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Product owner

Meaning in product management, with examples

nounCore term

In product management, product owner means: In Scrum, the person accountable for the product backlog: deciding its order, making items clear and making sure the team works on the most valuable things.

In Turkish: ürün sahibi

How it is used

Shortened to PO. In some companies the product manager also plays the product owner role; in others, especially banks and large corporations, they are separate jobs, and the PO works with the development team every day.

Example sentences

  1. The product owner moved the export story to the top of the backlog.

  2. Check with the product owner before you change the acceptance criteria.

Common collocations

  • act as product owner
  • product owner role
  • ask the product owner
  • technical product owner
  • product managerThe person who decides what a product should do and why, by understanding users and the business, and who guides the team that builds it.
  • backlogAn ordered list of all the work a product team might do, such as features, improvements and bug fixes, with the most important items at the top.
  • user storyA short description of a feature written from the user's point of view, usually in the form “As a [type of user], I want [goal] so that [benefit].”
  • acceptance criteriaThe specific conditions a user story must meet before the team and the product owner accept it as finished and working correctly.
  • sprintA fixed, short period, usually one to four weeks, in which a team builds and finishes an agreed set of work before planning the next one.

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