work with groups of product managers in many different feature teams. The product owner has to manage five key relationships. The first is the relationship between herself and the development teams. Perhaps the most difficult is the relationship between the product owner and the development teams. Remember that the product owner is responsible for distributing the work to all of the teams. That means she has to have a clear and…

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