Agile Product Owner Chapter

Since the agile product manager/product owner topics get a lot of interest on the blog, I thought I’d push this Chapter out for review.  It’s available at the book resource tab, too.
Ch 11 Role of the Product Owner (Rev 11)

Agile Journal Part III – Seeding the Agile Product Owner in the Enterprise

Part III of the Series, the Agile Product Owner in the Enterprise is now available in the April edition of the Agile Journal. In this article, I provide a number of case study vignettes as to how larger enterprises went about the process of staffing this critical role in their agile transition. Part I- On [...]

Agile Product Owner and Agile Product Manager in the Enterprise 5: Seeding the Product Owner Role

In prior posts in this blog series and in the Agile Journal, I’ve described the critical role the team-based agile Product Owner plays in helping achieving enterprise agility. Indeed, the role, originally defined by Scrum, is now so comprehensive in agile methods that the role is hard to separate from the practice of agility itself. [...]

Agile Product Owner and Agile Product Manager in the Enterprise 4: Responsibilities of the Product Owner in the Enterprise

Note: This is the fourth post in a series on the agile Product Owner and agile Product Manager’s roles within the agile software enterprise. My primary collaborators on this series are Mauricio Zamora of CSG Systems, and Jennifer Fawcett of www.agileproductowner.com. In this post, I’ll describe some of the specific responsibilities of the enterprise Product [...]

Agile Journal Part II – Responsibilities of the Agile Product Owner in the Enterprise

For those following this blog series, some of this content has been repurposed for a three part series in the Agile Journal. Part I- On Agile Product Managers and Product Owners: A Scalable, Nuanced Approach, was published last month. Part II – Responsibilities of the Agile Product Owner in the Agile Enterprise has just been [...]

Organizational Insights and Comments on the Agile Product Owner Role

Mike Cottmeyer (www.leadingagile.com) recently added some insightful comments on this prickly topic that I thought were worth highlighting.
I am coming to the conclusion that the Agile PO is actually three roles combined: the traditional Product Manager, the Project Manager, and the Business Analyst.…. how do we decide who is the single accountable person for the team, [...]

Agile Journal Article Series: The Product Owner in the Agile Enterprise

For those following this blog series, some of this content has been repurposed for a three part series in the Agile Journal. Part I- On Agile Product Managers and Product Owners: A Scalable, Nuanced Approach, has just been published. The content mostly follows what is being published here, but its’ stitched together for a little [...]

Agile Product Owner and Agile Product Manager in the Enterprise Part 3: Skills and Attributes of the Product Owner

Note: This is a part 3 of continuing series on the critical Product Owner’s role within the agile software enterprise. My primary collaborators on this series are Mauricio Zamora of CSG Systems, and Jennifer Fawcett of www.agileproductowner.com. This series, in turn, is in part an elaboration of the broader Agile Enterprise Big Picture series.
Recap of [...]

Agile Product Owner and Agile Product Manager in the Enterprise: Part 2- A Dual Role Approach

Note: This is part of a new and continuing series which is collected under the Product Owner/Product Manager category.

In the last post, Agile Product Owner and Agile Product Manager in the Enterprise: Part 1- On Product Owners AND Product Managers , I described how both of these roles and titles are likely to exist in the [...]

Agile Product Owner and Agile Product Manager in the Enterprise: Part 1- On Product Owners AND Product Managers

This post starts a new series on the role of the Agile Product Owner and Agile Product Manager in the Enterprise context. While I, and others, have certainly opined on this topic in this series in the past, the continuing interest, enterprise challenge and controversy (this topic gets more blog hits than any other category [...]