The product owner’s role is to focus on value, gathering feedback, making decisions, and ensuring the voice of the customer is heard as strategy leads into delivery.

 

As the bridge between strategic and delivery teams (and between stakeholders with varying levels of support for a project), a product owner is responsible for delivering products against defined business goals, and they’re crucial for helping you manage your brand effectively across a growing array of new channels.

 

Product ownership is important in helping organisations make this shift from one-off project thinking towards programmes of continuous improvement. Joseph Cecil Consulting will collaborate with stakeholders to find the most effective ways of delivering value against business goals, part of which encompasses continuous improvement. 

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We aim to help to improve the speed of iteration through a deep involvement in the day to day project projects, and their responsibilities toward the timely delivery of the project, product owners have an interest in ensuring products are launched quickly and deliver business value using feedback and analytics to produce greater customer/business value.

 

 

What does good product ownership look like?

A product owner needs to be robust, resilient, and happy to make important decisions, often with imperfect information. A Joseph Cecil Consulting product owner will embody the following roles;

 

• Resource management. we will analyse and understand which resources need to be lined up and primed ahead of their involvement in the project. We will be responsible for ensuring a project is delivered on time and budget.

 

• Stakeholder alignment. We will ensure all relevant stakeholders are briefed on their role in the project, that they know how they can make a positive difference to the project, and that they have all the information they need to make that contribution. We will align ourselves with  the project team(s) and other stakeholders affected by the project, ensuring that their concerns are listened to and addressed.

 

• Delivery team management. Once a project is in delivery, we will actively engage with the project delivery team, which may include an agile scrum team. They are involved in daily stand-up meetings with the product manager, developers, and business analysts, along with example workshops as we work to set and agree the user acceptance criteria for each user story identified. 

 

• Timely decision-making.  We are responsible for ensuring the right decisions are made in a timely fashion by being involved in determining and prioritising stories in future sprints, planning around the available budget, and making key decisions that direct the work of the delivery team.