A single case study on product owner activities in SAFe: Preliminary results from focus group gatherings

Daniel Remta, Matthew McLaughlin

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Abstract

Agile work organization methodologies are popular with companies focused on software development regardless of their size. In large-scale environments, Agile with associated roles is often tailored. This tailoring is projected into the large-scale agile frameworks, among which the Scaled Agile Framework is the most popular. As one of the challenges with Scaled Agile Framework adoption, satisfying the requirements of the Product Owner role was identified. However, any empirical research on the Product Owner's function in SAFe is scarce. This paper presents the preliminary results from the single-case study on Product Owner role activities in Scaled Agile Framework. During this study, the focus group consisting of 7 Product Owners generated a list of 62 activities they are regularly involved with. Results indicate that Product Owner's duties and responsibilities in SAFe seems to be only partially aligned with the existing knowledge but doesn't provide enough data to understand the day-to-day Product Owner activities.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIDIMT 2022 - Digitalization of Society, Business and Management in a Pandemic
Subtitle of host publication30th Interdisciplinary Information Management Talks
EditorsGerhard Chroust, Petr Doucek, Vaclav Oskrdal
Place of PublicationLinz, Austria
PublisherJohannes Kepler Universitat Linz
Pages419-427
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9783991137580
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Publication statusPublished - 2022
Externally publishedYes
Event30th Interdisciplinary Information Management Talks: Digitalization of Society, Business and Management in a Pandemic, IDIMT 2022 - Jesuit College, Prague, Czech Republic
Duration: 07 Sept 202209 Sept 2022
https://web.archive.org/web/20220814130649/https://idimt.org/ (Conference website)
https://doi.org/10.35011/IDIMT-2022 (Proceedings)

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NameIDIMT 2022 - Digitalization of Society, Business and Management in a Pandemic: 30th Interdisciplinary Information Management Talks

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Conference30th Interdisciplinary Information Management Talks
Country/TerritoryCzech Republic
CityPrague
Period07/09/2209/09/22
Other25 years of history have established IDIMT-conferences as interdisciplinary international forum for the exchange of concepts and visions in the area of software intensive systems, management and engineering of information and knowledge, social media, business engineering, and related topics.

IDIMT involves a multi-national, multidisciplinary audience in discussing up-to-date and evolving topics.
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