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Product Management

Six Types of “Product” Owners

This articles explains how the term "product owner" is applied. It describes six roles that exercise product ownership but differ in what they actually own.

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Roman Pichler
May 05, 2020 • 7 min read
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Product Management
Product Ownership
Product Roles

Takeaways

  • A product role can provide a great opportunity to help progress a product and create value for the users and business.
  • The roles of product owners can be combined as follows; you could be a product and future owner of a larger product.
  • The six types of product owners are; the original scrum product owners, feature owners, component owners, platform owners, portfolio owners, and SAFe product owners.

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