Poster: An empirical study of the product owner role inScrum

Bass, J; Beecham, S; Razzak, MA; Canna, CN; Noll, J

Abstract

The Product Owner (PO) is critical for translating business needs into a software implementation by gathering and prioritizing requirements, and assessing whether features have met the definition of “done.” There is a paucity of detail about how POs achieve this daunting task in practice with potential negative consequences for project success.


In this research we employed a mixed-method approach comprising two case studies in which we interviewed and observed 55 practitioners across 9 large multi-national companies and an SME. Using a cross-case analysis we identified twelve distinct Product Owner activities. From our empirical findings we created a Product Owner role taxonomy and found eight generic activities common to all teams, projects and companies regardless of project size.

Citation

Bass, J., Beecham, S., Razzak, M., Canna, C., & Noll, J. (2018). Poster: An empirical study of the product owner role inScrum. . https://doi.org/10.1145/3183440.3195066

• Conference Name: International Conference on Software Engineering
• Conference Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
• Start Date: May 27, 2018
• End Date: Jun 2, 2018
• Acceptance Date: Mar 7, 2018
• Online Publication Date: May 27, 2018
• Publication Date: May 27, 2018
• Deposit Date: Mar 26, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: May 17, 2018
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3183440.3195066