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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

Scrum.org

Van Waardenburg & Van Vliet (2013) offer a case study in a large organization and conclude that “The Project Manager focuses on the ’how’ of a project, the Product Owner focuses on the ’what’”. Intermediary : Acting as an interface between management and the team and the process of disseminating domain knowledge.

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The Urge to Strangle(The Strangler Pattern)

Leading Agile

As people elsewhere in the organization learn about local solutions that provide partial support for their needs, they introduce various point-to-point interfaces and data feeds among these systems as a way to cobble together more-complete solutions. I was showing their development teams how to automate functional tests using Cucumber.