Questions tagged [product-owner]
The product owner represents the stakeholders and is the voice of the customer. He or she is accountable for ensuring that the team delivers value to the business.
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Is it possible to remove Stories during a Sprint in Scrum?
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In our organization, we use velocity to forecast the amount of possible work in a Sprint. Sometimes, based on the Team's average velocity, we add extra features not related to the Sprint ...
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Should a Product Owner start testing while an item is in code review
We have a Product Owner (PO) who starts testing while an item is in code review and gives feedback to developers. I see, from the point of view of the PO, that this allows for quicker feedback. ...
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At what level should the Product Owner prioritize work?
I work for a small software company and I am the Scrum Master. In this company we have a small group of people who consist our StakeHolders. To represent the StakeHolder's interest the stakeholders ...
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Creating defect stories and inserting them immediately
When we have a story which can pass but produces a defect to be fixed, the PO or BA involved will usually write a new story and immediately insert it into the sprint on the basis that it is important ...
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How can we register the technical debt in Scrum?
Scrum emphasizes that all members of the team must know the technical debt of the product. But sometimes, this debt is not tangible as a simple to-do list. Should we register it as another task in the ...
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Which guidelines are applicable for a single Scrum Team managing multiple backlogs?
Does the Agile community have recommended processes for a single Scrum Team managing tasks coming in from multiple backlogs?
Context and Problem
One Scrum Team
One Scrum Master
Delivering value to an ...
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In an agile consultancy, is the Client the Product Owner?
I'm interested in understanding how agile project management differs between a single product-focused team and a digital agency or software development consulting firm.
For starters, in a situation ...
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Who truly prioritizes the product backlog? The Product Owner or Team?
I keep reading that during Product Backlog Grooming the development team meets with the PM and the Product Owner and as a team prioritizes the features.
Is it ultimately the Product Owner who decides ...
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How shall developers clarify PBI during its implementation?
Should developers have direct communication with stakeholders during Product Backlog Items implementation for their clarification. Or should all communication go through Product Owner?
On the Scrum ...
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Can we have a Sprint Zero with no deliverable code?
According to Ken Schwaber, “The minimum plan necessary to start a Scrum project consists of a vision and a Product Backlog. The vision describes why the project is being undertaken and what the ...
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Is Scrum actually suitable for all kinds of projects?
The project that I am working on is purely non functional and deeply technical in nature, focused on improving the performance of the product as a whole. I have trouble seeing how Scrum is an ...
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Product Owners- Tips for engaging non-Engineering in the agile process
From my experience, in mid to large size software companies, agile most often grows out of the eningeering organization. Either grass roots up, from the team level, or exec sponsored from the ...
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Conflict between priorities and skillsets in the backlog
So we have a very diligent PO who does a good job of prioritising the User Stories in the backlog when it comes to planning. Much of the work is highly specialised though, and - as well as being Scrum ...
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What happens when the PBI in a sprint are done but the sprint timebox hasn't expired?
I know that if PBI's cannot be completed within a sprint they can be re negotiated with the product owner
Now again a sprint cannot be shorted or lengthened then the agreed time box unless the ...
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Organisation fails to deliver a Product Owner
I am working in a Scrum-team that has been developing software for the past year. The organisation isn't used to agile product development and initially provided a weak product owner who was chosen ...
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How should the Scrum Team proceed if the PO is sick and can't attend the Sprint Planning meeting?
What should we do if the PO is unable to attend the Sprint Planning meeting? Is there a workaround for it?
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Should UI/UX designers work directly with the Product Owner?
I am currently a proxy PO, although my main role is as a Scrum Master but I help the PO with grooming the backlog.
We are developing a start up product - the PO wants me to manage everyone in the ...
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Issue found while testing but scenario not mentioned in acceptance criteria
Scenario: We have architects that writes specs and acceptance criteria. Business Specialists and Product owner does not give any documented business specs/logic so the architects writes the acceptance ...
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Sprint planning
I am a new PM/PO in a software firm in California. I am working with offshore team in India. As a new PM/PO I need to do Sprint Planning. As I understand, Sprint Planning is also known as Sprint 0 as ...
