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  • How Do We Define Product Owners | enthiosys agile product management
    1. The world calls them product managers. When software companies build new product teams, they assign a product manager. Job boards advertise product management openings. Recruiters troll for them. Companies are not ambiguous about needing development managers and QA leads, nor are they fuzzy about wanting experienced product management. When revenue is at stake, companies want a track record of success in well-understood roles. The industry calls these people product managers.
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  1. Rich Mironov says:
    November 10, 2009 at 8:49 am

    Could not agree more!
    Although scrum-oriented teams are trained and created to seek out product owners, so we need to address the problem as it exists in dev teams and agile organizations. If we’re very (very!) clear about what product managers should/will do within an organization, we can determine if we also need (small-p) product owners to be face-front within the dev teams.
    – Rich (www.Enthiosys.com)

  2. German Flores says:
    November 10, 2009 at 12:18 pm

    Interesting point of view regarding the small-product-owners. So true also how SCRUM makes it one of it’s core principals to have that product owner involved.

    In some cases these product owners might need to be IT staff that can interface and help the business users when they lack technical knowledge, not the best scenario but an option to help the product.

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