Questions that are about either Agile work-item Product Owners or about owning a software product.
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Wrote an application for a friend. Who is the owner of the software? [closed]
Friend asked me to develop a software application for him. I did and he paid me.
There was no written contract. I live in UK and he resides in Canada.
My question is: who is the owner of the software ...
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Evaluating a product owner
How do you evaluate a product owner? More specifically, how would one conduct a performance review of a product owner? What qualities or characteristics would one look at when reviewing a product ...
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How do you deal with the costs of too-rapid change?
Like most modern developers I value Agile principals like customer collaboration and responding to change, but what happens when a product-owner (or whoever determines requirements and priorities) ...
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How to prevent intentional over-estimation in user stories?
I am asking this from a purely hypothetical standpoint.
According to the Sprint Planning Meeting section in the Scrum Guide: "The number of items selected from the Product Backlog for the Sprint is ...
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Who should get a developer certificate from Apple if client want their company name to show up in App Store
I am about start my first project with client, However I will work as a consultant. So do I need to get developer certificate and post my client's app in app store? Or I should ask my client to get ...
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How might the role of product owner go against the idea of open source, or work for it?
On a related questions about "Finding and/or becoming an open source product owner" -- the first comment to the question itself was "the idea of a product owner goes against the idea of open source."
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Finding and/or becoming an open source product owner
Are there any open source projects that have roles that would be equivalent to a Scrum product owner role? If so, how did you go about finding these examples, and how do you believe those product ...
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How can I make sure my evening project code is mine?
I'm a physicist with a CS degree and just started my PhD at a tech company (wanted to do applied research). It deals with large scale finite element simulations.
After reviewing their current ...
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Can the customer be a SCRUM Product Owner in a project?
I just had a discussion with a colleague about the Product Owner role: In a project where a customer organization has brought in a sofware developing organization (supplier), can the role of Product ...
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How can I provide guidance on technology choices through user stories?
I'm a project manager for a team of firmware engineers making the transition to adopting Scrum and I'm moving to support the team in a Product Owner role. We've just gone through Scrum training and ...
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Product Owner and automated tests
One of the claims of BDD-style development is that it bridges the gap between Product Owner and developers: the Product Owner writes a story, which can be converted in an equivalent automated test ...
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Who owns this work?
I worked for a small company as a long term contractor making websites and other such things. A client comes along, pays what he said was "A lot of money" for me to spend a week doing his website. ...
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Scrum roles mixed up
Here at the office our Scrum roles are a bit mixed up, so I would appreciate any advice on how to improve it.
We are a small team of 4 developers (one of which is a de facto scrum master) and we also ...
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Who becomes the product owner?
A business has five requirements streams, with a "stream leader" (called Product Manager, but this is an in-house term) per-stream and a backlog per-stream.
If we wanted to follow Scrum more closely, ...
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What are the boundaries of the product owner in scrum?
In another question, I asked about why I feel scrum turns active developers into passive developers, and it seems that the overall problem is not scrumy (related to scrum), and rather it's related to ...
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When to mark a user story as done in scrum?
There is a notion in scrum that emphasizes delivery of workable units at the end of each sprint. Each workable unit also maps directly of indirectly to a user story and when in new sprint PO ...
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How do I write a software product definition?
I would like to learn how to write a software product definition. Therefore I am looking for online materials or books which would help me to learn more about this topic. I would like to learn, for ...
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Who Owns an Idea on the Web?
Let us say that person "A" mentioned an idea for a software project on the web (ie. in a forum). Person "B" sees this idea and implements it. Can person "A" claim ownership of the idea? Has person "B" ...
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How do you get your product owner more engaged on agile projects?
During iteration retrospectives on agile projects, one of the topics that comes up most often for us is that the product owner is (or product owners are) not available or engaged in the project at a ...
