Many organizations are actively searching for the perfect product owner—a unicorn who knows all about the product, anticipates the market, innovates, and improves the product’s quality and architecture, all while making and meeting commitments to the organization. That's a difficult if not impossible role to fill. So, how can we achieve these goals? Various enterprise patterns of scaling the product owner are emerging including the technical product owner, the proxy, the product owner team, the program team, the market manager, and the innovator. Tim Wise describes where each is applicable in large enterprises. Learn how to apply these approaches to both a service organization and a product development organization. Get a glimpse into the evolution that will influence product owner roles in large organizations as companies scale agile in the enterprise. Leave with knowledge of patterns that are emerging in large enterprises around the product owner.
Timothy Wise
LeadingAgile
An enterprise agile coach with LeadingAgile, Tim Wise is a leader specializing in complex agile transformations that involve and impact entire organizations from the C-Suite to the QA analyst. Tim’s passion emerged around the visualization of businesses as interdependent disciplines where sales, marketing, product, and IT all weave together successful stories. He introduces change iteratively to large organizations to align businesses around common goals to impact the lives of people and improve the outcomes of organizations. Sought for his strategy, coaching, and coding abilities, Tim runs the Atlanta Scrum community that hosts a variety of speakers at scrumatlanta.org.
Speaker Presentations
Thursday, November 12, 2015 - 10:00am
Improving the Process
Emerging Product Owner Patterns in Large Organizations