Ambler: Scaling Product Owner.

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www.implementingscrum.com -- Cartoon -- December 17, 2007

Welcome back to another day at www.implementingscrum.com.

As I wrote about yesterday, this is probably the last comic strip of 2007. Tony and I hope you enjoy it and learn from it; this is a question that comes up pretty regularly from both the readers of this blog and at client sites I visit around the world.

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I have been working with Scott in one capacity or another since September 11, 2001. Scott is one of my many mentors (he is also one of my most outspoken mentors) within the agile community. While everyone may not agree with him, he has (co)-written almost twenty books on various agile topics (one was with me!) and a lot of my learning style can be seen by his acts. For that I thank him sincerely — and often.

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This is what has been posted publicly by Scott Ambler:

My December 2007 print column entitled “Scaling On-Site Customer” is now online at http://www.ddj.com/architect/204801134. It examines the challenges surrounding having a stakeholder(s) actively involved with an agile project in the role of an on-site customer or product owner. This role is hard enough for simple projects, but at scale it becomes extremely difficult. The article provides
advice from Agile Modeling for how to augment this role and address the challenges associated with it.

I’ve also blogged about this topic at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/ambler?entry=agile_stakeholders_at_scale.

- Scott

Scott W. Ambler
Practice Leader Agile Development, IBM Methods Group
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/rational/bios/ambler.html
Agility at Scale: http://www.ibm.com/rational/agile/

To read the DDJ article, you will probably have to register as a user — and they seem pretty good about not spamming you. Scott will not spam you from his other sites mentioned.

Will you agree with everything he has written?

Probably not.

Is he OK with that?

Sure.

He totally understands that people will not always agree with him.

And.

This is something I have learned from him.

It has come in handy over the years.

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Originally Published:
December 17, 2007