Genuine Agility at scale through LeSS Product Ownership

Scrum is too often seen as a way for development to deliver faster without concern for agility, customer value optimisation or learning. Whilst there may be a role called “Product Owner”, it may be subordinated to little more than a team-centric SME taking orders from stakeholders and feeding “stories” to a team. In this session, we explore how the LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum) guidance on the Product Owner role can be used to address these problems and achieve scalable agility at a whole of customer-centric product level, no matter how many teams contribute.

Learning objectives:

• Recognise the limitations that you may be experiencing with the Product Owner implementation at your organisation
• Be aware of well proven patterns for scaling the Product Owner role to endeavours involving two or more teams
• Be equipped to have an informed conversation about how your organisation can increase agility at scale