A Mapping Study on Product Owners in Industry: Identifying Future Research Directions

The volume at hand presents the special issue of the 12th International Conference on Software and Systems Process (ICSSP) 2019, which was held in Montreal, Canada, from May 25 to 26, 2019. ICSSP 2019 is the latest in a series of conferences that have been organized by the International Software and Systems Process Association. In our evolving landscape, many companies are making efforts to move towards new technologies and tools, agile principles, and continuous integration and delivery. In doing so, they find opportunity, flexibility, and strength in evolving towards hybrid processes, which are neither purely traditional nor can count as textbook agile. This special issue focuses on hybrid processes.

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“…More information about the conference series can be found at http://icssp-conferences.org/about/. 23…”

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“…22 Furthermore, this session also included one of the papers that were invited for our special issue, focusing on the role of product owners in industry. 23…”

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Hybrid and evolving processes for software and systems—ICSSP 2019 special issue

Hebig

Armbrust

Sutton³

2020

J Software Evolu Process

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“…RQ The key statement that resulted from the above answered research questions is that Product Owners are communicators. 14 Owners in a hybrid environment. This environment has been chosen as it can be considered as state of the art according to the results of the HELENA-study.…”

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“…Most of these research topics emphasize the importance of Product Owners communication activities. The results of the mapping study have been published and presented at the International Conference on Software and System Processes (ICSSP) in 2019 held in Montreal, Canada 14 . However, a thorough description of Product Owner's communication activities is missing.…”

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Are Product Owners communicators? A multi‐method research approach to provide a more comprehensive picture of Product Owners in practice

Unger‐Windeler

Klünder

Reuscher

et al. 2020

J Software Evolu Process

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Product Owners have an important role in the agile and hybrid software development process. While this role is supposed to maximize the value of a product, there seem to be several scattered results on how they achieve this, as well as what actually constitutes this role in practice. To consolidate current research results and to further analyze the key attribute of Product Owners, we conducted a multi-method research approach spanning a systematic mapping study and a consecutive case study in a hybrid development environment. The results of the mapping study states that Product Owners are communicators. We further investigated on this and used the shadowing technique to observe three Product Owners' communication activities. The results support that statement, as the gained data reveal that Product Owners spend 65% of their time in meetings. But rather than just providing the team with the necessary requirements for the product under development, Product Owners need this time to synchronize and align their work, streamline the agile process of large-scale Scrum, discuss team-based topics, and to solve upcoming issues addressed by the team. These results contribute to draw a more comprehensive picture of the important but yet complex role of Product Owners in practice.

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