Product Owner translates the vision of a product from customers viewpoint to well-defined user stories, prioritizes the work to be done by the Agile team and ensures value is delivered. His or her core role and responsibilities include:
Customer-Centric Focus
- Communicates customer vision and roadmap to all stakeholders
- Responsible in defining the scope
- Collects feedback from customers
Product Backlog Management
- Ensures backlog items are clear and visible to all stakeholders
- Ensures development team understand the backlog items
- Prioritizes and orders items to help the team achieve goals
- Ensures product backlog is maintained and is up to date
Sprint (Iteration) Events
- Manages and prioritizes the development team backlog and release plan goals
- Participates in defining acceptance criteria for user stories
- Accepts user stories as “done”
- Maintains and approves the releases
- Participates in standups and retrospectives
- Conducts demos and provides feedback
- Communicates new features and functionality changes to all the stakeholders
