This product owner role did not emerge from product management as we know it today. It was a way to help the developers prioritize what to work on.
Everything you've ever wanted to know about SAFe and the product owner role
November 10, 2024
Featuring: Melissa Perri (Founder, Product Institute & Author of Escaping the Build Trap)
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CSPO stands for Certified Scrum Product Owner, a certification offered through the Scrum framework for agile software development.
If you ever see somebody with a CSPO on the end of their profile, it's a certified Scrum product owner. It's typically a two-day workshop that they went to and then got certified.
Great developers self-organize around technical debt
I guarantee you there's a ton of tech debt they could be working on. You don't have to scope that out. Let them choose what's the most important thing.
Success requires both doing and storytelling
The way different story than I prioritized backlog and I shipped it off to developers. Take it a step further - who are your customers? Did you go out and talk to them?
Organizational structure determines product outcomes
You have to make sure that it is thought of at the C-suite. What some organizations do is go, 'Oh, no, that's IT work. Let me push all the software strategy down.'
A lot of large companies turn to Scrum or to the frameworks, and it's because they traditionally didn't grow up building software.