An empirical study of the product owner role in scrum
Julian Michael Bass, Sarah Beecham, Mohammad Abdur Razzak, Clodagh Nic Canna, John O. Noll · 2018
The Product Owner (PO) is critical for translating business needs into a software implementation by gathering and prioritizing requirements, and assessing whether features have met the definition of "done." There is a paucity of detail about how POs achieve this daunting task in practice with potential negative consequences for project success.