Product Owner

“We have these fully cross-functional teams meaning they are stuffed with all necessary functions, engineers, data analysts, designers operation managers, and so on. And we also operate in metrics. So everyone has a line manager and the functional manager. So p…”

“When you delegate such an important thing as customer research and collecting their feedback to someone, you will get refined the filtered version. You won't get this, you know, like these nuances of how people describe things, which emotions they feel like, a…”

“And if something is 99% done, it's closer to zero percent rather than a hundred percent.”

“The person who's writing the ticket doesn't actually understand the work that's involved. You know what I mean? So there are so many unknowns and time bombs waiting in those tickets that sound reasonable, but they weren't really created by the person who under…”

“The product owner role was the third fastest growing role in tech. And this was just in the U S the data I was looking at, but I think it's probably true broadly.”

“When people get trained to be a product owner, it's usually a two-day class where they teach them, hey, this is how you break down a backlog. This is how you do stand-ups with your teams. This is how you think about prioritizing work. This is how you manage yo…”

“What I've seen that doesn't work here is that you are basically making these product owners order takers. They are extremely tactical.”

“Take Scrum away. You still need product management, right? Like product owner doesn't exist without Scrum. That's not a thing, but you still need product managers. And that's why all product owners should be product managers. They should be fundamentally produ…”

“Google has no product owners as far as they know. Amazon, Microsoft, Netflix, like no company you, you've heard of that's a tech company has a product owner. They have, or they're all product managers. They're all product managers.”

“Get rid of these two different titles because it's confusing everybody. I've seen companies... I've seen companies with 47 different titles for product managers.”

“I think that there's this artificial separation sometimes of, like, product and business, and there are times where, like, the product owner doesn't own the business metrics, and I actually think that's very harmful, because at the end of the day, your product…”

“A product owner is at one extreme. And honestly, That is a role in a delivery process that has no business being a dedicated person really doesn't. And most teams I know the senior engineer could do it better anyway.”

“To sell into the enterprise, what you need is you really need a use case, right? And you really need to have clarity about the use case. And the best person to sell to is the person that is responsible for serving a use case. And this is a persona that we refe…”

“You know, I hate the idea of those companies that have separate product owners because product owner is just an administrative role. Product owners almost never have the skills to be a product manager.”

“I hate the idea of those companies that have separate product owners because product owner is just an administrative role. Product owners almost never have the skills to be a product manager.”

“And those product owners are taught by agile coaches, most of which have never done product for a day in their life. All they know is process.”