Global Agile Leader and Project Management Consultant with 13+ years of experience delivering enterprise wide projects across 6 sectors and empowering multicultural/cross functional teams to achieve peak performance
In the realm of Agile methodologies and using a framework such as Scrum, the role of a product owner is pivotal. A Product owner also often referred to as the voice of the customer, plays a crucial role in the success or failure of a product or service. Here are some common mistakes every exceptional product owner should avoid: 📌 1. Failing to Adapt: one of the key strengths of scrum is in its adaptability which stems from the understanding that customers will always change their minds as their idea of a product or a service continues to form. As a product owner, you have to learn to take on this adaptable nature, giving room for your stakeholders to make required changes that contribute to giving them value. 📌 2. Output over outcome: This is another mistake you find among product owners. Because scrum is about delivering value to the customer in a short period of time, most product owners tend to focus more on output rather than outcome and as an exceptional product owner, your focus should be about delivering value packed outcomes. 📌 3. Micromanaging the team: working within a scrum environment comes with understanding that members of your team are specialists at what they do and do not need micromanaging. if you are a product owner, you want to avoid the mistake of becoming a micromanager who wants to teach the team how to build or do their jobs in general. Suggestions can be made, but the ultimate decision of how to build should ultimately rest with the development team. 📌 4. Not listening enough to feedback: feedback is at the heart of what you do as a product owner. Listen to your team during the stand ups and retrospectives, listen to your stakeholders, listen! listen!! listen!!! Do you currently work in a scrum environment? What other mistakes do you think product owners should look out for? …………………………………………. Seeing my post for the first time? Hey there, My name is Busayo Balogun I am an agile coach and scrum trainer and I help organizations and individuals get results using the Agile methodology If you need help getting started on your journey, send me a message #leadership #agile #scrumtrainer #scrummaster #productowner #agilecoach
