Succeeding with Agile

Overcoming Common Problems

There are many potential pitfalls when selecting the initial product owner. Some of the most common early-stage problems and what you can do to address them include

The product owner delegates decision making but then overrules the decision maker

To fit the new duties of the product owner into their schedules, some product owners delegate decisions about specific parts of the product. Other product owners enlist a business analyst to be a “feature owner” over some part of the system. This can work well because the product owner has more time to dedicate to areas that are not as easy to delegate.

See Also

Establishing a product owner hierarchy like this is a common scaling technique and is described in Chapter 17 ...