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Poster: An empirical study of the product owner role in scrum
Date
2018
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.
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peer-reviewed
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
Citation
ICSE '18 Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceeedings;pp. 123-124
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Beecham_2018_Poster.pdf
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Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)