Product Roles

Five Product Owner Myths Busted

The product owner is a role which is often misunderstood and frequently misapplied. In this article, I address five common…

4 years ago

Are Feature Teams or Component Teams Right for Your Product?

Whenever you require more than a single development team to progress your product, you have to consider how to organise…

4 years ago

Six Types of “Product” Owners

While the product owner role is not new—it emerged in Scrum in the second half of the 1990ies—there is still…

5 years ago

Product Leadership in Scrum

Product owners can take on too many responsibilities, become too tactical and inward-focused, and lose sight of their main job:…

7 years ago

Be a Balanced Product Leader, Not a Feature Broker or Product Dictator

Being an effective product leader is not easy: It requires embracing people's ideas as well as saying no, being neither…

7 years ago

Do Product Owners Need Technical Skills?

As a product owner, you look after a digital product and work with a development team. Does this mean that…

7 years ago

The T-Shaped Product Professional

Product management is a multi-faceted discipline. This makes our work interesting and varied. But it can also make it hard…

8 years ago

Product Manager vs. Product Owner

For years, people have debated what the difference between the product manager and the product owner role is, if the…

8 years ago

8 Tips for Collaborating with Development Teams

The development team is a key partner for every product manager and product owner: the team designs and builds the…

8 years ago

Scaling the Product Owner Role

In theory, the product owner is one person. But in practice, managing a larger, complex product is usually a shared…

9 years ago