The Feature Owner anti-pattern in the Scrum Product Owner role | Jim Sammons

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Confidence is one of the symptoms you are in the presence of a good Product Owner, when you add to that the ability to articulate the reasons for the decisions made as well as using data and analysis to support decisions, we know we have a great PO working with us. 

We also talk about the consequences from creating an implicit or explicit competition between Product Owners.

A great Product Owner will have a clear Vision of their product, but that’s not the only characteristic they exhibit. They can also clearly defend their Vision, using data, and analysis they’ve made. They intimately understand their product, business and customers. As they move away from “guessing” as a practice, they are not afraid to have difficult conversations about the product. 

Let’s imagine that your company creates an internal competition among teams and Product Owners. What will happen then? 

We discuss the consequences on the PO role that Jim has witnessed. 

In this segment, we refer to the work by Daniel Vacanti. 

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About Jim Sammons

Jim is currently a Professional Scrum Trainer with Scrum.org and works with an amazing team at Insight as an Agile Coach and trainer for their clients around the world. His time as a Scrum Master was awesome and fueled his passion for agility at all levels.

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