The Art of Agile Product Ownership: A Guide for Product Managers, Business Analysts, and Entrepreneurs

© Allan Kelly 2019

A. KellyThe Art of Agile Product Ownershiphttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5168-3_10

10. The Busy Product Owner

Allan Kelly¹ 

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London, UK

 

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

—John Lennon, “Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy),” Geffen Records, 1980

One aspect in particular of the Product Owner role really annoys me: they have so much work to do.

Or rather, a Product Owners who is doing their job properly—as opposed to simply administering the backlog—has so many things they should potentially be doing.

Consider the following responsibilities.

• Backlog administration: Writing stories, reviewing and discussing suggested stories, splitting stories, weeding the backlog (throwing stories away), improving stories, ...