The Product Owner manages stakeholders' requirements, communicates the product vision to the Scrum team, and sets goals for each sprint. They own and maintain the Product Backlog, understand user stories, and prioritize work. The Product Owner attends daily standups to listen and provide guidance when needed. They also facilitate continuous improvement, coach stakeholders, and shield the team from distractions to help deliver releases on scope.

1. Team, I am your Product Owner
Product
Owner
· Manage the stakeholders requirements
· Represents the users of the system
· Communicates the vision to the Scrum team
· Sets the goal of each Sprint
Vision
· Owns & maintains the Product Backlog
· Understands and articulates to the team the
requirements in user stories
· Makes key decisions & prioritizes work for the
team
· Sets the acceptance criteria for each story
Scope
· Attends the daily standup to LISTEN
· Provides guidance and clarification when sought
· Ensures the Product backlog is maintained and
current
· Provides authoritative knowledge on the system
being developed
Facilitate
· Promote continuous improvement methods
· Commit to continued self learning of Agile
· Coach and mentor stakeholders on Scrum
practices
· Yokoten (share across the organization your
improved processes)
· Promote standardized repeatable processes
· Observe, listen, evaluate and provide feedback
Improve
· Shields the team from users, stakeholders, and
requirements engineering
· Shields the team from business influences that
impact scope and delivery
Protect· Establishes the release plan goals
· Maintains the scope for each release
· Approves the release
· Communicates new functionality of changes to
stakeholders
Releases
Prepared by: Nigel Thurlow
Last Updated: April 10th
2015
Version: 3