M eet Ms. SWAT-i, an Item Owner (PO) for whom whatever is a fire-fighting operation. She deals with whatever as a SWAT group operation, frequently at the last minute.

Anti-patterns

Ms. PO, you wish to guarantee your group stops working? Utilize a few of these anti-patterns

Not being readily available to group. A missing PO is a sure shot to failure! Even a high carrying out group can not alleviate this.

Definitely no understanding of business domain!

Concentrate On yourself (CYA, how I keep my task) instead of concentrating on Client

Uncertain about the stockpile products. Not having enough details, not having responses for the group when they request information.

Concentrated on simply the early wins, low hanging fruits! [You should be focused on HV,LE items (High Value, Low Effort) ]

PO who is restrained to a chain! A PO who is not empowered is a sure shot to hold-ups and confusion.

Asking group to begin driving without informing them where you wish to go. Even even worse would be for PO to not understand where she wishes to go (anybody become aware of the Vision declaration!)

Over dedicating to your stakeholder (groveling them !?) without consulting your group.

State ‘Yes’ to every modification that comes your method. State ‘Yes’ to all the demands from your stakeholders and pressing them to ‘in-flight’ sprints

Play musical chair with your group in the sprint! Keep altering top priorities even for those stories within your sprint.

Doing the item owner function by committee! (Attempting to keep everybody pleased in the stakeholders neighborhood)

Rather of being a bridge in between dev group and consumers, stakeholder neighborhood, get them into pissing contest, having them implicating each other. It’s more vital to discover somebody to blame rather then providing worth!

Sounds familier?

Is any of your PO showing these habits( s)? Run as far as you can from one if you have!

In the next post, we will satisfy another PO, Ms. Fab, who is polar reverse of Ms. SWAT-i. She will reveal you how the PO can develop worth for you, your group, your company.

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