Tactical product owner

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collaborative product discovery of a large product or product portfolio in a complex and layered organization.

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The work is simply too much for a single product owner. Finding or training a good product owner is hard and expensive.

Arlen Bankston explains: tactical product owners focus on productive product creation:

  • One per team
  • Write or lead development of detailed User Stories
  • Lead analysis and refinement activities to get user stories ready to build
  • Make development team- and sprint-level prioritization decisions
  • Focus on product backlog and sprint planning meeting (for scrum teams)
  • Realize the product, including operational rollout and documentation
  • Address market opportunities
  • Collect and process customer & user product feedback
  • Optimize feature set within set pricing constraints

Current business analysts can evolve into agile business analysts and become excellent candidates for tactical product owners.

Therefore:

Split the single product owner into a strategic product owner and tactical product owner. For successful collaborative product discovery distinguish between but do not separate these mutually reinforcing roles.

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Sometimes, these roles are named chief product owner and product owner.


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