5 Things You Need To Know To Become An Agile Product Owner

You all know the answer to this. An agile product owner is a member of the Agile team who
is responsible for defining the user stories and finding out the team backlogs from it to
streamline the execution of program priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical
integrity.

Now, let us ask you,

Before you answer this, let us tell you about some anti-pattern product owners. Lasse
Ziegler, an Agile coach and lean consultant with over 10 years of experience in difficult
Software development projects and software product development categorized these anti-
pattern product owners based on the worst-case scenarios he has seen in the field of
product owners.
They are as follows:

• No Power Product Owner: TheProduct Owner cannot decide anything
• Too Busy Product Owner:A product owner who is in so many projects at the same time
  The time that he ends up having no time for none.
• The Half Product Owner:A product owner who has been reduced to almost nothing
  else than a user story writing machine.
• The Faraway Product Owner:The product owner is in a different time zone and
  doesn’t have any common time during the day when they can sit down at the same time
  time.