Comments on: Scaling the Product Owner Role

By: Roman Pichler

Roman Pichler — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 11:12:29 +0000

You’re welcome Pranita and thanks for sharing your feedback. Great to hear that you found the article helpful.

By: Pranita Kadam

Pranita Kadam — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 09:50:00 +0000

Wonderful! It is so relevant to what we do today in the organisation I work with.
We have a mix of Product and feature owners, Product variants and unbundling, & Strategic and tactical product roles.
And now after reading your article I begin to understand why the structure is built like this 🙂

You have beautifully explained all the scaling options. Thanks a lot!

By: Roman Pichler

Roman Pichler — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 08:32:14 +0000

In reply to nadia.

Hi Nadia, Thank you for sharing your feedback and experience. Sounds like you may benefit from experimenting with having one person in charge of the product (product manager / Scrum product owner) and using feature owners to manage product parts.

By: nadia

nadia — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 16:29:55 +0000

Hi Roman,

Thanks for all your insights! In my organization, they have chosen the 3rd option: strategic and tactical scale. Although it might make sense in some cases, the border between the 2 is not that simple. When I explain the difference between the 2 roles as per option 3, the PM tell me that they won’t have enough work if they only take into account strategical and high level responsibilities… then, I see most of PM doing the PO job even if they don’t talk directly to dev team… I find these 2 roles duplicated, and it doesn’t work from my view.

Thanks for your opinion!

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 22:21:55 +0000

In reply to Roman Pichler.

Thanks Roman, it makes sense and definitely helps. I also found the article suggested very insightful, it helps a lot to understand different variants of product ownership roles

By: Roman Pichler

Roman Pichler — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 07:16:17 +0000

In reply to Frank.

Thank you for sharing your feedback and question Frank. I would recommend determining the product an infrastructure team looks after. If it is a collection of shared assets, like common components or services, then it may make sense to have someone who owns and manages this collection aka platform, please see my article “Six Types of ‘Product” Owners’“. Does this help?

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 21:13:52 +0000

Hi Roman, thanks for this article. It is very insightful and helps to have a clear picture on the available alternatives for scaling a Scrum product, regardless of the framework (LeSS, SAFe, Scrum@Scale, among many others). I wanted to ask you if you had any recommendations when working with Infrastructure teams. My gut would be that probably a mix between options 1 and 3 would work best for a large and mature product. Was interested in your thoughts. Thanks!

By: Roman Pichler

Roman Pichler — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 12:28:06 +0000

In reply to Ionut-Adrian Bejenaru.

Thank you for your feedback Lonut-Adrian.

By: Ionut-Adrian Bejenaru

Ionut-Adrian Bejenaru — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 10:57:20 +0000

Awesome read. And why it is so great – because it is still relevant today. These options seem the best even today. I like the idea to choose the best option depending on the life cycle of a product.

By: Roman Pichler

Roman Pichler — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 14:28:13 +0000

In reply to Ben Schraag.

Thanks for your feedback Ben. Tactical product owners may look after a feature or a component–depending on what is most appropriate for your product. Does this help?