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Forum Post and Replies
Complete the Forum Discussion question and reply to two other posts - pick any one of the following discussion questions for your own forum post. State the questions you have chosen in the forum post.
• What people do you work with or know that would either support or not support Scrum? Why? For people you work with or know, how would they fit into a particular Scrum role?
• How does a Scrum Product Owner role fit you and your desires and experience? Why? Who do you know that would make a great Product Owner?
• What characteristics of yourself would make you a better project manager or a better Product owner? Why?
Writing Requirements
• Initial Post Length minimum of 150 words
• Replies: minimum of 100 words per post (respond to at least two classmates, please select classmates that you have not yet replied to)
Reply 1: Akhil
How does a Scrum Product Owner role fit you and your desires and experience? Why? Who do you know that would make a great Product Owner?
I personally feel the role of scrum product owner would fit me and my desires, I have immense interest in the field of product management, and I feel the role of the product owner would guide me accomplish that career path. I currently work as a Business Analyst, where the I spend most of my day communicating to various department and extracting information and also transferring that information to technical team and vice versa. I have also interacted with marketing and sales department and I feel I have also acted as a proxy product owner. I feel a person possess communication skill and gathering requirements makes a great product owner, I also feel the product owner should be successful enough in identify the must have and nice to have and also prioritize requirement on the basis of business needs. The project manager should also have the power to make decision and also have people skills.
Reply 2: Jiang
• What people do you work with or know that would either support or not support Scrum? Why? For people you work with or know, how would they fit into a particular Scrum role?
AJ, he is a fantastic scrum master, help run the whole team as a perfect machine. AJ is not a technical oriented guy, which makes him may not able to look into the detail or judge the technical design or solution. While this also benefit him by giving a unbias opinion to arrange tasks on business priority instead of technical issue and also an overall picture. Our project manager, Kim, she is also very good at collaborating the whole team by encouraging and facilitating insted of looking into detail task.
• How does a Scrum Product Owner role fit you and your desires and experience? Why? Who do you know that would make a great Product Owner?
I have a lot of business analyst experience and project experience, which makes me understand the business purpose of our project, correctly prioritize business features, and capture the nature of our feature. I am also proud of my strong technical background as an architect or technical lead. However, when I can take a lot of different roles in my project, how to balance my core role as a product owner and my support to other roles is different and difficult especially when our schedule is stretched.
In addition, I am very interested in the Product Manager role which I think better demonstrate my strength in the combination of business acumen and technical insight.
• What characteristics of yourself would make you a better project manager or a better Product owner? Why?
My strong business acumen and understanding of business and economic trend makes me deliver better Product Owner job than Project Manager job. That's true I have many years Project Manager experience. But I don't like to manage the budget. Because I believe when we are creating or innovating we may not able to calculate precisely in finance model. Especially, when we try to build some new there is not a model or example to establish. So I think I could be a better Product Owner than Project Manager.