Poster: An empirical study of the product owner role in scrum

Julian M. Bass, Sarah Beecham, Mohammad Abdur Razzak, Clodagh Nie Canna, John Noll

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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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages123-124
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9781450356633
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 27 May 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event40th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2018 - Gothenburg, Sweden
Duration: 27 May 20183 Jun 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering
ISSN (Print)0270-5257

Conference

Conference40th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2018
Country/TerritorySweden
CityGothenburg
Period27/05/183/06/18

Keywords

  • Agile software development
  • Global software development
  • Inter-Team coordination
  • Product owner role
  • scrum
  • SME

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