How Scrum Reveils When Things Go Wrong: The Mythical Product Owner
Machiel Groeneveld from Xebia blogs about how the Product Owner role should be filled out to get the most out of Scrum (Scrum The Mythical Product Owner role | Xebia Blog), and contrasts that with the reality that is met in most projects, where the product owner is a side job next to being a program or project manager, a release manager or information analyst. He concludes that it might be difficult to start off with Scrum, if the requirements to such an important role are so difficult to meet. While I agree with that conclusion, I’d like to add that in this case (and many others too), Scrum just reveals the problem and makes it visible, so that it can be adressed. The problem of no clear representative of the customer business case also exists if you don’t know Scrum, but it may just be hidden.
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