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Seniority is not always a good asset for a Product Owner, but attitude and mindset can be. In this episode we explore the kind of attitude and mindset that help Product Owners succeed.

The Great Product Owner: How to succeed as a Junior Product Owner

When a junior PO joined the team Denniz was working with, the expectation was that there would be certain challenges ahead. Turns out, being a junior was a great advantage for this Product Owner because of the attitude and the mindset he brought with him. Listen in to learn about some of the key attributes needed to succeed as a Product Owner when just starting to learn the role.

The Bad Product Owner: The Project “Owner” anti-pattern

When Product Owners come to the teams from a Project Manager role, they usually bring a specific mindset that has served them well in that previous role. However, those same patterns that worked well in a project management paradigm, don’t work so well when the role is the Product Owner role. In this segment, we discuss some of the anti-patterns that emerge when Project Managers join a Scrum team as a Product Owner.

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About Denniz Dönmez

Denniz has both huge academic and practical experience. He studied agile teams for his PhD at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich) before becoming a Scrum Master and freelance consultant in 2016. Denniz believes the key to becoming more agile is to establish what he calls “enabling structures.”

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