From the course: Agile at Work: Building Your Agile Team
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Understanding the product owner role
From the course: Agile at Work: Building Your Agile Team
Understanding the product owner role
- There's usually a separation between the customer's department and the group responsible for delivery. In a traditional project, the customer usually throws the request over the wall, and then waits for something to come back. The agile approach delivery is much different. The customer sits full-time with the team and works to deliver the project. The customer has a few names, depending the agile framework. Extreme programming calls the customer's role the customer representative. In Scrum, they're called the product owner. The product owner is often referred to as the most challenging role in a Scrum Team. They own the product. A product owner helps create the product vision. They do this by breaking the product down into small chunks and ranking the work from highest to lowest priority. The list is usually called the product backlog. The items on the list are usually written in the form of user stories. These are short narratives of what the product does, written from the user's…
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