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Who Is the Product Owner?

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At the most basic level, the Product Owner is the person who decides what gets in the next. The term originates in Scrum, but it is not unusual to find the term being used in teams following other approaches, for example, Kanban, or their own hybrid processes.

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    Peter F. Drucker, The Age of Discontinuity (Elsevier, 1969).

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    Office of Government Commerce, Tailoring PRINCE2 (London: TSO (The Stationary Office), 2002).

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Kelly, A. (2019). Who Is the Product Owner?. In: The Art of Agile Product Ownership. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5168-3_3

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