{"id":7214,"date":"2020-05-04T11:28:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T15:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agileswag.com\/?p=7214"},"modified":"2020-05-04T11:28:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T15:28:00","slug":"can-we-have-more-than-one-product-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agileswag.com\/can-we-have-more-than-one-product-owner","title":{"rendered":"Can we have more than one Product Owner?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Can we have more than one Product Owner?<\/strong><br \/>\nvia Scrum.org Blog by Johannes Geske<\/p>\n<p>One of the questions about Scrum I\u2019m often asked is, \u201cCan we have more than one Product Owner per product?\u201d In fact, one of the few Scrum rules about the Product Owner role is,<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe Product Owner is one person, not a committee.\u201d (The Scrum Guide)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Instead of responding to the question by simply reciting this rule, I like to use a metaphor to create an understanding of why Scrum requires the Product Owner to be a single person, and why you should require this too:<\/p>\n<p>Imagine that your Scrum Team is a crew of a rowing boat. There are people doing the hard work of rowing, there\u2019s a person who among other things helps these people create and maintain rhythm, and then there\u2019s the person holding the rudder.<\/p>\n<p>The boat is your Scrum Team. The people doing the rowing are your Development Team, the person facilitating rhythm is your Scrum Master, and the person holding the rudder is your Product Owner. The rudder determining the direction of your boat towards a goal is the Product Backlog. The content and order of the Product Backlog make visible the decisions of the Product Owner.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scrumorg-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com\/drupal\/inline-images\/Boat_One-Product-Owner.png\" alt=\"A crew on a rowing boat\" width=\"946\" height=\"546\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"408ee303-33a1-4218-acc0-5026884fbeb1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With that metaphor established, I like to ask, \u201cWhat do you think would happen, if more than one person held the rudder?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scrum.org\/resources\/blog\/can-we-have-more-one-product-owner\" target=\"_agileswag\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can we have more than one Product Owner? via Scrum.org Blog by Johannes Geske One of the questions about Scrum I\u2019m often asked is, \u201cCan we have more than one Product Owner per product?\u201d In fact, one of the few Scrum rules about the Product Owner role is, \u201cThe Product Owner is one person, not [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Can we have more than one Product Owner? 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