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_19

19. The Product Owner Refactored

Allan Kelly¹ 

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London, UK

 

Perhaps in the ideal world, the Product Owner would not exist. The team would contain a mix of business and customer facing skills together with technology knowledge and would work together to produce the right thing.

Indeed, this model sometimes exists in teams of one—which really isn’t a team. From time to time individuals possess both the technical skills to create a software product and to understand what is needed. Such individuals can create great products. Being in the right place at the right time helps too, as when experienced Programmer Dan Bricklin saw an opportunity and created ...