Organizational Insights and Comments on the Agile Product Owner Role

Mike Cottmeyer (www.leadingagile.com) recently added some insightful comments on this prickly topic that I thought were worth highlighting. I am coming to the conclusion that the Agile PO is actually three roles combined: the traditional Product Manager, the Project Manager, and the Business Analyst.…. how do we decide who is the single accountable person for the [...]

Agile Journal Article Series: The Product Owner in the Agile Enterprise

For those following this blog series, some of this content has been repurposed for a three part series in the Agile Journal. Part I- On Agile Product Managers and Product Owners: A Scalable, Nuanced Approach, has just been published. The content mostly follows what is being published here, but its’ stitched together for a little [...]

Agile Product Owner and Agile Product Manager in the Enterprise Part 3: Skills and Attributes of the Product Owner

Note: This is a part 3 of continuing series on the critical Product Owner’s role within the agile software enterprise. My primary collaborators on this series are Mauricio Zamora of CSG Systems, and Jennifer Fawcett of www.agileproductowner.com. This series, in turn, is in part an elaboration of the broader Agile Enterprise Big Picture series. Recap [...]

Agile Product Owner and Agile Product Manager in the Enterprise: Part 2- A Dual Role Approach

Note: This is part of a new and continuing series which is collected under the Product Owner/Product Manager category. In the last post, Agile Product Owner and Agile Product Manager in the Enterprise: Part 1- On Product Owners AND Product Managers , I described how both of these roles and titles are likely to exist in [...]

Agile Product Owner and Agile Product Manager in the Enterprise: Part 1- On Product Owners AND Product Managers

This post starts a new series on the role of the Agile Product Owner and Agile Product Manager in the Enterprise context. While I, and others, have certainly opined on this topic in this series in the past, the continuing interest, enterprise challenge and controversy (this topic gets more blog hits than any other category [...]

Use Cases in the Agile Enterprise Requirements Information Model

Note: this is the conclusion (for the moment at least) of an extended series on a Lean and Scalable Agile Enterprise Requirements Information Model, which can be found in the Agile Requirements blog category. In an earlier post “What, No Use Cases in the Requirement Information Model?”, I noted the following. “Regarding use cases, I [...]

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