Adaptive Product Owner Role
- Members: 1
- Leadership, Fact-based IT Planning, Fact-based Business Planning
Context
Most companies operate with a static role description of the product owner. This does not take into account that there is a lot of variability needed in the real world:
- Involved people have different leadership skills and seniority
- Different needs for distribution of decision rights between IT and business
- Different business domains demand different degree of innovation and varying entanglement with other domains
- Guidance of development teams must be matched to experience level
Goals
- Development of a role description framework that enables parameterizable task areas
- Sketch influential factors and their impact on the product owner role model Define product owner sub types
- Sketch process variants for the product development depending on product owner sub type
Required Expertise
Experienced expert who has filled one or more of the following roles or the manager of a respective department or team.
- Requirements engineer
- Business analyst
- Demand manager
- Product owner
