Accelerate backlog delivery with an extra pair of "product" hands.
Sometimes the Product Owner needs some assistance, particularly when it comes to building large, complex products or when multiple teams are collaborating. While the Product Owner always remains accountable, sometimes it makes sense to delegate discrete tasks. Product Owner Support profiles work under the direction of the Product Owner to help refine and elaborate backlog items and support the development team during sprint cycles.
While the Product Owner role remains singular, the notion of involving additional people to support the PO has gained traction for challenging product backlogs or where a remote team may have limited interaction with the PO. This concept has been acknowledged by industry associations such as Scrum.org, which notes that POs may choose to "delegate responsibility to others".
In Pentalog, we provide Product Owner Support by assigning a local PO profile to assist the main PO with specific tasks. Generally, this means embracing the product vision and roadmap defined by the PO and working on specific tasks to define and elaborate backlog items in line with this vision and in support of the roadmap. With time and proper context, clients often ask our PO support profiles to assume the full list of PO responsibilities by upgrading to our Product Ownership service.
With Product Owner Support, the PO delegates responsibility for refining and elaborating discrete backlog items to a PO support profile typically located alongside a remote development team. Under these circumstances, the backlog is managed in a manner consistent with a customary PO model, but with an extra pair of "product owner hands" to speed backlog delivery.
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