The Product Owner has complete authority over the ordering of the Product Backlog. However, it is strongly recommended that the Product Owner put all known defects at the top of […]
Scrum Rules: Your Product Owner Lets the Team Decide How Many Product Backlog Items to do in a Sprint
The Product Owner controls the order of the items in the Product Backlog, but not how many are done each Sprint. Instead, the team decides how many to do. This […]
Scrum Rules: Your Product Owner Avoids Doing Hand’s-On Technical Work With the Team
The Product Owner’s main responsibility is to maintain the Product Backlog through direct communication with the users and stakeholders. To do this well it will take most of the Product […]
Scrum Rules: Your Product Owner Refines the Product Backlog for Each Sprint Planning Meeting
The Product Owner is responsible for maintaining the Product Backlog. This includes its ordering in terms of value and effort, its clarity, and identification of what acceptance criteria apply to […]
Scrum Rules: Your Product Owner Can Veto the Inclusion of an Idea on the Product Backlog
The Product Owner is responsible for ensuring that the Product Backlog Items reflect and contribute to the vision of the product being built by the Scrum Team. Therefore, the Product […]
Scrum Rules: Your Product Owner Has Final Authority on Ordering Product Backlog Items
The Product Owner is the customer or its proxy. Since this is the case the Product Owner should have final authority on the order of the Product Backlog Items. At […]
Scrum Rules: Your Product Owner Is Knowledgeable About the Product and the Business
The Product Owner’s job is to be the customer or the customer proxy. He needs to know the most current information about the product and the business that the team […]
Scrum Rules: Your Product Owner Uses the Sprint Review to Help Improve the Product
The Sprint Review is a key meeting for the team to improve the product. There are three main purposes of the Sprint Review: inspect how the last Sprint went with […]
Scrum Rules: As a Team Member I Volunteer For a New Task as Soon as I Complete a Task
Every Scrum Team Member should be working on tasks in the Sprint Backlog. Generally speaking, this should be one task at a time with little or no work done on […]
Scrum Rules: The Product Backlog Changes Every Sprint
The Product Backlog reflects the current state of the Product Owner’s understanding of the future of the Product. Unless the product is being discontinued, the future state will always include […]