Three Wide-Spread Product Owner Failures in three videos of 6:09 minutes. (From the “Making Your Scrum Work” series by Age-of-Product.com.)
Join the DZone community and get the full member experience. There are plenty of Product Owner failures. Given that Scrum is a framework with a precise and concise yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. Explore with me three widespread examples of how Product Owners fail their team in three short video clips, totaling 6 minutes and 9 seconds. Let’s refresh our memories regarding the job of the Product Owner: Source: The Scrum Guide on the Product Owner. Let me “walk” you through often observed Product Owner anti-patterns, from oversized Product Backlogs to prioritization by proxy to the omniscient Product Owner: The Product Backlog of your team comprises hundreds of entries, from user stories to ideas to hypotheses and experiments to documentation fragments—you name it. Dumping everything into the Product Backlog—probably in the name of transparency—poses a massive challenge for various reasons: Tip: Apply the Goldilocks principle—“just right”—and find your balance as a team.
