Question to those ones working in projects using an agile framework: What is your practical experience – Do you follow the „Highlander Principle“ regarding the Product Owner (PO) ownership (only one PO who ultimately decides) or do you set-up in practice a Product Owner Team with shared responsibilities, making informed decisions on a collaborative basis? If you have experience with both approaches, which one was more beneficial to the overall project success and what were the main reasons? Saving Changes...
Are you meaning on a single agile project - either a single PO or a team of POs?
Or are you meaning how the POs are managed?
Sounds like you're meaning the former. I've only worked on agile projects with a single PO but our org has projects with multiple POs on a project though each is responsible for a discrete scrum team. Saving Changes...
Glenn ChundrlekProject Manager| BelcanLoveland, Oh, United States
I prefer a single Product Owner. As I like to say, if everyone owns a thing, then nobody owns it. That Product Owner may delegate portions to one or more SME's, but eventually there should be one individual responsible for the overall product. Saving Changes...
I've experienced the issues with multiple POs on more than one occasion and will always coach to the Highlander principle - there have been times when I'd have like to have decapitated some of the extraneous ones!
This is why a good PO needs to collaborate exceptionally well with a potentially large set of stakeholders who will have needs & wants related to the product.
