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Product Owner

The Product Owner is accountable for maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the Scrum Team. How this is done may vary widely across organizations, Scrum Teams, and individuals.

The Product Owner is also accountable for effective Product Backlog management, which includes:

• Communicate vision and value to the Development Team

• Developing and explicitly communicating the Product Goal

• Creating and clearly communicating Product Backlog items

• Ordering Product Backlog items

• Ensuring that the Product Backlog is transparent, visible and understood.

• Ensuring the Development Team understands items in the Product Backlog to the level needed

• Leverage Scrum for frequent product inspection and adaptation

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The Product Owner may do the above work or may delegate the responsibility to others. Regardless, the Product Owner remains accountable.

For Product Owners to succeed, the entire organization must respect their decisions. These decisions are visible in the content and ordering of the Product Backlog, and through the inspectable Increment at the Sprint Review.