WHO STANDS THE BEST PRODUCT OWNER ROLE?
Published on April 10, 2020
Who is product owner?
Product owner is a role in agile scrum development team who represents the client and the key stakeholder of the business to the development team and collaboratively works with both groups to ensure there is a clear understanding of what features are, and what requires to build the products and application.
Product owner endorse many responsibilities to maximize the value of the products and the workflow of the scrum team, such as managing the products backlog, progressing the value of the work done, guiding the team to achieve the best results and making sure that the products backlog is visible transport and clear.
Why do you need product Owner?
We need product owner to ensure the successful delivery in the project of the business and maximize the value in return on investment, from the products and from development team. Therefore, product owner takes the responsibility in prioritizing the products backlog, defining and accepting or rejecting the features and constantly gain and comprehend insight into the needs of the customers and users of the software that needs to be developed.
Other responsibilities involves helping the team throughout every iteration or sprint, being available to the team when needed and strongly skills to understand the features from the client or stakeholder and translate into a small or user stories, and simplify the features making it easy for the development team to comprehend and to work on it.
Product Owner background business development
Business development representative has the comprehensibility of the business requirements in the organization and knows inside out of the business context, market, customers and users well. Leveraging the previous business experience, he/her knows the need of the customers and users and their requirements expectation.
Therefore, business development representative is well suited for the products owner role, because of his/her senior level of expertise in dealing with key stakeholders and negotiating tactic, with clients to understand the vision and the mission of the products and continuously expressing the products feature in a simple way for others to understand. On the other hand, he/her also expresses expertise in collaboration with the design and development team to ensure that requirements of key stakeholder are well deliver.
Product Owner background in the Entrepreneur
Having an entrepreneur spirits in products owner role is another winning monument for success. This kind of product ownership comes from entrepreneurial background also knows as mini-CEO, which the organization strongly desire to achieve for their organization. The Entrepreneur product owner can achieve the most impact for customer, users and the organization with full authority over the product vision and mission for the market, customer and the products.
The entrepreneur product owner has a tendency to be a strong leadership and communication skills as well as profit and loss knowledge. He/her is well experience in maintaining the company, operations, marketing, legal aspect and sales referring themselves as an entrepreneur.
Product Owner background in Development team
The developer product owner understands the actual products, coding and what customer and users needs, that include pain and gain of the development team. The developer product owner has the capacity to develop any products or service that better fits the customer needs. Besides, understanding the customer and building the right things will definitely deliver the better result from the products and satisfaction for the user. As technology continuously move into the future, building a better products have become more and more self-organization and automation.
My name is Kumar Dahal and I am a product owner with 3+ years of experience in agile Scrum and Kanban environment. Background incorporates with 6+ years of dynamic SaaS platform, custom software development and telecommunication experience. Collaboratively, supported the team with leadership and guidance over a wide range of software products developments, in previous roles reduced the delivery time by 20% and was able to coordinate 95% of products completion in line with the company roadmap.
For more information, I can be reached at kumar.dahal@outlook.com or https://www.linkedin.com/in/kumar-dahal/ https://visucraft.com/talktokumar/default.html
