We were having particular trouble with the product ownership
on a project and I wanted to create some training on what you want in a good
product owner. Henrik Knibergs video is brilliant and I use it regularly, but
then I came up with the 5 A’s to an awesome product owner below:
Ability - Is able to be the voice of the customer.
Authority - Empowered to make decisions on a day to
day basis
Autonomous - One single "owner". Not a
committee.
Available - There on a day to day basis to work with
the team
Adaptable - Flexible to changing situations and
environments
Whilst there’s only 5 traits – finding them in the one person at a large organisation can be ridiculously hard. The person with authority usually isn’t available. The person with the ability may not be adaptable enough to work in an agile way. In a large business, it may be hard to find someone with sufficient autonomy.
No one said this would be easy…
