Product Owner Archives • João Craveiro

2020-11-23 (updated 2021-01-14) 7 min read

Scrum Guide 2020: what’s in it for Product Management?

With less than two months to go, 2020 brings us an updated version of the Scrum Guide. Merits or demerits aside, Scrum is arguably a popular framework. It’s widely used as is or adapted by the adopting teams (to the dismay of the most purists). Because many product managers learn their ropes through delivery-focused on-the-job […]

2017-07-19 (updated 2020-06-14) 7 min read

Scrum in Agencies: Where Does the Product Owner Live?

Implementing Scrum in a standalone organisation (such as a product company) derives directly from the framework. Yet some aspects are open to interpretation for Scrum teams in an agency providing software development services to clients. Both The Scrum Guide and most literature on Scrum best practices miss that the so-called “organisation” may be, in fact, two […]