Agile Product Owner/Agile Product Manager- Series
Posted on February 27, 2009
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For those of you still trying to weed through the APO/APM roles and responsibilies, I highly recommend Dean Leffingwell’s latest series on the subject. Dean takes an appropriate and mature enterprise view of how to grow or transition to the agile organization, even down to the most effective size and mix of teams for optimal efficiency. This team-based approach defines clear roles and responsibilities, and provides the cleanest definition between the two roles (I say roles, not titles!) that I’ve seen to date.
He also elaborates on the need for Product Owners by stating the following:
Further, as taught and commonly practiced, the Scrum Product Owner has additional, tactical activities that directly contribute to the team’s success. These include:
- Setting objectives for the Sprint (iteration)
- Prioritizing and maintaining the backlog
- Participating in the Iteration planning meeting
- Elaborating stories on a just in time basis with the team
- Accepting stories into the baseline
- Accepting the Iteration
- Driving release planning
That’s just a teaser. Be sure to visit the article. In the end, you’ll walk away with a nice recap of the critical duel, yet partnering roles the Agile Product Owner and Agile Product Manager play within the organization. Nice work Dean! Read the entire series here.
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