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- Product management and product owner role in large-scale agile software development
School of Science | Master's thesis(2010) Parkkola, MikkoThis study focuses on the product ownership, namely product management and the Scrum product owner role, in large-scale commercial software product development environments where agile and lean principles and practices are applied in engineering. The goals for this research are to gain understanding about the software product manager and product owner roles, how they are connected, how these roles can be scaled in large organizations, and how they are implemented in reality in a case study company. In the theoretical part, the key concepts of product management, related agile methods and lean software development are summarized. This is followed by an overview of current discussion about the role of product owner and scaling Scrum to environments with multiple development teams. The selected viewpoints come from Pragmatic Marketing, Ken Schwaber, Craig Larman and Bas Vodde, and Dean Leffingwell. Based on these views, the study presents a synthesis that seeks the synergies and combines these into such. The ease study describes the iterative evolution of the product ownership domain of F-Secure Corporation during the period of agile adaptation, after which the latest situation is compared with the theoretical synthesis. The results of the study show that product manager role(s) operating within the product management domain are not the same as the Scrum product owner role(s), although they are connected. The synthesis presents the relationships between them, and identifies possible means to share the responsibilities between several people in large environments. The ease study shows support for this hypothesis although some deviations from the synthesis are identified. These deviations can possibly be an opportunity for improvement in the organization.