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Top 6 things you need to do right to succeed as Product Owner

Anca Onuta
3 min readApr 16, 2020

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We live in the digital era. In this era, technology advances at the speed of light. The clients are more demanding, and the competition is higher. Being responsible for creating a product in today’s world is challenging. You don’t have it easy. With an overflood of information, how do you get to build great products?

What you need to be a successful Product Owner?

How do you succeed as a Product Owner? Here are my top 6 recommendations:

#1. Be Visionary. As a Product Owner, you are the one who knows better than anyone what product you are building, how it should be, the problem that it resolves. To succeed, you need to develop products that stand out, and that have a clear vision. You must inspire and share positive energy when you speak about your product and share with as many people as possible what you envision for your product.

#2. Be lean. The main principle of Lean is to minimize waste. How do you actually can do that using Agile?

  • You add all the information and description to the user stories for 2–3 sprints ahead, instead of the entire year. You might create high-level user stories for up to 2–3 months (4–6 iterations), but you shouldn’t invest your time in providing all the information to them.
  • You prepare the description of the features (significant functionality of a…

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Anca Onuta
Anca Onuta

Written by Anca Onuta

🚀 Fractional COO 🎯 Vision to Action📍Lille, France

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