I’m a Product Manager, What Is My Place in Scrum?
Scrum and the stakeholders, episode 5
The ‘Scrum and the stakeholders’ series discusses the place of several stakeholders in Scrum. All its articles have this theme and can be read on their own.
Scrum knows 3 roles: Product Owner, Development Team and Scrum Master. People from outside the Scrum Team are defined as ‘stakeholders’. The Scrum Guide also mentions ‘committee’, ‘employees’ and ‘organisation’ separately, but the umbrella term in Scrum is ‘stakeholder’.
Often stakeholders have no insight into what kind of role they can play in a Scrum environment. The series ‘Scrum and stakeholders’ aims to clarify the place of these stakeholders within Scrum.
Every Scrum environment is different, so there is no clear-cut answer that applies to all situations. Therefore we will discuss the different options to help you decide what is the best solution for you.
This article will discuss the Product Manager, who is responsible for the business strategy of product, its functional requirements and launch of features.
The Product Owner role in Scrum
There’s one role in Scrum that has “Product” in the title — The Product Owner. This is what the Scrum Guide says about this role:
