The document discusses the role of a Reactive Product Owner (RPO) within a development team, emphasizing the need for advocates who prioritize business functionality and technical principles such as elasticity and resilience. It outlines the responsibilities of RPOs in defining requirements, prioritizing tasks, and ensuring project completion while integrating with various team roles. The document also touches on the importance of team dynamics and leadership in fostering a proactive approach to product development.

1. Reactive is a Product
Jamie Allen

2. We all know what Reactive is

3. Who advocates for it on your team?
• Developers?
• Product Owners?
• Management?

4. Technical debt

5. We need Reactive
Product Owners

6. What is a product owner?
• Advocate for the implementation of business
functionality and delivery of value
• Define requirements and success criteria
• Prioritize the work in the backlog
• Sign off on the completion of the work

7. What will an RPO do?
• Advocate for the implementation of Elasticity and
Resilience
• Define requirements and success criteria
• Prioritize the work in concert with functional delivery
• Sign off on the completion of the work

8. Roles and responsibilities
• How will your team behave when issues arise?
• Like the API of a system, these need to be very clear
and versioned over time
• Product owners of reactive principles can drive the
definition and refinement of these concerns

9. How do they fit into your team?
Product
Manager
Architect
Functional
Product Owner
Reactive Product
Owner
Product Analysts Lead Engineers
Outward
Leadership

10. How do they fit into your team?
Product
Manager
Architect
Functional
Product Owner
Reactive Product
Owner
Product Analysts Lead Engineers
Outward
Leadership

11. How do they fit into your team?
Product
Manager
Architect
Functional
Product Owner
Reactive Product
Owner
Product Analysts Lead Engineers
Outward
Leadership
Inward
Leadership

12. How do they fit into your team?
Product
Manager
Architect
Functional
Product Owner
Reactive Product
Owner
Product Analysts Lead Engineers
Outward
Leadership
Inward
Leadership

13. How do they fit into your team?
Product
Manager
Architect
Functional
Product Owner
Reactive Product
Owner
Product Analysts Lead Engineers
Outward
Leadership
Dev Team
Inward
Leadership

14. How do they fit into your team?
Product
Manager
Architect
Functional
Product Owner
Reactive Product
Owner
Product Analysts Lead Engineers
Outward
Leadership
Dev Team
Inward
Leadership

15. What person should do this?
• Hiring is pretty difficult
• It’s easier to take a tech person who understands
Reactive and teach them product work than vice versa
• Members of your team should take a turn
• You may find someone who greatly enjoys the work

16. Who is doing this?

17. Treat Reactive like a Product
Thank you!