In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Steve Adolph about the role of the product owner, the rock crusher for user stories and bridging the gap between “the business” and IT

Tags: Agile, Agile 2019, Agile conferences, product management, product ownership, business agility, user stories, MVP, MMF

Why listen to this podcast:

• The role of the product owner often hides the complexity of product management and upstream activities designed to ensure we build the right product

• A product backlog should not be like a stack of plates – every item the same size – rather it is like a rock crusher where large items are further away and as they get closer they are broken down into more granular pieces

• A good minimum viable product is an experiment designed to answer a specific set of questions about the value and utility of some aspect of a product

• Minimum marketable feature set is what is the minimum set of features that we can put out there that people will actually buy and use

• The artificial divide between IT and business in many organizations is an inhibitor to generating real value

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