Richard Lawrence

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Are the Product Owner and ScrumMaster’s Interests Opposed?

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The Chief Engineer role in the Toyota Product Development System combines parts of the Product Owner, ScrumMaster, and senior technical team member roles from Scrum. In addition to leading the technical design of a new product and facilitating the work of the other engineers, the CE must deeply understand and care about what the customer values—he has ultimate responsibility for delivering value to the customer and for the resulting commercial success or failure of the product.

CEs have gone to amazing lengths to gain that deep understanding of the customer’s needs.

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Written by Richard

November 26th, 2008 at 10:53 am